To explore Facebook organic marketing, I interview Mari Smith. Mari is a consultant for Facebook and the leading expert on Facebook marketing. She's also author of The New Relationship Marketing: How to Build a Large, Loyal, Profitable Network Using the Social Web.
Mari has a loyal tribe of marketers she trains and communicates with, and she says there's a love-hate relationship for many marketers who utilize Facebook and its family of apps. Even though she's an expert, she can relate.
There are arenas of Facebook marketing that are terribly frustrating. The things that used to work don't any longer—one of which is certainly organic marketing—and the frequency of change is frustrating for business owners. That said, Facebook is still the primary channel for many marketers.
I note that even with the recent privacy-related scandals, people who say they likely wouldn't be on the platform each day if their work didn't require it also say they probably couldn't step completely away from it either. I liken the platform to a Siren, and Mari agrees.
There are changes to the algorithm to consider in addition to the type of content that Facebook chooses to give preference to at any given time.
Facebook features aren't the only things that have seen change, though.
For the longest time, Facebook's mission statement was to connect the world. Then, out of the blue, they decided to change it. Now the mission centers on giving people the power to build community and bringing the world closer together.
For example, Facebook began putting on live, in-person Facebook Communities Summit events, and participants are chosen from applicants who manage major Facebook groups. Mari believes this a cue that Facebook is working toward making the Groups product more business-friendly. She points to new monetization features such as subscription groups as a byproduct of that business-friendly agenda.
She thinks this relates to something Mark Zuckerberg said on the Q4 earnings call in January. He said that people want to share in more private environments. Those environments certainly include groups, but also extend to messaging and other products that support ephemeral content, such as Stories.
Additionally, due in part to all of the legalities around the platform's data protection issues, Facebook is putting a strong emphasis on making more of their products with end-to-end encryption by default. The notion that our information is encrypted and doesn't stick around forever is supposed to appease the general public.
What does this mean for marketers? Mari believes people will be much more open about sharing personal things when they think the content is going to disappear. She also surmises that Facebook is gathering some of that data, all anonymized, and that even though Stories content disappears, it's somehow going to be targetable.
Listen to the show to hear my observations on link posts from inside groups.
Mari thinks the question posts work for two reasons.
First, they take up less space in the news feed. News feed space is especially important when you remember that 90% of Facebook users access the platform predominantly via mobile devices.
Second, a question hooks the mind. And if it's a well-crafted short question, our brains almost can't help but respond, and Facebook wants the content in the news feed to elicit meaningful interaction. They want people to hit that Comment button, not just tap a reaction button, and leave five words or more.
Video is working because Facebook has their eye on the slow migration of television viewers, and by extension, the advertisers who'll eventually follow those viewers.
For many years now, Facebook has been very determined to be a major player in the digital-streaming arena. They've had some missteps because they're literally trying to train users who aren't used to thinking of Facebook as a destination video platform. Facebook is having to iterate and reiterate as they try to work with content producers on one level, and work with how users respond to content and video products on another level.
Additionally, Facebook has run out of real estate in the news feed and video provides another opportunity for ad placement via ad breaks, which is a new placement for ad video. The bar for ad breaks is set quite high for now, but Mari is hopeful that small business owners will soon be able to take advantage of this new placement.
Then there's the new Showcase for Premium Video Advertisers. On the Facebook Watch platform, high-end shows such as Red Table Talk, Ball in the Family, Queen America, Sorry For Your Loss, and Recipes are getting millions of views.
THE MOST AMAZING LASAGNA may very well be the world's best lasagna. And that pasta hack? Genius!
Facebook sees this as another opportunity to monetize a small number of video shows that have millions of views, and they're offering advertisers the ability to place ads in this exclusive content.
Listen to the show to learn how Facebook is training creators to build content around ad breaks.
Mari has four categories of videos she says are working for her, her audience, and her clients.
You can use these 15-second videos to drive traffic to your blog posts. Start with the title of the post, pull out one or two key points, include some moving images (stock footage or your own footage), and use some text overlay so people can watch with the sound off. Then add the blog post link in the first comment or put it above the fold.
VIDEO Posts Get the Most Engagement on Facebook!
Our friends at BuzzSumo analyzed 777 million Facebook posts to find the most engaging pages, brands, and videos for 2018. The MOST engaging type of Facebook posts in 2018 was VIDEO! 📺🙋🏼♀Woohoo!
A valuable trick is to put just a small amount of budget on the post via a boost so you get access to creating a clickable link that stays even after the ad is expired.
I share that we've been experimenting with square, captioned video that's longer than 15 seconds but shorter than 60 seconds (usually about 45 seconds long), and we've been getting a really good retention rate.
Long-form video can be 3 or more minutes, but BuzzSumo's research found that 3–5 minutes is optimal and gets the best reach and engagement. This type of video could feature you talking and teaching the viewer something or sharing a quick tip.
Mari's Live videos tend to run anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes long. She was blown away when a separate BuzzSumo study revealed the optimal length for a Facebook Live is between 3 and 4 minutes.
While Mari and I both agree that live video is the thing most likely to meet Facebook's meaningful interactions bar, we also struggle with meeting that bar in 4 minutes, especially when truly engaging with people. Mari says that engagement is the secret. If your audience is engaging with you for 4 minutes, Facebook will let you continue to broadcast.
If you're a marketer who's really not done much with live video yet, you could create a series of 10-minute videos to break down some teaching points by consistently going live once or twice a week. As your audience starts to engage with that content, you can experiment with longer broadcasts as long as you retain engagement.
If you've got a weekly show, keep it somewhere between 18 and 22 minutes; our brains have been trained for decades that this is an average episode length. This type of video can be very expensive to produce, and if you're not somebody famous with a big PR engine behind you, it can be difficult to get people to watch this type of content.
That said, Facebook is really pushing this type of video content as much as possible so they can monetize it and bring in more advertisers.
Listen to the show to hear Mari and Mike speculate on what's coming with Stories.
Mari believes Groups is a growing arena, and she highly recommends that businesses create at least one group that's linked to their Facebook page. A software company could have a study group or a user group. A membership organization could have a paid group and use the Subscription feature to collect the money.
The Boost button and more great features are rolling out to Groups soon, and Facebook is really trying to make sure groups are an integral part of your marketing.
Podchaser is a handy tool that lets creators showcase their podcast appearances. It also lets others browse a directory of all of the podcasts someone has published and been a guest on.
To illustrate, if you look up Michael Stelzner, you'll see a list of all of the Social Media Marketing podcast episodes he's hosted, and under that, you'll see a list of all of the episodes of other podcasts on which he's been a guest.
Additionally, people can filter podcast show episodes by topic to create a curated playlist of all episodes that pertain to that topic.
Podchaser is currently in beta and is free for all users.
Listen to the show to learn more and let us know how Podchaser works for you.
Visit Mari Smith's website and check out her Facebook page.
Read The New Relationship Marketing: How to Build a Large, Loyal, Profitable Network Using the Social Web.
Explore Facebook's Communities Summit events and Showcase Videos for Premium Advertisers.
Read BuzzSumo's research on post engagement.
Read Mari's article about optimizing Facebook Live.
What do you think? What are your thoughts on the future of organic Facebook marketing? Please share your comments below.


