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Martin Silberberg and Patricia Amateis Connect Online Access 1-Semester for Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/1260477363.jpeg 9 2021 June 19, 2020 9781260477368
Connect Online Access 1-Semester for Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change, 9th Edition
By Martin Silberberg, Patricia Amateis
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Martin Silberberg
Martin S. Silberberg received his B.S. in chemistry from the City University of New York in 1966 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma, in 1971. He then accepted a research position at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he studied the chemical nature of neurotransmission and Parkinson's disease. In 1977, Dr. Silberberg joined the faculty of Simon's Rock College of Bard (Massachusetts), a liberal arts college known for its excellence in teaching small classes of highly motivated students. As Head of the Natural Sciences Major and Director of Premedical Studies, he taught courses in general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and nonmajors chemistry. The close student contact afforded him insights into how students learn chemistry, where they have difficulties, and what strategies can help them succeed. In 1983, Dr. Silberberg decided to apply these insights in a broader context and established a text writing and editing company. Before writing his own text, he worked on chemistry, biochemistry, and physics texts for several major college publishers. He resides with his wife and child in Massachusetts. For relaxation, he cooks, sings, and walks in the woods.
Patricia Amateis
Patricia Amateis graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry Education from Concord University in West Virginia and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Virginia Tech. She has been on the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Virginia Tech for 28 years, teaching General Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry. For the past 13 years, she has served as Director of General Chemistry, responsible for the oversight of both the lecture and lab portions of the large General Chemistry program. She has taught thousands of students during her career and has been awarded the University Sporn Award for Introductory Teaching, the Alumni Teaching Award, and the William E. Wine Award for a history of university teaching excellence. She and her husband live in Blacksburg, Virginia and are the parents of three adult children. In her free time, she enjoys biking, hiking, competing in the occasional sprint triathlon, and playing the double second in Panjammers, Blacksburg's steel drum band.


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ŠKODA takes another step forward in design with the ENYAQ iV
ŠKODA will be presenting its first all-electric SUV in Prague on 1 September 2020.
Mladá Boleslav, 12 August 2020 – The model marks the beginning of a new era for the Czech car manufacturer, which is why the brand is also taking another step forward in design with the ENYAQ iV. Emotive lines and balanced, dynamic proportions are combined in the first ŠKODA based on the Volkswagen Group's modular electrification toolkit (MEB), which offers a generous interior and a sustainable yet fun driving experience. Karl Neuhold, head of exterior design at ŠKODA, explains the unique design features of the ENYAQ iV in a video interview.
The ENYAQ iV is the first ŠKODA based on the modular electrification toolkit. How has ŠKODA's design language evolved with this vehicle?
Karl Neuhold: With the ENYAQ iV, we are again building on the emotive ŠKODA design language that characterises the SCALA, the KAMIQ and the new, fourth-generation OCTAVIA. The ENYAQ iV also features sculptural lines, clear surfaces and crystalline elements that draw inspiration from Bohemian crystal art. Its proportions, however, differ from those of our previous SUV models: the ENYAQ iV has a shorter front end and an elongated roofline. This creates a very dynamic look and transforms it into a proverbial 'space shuttle'.
How would you summarise the design of the first ŠKODA developed as a purely electric vehicle?
Neuhold: The design of the ENYAQ iV is progressive, balanced and confident. The new proportions give it a special dynamic and a spacious interior, as well. Its large wheels and ground clearance give it the powerful presence of an SUV.
What do you consider to be the highlight of the ENYAQ iV's design?
Neuhold: Definitely the front. We consciously emphasise the distinctive ŠKODA grille on our electric vehicles, as this is an instantly recognisable feature of the brand. On the ENYAQ iV, it is set further forward and is more upright, which enhances the powerful look. The full-LED matrix headlights and daytime running lights are particularly eye-catching, too.
What are the most significant differences in exterior design between an MEB-based electric vehicle and a model with a combustion engine?
Neuhold: The differences include the height of the vehicle and the front and rear overhangs. To save space, the batteries of the MEB are installed in the vehicle floor, which makes the body a little higher. However, the longer wheelbase makes up for this visually. The individual components of the electric drive take up less space than a conventional internal combustion engine, allowing for shorter overhangs at the front and rear. The ENYAQ iV's body is also more elongated and extremely aerodynamic, which has a positive effect on the range. A cw value from 0.27 is impressive for an SUV of this size.
In your view, what makes the ENYAQ iV a real ŠKODA?
Neuhold: The ENYAQ iV embodies all ŠKODA's virtues and strengths in one vehicle and is an important step towards a sustainable future for the company. It combines spaciousness, versatility and clever ideas and incorporates surprising, smart features. It is suitable for families, people with active lifestyles and long-distance driving, making it the perfect companion for every day.
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Sepeedeh Niknam // emergency medicine scribe and community tutor // class of 2013
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A well-balanced life is a thing of beauty, and Sepeedeh Niknam (B.S. Genetics, Cell Biology and Development) is committed to fully embracing a life that combines both practical problem-solving and higher purpose.
Since graduation, she's been working as an emergency medicine scribe at the Emergency Physicians Professional Association, noting that the position is a pivotal stepping-stone toward a dream of practicing medicine. "On the weekends, I tutor East African Indian children, allowing me to further integrate within my community and learn of inherent differences in socio-cultural beliefs," she says.
"My short-term career goals are to successfully complete my medical education while engaging in clinical research and volunteer opportunities," she says. "In particular, I'd like to conduct public health research on potential barriers to culturally competent healthcare. I hope that someday I can help to bridge the cultural gap between Muslim women and western medicine."
Niknam mentions the Dean's Scholars program as one of her most important influences. "I learned the significance of reflection, and how it allows you to link your performance to your potential," she says. She also mentions the Mayo Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, during which she was mentored by Dr. Andrew Limper from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Pulmonary Division. "I conducted real-time laboratory research and actively expanded my background in medical sciences," she says. "The use of these concepts and my involvement in research honed my creative problem-solving skills. I revel in any problem solving that satisfies the fundamental needs of others."


