Maldives – Turknoy Travels 100!
August 4, 2016 by turknoys, posted in Maldives, Travel Adventures, Why Travel With Kids?
For a beach-lover family like us, Maldives is paradise! Fine, white beach, beautiful Indian Ocean! Two weeks of magical surreal days in this country did stir our hearts, inspired our imagination and brought eternal joy to the soul. Wyland articulated quite clearly what we got from the Indian Ocean!
We stayed in a private island for five nights at Gangehi Island and needed to take the seaplane to and from Male. The sea plane ride is the attraction! Such experience to look down at the Indian Ocean and see clearly the deep blue sea, dolphins diving out from oxygen, spurts of water we can only assume from whales! Riding on sea plane, landing straight on the deep, blue Indian Ocean, we can always feel that euphoria when the wind blew our hair and we step out of the sea plane! Such a dream-like experience, the kids were shouting out with glee!
Sea plane to Gangehi Island from Male! We really dont mind doing this again…and again… God-willing!
Snorkeling and swimming in the Indian Ocean, watching sunrise and sunset, enjoying our water villa, chasing wild terns and herons by the beach just in front of our private villa, running around in the white, pristine-like sand, the rain showers almost every hour all throughout the day, the sea breeze, the magnificent view. Such relaxing moments and memorable family bonding times, priceless!
Our beach villa for five days.. swoon!
Exploring the city of Male and the nearby beaches is also a paradise in itself- even better because most of the beaches are free! Public transportation are boat, not buses. Kinda like Venice with their water taxis, but hey, we've been to Venice and with the ocean adventure, we'll pick Maldives over the City of Venice anytime. Seriously. We did claim we are beach-lover bunch!
Huraa Island – best things in life are free! free public beach all day!
Himmafushi Island – free beach, all day fun!!
Vilinggili Island – another free beach, another day!!
Hulhumale Island – yet another free beach! We live every day!
Maale – The Capital City of Maldives!
Oh, how we love to come back again to the Indian Ocean! We intend to. When our youngest will be old enough to dive with us, we will dive the Indian Ocean together as family. Because we don't live only once. We live every day! When one milestones is ticked off the bucket list, another wish is added, milestones to look forward to. We believe, it is not by accident that people are surrounded by bodies of water. Ocean makes us feel the life more, empowers us to live, not once, but every day!
The feeling of excitement when we stepped out of the plane and enjoy the first breath of fresh air of the country! Lots of possibilities, places to see, lots of milestones to share with kids!
The feeling of accomplishment when we perform new activity together, no matter now trivial, the exhilaration of fresh ideas coming to mind, fresh feelings of tons of possibilities shared with kids!
It makes all of us come alive.
When we arrived at Gangehi, Maldives from the seaplane to the boat going to the island, we can still vividly hear the gasps of WOW from all the passengers, it's like we were almost in the paradise island! Well, the island is a paradise. Gangehi is one small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean isolated surrounded with nothing but water and white, fine sand. The parents were so busy admiring the islands that the kids almost fell off the ocean from the plane! (True story – but kids are good swimmers, no harm done!) Out of breath with the view, panting with excitement, every now and then pinching ourselves to make sure that it's real, all nerves yearning to catch up with the logic of what is happening. Euphoria – that's a nice busy feeling.
Setting foot on Gangehi Islands in Indian Ocean for the first time with kids!
Exactly the same feeling our family felt when we stepped out of the airplane from Stockholm to Kiruna, in the Artic part of the world. It was almost midnight, the snow everywhere, the freezing temperature, looking up at the bright sky hoping to see the Northern Lights. Again, the parents were so busy admiring the snow-covered airport runway that we didn't notice the kids sinking their feet to the depth of the snow. (Again, true story! They did however, find this funny and kept running mindlessly around like their parents, despite being undressed in a very cold weather!) The faces of the kids, giddy moments together, definitely a treasure to remember for the rest of our living moments.
The morning after arrival at Kiruna – awesome moments with family!
Again, exactly the same feeling we had when we experienced our first family cart-carabao ride around the village in Indang we call home in the Philippines. Kids and parents shouting with joy and excitement looking at familiar green environment and feeling euphoric seeing goats, chickens and banana shrubs! The adrenaline rush, the blissful moment of being occupied with activity so routine and trivial for some, yet so special and memorable for our family.
Carabao Ride in Indang! Home Sweet Home Adventures!
That exact same feeling, although a bit challenging to replicate in our day-to-day life as expat family in the desert, we always try our best to feel alive, to be exhausted with happiness and not boredom. We find bliss in sand dunes, so we always seek the thrill of admiring the desert with kids especially at high temperature and humidity! In the desert, we feel busy dreaming, busy feeling the euphoria of experiencing life surrounded by sand and dust yet with so much comfort magnified by love and blessings of the country we live in.
Every day we open our eyes are God's gift. Each day we don't do things that make us come alive is an injustice to this gift.
Every day is too precious not to be busy living. Such a waste to be busy dying!
Let's Be Busy Growing Everday. It takes full commitment to growth!
Have you ever seen someone full of eagerness to learn that they kept on trying and practicing to their heart's content and when they get to learn the ideas they wanted to comprehend, they shrieked carelessly out of pure delight?
What a remarkable statement that is for a home educating family. When traveling to new countries, that statement with different world scenes as backdrop, where they claim to learn something in an out-of-box method, is beyond an awe-inspiring statement.
Those moments are contagious. We can't help but feel ecstatic about whatever they are learning, whatever is important for them to learn. The songs they want to sing and how they sing it.
Insert the image of Archimedes running naked around town, shouting Eureka! Eureka!! He has found the answer!
We don't really get that passionate inside the four corners of our classrooms, do we?
Traveling and home educating shares the same purpose for our family. Song birds singing in their natural habitats. Finding their songs and unleashing the power of their music. The passion, the bliss of singing under the brilliant stars!
inside the world's first ever submarine !
The stars mean different things to different people. Shining stars, their brilliance is simply magnificent, twinkling the night away.
"Someday, I want to be a star!" becomes a popular dream for everyone. There are gazillion stars up there trying to outshine each other. It's a beautiful sky. But as e.e Cummings noted, there are no dancing!
During our school days, remember those times that we have to excel at examinations to show the administrators, our parents and classmates that we are shining brightly because we are top of the class or we got several awards and medals? Was it really that important?
We have been there. Top of the class, lots of medals. Not really that relevant in the real world.
We've also seen students who were bad at math and staying extra hours to study to ace a test over practicing violin or traveling on a summer vacation.
Shine bright, stars. That is what stars are supposed to do, isn't it?
Institutionalized. The lazy way to dream, copy the dream and goals defined by the institutions and live the happy, mediocre lifestyle.
There are lots of bright stars but only when the sky is dark. The system is dark.
Our family is part of the system, we can break free for that, but for this period, the system prevails. We can only hope that there will be revolution in the future to free our stars and let the dancing starts!
For now, we travel and learn as a lifestyle. There will be "dark" moments. We do what we can.
Everytime we have those Eureka, song bird moments from our kids, we are taught again and again, (and again..and so on!).. that anything worth learning can't be taught. Stars can't make their own bright lights.
The birds, the birds create their own happy songs.
Happy singing birds over brilliant stars. Why not?
turknoys preferred classroom! Awesome white sand beach at Maldives.. did we mention this is a free public beach???


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Costa de' Nobili est une commune italienne de la province de Pavie dans la région Lombardie en Italie.

Administration

Hameaux

Communes limitrophes
Corteolona, Pieve Porto Morone, San Zenone al Po, Santa Cristina e Bissone, Spessa, Torre de' Negri, Zerbo

Personnalités

 Enzo Boschetti (1929-1993), prêtre fondateur d'une communauté de réinsertion pour la jeunesse en difficulté.

