So you are fussy about your coffee? The Jura XS90 is here to ensure that you always get your coffee the way you want it and in as many as 12 varieties. You don't need to train to be a barista to get barista quality coffee. The Jura XS90 coffee machine has such a simple push button technology that all you need to know is how to read the options; make your choice and press the relevant button/s. Just a warning: this coffee machine will give you only coffee and no other kinds of hot drinks.
While classic coffees and espressos are common enough, you might want to offer something that is classy or at least different from the coffee you normally use. The Jura XS90 is wonderful in this respect; especially if you have use for it in your home or the reception room of your office. Remember that the Jura XS90 coffee machine is designed for gentle use. So don't opt for it if need to serve more than 50 cups a day. Like all bean to cup models it is designed with a built-in coffee grinder. Simply pour in whole beans and the Jura XS90 coffee machine will do the rest: grinding, tamping and dispensing at the touch of button. All that's left is for you to drink your steaming hot beverage—espresso, lattes, Americanos, mochas — straight from the bean within a minute.
If you are entertaining friends who may have just dropped in or you want to serve the coffee as an after dinner drink, mochas are a hit most of the time. While you might rely on the Jura XS90 for the job, improvisations can add that personal touch which guests always appreciate. You can add whipped cream on top of the milk froth and then sprinkle the cocoa. For variety you can replace the powder with chocolate syrup. In this way the mocha will be denser and sweeter. Usually the mocha has a lighter body than an espresso, so if you are serving it as a substitute for dessert, this would be preferable at most of the times.


Oh dear. Just when we both got better (or, as Robin puts it, "better-adjacent"), I get walloped by what might have been bad French onion soup at Outback. Because, you know those faux-Aussies know their French onion soup. This tummy trouble is the second time in a row I've fallen ill after eating out, so I think I'm sticking with the microwave, ordering in, and the occasional actual cooking for the foreseeable. Now you'll forgive my attempt to feel better by indulging in these weirdly scented bath bombs.


This is my favorite video for Christmas this year. It tells the story of a group of LDS Church members who gave up their Christmas day to serve others even though, for most of them, Christmas day was their only day off work. This video typifies what Christmas should be about.
That is what it means to be a Mormon – that is what it means to be Christian.
That is the gospel of Jesus Christ. We can learn and spout of theology and scriptures all day but without repentance and forgiveness – without the Atonement, the grace, of Jesus Christ – our religion and our lives would mean very little. Those two videos demonstrate the power of Jesus Christ working in people's lives.


Since founding the first Health Information Management (HIM) program in the nation in 1935, St. Scholastica has been a leader in HIM education. We continue to build on this tradition by offering excellent, rigorous programs in flexible formats for working professionals. Our curriculum is accredited by CAHIIM and was recently updated to reflect 2014 AHIMA/CEE Competencies.
The HIM graduate program is structured to help advance the careers of practicing Health Information Management professionals and provide a path into the profession for those with bachelor's degrees in other fields. The program emphasizes quality healthcare data as the foundation for organizational information and knowledge management systems, and is offered in a distance-learning format which allows professionals to maintain their current employment status while enhancing their knowledge and skills.
The HIM profession is experiencing strong growth with the increased adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) software nationwide.
Electronic health records and advances in analytics has made careers in HIIM in-demand.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 20 percent growth rate over the next decade for HIM and related careers.
AHIMA and the American Medical Informatics Association recommends that the healthcare industry increase the number of professionals (pdf) who are trained in workflow redesign, care process or quality improvement; EHR implementation; and health information management.
"The M.S. in HIM program energized my enthusiasm and set me up to become a healthcare data analyst. I wanted to see myself in a role where the real-time clinical data will help clinical decision support."
"CSS prepared me at an undergraduate level to have a great knowledge base within healthcare IT software and how important it is to adapt and stay educated in an ever changing industry. In my graduate work, CSS prepared me to confidently take on leadership and decision making responsibilities for my organization."
"Because of my education from this College, I have had many opportunities through AHIMA to work on different projects along with serving on volunteer boards. I would recommend anyone attend St. Scholastica; you will grow and mature academically and professionally. I am now program director of the HIMT 2 year program."