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Blue Origin Thread (merged)
By Aethon,
September 10, 2014 in Science & Spaceflight
The Yellow Dart
About me: Sr. Spacecraft Engineer
Just made a post on Imgur, similar to the video I posted earlier, but with gifs and more descriptions. It is probably a bit too pro-SpaceX for a lot of people here, but I mainly made it for people who don't know much about the subject. Anyways, you can check it out here if you are interested (and feel free to upvote) and absolutely correct me on any errors you find too: http://imgur.com/gallery/m9CYe
Motokid600
About me: Capsule Communicator
36 minutes ago, The Yellow Dart said:
I enjoyed that. I'm astounded that was only three years ago. Can you even imagine what another three will bring? Who am I kidding, of course you can!
Mad Rocket Scientist
About me: ⋅・•●⚫●•・⋅
On 4/11/2016 at 1:26 PM, tater said:
In the press conference I posted, Musk says that the first landing (RTLS) is going outside HQ, they just got permission from the FAA because it's taller than anything else around the airport there (hence having to ask). He said the one that just landed will probably fly in May.
Woo! I think I'll be able to go and see it!
38 minutes ago, Motokid600 said:
I enjoyed that. I'm astounded that was only three years ago.
I know, while I was writing it, I kept checking the dates to make sure, because it seemed like it was longer ago. I would write "Such n such blah blah 2015" --wait. That can't be right. Oh yup, 2015! Weird!
Edited April 12, 2016 by The Yellow Dart
Mazon Del
One thing I read today is that they are looking into methods of recovering the fairings as apparently those actually cost upwards of a couple million on their own, which is kind of impressive to me. I'd always thought of them as just relatively precise latices of aluminum and basically sheet metal.
The fairings are aluminum and carbon fiber. They cost an estimated 2 to 6 million each (for the whole fairing, not just per half). definitely worth looking into reuse and shouldn't be too difficult. After all they reach terminal velocity pretty quick due to their large surface area to mass ratio. Most of the damage is from hitting the water.
Also, from what I've read the fairings are also a bottleneck in production. They're so large that they only have limited equipment to produce them, so reuse would speed things along.
Edited April 13, 2016 by sojourner
strollen
13 hours ago, The Yellow Dart said:
I made a compilation of every SpaceX rocket landing and landing attempt that was recorded on video, from Grasshopper to last Friday. It ended up being kinda long but oh well. Maybe I'll make another one with just Falcon 9 landings.
Hey thanks for doing this. I'm sharing it on Facebook. It is not the most exciting video, but it is probably the best illustration of Thomas Edison's quote "Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.", I've seen.
Although, my attempts to land on the Mun are fairly close :-).
About me: Rocket Surgeon
sevenperforce
About me: Physics God
So I don't know how many of you have been watching the live feed of the Falcon 9 stage 1 recovery at Port Canaveral, but I have been following it pretty closely. It seems like a really long process, probably because this is the first time pulling it off the barge and they are taking their time to carefully document everything as they go.
When they brought it in, the stage was clamped down to a series of concrete blocks at the base, with the landing legs held in place by welded shoes. They brought in a crane, attached it to the interstage, removed the shoes and base clamps, and brought the entire booster off the ship and onto the dock. They buffed the weld spots off of the ship pretty quickly.
Once the booster was attached to the crane, the legs no longer bore any of the weight. The crane lowered it onto four platforms and 8 workers manually pushed the base into alignment so that launch clamps could be fixed to it. The legs have remained deployed. They kept the crane fixed to the top, presumably to avoid sway.
There was a lot of inspection of the legs and the general outer body. They attached an electrical line at one point, and they have a large hose running up one side to the top of the booster. I do not know what it is for; they might be draining some additional or residual fluids, or they may plan to use that line to repressurise the landing legs. They brought a truck carrying white gas tanks up to the base a little earlier today.
Last I saw, they were catching guy wires to the top of the booster. I am not sure why. I doubt they will detach the crane attachment, simply because I think they will need it to lower the booster to a horizontal position.
I am guessing that we will see the landing legs retracted pretty soon.
Edited April 13, 2016 by sevenperforce
10 hours ago, strollen said:
Thanks, well actually after making it, I found another compilation that was made the same day (the date says 1 day before but I published mine just after midnight) as mine that had the same idea but was much shorter and to the point and had music, and is just all around better (I don't know anything about video editing), though it cut out most of the test flights, so probably share that one if you want people you know to actually watch it.
And if you didn't catch the SpaceX Imgur post I posted earlier, it made to the front page last night! It is at 62,000 views and 3,800 points! http://imgur.com/gallery/m9CYe
Here is the other vid:
AngelLestat
About me: Energy Consultant
@The Yellow Dart Congrats, you did a really good work with your imgur compilation.
I was wondering, not sure what kind of material is used for the barge surface floor, but if it use metal, then it can be possible to add a magnetic surface in the tip of the leg, this will prevent to tumble early on and it would not need to be secure later.
The magnetic force can be weak at 2 cm distance, but incredibly strong on contact.
linuxgurugamer
About me: Waiting to be rescued!
Just now, AngelLestat said:
This wouldn't work. The amount of force needed would be astronomical because, among other things, the amount of surface contact the rocket has with the barge surface is relatively small. And you can't control magnetism that way.
2 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:
While I don't think it will be necessary in most cases, one of the magnets in the video below placed in the foot of every landing leg I think could would add several hundred pounds of downforce on the rocket, and being at the tips of the legs would give it leverage over tipping that would multiply that downforce, should a wave or high wind try to topple it. The deck is steel, but I would worry more about how to lift the rocket off the barge without damaging the legs still attached to the deck. And we haven't seen any trouble yet with tipping due to wave. All the tipping so far has been due to damage/malfunctions. So I don't think it would be necessary.
13 minutes ago, AngelLestat said:
Thanks! Working to fix some errors on it right now.
If I recall, the surface is not metal, that would be too slippery. And once you start putting space between the magnet and the metal underneath the surface, the magnet becomes much less effective.
13 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:
It is metal, because the shoes that is placed over the legs are "welded down". You can't weld without metal, and you could definitely solve the space issue, that would just be an engineering problem. It wouldn't be too difficult, have the magnet mounted so that it pushes back when contact is made, and lets the actual leg hold the weight of the rocket. But friday's landing was in high winds and fairly high waves and it succeeded and made it back to port, so I don't think it is even necessary.
They can be welded down in many ways, ie: digging through the surface material to get to the metal for welding. I don't know, would like to know what they have done
Ten Key
2 hours ago, tater said:
That rocket is roughly the same height as the Statue of Liberty. That's mind blowing.
2 minutes ago, Ten Key said:
It is. Pictures just don't do it justice.
This is not a telephone pole, folks.
About me: Cosmic Disentangler
1 minute ago, sevenperforce said:
Yes, because, like, telephone poles are much better at landing on barges out in the Atlantic, .
The rocket is emptied of most of its contents, the engines are the most dense part of the craft, it has landing stuts to move the tipover point further away from the center. Its a little bit better than a telephone pole at staying upright.
using magnets would only be valid if the landing struts have iron in them, otherwise you would have to add magnet. I like the maget idea, the problem is that you would have to have a programmable array of electromagnets embedded in the barges deck, which might weaken the deck to the forces of landing. Electromagnets might fail in a storm.
6 minutes ago, PB666 said:
Talking about size, not aerodynamics or COM.
If I didn't know better, I would think the landing video was a telephone-pole-sized rocket landing on a basketball-court-sized barge...not a 737-sized rocket landing on a football-field-sized carrier.
I've asked people how large the booster looks and they say "a couple stories high" and I tell them it is twice as long as a semi-truck, landing on a football field, and their jaws drop.
HebaruSan
2 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:
Yeah, here's a MARMAC 304 from the manufacturer's web site, same kind of ship as Of Course I Still Love You, with a worker for scale. These things are big hunks of steel.
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/spacex/
I hope we get this video soon... And where is the full onboard ride? SpaceX please... Oh and the coolest thing about this imo is in pictures after landing you can see the barge visibly leaning. And I swear it looks like the landing suspension is totally compensating for the angle.
Edited April 13, 2016 by Motokid600
About the magnetic leg, I did some calculation using this site:
https://www.kjmagnetics.com/calculator.asp
10cm diameter with 3 cm thick neodymium magnet = 400kg pull on contact, only 50kg at 1cm
Of course the leg tip are bigger than that, so it would be easy to achieve 1T of force in each leg adding only 5kg by leg.
But there is a big drawback, they lose their magnetic strength at higher temperatures of 150 C, this mean that reentry heat would be a problem.
About barge surface being magnetic and leg iron, it would be too expensive.
I imagine this to solve bounces or horizontal slip as we see in the video, but it may be worst if does not allow the slip (if the other two legs are steel in the air), because it can turn over.
So yeah, it does not seem to be worth it.
But well, I still think they need to remplace the barge with something else.
Barges are big, go sit along the intercoastal at freeport you'll see quite a few monoliths pass. I've seen double wides @ double and triple longs. Some barges have tugboat at the back and a robotic pilot at the front, so having a four engine football field size barge with four pilot boat engines on it is not rocket science unique. When i saw OCISLU it looked like just a low drafting barge with some accessories on the ends. .
Magnets aren't necessary. Maybe a barge that's 25% larger, but even that might not be needed. Because above all the Falcon 9 suspension seems to have a self-leveling system. You can see it in those photos above. I would only be worried in some seriously sketchy weather.


Researcher Comments on the Lack of Studies Comparing Synthetic Thyroid and Armour.
I noticed this very interesting post from Sarah who is a non-medical researcher. She has discovered what other contributors to metabolism.com have, that a serious lack of research exists comparing Armour thyroid to synthetic thryoid hormone in treatment of hypothyroidism. How is it then that the community of endocrinologists who pride themselves on their scientific approach to the practice of medicine, or who claim they follow "evidence based" medical decision making, are so uniformly opposed to the use of Armour thyroid or similar dessicated thryoid products?
Sarah, I believe the vast majority of contributors to metabolism.com including myself, are as astonished and troubled as you are by this apparent lack of insight by the policy makers in the field of endocrinology, in regards to this issue.
It was very interesting to read these posts. I have never posted to a site such as this but I wanted to contribute my perspectives on this topic. I am a researcher by trade (in a very different line of research). I have been reading general "google" information for years on the controversy between synthroid and Armour. I have had trouble with mild symptoms at 88 mcg (synthroid) but 100 mcg brought my TSH to .4. My doctor was not comfortable with a TSH that low. For a number of years I have requested to try Armour and been denied. My main argument for trying Armour has been that if there are not risks with Armour (beyond the typical risks seen with any thyroid meds) why should I not try it. He has responded that the literature does not support Armour or the use of T3. I sat down for a few hours yesterday and looked at primary research articles and was very surprised. First of all there is a serious lack of research with autoimmune related thyroid disease. Second the few clinical trials that looked at Armour vs synthroid products were very poorly designed. Very small sample sizes with high variability in sample populations. The samples involve wide age ranges, multiple ethnicities represented and both genders. These variables would be important to consider but statistically inappropriate with small sample sizes. Of a greater concern was that in many of the studies most of the patients were being treated for hypothyroidism post surgical removal of the thyroid and then had only two patients with autoimmune related hypothyroidism mixed into the sample. They even noted that with the two patients with autoimmune hypothyroidism there were trends toward more positive outcomes related to the Armour. You will not find statistical significant with these kinds of research design (if being responsive is specific for the autoimmune variety) even if differences exist. If anyone could please provide the references for well designed research studies (either pro or con for Armour) I would really appreciate it.


