5 axis machining has traditionally been regarded as advanced technology best suited to the aerospace and automotive industry. 5 axis machining offers many advantages, all of which are now being applied to the mould and die sector. VISI Machining provides the operator with a productive solution for creating highly efficient toolpaths with advanced collision control for the most complex 3D data.
Extensive range of CAD interfaces. VISI can work directly with Parasolid, IGES, CATIA v4 & v5, Pro-E, UG, STEP, Solid Works, Solid Edge, ACIS, DXF, DWG, STL and VDA files. The extensive range of translators ensures that users can work with data from almost any supplier. For complex 5 axis programming it is often necessary to tweak the geometry so companies working with complex designs will benefit from the simplicity with which their customer's CAD data can be manipulated.
Deep cavity / core machining. Many complex moulds contain deep cavity areas and small radii which need to be machined with small diameter tools. Generally this would involve the use of tool extensions or longer tools which would increase the risk of deflection and provide a poor surface finish. By approaching this from a different angle, the head can be lowered and the collision detection will automatically tilt the tool and holder away from the work piece. The major advantage of this strategy is the use of shorter tools which will increase tool rigidity, reducing vibration and deflection. As a result, a constant chip load and higher cutting speed can be achieved which will ultimately increase tool life and produce a high quality surface finish. In more shallow areas, larger bull nose cutters can be used with a small lag angle. The major advantage of this approach is a lower number of toolpath passes which also reduces machining time and improves surface finish.
3D > 5 axis conversion. All 3D toolpaths can be converted to 5 axis operations which dramatically increases the number of strategies available to cover any scenario. Using this approach will apply high speed machining technology to 5 axis toolpaths. The 3D > 5 axis conversion provides intelligent collision detection and will automatically tilt away from the piece only when required. This type of semi-automatic toolpath will dramatically speed up programming and shorten the learning curve.
Turbine / blisk machining. Turbine / blisk machining is commonly performed using 4 axis. The turbines or blisks are often rough machined using various methods including plunge roughing which can be applied to the toolpaths and is a useful approach but turn milling is often the most common. Turn milling allows the highest values for chip volumes per minute, regular engagement of the tool leading to a smooth cut, a balanced spindle load and a constant movement in all 5 axis, reducing any reciprocating movement in the fixturing system. Finishing is the most important part of the process and a continuous spiral toolpath along the part is required to achieve the necessary surface finish for these complex parts. The aim should always be to achieve a very regular, uniform level of residual material - if necessary, through multiple semi finishing operations. Particular care needs to be taken when choosing the tool for finishing and by allowing larger tools to be used while offsetting in one of the axes allows more of the tool to be in contact with the part creating smaller cusps and an improved surface finish.
Impeller machining. VISI provides all the necessary tools for successful 5 axis impeller machining. High surface quality, limited space and the angular motion of the rotational axis make the machining of impellers one of the most complex 5 axis machining tasks. VISI creates each toolpath with an even distribution of co-ordinates. By sending smooth and efficient CNC code to the machine tool control, it will reduce unnecessary vibration and lessen the impact on thin rib geometry. Surface finish is a critical requirement for impeller finish machining and any surface marks can be eliminated using smooth axis movements.
Positional machining. Positional (3+2) machining allows both 2D and 3D toolpaths to be used at a fixed angle. The traditional benefit is the reduction of multiple setups. The ability to orientate the head to the correct position automatically will significantly cut machining time and reduce the need for multiple fixtures. Similar to continuous 5 axis, positional machining also allows the machining of undercuts and enables the usage of shortened cutters for rigidity and improved surface finish.
Trimming. 5 axis trimming is a common application especially used in the automotive or vacuum forming industry for groove milling or boundary trimming. For this type of strategy, the tool position is calculated normal to the face direction following a drive curve. For additional control, synchronisation curves can be used to control the tool movement in local areas. The potential direction changes are at there most extreme when using this type of strategy so the collision detection and toolpath simulation are an invaluable tool.
Collision control. The smallest movement of the cutter can result in large movements in all axes of the 5 axis machine as each movement is amplified via the tool, holder and spindle. In the case of a collision, VISI provides multiple methods for collision avoidance using smooth axis movements. The collision avoidance strategies include cutter retraction along the tool axis, tool tilting for holder collisions and pulling the tool away from the work piece in a given direction. In addition to the automatic collision avoidance, the rotation axis can also be restricted to user-defined axis limits preventing over travel of the spindle.
Configurable postprocessors and set-up sheets. An extensive library of postprocessors is available to suit most machine tools. In addition all postprocessors are fully configurable to suit individual requirements. Canned cycles for drilling and boring, subroutines and cutter compensation can be output along with 3+2, and full 5 axis CNC code for use on the shop floor. Bespoke post processors can also be written for complex one-off machine tools. Set-up sheets are automatically generated with information about the datum position, tooling, cycle times, cutting envelope etc. The contents and layout of the set up sheet can be tailored to match the needs of each user and output as either HTML or XLS format.
Kinematic simulation. Toolpath verification can be applied using the real machine dimensions and limits with the kinematic simulation including the motion display of all rotational and linear axis. Cutting tool, holders, jigs and fixtures can all be checked when running the kinematic display. Any gouges on the toolpath against stock, tool or any other part of the machine tool will be graphically highlighted. A comprehensive list of tested 3, 4 and 5 axis machine are available. Vero engineers are also available to help with the construction of any bespoke machine.