Notes et références

Commune dans la province de Pavie

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Germany is the world's largest outbound travel market. It is also a very particular market where major travel wholesalers dominate.
Grace to its long-term experience in the field, Lieb Management has an unbeatable relationship with market leaders and top influencers and offers a distinct, personalized service to guarantee the right market positioning for tourism products and destinations in the leisure & MICE market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
As the CEO of LMG and Lieb Management, Ralf is completely dedicated to the tourism industry. His tourism career began in 1988 and since then, he has gained broad expertise through work for travel agencies, a well-known tour operator and finally, over the past 17 years, in destination marketing representation. With the ambition of providing his clients with very individualized service and efficient European representation, Ralf followed his passion and founded his company Lieb Management in 2009 and LMG Management in 2013. His experience and reputation of longstanding enables Ralf to provide qualified, personal service as well as dynamic solutions together with a creative and dedicated team.
With his 12-years of expertise in destination marketing, Julian joined the team of Lieb Management as Director Business Relations in 2015. During his career he was occupying several managing positions in tourism marketing agencies in Germany working mainly for US destinations. He gained comprehensive work experience in the marketing and tourism business not only for the German-speaking market, but also in the Continental European markets and built up a vast network in the tourism industry.


Given a previous article appreciating the art of so-called "novelty" beers, I've decided to look at three more beers often pigeonholed in the same way. These beers aren't necessarily the most outrageous beers in the shop, but people do often call them novel, which just isn't the case. They may be out there and different, but there is a reason why the brewers made them that way. We do not do novelty, and neither do brewers.
This is Omnipollo's self styled smoothie IPA, brewed with blueberries, pecans, almond flour, vanilla and lactose. You can see why this is called a smoothie IPA. Far from false advertising, as soon as you try this you'll realise how far removed from your standard fruit beer it actually is.
#90000 pours a deep, vivid red colour with hops more dominant on the aroma than you would expect. However, there's also a tangy sweetness coming from the fruits. The flavour becomes the perfect blend of sharp, hoppy, tropical bitterness with a tartness emanating from the blueberries. From the almond flour and pecans follows hints of nuttiness that provide a savoury edge to the beer and prevent it from becoming overly sweet.
Omnipollo, from Sweden, produces fantastic beers that stray from the ordinary, but are rarely anything short of brilliant. This not so innocent smoothie is proof of that.
It's approaching Halloween which can mean only one thing: Pumpkin beer season is upon us! These may seem like they're trying to take advantage of an already hugely commercialised holiday, but that isn't strictly true. If you go way back to when the British first travelled over to America, the flesh of pumpkin almost entirely took the place of malts in the brewing process. As it became easier to gain access to malts, the use of pumpkins in beer waned, but it was still used reasonably often as a flavouring in beer. Although its production is now commonly limited to being brewed this time of year, that doesn't mean it's just a novelty for Halloween.
From Beavertown, the Stingy Jack is essentially pumpkin pie in a glass, and it is delicious! Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, pimento peppers, ginger, Demerara sugar and cardamom are all added alongside the pumpkin; and flaked oats create a smoother, silkier body. All this works together to give the beer a spicy, warming quality that is perfect for enjoying knowing just hold cold it is outside.
This beer was brewed to celebrate The Bruery's seventh anniversary. The eagle-eyed amongst you who have an intimate knowledge of wedding anniversary gifts and the French language (I know there's a lot of you!) will notice that Cuivre is French for copper: the seventh anniversary present. This is, in all honesty, an incredible, over the top but very well balanced beer. I promise you, the ABV above is not wrong. It is 16.2%!
Every year this beer is brewed to celebrate The Bruery's birthday. This is nothing too crazy, quite a lot of breweries do this. However, what they do with these beers once they've been brewed is what makes it stand out – they solera age their beer. This means that every year a portion of the beer is put into barrels for a year to be aged. This is then blended with the fresh batch from next year which, in some ways, creates the ultimate vertical beer series.
Solera ageing creates a level and depth of complexity in the beer unachievable by any other means. The beers in the barrel mature and change their characteristics, whilst taking on elements of the barrel that they sit in. The fresh batch naturally change slightly year to year, again giving their own personality to the final product.
This may seem like it's excessive, however, it creates a simply outstanding beer. This is a beer that offers dark fruits, sweet vanilla and oak, creme brûlée and more. The creation of this beer is an exercise in indulgence, and that is exactly what you should do. It is rich, complex and luxurious – indulge away!


The most enchanting of mystical creatures, unicorns are a symbol of miracles, purity, and magic. Like mermaids, faeries, and dragons, unicorns, too, have a distinct and powerful spiritual energy. Delve into their wondrous realm through the Oracle of the Unicorns to reawaken your intuitive abilities, your innate wisdom, your unique gifts, your extraordinary courage, and your divine potential. The unicorn guides in this deck help you discover the magic that lies within you. They wish for you to become a more conscious creator of your reality, harnessing the infinite power of the universe to conjure miracles and move mountains. Experience greater joy, love, peace, and prosperity by welcoming unicorn energy into your world.


As a sculptor I love working with the directness of clay, using all the techniques, coiling and slab building, making one-off pieces, which are fired then finished with acrylic paint. Classical sculpture was always highly coloured but we have this erroneous idea that they were all white and sterile looking.
Having said that, my obsession is catching a very simple form or line, primarily, then enhancing it with colour. Sometimes I use juxtapositions of two forms that I hope suggest contradictions of strength and fragility, stability and precariousness – like the relationships between human beings. But also other opposites, such as rest and activity, that I hope give my work a lively presence and a sense of each one having an individual character. But really all this is open to the eye of the beholder. I never want to be too prescriptive, and in saying this much I've probably said too much.


BRANDON, MB — The contribution of two Brandon University students — Alisa Oakey and Erika Berthelot — has not only been acknowledged, but adopted by the federal Task Force on Financial Literacy. After meeting with individuals like Oakey and Berthelot, from across the country, the Task Force's final report was made public last month.
In April 2010, Oakey and Berthelot, who are Brandon University Business Administration students and members of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), went to Winnipeg to meet with the Task Force. The group heading this national investigation included Donald Stewart, the CEO of Sun Life Financial Inc., Jacques Ménard, the chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns, and Evelyn Jacks, the president of Knowledge Bureau, among others.
In fact, the two young women so impressed the task force that one of the ideas they had suggested was adopted. On page 70 of the document, there is a pull quote that is one of the points the young women had proposed. "Basic financial information needs to be simplified and easily accessible so that anyone can use it." Though the fact that the group is from Brandon University was omitted, the quote is attributed to Students in Free Enterprise.
In fact, Oakey and her colleagues have already started helping in this community. Along with contacting the high schools and working with the career counselors there as well as holding budgeting and money managing session on campus for Brandon University students, Oakey and several other SIFE members have been working with the Westman Immigrant Services (WIS). The students have been delivering what they have entitled Westman Immigration Settlement Enhancement Program (W.I.S.E.) to great success. In 2010, during more than 100 volunteer hours, the W.I.S.E. Program helped 131 people.
The entire SIFE Brandon group — 22 members — will be heading to Calgary this weekend for the SIFE Western Canada Regional Championships. There are three challenges in which the local group will compete: entrepreneurship, green (environmental) and financial education. Oakey and her colleagues will be presenting their W.I.S.E. program as well as Money Matters, a financial literacy tool kit designed for low income individuals, at the competition. The Brandon University business students have also partnered with Maple Leaf, the Assiniboine Regional Health Authority, Child and Family Services and others for the distribution of this kit.
To read more about SIFE, visit sifebrandon.com.