Zaver, a Swedish fintech that has constructed a funds platform to facilitate peer-to-peer trades and extra, has picked up simply over $1.2 million in seed funding. Backing the burgeoning startup are VC companies Inventure and Inbox Capital, in addition to a variety of comparatively well-established angel buyers.
They embrace Joen Bonnier (companion at Atomico), Tom Dinkelspiel, Pontus Hagnö, Fabian Hielte (proprietor of Ernström & C:o and a earlier investor in Spotify and iZettle), Bo Mattsson (founding father of Cint), and Fredrik Österberg (founding father of Evolution Gaming).
Aiming to disrupt the marketplace for p2p cost options, Zaver is creating a SaaS and accompanying apps to carry collectively patrons, sellers and retailers with the promise of "safe funds in your phrases". The fintech startup goals to facilitate trades between friends by enabling the usage of versatile cost strategies corresponding to direct funds, "purchase now, pay later" and instalments.
To help this, Zaver's platform claims to embed "clever fraud detection" algorithms in tandem with the automated creation of "verified digital agreements" between transacting events.
"The Zaver app is the primary platform impartial checkout resolution for p2p transactions," says Amir Marandi, who co-founded Zaver alongside Linus Malmén — each former engineering college students at KTH Royal Institute of Expertise.
"With Zaver's clever fraud prevention, automated and quick credit score selections and cryptographically signed digital receipts, friends can do secure funds on their very own phrases with folks they actually don't know that effectively," he says. "We attempt to make p2p trades as secure as attainable for all events concerned and supply versatile cost choices, with out compromising on the consumer expertise".
As well as, Zaver for Enterprise permits retailers to utilise the platform to extend conversion and scale back transaction prices. "Our mission with this product is to scale back the necessity of a bodily card reader," provides Marandi.
Zaver's typical consumer is described as a younger pupil who needs to promote their iPhone on a labeled website in a safe means, or a plumber who needs to purchase a used VW Golf right this moment, and pay later. In the meantime, the standard buyer of Zaver for Enterprise is an organization with omni-channel gross sales, promoting merchandise/companies on-line and offline.
"Our primary opponents usually are not the type of enterprise you would possibly anticipate," explains Marandi. "It's not the banks, however quite upcoming startups desirous to innovate the cost trade. Probably the most 'direct competitor right this moment I'd say is the bank card trade".
To that finish, Zaver makes cash from the transaction charges it fees retailers (which it says are as much as 70 p.c cheaper than conventional cost companies), and on curiosity charged when somebody chooses to pay through instalments.
Provides Marandi: "Utilizing automated methods for your entire buyer journey we're in a position to supply individualised rates of interest on the level of sale. The system mechanically chooses an rate of interest for you, based mostly in your creditworthiness".


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L'hôtel de Ville di Arles, situato in Place de la République, al cui centro si trova l'Obelisco romano, è un edificio completato nel 1676, la maggior parte del quale è ora classificato come monumento storico. È ancora la sede del municipio di Arles.

Storia
Nel 1657, durante un episodio particolarmente sontuoso e opulento per la città, il suo consiglio volle costruire un nuovo municipio al posto della "casa comune" che risaliva alla fine del Medioevo e che si trovava tra l'antico palazzo dei Podestà e la torre dell'orologio. Tuttavia, ci vollero quasi vent'anni perché il progetto vedesse la luce.

Diversi progetti furono respinti prima che fosse accettato quello di Louis-François de Royers de la Valfenière nel 1666. I lavori iniziarono subito, ma nella primavera del 1667, quando la costruzione era arrivata a circa 4 metri d'altezza, l'architetto di Avignone segnalò molti difetti. Il suo rapporto, seguito da una causa persa dai muratori, concludeva che ciò che era stato fatto doveva essere raso al suolo... Dopo le demolizioni, il consiglio comunale cercò di migliorare il progetto, che aveva causato 5 anni di esitazione sui disegni da realizzare.

Infine, nel giugno 1673, una nuova modifica era stata approvata ai disegni dell'architetto Jacques Peytret e dello scultore Dominique Pilleporte. Ma alla fine dello stesso mese, il passaggio inaspettato di Jules Hardouin Mansart, in città, portò ulteriori cambiamenti: l'architetto parigino propose nuovi prospetti per le facciate, uno spostamento della scala e soprattutto convinse il consiglio della possibilità di creare la volta del vestibolo del piano terra senza alcun pilastro intermedio.

La costruzione venne completata nel marzo 1676. Durante l'esecuzione, Peytret si discostò leggermente dai disegni della facciata lasciati da Jules Hardouin Mansart, che erano più o meno simili ai prospetti di Versailles di Louis Le Vau.

Il municipio è stato classificato monumento storico nel 1920 (facciate, vestibolo, sala consiliare e torre dell'orologio), nel 1938 (tetti) e 1942 (sala coperta).

Descrizione
L'edificio ha 3 piani.

Al piano terra si trova un vestibolo con volta molto bassa, costituito da due culle perpendicolari, cadenti come un vicolo cieco e collegate alle pareti da vetri. Nonostante la larghezza che raggiunge i 15 metri, la freccia della volta è molto debole. Il visitatore si trova davanti al capolavoro assoluto della stereotomia francese, che riunisce, con un virtuosismo senza pari, tutte le caratteristiche di quest'arte: abbassamento, gioco di apparati, nudità della superficie inferiore .

