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Xen and the art of virtualization
by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield - IN SOSP , 2003
"... Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample resources of a modern computer. Some require specialized hardware, or cannot support commodity operating systems. Some target 100 % binary compatibility at the expense of performance. Others sacrifice security or fun ..."
Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample resources of a modern computer. Some require specialized hardware, or cannot support commodity operating systems. Some target 100 % binary compatibility at the expense of performance. Others sacrifice security
Live Migration of Virtual Machines
by Christopher Clark, Keir Fraser, Steven H, Jakob Gorm Hansen, Eric Jul, Christian Limpach, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield - In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI , 2005
"... Migrating operating system instances across distinct physical hosts is a useful tool for administrators of data centers and clusters: It allows a clean separation between hardware and software, and facilitates fault management, load balancing, and low-level system maintenance. By carrying out the ma ..."
Migrating operating system instances across distinct physical hosts is a useful tool for administrators of data centers and clusters: It allows a clean separation between hardware and software, and facilitates fault management, load balancing, and low-level system maintenance. By carrying out
The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent improvements in its programmability, have made graphics hardware acompelling platform for computationally demanding tasks in awide variety of application domains. In this report, we describe, summarize, and analyze
The Anatomy of the Grid - Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke - International Journal of Supercomputer Applications , 2001
"... "Grid" computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications, and, in some cases, high-performance orientation. In this article, we define this new field. First, we review ..."
review the "Grid problem," which we define as flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources---what we refer to as virtual organizations. In such settings, we encounter unique authentication, authorization, resource access
Maté: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks
by Philip Levis, David Culler , 2002
"... Composed of tens of thousands of tiny devices with very limited resources ("motes"), sensor networks are subject to novel systems problems and constraints. The large number of motes in a sensor network means that there will often be some failing nodes; networks must be easy to repopu-late. ..."
Composed of tens of thousands of tiny devices with very limited resources ("motes"), sensor networks are subject to novel systems problems and constraints. The large number of motes in a sensor network means that there will often be some failing nodes; networks must be easy to repopu
Managing Energy and Server Resources in Hosting Centers
by Jeffrey S. Chase, Darrell C. Anderson, Prachi N. Thakar, Amin M. Vahdat - In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP , 2001
"... Interact hosting centers serve multiple service sites from a common hardware base. This paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture for resource management in a hosting center op-erating system, with an emphasis on energy as a driving resource management issue for large server cl ..."
Interact hosting centers serve multiple service sites from a common hardware base. This paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture for resource management in a hosting center op-erating system, with an emphasis on energy as a driving resource management issue for large server
Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management
by Dawson R. Engler, M. Frans Kaashoek, James O'toole , 1995
"... We describe an operating system architecture that securely multiplexes machine resources while permitting an unprecedented degree of application-specific customization of traditional operating system abstractions. By abstracting physical hardware resources, traditional operating systems have signifi ..."
We describe an operating system architecture that securely multiplexes machine resources while permitting an unprecedented degree of application-specific customization of traditional operating system abstractions. By abstracting physical hardware resources, traditional operating systems have
Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
by John M. Mellor-crummey, Michael L. Scott - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1991
"... Busy-wait techniques are heavily used for mutual exclusion and barrier synchronization in shared-memory parallel programs. Unfortunately, typical implementations of busy-waiting tend to produce large amounts of memory and interconnect contention, introducing performance bottlenecks that become marke ..."
, and requires no hardware support other than
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters
by Frank Schmuck, Roger Haskin - In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST , 2002
"... GPFS is IBM's parallel, shared-disk file system for cluster computers, available on the RS/6000 SP parallel supercomputer and on Linux clusters. GPFS is used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world. GPFS was built on many of the ideas that were developed in the academic community ove ..."
GPFS is IBM's parallel, shared-disk file system for cluster computers, available on the RS/6000 SP parallel supercomputer and on Linux clusters. GPFS is used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world. GPFS was built on many of the ideas that were developed in the academic community
Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Scheduling for Multicore Systems
by Malcolm S. Mollison, Jeremy P. Erickson, James H. Anderson, Sanjoy K. Baruah, John A. Scoredos, Northrop Grumman Corporation
"... Current hard real-time scheduling and analysis techniques are unable to efficiently utilize the computational bandwidth provided by multicore platforms. This is due to the large gap between worst-case execution time predictions used in schedulability analysis and actual execution times seen in pract ..."
in practice. In this paper, we view this gap as "slack " that can be accounted for during schedulability analysis and reclaimed for less critical work. We use this technique to develop an architecture for scheduling mixed-criticality real-time workloads on multiprocessor platforms. Our architecture provides


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Marching scientists
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Andy Borowitz
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Not quite promptly at six o'clock on Saturday morning, two dozen scientists whose fields of study can't be summarized in a sentence boarded a bus at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, and headed south, bound for the March for Science, in Washington, D.C. "I hope it doesn't rain," Ed Witten, the first and only theoretical physicist ever to win the Fields Medal, the Academy Award of mathematics, said. Witten, who is in his sixties, is tall even when seated and speaks in a measured, almost sheepish tone. He was reading a book about the First World War on his Kindle, a device that, he conceded, he hadn't yet mastered. The sky, still pale, was cloudy, and the forecast did indeed call for rain.