Are You a "Me Too" Girl?
What's a "me too" girl?
It's a woman who goes along to get along instead of expressing her own singular thoughts and beliefs.
It might be a woman who goes right along with everything her friends or associates do and say.
That might be a woman who does everything that her family tells her to do.
That might also be a woman who goes along with everything a guy she's dating or wants to date tells her.
A "me too" mentality is why many women end up in friends with benefits situations. They are too quick to go along with what a guy wants instead of being true to what they really want.
Lies. With every "me too" you lose a little piece of yourself (maybe more).
Don't be a me too girl. A woman who stands up and says what she believes, no matter what, is a powerful force to be reckoned with.
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Top 1659 Age Quotes
We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
Karl Marlantes
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In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
Douglas Alexander
interconnectedness world understand
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
Nina Bawden
happen read life
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
fully republic account
I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'
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With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
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There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
George Hickenlooper
responsibility unique enter
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
Dexter Holland
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While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
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The kitchen is the heart of our dwelling spaces and our yoga practices can take root in the very preparation of a meal. The following offerings of recipes are from my heart to yours and I hope you enjoy them in the best of health.
It has been my aim to create recipes inspired by seasonal foods with omission of dairy, meat, eggs and refined sweeteners. This is not based on a judgement of those ingredients, but simply a reflection of my personal interests and abilities.
Cooking has always been a part of my life and was my first exposure to the heart of yoga. The kitchen was a gathering place and a space to be nourished. My Italian mother and grandparents extensively gardened and delighted in the process of taking something from it's purist form and shifting it to bring out it's best qualities was a daily ritual.
I offer my deepest gratitude to my family for exposing me to the passion and integrity of whole foods cooking in this collection of recipes. As my Mom would say, Mangia!
Soba with a vegetable and herb twist that is known to the Plaine States.
What's the difference between a salsa, a relish or a sauce? Let's not get to technical. This recipe could apply in a lot of different circumstances on the plate. Basically I had an abundance of cucumbers, kale and peaches (because how can you NOT at this stage of summer) and needed to do something quick!


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Haas News > News Categories > Pride Month
Joe Castiglione, MBA 21, on coming out to his devout family
June 17, 2019 June 19, 2019 Kim Girard
(right to left): Joe Castiglione and his partner, Seth, with Joe's parents on vacation in Key West.
In honor of Pride Month, we're running a series of profiles and Q&As with members of the LGBTQ community at Haas. Follow the series throughout June.
In this interview, Evening & Weekend MBA student Joe Castiglione, a manager of strategic initiatives at healthcare accreditation organization NCQA, talks about coming out to his devoutly Baptist family at age 22, how he found pride in the close-knit gay community in Washington D.C., and being out openly at Haas.
Where did you grow up? I grew up in a few different places around Texas, all rural and suburban, but we moved around a lot. Lived a bit outside of Houston and I went to high school outside of Fort Worth, in a small town called Burleson. Kelly Clarkson, our hometown hero, went to our high school — the one claim to fame that we have! I went to college at UT in Austin, moving to Washington D.C. about 48 hours after I graduated. I spent six years in D.C. working in health policy before moving to the Bay Area for Haas.
Joe Castiglione, who grew up in the Baptist church in Texas, celebrating a birthday with his dad.
What was your experience growing up?
I come from a devoutly religious family. I went to Baptist church every Sunday, church on Wednesdays, Youth Group on Wednesdays, the whole kit and caboodle. We even went for a brief period to a mega-church in Houston called Lakewood, where Joel Osteen is the pastor. I didn't really have much of a safe environment where I could explore my queer identity until much later in life.
When did you first think that you might be gay?
I think the first time I knew something was when I was watching "Saved by the Bell" with my older sister, and I was like way more interested in the cute blond guy Zack Morris than in Kelly Kapowski, the cutest brunette of the 90s. I didn't have any access to LGBTQ people or media in small-town Texas, so it was a while before I recognized what my interest in Zack Morris was all about.
So when did you finally come out?
I came out in 2012. I was 22, and it was shortly after moving to D.C. Despite my fear of coming out, and really every effort that I put forward to fight coming out, being in D.C. just yanked the gay right out of me. There's such an amazingly vibrant queer community in D.C., and I am forever indebted to the queer community there for helping me discover a sense of self-love and pride in being a part of that community.
Joe Castiglione, MBA 21, (right) with his boyfriend, Seth, who helped Joe's father open up to their relationship.
How did your family take the news?
When I came out to my mom, she secretly told everyone in my family, really depriving me of what I think is for many queer folks a watershed moment in our lives. The rest of my family did struggle with it a lot at first as well. There was the "gay people go to Hell" thing, and the "gay people can't have children" thing. The hardest was my dad, who took a couple of years to really come around. He started to open up in 2015 when I began dating my partner who I'm still with today. It was almost immediate as my partner is similar to my dad in some ways and has many of the personal qualities that he values. Fortunately, since 2012, we've come a super long way as family and today my mom is my fiercest supporter and a huge ally for the entire LGBTQ community. Today she's one of the "Free Mom Hugs" women at Dallas Pride!
"Being out at Haas was really my first opportunity to be openly queer in a classroom setting." – Joe Castiglione, MBA 21.
Did your experience as a Q-identified person change at all when you came to Haas?
Being out at Haas was really my first opportunity to be openly queer in a classroom setting. I've discovered a new sense of pride and confidence in my queer identity by bringing that perspective into a classroom on things like management and leadership. It's been a real pleasure to challenge myself to be more thoughtful and more nuanced in the way that I articulate my experience as a queer person in the workplace.
Do those experiences translate into the workplace?
Management and leadership are the big areas where this comes up at work—when we're talking about how to interact with people, how to manage people individually, and manage to their expectations and things like that. What was so immediately clear to me is that Haas prides itself on intentionally creating environments that cultivate diversity, particularly in leadership. That's a philosophy that I've really taken on since coming here–this desire to push that mission forward.
What's a challenge that you've lived through that others who aren't Q-identified might not be aware of?
For a long time, I was closeted and struggled with self love, but coming out and embracing my queer identity has been the biggest gift I could ever give myself. People who aren't Q-identified may not see that, although I think it's something everyone can identify with. It may sound cliché but because of this self love that I've found, I'm on this journey of learning how to treat people as you would treat yourself—considering who they are, and what that means for the way that you interact with them, and the way that they interact with the world.
Kim Girard June 17, 2019 June 19, 2019
Topics: diversity & inclusion, Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA, LGTBQ Pride Month
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Miri Regev, who is a member of the Knesset for the Likud party and minister of culture and sport, toured the streets of the occupied territories with a camera crew in order to promote her political campaign for the upcoming Israeli parliamentary elections, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported on Sunday. In December last year, Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve the parliament in a bid to hold early elections in April. Separately on Sunday, a group of nearly 40 Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli forces entered the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds. Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of the al-Aqsa Mosque, said that Israeli forces also banned employees from the Islamic Endowment Department from entry into the holy compound, preventing them from carrying out their work duties. Al-Kiswani said that such provocations by Israeli forces occur on a daily basis. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces also detained and assaulted a Palestinian youth in the area. Ultra-Orthodox Israeli legislators and extremist settlers regularly storm the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied city. Most of the Knesset members are right-wing extremists who support the demolition of the Islamic site in order to build a Jewish temple instead on what is known among settlers as the Temple Mount. The al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits just above the Western Wall plaza and houses both the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque. Tensions continue in the occupied Palestinian territories in the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's "capital" and the relocation of the US embassy to the occupied city. On December 21 last year, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution that calls on the US to undo those moves.