La scala d'onore, che conduce alla sala del consiglio, è incorniciata da due leoni scolpiti da Jean Dedieu. Venne adornata, fin dall'inizio, con la Venere di Arles, un'antica statua greco-romana scoperta presso l'antico teatro romano di Arles, ma oggi c'è una copia dell'opera modificata da Girardon, il cui originale è ora al Louvre.

Sulla facciata del primo piano è presente un balcone incorniciato da doppie colonne. Al secondo piano, un frontone centrale con un sole, simbolo di Luigi XIV, e una decorazione di balaustre e bracieri.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Architetture di Jules Hardouin Mansart
Architetture di Arles
Monumenti storici di Provenza-Alpi-Costa Azzurra

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In 2001, the competition included the recurve as well as the compound disciplines.
Modern competitive archery is conducted by the World Archery Federation.
Participants perform in two categories: Seniors and Juniors. The one aged below 18 compete as Juniors. The competition can be held both indoors and outdoors.
There is a specific distance for indoor events while for outside it may vary.
There are two sets of rules according to rounds: Metric Rounds (WA, World Archery rules) and the Imperial Rounds (GNAS, Grand National Archery Society rules).
Archers score each end and their scores are calculated by summing the arrow's score.
An arrow that has just touched a scoring boundary line called the "Line Breaker" or "Line Cutter" is given higher points.


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In the Still of the Night is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on August 8, 1989, by Columbia Records and continues the trend that began with his 1986 collaboration with Henry Mancini, The Hollywood Musicals, in that the project is devoted to a specific theme that ties the songs together. Mathis hints at the theme for this album in the liner notes for his 1993 box set The Music of Johnny Mathis: A Personal Collection, where he gives his thoughts on the 1964 Little Anthony and the Imperials song "I'm on the Outside Looking In" that he covered for his 1988 album Once in a While: "That was group singers' kind of material. I was singing other stuff. It wasn't the picture of the lone crooner standing in the spotlight. That's what I was doing when all this other stuff was going on. I never listened to it until it was brought to my attention by [that album's producers] Peter Bunetta and Rick Chudacoff." Mathis chose to continue his work with Bunetta and Chudacoff on this project, which focuses on "this other stuff" that Mathis refers to: pop and R&B hits from the 1950s and 1960s.

Reception

Although the album did not make it onto Billboard magazine's  Top Pop Albums chart, it did receive praise in People magazine, where the reviewer remarks that Mathis and the album producers "make these songs sound reconsidered, not merely recycled." It's also noted that "Mathis's ability to extract every last nuance from a lyric has never been employed to better advantage" and that "Take 6's presence enables him to prove that he can keep up with the younger generation."

The album also received a positive retrospective review from Allmusic, where Bil Carpenter wrote, "Clean, uncomplicated orchestration" and "One of Mathis's best recordings to date."

Track listing

Recording dates
From the liner notes for The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection:
May 1988–December 1988 –  "All Alone Am I", "The End of the World", "Since I Don't Have You", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "True Love Ways", "You Belong to Me"
July 27, 1988 – "For Your Love", "In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game", "Since I Fell for You"

Personnel
From the liner notes for the original album:

Johnny Mathis – vocals
Peter Bunetta – producer
Rick Chudacoff – producer
Jay Landers – executive producer
Cedric Dent – arranger (background vocals)
Mervyn Warren – arranger (background vocals)
Gary Brandt – recording engineer
Marc Ettel – recording engineer
Daren Klein – recording engineer
Frank Wolf – recording engineer
Mick Guzauski – mixing engineer
 Mixed at Conway Studios, Hollywood, California
Bernie Grundman – mastering engineer
Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California
Don Adey – assistant engineer (Alpha)
Bryant Arnett – assistant engineer (Conway)
Kristen Connolly – assistant engineer (Smoketree)
Richard McKernan – assistant engineer (Conway)
Marnie Riley – assistant engineer (Conway)
Steve Satkowski – assistant engineer (Alpha)
24 Collection, Bal Harbour – wardrobe
Kyle Plyer – styling
Deev – grooming
Rebecca Chamlee Keeley – art direction
David Vance – photographer