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The AA genome group comprises all the cultivars that have two sets of chromosomes inherited from Musa acuminata. Genome groups are part of the nomenclature system developped by Kenneth Shepherd and Norman Simmonds. AA cultivars are often called edible diploids to distinguish them from wild species, which are also diploid.
AA cultivars have been largely displaced by the generally more productive triploid cultivars but are still cultivated in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Their fruit are generally very sweet. Most of the cultivars in this group have not been classified into subgroups.
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Born and raised in Chicago Illinois,
DJ Puff Dragon was seen as a musical prodigy at the age of 5. This big influence came mainly from his mother who went to school with some of the most popular R&B artists and DJs to come out of the city of Chicago!
Her vast and rare collection of Lp's, 12inches and 45's are a tribute to what she has passed on to her son. After moving to Virginia and spending summers back in forth between Chicago, he started taking djing seriously at the age of 15. Puff stayed on the grind after high school and did a brief stint in the military while working street promotions part time. This eventually landed him a intern at Loud Records and a future 3 year postion at BMG Distrubution.
His Dj influences include DJ Scratch, DJ Jazzy Jeff, JMJ, DJ Cash Money, DJ Bee, DJ Strez, DJ Hipp, DJ Que. Puff is also a Member Of The World Famous DJ Crew BumSquaddjz.
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SBU News > Newsroom > Press Release > Medicine > SBUMC Advances Non-Invasive Cancer Surgery with First-Ever Use of Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) On a Pancreatic Tumor
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SBUMC Advances Non-Invasive Cancer Surgery with First-Ever Use of Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) On a Pancreatic Tumor
Procedure uses Nanotechnology to Attack Tumors on a Cellular Level with Electrical Fields
STONY BROOK, N.Y
., March 4, 2010 – A new procedure for treating pancreatic and liver cancers using electrical fields to poke holes in tumors was used for the first time anywhere to fight pancreatic cancer at Stony Brook University Medical Center by Kevin Watkins, M.D., Chief of the Upper Gastrointestinal and General Oncologic Surgery Group.
The procedure, performed at SBUMC in December 2009, is called "irreversible electroporation (IRE)," a minimally invasive surgical technique (also referred to as a "NanoKnife®") that selectively kills the cancer by using electrical fields to generate pores in tumor cells.
Dr. Watkins used IRE to treat a typically fast growing and fatal tumor, pancreatic cancer. This marked both the first use of IRE at SBUMC and the first-ever use of the technique on a pancreatic tumor. Another pancreatic cancer patient is scheduled for the procedure during March 2010.
"Our first IRE patient had her six-week follow-up PET scan in early February, and the initial report showed no activity, making her a radiographic complete response at this point," Dr. Watkins said. "Hopefully, she'll have a durable response, which only time will tell, but from a local disease standpoint, the technology did just what we had hoped."
The patient at SBUMC was Mary Ciccariello, 79, of Smithtown, who was home four days after her surgery. "It will hopefully help other people," Ann Marie Ciccariello, the patient's daughter-in-law, said of the procedure. She added that the family was very pleased by the procedure and the experience they had at SBUMC. "They took very good care of her, and Dr. Watkins was very good also."
Electroporation is the process of using brief and controlled electric pulses to open microscopic pores in a targeted area. By increasing the number, strength, and duration of electric pulses, electroporation can be made permanent, or irreversible. After IRE, the pores in the cells remain open permanently. This causes microscopic damage to the cells, and they die.
IRE technology allows for extreme precision. While targeted soft-tissue cells are killed, blood vessels and other important structures in the area remain functional. The body is able to naturally rid itself of the dead cells. In regenerating organs, such as the liver, the dead cells are replaced with healthy cells.
IRE does not generate heat or cold, which could damage normal adjacent tissues. The combination of minimally invasive surgery and IRE allows for faster recovery with less tissue injury, and it is hoped, a better long-term outcome than with traditional surgery. At a minimum, patient quality of life improves in the near term. The proprietary device that generates IRE is approved for the ablation of soft tissue. It is being used for lung, liver, and kidney tumors as well. Dr. Watkins hopes to establish protocols to demonstrate its utility and safety, which will be used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Dr. Watkins said that in general new minimally invasive surgical methods offer patients the possibility of diminished postoperative pain, less scarring, fewer complications post-surgery and earlier discharge from the hospital. The approaches may also help patients heal quicker, which may be crucial if they need to undergo additional treatment such as chemotherapy or radiation.
Surgical Oncologist Dr. Kevin Watkins of Stony Brook University Medical Center is the first to use irreversible electroporation (IRE) to treat pancreatic cancer. He is pictured next to the computerized NanoKnife® system used to perform the operations.
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Choosing the right armchair for your lounge can be a bit of a challenge. Its a signature piece and can either work to make or break your lounge room design. The perfect armchair for you is the one that compliments the style of existing furniture, but that still stands out enough to make people say WOW!
Before you even think about the armchair of your dreams, take time out to consider the other elements in the space first. Look at your existing furniture, flooring, wall colours and lighting.
You want your armchair to complement your lounge without being matchy-matchy. An easy way to achieve this if you are set on getting an armchair from the same range as your sofa is to select contrasting upholstery.
Contrasting upholstery offers a point of difference too. There are no rules saying that your lounge suite needs to all be fabric or all leather. Mix and match and you will be surprised by the effect.
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Coyotes Game Wrap-Ups
Arizona Coyotes defeat lowly Colorado Avalanche 1-0
Not much action in this game, but the Coyotes did what they are supposed to do.
By Brendan Porter@brendanporter Mar 13, 2017, 10:18pm MST
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When you are 29th in the league like the Arizona Coyotes are, there aren't a whole lot of teams you are "supposed" to beat. The 30th place team is. And the Coyotes did.
Arizona defeated the Colorado Avalanche 1-0 on Monday night in Glendale for their second win in a row, capping off a 2-1-1 homestand.
First Period
No scoring in the first period as both teams combined for just nine shots. Not exactly an explosive start to the game.
Second Period
1-0 Arizona - Brendan Perlini continues his torrid goal scoring pace with his 13th this season in 43 games. On a rush led by Peter Holland, Tobias Rieder streaked ahead and drew the defender's attention away from Perlini, who received the feed from Holland and uncorked his signature wrist shot to open the scoring. Assists to Holland and Rieder on the goal at 3:49.
Third Period
No scoring in the last frame either as Max Domi was denied on a breakaway by Calvin Pickard early in the third period.
Three Answers
1. Will the rookies stay hot? - Brendan Perlini shows no signs of slowing down after scoring the game's only goal tonight.
2. Can the Yotes tighten up on defense? - Arizona did a much better job tonight, which probably was made easier by playing a struggling Avs team.
3. Can the Coyotes maintain a lead? - The Coyotes held on to a one goal lead for more than half the game, which was impressive, even against the Avs.
Colorado - Calvin Pickard - Pickard had a tremendous night in net for the Avs, making 34 saves on 35 shots. Most nights, that would have been good enough for the win.
Arizona - Max Domi - Perlini and Smith were great tonight, but Max Domi was denied on two separate chances by Perlini, and was dangerous all night long, with a game high five shots on net in 15:46.
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Shane Doan missed much of the first period after colliding with Jakob Chychrun during warm-ups before the game.
Anthony DeAngelo took two minor penalties against Blake Comeau on the same shift, which resulted in a four-minute power play for Colorado. He did not play the rest of the period, and logged only 10:13.
Arizona took 19 shots in the second period and 11 in the third period.
Per Arizona Sports' Craig Morgan, Colorado has now been shut-out in 12 of their 49 losses this season.
Mike Smith recorded his 22nd career shutout as a Coyote, which is a new franchise record.
Arizona is off to Los Angeles for a game against the Kings tomorrow night. Puck drop is at 7:30 PM Arizona time.
Coyote Game 37 Preview: Coyotes host Canadiens in matinee matchup In a tank battle, the Montéal Canadiens and Arizona Coyotes face off in Glendale.


Lest I give the wrong impression by reviewing one good Nazi movie (Dead Snow) after reviewing only one terrible one (Zombie Lake), I thought it was time to balance the scales with another, typically awful stab at the Dead Reich genre. In this case, the 2008 snoozefest Outpost serves as our example. In this turkey, unkillable Nazi soldiers are created by a last-ditch effort to harness a "Unified field" via a "unified field generator" as the Nazi regime is collapsing at the end of WWII. Then some modern day mercenaries get involved, and mayhem ensues. Very, very slowly.
The director was obviously trying to go for atmosphere over gore or action, but come on! There's a certain amount of action implied for a movie chock full of mercenary killers and undead evil. Instead we got lots of futzing around and weird, awkward attempts to borrow from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Stargate movie — at least, that's where my mind wandered during one of the many interminable scenes. The acting was barely conscious and the film used some kind of filter than made everything look grainy, washed out and ugly. In short, a total mess, well worthy of its place of (dis)honor amongst its crappy Nazi zombie brethren.
Oh god, Outpost. There wasn't even any biting! The "zombies" just stabbed people. Repeatedly, and somewhat hilariously.
Sorry, but I just don't agree with you. I really enjoyed this movie.