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Q: Calling an inherited property in python
Possible Duplicate:
Polymorphism in Python

Hi
I'm trying to call a property in a class, that is inherited from my baseclass, but it doesn't work. I guess I'm missing something, but what?
Here is my  code:
class Produkt:
 def __init__(self,pID,pProdNavn,pNetto):
     self.__produktId = pID     #atributt for produkt nummer
     self.__produktNavn = pProdNavn #atributt for produkt navn
     self.__produktNetto = pNetto   #egenskap for nettopris

 def getName(self): #Metode for å finne produktnavnet
    return self.__produktNavn

class Bok(Produkt):
    def __init__(self,pID,pProdNavn,pNetto,pForfatter):
        Produkt.__init__(self,pID,pProdNavn,pNetto)
        self.__produktForfatter = pForfatter  #atributtp for forfatter

def getNet(self):
    return self.__produktNetto

as you see I'm trying to call the _productNetto property that is inherited from my Produkt class.
What am I doing wrong?
/Andy

A: It works fine if you don't use double underscore in attribute names
class Produkt:
 def __init__(self,pID,pProdNavn,pNetto):
     self.produktId = pID
     self.produktNavn = pProdNavn
     self.produktNetto = pNetto

 def getName(self):
    return self.__produktNavn

class Bok(Produkt):
    def __init__(self,pID,pProdNavn,pNetto,pForfatter):
        Produkt.__init__(self,pID,pProdNavn,pNetto)
        self.produktForfatter = pForfatter

    def getNet(self):
        return self.produktNetto

x = Bok(1, 2, 3, 4)
print x.getNet()

output:

3

Otherwise the names get mangled and it is looking for attribute _Bok__produktNetto. See: http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#atom-identifiers
AttributeError: Bok instance has no attribute '_Bok__produktNetto'

A: The problem is that you named those members with two leading underscores, which makes them invisible under those names outside that class (see http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html).
If you rename those fields with a single underscore in both places, it will work as you intend.

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Filtering is a technique for modifying or enhancing an image. For example, you can filter an image to emphasize certain features or remove other features. Filtering is a neighborhood operation, in which the value of any given pixel in the output image is determined by applying some algorithm to the values of the pixels in the neighborhood of the corresponding input pixel. A pixel's neighborhood is some set of pixels, defined by their locations relative to that pixel.
Linear & Non-Linear
Linear Filtering occurs when the operation performed on each pixel is a simple matematical operation with a scalar where the result is similar for all pixels. For example, if we are multiplying the intensity of each pixel by 2, then the entire image gets intensified by a factor of two which means we have effectively multiplied the image matrix by 2. On the other hand in a non-linear operation, the overall effect on the image cannot be predicted just by the operation performed on each pixel. For example squaring each pixel is not the same as squaring the image matrix.
Linear Filtering
In MATLAB, linear filtering of images is implemented through two-dimensional convolution or correlation. In convolution, the value of an output pixel is computed by multiplying elements of two matrices and summing the results. Correlation is similar to convolution with the only difference being that the kernel is flipped 180 degrees before the process.
One of these matrices represents the image itself, while the other matrix is the filter.
Original Image after filtering with kernel k
For example, a filter might be:
k = [9 6 4; 5 8 3; 2 4 9];
This filter representation is known as a convolution kernel. The MATLAB function conv2 implements image filtering by applying your convolution kernel to an image matrix. conv2 takes as arguments an input image and a filter, and returns an output image. For example, in this call, k is the convolution kernel, A is the input image, and B is the output image.
Another function which can be used is the imfilter function.
Non-Linear FIltering
In addition to convolution, there are many other filtering operations you can
implement through sliding neighborhoods. Many of these operations are
nonlinear in nature. For example, you can implement a sliding neighborhood
operation where the value of an output pixel is equal to the standard deviation
of the values of the pixels in the input pixel's neighborhood.
You can use the nlfilter function to implement a variety of sliding
neighborhood operations.nlfilter takes as input arguments an image, a
neighborhood size, and a function that returns a scalar, and returns an image
of the same size as the input image. The value of each pixel in the output image
is computed by passing the corresponding input pixel's neighborhood to the
function. For example, this call computes each output pixel by taking the
standard deviation of the values of the input pixel's 3-by-3 neighborhood (that
is, the pixel itself and its eight contiguous neighbors):
Using 'std2'
You can write an M-file to implement a specific function, and then use this
function with nlfilter. For example, this command processes the matrix I in
2-by-3 neighborhoods with a function called myfun.m:
You can also use an inline function; in this case, the function name appears in
the nlfilter call without quotation marks. For example,
The example below uses nlfilter to set each pixel to the maximum value in
its 3-by-3 neighborhood.
The result in case of the previous command is quite apparent as some level of noise has appeared in the image.


People need to stop being afraid of going to the gym because they think members who are already in shape will judge them.
Many students worry they will gain unhealthy weight during their time at APSU; however, some are too embarrassed to work out at the Foy Fitness and Recreation Center because they are not physically fit.
The only way to live a healthy, fit lifestyle is to forget the stereotypical lean and muscular body, which can make some feel negative about themselves.
The Foy Center's facility can be an intimidating environment for an individual who first walks in and examines the wide array of gym equipment, ranging from cardio machines to bars and dumbbells in a 10,000 square-foot area. The atmosphere of built men and woman lifting heavy weights or sprinting on a treadmill can make beginners nervous.
If someone never breaks away from his or her fear of not being fit enough, he or she will never achieve the body he or she desires.
The first thing is to ignore the "macho man" and his 300-pound bench press. One should start out at comfortable weights and ignore the feeling that everyone is staring.
Most people working out are there to better themselves, so they will not be judging those below them, but rather encouraging beginners, because they were once beginners, too.
The gym members are like a family, always aspiring to assist those who are just starting out, whether it be a spot for the bench press or a simple nod of encouragement.
Another way for a student to feel comfortable conditioning into a lean body is to work out with a partner. Having a friend reaching for the same goal is highly encouraging, because you can rely on each other.
When an extra body is there, the novice does not feel as if they are alone. With help from a partner, weightlifting, long runs and hard circuits seem easier and more fun.
The Foy offers even more ways for newcomers to tone their bodies without going in completely clueless on gym terms.
The facility has four different personal trainers willing to help people strive for a healthy lifestyle. Also, group fitness classes are a creative, highly energetic way to get in shape.
At the Foy, more than 20 classes are available throughout the week, ranging from Hip-Hop Dance to Power Yoga. All classes are directed by a trained instructor. By participating in group fitness, you are able to feel confident knowing what you are doing is beneficial. It is a great opportunity to meet other beginners, as well.
As one continues the journey of learning the proper techniques to a fit body, he or she will become more comfortable with getting out there and completing the routine.
What helps novices most is watching those who have been weightlifting or running for a long time and receiving advice on new tricks for training.
Whether one is walking into the Foy for the first time or has been a member for years, everyone at the gym has one common goal: To live an active, fresh life.