Musicians
Garrett Adkins – trombone
Rick Braun – trumpets
Peter Bunetta – drums
Sonny Burke – organ
Alvin Chea (Take 6) – background vocals; featured vocals ("In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game")
Rick Chudacoff – bass
Brad Cole – keyboards
Cedric Dent (Take 6) – background vocals; featured vocals ("In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game")
Bill Elliott – keyboards
Melvin Franklin – background vocals
Mara Getz – background vocals
John Helliwell – clarinet and tenor sax
Dann Huff – guitar
Mark Kibble (Take 6) – background vocals; featured vocals ("In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game")
Darrell Leonard – trumpet
Claude McKnight III (Take 6) – background vocals; featured vocals ("In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game")
Doug Norwine – tenor sax
Jimmy Roberts – tenor sax
Amy Shulman – harp
Leslie Smith – background vocals
David Thomas (Take 6) – background vocals; featured vocals ("In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game")
Mervyn Warren (Take 6) – background vocals; featured vocals ("In the Still of the Night", "It's All in the Game")
David Woodford – baritone sax and flute

References

Bibliography

1989 albums
Johnny Mathis albums
Columbia Records albums


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Chinese property developer Country Garden said on Monday (Aug 27) that the comments made by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad objecting to the US$100 billion Forest City project in Johor may have been taken out of context in certain media reports.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday (Aug 27) declared that foreigners will not be granted visas to live in the giant Forest City project in Johor, a major threat to the marketing strategy for the development.
Mahathir, who was Malaysia's leader from 1981 to 2003, said the government's objection was "because it was built for foreigners, not built for Malaysians. Most Malaysians are unable to buy those flats".
Country Garden issued a "statement of clarification" following Mahathir's comments, saying that Forest City has "complied with all laws and regulations with the necessary approvals to sell to foreign purchasers".
The company added that it was "in touch" with Mahathir's office for clarifications, saying it believed his comments were "taken out of context in certain media reports" as they "do not correspond with the content" of his meeting with Country Garden chairman Yeung Kwok Keung.
But earlier this month, an international school opened its doors to the first 60 students - mostly from China and also from South Korea - to its 22-acre campus planted with "vertical gardens", an Olympic-size pool and three yoga studios.
"It will give both eastern and western exposure for my son. I think it's good for my son's growth and development," Li told Reuters.
Another buyer, Jackie Chan (not related to the actor of the same name), who bought an apartment in Forest City last year for around US$140,000, said he hadn't expected such a twist.


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ArenaTypes::MenuType ArenaVoxelUtils::getMenuType(int menuID, MapType mapType)
{
	if (menuID != -1)
	{
		// Mappings of *MENU IDs to city menu types.
		constexpr std::array<std::pair<int, ArenaTypes::MenuType>, 14> CityMenuMappings =
		{
			{
				{ 0, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Equipment },
				{ 1, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Tavern },
				{ 2, ArenaTypes::MenuType::MagesGuild },
				{ 3, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Temple },
				{ 4, ArenaTypes::MenuType::House },
				{ 5, ArenaTypes::MenuType::House },
				{ 6, ArenaTypes::MenuType::House },
				{ 7, ArenaTypes::MenuType::CityGates },
				{ 8, ArenaTypes::MenuType::CityGates },
				{ 9, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Noble },
				{ 10, ArenaTypes::MenuType::None },
				{ 11, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Palace },
				{ 12, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Palace },
				{ 13, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Palace }
			}
		};

		// Mappings of *MENU IDs to wilderness menu types.
		constexpr std::array<std::pair<int, ArenaTypes::MenuType>, 10> WildMenuMappings =
		{
			{
				{ 0, ArenaTypes::MenuType::None },
				{ 1, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Crypt },
				{ 2, ArenaTypes::MenuType::House },
				{ 3, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Tavern },
				{ 4, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Temple },
				{ 5, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Tower },
				{ 6, ArenaTypes::MenuType::CityGates },
				{ 7, ArenaTypes::MenuType::CityGates },
				{ 8, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Dungeon },
				{ 9, ArenaTypes::MenuType::Dungeon }
			}
		};

		// Get the menu type associated with the *MENU ID and world type, or null if there
		// is no mapping (only in exceptional cases). Use a pointer since iterators are tied
		// to their std::array size.
		const ArenaTypes::MenuType *typePtr = [menuID, mapType, &CityMenuMappings,
			&WildMenuMappings]()
		{
			auto getPtr = [menuID](const auto &arr)
			{
				const auto iter = std::find_if(arr.begin(), arr.end(),
					[menuID](const std::pair<int, ArenaTypes::MenuType> &pair)
				{
					return pair.first == menuID;
				});

				return (iter != arr.end()) ? &iter->second : nullptr;
			};