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The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution Launches On Quest
Quest 2 and Quest Pro owners can now purchase The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution.
The highly anticipated sequel from Skydance Interactive debuts at $39.99 on the Quest Store today with release dates scheduled in February and March for availability on Steam and PSVR 2. We debuted the uncensored trailer for Retribution recently showcasing the types of up-close encounters players might expect in the game. A $9.99 Payback Edition upgrade is available adding The Blessing weapon recipe and Fat Tuesday weapon recipe alongside some collectables. A bundle for Chapter 1 and the base game for Chapter 2 is priced $59.99.
The first Saints & Sinners game, which faces you with intense zombie fights in a flooded version of New Orleans, is on many of our top games in VR lists. We haven't had a chance to dive into the sequel for review so you'll have to check back in the days ahead for our assessment of the sequel.
You can find The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution on the Quest store now.

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Attoor is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district  in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Demographics
 India census, Attoor had a population of 11,742.

References

Cities and towns in Kanyakumari district

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Sing From Your Heart
Free Your Voice, Uplift The Spirit
Come feel the beat in your body and open and release your authentic voice with two inspirational leaders, Frannie Faith and Chris Coogan!
Experience the joy of singing in a choir with free expression of body, mind & soul! Experience meditation and balancing the energy centers through sound, and learn how mindfulness practices are directly related to singing!!! Step out of your comfort zone and sing in a safe, nonjudgmental, loving space! Leave the negative stories about your singing voice behind and move into freedom!!!
Through choral singing including harmony, deep listening & vocal technique, woven with mindfulness practices including meditation for inner peace and relaxation, chakra sound healing to clear and rejuvenate the energy centers, sharing circles and journaling, Frannie & Chris will work on a deep level to bring you to a place of joy and connection to yourself, each other and the Divine. The songs will be an eclectic blend of pop, world and original inspirational healing music with positive messages!
ABOUT FRANNIE FAITH
Frannie Faith is a singer-songwriter, certified in Yoga Nidra and Power of Awareness Meditation and as a Reiki Healer Level 2. She brings meditation, mindfulness and music together to open hearts and heal. A lifelong meditator and professional performer, Frannie has two music CDs of original songs, "Artist of the Heart" and "Bring Up the Vibration" and a new meditation/Yoga Nidra CD, "Peaceful Places". She has co-presented at Kripalu and Omega Institute and teaches meditation privately and in workshops.
www.franniefaith.com
Watch Frannie's video, Bring Up The Vibration, here
ABOUT CHRIS COOGAN
Chris Coogan is professional jazz musician with impressive credits (including performing with the the likes of Bette Midler, Donna Summer, Paul Newman and Whoopie Goldberg, among others). He is the founder & director of the Good News Gospel Choir, a multi-denominational singing group which performs at churches, festivals, fundraisers and various community events throughout Connecticut. He sees himself as as a catalyst who uses the medium of music to bring people together.
www.cooganmusic.com


There have been plenty of movie biopics that tell the stories of influential artists. This includes artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, music, writing and even film making itself. Here is a list of some of the greatest films to feature historical artists.
Despite being on the surface a film about a young boy living in a train station the story eventually follows one of the pioneers of early silent cinema. The second half of Hugo goes into detail about the life and works of Georges Méliès'.
Big Eyes tells the story of Margaret Keane, a painter whose work became exceedingly popular with the public during the 1960's. It focuses on how her husband fraudulently laid claim to the paintings she drew, telling people that he was the actual artist. It is an uplifting story about triumph over adversity.
Vincent van Gogh is considered by many to be history's most accomplished painter. Though he did not receive wide acclaim during his lifetime, his work is now widely regarded as some of the very best. This film focuses on the later part of his life and circumstances of his death.
The gangster rap group NWA took the world by storm in the 1990's. This movie follows the group's rise and eventual downfall. It is an interesting insight into one of the 90's most controversial musical artists.


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Q: CreateBuilder Doctrine2 ¿Conoceis algún metodo de CreateBuilder(Doctrine), para que lea un array ?
Me explico:
class ExamplesRepository extends EntityRepository {

public function FindArticulosPadresid($padre) {

    return $this->createQueryBuilder('seccion')
                    ->select('seccion.literal','seccion.id')
                    ->where('seccion.id IN(:tpadre)')
                    ->setParameter('tpadre', **array($tpadre))**
                    ->getQuery()
                    ->getResult();
}

}
le estoy pasando un array $tpadre, que es muy simple contiene numeros enteros:
    array(11)
        { [0]=> int(4)
          [1]=> int(22)
          [2]=> int(2)
          [3]=> int(2)
          [4]=> int(1)
          [5]=> int(3)
          [6]=> int(4)
          [7]=> int(3)
          [8]=> int(2)
          [9]=> int(1)
          [10]=> int(3) }

El problema esque solo me devuelve el primero indice (0),resultado de la QUERY¿Hay algún método de Doctrine que lea todo el array y devuelva todos los resultados posibles?
Gracias.

A: Estás pasando el array tpadre dentro de un array, en realidad estás pasando esto:
array(1) {
 [0] => array(11)
    { [0]=> int(4)
      [1]=> int(22)
      [2]=> int(2)
      [3]=> int(2)
      [4]=> int(1)
      [5]=> int(3)
      [6]=> int(4)
      [7]=> int(3)
      [8]=> int(2)
      [9]=> int(1)
      [10]=> int(3)
    }
}

Prueba con así:
return $this->createQueryBuilder('seccion')
                ->select('seccion.literal','seccion.id')
                ->where('seccion.id IN(:tpadre)')
                ->setParameter('tpadre', $tpadre)
                ->getQuery()
                ->getResult();

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Down Load Lyrics has been written by Rab Sukh Rakhy. The Landers and Gurlez Akhtar are the Singers of this new Punjabi song. The Music is composed by Mr. VGrooves.
Down Load Song is starring Himanshi Parashar and The Landers. Team DG is the Video director of this latest Punjabi song.


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Keeping an AI on Damage: Startup Automates Vehicle Condition Inspections
Ravin is using image detection and classification to improve vehicle fleet inspections.
August 27, 2019 by Scott Martin
Anyone familiar with a fender bender knows that the rigmarole of getting a damage estimate is ready for the wrecking yard.
A startup wants to change that.
Ravin is using AI to help automate the process of vehicle inspections and reduce headaches for car rental agencies, car dealers, insurers and all of these companies' customers.
Based in Haifa, Israel, and London, Ravin applies computer vision and AI to vehicle damage detection and assessment. It has obvious applications such as rental car pickups and returns.
With its app, people can circle a vehicle to take a video and be done. AI does the rest: It calculates the cost of repairs based on the vehicle and damages it identifies.
Ravin co-founders Eliron Ekstein and Roman Sandler formed the company to harness AI to alleviate the problems of tracking damages for car rental businesses and dealerships.
The startup came about as a digital business unit spinout of oil giant Shell. Earlier this year, the founders secured $4 million in seed funding led by Pico Venture Partners and with participation from the Dutch energy giant.
Automated Inspections
Today's advanced vehicle damage assessment can require a person to take photos up close from multiple angles and another person at an office to assess the damage from the pictures.
There's an easier way, says Ekstein, the company's CEO. "We ask the user to walk around the car with a mobile phone (running a video app), or drive through a set of CCTV cameras. We pick up the damages ourselves automatically, and we classify and estimate it for the insurer or fleet owner to make a decision," he said.
Ravin's app enables a quick video to be converted into dozens of images around a car and then run through its algorithms in AWS powered by NVIDIA GPUs for damage detection, he said.
The startup's neural networks were trained on NVIDIA GPUs running in workstations. "We used hundreds of thousands of images to train the models," said Sandler, the company's CTO.
For fleet operators, Ravin can set up fixed camera systems to capture photos of inbound vehicles, automating the process of damage assessments.
Rental company Avis has been using Ravin's system at Heathrow Airport in London.
"They use it to inspect cars for damage when customers come back, which helps them charge only the right people for the right damage," said Ekstein.
Ravin's system can help fleet operators manage their risk on damaged vehicles as well as more quickly move cars to repairs for a faster turnaround to get them back in use, he said.
"We can shorten the lead time to repair and help understand the true cost to repair it," said Ekstein.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence | GPU