Earlier this year, Princeton University Press published a slim volume called "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," a reissue of an essay by the same name, which originally ran in Harper's Magazine, in 1939. In it, Abraham Flexner, an educational reformer and the founder of the I.A.S., argued that institutions of learning should be more concerned with cultivating intellectual exploration than with finding immediate applications for scientific research. "Throughout the whole history of science," Flexner wrote, "most of the really great discoveries which had ultimately proved to be beneficial to mankind had been made by men and women who were driven not by the desire to be useful but merely the desire to satisfy their curiosity."
Many of the bus passengers seemed to fall easily into that category. At the moment, Witten was untangling the deeper mysteries of quantum entanglement—"how two distant particles can be interacting in a way that's counterintuitive"—for a paper that he was co-authoring with Douglas Stanford, a gangly, curly-haired postdoc who sat alone a few rows up. Stanford, for his part, was "trying to understand some conceptual aspects of black holes that are confusing." Having grown up in Washington State, he said, he was "rather happy about the weather today." He hadn't made a sign, though. "I'm not completely confident in my ability to capture the right sentiment on a piece of cardboard," he said. "But I'm not anti-sign, not at all." Across the aisle, Eva Silverstein—round wire-frame glasses, bright smile—said that her work was divided between early-universe cosmology and the physics of black holes. "I think of both as the dynamics of horizons," she said. "I can go into more detail if you'd like."
The March for Science was conceived in January, in the wake of the highly successful Women's March and in response to a series of increasingly egregious assaults by the Trump Administration on scientific truth and plain sense—the appointment, in Scott Pruitt, of an E.P.A. chief who saw no real need for the E.P.A.; the dismissal of climate change as a reality and even as a phrase; the proposed slashing of the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the agencies responsible for gathering climate data. In the ensuing weeks, there was much discussion about the proper boundaries between science and politics, the precise aims of the March for Science, and whether scientists should take part in it. But, by yesterday, organizers were expecting tens of thousands of participants in D.C., and satellite marches had been planned in more than six hundred cities around the world.
At nine-thirty, the I.A.S. bus reached R.F.K. Stadium, two miles east of the U.S. Capitol. The passengers filed off and, as a loose pod, headed down a long sidewalk in the supposed direction of the Metro. After a hundred yards, they stopped and looked around, puzzled. Witten pulled out his phone, queried Google Maps, and adjusted course. By the time the group had arrived on the National Mall, the rally was under way. Questlove was playing on a stage, interrupted occasionally by notable speakers, including the educator and television personality Bill Nye and Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician who helped alert the country to the water crisis in Flint. A light drizzle had begun to fall, and people approached from every direction wearing clever T-shirts and carrying handmade signs:
There was an entrance to the rally ground on Seventeenth Street and Constitution Avenue, but the lines to get through the bag check were backed up several blocks. Sue Perna, an artist from Virginia, and her niece, Jessica Balone, stood halfway down the line with signs that read "Trump is Dumb and Also Stupid" and "Trump: Peer-Reviewed Imbecile." Perna said, "I see myself as a fill-in for all the scientists who aren't here."
I had arranged to meet Robbert Dijkgraaf, the director of the I.A.S., on the corner of Eighteenth Street. He arrived around eleven, tall and blond and brimming with enthusiasm under his umbrella. He had just given a speech at the National Math Festival, held in a nearby convention center. "I talked about the big bang and the future of the universe," he said. "Just small stuff! I'm half a mathematician and half a particle physicist. I sometimes feel like a quantum particle, trying to be in two places at once."
Dijkgraaf wrote the introduction to the new edition of Flexner's essay, but since Inauguration Day the concept of useless knowledge had begun to seem a little quaint. "I now feel like I have to write a prequel: 'The Usefulness of Useful Knowledge,' " Dijkgraaf told me. "Reality has the irritating behavior of being right, and in the end you pay a price for not listening." So much has happened, he said, in the decades since Flexner's time—microelectronics, genomic science—that it can be hard to actually comprehend. "In some sense, the evidence of the usefulness of science is all around us," Dijkgraaf said. "It's in our back pockets, in our blood streams. We are governed by science—everybody is, even the people who aren't supportive of it. But we are simply not aware of it anymore. It's infinitely close by and infinitely far away."
At around noon, science, expressing itself through an app on my phone, indicated that the drizzle would turn to steady rain in ten minutes. Now the band played "On the Sunny Side of the Street," soon followed by ominous music that accompanied a video montage of melting glaciers and calving icebergs. Two hundred yards from the stage, a large group of rallygoers had sought shelter in a grove of low, dripping trees. Elementary-school science teachers huddled close to stubble-faced grad students in organic chemistry. Signs not written in indelible marker or carried under clear plastic had begun to streak. The crowd was an impressive mix of ages and interests, the men no more numerous than the women. "I love that there's so much diversity here," Salaha Warsi, a plant pathologist, told me. But it was hard to miss the pervasive whiteness. "It's pretty stark," she said.
Not far away, a voice was audible through the neck of an eight-foot-tall inflatable T. rex suit. The geology major inside wasn't sure what he wanted to do after graduation, he said, "but I am well-rounded." He was wearing the dinosaur costume to keep dry. "I forgot about the rain," he said. "I didn't bring good enough clothes. My professor let me borrow his suit."