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The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote. So it seems fitting to commemorate that milestone by voting to elevate women to a place that is today reserved exclusively for the men who shaped American history. That place is on our paper money. And that new portrait can become a symbol of greater changes to come.
Let's make the names of female "disrupters" -- the ones who led the way and dared to think differently -- as well-known as their male counterparts. In the process, maybe it will get a little easier to see the way to full political, social and economic equality for women. And hopefully it won't take another century to realize the motto inscribed on our money: E pluribus unum, or "Out of many, one."
But Isn't Susan B. Anthony already on our money?
The answer is…..kind of.
The nation's most famous suffragist, Susan B. Anthony, became the first woman to have her portrait on American coinage, not counting Lady Liberty, when President Jimmy Carter signed the law ordering a change in size, weight and design of the large Eisenhower one-dollar coin in 1978. But fewer than 800 million were minted before the public got sick of mistaking them for quarters. Congress then replaced the beleaguered silver SBA with a gold-colored dollar depicting another legendary woman, Shoshone Indian guide Sacagawea, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition. That coin appeared January 27, 2000. But when the change was ordered, Congress had decreed that the SBA dollars remain in circulation. Still, neither coin saw popular use, other than in vending machines and transit fare boxes. By 2012, the Mint produced a mere 3 million Sacagaweas. So, here's a better question: when did YOU last use a lady dollar? How about a $20? There is one other woman on a coin today: Helen Keller on the reverse side of the Alabama quarter. The only other women coins are commemorative issues.
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1. While Andrew Jackson may be celebrated for his military prowess, for founding the Democratic party and for his simpatico with the common man, he wasn't all that. Before he became the seventh president of the United States, he was the architect of the "Indian Removal Act of 1830" that drove Native American tribes of the Southeastern United States off their resource-rich land and into Oklahoma to make room for white European settlers. Commonly known as the Trail of Tears, the mass relocation of Indians resulted in the deaths of thousands from exposure, disease and starvation during the westward migration. Not okay. Jackson's mission to "remove" Native Americans from their land coupled with his activities as a profiteering slave trader and cruel slave owner reveal his character as incompatible with the core American values and principles of freedom and equality. He does not deserve the honor of being on our currency and continuation of sanitized history.
2. Some argue that because Jackson was a fierce opponent of the central banking system and favored gold and silver coin or "hard money" over paper currency, he is an ironic choice for immortalization on our money. He defied Congress refusing to reissue the charter of the Second National Bank in 1832, and removed all Federal Funds from it, redistributing to pet state banks. Congress censured Jackson for abuse of power and the Panic of 1837 was due in part to Jackson's shutting down the Federal Bank.
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RAEFORD, N.C. — A Hoke County man is charged with killing his ex-girlfriend and a man at her home.
Shawn McKoy, 33, of Raeford, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Lorene Torrens and Travis Blue, said Sheriff Hubert Peterkin.
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Stagg objects to excessive housing in Kildare town of Clane
Bord Pleanala has duty of care to town says election candidate
Henry Bauress
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Emmet Stagg
An Bord Pleanala had a duty of care to the existing residents of Clane town and they must prevent urban Sprawl by rejecting the excessive nature of a new proposal to build 305 more dwellings at Abbeylands, according to an objector.
Labour general election candidate, Emmet Stagg, has lodged an objection with An Bord Pleanala in relation to a Strategic Housing Application at Abbeylands, Clane.
The application is for 305 dwellings on a site earmarked for 161 dwellings under the Clane Local Area Plan 2017-2023.
In his objection, Mr. Stagg said that the target for additional housing units in Clane under the Clane Local Area Plan 2017-2023 and Kildare County Development Plan 2017-2023, up to 2023 was 780 additional units. "This target was arrived at after serious consideration by council planners and county councillors of the need for growth in Clane which is identified as a small town in the Regional Planning Guidelines and the Kildare County Settlement Hierarchy.
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Mr. Stagg said a previous decision by An Bord Pleanala last September at Capdoo, Clane, granted planning permission for 366 dwellings. "Taken with the present proposal for 305 units, and applying the same densities to the three other Key Development Areas identified in Clane under the Local Area Plan, we could see 1,600 additional houses in Clane by 2023. This compares to a requirement of 780 units."
Mr. Stagg said: "This will lead to urban sprawl, increased traffic congestion, more pressure on health and educational facilities, further deficiencies in public transport and the lack of recreational facilities in the town."
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The Labour general election candidate said: "An Bord Pleanala has a duty of care to the existing residents of Clane to halt these excessive developments. The future direction of Clane rests in An Bord Pleanala's hands."
Mr. Stagg is also "strongly" objecting to the use of Brooklands estate and Alexandra Walk as vehicular access points to the proposed new development. "Using existing mature estates to access the proposed site will cause a traffic hazard, particularly for children."
He said that the vehicular link through Alexandra Walk is convoluted, indirect and of insufficient width to accommodate the additional traffic that would be generated. "The route though Brooklands estate goes past four open spaces widely used by children to play. There is no need for these vehicular access points through existing estates."
He is arguing that direct access to the Dublin road through lands zoned strategic reserve should be the access point to the site.


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Maddiston Memories
David Leask remembers growing up in Maddiston and the local history group he established.
After leaving school I was apprenticed as a blacksmith in Grangemouth Dockyard.
David Leask
I was born in Viewfield Cottage, Maddiston, at my grandmother Mary McNiven's home, the youngest of three brothers. I went to Maddiston Primary School and then Redding Junior Secondary School (establish in 1928). This became Redding Secondary School and then closed in 1964, when pupils were transferred to Woodlands High School or, as I was, Graeme High School for six months (Falkirk Archives). I was a member of the 1st Muiravonside Boys Brigade and the Life Boys before that. We all attended the Sunday School at Maddiston Corp Salvation Army in the old hall that's long gone.
After leaving school I was apprenticed as a blacksmith in Grangemouth Dockyard. I got married to a girl from Bo'ness (actually half way between Bo'ness and Linlithgow) in December 1969, we moved to Westquarter in 1970, and we have two boys who have in turn grown up, left home and got married too.
Folk Music is still very important to me as a singer of the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland (with a little English and American thrown in for luck.) I sing and play guitar/bodhran at various sessions, but the trouble is there's not as many as there used to be.
My wife Rona and I are both now retired and Rona is the secretary of our local history group even though she's never lived in Maddiston (or Muiravonside for that matter). Rona was born and brought up in Swordie Mains half way between Linlithgow and Bo'ness and sees herself as a Bonessian, even although we've now lived in Westquarter longer than anywhere else.
We still live in Westquarter, I have always been a keen local historian and have had a book published on the history of Westquarter (now out of print I think), Westquarter: The story of an estate: from family estate to 'Model Village' (1986) as well as A Historic Tour of the Parish of Muiravonside (2017). I set up a group in Maddiston to look into the history of the village (and the village of Rumford) but the group came to an end after around 8 years or so. We gleaned a lot of information from the local people and some great friendships were formed (and one marriage). A new group has now been set up looking into the history of the whole parish of Muiravonside with particular interest in the villages of Maddiston and Rumford. You can join the group or learn more about David Leask's Maddiston website in the references below.
By David Leask of David Leask's Maddiston Pages. With further research conducted by Rowan Berry for Falkirk Community Trust Great Place Scheme.
Nearby: Maddiston
Muiravonside School
Carron Company Timeline
Leask, David. David Leask's Maddiston Pages. (2005)
Thank you to David Leask for permitting us to reproduce stories from his website. This website offers a wealth of historical information on the Maddiston area and includes contributions, including further memories, from the Maddiston and Rumford Local History Group.
For more on Maddiston see:
Leask, David. A Historic Tour of the Parish of Muiravonside (Maddiston: Maddiston & Rumford Local History Group, 2017).
Falkirk Archives. 'Local Authority Records: Education Records Finding Aid.' Archon Code GB558. (2018)
Maddiston and Rumford Local History Group
The Newsroom. 'New book throws light on parish in the past.' Falkirk Herald. (9 March 2018)
Westquarter: The story of an estate: from family estate to 'Model Village.' (Falkirk District Council, Department of Libraries and Museums, 1986).