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Good news, Toronto!
Looks like the city's not going to face a what-the-hell-let's-just-go-for-a 10% cut across the board in fiscal year 2013. Nope. Things are looking up. We're just going to have to deal with a 0% budget freeze. So already put upon departments, services and programs will merely grind to a further halt through attrition and more sprung leaks rather than amputations and major blood loss.
Along with a spending freeze, the Globe and Mail reports that city manager Joe Pennachetti has also called for 'a ban on new service initiatives'. So, it's all stand pat and hope for the best. We just can't be too sure how big our surplus is going to be next year.
It's difficult to keep your head above fiscal choppy waters when you insist on swimming with only one arm. Mayor Ford's proposed 1.75% property tax increase barely covers the rate of inflation, never mind any of the wage settlements various city workers are scheduled to receive. Instead of exploring other sources to generate more revenue, it's all about further reducing services until…
Well, that's the $123 billion infrastructure deficit question.
You see, fiscal conservatives on council will tell you that we need to reduce the $400+ million spent annually on paying down our debt principle and interest. When we get rid of that, well then, the sky's the limit. We can start dishing out for all those nice-to-haves everybody loves so much but doesn't really want to pay for.
Like a properly operating public transit system. Serviceable roads. Bridges that don't fall down in chunks. Libraries with computers and books other than trade paperbacks.
Until such time when this city is debt free, we'll all have to just get by. Make do with less. Show the kind of discipline the likes of Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong is so proud of when he votes to cut everything Mayor Ford says needs to be cut.
Discipline and courage.
"I am doing this for everybody's future," fiscal warrior and city budget chief, Mike Del Grande proclaimed. "Unfortunately, they want me to be the bad guy."
No, that's not true, councillor. What we really want you to be is a better budget chief. One who realizes that miserly penny-pinching and refusing to have a sensible discussion about the true costs of maintaining a healthy city now doesn't in the least leave a prosperous future for the coming generations. It just leaves a mess that they have to clean up and you don't have to pay for.
In reality, it's kind of the exact opposite of courage and discipline.
I don't know how much latitude senior bureaucrats like Mr. Pennachetti have with the elected official they deal with. Certainly the fate of Gary Webster must serve as a cautionary tale about dealing with the Ford administration. But this budget freeze/no new service initiatives mode he's adopted for the upcoming year is at odds with the city manager I saw speak at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance this spring about Toronto's fiscal health. He boasted about our double-A credit rating. He suggested there was probably no more than $100 million still to find through efficiencies. Further cutting wasn't going to solve any looming crisis that may be waiting up ahead for us.
And make no mistake, Mr. Pennachetti is now proposing further cuts to departments and agencies that he has already taken a knife to in the past couple years. Zero increases mean less money. Even our current budget chief can do the simple math from that.
As long as the city manager insists on making these kinds of austerity demands, he continues to play accomplice to those who aren't really all that interested in being fiscally responsible. He offers cover to their claims of being brave and disciplined. He's insisting on further hardship for those already hard hit by previous cutbacks for the sake of those operating under the faulty premise that they're hard done by.
Our city manager's already done much dirty work for Mayor Ford. It's time he starts looking out for the best interests of those who've paid a hefty price for their collaboration.
— impatiently submitted by Cityslikr
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5 Responses to The Big Freeze
Hey City! Last year there was suppose to be a 5-10% cut which became a 6-7 million increase for the cops…
Whereas the $774 million boogyman pressure turned out to be a $292 million surplus! How efficient are those CAs?
Simon Says says:
When the condo boom ends, so will the surplus monies brought about from the land transfer tax.
So people are going to stop buying property?! Is Ford going to scrap the Land Tranfer Tax like he found $1.7 billion in "gravy"
What is with the non-sequitors? I post condo boom ending and you conclude that Ford will scrap the LTT?
Housing sales are down in the GTA and there isn't many more places to put up a condo. Condo sales have fallen dramatically in the past two months.
The surplus is generated by the land transfer tax, which has been fueled by the condo boom. Condo boom is coming to an end and so will the large surplus announced by the city each year.
I deputed at the Budget Committee for the 2012 proposal and I estimated that there will be an over "$100 million Surplus for this accounting year." So they didn't have to cut anything!
Ford ran on the promise to cut the LTT plus he mentioned something about lots of gravy…
P.S. the TPS budget had an increase which was my main point about setting 5-10% cut targets


The Trust Fund that was established those who wished to donate to assist in the search for Nicole has now been closed.
The family wishes to express our deep gratitude to everyone who has so generously contributed.
the investigation to find and safely return Nicole, and to identify and bring to justice anyone who might have been involved in her disappearance.


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``` md
#### [Musa Bin Rahamat](http://github.com/ghurabah93)
<img src="images/musa.jpg" width="150"><br>

* Components in charge of: [Logic]
* Features implemented:
   * <kbd>[Undo](UserGuide.md#undo-the-modification--undo)</kbd> Command
   * <kbd>[Done](UserGuide.md#done-a-specific-task--done)</kbd> Command
   * <kbd>[Undone](UserGuide.md#undone-a-specific-task--undone)</kbd> Command
   * <kbd>[Favorite](UserGuide.md#favorite-a-specific-task--favorite)</kbd> Command
   * <kbd>[Unfavorite](UserGuide.md#unfavorite-a-specific-task--unfavorite)</kbd> Command
   * <kbd>[Refresh](UserGuide.md#refresh-the-task-manager--refresh)</kbd> Command

* Code written: <kbd>[Functional code](../collated/main/A0147335E.md)</kbd> <kbd>[Test code](../collated/test/A0147335E.md)</kbd> <kbd>[Docs](../collated/docs/A0147335E.md)</kbd>
* Other major contributions:
  * Did the initial porting from AddressBook to TaskManager
  * Did the initial porting of JUnit tests from AddressBook to TaskManager
  * Did detection of task alert
  * Did detection of overdue task

**Role**: Developer <br>
Responsibilities: Team Lead, Logic

-----
```
###### \DeveloperGuide.md
``` md
**Undo Command** : [`UndoCommand.java`](../src/main/java/seedu/task/logic/commands/UndoCommand.java)

1. `UndoCommand` uses the `HistoryManager` class to extract the previous commands that was successfully inputted by user.
2. As the user wants to undo previous command, the command that is actually executed is the reverse action for previous command.
3. As undo command is most useful for delete, add, clear, done, undone, edit commands as it uses the storage component.
4. The result of the undo command execution is encapsulated as a `CommandResult` object which is passed back to the `Ui`.
5. User can also undo multiple times and it is done by calling undo command with the number of times that the user set
```
###### \DeveloperGuide.md
``` md
### Use case: Mark task as favorite

**MSS**

1. User requests to mark a task as favorite
2. Task Manager successfully updates task, showing affected task in the message panel and highlighting affected task in yellow in task list panel <br>
Use case ends

**Extensions**

1a. Task is already marked as favorite

> 1a1. Task Manager shows an error message stating that the task is already marked as favorite <br>
  Use case ends

1b. The given index is invalid

> 1b1. Task Manager shows an error message stating provided index is invalid <br>
  Use case ends