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Hey, readers! It's time for a new edition of Cheesy Movies Tasha Likes. I saw The Forbidden Kingdom playing on IFC really late one night and decided it sounded like the PERFECT MOVIE. Totally not shocking: I was right!
Jason is a Southie who gets picked on by bullies and loves martial art films. One day he finds a staff and is transported to Ancient China. He discovers his destiny is to return the staff to its owner, the Monkey King (see my review of The Monkey King here) so he can defeat an evil warlord and return power to the Emperor.
The Forbidden Kingdom has two actors whom I love in the same face space: Jet Li (LOVE him, love love love) and Jackie Chan (did you ever watch that cartoon with Jackie Chan? It was just me? Okay then). Basically, you don't need any other reason to watch this movie, but I'll give you some more anyway: IT IS HILARIOUS AND AWESOME. Michael Angarano rocks the mullet-with-pony-tail combo, shows his "powerful staff" to the token female character, Golden Sparrow, way too many times; there's a woman with purple hair; and Liu Yifei almost makes out with every guy in this movie except Jackie Chan, all while playing a musical instrument.
This movie caters to American tastes, for sure. There's little talk of Buddhism, which is the original message of the story of The Monkey King, and there's an almost self-conscious cheesiness to it, especially the Boston scenes. If you even casually watch kung-fu movies like Kill Bill or Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the sets and set-up to the story will feel very familiar to you, but in a good way that really lets you appreciate the story.
The only thing that made me grimmace was when Jason decided to return to South Boston after having awesome adventures in Ancient China. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? But I suppose they had to end the movie somehow.
If you like kung-fu movies, especially cheesy kung-fu movies (but really any sort of kung-fu movie), you should definitely check out The Forbidden Kingdom. It is super-accesible and fun.