INDIANAPOLIS — Ohio Dominican's softball team is currently the hottest team in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference and one of the hottest squads in NCAA Division II, and sophomore Taylor Farmer (Mt. Blanchard, Ohio) was rewarded with G-MAC player of the week honors after her stellar play in the midst of the Panthers' 16-game win streak.
Farmer went .480 this past week in eight wins for ODU, which is now 14-0 in the month of April and has swept its last eight opponents in doubleheaders by a combined margin of 119-21. Last week alone, Farmer hit three home runs, tallied 12 hits, six RBIs, one triple, one double and boasted a slugging percentage of .960.
With a three-run home run in the Panthers' 5-4 win over Trevecca on Saturday, Farmer played a major role in extending the streak to 16 games for the Panthers. With inclement weather on the door step of Panther Field and ODU trailing Trevecca 4-2 in the bottom of the fifth of game two, Farmer delivered a three-run shot to center field that cleared the fence and gave ODU a 5-4 lead. It proved to be the game-winning play, extending the program-record win streak to 16 games for Ohio Dominican.
In three of her last five outings, Farmer has logged multi-hit games and is currently third in the G-MAC in RBIs with 33 on the season. She also ranks in a tie for first in the conference in home runs with seven on the year.
Ohio Dominican will be back in action on Thursday at Ohio Valley, with first pitch of the doubleheader set for 3 p.m.


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Priceline—the big US Web company that's figured out China
Published Thu, Aug 13 2015 11:24 AM EDT Updated Fri, Aug 14 2015 11:27 AM EDT
Ari Levy@levynews
China has been unkind to the U.S. Internet giants Google, Facebook and Amazon.com.
But as a growing China spurs demand for foreign travel, a smaller player—Priceline Group—is trying to change the narrative.
Darren Huston, president and CEO of Priceline.com
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Rather than going head to head with homegrown Chinese sites, Priceline has invested more than $1 billion (via convertible debt and equity) in local travel site Ctrip, spent advertising money with search services like Baidu and Qunar to capture consumer clicks, and opened 11 offices in the country.
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That's helped brighten Priceline's outlook, pushing its stock up 13 percent in the past month and within about 6 percent of its all-time high from early 2014. (The stock has slid this week, including a 1.2 percent on Tuesday, after China surprisingly devalued its currency, raising concerns about future growth.)
"Travel is such a huge business in China right now," said Glenn Fogel, head of worldwide strategy at Norwalk, Connecticut-based Priceline. "As countries develop and as people reach the middle class, one of the first things they want to do is travel, and we're helping to make that possible. "
China is still a small piece of Priceline's overall business. The company doesn't break out its China revenue, but RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney estimates that the world's second-largest economy will account for $1.6 billion to $2.6 billion in bookings in 2017, while analysts project the company's total bookings for that year to total $77.3 billion, according to FactSet.
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Priceline's approach marks a clear contrast to that of Google, which exited the Chinese market in 2010 over a protracted censorship battle with Beijing. Google's mobile Android operating system has gained wide adoption in China, but without most of Google's core services.
Facebook, meanwhile, is effectively blocked in China, and consumers have plenty of local options for social networking like QQ, Weibo and WeChat. And Amazon has the unenviable task of competing with Alibaba, which controls the Chinese online retail market.
None of that makes cracking China any less important, however.
Read MoreHow this Chinese company is infuriating investors
Ernst & Young predicted in 2013 that more than 500 million Chinese could enter the global middle class within a decade. Research firm Phocuswright estimates gross booking from Chinese online travel will reach $139.9 billion in 2016.
Just as Priceline is doubling down in China, its top rival Expedia is scaling back. In May, Expedia sold its majority stake in Chinese online travel site eLong to Ctrip and other companies, netting more than $670 million. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on Expedia's second-quarter earnings call that it will continue to invest in China, but more through partnerships.
"It is a market that in general has been difficult to reach for Western companies," Khosrowshahi said. "We won't be competing as much as we had in the past for the local Chinese customer, but we are very much involved in both the Chinese outbound business and inbound business going into China as well."
Priceline Group CEO remains bullish online travel
For Priceline, the fourth-biggest U.S. Internet company by stock market value, China is a critical piece to its global growth strategy. The company has spent the past decade building the world's largest network for accommodations, thanks mostly to its 2005 acquisition of Booking.com, located in Amsterdam, followed by the purchase two years later of Bangkok-based Agoda.com.
Priceline wants its family of sites to be the go-to location for global accommodations. In the latest quarter, Priceline's international business accounted for 88 percent of total bookings, and excluding the impact of currency, they grew 30 percent, compared with 0.7 percent growth in the U.S.
"Priceline has been closely studying China for over a decade and is incredibly smart in how they think about and execute in the market," said Brad Gerstner, a long-time Priceline shareholder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a multibillion dollar hedge fund focused on technology.
Read MoreBooking.com bets on last minute travelers
Darren Huston, who took over the CEO role at Priceline last year, said at a Goldman Sachs conference in June that he's spending a lot of time in China and called it a "high priority of mine to have a place in the Chinese market."
Unique to China, he said, is that the current growth driver is outbound travel, meaning the most important piece is capturing revenue as people go abroad. Both Booking.com and Agoda.com are supplying inventory to Ctrip, expanding the likelihood that consumers will land on a Priceline property when searching for a hotel.
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Priceline increased its stake in Ctrip in May, buying $250 million in convertible debt on top of a $500 million investment last year. Additionally, Priceline has spent $421.9 million on Ctrip stock, and if it converts all debt to equity, could own up to 15 percent of Ctrip.
By partnering with Ctrip, Priceline gets a glimpse into how the online travel industry works there and how best to handle customer support. Huston said Priceline now has "400 Chinese multilingual people sitting in Shanghai helping Chinese people travel the world, and we just couldn't have done that before."
Priceline said the company has 315 full-time customer service representatives in Shanghai with openings for 200 more.
In addition to its stake in Ctrip, Priceline captures Chinese consumers searching for travel on Baidu and metasearch site Qunar as well as smaller travel sites Mafengwo and Qyer. Globally, Priceline is an online advertising machine, spending $2.36 billion in 2014, or 31 percent of gross profit, largely on search.
But Priceline has plenty of work to do to ensure that its investments in China pan out.
Doug Young, a financial journalism professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, wrote a post for Forbes in May expressing skepticism.
"This latest deal looks mildly positive for both Ctrip and Priceline," he wrote. "Though I expect the latter may ultimately be disappointed if and when the investment fails to bring much in terms of new revenue."
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Priceline doesn't need its China investments to pay huge dividends in the short term, as the company has vast global diversity. Latin America has been a growth market despite economic troubles in Argentina and Brazil, and the company has jumped into vacation rentals, taking on Airbnb and HomeAway.
But the numbers don't lie. If Priceline wants to be the dominant brand in global travel a decade from now, there's no market that matters more than China.
"It's the fastest growing and, if not the largest today, will very shortly be the largest" for travel, said Fogel. "We are well aware of the importance of it."
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A hapless young man, heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, idealistically hops a freight train to meet his destiny. The scarecrow. Follows the unhealthy competition between roommates vying for the attentions of a young lady. The paleface. Buster helps a Native American tribe defend their land from greedy developers.
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Mark Angel Comedy has taking over the airwaves with their hilarious comedy skits which always go viral. Naij.com spoke with Uncle Mark as little Emmanuella always refer to Mark Angel. He spoke on how he discovered Little Emmanuella, how the comedy is affecting little her education and how he abandoned a promising career in medical line for comedy. Excerpts….
How did you come about your style of comedy?
I hardly can categorize our kind of comedy. All I can say is that we found the need to create African comic materials that families can relate with and enjoy.
How will you describe your kind of comedy?
Without fear of sounding naive, I really can't describe our kind of comedy. We just do what would make our friends laugh. It is nothing different from other comedies out there.
Which of your comedy skits brought you to limelight?
I think it was the Landlord skit.
How did you discover Emmanuella?
Emmanuella is one of the kids in our acting school. We discovered her from the foundation.
Why the choice of the environment you use in your comedy skits unlike in Lagos where they go to wealthy areas to shoot their comedy skits?
The thing is; comedy is comedy, as long as you can relate with it and it makes you laugh, it is comedy. In our case, we come from a low live area and we relate very well with the things that happen there that's why we create our comedies around those areas. It's our environment.
How old is Emmanuella? Emanuella is 5.
What are her parents and friends reaction to her new found fame?
Her parents are proud of her and love what she is doing.
It is. Now she works extra to be ahead of her mates and her academic calendar. Let me use this opportunity to thank her Principal Mrs Femi E. Peace and her team for all the hard work they are doing for this little girl.
I personally don't have any professional education in comedy. I just love laughing and making my friends laugh too. Talking about academics, I dropped out of medical school some years ago in order to give time to my dream. But as soon as I set course, I will go back to school.
Who is your role model in the industry and who motivated you?
Basketmouth and Kevin Hart are my biggest role models.
What do you have for your fans as truly speaking you have taken over comedy skits?
I want to say thank you for always being there for us, thank you for sharing our videos, thank you for giving us attention. And to all who are working hard to get heard, just keep working and believing, and praying and trusting God… it works. Meanwhile, I really don't think we have taken over comedy skits. Not yet, we are too far from taking over. There are too many people in Hollywood doing better until we can compare our material with theirs, we are still starting.