### Use case: Mark task as not favorite

**MSS**

1. User requests to mark a task as not favorite
2. Task Manager successfully updates task, showing affected task in the message panel and yellow highlight in task list panel disappears <br>
Use case ends

```
###### \DeveloperGuide.md
``` md
## Appendix E : Product Survey

   | Todoist| Any.Do | Wunderlist
-------- | :-------- | :--------- | :-----------
`Platforms` | All platforms | iOS, Android, Google Chrome | iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Kindle, Web
`Price` | Free / Premium ($28.99/year) | Free / Premium ($45/year or $5 per month) | Free / Pro ($59.88/year)
`Pros` | Good user interface<br>Fastest task manager app Works offline<br>Can set priorities by choosing from 1 to 4. <br>Can drag and drop tasks <br>Can create a Project with emojis in its name  Supports text formatting| Minimalistic design Can Star a task to mark it as high priority Runs at high speed Has in-built speech recognition <br>Can drag and drop tasks <br>Can swipe a task to the right to mark it as complete<br> Can swipe a completed task to the left to add it again to the list. <br>Can attach files from your Dropbox and Google Drive  | Simple-to-use <br>Can Star a task to set a priority to a task Hashtags feature<br> Can add comments and attachments Supports email reminder Powerful search function Can restore deleted lists. <br>Can manually create backups and import data from your backups.<br> Can attach files from your Dropbox.
`Cons` | The key features are all part of premium plan <br>Not compatible with Windows Phone Search function is limited in free plan <br>Doesn't have a backup option for free users | Not intuitive to use Doesn't hide a task when it's marked as complete.<br> Doesn't support email reminders Doesn't have a Windows app.<br>  Doesn't have a backup option. Doesn't support emojis in your list names. Doesn't support markdown.| Slow to load <br>Doesn't show last synced time <br>Doesn't support text formatting
```
###### \UserGuide.md
``` md
#### Undo the modification : `undo`
Undo the modification in the last step. Only includes add, delete, edit, clear, done, undone, favorite, unfavorite, sort and refresh commands. Can undo multiple times.<br>
Format: `undo` or  `undo INDEX`

#### Done a specific task : `done`
Done a task to show that it is completed with a green marker.<br>
Format: `done INDEX`

#### Undone a specific task : `undone`
Undone a task. Reverse action of done command. Green marker will disappear.<br>
Format: `undone INDEX`

#### Favorite a specific task : `fav`
Favorite a task. A yellow marker on the task will indicate this.<br>
Format: `fav INDEX`