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How to experience Antarctica or the Southern Lights in a day
Experience the vast expanse of Antarctica from the comfort of a Qantas Boeing 787 on a series of new sightseeing flights.
By Staff Writers, December 1 2021
Aussie travellers will soon be able to experience the majesty of Antarctica and the Southern Lights on board a series of flights being run by expedition specialists Chimu Adventures.
The day trips are being run from Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, and Melbourne aboard chartered Qantas 787 Dreamliners, with the 12.5-hour return journey allowing you to experience these exotic sights without even having to pack a suitcase.
Despite the international grade service and catering on-board, they are classified as domestic flights and therefore aren't affected by pesky changing border restrictions.
Chimu Adventures founder Chad Carey explains that "even if you've visited Antarctica by expedition or cruise ship, the flights give you a totally different perspective of just how large the continent is and the expanse."
As nice as a lie-flat business class seat is, don't go to sleep and miss the amazing view!
Expect to see icebergs from three hours in to the flight with the main continent visible after another hour.
The journey takes you past Cape Adare and Ross Island, where the largest settlements on Antarctica are located, while Antarctica experts on board each flight can help provide context on the sights below, the history, and what life on the ground is like.
Each flight is unique because of the 20 routes possible depending on a number of factors including weather, cloud cover and ice conditions, however you can expect to have 3-4 hours over the great white continent. The pilots will also attempt to get down to 20,000 feet for better viewing of key sites.
"The air down there is so unpolluted and pristine that you can literally see for hundreds of kilometers without any obstruction", Carey explains. Certain routes even fly over Mawson's Huts.
From COVID rescue flights to Southern Lights
So how do you charter a jet to fly to one of the most remote parts of the world?
With the world shutting down in early 2020, Carey described to Executive Traveller how Chimu's staff went from being adventurers to repatriation and rescue flight operators, managing one of the first repatriation flights from Peru by "chartering a couple of aircraft off LATAM" to bring Aussies home. (The effort is detailed in a documentary called Calm to Chaos).
With the charter experience under their belt, the company started looking at Southern lights flights in partnership with Qantas, however Carey explains "it's not easy to convince Qantas to actually assign these aircraft to slots to do this."
After running a few flights last year, the company is gearing up for its next season of Southern Lights flights beginning from April 2022, with flights running from Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.
Norway, Canada, and other northern countries are famous destinations for viewing aurora, but Carey points out "the reason why we don't really hear about them in Australia is that the band where they're really clear is essentially all ocean."
Southern lights are quite different as they're night flights and aim to fly to the 62 degrees south latitude where the aurora is most prominent.
Seeing them by flight provides more certainty because even "if you're at a fixed point in say Norway you don't know if the northern lights will be there that night, and even if they are it could be cloudy."
With little light pollution and the ability for the aircraft to reposition for optimal viewing, it's your best chance of seeing auroras.
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DEALERS IN DISTRESS
Commercial Vehicle|September 2020
CV dealers are a worried lot with business witnessing a significant dip.
Deven Lad
There are an estimated 1000 plus CV dealers in India. These are franchises of six or seven CV majors. Chances are that there are more CV dealers if those catering to regional and local brands were to be taken into account. Even those that cater to the rising count of e-rickshaws among others. Most are in varying degrees of distress are facing the economic slowdown of 2019 and the Covid-19 situation of 2020. Their reason for distress may vary, but distressed they are for certain. A chat with Piyush Jain, a Mumbai-based SML-Isuzu dealer, revealed that he is badly affected. Eagerly waiting for the school season to start as a big chunk of his CV sales comes from school buses, Jain is very worried. "We have had no sales for the last four months," he expressed as a matter of fact. Informing that the pandemic unleashed itself exactly when the school season begins, Jain averred that if such conditions persist for a few more months, it would be extremely difficult to stay in business.
The bus operators, it is no secret, have been the worst affected when compared to the truck operators. Most suffered from having their buses rendered inoperative during the two months of what is described as the world's most brutal lockdown.
The 'unlockdown' that was announced by the government on July 01, 2020, has not led to a cheerful situation with the number of Covid-19 positive cases spiking. Having crossed the 31 lakh mark with 60,975 new cases, India has come to rank a close third after Brazil and US. For bus operators and truck operators, it in no way spells good news as they grapple with lack of any relief from the government and witness little freight or people-travel demand. With no CV operator in a position to even think of purchasing a new CV, except the very big players and those who have vehicles that are absolutely at the end of their life, CV dealers are clearly under much distress.
As CV makers make efforts to resume production (see box) and restore their supply chain, it is the CV dealers that will take more efforts to get right, it seems. This is especially proving to be a challenge for full-range CV makers. "Our operational costs, which include interest payments, staff salaries among others are turning out to be unsustainable. The 30 percent revenue from service is just about helping to stay afloat," said Jain. "The loss we continue to incur every passing day is spiraling such that we will have to decide if we should shut down the business very soon," he added.
Prioritizing to retain their skilled manpower, dealers are finding the going tough. Expressed A. Rajan, General Manager (Sales & Service) at Anamallais Agencies (Stadium), said that they are experiencing hardly any demand in bus and truck segments. Staring at the first half of the current fiscal as a complete washout, Rajan is not certain if the upcoming festive season will bring any cheer. The malaise he fears has run deep and will take a long time to eradicate. Stressing on the fact that the pandemic has thrown the business of many of their customers out of gear, Rajan remarked that there is an acute cash crunch. Receiving a lot of inquiries about BSVI vehicles and if they would support higher profitability in the wake of the challenges many CV operators had come to face post the announcement of new axle norms by the government in late 2018 and the subsequent economic slowdown in 2019, CV dealers have been left high and dry. Said Bharat K. Patel, Partner, Trishul Motors (a VECV dealer), that the pandemic has drastically altered their business equation.
Tejpal Ailsinghani, Managing Director, Kamal Motors.
Of the opinion that the lockdown has ended their story, Patel expressed that they are facing a terrible liquidity crunch. In fact, many dealers that CV magazine spoke to, on the condition of not revealing their identity, mentioned that they have received help from no quarter. Neither from their dealer principal, not from the government, which gathers so many taxes from them under one pretext or the other. Stating that it would be almost impossible to get back on their feet in the current financial year, Patel averred that the rot has run deeper than many experts have come to gauge. Operating four service centres and two showrooms with an employee strength of 250, Patel is prioritising the retention of manpower as well.
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With B.B. King's death, a blues era draws to end
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Shaun Tandon- The crowd in 1968 San Francisco was unlike any B.B. King had seen before. The Mississippi-born bluesman, established on the African American circuit, faced a white audience of long-haired hippies.
King, who died Thursday at 89, later called the concert the greatest of the thousands he played over his life. And it marked the start of a cultural exchange whose era, with his death, is drawing to a close.
"For the first time in my career I got a standing ovation before I played. Couldn't help but cry," King later recalled in his memoir of the show at San Francisco's Fillmore West.
"With tears streaming down, I thought, 'These kids love me before I've hit a note. How can I repay them for this love?'"
The concert, arranged by promoter Bill Graham to the rising countercultural scene, set King's career on a new trajectory.
He opened the following year on a legendary US tour of the Rolling Stones and soon appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show," finding a surprise new audience in white Middle America.
The newfound platform gave King a role he relished as ambassador of the blues, a genre that had come of age after emancipation from slavery with roots in African-American spirituals and a narrative style at once melancholy and serene.
- Memories of South -
King was one of the last bluesmen who grew up in the segregated, pre-World War II American South. His music frequently evoked the deprivations of the era, when he toiled in cotton fields as a child.
"On the plantation we used to say that we worked from 'can to can't' -- from when you can see, until you can't see," he recalled in a 2007 interview with AFP.
Despite winning wealth and honors ranging from 15 Grammys to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, King in his nearly nightly concerts kept alive classic blues songs such as "Every Day I Have the Blues" and "Sweet Little Angel."
"The blues has lost its premier ambassador, someone who was very conscious that he was trying to bring more dignity to a musical form that had been traditionally subject to ridicule or looked down upon," said Scott Barretta, a music scholar and former editor of Living Blues magazine.
- Keeping the blues alive -
King often said that he kept playing because he feared the blues would disappear without him.
In the end, King not only preserved the blues but, through his crossover appeal, helped shape rock.
Generations of guitarists grew up on King's distinctive style, with an emphasis on crisp, elegant single notes and vibrato, rather than chords or the slides used by most Mississippi Delta bluesmen.
Some of his most visible influence came when his records -- and later King himself -- traveled across the Atlantic.
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Other artists indebted to King, even if the influence was not as immediately apparent on first listen, included Jimmy Page of hard rock pioneers Led Zeppelin as well as Fleetwood Mac and Carlos Santana -- who saw King at the Fillmore West.
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While remembered posthumously for his broad musical appeal and warm demeanor, King at the start of his career was considered an unlikely candidate to appeal to white audiences.
He famously said that playing the blues was "like being black twice" -- he expected to be written off as only relevant to African Americans.
Unlike rocker Chuck Berry, or even late fellow blues artists John Lee Hooker and Ray Charles, King had little interest in energetic crowd-pleasers and stood by his steady-paced, upright blues.
Before he played the Fillmore West, King was also falling out of favor with African-American audiences who saw him as old-fashioned. King long remembered being booed by teenagers in the 1960s at Baltimore's Regal Theater, then a top African-American music venue.
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"The way B.B. did it is the way we all do it now" Guy wrote on Facebook.
"I love you and I promise I will keep these damn blues alive. Rest well."
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Air Serbia wins ATW award
Air Serbia has been named 2017 Airline Market Leader by Air Transport World (ATW), the leading industry media brand.
ATW's airline awards were established in 1974 to recognise excellence in the air transport industry and are well-respected across the sector for their integrity and independence. The Belgrade-based airline was chosen by ATW's editorial team for its progress over the last three years. Air Serbia was recognised for its innovative products and services, as well as its business strategies which have differentiated it from competitors in Southeast Europe, while at the same time growing its network, revenue, customer base and brand recognition. It is also the first airline from the region to receive the honour.
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Q: Creating an OS level toast in Tizen I am trying to create a Toast in a Tizen app. The Toast will be running outside context of my app. However, I am not able to find any example which works yet.
Here is what all i have tried so far:
function toastAlert(msg) {
  $('#popupToastMsg').empty();
  $('#popupToastMsg').append(msg);
  $('#popupToast').fadeIn('slow');
  setTimeout(function() {
    $('#popupToast').fadeOut('slow');
  }, 2000);
  console.log(msg);
}

function sendAlert() {
  toastAlert('ToastWorks');
}

The above code generates in app message not a toast. Even https://github.com/search?l=javascript&q=tizen+toast&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 does not help much. Can anyone suggest a better approach and a way to do same.

A: You can't make popup like toast out of your web application.
Current Tizen web application don't support it.
but I think maybe you can use notification api for your job.

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Q: Reference.vb code debugging When adding a reference to a web service, a Reference.vb file gets generated to make all the service's types available to the hosting project.
When I put a breakpoint in that file it never gets hit. How can I solve this?

A: If you're using VS2013 you can disable Just My Code in the debugging options.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn457346(v=vs.110).aspx
That will make VS ignore the DebuggerStepThroughAttribute that Stephan B mentions. If you're using older version of VS you can delete the attribute from the Reference.vb

A: See System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute for why it never gets hit. Right now I don't know how to tell the Debugger to halt anyway, ignoring the Attribute but you should be able to remove the Attribute from Reference.vb and start your Debug session without VS regenerating the file.

A: You can try the below steps;

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*Open the web service project and go to web services project's "My Project".

*Go to Web tab.

*Choose "Don't open a page. Wait for a request from an external application."

*Choose "Use Local IIS Web Server"

*Change Project URL: "http://localhost/YourWebService" to your service name.