In January this year, the VAT on internet services was reduced from 27 percent to 18 percent.
Prime ministerial commissioner for the Digital Welfare Programme Tamás Deutsch said at a conference that reducing the price of internet services to a record low level is likely to result in tens of thousands or possibly a hundred thousand new subscribers for service providers.
As a result of the VAT cuts and the introduction of a basic package, the price of internet services will have dropped by 35 percent in January, he added.
The National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) earlier told MTI that special attention will be paid to ensure that the new regulations affecting internet services are observed by providers.


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 Bore and stroke were also altered but the traditional features of the Ilmor Indy engines, the rear mounted gear train and mass damper gears, were retained.
 Mercedes signed on for the 1994 season and the engine became known as the Mercedes 265D.


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Nassau, Bahamas – November 14, 2013 – The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), celebrating its 10th anniversary and taking place December 5-13, today revealed the complete lineup of films screening in the festival's competition and sidebar sections. The program was announced by BIFF Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool.
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Come celebrate with Vermont's own Jibba "The Gent" for his Birthday at the legendary Rusty Nail Stage featuring Slaine and Termanology Slaine and Term will be performing an hour set of their newest joint project Anti-Hero!
Upcoming Shows at Tupelo Music Hall: Richard Thompson, Carbon Leaf, Darlene Love, Sister Hazel
Early December Concert Schedule:
Dec. 2 Carbon Leaf (Celtic/bluegrass/Americana)
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Coming to the Mole Hill Theatre on Saturday: Baba Ray and The Youngest Sun
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Republicans Mulling Plan to Hide the Quatloos
Republicans are in a bind. They want to pass a tax bill, but (a) they don't want to pay for it and (b) they want it to be permanent. Sadly, a combination of PAYGO and reconciliation rules¹ prevent this. What to do? One option is to design a bill that would get some Democratic support, and then pass a deficit-busting bill with 60 votes in the Senate. However, Republicans have no interest in working with Democrats, especially since Democrats would insist on a bill that doesn't benefit the rich. That's a nonstarter.
So they're back to square one. Bloomberg reports on their latest brainstorm for sidestepping the rules:
Under the proposal, the GOP would not account for things like expiring tax breaks when gauging the budgetary impact of tax legislation — giving tax writers more room for cuts. Senate budget and tax panels are discussing the move to a "current policy" baseline — instead of the standard "current law" baseline — said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. The chief House tax writer, Kevin Brady, also signaled openness to the approach last month, saying it would lead to deeper tax cuts.
If you're even close to normal, you're thinking, "WTF does that mean?" That's what I'm thinking anyway. But a couple of charts will help us work our way through this. Let's suppose we have a tax break of five quatloos that expires halfway through the next decade. Starting in 2023, instead of saving five quatloos, you have to pay five quatloos. It looks like this:
If Republicans decide to extend the tax break, it will increase the deficit by 50 quatloos (5 years x 10 quatloos) compared to current law. This is, quite sensibly, how CBO scores things.
But wait! Suppose Republicans declare that their intention has always been to extend the tax break. In other words, current "policy" is that the tax break goes on forever. Then it looks like this:
The cost of extending the tax break is zero! Republicans are basically saying that since they planned to do this all along, it shouldn't count against the baseline.
But here's what I don't get. This is obviously a fantasy, and it's one that CBO will never go along with. In the real world, extending a tax break that's scheduled to expire does indeed increase the deficit. So to do this, Republicans would have to overrule the CBO's score of their bill.
But if they're this determined to do what they want to do, why not cut the crap and simply instruct the Budget Committee to declare that their bill has no effect on the deficit? It doesn't really matter how. Just assume enormous economic growth or something. The Budget Committee has final say over the score, so they can ignore CBO if they want. What's the point of all this absurd rigamarole?
More here from CBPP if you're interested.
¹Or, as Donald Trump put it last night, "It's a trick."


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Tiger 10 Bundled With WiiMotion Plus
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There has been an interesting series of developments over the last month or so when it comes to the launch of Wii MotionPlus. At first it appeared that the Wiimote add-on was essentially delayed and would miss the releases of the first two games to utilize it, those being Tiger Woods 10 and Grand Slam Tennis. Then the official announcement was made that the M+ would be available on its own on June 8th and then the expected bundle with Wii Sports Resort would wait until July 26th. Today though comes news that Wii MotionPlus will actually be bundled with Tiger Woods 10 for a limited time upon release of the game on June 16th.
This exclusive and limited-time offer is exciting news for sports fans who want to enhance their Wii experience for a great value with the new Wii MotionPlus right at launch with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10. The functionality of the Wii MotionPlus will help us deliver the authentic, true-to-life sports motion for Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis that will redefine the sports experience on the Wii.
Tiger 10 on its own will be $49.99 and the MotionPlus bundle will sell at $59.99. This cuts the cost of the add-on in half as bought seperately MotionPlus will be $20. EA must be ecstatic they were able to pull this off given the frantic rate that any Nintendo peripheral for the Wii sells at. While the add-on will be out for purchase seperately consumers may wait until they can get it alongside a game that utilizes it and that first opportunity will be picking it up along with Tiger 10.


