Caput Draconis, or the Head of the Dragon, is the opposite of Cauda Draconis. Caput Draconis is the Geomantic Figure associated with beginnings and new journeys. Astrologically, it is associated with the North Node of the Moon, indicating integration, the spirit, and most importantly, the future and the opportunities awaiting everyone. It is also associated with Virgo and the order she brings. The shape of the Figure is that of footsteps leading towards a door, again symbolizing its association with new beginnings and future integration. Caput Draconis is associated with stepping forward into something new, looking forward to the future, and a new journey. It is similar to the Tarot card the Fool, which is also its archetype.
In the Figure of Caput Draconis, the only passive element is Fire. As such, Caput Draconis has the grounding of Earth, the intuition of Water, and the rationale of Air, and is striving towards the spiritual energy of Fire. Its Outer and Inner Energies are both Earth, and as such Caput Draconis is a very Earthy Figure, and the new journey, as with many journeys, is based on the material. This Figure is associated not only with new beginnings, journeys, and opportunities, but also with drastic change, improvement, fertility, and potential; things that all can come with embarking on something new. Caput Draconis looks to the future, and represents working towards gain, trusting fate and taking that first step, and starting anew and refreshed. The journey that begins with Caput Draconis will probably be difficult in the beginning, but it reminds us that it will be worth it in the end. Generally, the new beginning of Caput Draconis is change for the better, but depending on its surroundings, it can be the opposite.
Caput Draconis is associated also with calmness, kindness, trustworthiness, expression, and good nature. Unlike Cauda Draconis, it is a Stable Sign, representing the stable sense of mind and self one needs when embarking on something new. Caput Draconis is a Figure of the future.
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Opoczno (polaco: powiat opoczyński) es un distrito (powiat) del voivodato de Łódź (Polonia). Fue constituido el 1 de enero de 1999 como resultado de la reforma del gobierno local de Polonia aprobada el año anterior. Limita con otros cuatro distritos: al noroeste con Tomaszów Mazowiecki, al este con Przysucha, al sur con Końskie y al oeste con Piotrków; y está dividido en ocho municipios (gmina): dos urbano-rurales (Drzewica y Opoczno) y seis rurales (Białaczów, Mniszków, Paradyż, Poświętne, Sławno y Żarnów). En 2011, según la Oficina Central de Estadística polaca, el distrito tenía una superficie de 1040,19 km² y una población de 78 268 habitantes.

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Every so often a custom amiibo comes along that's either aesthetically impressive or warms the heart. This one checks both boxes. Born from the mind of artist George Crudo, this new figure depicts a picturesque, yet also cartoonish version of Smash director/heart and soul Masahiro Sakurai.
So how did this whole thing come about? Well according to Crudo himself, he used a sanctioned rendering from artist Sean Hicks for the base, then managed to craft a 3D rendition of it. Crudo calls it "gratitude for 20 years of his dedication to creating Smash." He hopes that with enough attention that Nintendo will send it Sakurai's way.
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Renfrewshire's best businesses celebrate the fifth annual ROCCO awards.
Renfrewshire's best businesses were celebrating after the fifth annual ROCCO awards.
Following a record number of entries software company NS Design beat off stiff competition to win outstanding performing business with less than 25 employees.
Call centre operator BeCogent won in the more than 25 employee category for its Erskine facility.
Drinks giant Diageo was a double winner as it won in the corporate social responsibility and the best environmental performance categories.
Cleaning company Spectrum Service Solutions took excellence in customer services, accountancy practice Campbell Dallas was awarded commitment to employee development, Rolls-Royce took the manufacturing category and semiconductor developer Innovent was given the innovation and technology award. Waste paper merchant PG Paper Company was named most promising new business.
Tom Johnston, president of Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce, which organises the ROCCO awards, said: "We congratulate all the winners on their achievements, and were delighted with the high quality and quantity of entries.
"The winners have all shown Renfrewshire is a great place to succeed in business, regardless of the challenging economic conditions."
Gary Ennis, managing director of NS Design, said: "We are absolutely over the moon to have won this award - it really means the world to the entire team."
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4 Popular Video Game Cheat Codes That Will Make You Laugh
Today's gaming world is a lot different than the golden era, in the nineties—or the eighties; depending on who you ask. Gaming historians tend to separate gaming golden ages into two distinct but different eras.
The era of the eighties was the era of the arcade. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Street Fighter are just a few of the most popular games from that time (for a more comprehensive list of the top arcade games of all time, visit Nerdleaks.com).
The nineties was the era of the console. Both had their respective peaks. Really, golden era arcades peaked around 1994, while consoles still haven't hit the "ceiling", as it were, regarding their capabilities. However, it's widely recognized that from the late nineties until about 2007 was the "golden age" of console games.
This is when cheats were at their most mainstream, and some of the funniest ones will be found during this time when consoles ruled the gaming world. With that in mind, following we'll explore some of the funniest known video game cheat codes out there.
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Most of these will be from the console era of the nineties, but there are other hilarious opportunities for cheats in modern games as well.
The Infamous Resident Evil 2 Tofu
You've got to beat the game with Leon and Claire, then make it through Fourth Survivor mode using the "Hunk" character. Do that, and you'll be able to play as a giant block of tofu in the "Fourth Survivor" mini-game. Yes, it's worth it. Well, if you love Resident Evil, anyway.
This "Tofu" character ultimately showed up in many other Resident Evil games as a result of its popularity in Resident Evil 2.
More of a Generalization: Using Code to Make Your Own Jokes
PC games have their own hilarious cheats too, but you can just use DLL injections to make such games do whatever you want; so you can really be the author of your own in-game comedy. True, the capability existed to do the same during the golden era of gaming, but you'd really have to know how to program.
Online games today can be made to do as you will at your whim, if you're willing to conduct the research into existing code options. For example, through Guided Hacking's game hacking bible, you can find all sorts of amazing in-game hacks; some quite hilarious, some of the classic variety.
Tomb Raider II, 1997 – But Not What You're Expecting
Whether or not the "nude code" exists for the 90's Tomb Raider series, featuring busty Lara Croft, is still a matter of conjecture. What's not a matter of conjecture is that there's a cheat code that will make Lara literally explode, and it was touted as the famous nude code. This is a practical joke code.
You can have your friend input it expecting one thing, then "boom!". You can look online for more details, but you basically go one step forward, one step backward, turn around three times, then jump either forward or backward.
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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, 2005: Man-Made Gun Sounds
So the folks who made TimeSplitters and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect are also the folks primarily responsible for Perfect Dark and Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64. In those games, you could have paintball mode, or DK mode, also known as "big head mode". Both were activated by cheats, and were a lot of fun to play around with.
For TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, there's a cheat that replaces the sound of bullets with the sound of a human being making bullet noises. This is absolutely sidesplitting, if a bit juvenile.
This cheat is also easily unlocked, you only need to earn the bronze level on a challenge called "Cat's Out Of The Bag"; voila: human gun sounds. This cheat can only be used in "Arcade" mode, though.
Getting the Most Out of Any Game, and Laughing, Too
All games have cheat codes that produce funny results, these are just four of the funniest you'll find in some of the world's most popular games. From anthropomorphic gun sounds to exploding Lara, generalized code manipulation using known cheats, and playing as a giant piece of Tofu, these are some of the funniest cheats out there.
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Michael Harcourt, Andrea Milligan and Bronwyn Wood (Eds.): Teaching Social Studies for Critical, Active Citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand
Michael Harcourt, Andrea Milligan and Bronwyn Wood (Eds.): Teaching Social Studies for Critical,... Taylor, Rowena 2018-06-04 00:00:00 NZ J Educ Stud (2018) 53:309–311 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-018-0113-8 BOOK REVIEW Michael Harcourt, Andrea Milligan and Bronwyn Wood (Eds.): Teaching Social Studies for Critical, Active Citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand NZCER Press, Wellington, NZ, 2016, 173 pp., ISBN: 978-0-947509-41-5. NZ$45.00 (softcover). Also available as an e-book https://mebooks.co.nz/teaching-social-studies-for-critic al-active-citizenship-ebook and on Kindle through Amazon Rowena Taylor Received: 1 February 2018 / Accepted: 24 May 2018 / Published online: 4 June 2018 © New Zealand Association for Research in Education 2018 This important book addresses the nature and purpose of contemporary social stud- ies. Social studies has frequently been derided during its 70 + year history as a com- pulsory integrated school subject in New Zealand yet the subject has a strong basis within citizenship education. While citizenship education has been a key theme of three past edited publications about social studies pedagogy, this one has a more cohesive focus on Barr's 'twin goals' of social studies (Barr 1998): (i) learning about how society operates (variously termed social literacy, civic literacy, substan- tive knowledge, knowing about); and (ii) skills for effective participation in society (variously termed citizenship capabilities, syntactical knowledge, knowing how). A wider appreciation of this binary (knowledge and skills) in social studies learning by teachers, teacher http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies Springer Journals http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/michael-harcourt-andrea-milligan-and-bronwyn-wood-eds-teaching-social-ZxzeWGu0i9
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I'm so excited to show you my newest wrap design, the Crochet Gradient Wrap!
This shawl is fancy & upscale – ready for a night on the town. I love the versatility wraps and shawls have – they can be worn in so many different ways and paired with lots of different outfits (from jeans to gowns!). I used a fun new yarn from JOANN that I think you're going to want to try, read a bunch more about it below or scroll on down for the free pattern!
I've made a couple of shawls this year, but I wanted to create a bit more angular one with a pronounced point and a bit of simple striping. With the more angular look, this shawl is longer in the back than other shawls, lending it to look a bit more elegant and dramatic.
I used only 2 colors of the new Buttercream Luxe Craft Wool Blend Hanks from JOANN and worked in some gradient style striping that gives a fade look moving from one color to the other. This technique would look beautiful with a solid and variegated tone as well. I can't wait to see what color combinations you make, I'm sure they'll all be beautiful!
JOANN's exclusive line of yarns, Buttercream, is full of luxe yarns at surprisingly affordable prices. They've had several yarns over the last few years that were really intriguing but none as surprising as the new Luxe Craft Wool Blend Hanks.
The presentation of this yarn will make you stop in your yarn-aisle tracks because of the way it's wound – in a hank! Instead of the usual skein presentation we usually see in craft stores, this yarn is wound like the more bespoke cousin of big box store yarns, catching our attention and elevating the expectation.
Once we get in there and feel the yarn, the hand is just as surprised as the eye. This yarn is 50% wool, 42% bamboo derived rayon, and 8% acrylic. What a combination! This single ply blend yarn moves through several tones of color and variations of thick and thin without being too jarring a change as we work up a project. I'm not a huge fan of extreme thick & thin yarns so this variation being a bit more subtle was perfect for me, and the Gradient Wrap!
Check out this brand new yarn by clicking HERE – choose two of your favorite colors to create this pretty faded shawl along with me!
-For reference, model is 5'5" tall with a 38″ bust.
-Ch 2 sts DO NOT count as a st throughout the pattern.
-This wrap has quite an angular shape and has a pronounced point at the center of the triangle. If you'd like a more obtuse triangle, try working (Dc, Ch 2, Dc) into the Ch 2 space of each round instead of (2 Dc, Ch 2, 2 Dc). This may change the number of rows you'd like to work up but I thought I'd make this suggestion as you may not like a wrap as angular as mine.
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Last Row: Ch 1, t, Sc in each Dc st across (including 1 Sc in Ch 2 space) to end, finish off, weave all ends.