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VendorSphere: Motorola's Vision in the World of Critical Communications
Author: Audrey William | Posted: 25-Jun-19
Critical Communications World, 2019 – TCCA's largest event in global public safety communication – was held in Kuala Lumpur in June. Mission-critical communications are essential to maintaining safety and security across a range from daily operations to extreme events including disaster recovery. A UN report estimated that economic losses from natural disasters could reach USD 160 billion annually by 2030.
I attended the event as a guest of Motorola Solutions – one of the leaders in this field. Many people associate Motorola only with phones not knowing that they have been the cornerstone of some of the largest critical communications deployments around the globe. For instance, Victoria Police completed its AUD 50M+ rollout of Motorola Solutions managed services, enabling almost 10,000 police officers across Victoria access to mobile devices loaded with smart apps, and data when and where they need it most.
Motorola's ability to provide customers with a private network which is secure, robust and redundant in the event of disaster has also been one of the reasons for their success in the industry. In the event of natural disasters or terrorist attacks, situations can arise where networks will not be available to send and transport any information. Having a secure and private network is critical. That explains why some of the largest police departments in Asia work with Motorola and these include Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.x
Motorola acquired Australian mobile application developer Gridstone in 2016 and Avigilon, an advanced video surveillance and analytics provider in 2018. These acquisitions demonstrate how Motorola is innovating in the areas of software, video analytics and AI.
Public Safety Moving to a Collaborative Platform with AI and Machine Learning
Andrew Sinclair, Global Software Chief for Motorola Solutions sees AI enhancing future command and control centres and allowing greater analytics of emergency calls. Call histories and transcriptions, the incident management stack, community engagement data and post incidence reporting are all important elements for command and control centres. Using AI to sieve through the information will empower the operator with the right data and to make the right on-the-spot decisions.
The Avigilon acquisition, enhances Motorola's AI capabilities and less time is spent monitoring videos, giving first responders more time to do their jobs. The AI technology can make "sense" of the information by using natural language technology. For example, if asked to find a child in a red t-shirt, the cameras can detect the child and also create a fingerprint of the child. The solution enables faster incidence detection by using an edge computing platform. It gathers the information and processes it to relevant agencies making the search operation faster and more streamlined. The application of AI in the video monitoring space is still in its early days and the potential ahead for this technology is enormous.
The other area that can empower first responders better are voice activated devices. The popularity of Alexa and Echo in the consumer world will see greater innovation in the application of public safety solutions. For example, police officers responding to an emergency may have very little time to look at screens or attend to other applications that need touching or pressing of a button as time and attention is essential is such scenarios. The application of voice activated devices will be critical for easing the job of the police officer on the ground. This will not only save administrative work on activities such as transcription, but also help in creating better accounts of the actual happenings for potential court proceedings.
While it is still early days for a full-fledged AR deployment in public safety, there are potential use cases. For example, firemen standing outside a building to make sense of the surrounding area could use AR to send information back to the command and control centres.
The Growth of Cloud-driven Collaboration
Seng Heng Chuah, VP for Motorola APJ talked about the importance of all agencies in public safety to be more open and collaborative. For instance, currently most ambulance, police and fire departments work in silos and have their own apps and legacy systems. To achieve the Smart City or Safe City concept, collaborating and sharing information on one common platform will be key. He talked about the "Home Team" concept that the Singapore Government has achieved. Allowing all agencies to collaborate and share information will mean the ability to make faster decisions during a catastrophe. Making "sense" of the IoT, voice and video data will be important areas of innovation. Normally when a disaster happens, operators at command and control centres – as well as onsite staff – face elevated stress levels and accurate information can help alleviate that.
The move towards the public cloud is also becoming more relevant for agencies. In the past there was resistance and it was always about having the data on their own premises. In recent years more public safety agencies are embracing the cloud. When you have vast amounts of data from video, IoT devices and other data sources, it becomes expensive for public safety agencies to store the data on premise. Seng Heng talked about how public safety agencies are starting to "trust'' the cloud more now. According to him, Microsoft has done a good job in working with local governments around the world, and their government clouds have many layers of certifications as well as a strong data centre footprint in countries. The collaboration between agencies and more importantly agencies embracing the cloud will drive greater efficiency in analysing, transcribing and storing the data.
The Rise of Outcome-based, Services-led Opportunities
Steve Crutchfield, VP of Motorola Solutions for ANZ, talked about how Motorola is a services-led business in the ANZ market. 45% of Motorola's business in ANZ is comprised of managed services. The ANZ region is unique as it is seen as early adopters and innovators around public safety implementations. Organisations approach Motorola for the outcomes. Police and Ambulance for example in the state of Victoria use their services on a consumption model. Customers across Mining, Transportation, and Emergency Services want an end-to-end solution across the network, voice, video and analytics.
The need for a private and secure network is significant in several industries. In the mines, safety is of priority and as soon as the radio goes down it impacts productivity and when production stops that can results in huge losses for the mines. Hence the need for a reliable private network that is secure for the transportation of voice and video communication is critical.
Crutchfield talked about how the partner ecosystem is evolving with Motorola working with partners such as Telstra and Orion but increasingly looking for specialised line of business partners and data aggregation partners. Motorola works with 55 channel partners in the region.
Ecosystm Comment:
Motorola Solutions is an established player in providing an end-to-end solution in the critical communications segment. The company is innovating in the areas of software and services coupled with the application of AI. Dr Mahesh Saptharishi, CTO at Motorola Solutions talked about how AI will eventually evolve into "muscle memory". That will mean that there is far greater "automatic'' intelligence in helping the first responders make critical decisions when faced with a tough situation.
In the end the efficacy of critical communications solutions will not just be the technology stack, but the desire and ability for cross-agency collaboration. As public safety agencies analyse large volumes of data sets from the network right to the applications, they will have to embrace the cloud, and which will help them achieve scale and security when storing information in the cloud. From the discussions, it was clear that the public safety agencies have started acknowledging the need to do so and we can expect that shift to happen soon.
Motorola will need to keep evolving their channel partner model and start partnering with new providers that can help in delivering some of the end-to-end capabilities across Mobility, AI, software, analytics and IoT. Many of their traditional partners may not be able to be that provider as the company evolves into driving end-to-end intelligent data services for their clients. The company is playing in a unique space with very few competitors that can offer the breadth and depth of critical communications solutions.
VendorSphere: HPE's Internet Of Things Strategy At The Edge Becomes Clearer
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VendorSphere: IBM's Roadmap for 2019
About Audrey William
One of the foremost multi-disciplinary analysts in the APAC region, Audrey boasts an eclectic set of expertise, in segments as diverse as enterprise collaboration, unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS), video, contact center, CX, outsourcing as well as artificial intelligence, enterprise mobility and digital transformation. Audrey has a proven track record both as an analyst and a business leader, having spent close to two decades in various analyst roles at Frost & Sullivan, providing counsel to C-level executives on go-to-market strategies – most recently as Head of Research and Senior Fellow at the firm's ICT practice in Australia and New Zealand. As one of the pioneers of the firm in the region, Audrey played a pivotal role in its regional expansion, including building and mentoring a team of analysts across various markets in Asia-Pacific, including Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Beyond her involvement as an analyst, Audrey is also a prominent keynote speaker, having delivered over 150 speaking engagements addressing various technology segments. She is regularly quoted in the media for her insights into ongoing technology trends and news. Audrey is an honours graduate from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administration (ICSA) in the UK. She also holds Diplomas in Management Accounting and Financial Accounting from the London Chamber of Commerce Institute (LCCI). In her free time, she loves to read literary fiction and is a jazz enthusiast.
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You may think that keeping your teeth clean is your only oral health concern, but maintaining healthy gums is just as important. The same bacteria that can cause decay can damage the soft tissues in your mouth. If plaque (a sticky film of bacteria, mucus, and particulate matter) or tartar (solidified plaque) develops on the enamel that lies beneath your gums, bacteria can infect your soft tissue, causing gum disease. For this reason, Dr. Victor Siegel and our team include periodontal exams and treatment in our full suite of general dentistry offerings. If you suffer from mild to moderate gum disease, we recommend coming to our Rockville practice for a deep cleaning procedure called root planing and scaling. Read on to learn more about periodontal disease and how root planing and scaling can help you maintain your oral health.
Like most infections, periodontal disease can spread and worsen if not diagnosed and treated promptly. The first stage of gum disease is gingivitis, in which bacteria begin to collect under your gums, causing inflammation. People with gingivitis typically have red, swollen gums that bleed when flossing. Fortunately, gingivitis typically clears up with proper oral hygiene, including brushing twice per day and flossing at least once a day. However, if gingivitis is left untreated, the accumulated bacteria under the gums can form pockets and cause the tissue to pull away from the teeth, creating a condition known as periodontitis. During this more serious form of periodontal infection, bacterial toxins can even start attacking important connective tissue and jawbone material, harming your oral structures.
64 million: The number of Americans over 30 years old suffering from periodontitis, or advanced gum disease.
47 percent: The proportion of adult Americans with periodontitis. This number increases to over 70 percent for adults older than 65.
56 percent: The proportion of men suffering from gum disease (as compared with 38 percent of women).
64 percent: The proportion of smokers who suffer from gum disease, putting them at significantly increased risk than other populations.
Plaque and tartar allow bacteria to build up under the gums, causing gum disease. Root planing and scaling is a comprehensive cleaning procedure to remove plaque, tartar, and bacteria, and discourage this matter from accumulating in the future. Dr. Siegel typically recommends this treatment to patients with mild to moderate periodontal disease. The procedure is ideal for patients that have not been able to completely eliminate their infections with improved oral hygiene alone.
During root planing and scaling, Dr. Siegel will apply local anesthesia to numb your teeth and gums. If you are particularly concerned about the procedure or suffer from dental anxiety, we can also use sedation dentistry to keep you relaxed and comfortable. Then, we will use special metal instruments or laser tools to scale your teeth, scraping away plaque and tartar. Next, we will plane your teeth, so the root enamel beneath the gums is as smooth as possible; this makes it more difficult for bacteria to gather in this area. Dr. Siegel usually performs root planing and scaling in staged appointments since the process can take several hours. In most cases, removing the plaque and tartar that cause gum disease treats the infection. However, you should implement better oral hygiene habits to maintain your newly clean gums after treatment.
To learn more about our soft tissue management strategies or schedule a consultation with Dr. Siegel, please contact our dental practice today. We look forward to helping you care for your teeth and gums.