#### Unfavorite a specific task : `unfav`
Unfavorite a task. Reverse action of favorite command, removing the yellow marker.<br>
Format: `unfav INDEX`

```

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Q: Show Wii U Gamepad Video on Computer I'm trying to find out if anyone has come up with a method of getting the Wii U gamepad video to show on a PC.
I've looked this up and found people playing PC games with the Wii U, but that's not what I am trying to do.
I want to duplicate what is on the Wii U Gamepad onto my computer. I would think this could be possible since it's already wireless.

A: Using drc-sim-client by rolandoislas you can.
Not only with PC but also with Android. Available in the google play store.
First you need a linux computer to host as the server. OSX and Windows host m

Minimum Linux based OS
  2.4 GHz CPU 5GHZ, 802.11n compatible wireless networking interface
DRC Sim Server is a utility for pairing a computer to a Wii U to
  emulate a gamepad.
It needs a client for full functionality.
  See the wiki for more info.

Installation
Installation instructions are available on the wiki.
You will install some things and run some scripts by copying and pasting what you see on the wiki.
NOTE: Issues may be encountered with Ubuntu versions greater than 16.04 LTS.
There's some conflicting info on what the recommended machine is but it says

The install script supports only Debian based OSes at this time.

You can find his open source program here which links to the client and wiki.
https://github.com/rolandoislas/drc-sim

A: There is a team that has discovered the way to do this, but you will still need a TV for the first screen and a Bluetooth dongle. This is the video.


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Next review Amerigas - Fredericksburg, VA FRAUD
Amerigas
High Point, North Carolina
We bought a home in 2001 that was heated with propane with a 500 gal above ground tank. The supplier was Amerigas to the previous owner so we contracted with them to be our supplier. We paid to have a new underground tank installed and hooked up to the existing furnace, adding a hookup to the fireplace in our family room
Related: Got gas, but cannot use it. - Amerigas
We signed on for a monthly charge where we would pay the same amount for 11 months of the year, and then settle up in April of each years. Some years we ended up owing a little, some having a small credit - pretty much break even. Our gas was always regularly delivered and only twice did we have to call for an emergency fill up when the tank ran empty.
In the last two years, dealing with Amerigas has been nothing but a nightmare. Our regular monthly payment, which of course had gone up slightly from year to year and ranged a little over $200 per month, ballooned to $507 per month. After three months of arguments with their billing department, we finally got back to $257 per month, but then received double billings each month, $257, and a second one for $305. Another two months of arguing with them. Now comes March 31, 2012. We have a 500 gallon tank. Amerigas sends their truck out and fills us with 184.4 gallons at a cost of $973.63. Do the math - this does not include their charges for fuel recovery or state/county taxes. This is just the cost of gas per gallon. Math equals $5.2799 per gallon. I complained about this but got the typical run around about the cost of propane (bunk) and paid the bill to zero us out for our April settlement date. At this time I cancelled our monthly billing program and opted for their lock-in per gallon rate.
Since April, I have been billed $307, $257 in May, June, July and August -two different statements per month.
We have now decided we are going to change to another supplier. The undeground tank belong to Amerigas. We cannot have it dug up, emptied of the gas in there that we have paid for, and will be charged to removal of the gas, the tank itself and they won't even backfill the hole or repair the landscape ruined with the removal.
Wish us luck. We are going to have our new supplier pump out the gas (70% sitting in that tank now), dig up and place the Amerigas tank in our front yard for pick up. They will install their tank, refill it with the Amerigas gas we own, and we go from there. We will call Amerigas to come and pick up their tank and will probably get hit with a huge bill from them. We will then take everything to our lawyer and see ya in court Amerigas.
Caution Oct 29, 2012 #561800
Be careful having someone else work on there tank, it is unlawful in some states for each company to do anything but move another companies assets make sure you get something from your new supplier that they will take responsibility for anything that could happen during the transfer. Taking someone to court when you are publicly stating you are going to violate the terms of a signed agreement is a bad idea. Don't lease another tank BUY it this time the stupidist thing i've ever seen is people leasing underground tanks.
LOL...R U Amerigas' Attorney? Jan 22, 2013 #596722
@Caution
How could you know the terms of their contract?
I have seen enough customer horror stories of fraud and unethical business practices, on this site alone, to warrant a class action lawsuit and a criminal investigation.
I hope that family moves forward with a civil action and has their attorney seek to have the case given class action status.


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The Spanish government has reached a preliminary agreement with trade unions and employers' associations to reform the pension system, according to cabinet and union sources.
The deal includes reevaluating pensions in conjunction with changes in the consumer price index, the 'IPC', to maintain purchasing power. A repeal of the sustainability factor has also been agreed upon and will be substituted by an intergenerational equity mechanism, which has yet to be defined.
The sustainability factor was a unilateral reform approved by the right-wing People's Party in 2013. It consists of a complex formula that links future initial pensions to life expectancy, which may lead to the reductions of pensions by the next years.
Moreover, the Spanish government will commit to a 2% transfer of GDP to Social Security through the general state budgets, guaranteeing the Spanish public pension system. The agreement also includes measures about the early retirement model with the introduction of penalties.
The reform should begin to be implemented by early 2022 and is aimed to last 25 years according to José Luis Escrivá, the minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
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Its nickname is "Gas Guzzler." We're not even kidding.
Kawhi Leonard is one of the NBA's brightest young stars and the owner of a contract worth $94 million. However, that doesn't mean he balls out when it comes to cars. No, the NBA Final's MVP in 2014 and the eventual face of the San Antonio Spurs franchise prefers to daily drive cars that don't call attention to him. In a wide ranging story on Leonard published in Sports Illustrated (SI) we learned, among other things, that he daily drives a 1997 Chevrolet Tahoe nicknamed "Gas Guzzler."
The reasons Leonard gives for why he still drives the Tahoe are something you'd expect a struggling single mom or college student to say. "It runs and it's paid off," he told SI. At San Diego State where Leonard went to college he traveled around town in a silver Chevy Malibu, but that car was dropped in favor of the Tahoe once he was drafted. According to San Diego paper The Union Tribune, Leonard does own a Porsche that he drives on game nights. But other than that it's the Tahoe or bust. Kawhi Leonard reminds us a lot of NFL running back Alfred Morris. Gearheads remember Morris as the man who drove his 1993 Mazda 626 even after making his mark (and millions) in the NFL.
We salute star athletes like Leonard and Morris who don't abandon their first cars despite finding fame and fortune in professional sports. Besides, just because you have money doesn't mean you have good taste in cars. Isn't that right, Dwight Howard? Unfortunately we don't have any photos of Leonard's cars but we do have shots of Morris' 626 (refurbished by Mazda) and Howard's absolutely awful custom Hellcat. Enjoy!
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Data centers are integral part of the IT industry and form the backbone of IT infrastructure for a host of services that are part of our daily life such as energy, telecommunications, internet, banks, etc.
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Further, the tremendous increase in the usage of server virtualization to consolidate server assets is reshaping the data center dynamics. Virtualization and server consolidation are resulting in decline of physical data center size, and eliminating the need for many smaller data centers as applications are moved to larger central data centers. For instance, the US Federal Government has closed around 484 data center facilities over the last three years, and planning to close 571 more by September 20142. HP consolidated its 85 data centers into six highly efficient and automated centers, supporting large service providers. Other factors such as increasing internet adoption, use of intelligent devices, and the need for more mobility are resulting in huge data explosion, raising the need for high-density computing, thereby imposing high pressure on data center transformation and more efficient environments.
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Vendors are specifically focusing on low power consumption models, as energy consumption is responsible for a significant part of the data center costs (~30%3). Major data center vendors are taking initiatives in designing chiller-less DCs and immersion cooling techniques that use less energy. Also, vendors are moving towards 'free cooling' by establishing their facilities in cold countries such as Finland, taking advantage of cold climate and cheap geothermal and hydro energies.
Focus on efficiency of infrastructure, rise of hybrid technology, increasing trend of remote access to employees are impacting the data center transformation and are driving the need for modernization of data centers. Also, SDN (Software Defined Networking) evolution is transforming the aspects in data center designs.
Data Center Demographics: Globally there are more than half a million data centers that occupy almost 290 Mn square feet of space4. About 45% of them are located in the US, followed by Western Europe (UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy and Poland) with 25%, and Canada with 3%. While, Latin America (Brazil, Argentina and Chile), India and Australia each has about 3% of this market.
The latest data center locations that are emerging outside the US include Slough, UK that has benefits of dual power supply and comprehensive fiber network connectivity, Lulea (Sweden) for low electricity prices and availability of skills, Iceland for low cost abundant renewable geothermal and fresh air cooling, Singapore for its tax incentives and supply of skilled data center talent.