Right at two o'clock, the activity onstage ended and the rally-goers became marchers, inching up Constitution Avenue. "Science takes a very long time," a cell biologist near me said. Every few minutes, a cheer rose from somewhere far ahead and swept down the length of the crowd. A blue-eyed young man introduced himself to me as Daniel Kammen, an energy-and-resources professor in the public-policy school at U.C. Berkeley. As an employee also of the State Department, Kammen had been working with governments in Africa and the Middle East on climate and renewable-energy issues. He was one of several such science envoys, holdovers from the Obama Administration who had been asked to stay on for another year—though it wasn't clear whether that was simply an oversight. "The State Department is almost unstaffed at the assistant-secretary and under-secretary levels, which means there's no one to turn the program off," Kammen told me. He had joined the march, he said, because "for me it should be a no-brainer that science is a good thing."
Outside the U.S. Department of Commerce building, Susan Sharp, a silver-haired woman from West Virginia, watched the crowd flow past alongside her nine-year-old grandson, a doe-eyed boy in a baseball cap and oversized rain jacket. At nine months of age, he had been diagnosed with neuroblastoma and undergone eight rounds of chemo. He didn't remember the experience, but he was carrying a sign on red cardstock that read "Science Saved My Life." A young woman wearing a black "March for Science" T-shirt and matching cap estimated that five hundred people were passing by every minute, which would put the total number of participants in the tens of thousands. "This is the biggest march for science ever," a friend of Sharp's said, fully aware that the event was also the first of its kind. "It's yuge!" Sharp said. Two T. rexes waddled past, one of them presumably the geology major.
The bus left for Princeton promptly at six o'clock. Twilight turned to darkness, and the overhead lights flicked on as people settled into their reading. Stanford was going over a scientific paper titled "Analyticity in Spin in Conformal Theories" and what looked like some complex mathematical equations. ("It's kind of hard to explain," he said.) Stanford told me that he had marched all the way to the Capitol. Nearby, he had seen a group gathered around a rock wall, arguing over what type of rock it was. "And I saw another group doing the same thing around a tree," Stanford said. He laughed. "They were taking a photograph of a leaf!"
In the seat just across the aisle from me and one row up, Scott Tremaine, a white-haired astrophysicist, was also going over some math, a page of equations he'd written in blue pen. Earlier in the day, Dijkgraaf had said that his favorite mathematical symbol is the equals sign; it was invented, in 1557, by a mathematician who wanted to avoid having to write the phrase "is equal to" again and again. "I like how it makes two seemingly dissimilar things, a and b, identical," Dijkgraaf had said. "And I like the fact that it has two strands, as if it's connecting in both directions, like it's an electric cord going from a to b and b to a. It's what makes the 'Aha!' light bulb go on."
Tremaine came back and sat next to me. He gestured at his notebook. "It's my train problem," he said, meaning a problem sufficiently contained that he could think about it in spare moments, while in transit. Tremaine was happy that most of the placards he had seen that day weren't partisan. "The sentiments that were expressed were ones that you wouldn't think needed to be expressed," he said. "If I'd gotten my act together and written a sign, it'd have said something like, 'In a thousand years, the only thing America will be remembered for is its science.' That will never go away." We talked for a couple more minutes, then Tremaine returned to his seat, pulled from his bag a copy of "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," which he'd never read, he said, and got to work.
Alan Burdick, a staff writer, joined The New Yorker in 2012, first as a senior editor and then also as the editor of Elements, newyorker.com's science-and-tech blog. He worked previously as an editor at the Times Magazine, Discover, and OnEarth, and as a writer and producer at the American Museum of Natural History. He has written for magazines including Harper's and GQ, and is the author, most recently, of "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation." His previous book, "Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion," from 2005, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.
Courtesy: newyorker.com
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Solveig Torsvik (born 30 December 1954 in Stange, Norway) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Torsvik was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1993, but was not re-elected in 1997. She had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the term 1981–1985, 1985–1989 and 1989–1993. From 1986 to 1989 she met as a regular representative when Helen Marie Bøsterud was appointed to the Cabinet, and the same thing happened from 1992 to 1993, when Reiulf Steen was absent.

When Gro Harlem Brundtland formed her third cabinet in 1990, Torsvik was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Ministry of Local Government, a position she held until 1992. In October 2006 she was appointed as a political advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services.

On the local level, Torsvik was a member of Lørenskog municipal council from 1975 to 1983. She chaired the countywide party chapter from 1990 to 1993, and was the national party secretary from 1996 to 2002.

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1954 births
Living people
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Akershus politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
20th-century Norwegian politicians
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Dina Kowal Creative: Tea Party Sketch time!
I sat down with some new DK stamps from smARTworks' latest release. The verse stamp is a separate single stamp, and the rose image is part of one of the new dance sets - I love these sets, though I can't dance worth a lick...they were just so fun to design.
Couple fun things on this card - one is the rose, and here's a closeup of the layers. I stamped the rose 5 times, 4 on the dark coral DP and once on a green pattern (actually I think it was the reverse side of the coral).
The other fun thing that I didn't get a good picture of are the edges of the card, doilie, and verse panel. I painted a light border of Pumpkin Shimmerz around the edge - it gives a little sparkle and breaks up the straight edges a bit. I'll definitely be trying that again!