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Abond CRO Announces that Dr. Susan Walker is a Member of Board of Directors
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ALLENDALE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Phil Doren, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that Dr. Susan Walker is a member of the Board of Directors of Abond CRO Inc. Dr. Walker is an independent consultant and the immediate past director of the Division [...]
Abond CRO Hires Charley Bratton as Senior Vice President Corporate Marketing and Sales
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ALLENDALE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abond CRO Inc. announced today the hiring of Mr. Charley Bratton as Senior Vice President Corporate Marketing and Sales. This is a new position for the company and is a direct result of the growth and development the [...]
QST Consultations, Ltd. Announces Name Change to Abond CRO Inc. and New Brand To Support Expanded Capabilities and Partnership Approach
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ALLENDALE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QST Consultations, Ltd. changed its name to Abond CRO Inc., launching the new brand via their website and participation at S.C.O.P.E., February 18-21 in Orlando, FL. Since its founding in 1974 by John Quiring, PhD, QST Consultations has [...]
Light the Night 2019
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QST Consultations, Ltd. announced today the appointment of Dr. Phil Doren as Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors. Dr. John Quiring, who founded the company has been operating as interim CEO since January. John will continue [...]
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ALLENDALE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)—QST Consultations, Ltd. announced today it has hired four employees to join QST's leadership team. Lori Davis, Ph.D. joined as the company's Associate Director of Statistical Consulting, Laura Hatsis, M.S., as Manager of Statistical Analytics, Becky Budreau, Pharm.D. as [...]
QST Consultations, Ltd. Honored as One of the 2013 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"
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Week 6 - The Grambler on the price of milk
The big news story of the week has been that of a record being broken by... can you guess who? Her Majesty the Queen? Gord bless her. Dear me no. Wean Rooney? I should coco. The record has nothing to do with being stuck on the throne longer than anyone ever before, or scoring more goals in meaningless internationals than anyone else. Step forward Fabian Delph, but only for nine seconds thanks to a hamstring injury forcing him to be substituted at the very start of Tuesday's England vs Switzerland game. Thus, he has inadvertantly entered the record book as making the shortest ever appearance by an England starter.
There has been a lot of talk lately about farmers not being paid enough for the milk they, or rather, their cows, produce. Farmers are perceived as being rather a grumpy breed who, basically, moan about everything - not enough being paid for meat, subsidies not high enough, weather being a bit rubbish - that sort of thing. If it is possible to grumble about something, they will do it. And so it is with milk. Apparently they receive just 26 pence per litre of milk they sell to the supermarkets. Scandalous isn't it? Cheap as chips Adli are currently selling a two litre carton of milk for 73 pence. That is the cheapest price I have seen. Why are supermarkets so intent on selling milk this cheaply. Twenty years ago [Here we go, Hovis time. - Ed.] my local shop was selling milk at 99 pence per two litre carton and that was the cheapest price around at that time; some shops were selling the same product for £1.69. Twenty years ago! No wonder the farmers are so angry.
I can recall when we used to have milk delivered to the house every morning, it cost almost a shilling per pint. That was when that well-known gauge for inflation - the Mars bar - cost 6 old pennies, or just over half the cost of a pint of milk. Inflation being what it is, you can pay anything between 50 and 80 pence for a Mars bar these days. If milk prices had risen at the same rate of inflation, a pint should now be costing between 90 pence and £1.50. Per pint! Those two litre cartons, by my (admittedly poor) reckoning, should now be priced at somewhere between £3.15 and £5.25.
For once, I think the farmers have a perfect right to be just the tiniest bit miffed.
All this talk of milk reminds me of the Billy Connolly question - Who was the first person to milk a cow and what on earth was he thinking? I have a similar question - Why do we, as a species, drink milk produced by another species? All mammals require mothers' milk from birth until they can move onto other food. It's called weaning. Why do humans, not only feel the need to continue feeding on milk, but decide to switch from human milk to that of cattle, sheep, goats, or whatever? Don't think too much about it though, because that is really a pretty weird concept. I recall a story from not so long ago about a restaurant which tried to sell products made with only human milk. Guess what. They were forced to close because of the protests. I am sure somebody used the expression, 'It's not natural'. Excuse me? It's a bit more natural than drinking the milk of other species, I would have thought.
Another question. Who first realised that milk which had become pretty much rancid and had started to become solid could still be eaten? Would anyone actually eat cheese if they fully considered the way it is made? Here is a short extract from an article describing the process.
Starter cultures (What?), or good bacteria (Bacteria? The stuff we use Domestos to kill? And how do you know they are good?), are added to start the cheesemaking process. They help determine the ultimate flavour and texture of the cheese (Clever little sods, these bacteria, aren't they?). Next, a milk-clotting enzyme called rennet - a complex of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals (I think I'm going to be sick) - is added to coagulate (BLEUCHHH! Sorry about that.) the milk, forming a custard-like mass (I'm going to be sick again. Time to become vegan, I think.).
Any birthdays to celebrate this Saturday, the 12th of September? Why, yes. Loads. Richard Gatling 1818 (Inventor of the joke - Do you like Gatling? I don't know, I've never Gatled. I never said it was funny.), Herbert Asquith 1852 (Star of 'The Confessions of a Prime Minister'.), Maurice Chevalier 1888 (Thank heavens for little girls? It's a wonder there isn't a police investigation. I'm just saying.), Jesse Owens 1913 (Runny jumpy bloke), Ian Holm 1931 (And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days.), Patrick Mower 1940 (Irish grasscutter), Maria Muldaur 1943 (Send your camel to bed? What?), Barry White 1944 (The walrus of luuurve.), Neil Peart 1952 (Why the hurry?), Brian Robertson 1956 (Whisky in the jar oh.) and Ben Folds 1966 (Whatever and ever, amen.).
Now, who amongst that lot could provide us with a toon to gramblerise? The man who always began a song as if he was being slowly wound up, Barry White? No. Brian Robertson played with Thin Lizzy - stop sniggering at the back - how about something from them? Yes, but not Grambling in the jar oh. How about this one?
But I'm grambling in the moonlight
It's caught me in it's spotlight
It's alright, alright
Grambling in the moonlight
On the long hot summer night
Let's move on to grambling matters. How did our little flutter go last week? Badly. We lost. Big time. What happened? Read on...
Scunthorpe vs Blackpool - Prediction Home win
Result - Scunthorpe 0 Blackpool 1
Blackpool recorded their first victory since January with a narrow away win at Scunthorpe.
The Seasiders had gone 24 matches without a victory in all competitions but Brad Potts bundled in before the break to give them all three points at Glanford Park.
It gave Neil McDonald's side a first win away from Bloomfield Road since a 2-0 victory at Wigan in April 2014.
Northampton vs Dagenham & Redbridge - Prediction Home win
Result - Northampton 1 Dag & Red 2
The Cobblers took the lead on 23 minutes when Marc Richards headed home Nicky Adams' enticing cross.
Matt McClure levelled five minutes later when he headed in Ashley Hemmings' cross at the back post.
A mix-up between Rod McDonald and keeper Adam Smith allowed McClure to tap into an empty net before half-time.
Smith almost single-handedly kept the home side in the game after the break as he denied Christian Doidge and Hemmings.
Queen of the South vs St. Mirren - Prediction Home win
Result - Queen of the South 0 St. Mirren 2
BOOO!
First-half goals from Sean Kelly and Steven Thompson gave St Mirren their first win of the Championship season as they beat Queen of the South.
Kelly was quickest to react after Thompson headed Stephen Mallan's corner into the six-yard box.
Thompson squandered a fine chance before doubling Ian Murray's side's lead after out-muscling his marker.
Rangers vs Raith Rovers - Prediction Home win
Result - Rangers 5 Raith Rovers 0
Lee Wallace established an early advantage from a well-worked free-kick, with James Tavernier adding a second just before half-time when he latched onto Nathan Oduwa's flick.
The comprehensive victory was secured through Barrie McKay's effort from close range.
And Martyn Waghorn increased the advantage with two penalties.
Berwick vs Queen's Park - Prediction Away win
Result - Berwick 1 Queen's Park 0
FN BOOO!
Darren Lavery scored his third goal in as many games as Berwick beat 10-man Queen's Park.
The home side were immediately on the front foot, and Ross Drummond's shot was well-saved by William Muir.
It rebounded into the path of Blair Henderson who was poised to score before Scott Gibson handled the ball and sent off.
Lavery made no mistake from the spot, sending Muir the wrong way to notch his fourth of the season.
Come on Grambler! What is going on? Your predictions so far this season have been mince! You will have to buck your ideas up. All right, what have you got for us this week?
Crystal Palace vs Manchester City - Prediction Away win - 4/6
Middlesbrough vs MK Dons - Prediction Home win - 1/2
Chesterfield vs Colchester - Prediction Home win - 8/11
Gillingham vs Blackpool - Prediction Home win - 8/13
Dunfermline vs Ayr - Prediction Home win - 9/20
Is that it? Well, it can't be any worse than last week.
Teaser time! Yay! Last week I asked you who was the top goalscorer at the 1966 World Cup. The answer is Portugal's Eusebio da Silva Ferreira who scored 9 goals (5 more than that Geoff Hurst bloke got).
One for this week. Who is the only player to have scored in the Glasgow, Merseyside and Manchester derbies?
And finally, Cyril? And finally Esther, I am indebted to a Mr C. Matherson who provides us with this week's dodgy album cover. Scary man. Awful hair. Suspect title. Yay! A triple whammy.
Week 5 - The Grambler on disappearing trades
Week 7 - The Grambler's phone bill
Week 8 - Brian Sewell - the haughty culturalist