*Click on "Create Virtual Directory".

*Set the breakpoint at desire location.

Debug Run the web services "F5".


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Phoenix replacement won't be launched until 2023, but may save millions: PBO
By Jolson Lim. Published on May 16, 2019 11:17am
A demonstration against the Phoenix pay system organized by the Public Service Alliance of Canada union. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood
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Bugs in the Phoenix pay system, which administers pay for the roughly 300,000 federal employees, have resulted in workers receiving incorrect payments. The program was launched in 2016 to more than 34 departments and it was soon reported it resulted in thousands of underpayments.
In May 2018, Canada's auditor general described the Phoenix project as an "incomprehensible failure" of project management and oversight.
The Liberal government has since invested hundreds of millions of dollars in order to keep federal workers paid under Phoenix and to move toward a new pay program.
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The PBO, however, notes that a new system — barring any challenges — "should deliver significant savings, when compared to historic spending on federal pay systems."
Costs are expected to be hundreds of dollars lower per account under a new system than either current costs under Phoenix or the regional pay system that predates it.
A total of $2.6 billion is expected to be spent on Phoenix in a five-year period, according to the report, which includes $160 million in annual planned operating costs, $326 million in annual unplanned operating costs, and other one-time costs.
In a statement, Treasury Board President Joyce Murray's press secretary, Farees Nathoo, said the team working on the future pay system will present options for the federal government on how to proceed in the coming weeks.
The system, called Next General HR and Pay system, will likely "include multiple pilot projects to test possible solutions beginning later this year," he said.
Nathoo also said the pay problems are a result of the previous Conservative government, which removed "critical capabilities from the solution to fit it into an arbitrary cost-cutting budget." He added that from the outset of the project, the Treasury Board "proactively" invited the PBO to participate and monitor its work.
CBC News also reported earlier this week that IBM, the multinational contracted to run the troubled Phoenix system, received at least another $137 million under its terms.
The deal marks the 46th amendment to the initial contract, signed in 2011, with the multinational company, which was responsible for the payroll system's implementation.
The PBO, Yves Giroux, also warned in the report that the "complexity of federal pay will remain both a risk and a cost driver for a new system, as it was for Phoenix."
"This could be reflected in an increase to ongoing costs, specifically the subscription fee, and/or additional up-front costs," stated the report.


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It is expected that the two-year process of withdrawal from the EU will be painstakingly negotiated between the UK government and Brussels, from 2017 at the earliest.
And UNISON believes it is critical that it plays a part in those negotiations.
The trade unions share numerous concerns relating to the Brexit talks, including the need to protect public services, workers' employment rights and trade union rights.
The risk that higher EU protections and standards may be replaced by lower ones in any new UK legislation must be challenged, while continuing the campaign against the government's austerity agenda.
Many have been appalled by the rise in racist attacks and abuse since the referendum, on black communities, refugees and those perceived to be from migrant backgrounds.
UNISON supports the right to remain for EU citizens. Research suggests that 84% of the British public feels the same way – including 77% of Leave voters.
In letters to Brexit secretary David Davies and international trade secretary Liam Fox, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said it is of the "utmost importance" that the negotiations aere open to "full parliamentary and public scrutiny" and that the devolved nations, English regions, business, trade unions and wider civil society should all be consulted.
Mr Prentis has asked for meetings with both ministers, to discuss the impacts of exit negotiations on public service provision in the UK.
A whole list of areas stand to be affected by Brexit, including: public procurement; the regulation of public-sector employers; future funding of public services; workplace and employment rights; equalities; health and safety; environmental standards; trade deals; free labour movement and immigration; and the statutory and legal frameworks in public provision and privatisation.
The union also intends to hold the Leave campaigners to account.
At the same time, a variety of specific sector and regional concerns are already surfacing: from the potential loss of research funding within higher education and the government using Brexit as an opportunity to lower food hygiene standards, to threats to the peace process in Northern Ireland and the preservation of the free movement of people, goods and services across the Irish border.
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And in the autumn, a UNISON EU network roadshow will be touring the regions, when the union will be listening to the concerns of members and talking about how it can campaign for the right to remain.
Meanwhile, the country waits for prime minister Theresa May to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to initiate the exit talks. The earliest she is expected to do so is January 2017.
"For now, employment rights remain the same, and immigration status remains the same. European law is still there and still to be used," says Mr Low..
For more information on the EU members network contact Greg Thomson, head of strategic organising: g.thomson@unison.co.uk or join our EU members Facebook page by emailing strategicorganising@unison.co.uk.
For further information on UNISON's Exiting the EU Campaign Strategy, contact policy officer Allison Roche: a.roche@unison.co.uk Tel: 020 7121 5457.
We are facing the most critical time for public services in Northern Ireland in the past 30 years. As the leading public sector union in Northern Ireland, we guide the way in the campaign to defend public services and public service workers.
We are in the process of establishing a network of credit unions in Northern Ireland and will be updating this webpage soon. In the meantime, if you are a member in Northern Ireland, contact the Irish League of Credit Unions to find out which credit union is most appropriate for you.


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Европеада — чемпионат Европы по футболу среди национальных объединений. Проводится под эгидой Федерального союза европейских наций (FUEN) раз в 4 года, параллельно с чемпионатом Европы по футболу.

Европеада 2008
Проводилась в Швейцарии, округ Сурсельва (округ). В соревновании участвовало 17 команд Победитель — сборная Южного Тироля. От России выступала сборная карачаевцев «Эльбрусоид».

Европеада 2012
Проводилась в Лужице, Германия. Участвовало 19 команд из 13 стран. Победитель — мужская и женская сборные Южного Тироля. От России в турнире участвовала мужская сборная российских немцев

Европеада 2016
Проводилась в коммуне Брунико, Южный Тироль, Италия. Победитель — сборная Южного Тироля. От России участвовали мужская и женская сборные российских немцев «RusDeutsch», которые заняли пятое и третье места.
 Мужская сборная (5-е место):
 Игроки: Алихан Байцаев (Владикавказ), Андрей Буллер (Красноярский край), Алексей Вигул (Красноярск), Иван Вигул (Красноярск), Артём Гафнер (Челябинская область), Александр Генце (Омск), Владимир Гердт (Краснодар), Илья Гердт (Ярославль), Герман Дарков (Краснодар), Тимур Дзебисов (Москва), Денис Дмитрович (Московская область), Юрий Литке (Омск), Сергей Панюгов (Казань), Роман Репп (Омск), Константин Такоев (Владикавказ), Давид Тогоев (Владикавказ), Владислав Ценглер (Красноярский край), Николай Шарлапов (Краснодар), Артур Шлеермахер (Омск), Андрей Шрейнер (Новосибирск), Илья Штейн (Томск), Пётр Янзин (Владивосток).
 Тренерский штаб: Андрей Ротермель (главный тренер), Владимир Швед, Алексей Землянюхин (помощники тренера), Наталья Альтнер, Александр Ротермель, Роберт Липский, Павел Эккерт, Олег Штралер, Генрих Мартенс, Ольга Мартенс (члены делегации).
 Женская сборная (3-е место):
 Игроки: Алина Вяткина (Пермь), Ангелина Гримберг (Кемерово), Анастасия Диюн (Красноярск), Альбина Иккерт (Кемерово), Анжелика Ирикина (Омск), Наталья Кельблер (Ставрополь), Анастасия Козлова (Пермь), Виктория Козлова (Красноярск), Екатерина Козлова (Пермь), Елена Муравьёва (Омск), Ольга Мухина (Маркс), Кристина Нургалиева (Омск), Мария Ольденбургер (Москва), Диана Онянова (Пермь), Алёна Трушкина (Красноярск), Екатерина Тюнина (Саратовская область), Ольга Кушнир (Маркс), Кристина Кудрина (Маркс).
 Тренерский штаб: Ирина Пинчук, Евгения Иванова, Екатерина Листарова, Ирина Молчанова, Арнольд Райник, Елена Гейдт, Ирма Беленина, Фаина Глазунова, Игорь Иванусенко (врач), Нина Лохтачева.