Beautiful as always, Dina! I wanted to use a doily too, but I didn't have one. I half-seriously thought about crocheting one but stopped myself before I got too carried away, lol!
This is so pretty! Love the dimensional rose, and the pearls along the doily edge.
This is so beautiful!! I love the dimension of the rose - lovely!!!
A great interpretation of the sketch, and the rose is beauteous!


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Infuriating the Joint
Michael Freedman June 11, 1998 4:00AM
Greg Scott cannot be rehabilitated. He is an incorrigible outlaw who regularly flouts the law and commits a drug-related crime as often and as easily as most people eat a meal.
But he's never been arrested for breaking that law. Instead he landed in an Orlando jail cell two weeks ago for exercising his constitutional right to speak out at a publicly funded conference, where he attempted to explain how breaking the law every day, four times a day for the past three years, has saved his life.
At the two-day public conference -- which was funded by $64,000 in taxpayer money and boasted a hit parade of top political figures -- Scott learned that merely talking about a political point of view was more likely to land him in the slammer than committing an actual crime.
The point of the conference, cosponsored by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and two conservative Florida-based drug prevention organizations, was to inform Florida residents and law enforcement officials about the dangers of legalizing marijuana for medical use.
The conference was a countermove to the political actions of a Fort Lauderdale-based nonprofit, of which Scott is an active member, called the Coalition Advocating Medical Marijuana (CAMM). The coalition seeks an amendment to Florida's constitution that would legalize pot use for medical purposes. To do so CAMM must first put the issue on a statewide ballot, which requires gathering 435,000 signatures on a petition. CAMM has roughly 35,000 signatures to date, and has given itself until August 1, 2000, to gain the remainder of the support. Similar laws have existed in California and Arizona since November 1996.
Some doctors and patients with glaucoma and cancer credit marijuana with helping to reduce pain, lessen the side effects of the medicines, increase appetite, and quell nausea. And as Scott well knows, marijuana can be used to help AIDS patients. He burns up to two marijuana joints a day to fight the side effects of the protease inhibitors he takes as treatment for the disease.
At a fit 175 pounds, Scott, age 36, hardly appears to be suffering from a life-threatening illness. Although he is retired from his job as a TV writer, he boarded a plane last week for a two-week trip to Washington and then New York to address members of the United Nations in an effort to spread the word that for some people, cannabis can be a lifesaver.
Just three years ago, however, Scott says he was near death, wasting away at 130 pounds. Lesions had spread over his entire body. He suffered from severe diarrhea and pain in his hands and joints. And he was unable to ingest the 40 or more pills a day required simply to keep him alive.
"I smoked pot every day," he said in a speech in November at the Broward Convention Center. "And the pot calmed my stomach against handfuls of pills. The pot made me hungry so I could eat without a tube. The pot eased the pain of crippling neural side effects so I could dial the phone by myself. The pot calmed my soul and allowed me to accept that I would probably soon die."
Scott is convinced that marijuana saved his life. It allowed him to live long enough to see the advance of protease inhibitors, which are HIV patients' most effective weapon against the disease. He is so convinced of pot's lifesaving capabilities that he is willing to be arrested for his crime of smoking it. But until Scott, a Fort Lauderdale resident, attended the Orlando conference with members of CAMM, he had never been jailed for any reason, he says.
The conference, held May 27 and 28, was paid for with $64,000 of public money from a grant distributed through Florida's Department of Community Affairs drug-control program. The money went toward 300 hotel rooms and accommodations.
The seminar included an impressive array of speakers, Scott says, including former U.S. drug czar William Bennett, U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Orlando), Drug Enforcement Administration chief Tom Constantine, and...
Scott admits his frequent drug use causes him short-term memory loss.
... ah yes, Florida Secretary of State Sandra Mortham.
Although the seminar was open to the public and publicly funded, the distinguished deck of panelists was intentionally loaded against the CAMM group and Scott was hushed every time he tried to present his point of view. During one morning session, Scott asked Bennett if he thought arresting patients was a way to build a virtuous America -- a sly reference to Bennett's 1993 book, The Book of Virtues. Bennett ignored the question.
By afternoon Scott's protestations grew louder. So much so, in fact, that he received two separate verbal warnings from hotel security guards, one for answering a rhetorical question posed in a speech by Gary Cohan, one of the nation's leading HIV/AIDS doctors, and again for applauding in the middle of his speech. Cohan spoke against medical marijuana but noted the importance of maintaining the patient-doctor relationship.
"I applauded very loudly," concedes Scott with mock repentance, "and I guess I was the only one."
A few minutes later, during a question-and-answer period, Scott approached the podium and inquired how the seminar panel could advocate arresting patients who use marijuana for medical purposes. When hotel security led him away from the podium, Scott shouted, "That's exactly what you're doing. You're saying 'Arrest the patients.'"
Hotel security and the Orange County sheriff's deputies on hand arrested him for disorderly conduct. He spent thirteen hours in jail and posted $500 bond, but Scott has a name for the real crime that took place: a violation of his constitutional right to free speech.
With CAMM's assistance Scott has enlisted an Orlando civil rights attorney, Richard Wilson, who agreed to take the free-speech case on a pro bono basis. From Wilson's perspective, Scott should have never been arrested for speaking out at a political event. For that matter, he notes, taxpayer dollars should not have been used to present a one-sided political argument.
