The cat food that you will find marked "Advanced Cat Food" mightn't really be as perfect for your favorite cat as you would believe. Truth be told that the pet food business has many dirty small strategies that they only do not need customers to know. Before you choose up that next poor of pet chow, learn a little bit more about the industry and then make your decision. Another thought to keep in mind is that a pet who takes more food will generate more spend, this means more do the job to wash the kitten tray and therefore more money spent on cat litter.
Reading the components may inform you if the cat food involved may be worth buying. Low quality dog food will frequently have "meat and bone dinner" as a principal ingredient. In simple phrases, "meat and bone supper" is a combination of animal intestines, diseased areas, bone elements, and sometimes also the stays of euthanized best cat wet food, dogs, and sheep. Beef by-products and pet digest likewise have related ingredients. This is why several pets get sick from bad industrial pet food.
There's less quality get a grip on in puppy food than in human food. Only just as in the food that you eat, there are different quantities of puppy food quality. Each bag of puppy food comes with a guaranteed evaluation of the ingredients in the food, where you could learn about the proportion of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The examination does not inform you concerning the sources of the protein and a few of the pet food producers to make use of low-nutrition places like chicken feet to incorporate an increased protein rating to their dog food. In addition, many of them use euthanized animals as a result of disease in your pet food. A suitable cat diet is difficult to obtain if you may not know this easy trick.
The most effective pet food has quality individual rank ingredients. This will make common sense, nonetheless it usually does not. Several puppy food organizations may say that they use human rank elements, but just use one or two ingredients price human consumption. To be able to ensure that your pet food is 100% individual rank, it is important to choose APHIS Western authorized food. When Western countries transfer puppy food from the United Claims, they demand that all components are human grade. Use that small law as a way to help keep your self from getting base rate food.
Healthy pet food has balanced microorganisms inside called probiotics in human food. In order to ensure you have a proper pet diet, you'll need to ensure that the bacteria in your cat's intestines happens to be contained in the figures recommended. Check the tag for Acidophilus. If it's perhaps not on the name, you will need to locate healthiest cat food for the pet's immune system or include probiotics and enzymes in the food.
The additives used in puppy food are cancer-causing chemicals. These preservatives contain such dangerous types as BHT and BHA and both chemicals cause cancer and normal malaise. When buying your pet food, produce an attempt to look for natural additives such as Supplement Elizabeth or natural mixed tocopherols. An effective cat diet is likely to be free from BHT.


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Building on a billion views | prize-winning JPC Film
February 10, 2021 By D&CFilm
Finding an ambulance in a pandemic sounds like it should be a punchline. Zinger aside, it's one of the daily challenges faced by filmmaker Jake Cauty, and it's what is on the list of things to do when we catch up with him. His filmmaking firm JPC Film had just bagged the Corporate LiveWire and Prestige Awards, Most Innovative Video Production Company 2021!
The prize is a reflection of the work the South Devon production company has been doing. A feat in itself, and that they have managed to continue filmmaking during the pandemic shows the determination and ingenuity of Jake and the team.
Snowballed
We know about Jake's filmmaking chops from the last time we chatted to him about his films The Panthers and The Youngest Pilot. "Since then things have snowballed into madness," he says. They've been making highly watchable films for a US Youtuber.
"The films we do for him get seen by so many people. In 10 months we did 12 films and got a billion views," says Jake.
Billion views
That level of audience demands a lot of work.
"We get a concept through, or we pitch a concept. When we get a green light for that, I'll write the script, and get that script green-lit. Then we search for actors, locations, props, wardrobe and makeup, and get extras and organise catering for everyone."
By building on their experience the team got to the point where everything was in place for them to do it as fluidly as possibly. Girlfriend, Kelly, does production management for these jobs. Friend, Jamie, is the producer.
"While he's sorting actors and locations I can concentrate on scripting and sorting out camera gear. On the set, Kelly will be dealing with all the actors and making sure the wardrobe is all sorted and keeping everyone on schedule," says Jake.
On set with JPC Film
It goes like clockwork, which is just as well, they have so many of these shoots to do with quite a quick turnaround, the team needs to be dedicated to deliver them.
"I'm now the creative director, that means producing more and better content with the idea of building up the Youtube following, making it bigger and better each time," says Jake.
As you'd expect, there's something fulfilling about getting so many views.
"When you're putting that much effort in, and they're being seen by billions of people, it feels important, and it makes it all worthwhile," says Jake.
When the first lockdown was announced, three months of bookings were cancelled immediately. When we caught up, they were managing to keep filming following the BFI film production guidelines for being Covid safe.
"We've got rapid Covid tests we offer actors that we do ourselves before we do any filming and we're distanced on set, everyone's masked and covered head to toe in sanitiser. We clean the location before we go in and we clean up when we leave," says Jake.
JPCFilm team on location
All this adds time and logistics. And finding actors from the right places who are going to be using private transport can be troublesome. Based in Newton Abbot, Devon, the productions need to show a spread of ethnicities.
"If you go on any talent database looking for actors and you need an Indian or Chinese guy to play a role, if you focus on Devon, they're not coming up. If you got to London you get thousands. But with Covid, it might not be appropriate to get actors from London – and then there are the costs of travel accommodation."
Devon base
Also in Devon they've got a lot of resources and contacts, and even the mayor of Newton Abbot – who's been really helpful with getting locations and helping out with shoots. They've built up their own database of local crew, actors composers that they've met locally.
"It definitely has its bonuses but it also has its flaws, we have to work with what we've got and every time something comes in from further afield we have to be careful," says Jake.
The Most Innovative Video Production Company prize is a fantastic piece of recognition and will help propel the company to the future, he says.
Recogntion
"You have your head down in a project, and in this environment you're a bit stressed out. Then this call comes in that you won an award! It brings everything back into perspective. We all do love what we're doing, but to get that recognition is really quite special.
"It reinforces that people can come to us, we can do something that they trust, and they can feel safe that we can deliver."
A sense of community, collaboration and creativity is underlined with the music videos Jake makes for the modern folk band Harbottle and Jonas.
"I never stop creating. I always have to be making something, whether it's filming or photography. Doing these music videos helps with that fire in my creative brain that just needs to keep going."
It's a mutually supportive working relationship.
"It's always nice to help out local people as well," says Jake. "They're in Devon and they're definitely feeling the effect of Covid. It's nice to be able to produce some music videos or some live videos and post it out. They get some recognition and it's quite fun to do it as well."
That support extends to the grassroots of the industry in the South West. Jake explains: "When I was fresh out of college I tried so hard to get onto film sets. I was in touch with producers and production managers and runners and no one could facilitate that. I just wanted to learn
"Right now we're writing a horror film (which has got some interested investors already) and we're doing those things. We've had people working on these: they are local, they were still studying at college and they come along for experience. Every time someone does that, we can help teach them with whichever area they're interested in. Part of it is I didn't have these opportunities when I was young, and I thought I can offer that to other people
The JPC Film team
"It's helping everyone out and everyone's getting involved and it's a nice way to do it."
With a pocket full of prizes, bags loads of views and a brimming creative network, the hard work of spreading that confidence and filmmaking from a Devon base seems to be paying off for Jake and his team.
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Vegetarian Black Bean Burgers Made with Essential Oils, oh YUM!!
With the warmer weather quickly approaching, a healthy grilled meal could be exactly what you need to get in the spring mood. These delicious and easy black bean burgers with essential oils are sure to be loved by everyone in your family.
1. Soak beans over night, rinse and drain the beans.
2. Put 1/2 of rinsed beans (1.5 cups), yellow onion, garlic, red bell pepper, Cilantro and Basil essential oil, egg, dried shiitake mushrooms, and salt and pepper into a food processor or blender. Process until smooth.
3. Combine with the remaining black beans and stir. If the mixture is too sticky, add more dried shiitake mushrooms until it holds together.
4. Divide into 4 patties.
5. Heat skillet/grill on medium heat. Add coconut oil.
6. Heat 6 minutes on each side. Be careful when you flip the burgers as they are very delicate.
7. While the burgers are cooking, cut up tomatoes, romaine lettuce, or other desired toppings.
8. Once the burger is cooked, put the burger on either a gluten-free bun or use a big butter lettuce leaf, top with your choice of veggies and desired condiments.
For a delicious side dish, broil some asparagus with a little bit of coconut oil, Himalayan salt, and Lemon essential oil.