Европеада 2021
Запланированная на 2020 г. Европеада в Каринтии, Словения, перенесена на 2021 г..

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт турнира
 Андрей Ротэрмель: «Европеада — соревнование ведущих футбольных школ континента»
 Крымскотатарская сборная по футболу участвует в Европеаде

Футбольные соревнования, проводимые не под эгидой ФИФА


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Maxie Baughan Net Worth 2018: What is this NFL football player worth?
Maxie Baughan is a professional football player who plays Linebacker as number 55, 50. Baughan was born on August 3, 1938, in Forkland, Alabama. Baughan's height is 6 ft 1 in. This page looks closely at Maxie Baughan's net worth.
Maxie Baughan Career and Earnings/Salary
Baughan played college football on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team. In the 1960 NFL draft, Baughan was chosen number 20 in round 2.
In the past, Baughan played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, and Washington Redskins. Some of the highlights of Maxie Baughan's career include: NFL champion, 9&times, Pro Bowl, 2× First-team All-Pro, 4× Second-team All-Pro, Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame, and Consensus College Football All-America Team.
Baughan has coached for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football, Washington Redskins, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Cornell Big Red football, Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Baltimore Ravens.
Some of Baughan's most prominent statistics include 18 Interceptions, 147 Games played, and 129 Games started.
Maxie Baughan Net Worth 2018
NFL player salaries range significantly. At the lowest level, NFL players earn between $400,000 and $600,000 per year. At the highest, NFL players can bring in $50 million plus. The National Football League salary cap is nearly $175 million.
Maxie Baughan net worth: football salary distribution
So what is NFL football player Maxie Baughan's net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Maxie Baughan's net worth as of 2018 is:
Looking for other NFL football players? Check out these net worth articles: Kevin Boss, Sione Po'uha, Rodney Bailey, John Moffitt, Barney Lepper, Jerry Fishman, Matt King, Geoff Gray, Bill Shockley, Walt Corey, and Josh Bidwell.


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The future is coming to you live…..
Live / By Wesley Dodd
The launch of live video on Twitter and Facebook represents a major change in the way we will consume live video in the future. Don't believe me? What about the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey? He says the future of Twitter is live video – specifically Periscope. Dorsey, who is tasked with turning around Twitter, …
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The revolution will NOT be televised
Uncategorized / By Wesley Dodd
For me the arrival of Facebook Live is a game changer and could be one of the single most important things in media since the arrival of YouTube. I've written a lot recently about the new live stream services from Facebook and Twitter but I still get a lot of blank stares, yawns and …
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(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve's wind down of its balance sheet has been handled without too much trouble by the mortgage sector to date -- but now comes the deluge.
As the Fed terminates the mortgage-backed security purchase program started a decade ago, the end to its buying should cause MBS supply from the central bank's wind down to jump about 50 percent in the second half of this year compared to the first six months.
Private investors will need to take down about $90 billion from July through December, according to Walter Schmidt, the head of FTN Financial's MBS strategist team.
The Fed has so far reduced its vast MBS holdings to $1.709 trillion, the lowest since 2014. It's widely forecast that by October the central bank will no longer reinvest any proceeds back into mortgages, and that should widen spreads.
"We have seen year-to-date widening of 15 to 20 basis points on production coupon Treasury spreads and expect another 5 to 10 basis points by year end," according to Ankur Mehta, the head of MBS research at Citigroup.
The coming end to the Fed's MBS purchases, used in the recent past to keep its holdings steady, will release about $150 billion into the market for this year in total. That is a material amount considering forecasts put aggregate net supply this year from normal sources, such as borrowers taking out home mortgages, at around $300 billion.
When the Fed's balance sheet wind down is combined with that organic supply, the second half of the year may see as much as $270 billion compared with the net total of $170 billion in the first two quarters of 2018, Mehta said.
Helped in part by very low volatility, mortgage spreads haven't widened too much despite the coming end of the Fed program, but next year may see as much as $195 billion flood the market.
"It's a pretty large amount of supply for the private sector to have to absorb," said Matt Jozoff, head of JPMorgan's securitized products, rates and municipal research. The spread widening year-to-date puts mortgages at a historically attractive levels, he said.
Still, some investors may wish to position their portfolios defensively for yet more weakness.
"To the extent that there is widening pressure on the basis that argues for being in shorter spread duration product, and we also like going up-in-coupon for the hedged-adjusted carry," he said.
The wind down has been well-telegraphed by the central bank, helping to dampen spread widening and hence any negative effect on mortgage rates for borrowers, despite the massive size of its holdings.
"The Fed built its portfolio during a time of crisis, they essentially were making it up as they went along. The unwind of the balance sheet, they hope, will be as exciting as watching paint dry," Schmidt said.