"It is entirely inappropriate," Wilson argues, "for the government to be spending tax dollars -- and my client's tax dollars -- on a political issue on which it has taken sides."
Still, event organizers stand by the decision to prohibit CAMM from airing its views. Despite the forum's billing as a "Marijuana Education Summit," the assembly was never meant to be an open discussion of ideas, says Betty Sembler, the founder of Drug-Free America, a nonprofit group that helped put the event together, and Save Our Society, a political organization.
Instead, she says, the goal was to explain the dangers of marijuana, and present scientific data supporting her belief that the drug is not medicine. Evidence to the contrary from researchers, doctors, and Scott himself was not considered factual and was therefore inconsequential.
"It wasn't about their opinions," she states bluntly. "It wasn't about anyone's point of view except for the people that were there."
Sembler's unyielding assertion was the prevailing sentiment at the Orlando education summit. Tim Moore, the commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, came right out and stated the meeting's political intent: Keep the medical marijuana argument "fact based," and keep the issue off the Florida ballot.
A constitutional amendment, he insists, will only lead to widespread marijuana use, particularly among teenagers, who will find drugs easier to obtain and come to believe that drugs are safe and possibly even glamorous.
Moore also believes the medical marijuana lobby is simply a well-financed ploy to open the doors to full-scale drug legalization. As evidence, he lists the financially sound pro-pot campaign in California, which is sure to make its way to Florida any day now.
"The money has not shown up here yet," Moore admits, from his office in Tallahassee. "But it's coming."
In contrast, he says, his own political interest doesn't have a lot of money to fight against medical marijuana.
"All we have," he says in a down-home Southern accent, "is the faith and trust of all Floridians."
Of course the FDLE also has taxpayer money. And the power to arrest those who disagree with its version of the facts, as presented at the summit.
Among the most salient of these facts, according to Moore, is that a legal alternative to smoking marijuana already exists in the form of a prescription drug called Marinol, a synthetic pill that offers some of the same medicinal effects as marijuana.
But Marinol has its drawbacks, Scott contends. For one thing he can't control the dosage as easily with the pill as he can by smoking a joint. Also, the medicine he takes causes vomiting, an effect marijuana is meant to mitigate. If he's vomiting, he asks, how can he ingest yet another pill?
But Scott's no dope; aside from that simple argument, he and his doctors have facts of their own.
Studies conducted by the National Institute of Health, a federally funded health research agency, give anecdotal evidence demonstrating marijuana's ability to reduce and relieve pain and nausea, according to Scott's local doctor, Ralph Liporace.
While Liporace, a Pompano Beach internist, hasn't directly instructed his HIV and AIDS patients to commit a crime by buying a bag of weed, he has told them that some patients have felt the beneficial side effects of the now-illegal drug.
"As a physician I'm licensed to give prescriptions for far more harmful products than marijuana," he maintains. "I can write for morphine, I can write for opium, I can write for cocaine. I mean, give me a break -- I can't prescribe a joint?"
According to the panel at the publicly funded event, the answer to that question is a flat "No." No exceptions. No questions asked.
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A true heart for traditional country music shined through every word Shane Owens spoke as he told me about his new single "Music Man". A genuine farm boy from Alabama who grew up on grandma's piano playing and gospel music, made his way to Nashville at a young age not knowing the great musicians he would soon create music with. Shane told stories of performing at the Grand Ole Opry with legends like George Jones and recording music with Randy Travis. These are just some of the many opportunities he views as blessings. Read on to learn of how Shane Owens country music came to be and listen to his new single capturing the life of a country singer that will have you tapping your boots.
With several top 40 records, Shane believes radio is the heart and soul of country music. He says "Music Man" is for anyone who has ever tried to become a singer. "The song says it all, I am a music man, it's my calling and the good Lord above gave me the talent to sing traditional country music. There's only a handful of us out there in Nashville doing traditional country music now… anyone in this business trying to make it singing can relate to the song 'Music Man,'" says Shane.
"I was born to be singer and a guitar slinger, in a five-piece band. Rolling down the road in a beat-up bus to a honky tonk one night stand. That's the life I chose, it's all I know and am, I'm just a music man."
– Shane Owens
The boot-taping, drink raising single will have you singing along while admiring the life Shane and other country musicians chose to bring good-hearted songs that remind us to enjoy the simple pleasures in life. While this song captures the country singer life in a few minutes, Shane advises anyone trying to pursue this career to do it because they love it and surround themselves with good people. "I've been so blessed. I got a great team around me from my record label, tour manager and band. I'm surrounded by great people who care to give it their best. When you have those kinds of people around you, they make you shine," says Shane.
As he reflects on the memorable experiences throughout his career so far, Shane views music as one of the greatest gifts in life. "Music is a healer of the soul and without music I don't know what we would do. I've been blessed to write and record some of the best songs in Nashville with some of the best writers and people. Music is a gift, it's something you don't want to take for granted."
With Christmas time upon us, Shane released his version of "Christmas in Dixie" to share the importance of being with family during Christmas time. "It moves your heart; a tearjerker. It's a powerful song… It's all about what Christmas means, being with family."