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"I'll Fly Away" is the last single by the group Banaroo from their album Fly Away. It is also the final single to feature the original four members of Banaroo.

Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "I'll Fly Away".
Maxi CD
"I'll Fly Away"  – 3:21
"Uh Mamma (Extendet Version)" - 4:57
"Uh Mamma (Karaoke Version)" - 43:19
"Summer In The Sun" - 3:33

Charts

References

Banaroo songs
2007 singles
Songs written by Alexander Geringas
Songs written by Ivo Moring
2007 songs
Universal Records singles

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Greg Gaines is one of those high school students who gets along with everyone but really doesn't have any close friends. When Rachel, a girl he knows from Hebrew school, is diagnosed with cancer, his mom suggests he hang out with her some. Greg goes to visit Rachel but things are kind of awkward between them so he decides he and Earl should make a film about Rachel. Things don't turn out the way Greg planned.
After seeing the movie trailer for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, I decided I needed to listen to the book by Jesse Andrews. The book is the manuscript of a book Greg is writing – it's part narrative and part screenplay – so much of it is the thoughts of a teenage boy. And, we all know what teenage boys think about. I'm sure it's my age but the book was too crude and full of foul language for me. I'm sure those same things will make it appeal to the target audience of older teens – they'll probably find it truthful and edgy. I wanted more from it, though – a satisfying ending or something – but that never happened so, in the end, this book wasn't for me.
The audio version of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is on 5 CDs and lasts approximately 6 hours and is narrated by Thomas Mann and Ry Cyler as well as Keith Szarabajka, Hillary Huber, Kirby Heyborne, Abigail Revasch, and Adenrele Ojo. Mann and Cyler both star in the film version and did a fine job with the narration; I'm not sure the addition of the other narrators added anything to the production since their roles were very limited.
I will link this up to Booking Mama's Saturday feature, Kid Konnection. If you'd like to participate in Kid Konnection and share a post about anything related to children's books (picture, middle grade, or young adult) from the past week, leave a comment as well as a link on her site.
Review copy provided by Penguin Random House. I am an Indiebound Affliate.
Will you see the film? I'm guessing this wouldn't be for me just because of the age factor. I hadn't heard of the book or movie before.
I wanted to see this one, but considered reading the book first. I'm glad you posted about it, because now I realize this book isn't for me. Sounds like something better suited for my teenaged cousins. Great post!
I saw this movie as part of our cinema club. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have seen it. And I thought it was decent. But I didn't read the book and am pretty sure I won't.
I've been wondering about this book. Think I'll pass it up after reading your review!
I don't enjoy too many books about teens, and crude "teenage boy" thoughts would not appeal to me, either…LOL.
I was curious, as the title is so catchy. Thanks for sharing.
I do enjoy YA books, but your comments about the crudity and language are discouraging. Too many YA books feel that this kind of thing is realistic, but my favorite YA authors either avoid it or temper it. I'm not fond of this kind of thing in adult fiction, either, but find it especially distasteful in books for younger people.
I always love how honest you are. I don't think it will be for me either.
I've been wondering about this book and movie and if they were similar to The Fault In Our Stars what with the main character having cancer. It sounds like it's pretty different. Teenage boys – ugh!
Oh, I am kind of chuckling, because I don't think I would have been able to listen to this out loud!! I read it earlier this summer (much to my son's surprise!), but couldn't believe how profane parts were! At least you can kind of read over them quickly. I liked it, in the end, though!
I'm not sure this is a book for me. I am curious about the movie though. I will have to watch the trailer at least.
I enjoyed this book and I liked how crude it was probably because I knew guys, and girls, who spoke like that growing up, some still do. I read the book and I like how the dialogue parts were in screen play form. It was different but it worked.
I think the movie is a little tamer than the book in terms of language, though I felt the voice was pretty authentic teen speak anyway. I'd be interested to see what you think of the movie version if you decide to check it out.
Hmm, it would be so hard for me to read this book and figure out if it is genuine/truthful because of the language, but hopefully it is.
Thank you for sharing your honest opinion about this, Kathy. I don't think excessive crude language would add much to the story.
I just gave this book to my niece, I'm curious as to her thoughts after reading your review.
I haven't heard of the book or the movie. Sounds interesting.
I haven't heard of this book or movie. I appreciate your honest review. When you are tackling the subject of cancer, especially in a teen, I would think there would be more sensitivity and less crudeness. But, since I am around teens all day at school, I can see how they don't really focus on the disease and are still just being self-center teens who are living in the moment.
Too funny! I was having lunch with my friend today and she's reading this one. I think the term she used was raunchy.
I'd never even heard of the movie, but I won't be looking for it now!


Is there anyone on the forum with experience in transmission/clutch assembly on early cars?
Then the axle itself is hollow, and open in the front which is puzzling me as it seems to carry oil through it for lubrification purposes.
I wonder what the material should be.
The only reason I can guess for the shaft to be open in the front is for lubricication of the small bearing in front of the clutch, and I would think it better to use a sealed bearing there and plug the shaft.
Oh we went through this very same issue recently. The shaft is hollow to bring "oil" to the clutch bearing and throwout arm on a shaft; it is supposed to be plugged with a small felt piece. Apart from not being one of the very best Lancia ideas, we also found that as the shaft went through the clutch using only that "felt ring" (part no. 24) wasn't enough. So what we cut a small chamfer in the end of the steel piece to fit an O ring (instead of the felt ring) that would be more securely in place. Then we plugged the end hole of the shaft with something more solid. I also think behind the steel ring, we put a second o-ring, replacing what we found as silicone just kind of wedged in there.
I don't think the small holes in the shaft are the main issue. Its oil either coming out the end of the shaft, or oil getting past the felt seal. The rubber O ring seems to be doing the trick. The fact that all this is buried inside is a remnant of the 1940s design of the gearbox, and was changed later to something a bit more serviceable.
The photos below show first, the shaft and the metal ring, and the steel tube. The steel tube is cut at the ends (hard to see in the first photo), more evident in the second one.
The big question now popping up in my mind is ... Do Jason and Louise still run it in that state, ie is that fix still working? The answer might affect what I do with mine in the rebuild!!!!!!!
I recall Kevin MacBride having similar issues, will try and retrieve link, but as it turns out it was an article he did in the club magazine VL, anyone know which one?
And yes, it was oil on the plate that was the issue. Slipping clutch got solved this way. Never had to change the springs.
Just to be clear, the steel tube was chamfered on the inside lip, so the O ring was compressed and held in by the sleeve.
All very interesting. Useful knowledge. I think that - while everything is taken apart - it is worthwhile to take a look at the clutch plate. I suffered from a badly slipping clutch, an on taking it apart discovered that the clutch plate was slightly concave, so that only the outer part of it was in firm contact. It was not visible concave, but grinding it helped.
This afternoon I searched together my courage and removed the back cover and side cover (with diff) in order to be able to dismount the oil pump housing of the gearbox. As expected the input shaft is hollow, and containing some twisted metal strip. On the end of the strips are is sitting a felt 'seal', some 8-10 mm diameter, and about 30 mm long. It seems to have consisted of three 10mm thick felt washers.
In the center of the pump house is a hole that allows gearbox oil to fill the shaft. The problem is that the normal oil level of the gearbox is above the hole and the shaft, and so if the felt seal inside the shaft does not stop the oil, half of the gearbox oil will be allowed to drain through the clutch housing.
I feel however Lancia designed the whole seal to leak a little bit, in oder to lubricate the little bearing in front of the cluch and the clutch release bearing.
Any hints/advice for a replacement felt seal welcome!
Finally some progress as yesterday I got a call the machinist had done his job!
The felt 'seals' inside the main shaft where replaced.
In the separate bushing on the main shaft we machined a groove for an O-ring, so that there is a sealing between the bush and shaft.
In the nose (on which the clutch release bearing is sitting) we machined a small additional oil seal to seal between housing and bushing.
The little bearing in front of the clutch was replaced with a sealed one, so no oil needed there anymore.
I retained the felt bushings as they are intended to leak (or feed) a bit of oil to the clutch release bearing.
It the same time having the differential out I replaced the outer bearings, which looked a bit dry, with new sealed ones.
I've a question regarding the pot joints, does one -put the two filling taps horizontally and then fill colmpletely untill they 'overflow'. The manual says EP140 oil, but in the LMC workshop manual it says in the tekst on the joints to use EP 90 oil. Any suggestions?
Koen, you are correct about the way to fill the pot joints.
I have always used Penrite transoil 250 in them.
I also add about a 'tablespoonful' of molybdenum based additive too...an ideal application for this type of lubricant.
I also used Penrite Transoil 250 recently, from Classic Oils at Bicester Heritage. The consistency is more like treacle and a lot of work was required on the pump to get sufficient oil in to fill it up! I assume that the consistency will change as it heats up with running.