			// Interpretation of *MENU ID depends on whether it's a city or wilderness.
			if (mapType == MapType::City)
			{
				return getPtr(CityMenuMappings);
			}
			else if (mapType == MapType::Wilderness)
			{
				return getPtr(WildMenuMappings);
			}
			else
			{
				// @todo: try to replace getPtr() with getIndex() for each world type branch, or
				// just return None menu type.
				throw DebugException("Invalid world type \"" +
					std::to_string(static_cast<int>(mapType)) + "\".");
			}
		}();

		// See if the array contains the associated *MENU ID.
		if (typePtr != nullptr)
		{
			return *typePtr;
		}
		else
		{
			DebugLogWarning("Unrecognized *MENU ID \"" + std::to_string(menuID) + "\".");
			return ArenaTypes::MenuType::None;
		}
	}
	else
	{
		// Not a *MENU block.
		return ArenaTypes::MenuType::None;
	}
}

bool ArenaVoxelUtils::menuLeadsToInterior(ArenaTypes::MenuType menuType)
{
	return (menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Crypt) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Dungeon) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Equipment) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::House) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::MagesGuild) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Noble) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Palace) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Tavern) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Temple) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Tower);
}

bool ArenaVoxelUtils::isCityGateMenuIndex(int menuIndex, MapType mapType)
{
	if (mapType == MapType::Interior)
	{
		// No city gates in interiors.
		return false;
	}
	else if (mapType == MapType::City)
	{
		return (menuIndex == 7) || (menuIndex == 8);
	}
	else if (mapType == MapType::Wilderness)
	{
		return (menuIndex == 6) || (menuIndex == 7);
	}
	else
	{
		DebugUnhandledReturnMsg(bool, std::to_string(static_cast<int>(mapType)));
	}
}

bool ArenaVoxelUtils::menuHasDisplayName(ArenaTypes::MenuType menuType)
{
	return (menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Equipment) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::MagesGuild) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Tavern) ||
		(menuType == ArenaTypes::MenuType::Temple);
}

int ArenaVoxelUtils::clampVoxelTextureID(int id)
{
	if (id >= ArenaVoxelUtils::TOTAL_VOXEL_IDS)
	{
		DebugLogWarning("Original voxel texture ID \"" + std::to_string(id) + "\" out of range.");
		id %= ArenaVoxelUtils::TOTAL_VOXEL_IDS;
	}

	return id;
}

std::string ArenaVoxelUtils::getVoxelTextureFilename(int id, const INFFile &inf)
{
	const std::vector<INFFile::VoxelTextureData> &voxelTextures = inf.getVoxelTextures();
	if ((id < 0) || (id >= static_cast<int>(voxelTextures.size())))
	{
		DebugLogError("Couldn't get .INF voxel texture filename for ID \"" + std::to_string(id) + "\".");
		return std::string();
	}

	const INFFile::VoxelTextureData &textureData = voxelTextures[id];
	const char *filename = textureData.filename.c_str();
	return String::toUppercase(filename);
}

std::optional<int> ArenaVoxelUtils::getVoxelTextureSetIndex(int id, const INFFile &inf)
{
	const std::vector<INFFile::VoxelTextureData> &voxelTextures = inf.getVoxelTextures();
	if ((id < 0) || (id >= static_cast<int>(voxelTextures.size())))
	{
		DebugLogError("Couldn't get .INF voxel texture set index for ID \"" + std::to_string(id) + "\".");
		return std::nullopt;
	}

	const INFFile::VoxelTextureData &textureData = voxelTextures[id];
	return textureData.setIndex;
}

bool ArenaVoxelUtils::isFloorWildWallColored(int floorID, MapType mapType)
{
	if (mapType != MapType::Wilderness)
	{
		return false;
	}

	return (floorID != 0) && (floorID != 2) && (floorID != 3) && (floorID != 4);
}

std::optional<int> ArenaVoxelUtils::tryGetOpenSoundIndex(ArenaTypes::DoorType type)
{
	if (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Swinging)
	{
		return 6;
	}
	else if (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Sliding)
	{
		return 14;
	}
	else if (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Raising)
	{
		return 15;
	}
	else
	{
		return std::nullopt;
	}
}

std::optional<int> ArenaVoxelUtils::tryGetCloseSoundIndex(ArenaTypes::DoorType type)
{
	if (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Swinging)
	{
		return 5;
	}
	else if (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Sliding)
	{
		return 14;
	}
	else if (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Raising)
	{
		return 15;
	}
	else
	{
		return std::nullopt;
	}
}

bool ArenaVoxelUtils::doorHasSoundOnClosed(ArenaTypes::DoorType type)
{
	return type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Swinging;
}

bool ArenaVoxelUtils::doorHasSoundOnClosing(ArenaTypes::DoorType type)
{
	return (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Sliding) || (type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Raising) ||
		(type == ArenaTypes::DoorType::Splitting);
}

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The story which began with the mini-series V comes to a stunning conclusion in this made-for-TV sci-fi adventure. A race of reptilian creatures from another planet arrive on Earth, disguised as humanoids and claiming to come in peace in a search for needed water and food. However, their true motives soon become evident when they take control of the world and begin eating humans for sustenance. A ragtag army of Earthlings form an underground resistance army, leading to a final apocalyptic showdown between the humans and their new rulers. V: The Final Battle reunites most of the original cast of V, including Marc Singer, Robert Englund, Jane Badler, Andrew Pine, and Faye Grant. Followed by a short-lived weekly series.