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Due to space constraints, the article failed to mention in response to the First Intifada and reduce its reliance on Palestinian workers Israel has a policy of importing migrant workers, a population of 300,000 foreign workers, mostly from Thailand and the Philippines but also from Eastern Europe and more recently, construction workers from China.Regulations to discourage migrant workers laying down roots in Israel are especially stringent. Female guest workers who give birth in Israel, once her residence permit expires, have to leave the country and return without the child if she wanted to extend her permit stay and if the father is a foreign citizen, either she or he is obliged to leave Israel. Regulations for employing foreign workers explicitly state that such workers will not be allowed to enter Israel or cannot remain working in Israel if they have a parent, sibling or child living in the country.Human Rights Watch in a 2015 report documented low pay, excessive working hours, hazardous working conditions, and poor housing for some of Israel's Thai agricultural workers – and employer retribution if they try to protest by going on strike. HRW found that the abuses the workers result from weak enforcement of Israel's labour laws, which on paper afford migrant workers extensive protection. Various factors, however, undermine the effectiveness of the legal framework. These include a division of regulatory responsibilities, an ineffective inspection regime, apparently insufficiently resourced enforcement units, and a failure to impose meaningful sanctions on employers and manpower agents who break the law.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/02/israel-agrees-un-deal-scrap-plan-deport-african-asylum-seekersIsrael has scrapped a plan to force thousands of African asylum seekers to choose between deportation and an indefinite spell in jail, striking a deal instead to resettle many in western countries including Canada, Italy and Germany. Israel has indicated it will regularise the legal status of many of those remaining.Welcoming the decision to shelve the plan, the Movement to Halt the Deportation of Asylum Seekers said: "This agreement would not have happened without dozens of organisations and the contribution of numerous people…."


How Big Are the Externalities of Fossil Fuels?
Are Electric Vehicles Really a Boon to the Environment?
The fact is, governments have long provided massive subsidies for the fossil fuel and nuclear industries–and despite the fact that these industries are amongst the most profitable in the world, and continue to raise prices while inflicting tremendous damage to the environment, these subsidies continue unabated.


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BHCA Zoning and Licensing Committee Votes not to Oppose Two Modified Proposals
by Dan Murphy • July 12, 2011 • 0 Comments
The Beacon Hill Civic Association (BHCA) Zoning and Licensing Committee voted Wednesday not to oppose modified versions of two proposals it had previously vetted last month.
The owners of a single-family townhouse at 3 Spruce St. and 5-7 Spruce Court – two adjacent single-family townhouses being converted into one single-family residence – have jointly proposed using existing and matching ironwork fencing to enclose the open terraces on their front lots, resulting in a "flush" façade for the buildings.
At last month's Zoning and Licensing Committee meeting, the applicants jointly withdrew an earlier proposal to build a 5-foot wall to enclose their front lots, amid concerns from neighbors, abutters and committee members.
The current proposal requires variances from city zoning codes for the two buildings, which would both gain additional floor space and already exceed the maximum 2.0 FAR (floor-area ratio) for structures in the neighborhood. The planned fencing would also be subject to the approval of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission.
No hearing dates have been set with the city's Board of Appeals or the Architectural Commission on the matter at this time.
The committee supported a motion by a vote of 7-0-2 not to oppose the current proposal on the condition that the applicants enter into an agreement with the BHCA regarding the fencing and standard conditions related to construction.
Meanwhile, the owners of a single-family home at 33 Branch St. have proposed building a gazebo-style head-house, measuring 4 feet by 4 feet, to house a spiral staircase that would provide access to an open patio on the building's second level.
The new structure would also provide natural light and a second means of egress to the room below, which was formerly part of the garage before being converted into additional living space.
The committee voted last month not to oppose the project on the condition that the roof of the head-house be opaque, although architect Frank McGuire said the applicants now wish to pursue other alternatives for mitigating light emitted by the new structure in the evening hours.
McGuire said the applicants are now exploring the "low-tech" option of installing a mechanized blackout shade for use at night, as well as the much more costly alternative of using glass in the head-house treated with a glazing that changes light transmission when an electric current is applied.
"The glazing in the skylight is wired to a timer, which blacks it out at night," McGuire said of the second option.
Since the building already exceeds the 2.0 FAR maximum and would gain additional floor space, the current proposal requires FAR variances from city zoning codes, as well as a rear-yard variance because the head-house would directly abut a higher wall at the rear of the lot.
No hearing date has been set with the city's Board of Appeals to review the matter at this time.
The committee supported a motion by a vote of 8-0-1 not to oppose the currently proposed project on the condition that the applicant enter into an agreement with the BHCA regarding the installation of a mechanized cover for the head-house.
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package it.unimi.dsi.fastutil;

import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.ints.IntBigArrayBigList;
import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.ints.IntBigArrays;
import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.longs.LongComparator;

/**
 * A class providing static methods and objects that do useful things with big
 * arrays.
 *
 *
Introducing big arrays

 *
 *

 * A big array is an array-of-arrays representation of an array. The
 * length of a big array is bounded by {@link #SEGMENT_SIZE} *
 * {@link Integer#MAX_VALUE} = {@value #SEGMENT_SIZE} * (231 −
 * 1) rather than {@link Integer#MAX_VALUE}. The type of a big array is that of
 * an array-of-arrays, so a big array of integers is of type
 * {@code int[][]}. Note that {@link #SEGMENT_SIZE} has been chosen so that
 * a single segment is smaller than 231 bytes independently of the
 * data type. It might be enlarged in the future.
 *
 *

 * If {@code a} is a big array, {@code a[0]}, {@code a[1]},
 * … are called the segments of the big array. All segments,
 * except possibly for the last one, are of length {@link #SEGMENT_SIZE}. Given
 * an index {@code i} into a big array, there is an associated
 * {@linkplain #segment(long) segment} and an associated
 * {@linkplain #displacement(long)
 * displacement} into that segment. Access to single members happens by
 * means of accessors defined in the type-specific versions (see, e.g.,
 * {@link IntBigArrays#get(int[][], long)} and
 * {@link IntBigArrays#set(int[][], long, int)}), but you can also use the
 * methods {@link #segment(long)}/{@link #displacement(long)} to access entries
 * manually.
 *
 *
Scanning big arrays

 *
 *

 * You can scan a big array using the following idiomatic form:
 *
 *

 * for(int s = 0; s < a.length; s++) {
 *     final int[] t = a[s];
 *     final int l = t.length;
 *     for(int d = 0; d < l; d++) {
 *          do something with t[d]
 *     }
 * }
 *

 *
 * or using the (simpler and usually faster) reversed version:
 *
 *

 * for(int s = a.length; s-- != 0;) {
 *     final int[] t = a[s];
 *     for(int d = t.length; d-- != 0;) {
 *         do something with t[d]
 *     }
 * }
 *

 *

 * Inside the inner loop, the original index in {@code a} can be retrieved
 * using {@link #index(int, int) index(segment, displacement)}. You can also
 * use an additional long to keep track of the index.
 *
 *

 * Note that caching is essential in making these loops essentially as fast as
 * those scanning standard arrays (as iterations of the outer loop happen very
 * rarely). Using loops of this kind is extremely faster than using a standard
 * loop and accessors.
 *
 *

 * In some situations, you might want to iterate over a part of a big array
 * having an offset and a length. In this case, the idiomatic loops are as
 * follows:
 *
 *

 * for(int s = segment(offset); s < segment(offset + length + SEGMENT_MASK); s++) {
 *     final int[] t = a[s];
 *     final int l = (int)Math.min(t.length, offset + length - start(s));
 *     for(int d = (int)Math.max(0, offset - start(s)); d < l; d++) {
 *         do something with t[d]
 *     }
 * }
 *