For every moment life brings, songs are wrapped up in the perfect three-minute gift that understands how we feel. Shane enjoys singing about country life and is excited to be playing more live shows in the coming year. He will be dropping a six song EP soon, be sure to visit shaneowenscountrymusic.com and follow him on Instagram to be notified of when new music releases and his tour schedule.
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Q: Variable in Player State in Lua not updating as expected In the following code, the value of self.player.x is assigned to self.x is assigned at init and tweaked a little bit to the left or right when the state is entered.  The PlayerPilotState then manipulates self.player.x every frame and my expectation is that self.x would update along with it.  Items such as the tilemap, which are assigned to player as def.tilemap when the player is instantiated, do update as the map changes.  How do I ensure that variables such as self.x will update themselves as well?  I know that I can update that variable under update every frame, but it seems ineloquent and since I'm fairly new to coding, I don't understand why the player.tilemap does update whereas this variable doesn't.  Thank you!
function PlayerPilotState:init(pilot, passenger)
    self.player = pilot
    self.passenger = passenger
    self.animation = Animation {
        frames = {2, 3, 2, 8},
        interval = 0.1
    }
    self.player.currentAnimation = self.animation

    -- x value at middle of players to make collisions more readable
    -- and scalable (for left/right pilot/passenger cases)
    self.x = self.player.x
end

function PlayerPilotState:enter(params)
    -- determine which side passenger is riding on
    self.ridingSide = params.ridingSide
    if self.ridingSide == 'left' then
        self.x = self.player.x - 1/2 * self.player.width
    else
        self.x = self.player.x + 1/2 * self.player.width
    end
end

A: This is a common misconception for people coming from non-scripted languages.
Note that self.x and self.player.x are numbers so when you use assignment:
assert(type(self.player.x) == "number")
self.x = self.player.x -- copy

you are making a copy of that number.
On the other hand when dealing with tables or userdata objects then assignment works by making a reference:
assert(type(self.player) == "table")
self.ref = self.player -- reference

Generally speaking you can't really have one number synchronized in the way you have described. It wouldn't be efficient either because you will have to make a redundant "copy" of that value in memory.
This is a question of encapsulation and how/where your data is stored. If you are not sure how to redesign your code remember that "values that change together, belong together". Good luck!

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It's time for our Week 13 NFL expert picks against the spread. We are "experts" by the nature of our making picks, it's how the world works these days. It's not as if there's a degree you can get in picking NFL games. What matters is your record and our record on the season is 87-81 ATS which is very respectable. So, here's our picks for NFL Week 13 for the first five games on the schedule. We'll post picks for the rest of the NFL schedule later in the week so check back often.
Philadelphia Eagles at Seattle Seahawks (+2.5): Michael Vick may or may not play in this game but honestly, does it matter? He's not had a good season and the Eagles defense was already bad and is no banged up. The Seahawks are not a good football team but they do beat teams at home (like the Ravens). Pick: Seahawks
Tennessee Titans at Buffalo Bills (+1): Yuck. This one could get ugly and by that we mean they will play a game which by its very nature will be ugly. Chris Johnson might have finally played himself into game shape, however, which gives the edge to Tennessee but I wouldn't bet the farm on this one. I wouldn't bet the farm on anyone of them even if I had a farm. Pick: Titans
Kansas City Chiefs at Chicago Bears (-7.5): The battle of bad backup quarterbacks. Fun stuff. The Bears should win this game at home but the line seems a bit high. The Chiefs do put up a good fight. Pick: Chiefs
Atlanta Falcons at Houston Texans (+2.5): No Matt Schaub. No Matt Leinart. Yes, Houston, we have a problem and his name isn't Matt. The Falcons haven't exactly been impressive but they do have seven wins and they do have a quarterback which is helpful in the NFL. Pick: Falcons
Oakland Raiders at Miami Dolphins (-3): Boy, this one brings back memories of good old AFC battles back in the day. The Silver and Black and the Teal and Orange, an epic clash of colors. The Raiders have won three of four since Carson Palmer arrived and the Dolphins are showing signs of life after they were an early front-running in the "Suck for Luck" campaign. Who's sucking now, sucka! Pick: Dolphins
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My daughter attends a private school. The teacher feels she may need special education services. There are no special education teachers in her school. Is she eligible to receive special education services from our area's public school district?
It depends. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004) – the special education law – does not apply to individuals placed in private schools by their parents. Private schools are not covered under IDEA 2004.
If a public school places a child in a private school with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) – a part of the IDEA program, then the public school is responsible for ensuring that the private school implements the child's IEP. Children attending public schools are entitled to a free appropriate education and an IEP funded by the federal government. Private schools do not receive funding and are not required to provide a free appropriate education or an IEP. They are not required to provide any special education services to children with disabilities.
However, private schools are bound by Section 504 – the civil rights law. Section 504 prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education and is not discriminated against for reasons related to his/her disability. Private schools are only responsible for providing modifications, accommodations, and access to educational opportunities (such as a ramp for a child in a wheelchair). Public schools have few responsibilities for children with disabilities enrolled in private schools by their parents.