If your Phnom Penh holiday feels incomplete without a healthy dose of shopping, plan a day or two of retail therapy in the vibrant Central Market, bargain hunting for brands in the Russian Market and a taste of modern Phnom Penh in the City Mall. Pick up a pair of custom-made shoes or get your clothes made-to-order. Shopping in Phnom Penh is taken to an all new level.
Beautiful silver artefacts, paintings depicting modern life in Cambodia as well as some traditional art all make wonderful souvenirs of your time here.
Below we have provided some helpful information about shopping in Phnom Penh, as well as some interesting shops to visit during you holiday. You can also check out more information about shopping in Cambodia in general in our Cambodia Shopping Guide. After a busy and exhilarating shopping trip, why not kick back, relax, and enjoy an authentic Cambodian meal at one of the many great Phnom Penh restaurants.
Today there is more to shopping in Cambodia than the artefacts and souvenir items that you normally buy. Contemporary Cambodian artists are emerging with their unique art, which is definitely worth buying. Phnom Penh and Siem Reap also have great boutiques and galleries, which showcase the best in Southeast Asian art, art deco furniture, home décor, and fashion in Khmer silk. You can visit the boutiques on Street 240, the riverfront, Boeung Keng Kang 1 and Art Street to have a look at these emerging trends in Cambodia.
Handmade products, especially art and handicrafts, are worth picking up on your holiday here. Shoes are well crafted and silk is generally of good quality, so you could pick out some nice scarves or other silk products as gifts for friends and family back home.
As a treat to yourself, why not get some custom-made clothes tailored just for you? Or visit a local boutique and pick something typically Cambodian off the rack. If you love collecting shoes, then get a pair made for you by a local store in 3-4 days. Other top notch buys include silverware and Buddha figures.
There are quite a few stores in Phnom Penh selling handicrafts, silk, carvings, jewelry, leather bags, greeting cards and various other items whose proceeds go directly to assisting disadvantaged Cambodians including land mine and polio victims, the disabled and poor women. If you want to shop and also contribute to a good cause, some stores to try are NCDP Handicrafts and Wat Than Handicrafts on Norodom Blvd, Colours of Cambodia and Rajana.
Phnom Penh is a shopper's delight when it comes to buying Cambodian silk, both as yards of material or crafted into dresses, sarongs, scarves and handicrafts. Cambodian silk is a prized possession if you love silk. The silk is hand spun after dyeing it by the traditional 'ikat' method.
Phnom Penh also offers a wide range of carvings in Buddhist, Hindu and Angkorian themes, and made in stone, brass and wood. Apart from all this, there is something that is unique to Cambodia and a must buy – 'Krama,' a checked scarf that is a traditional Khmer piece of clothing made both in cotton and silk.
Phnom Penh's famous New Market or Psar Thmei, better known as the Central Market, is a large covered marketplace close to the riverfront Sisowath Quay where you can buy anything under the sun! From bright sprays of fresh flowers to watches, sunglasses and even videogames, you will find stalls peddling all kinds of goods. Set in an Art Deco building from the 1930s a visit here can make for an interesting day of shopping in Phnom Penh.
The Russian Market in Phnom Penh or Psar Toul Tom Poung is the place to head to for authentic designer and branded goods at heavily discounted prices. Since a number of brands from the west source their garments and accessories here, products that do not meet their stringent quality norms (a faulty label, a slightly lighter or darker shade of dye than the designer wanted and other such 'defects') are sold here at low prices.
To support the local heritage and culture, try and buy products from shops displaying the Heritage Friendly Business Logo. These outlets and manufacturers are doing their bit to keep traditional arts and handicrafts alive so Cambodia's legacy is carried forward for future generations.
You can pay for most things in Cambodian Riel or lower denomination US dollar notes. ATMs accepting international cards are also present and some dispense dollars. You could also convert your money to local currency at authorised money changers. Travellers' cheques are extremely hard to encash even at banks, so avoid taking any valued higher than 100 USD.


Almost every town in America has a grocery store. They normally carry a wide variety of foods to meet the needs of their clientele. Today, you can find everything from gluten-free foods to sushi.
Our directory of Johnson County Brookshire's Grocery store hours will help you get the information you are looking for. We also have information about fresh vegetables and deals.