 *
 * or, in a reversed form,
 *
 *

 * for(int s = segment(offset + length + SEGMENT_MASK); s-- != segment(offset);) {
 *     final int[] t = a[s];
 *     final int b = (int)Math.max(0, offset - start(s));
 *     for(int d = (int)Math.min(t.length, offset + length - start(s)); d-- != b ;) {
 *         do something with t[d]
 *     }
 * }
 *

 *
 *
Literal big arrays

 *
 *

 * A literal big array can be easily created by using the suitable type-specific
 * {@code wrap()} method (e.g., {@link IntBigArrays#wrap(int[])}) around a
 * literal standard array. Alternatively, for very small arrays you can just
 * declare a literal array-of-array (e.g., new int[][] { { 1, 2 } }).
 * Be warned, however, that this can lead to creating illegal big arrays if
 * for some reason (e.g., stress testing) {@link #SEGMENT_SIZE} is set to a
 * value smaller than the inner array length.
 *
 *
Big alternatives

 *
 *

 * If you find the kind of “bare hands” approach to big arrays not
 * enough object-oriented, please use big lists based on big arrays (.e.g,
 * {@link IntBigArrayBigList}). Big arrays follow the Java tradition of
 * considering arrays as a “legal alien”—something in-between
 * an object and a primitive type. This approach lacks the consistency of a full
 * object-oriented approach, but provides some significant performance gains.
 *
 *
Additional methods

 *
 *

 * In addition to commodity methods, this class contains {@link BigSwapper}
 * -based implementations of
 * {@linkplain #quickSort(long, long, LongComparator, BigSwapper) quicksort} and
 * of a stable, in-place
 * {@linkplain #mergeSort(long, long, LongComparator, BigSwapper) mergesort}.
 * These generic sorting methods can be used to sort any kind of list, but they
 * find their natural usage, for instance, in sorting big arrays in parallel.
 *
 * @see it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.Arrays
 */

public class BigArrays {
	/**
	 * The shift used to compute the segment associated with an index
	 * (equivalently, the logarithm of the segment size).
	 */
	public static final int SEGMENT_SHIFT = 27;
	/**
	 * The current size of a segment (227) is the largest size that
	 * makes the physical memory allocation for a single segment strictly
	 * smaller than 231 bytes.
	 */
	public static final int SEGMENT_SIZE = 1 << SEGMENT_SHIFT;
	/** The mask used to compute the displacement associated to an index. */
	public static final int SEGMENT_MASK = SEGMENT_SIZE - 1;

	protected BigArrays() {
	}

	/**
	 * Computes the segment associated with a given index.
	 *
	 * @param index
	 *            an index into a big array.
	 * @return the associated segment.
	 */
	public static int segment(final long index) {
		return (int) (index >>> SEGMENT_SHIFT);
	}

	/**
	 * Computes the displacement associated with a given index.
	 *
	 * @param index
	 *            an index into a big array.
	 * @return the associated displacement (in the associated
	 *         {@linkplain #segment(long) segment}).
	 */
	public static int displacement(final long index) {
		return (int) (index & SEGMENT_MASK);
	}

	/**
	 * Computes the starting index of a given segment.
	 *
	 * @param segment
	 *            the segment of a big array.
	 * @return the starting index of the segment.
	 */
	public static long start(final int segment) {
		return (long) segment << SEGMENT_SHIFT;
	}

	/**
	 * Computes the index associated with given segment and displacement.
	 *
	 * @param segment
	 *            the segment of a big array.
	 * @param displacement
	 *            the displacement into the segment.
	 * @return the associated index: that is, {@link #segment(long)
	 *         segment(index(segment, displacement)) == segment} and
	 *         {@link #displacement(long) displacement(index(segment,
	 *         displacement)) == displacement}.
	 */
	public static long index(final int segment, final int displacement) {
		return start(segment) + displacement;
	}

	/**
	 * Ensures that a range given by its first (inclusive) and last (exclusive)
	 * elements fits a big array of given length.
	 *
	 *

	 * This method may be used whenever a big array range check is needed.
	 *
	 * @param bigArrayLength
	 *            a big-array length.
	 * @param from
	 *            a start index (inclusive).
	 * @param to
	 *            an end index (inclusive).
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if {@code from} is greater than {@code to}.
	 * @throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
	 *             if {@code from} or {@code to} are greater than
	 *             {@code bigArrayLength} or negative.
	 */
	public static void ensureFromTo(final long bigArrayLength, final long from, final long to) {
		if (from < 0) throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("Start index (" + from + ") is negative");
		if (from > to) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Start index (" + from + ") is greater than end index (" + to + ")");
		if (to > bigArrayLength) throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("End index (" + to + ") is greater than big-array length (" + bigArrayLength + ")");
	}

	/**
	 * Ensures that a range given by an offset and a length fits a big array of
	 * given length.
	 *
	 *

	 * This method may be used whenever a big array range check is needed.
	 *
	 * @param bigArrayLength
	 *            a big-array length.
	 * @param offset
	 *            a start index for the fragment
	 * @param length
	 *            a length (the number of elements in the fragment).
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if {@code length} is negative.
	 * @throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
	 *             if {@code offset} is negative or {@code offset} +
	 *             {@code length} is greater than
	 *             {@code bigArrayLength}.
	 */
	public static void ensureOffsetLength(final long bigArrayLength, final long offset, final long length) {
		if (offset < 0) throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("Offset (" + offset + ") is negative");
		if (length < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Length (" + length + ") is negative");
		if (offset + length > bigArrayLength) throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("Last index (" + (offset + length) + ") is greater than big-array length (" + bigArrayLength + ")");
	}

	/**
	 * Ensures that a big-array length is legal.
	 *
	 * @param bigArrayLength
	 *            a big-array length.
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if {@code length} is negative, or larger than or equal
	 *             to {@link #SEGMENT_SIZE} * {@link Integer#MAX_VALUE}.
	 */
	public static void ensureLength(final long bigArrayLength) {
		if (bigArrayLength < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Negative big-array size: " + bigArrayLength);
		if (bigArrayLength >= (long) Integer.MAX_VALUE << SEGMENT_SHIFT) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Big-array size too big: " + bigArrayLength);
	}

	private static final int SMALL = 7;
	private static final int MEDIUM = 40;

	/**
	 * Transforms two consecutive sorted ranges into a single sorted range. The
	 * initial ranges are {@code [first, middle)} and
	 * {@code [middle, last)}, and the resulting range is
	 * {@code [first, last)}. Elements in the first input range will
	 * precede equal elements in the second.
	 */
	private static void inPlaceMerge(final long from, long mid, final long to, final LongComparator comp, final BigSwapper swapper) {
		if (from >= mid || mid >= to) return;
		if (to - from == 2) {
			if (comp.compare(mid, from) < 0) {
				swapper.swap(from, mid);
			}
			return;
		}
		long firstCut;
		long secondCut;
		if (mid - from > to - mid) {
			firstCut = from + (mid - from) / 2;
			secondCut = lowerBound(mid, to, firstCut, comp);
		} else {
			secondCut = mid + (to - mid) / 2;
			firstCut = upperBound(from, mid, secondCut, comp);
		}

		long first2 = firstCut;
		long middle2 = mid;
		long last2 = secondCut;
		if (middle2 != first2 && middle2 != last2) {
			long first1 = first2;
			long last1 = middle2;
			while (first1 < --last1)
				swapper.swap(first1++, last1);
			first1 = middle2;
			last1 = last2;
			while (first1 < --last1)
				swapper.swap(first1++, last1);
			first1 = first2;
			last1 = last2;
			while (first1 < --last1)
				swapper.swap(first1++, last1);
		}

		mid = firstCut + (secondCut - mid);
		inPlaceMerge(from, firstCut, mid, comp, swapper);
		inPlaceMerge(mid, secondCut, to, comp, swapper);
	}

	/**
	 * Performs a binary search on an already sorted range: finds the first
	 * position where an element can be inserted without violating the ordering.
	 * Sorting is by a user-supplied comparison function.
	 *
	 * @param mid
	 *            Beginning of the range.
	 * @param to
	 *            One past the end of the range.
	 * @param firstCut
	 *            Element to be searched for.
	 * @param comp
	 *            Comparison function.
	 * @return The largest index i such that, for every j in the range
	 *         {@code [first, i)}, {@code comp.apply(array[j], x)} is
	 *         {@code true}.
	 */
	private static long lowerBound(long mid, final long to, final long firstCut, final LongComparator comp) {
		long len = to - mid;
		while (len > 0) {
			long half = len / 2;
			long middle = mid + half;
			if (comp.compare(middle, firstCut) < 0) {
				mid = middle + 1;
				len -= half + 1;
			} else {
				len = half;
			}
		}
		return mid;
	}

	/** Returns the index of the median of three elements. */
	private static long med3(final long a, final long b, final long c, final LongComparator comp) {
		final int ab = comp.compare(a, b);
		final int ac = comp.compare(a, c);
		final int bc = comp.compare(b, c);
		return (ab < 0 ? (bc < 0 ? b : ac < 0 ? c : a) : (bc > 0 ? b : ac > 0 ? c : a));
	}

	/**
	 * Sorts the specified range of elements using the specified big swapper and
	 * according to the order induced by the specified comparator using
	 * mergesort.
	 *
	 *