It is the responsibility of public school districts to identify and evaluate all children who may have disabilities under IDEA's Child Find mandate. If you have a student in a private school who is struggling academically and has not been evaluated, read what IDEA says about Child Find. http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/child.find.index.htm#sthash.PbV6gYdD.dpuf
"Child Find is a major component of IDEA that requires states to identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities ages three to 21 needing early intervention or special education services. Child Find involves a continuous process of public awareness activities, screenings, and evaluations in order to locate, identify, and refer children as early as possible."
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act – 2004, or IDEA, states very clearly that students enrolled in private schools and identified with disabilities through Child Find may receive publicly funded special education services. It also states that students enrolled in private institutions by their parents do not have the same legal rights to special education services and may not receive as many services as the students enrolled in public school. Public school offerings differ from state to state and county to county, but IDEA does not.
Each year, public school districts designate some monies from the state and federal governments to fund special education students attending private schools. Public school districts will meet with the administrators of private schools in their LEA (local education area) to discuss the services they will/can provide. Funds vary from year to year, but the amount is usually insufficient to provide a substantial number of services.
According to IDEA, the public school district in your LEA must provide the following for students attending non-public schools. The public school district must:
Evaluate any student attending a private school for special education services if a private school teacher makes a referral (through Child Find).
Determine if the student is eligible to receive services.
Develop an Instructional School Plan (ISP) for the child's private school.
Consult with the student's parents and teachers when developing the ISP.
Once an evaluation is complete and the ISP written, it is up to the public school administrators to decide which services they will/can provide. Should the district decide to provide services to the private school student, the district cannot use the private school's personnel to provide the services. Public school personnel must provide services at a public facility.
IDEA regulations regarding special education services for students attending private school are too extensive to cover in this article. The links provided within, and following the end of this article, will take you to parent-friendly sites with discussions, explanations, and "translations" of IDEA regulations regarding public special education services to students placed in private school by their parents.
If your child is attending a private school and you, or your child's teacher, suspect he/she may need screening for special education services, consult your school's principal. He/she will know the procedures in contacting the public school personnel in charge of Child Find.
The following articles will give you a better understanding of how students placed in private school by their parents may receive public school special education services.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs:
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Provisions Related to Children with Disabilities Enrolled by Their Parents in Private Schools (PDF) https://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/speced/privateschools/idea.pdf
Children Enrolled by Their Parents in Private Schools http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/%2Croot%2Cdynamic%2CTopicalBrief%2C5%2C
Questions and Answers on Serving Children with Disabilities Placed by Their Parents at Private Schools (April 2011) http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/,root,dynamic,QaCorner,1,
Children Enrolled by their Parents in Private Schools Video Clip (This video explains how IDEA 2004 calculates and designates funds to provide services to students enrolled in private school by their parents.) http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/%2Croot%2Cdynamic%2CVideoClips%2C3%2C
Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities. http://www.wrightslaw.com/#sthash.ZB3quRv0.dpuf
Learn more about Child Find under IDEA-2004. Wrightslaw: The Child Find Mandate: What Does It Mean to You? by Pamela Wright & Pete Wright, Esq. http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/child.find.mandate.htm#sthash.3RQpjPi6.dpuf
Learn more about Section 504. http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/sec504.index.htm#sthash.EEFHi8kJ.dpuf

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It's always interesting to look at your life in retrospect. So many times, while life is happening quickly ... it's hard to understand exactly where life is taking you. And, what that path will look like.
For me, our young family took a leap of faith and moved with our 6 and 10 year old daughters and wild Westie to a village outside of Barcelona, Spain ... Sant Cugat del Valles. And, while I pride myself on being organized to the nth degree, I found myself turned upside-down with an unfamiliar land, layout, culture and language. Nothing sounded like home. No familiar faces. Nothing smelled like our fresh cut lawns in Kentucky. Nothing tasted the same. Nothing was laid out like our sprawling strip malls and mega stores. And, as beautiful as Barcelona appeared to be ... it didn't feel like home. Not an ounce.
So, while I was trying to keep my "we-can-do-this" smile pasted on my face, I realized that our comfort would start at home. That would be our "safe" place. And, even though we were moving from a nice cape cod home in the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky to a nearly 1,400 sq. ft. apartment in Spain, I knew that this was the place to start.
After a long wait for our container of household goods; the day finally arrived when we were reunited with our belongings. They were "jammed" into a local moving truck. The movers didn't speak English and weren't able to read the labels on the boxes and I didn't know how to tell them where the boxes should go ... so we ended up with a traffic-jam of goods in our living room.
I knew, from the outset, that we would only be able to take our favorite things. And, that was eye-opening. And, that applied to EVERY category in our house. A closet full of sheets ... we could only take 4 sets plus a guest set. Our dishes? One set and not the complete set. No china and nice serving pieces. The girls' toys (this was the hard part), only a very small amount. Our book collection? Maybe just a shelf or two at most. Decor and art ... only our most loved and valued.
The rest of our things went into two categories: donate or store. We donated a ton. And, then we put the remainder into storage.
What surprised me, when I was setting up our new home in Spain, were two things. First of all, I was thrilled to see only my favorite things. Truly. We brought the best of our best ... the most meaningful. Things that we had accumulated over the years that were kind of tatty or old ... or were no longer our style ... we let these things go. And, all that was left were things that brought us joy. The second "Ah-Ha" moment (thank you Oprah), was that we didn't actually miss any of the things that we kept in storage. Truly. When we came back, we moved our big pieces of furniture that wouldn't fit in Spain, back into our house. But, the rest of the stuff .... we got rid of.