Description: OTA 2002 - Session 5 Session V - Foot and Ankle Sat., 10/12/02 Foot & Ankle, Paper #33, 9:35 AM The Mangled Foot and Ankle: The Role of Soft Tissue Coverage Michael J. Bosse, MD 1 ; Renan C. Castillo, MPH; Dolfi Herscovici, Jr., DO 2 ; Thomas G. DiPasquale, DO 2 ; Ellen J. MacKenzie, PhD; 1 Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 2 Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA (-NIH Grant) Purpose: Severe injuries to the foot and ankle require significant reconstructive surgery for salvage. Many authors feel that amputation in these circumstances result in a superior functional outcome. One determinate in the literature has been whether or not the patient will require a bulky free tissue transfer, as in many situations this will make shoe wear untenable. This study was undertaken to determine the functional outcome of the mangled foot and ankle undergoing salvage, with and without the need for free tissue transfer, and compare this cohort to a similar group undergoing below knee amputation. Materials and Methods: The study population consisted of 182 open and mangled lower extremities (130 foot, 11 ankle and 41 pilon). All injuries were irrigated and debrided and provisionally stabilized at the time of injury. Neurovascular assessment, soft tissue loss, bone loss, and other systemic factors were applied to a treatment algorithm intra-operatively, and decisions were then made regarding the need for an immediate or early amputation. Excluding the early amputees, there were 74 foot, 9 ankle and 33 pilon fractures that remained. Reconstructive salvage was then performed, including staged internal fixation, and delayed wound closure (with/or without STSGs), or free vascularized tissue transfers. All patients (amputees and salvage) were then followed for two years. Follow-up data recorded included: SIP scores, percent with walking speed >4 ft/sec, number of re-hospitalizations for complications, time to full weight bearing, visual pain scores and return to work rates. Regression analysis was used to determine, what effect, if any, the use of free tissue transfer had on the outcome of these patients. The impact of ankle fusion was also assessed. Results: All of the BKAs were closed employing typical skin flap designs. 37/66 had 2 year follow-up. In the reconstruction cohort, free flaps were needed as follows: foot salvage 10/60 2 yr follow-up (16.6%), pilon salvage 7/29 (24%), ankle salvage 1/5 (20%). The two year results can best be seen in table form: Two-Year SIP Outcomes Overall SIP Physical SIP Psychosocial SIP BKA (standard coverage) 13.20 10.73 12.08 Foot Salvages 11.92 10.00 11.02 Pilon Salvages 10.94 9.43 7.32 Ankle Salvages 15.22 13.11 13.79 Multivariate Regression Results at 24 Months Overall SIP p-value Physical SIP Psycho-social p-value SIP p-value Foot Injury -3.6 .14 -2.2 .30 -4.0 .20 Ankle/Pilon Injury -3.7 .16 -1.8 .45 -6.7 .06 Free Flap +6.7 .02 +2.6 .30 10.3 01 Ankle Fusion +8.3 .02 +6.9 .02 7.7 .09 19.2% of the reconstruction patients required free tissue transfers. The regression analysis showed a significant negative effect of both free flaps and ankle fusions on the SIP score: a free flap added 6.7 points, a fusion =8.3. Further analysis showed that where a standard soft tissue coverage had a significantly better SIP score than a BKA, the addition of a free flap or a fusion reversed the result. All salvage patients had significantly more re-hospitalizations and longer times to full weight bearing. Return to work rates, walking speeds and pain were not different. Discussion: This information can be used to educate a patient and the patient's family during the limb salvage decision making process. Longer follow-up is required to see if the differences are stable over time.


After it was revealed on Thursday that Ryan Lochte and his U.S. swimming teammates James Feigen, Gunnar Bentz, and Jack Conger had lied about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio last weekend, the internet was quick to take them to task.
Centering their criticism on Lochte, many (rightly) pointed out that the swimmers' attempts to cover up vandalizing a gas station by saying they'd been robbed was white male privilege at its worst. Others took issue with the fact that people still came to Lochte's defense over the ordeal — including the International Olympic Committee — when just last week, U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas had been ripped apart because she didn't put her hand over her heart during the national anthem.
But because this is the internet, the majority of people chose to use a bit of humor while criticizing Lochte for lying to the world — and the results are actually pretty hilarious. Here are just some of the best reactions to #LochteGate.
Man. Ryan Lochte finna get extradited for lying to his mom.
This Ryan Lochte story is just a few missing details away from being an episode of Law & Order: SVU.
I would rather watch Ryan Lochte being interrogated by Brazilian police than like 90% of Olympic sports.
Next we're gonna find out that's not Ryan Lochte's real hair color.
Turns out Ryan Lochte wasn't even supposed to be at the Olympics and told his parent's he was staying over at Dan's house to do homework.
If anyone makes a movie of this Ryan Lochte story, please call it Double Jeahpardy.


Idea: Multipliers for some waypoints.
In FT i typically mark positions of enemies when frozen but each players only gets one waypoint. I'd like to be able to announce multiple enemies by marking the same position multiple times (or simply by counting the number of clicks within a time short period). The waypoint would then read DANGER / 2X DANGER / 3X DANGER etc.


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Country in the NEWS: Where New Country meets Old Country....October 29, 2018 (Pistol Annies Celebrate Singleness in "Got My Name Changed Back")
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Pistol Annies Celebrate Singleness in "Got My Name Changed Back"
Liberating New Video Debuts Oct. 29
Since the Pistol Annies' Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley started the band in 2010, they've had two husbands, two ex-husbands, two children (one on the way for Presley) and 25 animals.
With all the life changes they've weathered as friends and confidantes, they had plenty of inspiration for the songs that wound up on their next album, Interstate Gospel. One obvious theme in their fiery new single "Got My Name Changed Back" is divorce. The colorful new video celebrates the newfound freedom that comes after the end of a relationship.
When the Pistol Annies' Lambert, Monroe and Presley sat down with CMT.com, they said they feel equally inspired to write about their private lives and the lives of others.
"I think we take from both – from our own, each other and the people in our lives," Lambert says.
"The cool thing when we write between us," Monroe adds, "we have three individual stories, three individual families, three individual love lives. It's crazy. We have a lot of content to draw from when we're all three together. And the growing up and the growing together that that time has done is crucial to how I think [Interstate Gospel] feels. It feels like we've done that."
Lambert says life's highs and lows have brought them closer together as musical sisters.
"It feels like even more like a sisterhood now," Lambert says. "I can't believe it worked. Our manager made us audition for her, and when we did, she couldn't deny us."
"It's almost like we were sisters in another life," Monroe says. "There's just this known connective thing that we've had since the first time we all met. It's only grown. Looking back, it's even crazier to me as we sit here thinking that literally [Miranda] and I just called Angaleena up one night because we loved her music and said we wanted to be in a band."
The trio will headline The Town Hall in New York City on album release day and The Novo in Los Angeles on Nov. 7.
Labels: Country Breaking News, Country Music Artists, Country Music Blog, Country Music DJ info, Country Music Stars, Country Music Video, Country Musicians, Pistol Annies, raidercountry.net


Although we are not actively recruiting volunteers at the moment, I thought I'd pass on an extremely wise article that might be of interest to people browsing this site in search of opportunities to volunteer for international development work. Click here to read the article "Staying for Tea" written by Aaron Ausland for the Krista Foundation. Some very important ethical considerations that we would all do well to keep in mind.
My thanks to Music Therapist Jenna Horgan for telling me about this resource. Jenna is currently volunteering in El Salvador independently of Music as Therapy International, but we had an interesting SKYPE call last week to see if there might be scope to link up in the future. You can read Jenna's blog here.
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End the Confusion - bring multiple offers under control.
Buyer competition leads to multiple offers, and that means good news and higher selling prices for your listing clients. It also means extra work for you, the listing agent.
It's your job to keep track of those offers and help your seller chose the best one to accept or counter. In a hot market where you might receive 40 or 50 offers on a single listing, and when every one of those offers is in a separate file, the task can be complicated, confusing, and frustrating.
It's easy to miss important emails or to fail to connect them to the proper offer. It's even easy to miss entire offers when they're attached to an email.
That's why Brokermint expanded its transaction management function to include online offer management.
Your tasks become streamlined from the day you enter a new listing into the system.
First, you'll receive a unique URL to enter in your MLS data with instructions to "Submit all offers to this link." You won't need to worry about missing an offer because it got lost in your in-box or because an agent mis-typed your address.
Once connected to the site, the buyer's agent will submit the pertinent details, including the agent's name and information, the buyer's name and information, the offer price, the type of loan and lender, and notes. He or she will then attach documents, such as the signed offer, addendum, pre-approval letter, and anything else you've specified as necessary to the offer.
When the entry is complete, you and the buyer's agent will each receive an email verifying that the offer has been entered.
This ends the confusion buyer agents sometimes have about where and how to submit their offers, and it gives them verification that the offer was received. It also reminds them of the necessary attachments.
You, as the listing agent, will be able to see all offers together on one screen, sorted by offer price. This is a list you can share with your clients as you review each offer and compare it to the others.
For your safety and for compliance, everything that's entered into the site will be stored; including the attached documents and the emails you send and receive.
Once an offer is accepted, you can move the property from listed to pending. From there you can assign it a transaction checklist so you won't miss a detail or a deadline as you begin working on the tasks leading to closing.
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Another few clicks allow you to re-connect with one or all of those buyer agents whose offers were not chosen – without you needing to dig out files and hunt for their contact information. Again, you can write one message to let all of them know that the home is once again available and their offers will be welcomed.
Brokermint's online offer management brings order to the chaos of multiple offers.
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Log in today and give the system a free trial run. Once you've used it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.