	 * This sort is guaranteed to be stable: equal elements will not be
	 * reordered as a result of the sort. The sorting algorithm is an in-place
	 * mergesort that is significantly slower than a standard mergesort, as its
	 * running time is
	 * O(<var>n</var> (log <var>n</var>)2), but it
	 * does not allocate additional memory; as a result, it can be used as a
	 * generic sorting algorithm.
	 *
	 * @param from
	 *            the index of the first element (inclusive) to be sorted.
	 * @param to
	 *            the index of the last element (exclusive) to be sorted.
	 * @param comp
	 *            the comparator to determine the order of the generic data
	 *            (arguments are positions).
	 * @param swapper
	 *            an object that knows how to swap the elements at any two
	 *            positions.
	 */
	public static void mergeSort(final long from, final long to, final LongComparator comp, final BigSwapper swapper) {
		final long length = to - from;

		// Insertion sort on smallest arrays
		if (length < SMALL) {
			for (long i = from; i < to; i++) {
				for (long j = i; j > from && (comp.compare(j - 1, j) > 0); j--) {
					swapper.swap(j, j - 1);
				}
			}
			return;
		}

		// Recursively sort halves
		long mid = (from + to) >>> 1;
		mergeSort(from, mid, comp, swapper);
		mergeSort(mid, to, comp, swapper);

		// If list is already sorted, nothing left to do. This is an
		// optimization that results in faster sorts for nearly ordered lists.
		if (comp.compare(mid - 1, mid) <= 0) return;

		// Merge sorted halves
		inPlaceMerge(from, mid, to, comp, swapper);
	}

	/**
	 * Sorts the specified range of elements using the specified big swapper and
	 * according to the order induced by the specified comparator using
	 * quicksort.
	 *
	 *

	 * The sorting algorithm is a tuned quicksort adapted from Jon L. Bentley
	 * and M. Douglas McIlroy, “Engineering a Sort Function”,
	 * Software: Practice and Experience, 23(11), pages 1249−1265,
	 * 1993.
	 *
	 * @param from
	 *            the index of the first element (inclusive) to be sorted.
	 * @param to
	 *            the index of the last element (exclusive) to be sorted.
	 * @param comp
	 *            the comparator to determine the order of the generic data.
	 * @param swapper
	 *            an object that knows how to swap the elements at any two
	 *            positions.
	 */
	public static void quickSort(final long from, final long to, final LongComparator comp, final BigSwapper swapper) {
		final long len = to - from;
		// Insertion sort on smallest arrays
		if (len < SMALL) {
			for (long i = from; i < to; i++)
				for (long j = i; j > from && (comp.compare(j - 1, j) > 0); j--) {
					swapper.swap(j, j - 1);
				}
			return;
		}

		// Choose a partition element, v
		long m = from + len / 2; // Small arrays, middle element
		if (len > SMALL) {
			long l = from, n = to - 1;
			if (len > MEDIUM) { // Big arrays, pseudomedian of 9
				long s = len / 8;
				l = med3(l, l + s, l + 2 * s, comp);
				m = med3(m - s, m, m + s, comp);
				n = med3(n - 2 * s, n - s, n, comp);
			}
			m = med3(l, m, n, comp); // Mid-size, med of 3
		}
		// long v = x[m];

		long a = from, b = a, c = to - 1, d = c;
		// Establish Invariant: v* (<v)* (>v)* v*
		while (true) {
			int comparison;
			while (b <= c && ((comparison = comp.compare(b, m)) <= 0)) {
				if (comparison == 0) {
					if (a == m) m = b; // moving target; DELTA to JDK !!!
					else if (b == m) m = a; // moving target; DELTA to JDK !!!
					swapper.swap(a++, b);
				}
				b++;
			}
			while (c >= b && ((comparison = comp.compare(c, m)) >= 0)) {
				if (comparison == 0) {
					if (c == m) m = d; // moving target; DELTA to JDK !!!
					else if (d == m) m = c; // moving target; DELTA to JDK !!!
					swapper.swap(c, d--);
				}
				c--;
			}
			if (b > c) break;
			if (b == m) m = d; // moving target; DELTA to JDK !!!
			else if (c == m) m = c; // moving target; DELTA to JDK !!!
			swapper.swap(b++, c--);
		}

		// Swap partition elements back to middle
		long s;
		long n = from + len;
		s = Math.min(a - from, b - a);
		vecSwap(swapper, from, b - s, s);
		s = Math.min(d - c, n - d - 1);
		vecSwap(swapper, b, n - s, s);

		// Recursively sort non-partition-elements
		if ((s = b - a) > 1) quickSort(from, from + s, comp, swapper);
		if ((s = d - c) > 1) quickSort(n - s, n, comp, swapper);
	}

	/**
	 * Performs a binary search on an already-sorted range: finds the last
	 * position where an element can be inserted without violating the ordering.
	 * Sorting is by a user-supplied comparison function.
	 *
	 * @param from
	 *            Beginning of the range.
	 * @param mid
	 *            One past the end of the range.
	 * @param secondCut
	 *            Element to be searched for.
	 * @param comp
	 *            Comparison function.
	 * @return The largest index i such that, for every j in the range
	 *         {@code [first, i)}, {@code comp.apply(x, array[j])} is
	 *         {@code false}.
	 */
	private static long upperBound(long from, final long mid, final long secondCut, final LongComparator comp) {
		long len = mid - from;
		while (len > 0) {
			long half = len / 2;
			long middle = from + half;
			if (comp.compare(secondCut, middle) < 0) {
				len = half;
			} else {
				from = middle + 1;
				len -= half + 1;
			}
		}
		return from;
	}

	/** Swaps x[a .. (a+n-1)] with x[b .. (b+n-1)]. */
	private static void vecSwap(final BigSwapper swapper, long from, long l, final long s) {
		for (int i = 0; i < s; i++, from++, l++)
			swapper.swap(from, l);
	}

	public static void main(final String arg[]) {
		int[][] a = IntBigArrays.newBigArray(1L << Integer.parseInt(arg[0]));
		long x, y, z, start;

		for (int k = 10; k-- != 0;) {

			start = -System.currentTimeMillis();

			x = 0;
			for (long i = IntBigArrays.length(a); i-- != 0;)
				x ^= i ^ IntBigArrays.get(a, i);
			if (x == 0) System.err.println();

			System.out.println("Single loop: " + (start + System.currentTimeMillis()) + "ms");

			start = -System.currentTimeMillis();

			y = 0;
			for (int i = a.length; i-- != 0;) {
				final int[] t = a[i];
				for (int d = t.length; d-- != 0;)
					y ^= t[d] ^ index(i, d);
			}
			if (y == 0) System.err.println();
			if (x != y) throw new AssertionError();

			System.out.println("Double loop: " + (start + System.currentTimeMillis()) + "ms");

			z = 0;
			long j = IntBigArrays.length(a);
			for (int i = a.length; i-- != 0;) {
				final int[] t = a[i];
				for (int d = t.length; d-- != 0;)
					y ^= t[d] ^ --j;
			}
			if (z == 0) System.err.println();
			if (x != z) throw new AssertionError();

			System.out.println("Double loop (with additional index): " + (start + System.currentTimeMillis()) + "ms");
		}
	}
}

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Iborra, en catalán y oficialmente Ivorra, es un municipio español de la provincia de Lérida, situado en la parte occidental de la comarca de la Segarra, en el límite con la de Noya, Cataluña. El núcleo de población está situado en la ladera de una colina y conserva su aspecto medieval.

Véase también
Escudo de Iborra

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Ayuntamiento de Ivorra

Información del Instituto de Estadística de Cataluña

Localidades de la Segarra
Municipios de la Segarra
Localidades de la provincia de Lérida


I have been making my Vegan Eggplant Sauté on and off for over 10 years, and it never occurred to me to change it around. Then all the sudden I think how I can keep myself from getting bored by changing around the flavors. This recipe is just as simple as the Vegan Eggplant Saute, but I've swapped around all the flavors.
Following the recipe, you'll see a list of 5 lightened up, but still Super Bowl-worthy, recipes for game day. I have never cared one way or another about the football, but I do like watching the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and I like the Super Bowl foods. The rest is just background noise to me.
Add a quick spray of cooking spray to a sauté pan over medium heat.
Add the zucchini, salt, garlic, and chipotle or cumin. Sauté for a minute or so. Add the ice cube, and cover. Let it steam for 5-6 minutes.
Meanwhile, microwave the Boca Burger until warm, about 1 minute. Dice into bite-sized pieces.
Remove the zucchini from heat. Add the Boca Burger and salsa. Mix together.
Top with freshly chopped cilantro.
Skinny Taste: Slow Cooker Paleo Jalapeno Popper Chicken Chili. This is a mouthful! I like all kinds of chili, vegetarian included. I was going to list a vegetarian option, but I think a Super Bowl chili needs some kind of meat. This one is a good middle ground and will make dieters and non-dieters happy. Here are some of my other favorite chilis.
2. The Mediterranean Dish: Avocado Hummus and Fresh Tomatillo Salsa Verde. Another classic Super Bowl food is guacamole. Here's a lightened up version that you could serve with both chips and raw veggies.
3. A Beautiful Plate: Salt and Vinegar Roasted Chickpeas. I love roasted chickpeas! The first time I had them was in this salad. They are a great substitute for salty nuts, and you can switch up the flavor combinations in endless ways.
4. Dashing Dish: Crispy Buffalo Cauliflower Poppers. This is on my "must try" list, and of all the recipes I've seen for buffalo cauliflower, this one looks like a dead ringer for wings. So, maybe you can't forgo wings on Super Bowl Sunday in favor of cauliflower. But maybe you can have both?
5. BS In the Kitchen: Paloma. Tequila is my favorite kind of liquor, and the only kind I'll ever have around the house. The Paloma is similar to a margarita, but with grapefruit. This version contains hardly any sugar, but relies mostly on the tart grapefruit and lime for flavor (plus tequila really has a great flavor too). Each drink only has one teaspoon of sugar, but you could substitute stevia, or you could leave it out altogether.