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Here's how I upgraded the SSD in my Surface Laptop 3
March 6, 2021 February 3, 2020 by Arif Bacchus
How to upgrade the SSD in the Surface Laptop 3
Although it is recommended that users only upgrade or service a Surface Laptop 3 or Surface Pro X at Microsoft or authorized retailers, you can technically still upgrade the SSD in these devices on your own. If you have technical experience fixing computers, the process will be easy. Here's how to upgrade the SSD on the Surface Laptop 3
Buy an M.2 2230 SSD, priced around $100 for 512GB
Gather the necessary tools: A T5 Torx screwdriver, an opening pick, and tweezers.
Visit Microsoft's support website and download a recovery image for your Surface device, and create a recovery drive for it.
Power off and place the Surface Laptop 3 on the table with the screen down, and with the lid closed and remove each of the four rubber feet on the bottom.
Unscrew each of the four screws under the feet.
Flip the Surface Laptop 3 back over like normal, and pry off the keyboard deck, starting from the edge closest to the vent.
Look for the SSD in the top left corner, and unscrew the screw, put the new one in place and put back the screw.
Put everything back together, with extra care to make sure the rubber feet are back in place.
Re-install Windows 10 with your recovery drive.
Verify all drivers are present, and that the SSD is being read by Windows.
When Microsoft took the wraps off the Surface Laptop 3 in October of 2019, Panos Panay showed how easy it was to service or "upgrade" the device. The keyboard deck lifts up, and the SSD could be replaced. This sort of thing was unheard of in a Surface before, as iFixit famously called the Surface Laptop a "glued together monstrosity."
Now, although it is recommended that users only upgrade or service a Surface Laptop 3 or Surface Pro X at Microsoft or authorized retailers, I decided I would take a risk and try to upgrade the SSD on my Surface Laptop 3 on my own. I felt especially confident in my computer repair skills, especially after how Panos showed how easy an upgrade could be. I also desperately needed more space, as the 128GB SSD on my Surface Laptop 3 15-inch filled up quicker than I liked.
So, here's a look at how I got it done, and why you might want to do it too if you're the risky type. But, be warned, this isn't meant to be an official repair guide, it's just a personal look at how I upgraded the SSD on my own. If you decide to follow my guide, you'll be doing it at your own risk, and we can't be held liable for any damages to your device.
It's also worth noting that I'm sporting the 15-inch Surface Laptop 3, with the metal keyboard deck, so the steps might be different if you're using the Alcantara version. Microsoft has an in-depth repair guide for the Surface Laptop 3, which you can read here if you're looking for more official instructions.
Before upgrading the SSD in my Surface Laptop 3, I made sure I met a few prerequisites. There are a few tools I needed to have handy: A T5 Torx Screwdriver, an opening pick, and tweezers. These were all in my iFixit toolkit, which I purchased for $35 many years ago.
Asides from the tools, I also needed to have an 8GB USB drive handy so I could create a Surface Recovery drive to reinstall Windows. I also used a separate backup HDD to create an image of my Surface as I last left it, and to back up my files. Of course, I needed to have a new SSD too, which I purchased from eBay for $93. Here's a look at where you can get one too.
CDW $93.99 WD PC SN520 NVMe SSD – solid state drive – 512 GB
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Keep in mind, if you're buying a new SSD for your Surface Laptop 3, you'll need to buy a M.2 2230 SSD. This specific size is a new format designed for thin and light notebooks. Standard M.2 SSDs won't fit, so please be aware.
Step 1: Backups and Recovery Drive
Before digging into my Surface Laptop 3, I did a backup. The first step in this process is visiting Microsoft's Surface Support website and downloading a recovery image for the Surface Laptop 3. I needed to input my serial number for the download. Once it finished, I searched for Recovery Drive in Windows and launched the Create a Recovery Drive program. I made sure to uncheck the box to backup system files, and then let the wizard create the drive. This wizard creates a recovery USB which will let you boot your Surface to clean install Windows on the new SSD. Specific directions on this are available from Microsoft here.
When done, I unzipped the freshly downloaded Surface Recovery image and copied all its contents over to the just created recovery USB. When that was done, I also created a system image just to be safe. This can be done by searching for System Image in the search box, clicking Backup Settings and choosing Backup and Restore Windows 7, and selecting Create a system image. This system image is an exact copy of the SSD as last left. While I was at it, I also copied my files and folders manually to a separate partition on the drive with the system image, just to be safe.
Step 2: Remove the rubber feet on the Surface Laptop 3
With backups done, the next step was to dig into the Surface Laptop 3. To do this, I powered off and placed the Surface Laptop 3 on the table with the screen down, and with the lid closed. I used a tweezer to pull out each of the four rubber feet. In my time, I accidentally scratched up and "mangled" the feet in the process., but I was still able to reuse them later on. However, if you read Microsoft's documentation, you'll see specific directions on how to position your pick tool or tweezer to avoid damaging the feet.
It's worth noting that these rubber feet have clips on them. As I pulled them out, I was careful not to damage the clips. These help secure the feet in the chassis. The rubber feet on the top side of the Surface Laptop 3 closest to the vent also have double-sided tape attached to them, so I was careful to keep the tape in place so it can be pushed back in.
Step 3: Unscrew the four screws under the feet and pry off the keyboard deck.
Once I finished removing the feet, the next step was the easiest. All I had to do was unscrew each of the four screws under the feet. I put the screws to the side in the same order and format as I removed them, just to be safe.
When the screws were out, I opened back up the Surface Laptop 3 as I normally would, and pried off the keyboard deck. I pulled the keyboard deck up from the side closest to the screen, just to be safe, and then ran my fingers along the side until the magnets released it. There was a ribbon cable in the middle, so I was careful not to cut it. Microsoft actually recommends you unplug that ribbon that attaches the keyboard to the motherboard once you've taken the keyboard deck off, but I skipped this step in my process. You might want to disconnect it just to be safe.
Step 4: Remove the SSD
Keyboard deck removed, the next step for me was to unscrew the SSD. It's housed in the top left corner, and a single T5 Torx Screw holds it in place. Once the screw was removed, I slid it out and put the new one in its place, and put the screw back in place.
It's worth noting that the factory Microsoft SSD has a heat shield and caddy attached to the bottom of it. Since I wanted to keep my Surface Laptop 3 in the original condition, I didn't remove this heat shield and did not put it in the replacement SSD.
You might want to remove this shield you want and put it on your new SSD. However, I wanted to keep the original Microsoft SSD in its factory condition just in case there are future issues with my Surface. This way, if I wanted to go in for a warranty or support issue, I'd just repeat this process and pop the original SSD inside.
Step 5: Put everything back together
With the new SSD in, it was time to put everything back together. This was just as easy as taking things apart. The keyboard deck snapped right back into its place in the chassis thanks to the magnets. Once it was secure, I flipped the Surface Laptop 3 back on its lid and put the four screws back in. I then pushed the four rubber feet back in place. This was tricky, as I needed to make sure that the feet were secure. A little "click" noise confirms that the feet are back in their original place and secure, but it takes some patience to fit them in just right.
Step 6: Re-install Windows 10
The final step in upgrading the SSD in my Surface Laptop 3 was to re-install Windows 10. To do this, I plugged the recovery USB created in step 1 into the Surface Laptop 3. I held down the power button and volume down button for 15 seconds and then released to let the Surface Boot from the USB. I followed the on-screen instructions and installed Windows 10 the new SSD. The Surface rebooted a few times, but, once done, I ended up verifying all the drivers were good with Device Manager. Everything worked like a charm, and my new 512GB SSD was being read by Windows! Awesome!
Why the upgrade is worth it
Although I damaged the rubber feet in my Surface Laptop 3 while upgrading the SSD, I think it was well worth it. I now have more storage space and the write speeds on the drive are much better. The default Hynix drive included by Microsoft only gets to write speeds of around 300 MBs. This new 512GB SanDisk drive that up that all the way to an insane level of 1,400 MBs. That difference is substantial. I'm quite glad to see that Microsoft made it easy for such upgrades, and I hope future Surface devices are just the same.
Categories Feature Stories, How-To, Videos Tags SSD, Surface, Surface Laptop 3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider and 4 more games are leaving Xbox Game Pass this month
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Q: JDBC - one query to return separate groups of results I have a table that looks like this: Col: A (string), B (int), C(string)
I want to be able to get rows where A matches either regex foo or regex bar. Currently, I perform two queries:
SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE A LIKE foo and SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE A LIKE bar
I am confident that there will be no duplicates between these result sets.
I would like to be able to get an equivalent result by running a single query, so that I don't have to scan the table once for each acceptable value, for example:
SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE A LIKE foo OR A LIKE bar
My problem is that such a query produces a result set with all the values jumbled together - I would then need to loop through using my own string comparison to separate the two. Furthermore, strings that match A LIKE foo can be very different, so I can't just group on A.
Is there a way to perform a single traversal of the table (for efficiency's sake), but still get JDBC / SQL to do the work of separating the results into one group for A LIKE foo and another group for A LIKE bar?

A: If you are confident that there would be no duplicates, run a UNION ALL with a discriminator:
SELECT 'foo' as which_regex, *
FROM myTable
WHERE A LIKE foo
UNION ALL
SELECT 'bar' as which_regex, *
FROM myTable
WHERE A LIKE bar

JDBC will run this as a single query, even though it has two parts. There will be an extra "discriminator" column called which_regex added to the result, which would contain string 'foo' or string 'bar'. You can use this column to decide in what "bucket" to put each row of the result.

A: You could add an additional boolean column to the resultset and even sort by that.
SELECT A LIKE foo AS group_foo, * FROM myTable WHERE A LIKE foo OR A LIKE bar ORDER BY 1;

The first column of the resultset then tells which group it belongs to (true for foo, false for bar) and it's easy to separate them when processing the resultset.

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Re: Review Request 12949: SQOOP-1149: Support custom postgres types (e.g. inet for IP addresses) - which includes postgres enums.
Subject Re: Review Request 12949: SQOOP-1149: Support custom postgres types (e.g. inet for IP addresses) - which includes postgres enums.
a single call - and the call "routing" logic only appears in one place (ConnManager).
I've added two cases to PostgresqlExportTest and tested them against a 9.3 database.


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Q: nuxtjs route map in order I have an issues with nuxtjs route naming.
Ex: my pages folder is
page:
  -|blog:
     -|_categorySlug.vue
     -|_postSlug.html.vue
  -|service:
     -|index.vue

When i access url like
example.com/blog/demo-post-slug.html -> route map to /blog/_categorySlug.vue
example.com/blog/demo-category-slug -> route map to /blog/_categorySlug.vue
Because _categorySlug.vue place in the first order inside dir blog.
When i change the file name _postSlug.html.vue to _aPostSlug.html.vue to make it become the first order.

page:
  -|blog:
    -|_aPostSlug.html.vue
    -|_categorySlug.vue
  -|service:
    -|index.vue

It's all right but the file naming isn't good. Anyone can give me an suggestion for this?
Thanks!