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Twenty Thousand Roads
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
"A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the '60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its time, the curse of wealth and the madness of wasted opportunity."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE FIVE BEST ROCK BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROLLING STONE
As a singer and songwriter, Gram Parsons stood at the nexus of countless musical crossroads, and he sold his soul to the devil at every one. His intimates and collaborators included Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Fonda, Roger McGuinn, and Clarence White. Parsons led the Byrds to create the seminal country rock masterpiece Sweetheart of the Rodeo, helped to guide the Rolling Stones beyond the blues in their appreciation of American roots music, and found his musical soul mate in Emmylou Harris. Parsons' solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, are now recognized as visionary masterpieces of the transcendental jambalaya of rock, soul, country, gospel, and blues Parsons named "Cosmic American Music." Parsons had everything—looks, charisma, money, style, the best drugs, the most heartbreaking voice—and threw it all away with both hands, dying of a drug and alcohol overdose at age twenty-six.
In this beautifully written, raucous, meticulously researched biography, David N. Meyer gives Parsons' mythic life its due. From interviews with hundreds of the famous and obscure who knew and worked closely with Parsons–many who have never spoken publicly about him before–Meyer conjures a dazzling panorama of the artist and his era.
Praise for Twenty Thousand Roads
"Far and away the most thorough biography of Parsons . . . skewers any number of myths surrounding this endlessly mythologized performer."—Los Angeles Times
"The definitive account of Gram Parsons' life–and early death. From the country-rock pioneer's wealthy, wildly dysfunctional family through his symbiotic friendship with Keith Richards, Meyer deftly illuminates one of rock's most elusive figures."—Rolling Stone
"Meticulously researched . . . Though Meyer answers a lot of long-burning questions, he preserves Parsons' legend as a man of mystery."—Entertainment Weekly
"Meyer gives Parsons a thorough, Peter Guralnick-like treatment."—New York Post
RGH49 , 04/13/2017
If you have a serious interest in country, rock or country rock this book is a must read. It's in depth story of Gram Parsons will be one of the best reading experiences you'll ever have. Why Parsons isn't in the Country Music Hall of Fame is a disgrace. He may have only lived 26 years but he packed those years with three or four lifetimes. This book is brilliant!!!!
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Avoidance (1) Trap (1) Gimmick (1)
by Thenewgeezer
Pretty old fangame. Two paths you can play in any order, each of which consists of three stages (Each with a secret item and a boss). The stages consist of simplistic platforming involving spikes, cherries, as well as a few generic traps, some also featuring moving platforms and water. Most bosses are simple bosses you need to repeatedly shoot in order to kill, the exceptions being a Miku avoidance and a cherry boss with an avoidance phase followed by a phase where you need to shoot it. While none of them is particularly creative, some actually feature unusual attacks that make them a bit more interesting. The Miku avoidance is pretty bad, consisting solely of generic attacks and focusing its difficulty on a single attack, but the other bosses are alright. Once you complete both paths, you'll earn access to the Boss Rush, which consists of buffed versions of the previous bosses, being a huge difficulty spike in the game. Those buffs can range anywhere from the classic increased projectile density to introduction of new attacks/mechanics to the fight. Miku's buff is by far the most drastic, adding about three minutes to the fight. Once again, Miku is the only bad (Awful) boss, focusing its difficulty on very few attacks, most of which are at the end of the fight. This time, the fight is even more tedious, since the easier attacks are as monotonous as in the first fight, and now the fight is almost three times longer. The other bosses are actually interesting, or at least alright. The King, the water boss and Gumi may get a boost on their difficulty by the end of the fight, which is something I usually see as a negative point, but said boosts don't make any drastic changes (In other words, the fights were difficult from the start, and don't get much harder than that afterwards) and don't even last that long, so I don't have any issue with it here (Rather, it makes the fights more eventful, as if the boosted attacks were new attacks instead, which is a good thing). Once you clear the boss rush, you'll unlock the penultimate boss, which has a huge health bar and bases its attacks on its HP. While some of its attacks are clearly easier/harder than the others, none of them feels monotonous or unfair in any way. Fun boss overall.
Finally, once you beat the penultimate boss AND collect every single secret (Did you get the secret that is hidden in the boss rush room, by the way? You should), you'll unlock the path to the last boss (It's that alternative path that seems to lead to nothing back on the first stage of the left path, if you remember it), which consists of a lot of screens involving random gimmicks and some substandard platforming referencing the first six stages and filled with almost nothing, and finally the last boss, which is another tedious Miku avoidance that, just like the others, focuses its difficulty on few of its attacks (One or two of which are pretty luck-based).
Generic, but not really bad visuals, same (Restarting) music through the entire game except for the bosses. Secrets are hidden behind fake walls, usually hidden behind a spike used for flying spike traps (Though when they aren't you can't do much except for hug walls through the whole stage). Finally, required secrets are bad by default, but making the path to the last stage hidden as well makes things even worse, so the game's structure is awful as well.
Essentially, it's a game that consists of mediocre (Or worse) platforming and mostly alright bosses that would be worth taking a look at (Since some of them, specially among the buffed versions, are more or less interesting), weren't it for the three avoidances, which are simply awful and not worth getting through at all. That being said, in order to play (Not beat) the boss rush, you only need to beat one of the Miku bosses (The easiest one), which is much more stomachable than beating all three of them. Thus, I might recommend playing it up until the boss rush if you are curious about the bosses, but definitely not past it under any circumstances.
Tagged as: Avoidance Trap Gimmick
just_another_Guy
A pretty bad Lovetrap clone from the days of old. I liked some of the bosses, but production value is crap and the final Miku is the worst avoidance fight I've seen in a while, not because it's hard (I don't think that difficulty affects the quality of a game) but because it's so boring most of the time and occasionally you have to do somewhat hard stuff, you die, you start the borefest again. It's very old so that's the only defense this game gets.


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InternationalChiquita
Chiquita proves to be a slippery takeover target
John Kell
Shareholders of banana producer Chiquita Brands International have voted down a tax inversion deal with Irish-based Fyffes, an offer that has now been terminated and clears the way for a rival all-cash offer to succeed.
Chiquita (CQB) on Friday said it now plans to enter into talks with juice maker Cutrale Group and Brazilian investment firm Safra Group, which on Thursday sweetened its bid to by Chiquita for $14.50 a share, a transaction valued at about $681 million and a 14% premium to Chiquita's closing price on Wednesday.
"Given today's results, we have determined to terminate the agreement with Fyffes and to engage with Cutrale / Safra regarding its revised offer," Chiquita President and Chief Executive Edward Lonergan said in a prepared statement.
Chiquita found itself as a potential takeover target at a time when the company was generating stronger sales from bananas, while sales from the salads and healthy snacks that it sells have been less stellar. Comparable banana sales totaled $1.04 billion for the first six months of 2014, up 1.5% from a year ago, while salads and healthy snacks sales slid 4.3% to $479 million.
The investors vote sent a signal to Chiquita's board that shareholders didn't want a stock-for-stock tie-up with Fyffes, a deal that had a lower initial value than the Cutrale-Safra offer but one that could have resulted in a higher valuation over time if the Fyffes-Chiquita combination had performed well. Chiquita's board had favored the Fyffes deal, saying the competing offer wouldn't adequately compensate shareholders.
Investors also ignored the advice of some observers, as shareholder advisory firm ISS earlier this month changed its recommendation and advised its clients to vote for the Fyffes bid. ISS said the actions of the Chiquita board–which included getting better offers from both sides ahead of a shareholder vote–indicated that there was not any credible evidence that the board wasn't acting in shareholders' best interests.
For more on Chiquita's storied history, read our 2001 story Yes, we have no profits. The Rise and Fall of Chiquita Banana: How a great American brand lost its way


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San Luis (en honor a su santo patrono Luis IX de Francia) es un municipio en el departamento de Petén en la República de Guatemala. Su población en 2018 era de 74,813 habitantes, con una proyección de cerca de 77,395 habitantes en 2022. Está situado al sureste del departamento y colinda al norte con Poptún, al sur con Livingston e Izabal, al este con la Zona de adyacencia y al oeste con Sayaxché; está formado por ciento veintisiete comunidades, donde viven mopanes, ladinos y q'eqchi'es.