A warm and welcoming performance opportunity for young string players of all standards, the AUSTA WA String Festival is an annual event of great acclaim. Enter as an individual, duet, trio or quartet! 6 minutes maximum per performance.
Piano accompanists are provided free of charge. You may also use your own accompanist, or play a piece that does not require piano accompaniment. Every performer receives a medal, certificate and written adjudication.
Entries close 4th May – No late entries will be accepted.


When you've got sensitive skin, shopping for makeup and skincare can feel a bit like walking through a minefield. Burning, redness, and inflamed skin can all be side effects of using a product that's too harsh for sensitive skin. Want products that won't trigger a bad skin reaction? Read on for our 100% PURE guide!
First things first: do you have sensitive skin? When deciding how sensitive your skin might be, consider that there are two possibilities. The first possibility is that you do have 'sensitive skin', which can be part of your genetic code. Thin skin, blood vessels close to the surface of the skin, less pigmentation, and a weaker outer skin barrier are all common complaints of sensitive skin types. These factors often mean redness and irritation for your precious skin.
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Climate change turning Antarctica's snow green
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Although often considered devoid of plant life, Antarctica is home to several types of algae, which grow on slushy snow and suck carbon dioxide from the air.
PARTS of the Antarctic Peninsula will change colour as "green snow" caused by blooming algae is expected to spread with increases in global temperatures, research showed today.
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"This is a significant advance in our understanding of land-based life on Antarctica, and how it might change in the coming years as the climate warms", Matt Davey, the study's leader, said.
"The algal blooms in Antarctica are equivalent to about the amount of carbon that's being omitted by 875,000 average United Kingdom petrol vehicle journeys", Davey said.
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The research also found that marine birds and mammals also had an impact on algae growth, with more than 60 percent of algae blooms found within 5km of a penguin colony. "2018-ilovepdf-compressed.pdf">snow algae in Greenland have found it can increase the amount of sunlight and heat that snow absorbs, which can cause ice to melt faster.
Reference: "Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink" by Andrew Gray, Monika Krolikowski, Peter Fretwell, Peter Convey, Lloyd S. Peck, Monika Mendelova, Alison G. Smith and Matthew P. Davey, 20 May 2020, Nature Communications.
"As Antarctica continues to warm on small low-lying islands, at some point you will stop getting snow coverings on those in the summer", said Andrew Gray, lead author and researcher at the University of Cambridge and NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility, Edinburgh.
"I think we will get more large blooms in the future".
As bird - particularly penguin - populations are affected by warming temperatures, "the snow algae could lose sources of nutrients to grow", he said.
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Above: Multi-coloured snow algae on Anchorage Island, in Antarctica. The majority of algae live in watery environments, and when excess nitrogen and phosphorous are available they can multiply rapidly to create visible algal blooms.
Skeptics have largely dismissed fears over man's impact on global warming, saying climate change has been going on since the beginning of time.
"It's very dark - a green snow algal bloom will reflect about 45% of light hitting it whereas fresh snow will reflect about 80% of the light hitting it, so it will increase the rate of snow melt in a localized area", he explained.
"We expect there to be more suitable habitat and overall more carbon sequestration".
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Q: Is it good practice to use Docker in a Cloud Function? I am using a Cloud function that is triggered by a bucket to process that file and save the result in another bucket. (more specfically using Pyinstaller to compile python files into executable). However it is cumbersome to operate with a read-only filesystem where I can only use the /tmp folder also with an underlying operating system that lacks some system packages I need.
Using docker could solve my problem but not sure whether I should use in a cloud function or in another way.

A: Cloud Functions already uses a containerized environment.  Trying to add another layer of container to that won't really help anything, and probably make things worse (if you can even get it to work, which I highly doubt).  You'll still have the same underlying resources available, which does not involve any local disk space, and the same amount of memory for reading and writing files in a tmp-based filesystem.
Cloud Run allows you to deploy a container, but that still doesn't involve local disk space.
If you really need local disk space that exceeds the /tmp provided by the class of machine you've chosen to do your work, Cloud Functions isn't the best place to do that work.  Consider instead using Compute Engine, which provides local storage options. You can still use Cloud Functions for product triggers, but you will have to delegate the work to Compute Engine.