on January 20, 2005, 13:30-15:00, at 2goukan 2F Meeting room.
We discuss an algorithm for treating the first-order effects of space charge in bunched beam RMS envelope simulation. The envelope simulation is assumed to be of the type employed by TRACE3D or TRANSPORT. Specifically, transfer matrices are used to propagate the Courant-Snyder parameters along the beamline. Thus, to include space charge effects we must determine a transfer matrix representing the dynamics caused by the self electric fields.
We describe how this matrix is computed and, consequently, is employed in the dynamics calculations. Because the space charge matrices depend upon the Courant-Snyder parameters, and the Courant-Snyder parameters in turn depend upon the space charge matrices, we are also faced with some self-consistency issues. To circumvent this problem we present an adaptive technique for applying the space charge matrices that maintains a specified level of accuracy.
on February 18, 2005, 10:30-12:00, at KEKB Controls Building Meeting room.
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has been developing a Java based hierarchal framework for application program development. The framework, called XAL, is designed to provide an accelerator physics programming interface to the machine hardware. Use of this framework facilitates implementation of general-purpose applications that can be applied to various parts of the accelerator, and are portable across different machines. As such, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has also adopted the XAL framework.
XAL utilizes an XML configuration file for machine hardware and process variables synchronization. Consequently, modifications or introduction of new beamline devices are immediately available for all XAL applications by updating the configuration file. An on-line model is included in this framework for quick beam tracking. Simple interfaces to other external modeling software are also available. Direct scripting interfaces are available for both Python and Matlab, for rapid prototyping uses. Initial applications have been developed and tested with the SNS front end. The overall framework is described, and example applications are shown.
on December 8, 2005, 13:30-15:00, at 2-Gokan 2nd Floor Meeting room.
The capability for simulating the envelopes of three-dimensional (bunched) beams has been implemented in the SAD accelerator modeling environment. The simulation technique itself is similar to that of other common envelope codes, such as Trace3D, TRANSPORT, and the XAL online model. Specifically, we follow the second-order statistics of the beam distribution rather than tracking individual particles. If we assume that the beam maintains ellipsoidal symmetry in phase space, we can include the first order effects due to space charge using a semi-analytic model. This is the attractive characteristic of envelope codes, since it greatly reduces computational time. This new feature of SAD is implemented primarily in the SADScript interpreted language, with only a small portion appearing as compiled code. As such, the simulation does run slower than other compiled envelope codes such as TRACE3D or XAL, however, as interpreted code it does have the benefit of being easily modified. We demonstrate use of the new feature and present example simulations of the J-PARC linear accelerator section.
on March 7, 2007, 13:30-14:30, at KEKB Meeting room.
The XAL accelerator application framework was originally designed with specific architectural goals which are important to recognize in order that future upgrades are consistent with these goals. Consequently software engineering is a very important aspect of XAL development. I will discuss various topics of software engineering in general, and with specific regard to the XAL framework. Also, I will briefly outline the specific enhancements to the XAL online model made during my sabbatical time at J-PARC. Some of this work included adding additional simulation capabilities to the online model, correcting existing ones, and verification. However, much effort was also devoted toward refactoring existing code into a more robust and upgradeable software system consistent with the XAL architecture.
by Dr. Christopher K. Allen on December 9, 2005, at 1goukan 1F Meeting room.
A Manual for SAD RMS Envelope Simulation (December 20 version).
by Dr. Christopher K. Allen on March 2, 2005, at 2goukan 6F Meeting room.
The KEK version of Trace3D was improved to include two of three major feature differences in the simulation code inside XAL; namely, arbitrarily oriented beam ellipsoids, and direct evaluation of the elliptic integral instead of the form factor. Another feature of adaptive stepping is also being considered. The comparison with other approaches like the space charge additions to SAD, and J-PARC feature additions to XAL, are discussed as well.