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The Mills of Pittsfield
Our Cultural History
Take the Tours
Pittsfield Downtown Walking Tour
The Mills and Factories
What would Melville say?
What's been lost
Where the owners and managers lived
Where the workers lived
Kellogg Steam Power Company
Posted on July 19, 2014 Updated on July 23, 2014
This three-story brick structure in Morningside may be the Kevin Bacon of Pittsfield's mills: through only a couple degree of separation, its connections reach many of the other mills and companies in the town and in this study.
It was the nature of this business that gave it such a far reach. The company was formed in 1874 to provide power for its tenants, mostly smaller businesses. Innovators and entrepreneurs needed such a service since water privileges along Pittsfield's many streams were locked up by larger mills. The move towards power harnessed from coal allowed the Kellogg Steam Power Company to locate away from water and close to the Boston and Albany Railroad line for easy access to shipping.
Ensign Kellogg put together the group of investors for their idea to provide space and steam to smaller entrepreneurs. Kellogg was a major business and civic leader in Pittsfield serving as President of the Pontoosuc Woolen Mill and the Agricultural National Bank during the Civil War. He served several terms in the Massachusetts legislature and as a delegate to the Republican National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President.
Kellogg Steam Power helped launch many enterprises in the town, who leased space and then moved on to acquire their own buildings. On the first floor was the Pittsfield Tack Company, under the direction of Jabez L. Peck (of Peck's mills) that employed 25 operatives to manufacture nails, brads and – you guessed it – tacks. Saunders Silk Manufacturing took over the third floor and then left to merge and establish the A.H. Rice Silk Company. Farrell and May shoe manufacturers were tenants, as was the Terry Clock Company which occupied the second floor until it moved to its new premises in 1884. It was here that George Bliss, the entrepreneur whose invention of a device that could transmit telephone signals through clocks helped propel the nationwide sales of the Terry Clock Company, located in the town center. By the turn of the century, with the advent of electrical power in Pittsfield, the need for steam power declined. The Musgrove Knitting Company bought the building and ran its operations there until the 1940s. Now it serves as a retail furniture business.
Kellogg Steam Power Building in photo from early 1980s. Photo, courtesy of Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System
One of the better preserved nineteenth century factory buildings in Pittsfield, the building is almost 200 feet long and is distinguished by its two square towers, with hip roofs. Decorative brick patterns at the cornice where the roof and the walls meet and original windows can be seen here at the juncture of Curtiss and Kellogg Streets in Morningside.
Taconic Woolen Mill
Berkshire Brewing Association
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Debbie Windoloski on Elmwood Court, home of Edward…
Preserve Pittsfield on Pontoosuc Woolen Mill
Tammy on Pontoosuc Woolen Mill
objectif photo on A.H. Rice Silk Mill
The Berkshire Eagle's special feature on the mills of Berkshire County
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2020 Advances in Automated Thinning and Weeding Technologies Update #1
It's October already and soon crews will be thinning and weeding vegetable crops in the Yuma area. Automated machines for performing these tasks are commercially available and being used more and more. Due to significant research and development efforts being made in this area, the technology used for these machines is advancing rapidly. In the next series of articles, I will be discussing the developments made over the summer by automated machine manufactures and what growers in the Yuma area can expect for the upcoming season.
The first technology I'd like to discuss is the autonomous weeding robot "Dino" manufactured by Naïo Technologies[1] (Fig. 1). Briefly, the robot is an 84" wide, self-piloted, mobile power unit equipped with camera guided cultivating tools.
Last season, Naïo demoed the robot for growers in the Yuma area. It was the first year the French based company had operations in the U.S. One goal of the demonstrations was to evaluate the machine in U.S. conditions and get feedback from growers about how the machine might best fit Arizona production systems. The company learned that Arizona vegetable production is very intense and fast paced. Machine productivity and durability were important issues for viability and domestic acceptance.
The company took heed of these observations. Over the summer, the battery that powers the fully electric robot was upgraded to provide 10 hours of operation before needing to be recharged. This improved work capacity from 8 acres/day to about 10 acres/day (work rate = ~ 1 acre/hour). To further address the capacity issue, the company imported three additional machines so that multiple machines could be operated simultaneously in the same field. The new machines are more robust, being equipped with higher torque drive wheel motors and a sturdier frame. The company is also in the process of switching to an improved camera guidance system that should enhance crop tracking ability and close cultivation performance. Some may be aware that the company has developed an award winning active in-row weeding tool that cycles cultivating blades in and out of the crop row (Link). The device is undergoing further testing and is planned for commercial release in mid-2021.
Machines will be available this fall in the Yuma area for demos or for hire as a weeding service. It will be interesting to see how these advanced robots perform and benefit weed management. If you would like assistance evaluating these machines or conducting performance trials, please feel free to contact me.
[1] Reference to a product or company is for specific information only and does not endorse or recommend that product or company to the exclusion of others that may be suitable.
Area wide Insect Trapping Network
VegIPM Update March 20, 2019
Results of pheromone and sticky trap catches can be viewed here
Corn earworm: Moth activity remains seasonably low, but noticeably increased again in
the North Yuma Valley. Below average compared with previous seasons.
Beet armyworm: Moth activity increasing comparable to fall numbers, particularly in Tacna, Dome Valley and Gila Valley; consistent with reports of larvae in fields. Slightly about average compared with previous seasons.
Cabbage looper: Similarly, cabbage looper moth activity increasing Tacna, Dome Valley
and Gila Valley and remains above average for this time of the year. Above average compared with previous seasons.
Whitefly: Adult movement is relatively absent; typical for this time of the season.
Thrips:Thrips activity remains seasonably low; but is increasing in the Yuma
Valley. Well below average compared with previous seasons
Aphids: Area-wide aphid flights decreased in the last 2 weeks. Most aphids found on traps were green peach aphid. Below average movement compared with previous seasons.
Leafminers: Adult activity remains seasonably low in all locations, and below average for this time of year.
Diamondback moth (DBM) counts in pheromone traps trended downward over the past 2 weeks, and remained low in many locations with the exception of the N. Yuma Valley. Across all locations, trap counts remain higher now than trap counts recorded this time last year, but significantly lower than 2017 following the fall 2016 outbreak.
(See DBM Trap Network)


I'm back with the list!
Last year was a little difficult as we were in the process of purchasing our first home and moving but I'm writing this list since it is one of my most popular and is requested when I don't!
When I was putting together this list, I realized that I didn't receive as many emails/coupon cards as I normally would. I think it's because I've unsubscribed from quite a few emails and stopped supporting some companies. Also moving and changing my address probably added to that. You can see 2015's list here for comparison. Enough chit chat! I present 2017's list of birthday coupons.
Offer: Tarte Blush and Lip gloss set OR Caudalie Skin Care brightening and hydrating duo OR Jack Black Cleanser and Moisturizer duo for men.
Valid: 30 days after email was sent.
Offer: 20% off online purchase (no minimum) and free a deluxe gift.
Valid: for 8 days after email was sent.
Valid: Birthday month, it will be on your account when you log in.
Email received: I didn't receive an email like I normally would, and I emailed customer service about it. They sent me a code once I confirmed my birth date and saw that I was a subscriber. This year, the minimum purchase amount increased from $50 to $100.
Email received: 2/1, also a card in the mail.
Offer: 25% off my entire purchase at any Vera Bradley store as well as at the Factory Outlet.
Email received: 2/25, also a card in the mail.
I know it's noticeably shorter but this is all I have to offer.


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Q: How to know if autoscaling has taken place in Kubernetes Is there any way to know that the number of pods have scaled up or down as a result of Horizontal Pod Autoscaling apart from kubectl get hpa command?
I want to trigger a particular file on every scale up or scale down of pods

A: You can use status field of HPA to know when was last time HPA was executed.
Details about this can be found with below command:
kubectl explain hpa.status

from this status , you can use lastScaleTime filed for your problem.
lastScaleTime        <string>
 last time the HorizontalPodAutoscaler scaled the number of pods; used by
 the autoscaler to control how often the number of pods is changed.