A: Cloud Run is best option if you want to use containerised application.

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Transition metal coordination complexes of chrysazin†
Patrick J. Beldon, a Sebastian Henke,ab Bartomeu Monserrat,c Satoshi Tominaka,ad Norbert Stocke and Anthony K. Cheetham*a
a Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, UK
b Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
c Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, UK
d International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
e Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Max-Eyth Straße 2, D 24118 Kiel, Germany
Eleven novel coordination compounds, composed of chrysazin (1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone) and different first-row transition metals (Fe, Co, Ni, Cu), were synthesised and the structures determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The synthetic trends were investigated using high-throughput synthesis under systematic variation of concentration and reagent stoichiometry: for complexes containing Co, Ni or Cu crystallisation was improved by low ligand : metal ratios, while the effect of concentration depended on the metal used. The compounds crystallise as discrete clusters, apart from two, which contain long Cu–O bonds which may allow the two compounds to be considered one-dimensional coordination polymers. One of these compounds shows a distance between aryl rings of less than 3.26 Å, which is shorter than that in graphite, suggesting applications as an organic–inorganic semiconductor. The compound was found to be insulating by single-crystal and powder AC-impedance measurements, and this result is discussed with reference to the electronic structure calculated using density-functional theory.
Crystal structure data CIF (511K)
P. J. Beldon, S. Henke, B. Monserrat, S. Tominaka, N. Stock and A. K. Cheetham, CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 5121
DOI: 10.1039/C5CE00792E
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TIRF Trustee Activity: Updates from Michael Carrier
Editor's note: In this piece, TIRF Trustee Michael Carrier (left) shares updates from his activities in May and June.
Last month, TIRF Board member Michael Carrier finally surfaced from several weeks of seclusion in a recording studio, where he produced a series of radio programs for the Foreign Office of the British government. These activities were fortunately not about Brexit but rather a series of short programs in English, with explanations and guidance in French. The materials are being designed to help young people in Francophone West Africa improve their listening comprehension skills.
One series of programs was about general English situations (especially for individuals in hospitality industry contexts). The other series was about workplace English, developed to help people prepare for working in an English-speaking office environment.
In addition to radio programs, the project also involved designing a series of lexically simplified newspaper articles for placement in the French language newspapers of West Africa. These articles, about local West African topics, were produced to help people improve their reading skills in English, to help them with their future education and employment opportunities.
Besides radio programming, in June, Michael Carrier was able to raise the TIRF flag high in a series of language educator conferences in central Europe.
Michael spoke at the International Certificate Conference in Berlin, Germany on intercultural awareness, and repeated that theme in Brno in the Czech Republic (or Czechia as it is now called).
In Brno, the topic was "How to incorporate intercultural awareness training into the training of language educators." In this multicultural era, it seems important that we should add this extra strand to the development of teacher competences. Teachers engage not only in teaching the mechanics of the language but the intercultural implications of communication in multilingual settings – especially in European workplaces.
Taking advantage of the fast trains in central Europe, Michael was able to speak in the Czech Republic in the morning, glide through the beautiful Moravian countryside eating lunch at 100 miles an hour, and two hours later give a talk on management strategy in language schools at a different conference in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The ELTforum conference brings together people from a number of countries across central and eastern Europe. This year, it featured teacher training experts, Pilgrims, who are celebrating their 45th anniversary. The program brought together a number of distinguished speakers, such as Alan Maley and Mario Rinvolucri, to the region.
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Alt J Album is a Triumph of Marketing over Music.
January 18, 2013 by aok6666 Leave a Comment
Alt J's debut album An Awesome Wave was favourite for and duly won last year's Mercury Music prize in the UK. Nothing necessarily wrong with that.
The xx won it in 2010 with their debut (I reviewed their excellent follow-up here), and previous winners include Portishead and P.J. Harvey, the only one so far to have won it twice.
But Alt J were omitted from as many Best Of lists at the end of last year as they were included in.
Their supporters will tell you that that's because, like Joanna Newsom, the sound that their lead singer makes divides people, Marmite-like, straight down the middle. Enchanting as many as it infuriates.
One of whom, by the bye is the otherwise bullet proof Bob Boilen of NPR's fab All Songs Considered, the podcast of which I reviewed earlier here.
In reality though, when you do get around to actually listening to the much trumpeted work, it's crashingly underwhelming. As Gertrude Stein said famously of Oakland California, "there's no there there".