Serving the local community since the early 1990s, Morgantown Dance Studio is still pulling out its very best moves, earning the BOM award for a third time since 2013. At one time primarily a ballet studio, Morgantown Dance has expanded its repertoire to include everything from tap, hip-hop, and Irish dance to musical theater and strength and conditioning classes. About 250 students of all ages call the nonprofit arts organization home, something Morgantown Dance Board President Isaac Wolford attributes to the diversity and camaraderie the studio offers.
"We have as broad a range of people as you can possibly have in terms of age, culture, and socioeconomic status," Wolford says.
The studio is run by highly skilled contracted teachers as well as volunteers, all of whom have a love for dance and want to instill that same passion in others. That's why they offer flexible financial arrangements, low production participation fees, and even a free men's and boy's ballet class.


TL; DR: The CMO Council, a network of more than 15,000 marketing executives from a range of global industries, has been dedicated to knowledge exchange, thought leadership, and relationship building for 15 years. The influential group helps members achieve success in a rapidly shifting environment through perks that help them learn, engage, and grow. With enhanced solutions, including new talent sourcing opportunities, on the way, the CMO Council is continually finding new ways to serve its growing membership community.
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), an individual responsible for accelerating growth through high-level strategy, plays a central role in many modern corporations.
Executive Director Donovan Neale-May told us how the CMO Council helps marketers achieve success.
The highly engaged group now operates globally across various regions and advisory boards with a robust communication channel that allows them to acquire knowledge, build relationships, and boost professional growth. With new talent sourcing opportunities and other solutions on the horizon, the CMO Council is continuing to help members connect with audiences in an evolving business landscape.
There's no doubt the digital revolution has expanded communication opportunities by making it easier to connect with audiences. But when it comes to strategies for growth, today's CMOs must navigate complex terrain.
As markets become increasingly global, Donovan said CMOs also must consider issues around cross-border data transfer, sourcing and integrating data across silos and functional areas, and making it simpler and easier to do business with those customers. "These are all things that digital channels are delivering that weren't able to be done in real time before," he said.
The peer-powered network keeps members up-to-date on industry best practices.
CMOs also need to learn how to properly leverage employees within their organizations as they become more adept at capturing business-related content on personal devices. "Every one of those employees can become a brand ambassador for the company," Donovan said.
Operationally, Donovan said the move from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms has also presented opportunities for ongoing education. Today, CMOs must learn how to deploy, integrate, and manage different marketing technology stacks as well as provide strategies for adoption.
"The whole shift to digital is the biggest conundrum in the CMO space — it's a growing area of complexity and challenge operationally, organizationally, and customer interface-wise," Donovan said.
With an array of educational resources and networking opportunities, the CMO Council aims to be a channel of insight, access, and influence. As an experienced knowledge broker, the group publishes proprietary reports and studies, a quarterly digital magazine, a monthly eJournal, and an interactive site with 50,000 monthly page views, among other resources.
The group's monthly eJournal and quarterly digital magazine are channels for thought leadership.
Donovan said the CMO Council is a one-stop shop for improving job proficiency, effectiveness, and leadership while gaining priceless networking opportunities. The council's research, created based on hundreds of online interviews a year, help members remain current in terms of best practices.
The peer-powered network also helps them assess personal competence. "It's benchmarking and helping them calibrate how well they're doing in comparison to others, particularly competitors across different categories," Donovan said.
This includes a compensation calculator empowering CMOs to see how their pay aligns with peers in various industries, markets, and regions. The council analyzes and compiles this data for its quarterly Compensation Report, which benchmarks overall package values and strengths for CMOs and other senior marketers.
These resources also help members navigate interactions across the executive suite, which Donovan said is a significant part of being a CMO in 2018. "You have to become a customer experience custodian, and that means you've got to understand every touchpoint across the enterprise, whether it's a channel, the contact call center, the retail store, or the sales organization — whatever the case may be," he said.
General membership is complimentary via nomination, invitation, or referral and includes access to content published within the last year. An upgrade to Premium membership provides perks like unlimited access to all content, priority event participation, and Premium-only engagement opportunities for $495.
Those who aren't qualified for membership may still gain access to content for an annual fee through Affiliate/Library subscriptions. "There is tiered access to our content based on the number of people and the organization — we discount our price for agencies, libraries, and universities." Corporate subscriptions are an additional option for companies who wish to grant full access to their entire marketing teams.
Aspiring marketers and students may purchase a $99 annual subscription to the CMO Insight Center, which includes marketing intelligence in the form of data, resources, industry event information, and insights from across the globe.
Next on the agenda for the CMO Council is the launch of a new Solution Sourcing Center (SCC) intended to make it easier to acquire, deploy, and manage marketing technology. Through a partnership, the SCC will include access to CabinetM's Marketing Technology Management platform, which helps teams build marketing stacks to track and manage the tools they buy, develop, and retire.
Donovan told us the CMO Council also plans to expand its CMO compensation resources to include talent sourcing. "People come to us all the time to get recommendations if they're trying to fill the CMO position, so we're expanding the site into a new CMO Talent Sourcing and Compensation Center," he said.


This was a result of me using TorGuard's load balanced host, choosing one of their static IPs solved the issue.
Hey there folks Tried to do this on my own. Didn't found option, then googled some similar (old, already closed) topics here. Could anyone delete my account please? Saw "Just don't use it anymore" posts - but I REALLY want it gone.
Found a workaround! I'm using RSS Mix to create an HTTP feed based on all of my HTTPS feeds.
I recently started using a proxy (TorGuard) and am experiencing issues with my RSS feeds: Torrents automatically downloaded from an RSS feed are stuck at 0% until restarting uTorrent. HTTPS RSS feeds cannot be retrieved. I found an old thread regarding issue (1) but there was no resolution. As for (2), it seems there is an issue with SOCK5 and HTTPS, is there any workaround? Thanks in advance.
Would it be possible to have a different message displayed when choosing to 'Remove And -> Delete .torrent' to the message shown when choosing to 'Remove And -> Delete .torrent + Data' ?
Could we get a "uTorrent Lite" client...?
3.5.5_45217 available: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:D7B5013E84CDA85D4B9EF6AE26C63BBC690CAB4B Binary size: 2.16 MB (2,275,568 bytes) / MD5: 820BE18F8EB23C9E7DD2B085FB1D6AD6 No changelog at time of posting.
Some scanner program has been singling out uTorrent so that now \Program Files\uTorrent\ is empty; and Control Panel; Programs and Features does not list uTorrent as installed. Double-clicking on uTorrent does NOT reverse either shortcoming. Double clicking on torrents still opens them in uTorrent, but the torrent files do not have the characteristic uTorrent icon associated with - just a generic icon. How can I get back normal functioning ?
I have the same problem. I was trying to clear out some old torrents, and it just wouldn't work over 5 minutes without freezing up.
Can you elaborate? Sometimes my IP does appear as ipv6, other times as ipv4, why I do not know. But as it appears now to be ipv6 are you saying that my ipv6 public IP will be displayed? thus the proxy inaffective?
Does the proxy you're using claim to support ipv6?
Hmm. It came back again, and gui.show_notorrents_node was reset to 'true' again.
Here's the problem you identified it already in the reply. It's not a utorrent problem.


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