Definition - What does Stress Concentration Factor (Kt) mean?
Stress concentration factor (Kt), is a dimensionless factor that is used to quantify how concentrated the stress is in a material. It is defined as the ratio of the highest stress in the element to the reference stress.
Reference stress is the total stress within an element under the same loading conditions without the stress concentrators, meaning the total stress on the material where the material is free from holes, cuts, shoulders or narrow passes.
A stress concentration is often called a stress raiser or stress riser.
Basic stress analysis calculations assume that the components are smooth, have a uniform section and no irregularities. In practice virtually all engineering components have at least minimal changes in section and/or shape. Shoulders on shafts, oil holes, key ways and screw threads all can change the stress distribution, as shown in the figure below, so that the basic stress analysis equations no longer apply. Such discontinuities cause a local increase of stress, referred to as stress concentration.
If the material is flawless and has no discontinuity, then the stress concentration factor is 1. If there is great discontinuity, then the stress factor is greater than 1.
The stress-concentration factor associated with a specific geometry and loading condition of a part can be derived through experimentation, analysis or computational methods.
Experimental methods: Optical methods, such as photoelasticity, are very dependable and widely used for experimentally determining the stress concentration at a point on a part. However, several alternative methods that have been used historically include the grid method, brittle coating, brittle model and strain gauge.
Analytical methods: The theory of elasticity can be used to analyze certain geometrical shapes to calculate stress-concentration factors.
Computational methods: Finite-element techniques provide a powerful and inexpensive computational method of assessing stress-concentration factors.


The Bears Den of Pack 542 showed their community support by attending the Cinco Ranch High School varsity basketball game on January 28. The scouts provided encouragement by rooting and cheering for our Cougars in a competitive show-down with their opponent. Katy Pack 542 looks forward to applying the Scouting principle of "community involvement" with continued support to Coach King and the Cinco Ranch Cougars. Please mention you found this on www.KatyMagazine.com.
Bear Den of Boy Scout Pack 542 enjoys a recent Cinco Ranch High School basketball game.


My name is Rob. I am an artist (http://paintedbrain.org/blogger/rob) branching out as a writer. I've a bounty on networking in places like this and I came across this site by accident. Love what I'm seeing, enjoyed Ms. Murphy's "disappointment" list, and I look forward to fruitful interaction here.
Per Cathy's piece, I was recently trying to recall a famous literary figure who had in his early days met a writer he'd looked up to all his life only to be dismissed by the man or some such to his horrific disappointment. As this author himself - whoever the hell this was - became historically important It is a story that offers solace to those of similar experience.
That's my intro thread. Looking forward to networking here.
Welcome, you might want to check out the in-depth intro thread.


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Hibernian Theatre of Varieties, også kaldet The Mechanics' Hall var et irsk teater og spillested i Lower Abbey Street i Dublin. Det er mest kendt for to ting; for det første for, at Sean O'Casey optrådte i stykket The Shaughraun af Dion Boucicault, og for det andet for, at dets lokaler siden skulle blive anvendt til Abbey Theatre.

Teatre i Irland
Bygninger, konstruktioner og anlæg i Dublin


The Blu-Ray/DVD for "Tron Legacy" was a big winner. The sales were good enough to make Disney Suits take notice. Now of course, they're going to have to continue to be good, but so far it's impressive.
The sequel to "Tron" was number one, but it was so with a huge 68% of sales and outsold the DVD two-to-one. The third film in the series hasn't been green lit no matter what anyone has told you, but business like this makes it more likely. If you haven't yet got a copy and plan on it, may I suggest you depart with some green. It may make the difference between a two and a three.
So a lot of people seem to be buying that sad excuse for a movie - where exactly is the good news?
Well, even though you have no taste there are many others that do.
I don't really care if there's a TR3N for not.
But Tron Legacy is certainly NOT a sad excuse for a movie!
"the movie itself is stupid, loud, annoying and shallow - one could also say: tasteless..."
Are you describing the movie or yourself???
Reflection is a very hard thing to take, I know..
Spokker's back. Itching for a fight.
Oh please, perfect or not, Tron: Legacy is not "tasteless." "Tasteless" seems to imply it's morally disgusting in some way. There aren't enough muscles in my eyes to roll them as much as I'd like to at that comment.
Tron: Legacy is fine. It's a movie. It's for kids, by the way, though many adults like it. If you hate it so intensely that you have to say something about it here, you really need a life. You're taking effort out of your day to rail against a PG Disney movie. Haha.
I, on the other hand, am taking time to stand up for something I enjoy. Time well spent, in my opinion.
Seriously I don't think I've seen any opinions on Tron Legacy as bad as yours. You think the movie is "tasteless"; that's exactly what I have to say about your taste.
Unless of course you got caught in the GRID and were amputated while you were in there.
"That's the culture we live in, where the once-proscribed Pleasure Principle has become iron law and where the recycled, bloated, fish-belly emptiness of something like TRON: Legacy carries boredom to extravagant new heights."
Now that´s what a call a rant!
And please,please: It´s not my opinion, I love T:L. I´m just quoting a critic.
Actually, HH, only BluRay was #1 the first week. T:L came in second place overall.
For the second week, it fell to third place in BluRay and fourth overall. For the third week, Tron fell out of the overall top ten, possibly even for BluRay as well. And at the start of the fourth week, it isn't even on the map (BluRay is in the mid-twenties and fortieth place overall).
After two weeks of sales, this film fell right off the cliff. Compare that to other Disney films like Tangled, still going strong into its fifth week. I think the hope for TR3N getting made is fading fast.
The Blu-Ray IS the DVD really. It comes with both. I've seen the sales at my local Best Buy go pretty well. We'll have to wait for the final numbers to see what happens.