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Werner Haase (ur. 2 sierpnia 1900 w Köthen (Anhalt), zm. 30 listopada 1950 w Moskwie) – SS-Obersturmbannführer, w latach 1935–1945 chirurg pomocniczy w sztabie Hitlera.

Życiorys
Po maturze w latach 1918/19 brał udział w I wojnie światowej jako piechur. W latach 1919/24 studiował medycynę. W 1924 roku uzyskał doktorat z chirurgii. W kolejnych latach praktykował jako lekarz okrętowy.

W 1933 roku wstąpił do NSDAP i SA. Od 1934 roku był asystentem w Uniwersyteckiej Klinice Chirurgicznej w Berlinie. W tym samym roku został członkiem SS. Od 1935 roku był lekarzem osobistym w sztabie Hitlera. W 1936 roku uzyskał habilitację, a rok później docenturę na uniwersytecie w Berlinie. W 1940 roku otrzymał tytuł profesora nauk medycznych.

Od 1943 roku pracował jako lekarz naczelny szpitala Charité w Berlinie. W ostatnich tygodniach wojny był także lekarzem naczelnym w bunkrze szpitalnym (Voßbunker) pod Nową Kancelarią Rzeszy.

29 kwietnia 1945 przybył do bunkra Hitlera pod Kancelarią Rzeszy, gdzie sprawdzając skuteczność trucizny otruł psa Hitlera, Blondi. Bunkier opuścił po śmierci Ewy i Adolfa Hitlerów. 3 maja poddał Kancelarię Rzeszy Armii Czerwonej, a następnie został aresztowany przez Smiersz. 6 maja brał udział w identyfikacji zwłok Josepha Goebbelsa, znalezionych w ogrodach kancelarii przez Rosjan.

Został wywieziony do ZSRR. Zmarł nie odzyskawszy wolności w szpitalu więzienia na Butyrkach.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Christa Schroeder, Byłam Sekretarką Adolfa Hitlera, wyd. Bellona 2000, .
 Teczka Hitlera. Materiały wieloletniego śledztwa utajnionego przez Stalina (Дело Но-1-Г-23), pod red. Henrik Eberle & Matthias Uhl, wyd. Świat Książki 2005, .
 Śmierć Hitlera. Materiały Smierszu zebrane bezpośrednio po zdobyciu Berlina w poszukiwaniu Hitlera, pod. red. W.K. Winogradow, J.F. Pogonyj i N.W. Tiepcow, wyd. Amber 2006.
 Uwe Bahnsen, James O'Donnel, Katakumba. Ostatnie dni w Bunkrze Hitlera, wyd. Adamski i Bieliński 2003, .

Członkowie SS
Niemieccy chirurdzy
Urodzeni w 1900
Więźniowie Butyrek
Zmarli w 1950
Członkowie SA
Ludzie urodzeni w Köthen (Anhalt)

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Soccer tournaments in Georgia are extremely competitive, and the state has produced some excellent home grown youth soccer talent. Georgia soccer has given us three current or recent US National team players, Clint Mathis, Ricardo Clark and Josh Wolff.
Mathis is from Conyers Georgia and played his youth soccer for the Rockdale Youth Soccer Association and AFC Lightning, a Georgia powerhouse where Clark also played his youth soccer. Josh Wolff grew up in Stone Mountain, GA and played his youth soccer for the Stone Mountain Soccer Club.
Because of its mild climate and abundant sunshine, Georgia's outdoor season kicks off early. One of the first big events is the Atlanta Concorde Fire Challenge, in the last week of February. The Jekyll Island Soccer Complex is home of the Golden Isle Soccer Club and several events each year, and the suburbs that surround Atlanta host many more.
Georgia has a lot to offer the visiting soccer family besides it great tournaments, though. Atlanta is the biggest city in the Southeast and is well known for having great restaurants and entertainment. Savannah is a beautiful historic city where you can admire great ocean views along with excellent seafood and entertainment.
The Georgia Tourism site will give you lots of ideas for things to do. Meanwhile, here is our list of soccer tournaments in Georgia.


Sweden | ESCKAZ.com live from Lisbon!
The reproduction of the melfest backing track worked much better today. Good progress.
So we are all set up in the hall now and we can finally see the rehearsals live.
The stage for Sweden looks empty at the start, But we can see Robin from the side and actually come on stage with his dancers. Even right from the back it looks really nice. Sounds great. The visuals of a road and then later city are also nice. It sounds very well from here, if there would be any glitches in the vocals we surely don't notice it in the hall. Now we hear there are in-ear problems for Sweden, once they're solved, we'll get the last runthrough.
Some words about the hall itself in the meantime: the hall looks really quite small, anyone who would have tickets in the back and/or up high should not worry about their view (excluded maybe those with really cheap tickets as they might be restricted view). There are no screens next to the stage as usually, as the led-screen stretches all over the width of the stage, but there are 4 screens - 2 on each side - above the audience stalls.
In the meantime Sweden has finished, good rehearsal, will probably do well.
Frans is looking forward to the public to arrive. The arena feels a bit empty at the moment. He is happy to have his family around. They support him and help to bring him down if he feels stressed. The composers didn't send the song to Melodifestivalen themselves. "We still don't know who did it", they say laughing. "It's a ghost in the machine".
Today Nordiska Kompaniet trade center in Stockholm has made an exhibition in a windows of its store. It was dedicated to Swedish Eurovision winners and some of them have actually attended the event. NK has offered some charity items (basically photo prints and also giant silver boots) connected to ESC winners selling. All receved money will be sent to different funds like Unicef and Children Cancer fund.