Los primeros intentos de catequizar a los indígenas mopanes que vivían independientes en la región los hicieron los frailes dominicos en 1675; los nativos aceptaron la nueva religión pero se dispersaron en sus diversas tribus luego de que los misioneros regresaron a su sede en Cobán, Alta Verapaz. Tras la violenta conquista de Petén en 1697, San Luis fue fundado en 1708, cuando los mopanes aceptaron unificarse en una sola ubicación. El municipio fue creado por acuerdo del gobierno del Estado de Guatemala, miembro de la República Federal de Centro América, aproximadamente en 1832.

Si bien la agricultura es la fuente de trabajo básica para la economía en algunas zonas, en la mayor parte es la ganadería. Petén es cuna de los mayas antiguos y San Luis cuenta con dos sitios arqueológicos explorados, Pusilá y Xutiljá, donde existen cuevas en las que habitaron los mayas prehispánicos. En los bosques abundaban maderas de construcción y de ebanistería, aunque en la actualidad se ha deteriorado debido a la explotación de los bosques.

Geografía física

Clima

La temperatura en el municipio de San Luis oscila entre los 18 °C de mínima y los 35 °C de máxima. Por su parte, su precipitación pluvial, se encuentra entre 1500 a 1550 mm anuales, los cuales empieza en los primeros días de junio y se extiende hasta el mes de enero y parte de febrero.

El clima de la cabecera municipal de San Luis es tropical (Clasificación de Köppen: Aw):

Ubicación geográfica

San Luis está en el departamento de Petén y sus colindancias son:

 Norte: Poptún, municipio del departamento de Petén
 Sur: Livingston, municipio de Izabal y Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, municipio de Alta Verapaz.
 Este: Zona de adyacencia
 Oeste: Sayaxché, municipio del departamento de Petén

Gobierno municipal

Los municipios se encuentran regulados en diversas leyes de la República que establecen su forma de organización, lo relativo a la conformación de sus órganos administrativos y los tributos destinados para los mismos. Aunque se trata de entidades autónomas, están sujetas a la legislación nacional. Las principales leyes que rigen a los municipios en Guatemala desde 1985 son:

El gobierno de los municipios de Guatemala está a cargo de un Concejo Municipal mientras que el código municipal —que tiene carácter de ley ordinaria y contiene disposiciones que se aplican a todos los municipios de Guatemala— establece que «el concejo municipal es el órgano colegiado superior de deliberación y de decisión de los asuntos municipales […] y tiene su sede en la circunscripción de la cabecera municipal». Por último, el artículo 33 del mencionado código establece que «[le] corresponde con exclusividad al concejo municipal el ejercicio del gobierno del municipio».

El concejo municipal se integra con el alcalde, los síndicos y concejales, electos directamente por sufragio universal y secreto para un período de cuatro años, pudiendo ser reelectos.

Existen también las Alcaldías Auxiliares, los Comités Comunitarios de Desarrollo (COCODE), el Comité Municipal del Desarrollo (COMUDE), las asociaciones culturales y las comisiones de trabajo. Los alcaldes auxiliares son elegidos por las comunidades de acuerdo a sus principios, valores, procedimientos y tradiciones, estos se reúnen con el alcalde municipal el primer domingo de cada mes. Los Comités Comunitarios de Desarrollo y el Consejo Municipal de Desarrollo tiene como función organizar y facilitar la participación de las comunidades priorizando necesidades y problemas.

Los alcaldes que ha habido en el municipio son:
 1996 - 2000 Hugo Eliazar Espina Berganza
 2000 - 2004 Noé González Amézquita
 2004 - 2008 Noé González Amézquita
 2008 - 2012 Jesús Claros Arriaza
 2012-2016: Sergio Díaz Carrera
 2016 - 2020 Jesús Claros Arriaza
 2020 - 2024 Macario Efraín Oliva Muralles

Historia

Época precolombina

Durante la época precolombina la región estaba habitada por mayas descendientes de la civilización que fue desarrollada en las tierras bajas de Petén y Yucatán diferentes períodos.

Conquista de Petén

En 1675 los frailes dominicos llegaron a la zona sur de Petén, que entonces estaba habitada por indígenas mopanes, que estaban dispersos por el territorio y todavía eran independientes; los frailes trataron de reunir y catequizar a la población, pero los mopanes volvieron a dispersarse en cuanto los frailes regresaron a su sede en Cobán, en Verapaz.

No obstante, los nativos aceptaron la nueva religión, y perpetuaron este acontecimiento construyendo un monumento a la cruz frente al templo católico; enterraron en su base objetos rituales: Copal Pom, incienso, candelas ceremoniales y documentos de la función del municipio.

Tras la violenta conquista del Petén en 1697, la Capitanía General de Guatemala envió al maestro de campo Antonio Ruiz y Bustamante como gobernador de la región, y este fundó el poblado de San Luis en 1708.

Tras la Independencia de Centroamérica

Tras la Independencia de Centroamérica en 1821, Petén fue un distrito dependiente del departamento de Verapaz en el recién formado Estado de Guatemala en 1825.  Ahora bien, cuando el efímero Estado de Los Altos fue autorizado por el Congreso de la República Federal de Centro América el 25 de diciembre de ese año forzó a que el Estado de Guatemala se reorganizara en siete departamentos y en los dos distritos independientes de Izabal y Petén el 12 de septiembre de 1839.  Aunque el Estado de Los Altos fue reintegrado a Guatemala por la fuerza por el general Rafael Carrera en 1840, Petén siguió siendo un distrito independiente.

En los años posteriores a la independencia, la población de San Luis era indígena mopán; el municipio fue oficialmente fundado por un acuerdo gubernativo del Estado de Guatemala, que entonces era miembro de la República Federal de Centro América en 1832.

Convención de Límites con Belice

Cuando Rafael Carrera llegó al poder en 1840, no solamente no continuó con los reclamos sobre el territorio beliceño, sino que estableció un consulado guatemalteco en la región para velar por los intereses de Guatemala en ese importante punto comercial.  El comercio beliceño fue preponderante en la región hasta 1855, en que los colombianos construyeron un ferrocarril transoceánico en Panamá en 1855, permitiendo que el comercio fluyera más eficientemente en los puertos del Pacífico guatemalteco; a partir de este momento, Belice empezó a declinar en importancia.

A fin de poder expulsar a William Walker definitivamente de Centroamérica, Carrera se vio obligado a solicitar armas a Inglaterra, la que a cambio lo forzó a definir los límites con Belice. El 30 de abril de 1859 se celebró la convención entre los representantes de Gran Bretaña y Guatemala para definir los límites con Belice, tras la cual se emitió un decreto en el que Guatemala se vio favorecida en el artículo séptimo, que estipula que Inglaterra abriría por su cuenta una vía de comunicación terrestre de la ciudad de Belice hasta la ciudad de Guatemala. La carretera nunca llegó a hacerse, primero por desavenencias sobre dónde debería construirse y luego por la caída de los conservadores en Guatemala.