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Britdata: finding data on the UK for journalists, researchers & campaigners
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A wealth of data is available on the UK, its people, economy, government and public services, hidden only by the fact you have to know where to look for it. The aim of this e-book is to point out good places to look, particularly for journalists but also for campaigners, researchers and others. While it doesn't aim to be comprehensive, it does aim to highlight a wide range of reliable sources.
The first section aims to provide a guide to the many sources of data on Britain and its public sector which will help you find stories or carry out research with them, broadly divided into open data about the UK; data on national government; data on locally-based government services including councils, police, NHS; data generated by the democratic process; Freedom of Information; other sources; and some tips on dealing with data. The second section provides specific data on local authority areas of the UK.
I most recently revised Britdata in August 2018 with the latest Office for National Statistics population data, including updates of all the local authority area profiles, as well as a few corrections and information on how GDPR affects subject access requests.
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Diaper rash is a multi-factorial condition that is extremely uncomfortable for the infant and can cause a great deal of anxiety for parents. To further compound the problem, while true diaper rash (also known as irritant diaper dermatitis) is fairly simple to recognize and treat, diapers can worsen such dermatologic disorders as seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, and atopic dermatitis.
The FDA's general instructions for skin protectant products include advice to discontinue their use and seek physician care if symptoms persist for more than 7 days, and to change wet and soiled diapers promptly, cleansing the diaper area and allowing it to dry.2 Another reliable federal Web site recommends seeking physician care if the area worsens or is not completely healed in 2 to 3 days, a safer time limit.1 Parents are also advised to apply the ointment, cream, or powder liberally as often as necessary, with each diaper change, and especially at bedtime or anytime when exposure to wet diapers may be prolonged. For powder products, parents are further instructed to apply powder close to the body but away from the child's face, and to carefully shake the powder into the diaper or into the hand and apply to the diaper area.
If the infant's skin is broken, the parent should be advised to see a physician.2 However, if the irritation is limited to inflammation, protectants are safe and effective. Allantoin (0.5%-2%), calamine (1%-25%), dimethicone (1%-30%), and kaolin (4%-20%) are all safe protectants.2 Cod liver oil (5%-13.56%) is also safe and effective, but it has an unpleasant smell, so it is combined with other ingredients to prevent this odor. Lanolin 15.5% is safe and effective, but it should be avoided as it is a contact sensitizer.2,4 Products containing lanolin include A+D Original Ointment, Weleda Baby Calendula Baby Cream, Belli Baby Protect Me Diaper Rash Cream, and Grandma El's Diaper Rash Remedy & Prevention.
Mineral oil (50%-100%) is a safe and effective emollient protectant for diaper rash. It is water-insoluble, giving it a barrier effect. However, it remains on the skin indefinitely until physically removed, and may build up on the skin if not periodically cleansed away.2 Since the FDA directs the caregiver to cleanse the diaper area with each diaper change, mineral oil should not accumulate. However, if patients fail to cleanse the baby properly, it could cause chronic skin irritation and folliculitis. It is the active ingredient in Johnson's Baby Oil.
Zinc oxide (25%-40%) pastes and ointments are safe and effective for diaper rash, but in higher concentration they are difficult to remove from the baby's skin due to their thick and adherent nature. It is the major active ingredient in such products as Desitin Paste Maximum Strength (40% zinc oxide) and A+D Diaper Rash Cream (10%).
Petrolatum (30%-100%) is the ideal diaper rash protectant. It is virtually nonallergenic, lacks an unpleasant odor, is easily removed from the skin, and is effective as a single ingredient without the potential for folliculitis or irritation.2 It is the single active ingredient in Vaseline Petroleum Jelly and Vaseline Baby.
Cornstarch (10%-98%) is formulated as a powder. It is widely believed to be a safe infant powder, but it may be hazardous. In one such case, a 1-month-old infant was brought to an emergency room because of poor eating habits and impaired breathing.5 The physicians ordered a chest x-ray, which revealed diffuse opacification in both lungs, with dark-blue polygon-shaped crystals visible on a Gram-stain. The crystals were eventually demonstrated to be cornstarch. The mother admitted that she used cornstarch powder during diaper changes. The physicians diagnosed cornstarch pneumonitis, cautioning that the careless use of the powder could lead to accidental aspiration with subsequent severe respiratory disease.
The pharmacist should advise against use of talcum powder as a skin protectant because of its dermatologic and respiratory dangers, as recommended by the NIH.1 If parents purchase the product in spite of this advice, they should be cautioned to take care in application as warned by the FDA, but the parent or caregiver should further be cautioned to keep the products stored away from children, much as poisons are stored. These precautions apply specifically to talcum powder, but can be generalized to the use of all powders in infants, regardless of the ingredients.
Diaper rash products are available under a large number of well-known brands (e.g., Vaseline, Desitin, A+D, Johnson's), but also as a host of strangely named, obscure products.11 Some of the former and many of the latter load their products with ingredients of unknown safety and efficacy for diaper rash. They often include multiple plant-derived ingredients, which could be allergenic or toxic if absorbed. It is advisable to avoid these overloaded formulations in favor of those containing a single safe and effective protectant (e.g., petrolatum).
Some parents may ask about the use of topical antifungals for diaper rash. It is true that broken skin under the diaper is often colonized with Candida, but a physician appointment is mandatory.2 Currently available nonprescription antifungals are only indicated for fungal conditions such as tinea pedis, tinea cruris, and tinea corporis. Their efficacy on Candida is unknown.
Diaper rash can cause a great deal of discomfort for the baby. Since the goal is to keep the skin dry, parents should choose diapers that are labeled as superabsorbent or ultra-absorbent. These prevent diaper rash better than older, regular absorbency diapers. Some parents prefer cloth diapers for reasons of economics, sanitation, or conservation, but disposables are far better than reusable cloth diapers in preventing diaper rash. If cloth diapers are used, they should never be covered by plastic pants, since the plastic keeps moisture trapped inside the diaper and makes diaper rash more likely.
During an active case of diaper rash, the skin is very sensitive. Most commercial diaper wipes should be avoided during this time, as these products may contain chemicals that irritate the skin affected by the rash. Immediate cleaning of the area with mild soap is the safest alternative.
Skin protectants are the safest ingredients for treating diaper rash. These include such ingredients as allantoin, calamine, cod liver oil, dimethicone, kaolin, lanolin, mineral oil, petrolatum, talc, topical starch (also known as cornstarch), white petrolatum, and zinc oxide. However, some of these are better than others. Petrolatum (e.g., Vaseline) is an excellent choice.
Powders containing kaolin, cornstarch, or talc can cause problems if the baby's skin is broken or wounded and should be avoided. If you choose to use them anyway, keep any powder diaper rash product well away from the child's face while you are putting it on your hands or applying it to the baby's bottom. If you allow the powder to get into the air, the baby will inhale it while breathing, potentially producing chemical pneumonia that can lead to permanent breathing problems or death.
The best way to apply powders is to go to a location away from the baby. Place the container close to your body and away from your face. Gently shake a small amount of powder onto a hand. When the powder has settled, approach the baby and apply it to the diaper area. Never let an older sibling play with the powders either by themselves or around the baby for the same reasons.
Some chemicals should never be used on the baby. Do not use homemade preparations such as baking soda since their safety would be questionable. Any product containing boric acid or borax is unsafe and must be avoided. Chemicals such as aloe vera, benzyl alcohol, castor seed, Peruvian balsam, nonfat dry milk, arnica, borage, thymol, calendula, rose hip oil, and tea tree oil are not FDA-approved protectants. Some may be listed as inactive ingredients, but could still cause allergic reactions or other problems. Antibiotic ointments containing such ingredients as neomycin, polymyxin, or bacitracin should not be used for diaper rash. Hydrocortisone products should not be used without a physician recommendation. You should not use any antifungal or anticandidal products on diaper rash.
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4. Kligman AM. Lanolin allergy: crisis or comedy. Contact Dermatitis. 1983;9:99-107.
5. Silver P, Sagy M, Rubin L. Respiratory failure from corn starch aspiration: a hazard of diaper changing. Pediatr Emerg Care. 1996;12:108-110.
6. Farrington E. Diaper dermatitis. Pediatr Nurs. 1992;18:81-82.
7. Preston SL, Bryant BG. Etiology and treatment of diaper dermatitis. Hosp Pharm. 1994;29:1086-1088,1097.
8. Skin protectant drug products for over-the-counter human use; proposed rulemaking for diaper rash drug products. Fed Regist. 1990;55:25204-25232.
9. Talc; consumer uses and health perspectives; public meetings. Fed Regist. 1994;59:2319.
10. Konya J, Gow E. Granuloma gluteale infantum. Australas J Dermatol. 1996;37:57-58.
11. Diaper rash products. www.drugstore.com. Accessed February 7, 2012.
12. Semiz S, Balci YI, Ergin S, et al. Two cases of Cushing's syndrome due to overuse of topical steroid in the diaper area. Pediatr Dermatol. 2008;25:544-547.
13. Tempark T, Phatarakijnirund V, Chatproedprai S, et al. Exogenous Cushing's syndrome due to topical corticosteroid application: case report and review literature. Endocrine. 2010;38:328-334.
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This section is very basic at the moment. I will be expanding it at a future date.
I have included a scale calculator which will help to find the scale of a model. Some models are not proportionally in scale but this will give a ballpark figure based on vehicle length.
Usage - If you know the fullsize length enter this, ratio 1:1, or if you have another model with a known scale enter that length and scale.
If you have the original length in feet use this first.
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Film permit application must be submitted at least 15 business days in advance of the first day of filming for major productions and 10 business days for small productions.
Complete and signed Indemnity and Hold Harmless Form.
Complete Insurance Certificate ($1,000,000 General Liability insurance naming the "City of Fremont, 3300 Capitol Ave., Fremont, CA 94538" as additional insured).
Additional Insured Endorsement. Note that the "Additional Insured Endorsement" page is separate and in addition to the "Complete Insurance Certificate." The page must name the City of Fremont, 3300 Capitol Ave., Fremont, CA 94538 as additional insured.
Applicant must obtain and provide a copy of the owner's written permission and/or lease for filming private property not owned by the City of Fremont.
If filming takes place at a private residence or a business, a notification must be sent to the immediate/adjacent neighbors regarding the filming activity, except when the residence or business has no immediate neighbors within the same block. The date and copy of the notification must be provided as part of the application.
City sidewalk - free unless city services required.
City Parks - still photography $200/day, video $400/day.
Additional fees and charges may be required for filming on City property, such as on City Plazas, use of City equipment, Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic farm and for City Staff.
For more information, contact Amy Gee at the Fremont Police Department at (510) 790-6967.


You are CORDIALLY invited to attend the opening party of the Post-Graduate exhibition at Aberystwyth School of Art.
If you can make it, it will be lovely to see you and meet over a glass of wine.
You will find my work in the area on the map marked dark blue.


SD cards are small and inexpensive. They also tend to take longer to write pictures to, though some cards are faster than others.
CF cards are larger and more expensive than SD cards. They tend to be faster, allowing you to take more pictures in a short amount of time when using continuous shooting.
Lower-end cameras tend to use SD cards, whereas higher-end cameras use CF cards. Higher-end cameras often have multiple slots for memory cards. In the Canon world, the mid-range Canon 6D has one SD card slot. The higher-end Canon 5D Mark III has two slots: one SD and one CF. The top-end Canon 1D X also has two memory card slots, both CF. Having two cards slots is useful; you can have twice the capacity, and if one card fails, you have a backup. Having a second slot can also allow you to keep an Eye-Fi card in one of the slots, providing Wi-Fi connectivity for quickly previewing pictures on a computer or mobile device.


The Design Museum is hosting a night of bicycle related goodness on Friday 7th September. There will be informal talks, demonstrations and screenings. I'll be giving a little talk myself so pop down and have a look at what they've got going on.
They've also produced a really nice publication to go with the event, which you can grab on the evening or order online.