It's perfectly competently produced, and sounds reassuringly slick. And the ubiquitous, propulsive single, "Tessellate" is a jaunty little number that promises much. But, with the exception of the catchy "Matilda", none of the rest of the album lives up to it.
Instead, as the review in Pitchfork suggests here, where it gets a dismissive 4.8, there's an unmistakable air of fabrication, both to the album and to the band in general.
What we have here in other words is this year's Mumford and Sons. But in place of the cod authenticity that Mumford use to cloak their vacuity, Alt J rely instead on the projection of a diffident quirkiness. Both add up to the same thing though; the emperor's new clothes.
And whilst of course there is as much room in this world for manufactured indie boy bands as there is for their pop-idol counterparts, the M(ercury) people really ought to have known better.
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The xx's Second Album "Coexist" Smoulders.
October 5, 2012 by aok6666 Leave a Comment
The xx burst into life in 2009, and their eponymous debut album was many people's album of the year. Coincidentally, like Hot Chip and Four Tet, they too are graduates of the Elliott comprehensive school in Putney, in London. Though apparently, that's all it is.
At that time they were a foursome, but by the time they won the Mercury Prize in 2010 they'd "decided" to become a threesome.
That success and the wave of public and critical acclaim that it ushered in saw their music make the by now traditional journey into the movies, games and ads circuit.
So it's a tad surprising that their follow-up, Coexist should make its way in to the public arena so very quietly. Or perhaps that's just a reflection of that invariably difficult second album syndrome.
As the boys from Pravda ask in their review, giving it an appreciative 7.5 here, do you refine what you've already done, or head off in a new direction?
They've gone with the former, and the paired and stripped down lo-fi sound of their debut has if anything been even further reduced. According to Jamie xx, who stands behind the front pair manning the drums and twiddling the nobs (and who recently teamed up with Gil Scott-Heron for the justly lauded We're New Here album), they'd intended giving their second effort more of a clubbable vibe.
But the only one of the tracks on Coexist that you could ever imagine surfacing on the dance-floor is "Swept Away".
What you get instead is a seductively evocative nighttime cityscape that's less CinemaScope than it is draped in neon. Think Stuart Staples dueting with Tracey Horn on an off-shoot of 4AD.
Too danceable to be conventionally chill-out, but not enough to be fully clubbable, it occupies instead its own unique spot. And that's what the xx and this album have that's so satisfyingly seductive; their own sound.
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Gujarat Elections 2017
On December 10, 2017, India's prime minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, in a public meeting in Palanpur, Gujarat said the following:
"While there are discussions in Pakistan about making Ahmed Patel the Chief Minister, Pakistan's High Commissioner, its former Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Vice President Hamid Ansari met at Mani Shankar Aiyar's house, and the next day a statement was made that Modi is neech (low-life)."
"Pakistan Army's former DG is interfering in Gujarat's election, on the other, Pakistani people are holding a meeting at Mani Shankar Aiyar's house. After that meeting, people of Gujarat, backward communities, poor people and Modi were insulted. Don't you think such events raise doubts."
These utterances are baffling. As discussed elsewhere, it is unlikely that BJP will lose in Gujarat. People still strongly support Mr. Modi and are not going to abandon BJP in doves. This is why PM's lies are uncalled for and unnecessary. The PM has alleged that former prime minister of India, Mr Manmohand Singh, and others have been colluding with a hostile country, Pakistan, and hatching plans to destabilize our election process. This is high treason and if true, Mr. Modi should have had these men arrested immediately and launched a nation wide man hunt to nab other suspects. Why hasn't he done so? Is he OK with Indians colluding with enemies of the state? I doubt Mr. Modi or any India loving person will let treason go unpunished. So the only explanation is that Mr. Modi is lying.
Why is Mr. Modi lying?
There can be only two credible explanations to this question. Either, Mr. Modi and BJP are not confident of a victory in Gujarat, hence resorting to this cheap, yet time tested, political tick of blaming "foreign hands". Indra Gandhi developed this technique of shirking responsibility and Mr. Modi is simply extending it by adding hints of treason to corner the opposition. It appears, by lying, the PM believes he can get the voters back into BJP stables.
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What ever the truth may be, it doesn't reflect well on the prime minister of a country to lie so blatantly. In a working democracy, he would have been taken to task by the parliament and the judiciary. Alas, this is India and इन्डिया में सब चलता है।
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Thousands of demonstrators chanted anti-austerity slogans with banners warning German Chancellor Angela Merkel that she is not welcome in Greece at two planned protests organized in Athens on the eve of her visit.
A banner seen in front of the Greek Parliament paraphrasing the title "Anna, don't cry" (from a Greek song based on poetry written by Bertold Brecht), to "Angela don't cry" on the eve of a visit to Greece by German chancellor Angela Merkel.
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