Comisión de límites del gobierno de Reina Barrios

Durante el gobierno del General José María Reina Barrios (1892-1898) los mopanes fueron obligados por el gobierno guatemalteco durante varios años y meses, a brechar las fronteras de Petén con México, sin apoyo alimenticio ni salario alguno; eran encarcelados, azotados y luego forzados a realizar trabajos si se resistían.

Economía
Este municipio está enriquecido de varias regiones altamente productivas, y destacan los cultivos de maíz y el frijol.

Existen tres micro-regiones;

 De la ruta de San Luis a Modesto Méndez (salida hacia Izabal), el cual el 45% de las comunidades y las actividades principales son la ganadería;
 De la ruta de Chinchilá a Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas dirección sur del Municipio hacia Alta Verapaz: caracterizada por terrenos bajos y áreas planas; produce principalmente frijol, maíz y arroz;
 Desde Chacté hacia el sur (Belice): se encuentra el resto de comunidades dedicadas a la crianza y comercialización de ganado bovino; esta zona es recorrida por el río Purusilá y Río Blanco. Chinchilá y Chacté son comunidades que sobresalen entre las demás ya que son cabeceras de algunas comunidades; Chinchilá funge como cabecera de comunidades que se sitúan al sur de San Luis ya que estas se encuentran alejadas de la cabecera municipal: Actelá, Santa Isabel, La Tortuga, La Ceibita,  La Caobita, Chimay, Tzuncal, La Esperanza y otras comunidades cerca del área de Chinchilá.

Recursos Naturales y Ambiente

San Luis fue uno de los primeros municipios que fueron distinguidos por su ubicación geográfica, en las décadas de los años 1960 al 1970, empezó la forestación dando lugar al reemplazo por áreas agrícolas y posteriormente a la ganadería extensiva. Aun así existen muchas áreas boscosas en el municipio y otras compartidas con el municipio vecino de Poptún, las que hoy son parte de las áreas protegidas del Sur en el Complejo IV, refugio de vida silvestre Xutiljá con una extensión de 120,694.07 hectáreas.

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!style="background:#659ec7;" align=center|Tipo
!style="background:#659ec7;" align=center|Listado
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!style=background:lemonchiffon; rowspan=2|Flora
|style=background:lemonchiffon; |Maderas
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cedro
 caoba
 canxán
 barío o marillo
 rosul
 valerio
 chaperno
 chicozapote
 hormigo
 sunza
 tamarindo
 matilisguate
 cola de coche
 pimienta
 incienso
 copal
 ramon blanco
 amate
 mata palo
 zapote
 palo zorra
 palo jiote
 palo sangre
 jobillo o jocote fraile
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|style=background:lemonchiffon; |Plantas ornamentales
|nikté, xilil y konop
|-
!style=background:lemonchiffon; rowspan=3|Fauna
|style=background:lemonchiffon; |Silvestre
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 danta
 venado de cola blanca y gris
 coche de monte
 jabalí
 tepescuintle
 cabrito
 armadillo
 cotuza
 oso mielero
 mapache
 oso hormiguero
 pizote
 taltuza
 tacuazín
 puerco espín
 zorrilo
 tigrillo
 jaguar
 comadreja
 gato montés
 puma
 saraguate o mono aullador
 mico
 mico de noche
|-
|style=background:lemonchiffon; |Serpientes
|barba amarilla, brazo de piedra, mazacuata, zumbadora, coralillo y otras.
|-
|style=background:lemonchiffon; |Aves
| cojolito
 faisán
 mancolola o perdiz
 vale
 xulula
 codorniz
 paloma montés
 loro cabeza azul y roja
 guacamayo
 guardabarranco
 gavilán
 águila
 pavo
 pato de agua
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Suelos
Los tipos de suelos en el municipio son caracterizados por ser suelos pocos profundos como el Chacalte, Guapaca, Ixbobó y Cuxú, aunque en la mayoría de su territorio son profundos como el Chapayal, Machicalá y el Sartún, imperfectamente a mal drenados con relieves sumamente ondulados, se desarrollan en suelos calizos de color oscuro y aluvión de esquicia arcilla en un clima cálido y húmedo.

Costumbres y tradiciones

Las fiestas son celebradas principalmente por establecimientos educativos e instituciones estatales; entre ellas se puede mencionar: el carnaval previo a la cuaresma, la Semana Santa, los desfiles alegóricos previos a la fiesta de verano, la celebración de la Independencia Nacional, la celebración del día de Todos los Santos y Fieles Difuntos el 1 y 2 de noviembre y la Navidad.

También existen festividades específicas del municipio de San Luis que son:

 La comunidad maya Mopán celebra cada año una festividad nombrada «Velación del Sol», que consiste en dos rituales ceremoniales que ocurren en los últimos días de enero. Es realizada por los ancianos y principales de la comunidad pidiendo en el verano abundancia de cosechas y salud para todos.
 Antes o después de la Semana Santa un comité se encarga de determinar la fecha para la celebración de la llamada «Feria Agrícola y Ganadera de Verano», en la que se realizan actividades comerciales, deportivas y sociales.
 La feria patronal es la festividad más importante; es realizada en honor a San Luis Rey de Francia del 21 al 25 de agosto, con actividades religiosas, culturales, deportivas y sociales.
 La novena de la feria empieza el 17 de agosto, en la mañana se reza el santo rosario en cada uno de los días van llegando aldeas invitadas que participan en la eucaristía, cantan en Q´eqchi´, Mopán y castellano que son los idiomas que se hablan en el municipio, en la mañana hay alboradas acompañado con sones en marimba, chirimía, arpa, el baile de venado en el cerro Sak Lu´um.
 Después de la Eucaristía se realizan actos culturales donde llegan grupos invitados, también  participan centros educativos, grupo folclórico de San Francisco, San Benito y de otros  departamentos de Guatemala.
 El 22 de agosto se realiza el desfile, donde participan diferentes centros educativos del municipio donde presentan balies folclóricos,  utilizando los trajes típicos del municipio y de algunos departamentos de Guatemala,comienza a las 8: 30 de la mañana en el barrio Paraíso llega a culminar en la cancha municipal, donde cada uno de los centros educativos preparan puntos artísticos para presentar al público.
 En la feria que se celebra  el 25 de agosto llegan gente de diferentes aldeas, cada aldea lleva su patrón para la procesión, culmina con la ecucaristía precisidida por el obispo de Petén y junto con los sacerdotes de la parroquia.
 Entre el 24 y 25 se realiza la tradición del Tallo o palo ensebado, donde van a traer el palo en la aldea Tzunk´al, van los ancianos del municipio, los venados bailan acompañados de marimba y de la reina de la feria, y llevan el copal pom.

Religión

En la cabecera municipal existen tres templos católicas, y siete iglesias protestantes; además de la cabecera municipal, en todos los caseríos y aldeas existe una iglesia católica y regularmente una protestante.

Arqueología
En el Municipio de San Luis cuentan con dos sitios arqueológicos parcialmente explorados, siendo estos Xutiljá y pusilá. En este municipio existen muchas cavernas habitadas por mayas prehispánicos que requieren estudios arqueológicos. Entre las más conocidas están: las cuevas de Sehamay, las cuevas de los muertos de Secuachil y el Altar maya de Kobjá (a dos kilómetros al norte del pueblo de San Luis).