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Overview: Daniel Berger defended his first ever title by firing two 66s last weekend on his way to winning his second straight FedEx St. Jude Classic. He'll have a chance in 2018 to win the event for the third straight time. Unfortunately for him, over the last 15 years, only one winner from the week prior has finished in the Top 5 at the U.S Open, and that was Sergio Garcia in 2005 at Pinehurst.
The week is finally upon us! The best golfers in the world will meet up in Erin, Wis. for the toughest test in golf. Erin Hills is the 2017 site of the U.S Open, and it looks like we are in for a good one. With the possible exception of Phil Mickelson missing the tournament for his daughter's high school graduation, you've got all the top dogs to choose from. The difference this week from most tournaments is that virtually no golfers have any experience on this track. Yes, the U.S Amateur was here in 2011, but that was six years ago, and everyone will have the same opportunity this week to play his practice rounds in U.S Open conditions. As far as history, I would value U.S Open history far more than the small handful of guys who played in that event (Jordan Spieth, Harris English, Bryson Dechambeau, Russell Henley, Jonathan Randolph, Peter Uihlein, and Justin Thomas).
For the first time since the pre-Tiger Woods era, the U.S Open will be played on a par-72 track. You know what that means? LENGTH! The USGA will have this course plotted at 7,800 yards. Erin Hills is a links-style course carved within the rolling pastures of Erin. The course features big wide fairways and tricky fairway bunkers that will challenge players of all lengths. Another goal off the tee is finding proper lies and angles to the hole. The course has a huge amount of undulation, and some blind shots to greens, so strokes gained off the tee will be a necessary stat for success. If golfers get a little wayward, they'll be greeted by that beautiful yellow fescue that will make up the periphery of your TV for four straight days. To stay out of the fescue, golfers must take care of their approach shots. Strokes gained approach will be the difference in making 3s and 4s vs. 5s and 6s or worse. I mentioned the undulation and the fescue earlier; these two factors make ordinary misses into automatic bogey or double. Scrambling will be key for those times when the ball takes a kick off a side hill, or finds some of the waist-high fescue that surrounds every hole. Erin Hills is loooong. With all the land they had to work with, they've created a course that's longer than the town I grew up in. Players who can bomb it will have a significant advantage this week. Driving Distance will give a boost to those who can keep it in the green grass. All four of the par 5s are over 600 yards. Only a small group of players will be able to reach any of these in two shots. Shorter hitters may find themselves still 100 yards out after two full swings. There is a definite advantage to being able to bash two balls 600 or so yards and leave yourself a chip and a putt or two putts as opposed to a third full swing. Lastly, but most important, is strokes gained putting. The USGA will be out there steamrolling those greens so that the slightest grade will make it look like it's rolling off a mountain. Just look at the recent champions below. All of those guys are known to be very good putters, with the exception of Dustin Johnson, who I believe is an underrated putter anyway. It should be a great week with some terrific golf and some humbling moments for the world's best, both reasons why the U.S Open is a must-watch.
Sergio Garcia ($10,000) — I'm going with the Masters Champ followed by the runner-up at the Masters to build my team around. Not very creative, I know, but Sergio has what it takes to follow his first major victory with another. He's been playing well this year, making cuts every week and contending or winning most events. With the exception of putting, (always the story with him) Sergio does everything else extremely well. He is in the Top 30 in driving distance, and is third in strokes gained off the tee. He hits the seventh-most greens on Tour, and is a great scrambler (27th) for the occasions when his misses. A bonus with Sergio is he can perform in tough conditions, which may occur this week.
Justin Rose ($9,800) — Justin Rose struggled the last time we saw him here in the States. He took some time off recently to get ready for the U.S Open. I'm going to put my money on the assumption that he's got everything in working order for this week. Rose is in the Top 10 in strokes gained off the tee. He's been struggling with his iron play this year, yet still gains shots on the approach. Tee to green he gains over a shot per round (14th), and when he's on, he can putt at a major-winning level, as evidenced by his 2013 U.S Open victory at Merion.
Justin Thomas ($8,300) — I look at Justin Thomas as my boom or bust pick. His shaky driving accuracy could have him trudging through the fescue all week. If he can stay in relatively safe positions, he has the advantage in nearly every category. Justin Thomas ranks in the Top 30 in the following categories: driving distance (11th), strokes gained: approach (4th), strokes gained putting (29th), birdie average (4th), greens in regulation (12th), and he's the best on Tour this season in proximity from both from 200-225 yards, and approaches from 100-125 yards. He could shoot two 78s and miss the cut by a mile, or he could get hot and win his first major. For the low $8000 range, I'll take my chances.
Tyrrell Hatton ($7,500) — I picked Hatton for the first major of the year, and he made me regret it big time by shooting 80-78 and finishing nowhere near the cut line. However, I will not hold it against him; it was his first time at Augusta. This will also be his first time at Erin Hills, but that goes for just about everyone else. Hatton gains over a stroke per round putting, which is the best on the PGA Tour. He also gains a good number of strokes off the tee and on the approach, (16th & 23rd). Hatton finished in the Top 10 in the final two majors last season. He should be fairly low-owned due to his mediocre play lately.
Kevin Kisner ($7,500) — Kevin Kisner is playing the best golf of his career this year. He's collected five Top 10s, including a runner-up at Bay Hill and a win two weeks ago at the Dean & DeLuca. Once a daily Fantasy sleeper, Kisner is now usually one of the higher priced players each week. With him only being priced at $7,500, he could be a steal this week but he is a sleeper no more. Kisner looks great on paper as well. He is ranked in the Top 40 in all major strokes-gained categories. Those would be, strokes gained off-the-tee (37th), approach (9th), around the green (38th), and putting (23rd). If paper translates to the golf course, which it has almost every week for him, Kisner should have a good week.
Marc Leishman ($6,700) — Marc Leishman is a legitimate contender despite his low price-tag. We've seen him around the top of the leaderboard before at majors, and he's already won an event this season. Leishman hits it long off the tee (38th) and gains strokes on the field there (24th). He is solid on the approach and a very good putter (32nd in strokes gained). Outside of 200 yards he is a very consistent ball-striker as well, a distance that should come into play quite a few times this week.