Global spending* on data centers was around $143 Bn in 2013 and is projected to grow steadily and reach $149 Bn by 2014,5. While, North America accounted for the highest share in the total market, less developed markets in Asia Pacific and Latin America have also contributed significantly for its growth. Data center market in the US is predicted to grow to $78.35 Bn by 20166.
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Q: Dynamic Array Depth/Width Code I apologize if this question is too vague because I haven't actually built out any code yet, but my question is about how to code (perhaps in C# in a Unity3d script, but really just generically) the dynamically changing unit depth/width in total war games.
In TW games, you can click and drag to change a unit from an nx2 formation to 2xn formation and anything in between. Here's a video (watch from 15 seconds in to 30 seconds in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aGRzy_PzJQ
I'm curious, generically speaking, about the code that would permit someone to on the fly exchange the elements of an array like that. I'm assuming here that the units in the formation are elements in an array
so, you might start with an array like this:
    int[,] array = new int[2, 20];

and end up with an array like this:
    int[,] array = int[20, 2];

but in between you create the closest approximations, with the last row in some cases being unfilled, and then the elements of that last row would have to center visually until the column width was such that the number of elements in all the rows are equal again.
It kind of reminds me of that common intro to programming problem that requires you to write to the console a pyramid made of *'s all stacked up and adding one element per row with spaces in between, but a lot more complicated.
Most of the lower-tech formation tactics games out there, like Scourge of War just let you choose either Line Formation (2 rows deep) or column formation (2 columns wide), without any in between options, which was perhaps an intentional design choice, but it makes unit movement so awkward that I had to assume they did it out of technical limitations, so maybe this is a hard problem.

A: I wrote some code to clarify the question a bit. The method form() takes parameters for the number of units in the formation and the width of the formation, without using an array, and just prints out the formation to the console with any extra men put in the last row and centered:
x = number of men
y = width formation
r = number of rows, or depth (calculated from x and y)
L = leftover men in last row if y does not divide evenly into x
Space = number spaces used to center last row
form() = method called from the class Formation
I figured it should take the depth and number of men because the number of men is set (until some die but that's not being simulated here) and the player would normally spread out the men to the desired width, and so the number of rows, and number of men in those rows, including the last row, and the centering of that last row, should be taken care of by the program. At least that's one way to do that.
namespace ConsoleApplication6
{

    class Formation
    {
        public int x;
        public int y;

        public Formation(int x, int y)
        {
            this.x = x;
            this.y = y;
        }

        public void form()
        {
            int r = x / y;
            int Left = x % y;
            int Space = (y - Left)/2;
            for (int i = 0; i < r;i++)
                {
                for (int j = 0; j < y; j++)
                    {
                    Console.Write("A");
                    }
                Console.WriteLine();
                if (i == r - 1)
                {
                    for (int m = 0; m < Space; m++)
                    {
                        Console.Write(" ");
                    }
                    for (int k = 0; k < Left; k++)
                    {
                        Console.Write("A");
                    }
                }
                }
        }
    }
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            Console.WriteLine("enter the number of men: ");
            int a = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
            Console.WriteLine("enter the formation width: ");
            int b = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
            Formation testudo = new Formation(a,b);
            testudo.form();
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

So, I think what I'm trying to do to improve this is have the above code run repeatedly in real time as the user inputs a different desired width (y changes) and men die (x changes)
But, if it were actually to be implemented in a game I think it would have to be an array, so I guess the array could take the x parameter as its max index number and then i would do a kind of for loop like for(x in array) or whatever print x instead of just console logging the letter A over and over


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Q: Why is PIL used so often with Pytorch? I noticed that a lot of dataloaders use PIL to load and transform images, e.g. the dataset builders in torchvision.datasets.folder.
My question is: why use PIL? You would need to do an np.asarray operation before turning it into a tensor. OpenCV seems to load it directly as a numpy array, and is faster too.
One reason I can think of is because PIL has a rich transforms library, but I feel like several of those transforms can be quickly implemented.

A: There is some elements of answer here and here.
TL,DR: because of historical reasons, some benchmarks (never trust bencharcks, though) and because PIL is lighter and easier to instal than OpenCV.

A: There is a discussion about adding OpenCV as one of possible backends in torchvision PR.
In summary, some reasons provided:

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*OpenCV2 loads images in BGR format which would require wrapper class to handle changing to RGB internally or format of loaded images backend dependent

*This in turn would lead to code duplication in functional transforms in torchvision many of which use PIL operations (as transformations to support multiple backends would be pretty convoluted)

*OpenCV loads images as np.array, it's not really easier to do transformations on arrays

*Different representation might lead to hard to catch by users bugs

*PyTorch's modelzoo is dependent on RGB format as well and they would like to have it easily supported

*Doesn't play well with Python's multiprocessing (but it's no-issue as it was an issue for Python 2)

To be honest I don't see much movement towards this idea as there exists albumentations which uses OpenCV and can be integrated with PyTorch rather smoothly.
A little off-topic, but one can choose faster backend via torchvision.set_image_backend to Intel's accimage. Also Pillow-SIMD can be used as a drop-in replacement for PIL (it is supposedly faster and recommended by fastai project).
When it comes to performance benchmarks they do not seem too reliable and it's not that easy to tell AFAIK.

A: One possible reason PIL turns out to be frequent is because there are lot of examples online using PIL.Image.open method:
%matplotlib inline
from PIL import Image
img = Image.open(r"img.jpg")
# do more ...

Turns out that we don't need to use PIL, if we open the image using matplotlib.
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
img = mpimg.imread(r"img.jpg")
_ = plt.imshow(img)

Jupyter notebooks frequent need is to show the image, and matplotlib.pyplot.imshow is used frequently for that.


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Producer and C&C TV presenter David Silverman has gone on record stating that this model of expansion would "be a little bit more nimble and help address the demand from the fans faster."
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Please note, I also make some comparisons with the original object as I work with properties. In this scenario, I get a ConcurrentModificationException. Seems logic to me, but how to solve this in a proper way, because the checks must happen within the same transaction.
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Slumdog Millionaire and its Colonial Connections
Posted on March 3, 2009 by aamjunta
"Hit British film Slumdog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture". Headline, BBC News, 23rd Feb, 2009.
While the entire Los Angles was playing the tunes of Jai Ho, it was welcomed with mixed response and feelings of pride, joy, frustration, ego and identity crisis in India.
If writing the screenplay, directing and producing the movie by Britishers qualify enough to be called a British movie, then it is not appropriate. The movie is an adoption of the award-wining novel "Q & A" of Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Not only that, the heart of the movie is based on the slum life of Mumbai, the very own city of India. The crew, the cast and the location, the theme, the life… all are Indian. What else is needed to call this as an Indian movie then?
Whether you call it as Indian movie or British film, wining Oscars by the Indians or the Britishers for their talents is encouraging. For the Indian Cinema, wining Oscars will definitely add a new chapter to its success story. If you say that was the success of Indian art, then it was the success of the British business model too, which got clicked at the time of recession. They came, shot the people and their life with a limited budget, made huge money out of that and sold the "piece of art" to the world with an Indian tag. It was the conglomeration of the "piece of art" and the business model, which brought the glamour of red carpet for some thing made out of the story of a slum.
Many criticized the movie, saying that it portrayed the ugly side of Indian slums and sold the lives of the poor (garibi) to the rich. They are not completely wrong though. But then, showing poor (garibi) is not anything new. Many have done that in the past. Then, why should they be blamed only? When our very own people do not do any thing for the slums, what do we expect from movie makers who are in a way "art capitalists". In fact, these movie makers are at least contributing to the economy by giving jobs to the slum dwellers either as an actor/actress or part of the support system, while shooting the cinema in the slum locality. Making of such movies too create social awareness among the mass.
To be honest, Garibi Hatao, or Garibi Bhagao are phrases coined for the sake of ballot politics in the name of social equality, for the sake of discussions in political circles and for the sake of publishing research papers by scholars and intellectuals. These are age old practices in India. The word garibi is being exploited by the politicians, political thinkers, the intellectuals, the researchers and the cinematographers. But, do these people really want garibi bhagao? I doubt! Both garib and garibi exist in its complete essence.
Some argue that the film is just an art, and there is no relation between garibi and the movie. But, it is not true. The movie is of course mixed with the emotion and the identity of the mass. More over, garibi is not an Indian phenomenon only. It is there in every part of the world. Then, why do you exploit garibi with Indian tag at the international arena for the sake of art or money?