Recreación
El municipio consta con varios lugares recreativos y algunos son visitados por turistas, especialmente los sitios arqueológicos de Moldejá, ubicada a 6 km al Noreste de la cabecera municipal y consta con una extensión territorial de 270 hectáreas en su mayoría boscosa. Existen también varios ríos visitados comúnmente en semana santa por la comunidad como los visitantes del lugar, entre estos podemos mencionar, San Antonio el Calvario que está situado sobre el río Pusilá y río San Pedro.

Educación

Los establecimientos educativos de las comunidades de San Luis están muy abandonadas por el Ministerio de Educación, si hay escuela en las aldeas, es por el propio esfuerzo que algunas aldeas de la región hacen para poder darle educación a sus hijos, con apoyo de otras instituciones solidaristas, así también con el apoyo de la municipalidad que toma el rol que debería tomar el Ministerio de educación, no obstante la municipalidad contrata maestros, da becas y mochilas escolares para ayudar a los niños. La refacción de los niños no llega a tiempo, si es que llega, si no nunca llega.

Vías de comunicación
La distancia de San Luis a Flores es 118 km y a la ciudad de Guatemala es 373 km; ambas carreteras son asfaltadas. Los caminos internos más importantes están balastrados, aunque hay comunidades que no cuentan con carreteras y las que sí lo hacen, se encuentran en total abandono por autoridades municipales.

Véase también

 Elecciones municipales de Guatemala de 2015
 Historia Territorial de Guatemala
 Organización territorial de Guatemala

Notas y referencias

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Frontera Belice-Guatemala
Municipios de Petén
Patronazgo de San Luis
Toponimia castellana de Guatemala


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Q: Cocoa and OpenGL teapot not drawn correctly I mixed Cocoa, GLUT and OpenGL frameworks to draw a teapot.
I usually do this in plain C but I need to mix up Cocoa buttons and stuffs with OpenGL, this is the corrispettive C code:
#import <OpenGL/OpenGL.h>
#import <GLUT/GLUT.h>
#import <math.h>
#include "utility.h"

GLuint width=640, height=480;
GLfloat angle=0.0;

void init()
{

    glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
    glViewport(-500, -500, 1000, 1000);

    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluPerspective(45, width/(float)height, 1, 1000);

    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluLookAt(0, 0, -100, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0);

    // Luci

    glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);

    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_AMBIENT, (const GLfloat[]) {0,0,0} );
    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, (const GLfloat[]) {1,1,0} );
    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPECULAR, (const GLfloat[]) {0.5,0.5,0} );

    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_AMBIENT, (const GLfloat[]) {1,0,0} );
    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_DIFFUSE, (const GLfloat[]) {1,0.25,0} );
    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_SPECULAR, (const GLfloat[]) {1,0.75,0} );
    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_SHININESS, (const GLfloat[]) {1,1,0} );

    glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);
    glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);

}

void display()
{
    glClearColor(BLACK);
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

    glPushMatrix();
    glRotatef(angle, 0, 1, 0);
    glutSolidTeapot(10);
    glPopMatrix();

    glutSwapBuffers();
}

void keyboard(unsigned char key, int x, int y)
{
    if(key=='+')
    {
        angle+=5.0;
    }
    else if(key=='-')
    {
        angle-=5.0;
    }
    else
    {
        return;
    }
    makeRound(&angle);
    glutPostRedisplay();
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    glutInit(&argc, argv);
    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_DOUBLE);
    glutInitWindowPosition(100, 100);
    glutInitWindowSize(width, height);
    glutCreateWindow(argv[0]);
    glutDisplayFunc(display);
    glutKeyboardFunc(keyboard);
    init();
    glutMainLoop();
    return 0;
}

And this is the result:

Then I'm subclassing a NSOpenGLView and do the same of this C code, just with different sizes, but the meterials and lights are the same:
@implementation MyView

@synthesize angle;

- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self)
    {
    }
    return self;
}

- (void) prepareOpenGL
{
    NSOpenGLContext* context= self.openGLContext;
    GLfloat width= self.bounds.size.width;
    GLfloat height= self.bounds.size.height;

    [context makeCurrentContext];
    glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluPerspective(45, width/height, 1, 1000);

    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluLookAt(0, 0, -100, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0);

    // Lighting

    glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);
    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_AMBIENT, (const GLfloat[]) {0,0,0} );
    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, (const GLfloat[]) {1,1,0} );
    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPECULAR, (const GLfloat[]) {0.5,0.5,0} );

    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_AMBIENT, (const GLfloat[]) {1,0,0} );
    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_DIFFUSE, (const GLfloat[]) {1,0.25,0} );
    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_SPECULAR, (const GLfloat[]) {1,0.75,0} );
    glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_SHININESS, (const GLfloat[]) {1,1,0} );
    glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);
    glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);

}

- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)dirtyRect
{
    glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

    glPushMatrix();
    glRotatef(angle, 0, 1, 0);
    glutSolidTeapot(20);
    glPopMatrix();

    glFlush();
}

#pragma mark - Actions

- (IBAction) increaseAngle :(id)sender
{
    angle+=5.0;
    if(angle>360.0)
    {
        angle-=360.0;
    }
    [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
}

- (IBAction) decreaseAngle:(id)sender
{
    angle-=5.0;
    if(angle<0.0)
    {
        angle+=360.0;
    }
    [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
}

@end

And this is the result:

That's pretty ugly and considering that I used the same meterials and lights, I think that I'm doing something wrong in the one done with Cocoa and OpenGL mixed.

A: Make sure you request a depth buffer when you create your GL context.  You may not get one by default.

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Congratulations to Our Editor, Kiki!
This is a purely congratulatory post, full of love and cheer and good wishes for our OBOS colleague Kiki Zeldes, who got married Dec. 30 to Susan Galereave.
Everyone who has ever fallen in love has a story to tell. Kiki and Susan's just happened to make the Weddings & Celebrations section of The New York Times. Here's the best part, as written by Leann Wilcox:
The couple first met in the early 1980s, after being introduced by mutual friends. They did not reconnect until spring 2007, when Ms. Galereave's daughter, Jasmine, then age 7, and Ms. Zeldes's son, Jesse, then 6, began playing together at a potluck get-together for single lesbian mothers in Northampton. The moms and kids quickly became a foursome, sharing meals, games and adventures, but it was difficult for Ms. Galereave and Ms. Zeldes to find time alone, until the very last day of the year.
The couple had planned a holiday weekend getaway with the children to a friend's house at Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire. On New Year's Eve day, they took the children tubing in the snow for hours, with an ulterior motive to wear them out. Once back at their friend's house for the evening, they set the clocks forward three hours, happily allowing Jasmine and Jesse to stay up until "midnight."
Once the children fell asleep, Ms. Galereave and Ms. Zeldes celebrated New Year's Eve with their first kiss.
"This New Year's they'll be staying up as late as they want," Ms. Zeldes said of their children. Then she laughed and added, "We may not make it up till midnight."
For the record, Kiki and Susan didn't stay awake to ring in the New Year. And neither did Jesse and Jasmine.


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This recipe was developed for the Lékué Steam Case and Lékué Ogya.
Put the beans, parsley, garlic and clams into the Lékué Steam Case. Add the water and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Close the case and cook in the microwave for 3 minutes and 30 seconds at 800 watts.
Remove from the microwave and carefully open the case to see if the clams have opened. If they haven't, cook for an additional minute. When clams are done, let sit 1 more minute before opening the steam case. Drizzle olive oil on top and serve.


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I am a developer in a full production environment, using licensed software (of course) but I just want to say that I think this is a brilliant step on Adobe's part… showing considerable faith in end users which I hope will not be exploited maliciously.
A new (currently unemployed) developer we are trying to train up has benefitted from this programme and we're grateful for that.