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The textbook says that since $L$ is positive definite on given subspace, then this matrix is nonsingular.
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Healthier, lab-tested, lower in alcohol: the appeal of Dry Farm Wines
You will know immediately if you are the kind of person who would like Dry Farm Wines.
The wine club, founded by a real estate investor who lives in the heart of Napa Valley, is the largest buyer of natural wines in the world. It's ironic because these wines are the antithesis of everything Napa Valley stands for. They're recommended on the website by a who's-who list of biohackers and people who espouse keto and paleo type diets, because they're healthier than most commercial wine. It hasn't made Dry Farm Wines founder Todd White popular with his neighbors in Yountville.
"In 2009 I founded a street festival in St. Helena that became the largest gathering in Napa Valley," Todd White told me. "In 2009 I was named citizen of the year in St. Helena. Today I barely get my calls returned by anybody. My social calendar in the Napa Valley has run dry. It's OK, it's a price I'm willing to pay for helping people live a healthier life."
These are not just natural wines. The company has a very specific aesthetic: low alcohol (12.5% or less), clean wines (despite minimal sulfur) and no residual sugar.
The special feature is that it lab tests all of its wines, so they are what they claim to be. I'm a rather well-known skeptic, but I believe in Dry Farm Wines.
I have no desire to argue about this story with people who like high-alcohol wines. These wines are not for you; you don't have to drink them. I also know the term "natural wine" puts some people into a frenzy. But I tasted nine of these wines and all were fine: the lab-testing program seems to assure it. They are similar to each other, especially the reds: they are lean, fresh and juicy, without oak flavors. I enjoyed all of them.
"These wines aren't for everybody," White says. "They're not big enough, they're not bold enough. They're for people like me."
As for them being healthier than most (not all) commercial wines, I think that's a fair statement. I'll let White elaborate.
Todd White
"I have a tenuous relationship with alcohol," White told me. "I spent most of my adult life drinking too much. I think most regular wine drinkers think they drink too much. Most of them believe they should drink less. But they don't want to. That's my customer. My customers are people who want to drink healthier. This is really about brain health."
White said he discovered the kind of wines he now sells completely by accident, and not before tasting a bunch of truly terrible natural wines.
"I was drinking 15% alcohol wines in Napa," White says. "I don't want to poopoo on Napa. The same thing is happening in Bordeaux. I quit drinking for a while, in 2014, in a period I recall as suffering through sobriety. Didn't enjoy that. I thought it was just the alcohol. I didn't know about the additives or anything like this. I started mixing tea and wine, in the winter. I'd put an ounce or so of wine in the teacup, and have a cup of tea with it. You know what? I felt a lot better. I'm not drinking as much alcohol, and I feel a lot better."
A friend recommended that he try some low-alcohol wines produced in Europe, so he went to a wine shop and bought a case.
"Most of them were undrinkable and I poured them down the sink," White said.
White, left, at Domaine Arsace in France
"They just tasted bad," White said. "I happened upon a podcast with a guy named Josh Adler, who owns a company called the Paris Wine Company. He was formerly the wine buyer for Bi Rite Market (in San Francisco.) He was talking about these natural wines. Bi Rite is an amazing store. So much integrity. I go over there and I buy another case and it's an entirely different experience. I'm in a different world. They're ethereal and they're wonderful."
White sought out Adler in Paris and asked for help in finding wines he liked.
"Because I'm a biohacker, I started testing these wines that I like and started establishing quantified criteria to the wines I like," White said. "Most of my friends are health fanatics. I started sharing these wines with them and they said, 'These are amazing. I can drink a whole bottle and feel great the next day.' My friends were like, 'Where do you get these wines?' Well, you can't."
White established criteria for the wines he wanted. They are:
* 12.5% alcohol or less
* No residual sugar (less than 1 g/l)
* Organic or biodynamic farming
* Dry farmed
* Hand harvested
* Natural yeast
* Less than 75 ppm of sulfur ("Most of our wines don't have any sulfur added, and most are under 20 ppm," White says.)
* No flaws like microbial problems
* None of the 76 additives approved by the FDA for use in winemaking
"Four of these additives are known to be toxic," White says. "Dimethyl dicarbonate (Velcorin) is so toxic it needs to be applied by special contractors who come in in Hazmat suits. It's used to treat the single most common bacterial fault in wine, which is brettanomyces. It's used to treats tens of millions of gallons of California wine. This is not only a US problem; it's a global problem. There are 56 additives approved by the EU. Just drinking European wine won't get you free from these toxins."
At first, White had difficulty sourcing enough wines. He hasn't yet been able to include a California wine.
"Less than 1% of California vines are unirrigated. That knocks most of them out," White says. "No. 2, they're too high in alcohol. We have a strict requirement of 12 1/2% and we test for it. We believe drinking lower alcohol is healthier. It tastes better. It's friendlier with food. And you feel better."
From Dry Farm Wines' Instagram feed. One of these vignerons doesn't seem completely sold on 12.5% alcohol.
But White's French isn't great and he had a hard time explaining it to the French vignerons who now supply the majority of his wines (he also has wines from Austria and South Africa).
"Our position on alcohol in the natural wine movement can be controversial," White says. "In the beginning, you ask, do you have any wines that are 12 1/2 or below? They want to argue with you. 'My wines are balanced! Why do you care about alcohol?' They don't understand about the health aspect. Now they know and they still don't understand but they know we buy a lot of wine."
White is also against new oak.
"We believe new oak is also a health concern, with methanol from the wood," White says. "They taste different. They make me feel different. I get an immediate headache from the wines." One of his biggest goals is to sell wines that don't give headaches.
Dry Farm Wines has grown so rapidly that it now buys most of its wines directly from farmers who make the wine to his specifications.
I asked if he ever gets wines that taste unripe, as if they were picked too early.
"No, the kind of wines we like, the austere style, it's all picked too early by California standards. That's a winemaking style," White says. "Also, irrigation leads to higher sugar. When a berry is full of water it has to reach higher sugar levels to develop full flavor. I don't know what an 'underripe' fruit tastes like. It just means a fruit that's lower in sugar. It's going to be higher in acid. It's going to have higher minerality because the root structure is participating in the wine. An irrigated vine is getting all of its water from within a foot of the surface. An unirrigated vine has to get its water from much deeper."
White enjoys going on buying trips. His vignerons live all over France -- Jura, Beaujolais, Loire, Alsace and some in the south.
"These aren't rich people. They're small family farms," White says. "You can't make very large volumes with native yeast fermentation. You don't see this in the US as you see in Europe -- where the grandfather and the grandmother and everybody lives on the farm. The whole family is involved in the enterprise. There's no tasting room. When you go see a natural farmer, they're almost always interested in talking about only one thing. And that's the soil. They want to go out to the vineyard and talk about farming, and about living soils. And talk about living in synergy with nature. When you see it, it's spiritual. The wines are still living because they haven't been sterilized.
"Wine is the only commercially available alcohol beverage where the grower touches the spirit of the beverage from earth to bottle," White says. "It's not true for beer, it's not true for spirits. Only in wine does the farmer has his unique fingerprint on the wine. This is really important for natural wines, that they haven't been mummified. They haven't been sterilized by sulfur dioxide."
Testing each wine is important because making wine without sulfur is risky.
"We don't buy the wines that are faulted," White says. "You can make precise, clean, elegant, beautiful wines without sulfur. It is done all the time. Not by everybody, and not with every wine. Some natural winemakers will have three wines that are precise and three that are fucked up. Every wine's different. We have a super-talented team of obsessed wine geeks who taste these wines. I don't sit in on these tastings much anymore. We reject 70% of the wines that we taste, either from an aesthetic point of view or they fail the lab."
As I said, I tasted nine of these wines: half a month's typical box, followed by a month's typical box. They were all of a type, especially the reds: light, pretty, juicy. The best I gave 92 points; the weakest, I gave 88 and called it a "simple and easy dinner wine." I'd give individual tasting notes but there isn't much point, as you can't choose the wines you order. But to give you some idea of what you might get, here's what I got:
Charles Frey "Harmonie" Alsace Pinot Noir 12.43% alcohol
Domaine de la Couvette Beaujolais NV 12.5%
Domaine Saint-Lys La Galoche Beaujolais 2018 12.5%
Frédéric Lorney Côtes du Jura Trousseau 2017 12.5%
Les Hexagonales Vin de Pays de Val de Loire Pinot Noir 2015 12.5%
Les Terres d'Ocre "inédi T" Vin de France Pinot Noir 2015 12.5%
Loimer "Lois" Niederösterreich Grüner Veltliner 2017 11.5%
Jacky Preys "Cuvée Princière" Touraine Côt-Malbec 2016 12%
(and one other Beaujolais for which I misplaced my tasting notes, but it was like the others)
What you get each month is a box: six wines for $159, shipping included. You can choose all red wines, all white, or a mix.
"We sell all our wine at the same price," White says. "We don't believe you have to pay more than about $25 for a bottle of high-quality, artisan wine. We've removed everybody between the drinker and the farmer."
As you can tell, I'm a big fan of Dry Farm Wines, and I am far from an ideologue. I drink conventional wine almost all the time. But I really enjoyed being able to drink these wines with dinner and if I ever retire from wine writing, I might sign up for a monthly six-pack.
If they sound like the kind of wines that you would like, I recommend that you give it a try.
Here's the Dry Farm Wines web page.
Follow me on Twitter: @wblakegray and Instagram @wblakegray and like The Gray Report on Facebook.
To be clear, I received nine free wines to sample from Dry Farm Wines, but nothing else.
Winethropology said...
What a terrific idea. Earlier this week I visited a few local wine shops in search of <13% ABV red wines with some acidity and low tannins to bring to Thanksgiving dinner. Wouldn't you know that of the hundreds of bottles on the shelves at these stores, just 4 wines fit that criteria. Can't wait to sign up with Dry Farm!
Jack Everitt said...
"You will know immediately if you are the kind of person who would like Dry Farm Wines." I am, immediately, except I'm a wine geek and already seek these out 12.5%< natural wines that aren't messed up.
If I was in the wine business, this is exactly what I'd like to be doing, although focused on the next cost tier up.
I tip my hat to Todd White. (And the Loimer would be the first wine I'd taste, above.)
Bob Rossi said...
An interesting idea. I do have a problem with the alcohol part, though. While I prefer wines that are lower in alcohol, some areas don't lend themselves to that kind of wine. I'm thinking especially about the southern Rhone in France, but there are other areas. I'm not really sure that decent red wines can be made in the southern Rhone that are w/in 12.5% ABV. And although I'm not a huge fan of oak, I'm not sure about leaving out all oaked wines. But all in all, this operation intrigues me.
If alcohol isn't good for you, then these wines aren't, either -- they're just less bad. As for any of the toxic substances, it doesn't look like Dry Farm Wines tests for those. Synthetic pesticides and herbicides are present in organic and biodynamic wines even if they're not used on the vines. I'm all for this kind of winemaking, but let's not ascribe more to it than the science will bear.
Pam Strayer said...
What are they tested FOR?
The company confirmed that they do not test for pesticide residues. Some of the wines are described as "natural" farming as opposed to organic farming or certification. Natural farming can mean "sustainable"-i.e. with chemicals.
Healthier, lab-tested, lower in alcohol: the appea...


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Walmart U.S. Q2 comp sales1 grew 5.2%; 14.5% two-year stack; Comp transactions strong at 6.1%
Q2 FY22 GAAP EPS of $1.52; Adjusted EPS2,5 of $1.78
Company raises outlook for second consecutive quarter
Expecting FY22 Walmart U.S. comp sales of 5% to 6% and Global eCommerce sales of $75 billion
Total revenue was $141.0 billion, up 2.4%, negatively affected by approximately $8.9 billion related to divestitures. Excluding currency2, total revenue would have increased 0.6% to $138.6 billion.
Walmart U.S. Q2 comp sales1 grew 5.2%. Walmart U.S. grew market share in grocery. Comp transactions were strong at 6.1%, led by stores. Walmart U.S. operating income increased 20.4%. Adjusted operating income2 increased 12.0%.
Walmart U.S. eCommerce sales grew 6% and 103% on a two-year stack.
Sam's Club comp sales1 increased 7.7%, and eCommerce sales grew 27%. Membership income increased 12.2% with member count reaching an all-time high.
Walmart International net sales were $23.0 billion, a decrease of $4.1 billion, or 15.2%, negatively affected by $8.9 billion related to divestitures. Changes in currency exchange rates positively affected net sales by approximately $2.4 billion.
Consolidated operating income was $7.4 billion, an increase of 21.4%, with strength across the company. Consolidated operating income as a percentage of net sales increased 83 basis points; adjusted4 increased 50 basis points.
Adjusted EPS2 of $1.78 excludes the effects, net of tax, of net losses on equity investments of $0.26.
1 Comp sales for the 13-week period ended July 30, 2021, compared to 13-week period ended July 31, 2020, and excludes fuel. See Supplemental Financial Information for additional information.
3 Adjusted consolidated operating expenses as a percentage of net sales excludes a 34 basis point impact for adjustments to fiscal 2021 operating expenses reflected in the non-GAAP reconciliation of adjusted operating income at the end of this release.
4 Adjusted consolidated operating income as a percentage of net sales excludes a 33 basis point impact for adjustments to fiscal 2021 operating income reflected in the non-GAAP reconciliation of adjusted operating income at the end of this release.
5 Adjusted EPS excludes the effects, net of tax, of net losses on equity investments of $0.26.


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Cortez é uma cidade localizada no estado americano do Colorado, no Condado de Montezuma.

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de 14,3 km², dos quais 14,2 km² cobertos por terra e 0,1 km² cobertos por água. Cortez localiza-se a aproximadamente 1887 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 56 km ao redor de Cortez.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 7977 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 8448, um aumento de 471 (5.9%).

Lista de marcos
A relação a seguir lista as entradas do Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos em Cortez.

 Cannonball Ruins
 Cortez High School
 Ertel Funeral Home
 Hovenweep National Monument
 Indian Camp Ranch Archeological District
 Mitchell Springs Archeological Site
 Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company Flume No. 6
 Montezuma Valley National Bank and Store Building
 Mud Springs Pueblo
 Parque Nacional de Mesa Verde
 Roy's Ruin
 Sand Canyon Archaeological District
 Wallace Ruin
 Yucca House National Monument

Ligações externas

Cidades do Colorado
Condado de Montezuma


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