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Press and Radio
Offsite Music Links
JK Nick Nichols
About JK Nick Nichols
JK Nick Nichols, a professional Musician, Songwriter, and Entertainer has been performing professionally for over 25 years. He has opened for such legendary acts with his band Southern Crescent as T.G Sheppard, Gene Watson, and O.B. McClinton, Dixiana, and The Masters 5. Nick began writing while attending Clemson University, and has numerous songs pitched to such artists as George Strait, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Micky Guyton, Brett Eldredge, Jason Aldean, Alan Jackson, Trace Adkins, George Strait, Wynona Judd, Travis Tritt, Ronnie Milsap, Tricia Yearwood, Jamie O'Neal, Lee Greenwood, and Clay Walker. He resides in the greater Nashville area where he is currently writing regularly with hit song writer Gerald Smith (What Part of No Don't You Understand-Lori Morgan and Every Second, Every Minute, Every Hour of Every Day-Collin Rae) and other great writers such as twice Grammy nominated songwriter Jan Buckingham (Queen of Denial and Blue Roses, both #1 hits for Pam Tillis) and Bob Pennington, both former Warner brothers staff writers. He and his co-writing partner Amy Chenoweth Rhodes had a song included on the 2017 Nashville artist Rowdy McCarran's first project, Eyes Wide Open, entitled "Too Far Gone". The title track, "Eyes Wide Open" was also written by Nick with two additional songs included on the CD as well. In the past 2 years Nick as a songwriter has licensed some 40 songs to various artists and licensing agencies both domestic and overseas such as American Indie Artist Brandy Williams and Irish award winning artist Sean McAloon. His 2017 single, "Greatest Girl" was released to over 100 Radio Stations in Canada and the US by his former label, Star 1 Records. The single was received very well downloaded and put into rotation by some 50 stations in all.
In 2015 former Nashville Sony Epic recording Star Tammy Cochran released "Think Pink", an inspirational song of hope and encouragement for victims and families of those who have and suffer from Breast Cancer written by Nick and Bob Pennington. This song was partnered with the Greater Komen Nashville Foundation / Susan G. Komen and Tammy performed the song on Oct 24, 2015 at the annual Race for the Cure in Brentwood, TN and also at the Awards Expo that afternoon for an all-total estimated 50K+ people.
His style of writing and singing includes Country, Pop Country, Pop, Positive and Contemporary Christian, some R & B along with Jazz, as well as Christmas songs. Nick performed regularly with his band Southern Crescent in various festivals, weddings, outdoor and private events, county fairs, and concert halls from 1981 until 2017 when the band retired. He now performs at various private functions as well as regularly at the most popular Writers' Venues in Nashville such as The Bluebird Café, Douglas Corner, the Indigo Lounge, Bobby's Idle Hour, Belcourt Tap, and the Vanderbilt Commodore Lounge along with countless other coffee houses and packed arenas. He is an excellent keyboardist and rhythm guitarist and served as the lead singer and Keyboard player with his band for over 25 years. He considers his greatest influences to be his Dad, James H. Nichols, Dan Seals, Michael W. Smith, John Lennon, Glen Frey, Don Henley, and John Denver.
Nick signed his first recording deal in 2013 with Star One Records in Los Angeles, and his first single "High Cost Of Loving" continues to perform very well on the Indie Charts, going all the way to #1 on the Number 1 Music Chart, with the accompanying video receiving in excess of 4, 000, 000 views worldwide and remained in regular rotation on the CMT Television Network for over 6 years. His first Christian single, "Something Inside of Me", co-written with Christian artist and Minister Steve Garrett, went as high as #24 on the Christian Voice Chart in 2014. Nick has two additional videos as a CMT Artist; one entitled "Hero", a song written in memory of his Father along with "The Trail" co-written with the artist, SuSa.
The song Nick wrote in memory of Country Artist Joey Feek entitled "My Last Breath Here (Joey's Song)" has now received in excess of I.5M streams worldwide to date, making it officially a Platinum Release, and has remained one of the top trending videos on YouTube. Nick remains in the Top 15 for Nashville Reverb Nation, a position he has held for over 300 consecutive weeks and in 2017 released his first novel, "I Am Music, the Story" which is available on this website and worldwide on Amazon.com. His most recent songwriting achievement is four songs on the 2017 released "Mending Fences" by award winning Independent Country Artist Richard Lynch. The first single from the CD, "Cut and Paste" was nominated for" Traditional Country Song of the Year" and the album was also nominated for Traditional Country Album of the Year by the 2017 Josie Awards. 'Cut and Paste" and "Country Music Isn't Country Anymore" which is Richard's latest single from the album were both nominated for "Traditional Country Song of the Year" by the Western Artists / Will Rogers Association held in Fort Worth, TX in March of 2018. Both songs have reached #1 in multiple Independent Charts. The video of Richard's recording of "Cut and Paste" received over 140K views in three days of its initial release. Richard Lynch's second single from the album, "Back in Love Again", a duet written by Nick and Dr. Kenneth Grant which includes duet partner and Nashville Superstar, Bluegrass Queen, and 2018 Grammy Award winning Rhonda Vincent has also reached #1 in multiple Independent Charts. Nick has three of his four songs on Richard's award winning "Mending Fences" album that have achieved #1 status in multiple Independent Charts to include The Indie World Chart and the Roots True Country Top 50 Chart.
Nick continues to write Christian, Country, and Pop music in Nashville and has just released his first Children's Musical Project in 2020 and plans to publish his first children's video and book in early 2021. Nick's music can be heard worldwide on AM/FM and Independent radio stations.
Nick also DJ's weddings and private functions and performs at various charitable events along with House Concerts both solo and with fellow songwriters.
For Booking information contact him at nick@jknichols.com


For EPA, SC&A supported the upgrade to the RadNet monitoring system. We helped to integrate new monitoring station installations into the RadNet network, review and evaluate data transmitted by the RadNet air monitors, evaluate the status and performance of the operating RadNet air monitors, calibrate and periodically recalibrate monitors that are in service, and develop standard operating procedures for these activities.
For EPA, SC&A reviewed the EPA milk sampling program, researched other milk sampling programs, and prepared a summary report to help EPA improve the existing program.
For EPA, SC&A analyzes RadNet data for anomalies and ensures the data are accurate for use by decisionmakers and the public. We also integrate new monitoring installations and help calibrate monitors.
For EPA, SC&A provided technical support to develop documentation that outlined and defined data quality objectives for radiological laboratory operations for the EPA's Radiological Emergency Response Program during specific emergency scenarios.
For EPA, SC&A performed a literature review to identify existing minimum detectable concentrations for specific radionuclides associated with emergency incident scenarios and calculated others as needed to support development of emergency response plans and preparations for EPA fixed and mobile laboratories.
For a medical technology company, SC&A conducted a 10-day site investigation to determine the level of radiological contamination, both outdoors and inside production and other buildings, at the company's facility near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the 2011 accident.


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#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php

// {{{ includes
require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/lib/util/installer/SRA_Installer.php');
// }}}

// Check the command line parameters.
if (isset($_SERVER['argv'][1]) && in_array($_SERVER['argv'][1], array('--help', '-help', '-h', '-?'))) {
    echo "Usage: sra-quick-install.php [APP_ID]? [UNINSTALL] [SKIP_MODEL]";
    echo "\n  APP_ID:     id of an application to also quick install. this application will";
    echo "\n              be automatically added to sierra-config.xml and if it contains a ";
    echo "\n              script [app]/bin/quick-install.php, that script will also be run";
    echo "\n  UNINSTALL:  set this argument to 1 if APP_ID should be uninstalled instead";
    echo "\n  SKIP_MODEL: set this argument to 1 if the app entity model should not be initialized\n\n";
    exit;
}

SRA_Installer::quickInstall(isset($_SERVER['argv'][1]) ? $_SERVER['argv'][1] : NULL, isset($_SERVER['argv'][2]) && $_SERVER['argv'][2], isset($_SERVER['argv'][3]) && $_SERVER['argv'][3]);

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This is my first foray into trying to trap a specific error in powershell with try/catch and I am stuck. I can't seem to figure out what exactly I need to use to trap this error. I have a loop that is checking a collection of filers, this section of the code is looking for un-failed, un-owned disks. Four of our filers have hardware ownership rather than software ownership so this command fails when run against them. I want to trap for this specific error and just simply continue. The code below is as far as I have gotten, I can't even trap the error and get it to write to the console. What am I doing wrong?
Get-NaDiskOwner : SANOWN not enabled.
The Toolkit throws mostly non-terminating errors, so try/catch isn't going to help unless you set the error action to "Stop".
Ok, that explains why I couldn't get try/catch to work. I will most likely use this syntax and then check the variable $err for anything other than the SANOWN error. Thanks Clinton.


Moses Sumney's new 3-track EP "Black In Deep Red, 2014" is due out August 10 on Jagjaguwar.
Moses Sumney has also shared the closing track "Rank & File". Inspired by his attendance at a protest rally, he notably repeats the lyrics "Now I don't care what i've been told" in a call-and-response style. According to a tweet of his label, the artist was already playing this track back in 2016. Listen to it and pre-order the EP below.


The Jasper County COAD will enhance the community's ability to mitigate, prepare, respond and recover from disasters thus ensuring that human needs inherent in a disaster situation are evaluated and addressed.
As an organization composed of a network of organizations, Jasper County COAD is proud to include among its members: American Red Cross, Carthage Convention & Visitor's Bureau, Catholic Charities, City of Joplin, Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Crosslines of Joplin, Economic Security Corporation, FEMA, Salvation Army, Spring River Baptist Association, SEMA, University of Missouri Extension Center, area Chambers of Commerce, area Ministerial Alliances and many more.
Membership is open to any organization interested in any phase of emergency management: mitigation, preparation, response or recovery.
With the help of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and SEMA (State EMA), the Jasper County COAD was formed as a result of the 2003 Carl Junction tornado. Since then the COAD has effectively worked to manage volunteers and recovery after the Ice Storms in 2008, the High Wind Storms of May 2009 and the Joplin Tornado in May, 2011. Additionally, the COAD has coordinated educational campaigns to prepare individuals for self sheltering, mitigating tips for snow and ice storms and weather preparedness for businesses.


CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan — III Marine Expeditionary Force held the 2012 Women's Leadership Symposium at Camp Hansen June 28.
The purpose of the seminar was to bring female servicemembers on Okinawa together to discuss issues specific to their gender.
The symposium was geared toward female servicemembers but did not exclude males. This gave an opportunity for senior enlisted and officers to give guidance and advice on issues they faced and many they still face today, according to Lance Cpl. Carla C. Lowe, an attendee and a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III MEF.
The event was organized into four workshops addressing common issues found throughout the Marine Corps, said Master Sgt. Rafika O. Vann, the event organizer and equal opportunity advisor with III MEF.
Most of the topics discussed were not specific to women but are often only addressed from a man's prospective, according to Vann. Women's views were openly voiced and expressed during the symposium.
The attendees were mentored by 15 senior Marines and sailors who held the workshops, providing them with advice and wisdom they had gained during their time in the Marine Corps and Navy.