Through a different perspective, if you analyze the pre- and post-days of the release of the movie, then you can find some connections between the movie with the colonial world. Even though colonialism in terms of British Empire had disappeared long back, a new form of colonialism has started in the form of social divisions of poor and rich, higher caste and loser caste. Be it showing the slums of Mumbai to the western world in the name of art, or making a movie on the life of slum dwellers, or adopting a novel written by a "post-colonial" writer, a link is present every where (directly or indirectly) with colonialism. The plot of the movie is also an out come of the social imbalance created by the colonial world.
In a literary perspective, this movie is just a show case of the "post- colonial" life and era. It is the story of the oppressed and the oppressor, the ruled and the ruler and the difference of the poor and the rich. In the name of art, culture and literature, it is just an exploitation of the mass. Almost all Indians went crazy when the child-stars of Slumdog returned home from Oscar ceremonies. But like the hunch in the movie that how can a slum "dog" be a millionaire, in real life too the lives of little kids like Azhradduin (Jamal) and Rubina (Lathika) have changed forever, for good or worse only time can say. Azharuddin has been reportedly beaten up and manhandled by his father for the sake of money and glamour. These people are still staying in slums — but they no longer belong to their "origin" and neither are they accepted in the so called "glamour classes" of our society. They might be pitied upon, shown as "art-pieces" in more film festivals and treated as "museum-creatures", but only few might think that they are "human-beings" having a right to lead "normal" lives. They are doubly colonized: (a) By their own society/country which only lives on "breaking news" ; (b) by the "art-connoisseurs" of the world ready to make business out of their plight.Unless this is understood and taken care of, many such Slumdog Millionaires will be re-produced in different parts of the world — in the name of showing life, and art, staking the identity of a nation, of a city and a section of people.
The question arises; do we want that to happen and to repeat? Do we want ever to see the slums? Or do we want to change the life of the underprivileged? The choice is yours, and you have to write your own fortune and create your own destiny, whether to be called as slumdogs or millionaires.
Aamjunta, just think over it.
Jai ho!
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Shanmuga, on March 3, 2009 at 11:33 pm said:
Nice observations Dada.
I have seen better slum based masala movies in Tamil. This SlumDog Millionaire being in English might have pleased the Oscar committee and lot of lobbying would have involved. I was not able to watch this movie beyond first 5 minutes. It seemed to me as just another crap film. The Oscar committee thought otherwise, though.
Also "Jai Ho" will never rank among top 50 songs of Rahman. I wonder how this won Oscar!
Coming to the theme, slumdog or millionaire is based on the person's own endeavors as mentioned by Dada.
Shanmuga
noslumdog, on March 4, 2009 at 10:32 pm said:
good observations aamjunta and shanmuga. to share with you, congress party has selected jai ho as the election song. colonialism to its heights 🙂 good work aamjunta.
Tanuja Gill, on March 12, 2009 at 8:06 pm said:
Whats so special about it ? India was always a snake charmers country and this is how WEST wants it to be. Only DELHI do not see this that way…this is why ONE party says SHINING INDIA and other says MIGHTY INDIA.
But India still is a poor country and I do not feel shame to admit it. Life in METRO does not represent life in a country- so go in rural and go in any state of India…and I am sure you will get the picture.
Making a movie on slums…was very good idea…and I am happy for all who got name, fame and money…but if this is representation of India or Indian art…then I am sorry…this is somewhat depressing image for every Indian.
But you know- art is a subjective word and arena….so I should congratulate every Indian…that atleast we got some OSCARS…which is bencmark of great work altough we had many who could not manage that much.
Many directors who were legend [ Guru Dutt ] and many composers [ R.D / S.D ] who created so much innovation and style that no one could copy them till today, many singers [ Talat/Hemant/Mukesh ] and God knows how many actors fall in this wide space….
But they could not depict that SLUM DOG image and somhow managed to get oscars…
Do not worry about some self respect…we do not have that in our DNA- had we been having this factor…history would have been different and we would be perhaps calling the shots instead of USA.
lovebird, on April 9, 2009 at 7:25 pm said:
The colonialism is of course there, not only in this movie, but also in many other movies. The funny thing about it, we also make use of it. May be it is within our DNA.
aamjunta, on April 9, 2009 at 7:27 pm said:
Yes, I agree with you all to some extent. My concern is how to come out from that colonialism? Can we do that? I hope so, but don't see a way with the colonial mind set of the junta.
I Vote, on April 14, 2009 at 12:56 pm said:
cool 🙂 … It was slum god, not slum dog? Itna paisa jo diya unko 🙂
Really, what happens to garibi hatao/bhagao? started in late 70s.. abhi tak hata nahini hai….
"election pe de do nara, election ke vad suru kardo apna wahi akhara"
Shanmuga, on April 18, 2009 at 2:56 pm said:
I am presently reading the original novel Q&A. I feel that Danny Boyle has deliberately removed lot of things from the novel (Father, Australian guy etc) deliberately to show india in bad light.
Ryka Anandi, on March 17, 2010 at 6:52 pm said:
Very right… Why can't 'they' ever make movies based on the positive or lively side of India ???? ….Ya, this is also true – why also blame 'them' when most rich Indians do nothing for the slum-dwellers and when our own movie Directors have capitalized on storylines /scenes of the dirtiest slums in the country ? Many are commercial movies and there are some which own National Awards.. 2-3 films have also been screened at International movie fests.This particular movie shot to big name perhaps only because it had "colonial connections".
Music ? ..Personally, I don't see any great music in it.
And why such a name 'Slumdog…..' ??? It could have been Slumboy or Slumkid !
Tanuja, on March 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm said:
This is what the actors/actress get at the end of the story. Pity on the big promises by the film directors and producers. Govt also cant wash its own hands.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Slumdog-star-kid-loses-her-all-awards-to-Bandra-fire/articleshow/7637003.cms
Jacom Jamir, on September 20, 2013 at 11:32 am said:
Well articulated writing.
Agree that no one wants here to get rid of poverty!! Poverty is designed in India, not destined. So, what do you expect? Some more UN funding, US sanctions, Big speeches by our so called great leaders and news hour debates with Barkha/Arnab/Suhashini!!!
Long live India!


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Helen Hecht and Lila Disque of the MTC consider Justice Kennedy's concurrence in the Direct Marketing Association case inviting states to bring a challenge to Quill, and the general problems in mounting such a test case. The article also discusses what Justice Kennedy's plurality opinion in the recent personal jurisdiction case, J. Mcintyre, might say about whether at least some of the Justices on the Court are rethinking the due process principles supporting state adjudicatory jurisdiction and if so, whether this might also signal a willingness to revisit Quill's due process and related Commerce Clause underpinnings.
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I didn't blog much last week as my energy levels were all over the place and I got super absorbed in finishing up a thing, but two things I mentioned were a change in life habits and a determination to basically kick off the new year properly in February after January being a mulligan.
That whole sentence is all deeply interconnected, as the fluctuating energy levels were due to the changes in eating, and the thing I was pointedly trying to wrap up by the end of the week related to my resolution. The metabolic stuff has leveled off and even picked up, and I'm now feeling pretty good and expecting as smooth as sailing as is possible for someone with a weird metabolism to begin with. This should mean I can keep to my resolution without detracting from my other activities.
Sometime around or a little bit more than a decade ago, the limited pool of people who knew about me were calling me the most prolific author on the net. I hadn't figured out how to make money doing what I was doing (and most of the tools necessary honestly didn't exist, or weren't quite there). I was writing thousands of words of story per day and posting it for free.
Now the tools are all there, but I'm not… or haven't been. Too much indecision, too much insecurity, too much paralysis, too many directions being pulled at once, too much brain fog, too much fatigue.
So this year, 2016, is the year that I start getting it back. I started with the goal of every week, putting something up for sale somewhere. A story, an RPG thing, something. Now, for practical reasons,I'm giving myself January as a practice month and considering December a holiday for this purpose, and then just to keep things simple and give myself a little leeway, I'm going to consider every month to be four weeks. Four self-published things "shipped" every month from now through November is the goal, or forty things total for the year.
This might give some people quantity-over-quality concerns, but the thing is: I am that good. I know I'm that good. I know that not everything I write and publish will be everybody's cup of tea, but that's not the goal and never the goal. Even if a bunch of people think that 90% of everything I write is unworthy of publication, they'll never agree on which 10% is, and so if I try to please everyone by withholding the stuff I think people won't like, I ultimately won't have anything for anyone to like.
Last week's thing was a slim, no-frills PDF manual of cleric options for 5th Edition D&D, published on the DMs Guild site. I announced it quietly on social media over the weekend, and will be giving it a proper announcement post here later today. It's already netted some sales, according to the royalty figures. Not a blockbuster, but not bad.
Now, the other thing I'm going to be working on getting back to is my more daring and experimental phases. Accordingly, some of the things I publish may not be under my own name or visibly connected with me. I'm not 100% committed to that idea because it's very against the idea of staking out a public position for motivation, but there are a lot more eyes on me than there were in 2004 or 2006 and honestly that's part of what makes me so inhibited. I'm just leaving myself the option open.
By the end of the week last week I was working exclusively on the D&D manual, but I don't expect that to be the normal experience. I was learning some things about PDF formatting I'm not going to learn again (nor is everything I publish as part of the 40 going to be a formatted PDF), and dealing with greater than usual fluctuating levels of ability to can.