The highlight this year was Cecil who brought a mini-electric Bus, Fire Engine, and Army vehicle for the children to ride. Our event featured a few Volts, a couple of Leafs, a Tesla, a Honda, and a Fiat. Cars were lined up and owners talked about the features of their particular vehicle and a few gave rides. Those who chose to take a ride commented on the quietness of the ride. Gary Nystadt [a Leading Force Partner representing Ellensburg Solar], drove the Fiat commenting it had some get up and go! Unfortunately, there was no support from local dealerships, even after personal calls and visits. A BIG THANK YOU National Nissan! Everyone loved the donated items, especially the kids in attendance! We are looking at doing something different next year, especially after learning there are over 200 EV registered cars in Yakima County.
THANK YOU! National Nissan for providing the great advertising signs, banners, back packs, mini fans, and water bottles. We had a small turnout, but lots of great comradery and good times with those in attendance and those who stopped by to check out the event. This is just some of our crew to commemorate the evening: Front Row: Rico's brother__, Lane Pride, Julie, and Dave Geho [Valley Web Systems]. Back Row: Margaret Luera [Washington Federal]; Salvador [Leading Force] and son Nicholas; Gary [Ellensburg Solar] ; Rico De la Combe [family had to leave early & not pictured]; Lane's son ___; David Gee; Cecil Aston; Sally and Warren Rose, and _______.
Join us for an Electric Vehicle Rally and learn more about the benefits of driving electric.
Registered attendees report 155,500 electric miles driven.


badidea wrote: Maybe I should do the tests with a external USB mechanical disk.
I would be interested to see the timings.
sudo sh -c "sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
Then I get for a binary read call: 0.59 seconds, which corresponds to 460 MB/s. This could very well be the max. SSD read speed.
Edit: Found the disk specs: Samsumg 850 evo 500GB, sequential read speeds up to 540 MB/s.
print fileSize; " bytes,"; int(fileSize / (1024*1024)); " MB"
if pData <> 0 then deallocate(pData) else print "free error"
print int((fileSize / (1024*1024)) / dt); " MB/s"
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badidea wrote: ... which corresponds to 460 MB/s. This could very well be the max. SSD read speed.
Even if you're already rocking a fast SSD (one of the best upgrades you can make), you can still improve your computer's performance by adding more memory and turning it into a RAM disk, which can be as much as 70 times faster than a regular hard drive or 20 times faster than an SSD.
The data has to get into the RAM disk from the slower disk, and get back to the disk at the end. So it works out that just loading the database into memory by your program, and saving it back out at the end, is going to be the exact same speed as a RAM disk. If the database fits in a RAM disk, it would certainly fit into memory. On the other hand if you had several programs or processes that wanted to use the database files, a RAM disk could be a fast way to do that. Although on modern OS's, any files shared between processes are cached and memory mapped anyway, so the effect is the same.
Btw what is "extremely slow"? How many seconds, typically?
My conclusion from this is: Follow MrSwiss' advise, buy SSDs? Install a modern OS? At least under Linux, no speed gain when reading the whole file at once. Probably the OS is smart enough to read more data then what is needed for one "Input #ProductFileNumber, etc." call. Not sure how FreeDOS handles this.
If the OS does not cache, then do it yourself. Read all data at start or after a button press. When adding/updating an item, add to cache (memory) and file. But a problem if multiple clients need the same data. Keep track of the changes then somehow.
So far it has been up to a minute to "look" for a item but then errors out and says Item not found BUT when i search for it manually inside the actual data file i can find it.
Gablea wrote: So far it has been up to a minute to "look" for a item but then errors out and says Item not found BUT when i search for it manually inside the actual data file i can find it.
Sounds rather like a bug than like a bottleneck.
7000 records is very small. Even if you opened the file and read it in one record at a time each time you needed to query it, it would still be a fraction of a second (disk caching would essentially make that an in-memory operation). So something isn't quite right with your algorithm.
I though it was slow but you see the code is based on the code I'm using in my NPoS app (first code posted here) and that does it min milliseconds in the same data file.
I'm using the same basic code and NPoS finds products so way would a simpler version of it not work? Unless I've done something really stupid.
Reading a bunch of parameters for every line is indeed very slow, that's why a proposed the other solution above. It would be good to analyse where your code is slow but it throws so many build errors that my enthusiasm to dig deeper is very low.
... using \AllBasics\FreeBasic\fbc.exe -t 8000 -s console "\AllBasics\FreeBasic\tmp\TmpFile.bas"


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ASB Classic 2017 (kobiety)
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Whether you take money from the register you are working at or cook the books, it is no secret that this activity is criminal. Although New Jersey does not have a separate embezzlement statute, this crime is included in NJ's general theft statute [i.e. N.J.S.A. 2C:20-3-11]. A conviction could lead to jail time, a steep fine, and a criminal record.
Embezzlement is the fraudulent conversion of the personal property of another by a person in lawful possession of that property. What makes embezzlement unique among other types of theft crimes is that the owner of the property temporarily gives you custody over the property.
In other words, you are entrusted with the property for a certain period of time. After that period of time elapses, you are required to give it back. Essentially, embezzlement occurs when you subsequently convert that property for your own use (i.e. you take it instead of give it back). This crime is usually seen in the context of employer-employee relationships. For example, the person ringing up your groceries at the supermarket is entrusted with the responsibility of holding onto the money that you give him in a cash register. If that person decides to pocket some of the money at the end of his shift, this would be considered embezzlement. Remember, embezzlement requires the specific intent to defraud after lawfully taking possession of the property.
Additionally, what sets embezzlement apart from other theft crimes is your use of the property in a way that is inconsistent with the terms of trust you were given. In our example above, pocketing the money from the register, instead of giving it to the manager, is utterly inconsistent with the terms of the trust given to him. Thus, embezzlement comes into play when you lawfully had possession of the property for a temporary period of time and subsequently decided to keep it.
If you are found guilty of embezzlement, your penalty will directly correlate to the value of what you stole.
If you embezzled money or property valued at less than $200, you will be guilty of a disorderly person's offense that can land you behind bars for up to 6 months and force you to pay a fine of up to $1,000.
If you embezzled money or property worth $200-$500, you will be guilty of a fourth degree crime and can be imprisoned for 18 months and fined up to $10,000.
If you embezzled money or property worth more than $500 but less than $75,000, you will be guilty of a third degree crime and can be imprisoned for up to 5 years and fined up to $15,000.
If you embezzled money or property worth more than $75,000, you will be guilty of a second degree crime and can be imprisoned for up to 10 years and fined up to $150,000.
Moreover, there are hidden penalties associated with committing embezzlement and other theft-related crimes. Aside from having a criminal record, being a convicted criminal can cost you a job before you even have the ability to interview for one. Imagine having to admit to having such a conviction on a job application for an employer who requires you to be trustworthy. Ultimately, a conviction can cost you your livelihood as well as your freedom.
Therefore, make sure to hire an experienced criminal defense attorney who knows the right defenses to raise and how to go about protecting your legal rights.
If you or a loved one was charged with embezzlement or theft in New Jersey, contact Adam H. Rosenblum of The Rosenblum Law Firm today. Mr. Rosenblum is a skilled criminal defense attorney who has helped people in similar situations. He will defend your constitutional rights, fight to keep you out of jail, and do what he can to have your embezzlement charges dismissed. E-mail or call him today at 888-815-3649.