Don't take this as an announcement of something I'm going to be doing instead of the stuff I have been trying to do. My approach to this is actually going to be to treat it like a new hobby, something to keep me motivated and moving forward even when I'm stumbling on something else and keep me in the creative brain space between other tasks.
And it's bound to bring in more money than the other ways I could be spending that time. There's a question to be answered as to how much, and the only way to find out the answer is by doing, but the number is going to be a positive one. If it's positive enough, it could make a big difference in my day-to-day stress level.


The China National Meteorological Centre recently issued an orange alert for Typhoon Nari, the typhoon that was racing across the South China Sea. This forced the organisers of the 1st International Boat Show & Festival (IBSF) to postpone its launch by three days.
Luckily Nari did not make landfall and thus did not affect Sanya, on the tropical island of Hainan where the show was to be held and the weather was forecast to improve. Heavy rain and high winds had affected the coastal areas but this did not stop erection of the show infrastructure at the Serenity Marina, the venue for the event.
Now that the winds have died down IBSF 2013, with the ICOMIA IBSF Conference scheduled for today and tomorrow, is going ahead with the opening ceremony for the show on Saturday 19 October. There will be three key events: the international marine conference, an international boat show and a marine festival.
A spokesman for the organisers said that said that in spite of the short delay both exhibitors and conference delegates had been very understanding and supportive.
The conference on the 17 and 18, will see top leaders and marine experts from around the world discussing the developing Asian markets, especially China, as well as introduction of advanced technologies that are affecting the boating industry. Delegates from all over China will be attending the conference.


I have always been a city girl in my heart. It was not until I was an adult that I was introduced to a real forest, a place far from civilization, not just the little patch of woods in a parkway just down the road. For one year during the early years of our marriage we actually lived in the middle of this wilderness due to my husband's work. To tell you the truth, I was a bit terrified of going on walks since I knew that bears inhabitated these woods. The town school was just two kilometers from where we lived at the time. I often would walk and pass the school with our oldest daughter who sat in the stroller still at that time. So small was she then. Feels like it was yesterday.
I had heard a story that once when the teacher was letting the kids out for recess, she all of a sudden told everyone to stay inside. There was a mama bear and her two cubs walking across the yard. I believed the story since not too far away, about halfway between our little home and the school, a bear had crossed the road leaving it's large paw prints in the sand. We happened to drive by shortly after it happened and chatted with a few people that had seen it. But I had decided that I was not to be imprisoned in the apartment, and so nearly each day we would take our walks and I would keep my fingers crossed and occasionally cough to try keep the bears at bay.
In these same woods, we have sometimes gone exploring for mushrooms. Usually it is my husband who goes as he knows all of the good places but sometimes when I have the chance I go along. The funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) come up after the chanterelle mushroom season and sometimes they may be a bit hidden, but if you find one you will most likely find a whole patch to fill up your basket.
This dish is really so simple but the flavors are fantastic. Our mushroom season is over now but when we still had fresh ones, we dried a part of them and some of them we fried with a bit of butter and then packed using the vacuum packer. They make a wonderful sauce. The savoy cabbage is quick roasted, rounding out the flavor and making a warm salad of sorts as a side.
On a large frying pan, cook the mushrooms, leek and herbs with the butter until the water has evaporated so that it snaps and crackles just a bit. Pour on the cream and milk and allow to gently bubble for a few minutes. Serve over boiled potatoes and roasted Savoy cabbage.
Place the wedges of Savoy cabbage on a lined baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake in the oven at 175C/350 for about ten minutes.
We don't have beautiful chanterelles here. But that Savoy cabbage looks very tasty roasted. I have never thought of doing this.
The idea for doing the roasted Savoy cabbage came after trying the kale crips. I was interested to see if something similar could be done using a different cabbage. This was the result, its a little different but made a great side.
Do you wear a red riding hood when you are in the woods?! My dear. Oh thank you for the beautiful Father's day card. Don't think that I have ever had one with rainbow trout before. Thank you Erik, I will treasure it. Think I can smell those mushrooms as they sauté. Good imagination.
So glad the card made it there, it was made with earnest concentration and a colorful imagination. 🙂 Yes, I did feel a bit like red riding hood during those days back then. I'm happy that we now live closer to the city, yet we are surrounded by the countryside…the best of both worlds.
Yum, the flavours sound glorious. Also, I wish that I could pick mushrooms near me, it sounds lovely!
The funnel chanterelle is quite similar to the chanterelle, but brown in color and has a great flavor.
Absolutely love your picture of your mushrooms. I wouldn't know what mushrooms are edible or not, so rather buy mine at the grocery store. 😉 Have a super day Laila.
Thanks Mandy! We only pick mushrooms that we are 100% sure of! Buying them from the grocery is always a safe way to go.
Yes, the cough was definitely like whistling away the dark 🙂 I was always relieved when we made it home safe and sound! Thank you for sharing!
The dish is fantastic, I love that you foraged for mushrooms and found those beauties. It brings me back to my childhood, my Father and I used to go to the forest and forage for mushrooms. Love this post!
Thank you Suzanne! What a nice memory you have of your childhood, foraging for mushrooms…it is like an adventure. Our kids have occasionally been along as well.
Wow! Aren't you brave. I don't know if with her majesty in her stroller I would have gone for a walk.
It is very hard to find chanterelles here but your recipe sounds delicious.
I'm sure you could use the same recipe for any mushrooms, since it is so simple and basic. Even mushrooms from the grocery store would work nicely.
I've never gathered mushrooms–or ever even seen chanterelles–but it sounds like it would be fun to try someday. The recipe looks wonderful.
Thank you Sheryl. Chanterelles are one of the easier mushrooms to work with (and delcious in my opinion) that can be found in the forest, but the above recipe can be made using mushrooms from the grocery store as well.
gathering mushrooms in a forest is definitely up there on my 'to do list', if there was even a small chance of bears about…even better.
This is one of my favorite mushrooms but I found so few this year. What a pity, I especially miss them when I read this post! 😉 Contrary to you I more or less grew up in the forests, even if we had a house in the city, since we were every weekend and every holiday in the countryside, and my parents learned me to find edible mushrooms and berries, and we were never agraid, not even alone, because there were no bears a that time. Now they are back, and I don't relax in the woods like before, even if they are few compared with Finland.


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Query: NC_017201:117485 Bacillus thuringiensis serovar finitimus YBT-020 plasmid pBMB26,
Lineage: Bacillus thuringiensis; Bacillus; Bacillaceae; Bacillales; Firmicutes; Bacteria
General Information: This organism, also known as BT, is famous for the production of an insecticidal toxin. The bacterium was initially discovered as a pathogen of various insects and was first used as an insecticidal agent in the early part of this century. This organism, like many other Bacilli, is found in the soil, where it leads a saprophytic existence, but becomes an opportunistic pathogen of insects when ingested. The specific activity of the toxin towards insects and its lack of toxicity to animals has made this organism a useful biocontrol agent. The delta-endotoxin, which is produced during the sporulation part of the life cycle, causes midgut paralysis and disruption of feeding by the infected insect host. The delta-endotoxin, which is produced during the sporulation part of the life cycle, causes midgut paralysis and disruption of feeding by the infected insect host. The delta-endotoxin, which is produced during the sporulation part of the life cycle, causes midgut paralysis and disruption of feeding by the infected insect host. The presence of a parasporal crystal, which is outside the exosporium of the endospore, is indicative of production of the toxin, and serves as a marker for this species.Activation of the toxin typically requires a high pH environment such as the alkaline environments in insect midguts followed by proteolysis.
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Lineage: Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum; Pelotomaculum; Peptococcaceae; Clostridiales; Firmicutes; Bacteria
General Information: This type strain was isolated from granular sludge from a thermophilic upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. It was isolated both in pure culture and in co-culture with methanogens. In syntrophic association with hydrogenotrophic methanogens, this species can utilize propionate, ethanol, lactate, ethylene glycol, 1-butanol, 1-propanol, 1-pentanol and 1,3-propanediol. This is the first mesophilic, syntropic propionate-oxidizing species known which is not a member of the delta-proteobacteria.


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Scytalopus perijanus — вид горобцеподібних птахів родини галітових (Rhinocryptidae). Описаний у 2015 році.

Поширення
Вид поширений в горах Сьєрра-де-Періха на півночі Колумбії та на заході Венесуели. На венесуельському схилі відомий з 9 локалітетів на висотах від 1800 до 3120 м над рівнем моря; на колумбійському схилі відомий з 10 локалітетів у департаментах Ла-Гуахіра і Сесар на висотах від 1600 до 3225 метрів над рівнем моря.

Опис
Його довжина становить від 10 до 12 см, а вага — 18 г. Горло, шия, груди і центр живота сірі з яскравими відтінками. Голова, спина і плечі сірі. Пір'я на плечах має темно-коричневі смужки. Має червонувато-коричневу пляму на потилиці. Круп каштановий з сірим пір'ям. Криючі хвоста коричневі. Нижня сторона і боки черевця від блідо-жовтого до глинисто-помаранчевого кольору. Стегна коричнево-жовті. Райдужка темно-коричнева.

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class AddReleaseDateAndManufacturerIdToGames < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
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end