We were so accustomed to living with less, that we LOVED it. We loved being surrounded by our favorite things. We loved not having to dust around or care for things that overwhelmed us. Let's face it, possessions can be overwhelming. Possessions require care, maintenance, attention.
We learned to live with less. And, the freedom that it gave our family was a blessing in itself.
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Is Instagram Reels The New TikTok?
As you may or may not have heard, TikTok is in trouble, at least in the US.
Donald Trump is waging war on the latest social platform, declaring that it will be banned in the US, which has prompted many TikTok Influencers to start to look elsewhere for their following.
As fate would have it, Instagram has coincidentally launched their latest feature: Instagram Reels.
What Is Instagram Reels?
Reels lets Instagram users record short 15 second videos and add music and effects to the video, similar to the way that TikTok works.
Instagram has also added a specific spot for reels on its explore page, which can be scrolled through vertically, just like TikTok's 'For You' page.
It seems that TikTok's success has caught everyone's attention, and now Instagram wants a piece of the action.
Instagram's Success
Instagram is without a doubt one of the most successful social media platforms in history, but if we look at their journey, we can see that some of their best ideas were emulated based on other platforms.
When Instagram launched Stories back in 2016, many people said that they has blatantly copied Snapchat's story feature.
Instagram Stories very quickly surpassed Snapchat in users numbers and engagement levels, so it is tough to say that Instagram is just copying ideas.
A wise man once said that the best ideas in life are emulated, and these two examples prove that Instagram has the ability to recognise strong ideas in the social media realm and incorporate them into their platform model.
This is a very different concept than just stealing an idea, Instagram had to make Stories and Reels work with their existing model and come up with a way to make their version better.
Features on Reels
Instagram Reels and TikTok's platform do have some differences, and there are a few key things that Instagram is missing in its first rendition of Reels.
One big thing people loved with TikTok was the ability to upload your own songs onto the system, which was great for musicians and creative types.
But with Instagram Reels, you are unable to upload high quality song files to use in your videos, you have to record them with the microphone.
There is also no ability to 'duet' with your friends, which you can do with TikTok, which means that people cannot collaborate on the same video on Reels.
Reels, just like Stories, has been designed to be an add on for Instagram, meaning it is something else to do on the app, not a whole new app entirely.
With TikTok's future looking uncertain in the US, many users are recognising that the ship may be in danger, and they are jumping to other platforms as fast as they can.
The problem is, the communities in these other platforms are not exactly receiving these TikTokers as well as they have on their home platform.
TikTok is aimed at a predominantly younger audience, and revolves around music and dancing as its main focus.
Only time will tell if this kind of content is well suited to other platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
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Rows and rows of crooked stalls converge on the criss-crossing blocks of Kowloon, the more lived-in, gritty half of the metropolis's Downtown, sat on the north side of Victoria Harbor. This makes it a brilliant place for bargain hunters and shoppers on a Hong Kong TEFL journey. The haggling hits a zenith with the Temple Street Night Market. It's a famous strip of hawkers that unfolds in a heady fray of stacked jade carvings, smoking incense sticks, woven bracelets, handmade bags, plastic toys, whirring gadgets, flapping flags, fridge magnets, and dangling jewelry. At the north end of the market, there are clusters of raucous beer bars with cheap brews and plates of soy-doused noodles, not to mention a clutch of fortune tellers who might just be able to reveal how your Hong Kong TEFL teaching adventure is going to go.
There's arguably no better introduction to the stunning skyline of Hong Kong than the panoramas that unfold around Victoria Peak. It soars 552 meters above the shimmering high-rises of Central and Sai Ying Pun, with outlook points that cast their gaze across the legendary harbor to Kowloon and the needle-like spire of the International Commerce Centre. To get to the vantage point – and we'd recommend heading up for the dying light of evening – you can ride the Peak Tram. It's been rattling up the steep-sided mountain since opening its carriages in 1888, so you can also get a glimpse of vintage Hong Kong history as you scoot out of the terminals on Garden Road, too.
Just a short ferry ride from the piers of Central is the boomerang-shaped island of Lamma. It's a world away from the traffic-clogged streets of the big metropolis, with ramshackle fishing shacks and tight-knit lanes that weave past pubs and taverns and boutique art shops. Throw in a host of powdery beaches and beer-stocked beach bars and you should instantly see why this laid-back enclave of the archipelago is the perfect place to chill, unwind, and grab some R&R while teaching Hong Kong TEFL. It'll be a spot to remember for your whole stay!
You might be surprised to hear that horse racing is one of the traditional pastimes of the Hong Kongese. There's certainly nowhere more traditional to watch the hard-fought, saddleback showdowns than the Happy Valley Racecourse. Its tucked into the forested mountains on the edge of Wan Chai, with a history that runs all the way back to the 1890s and the British colonial era. The main racing season lasts for the autumn, winter and spring (September to July), when you'll find regular bouts of high-speed chases to attend. You'll need to figure out how the betting works, and then settle in for wallet-friendly beers and a wild night.
A great way to remind yourself that your Hong Kong TEFL journey isn't just going to be about hopping steamy dim sum houses and gawping at great skyscrapers is to make an escape to the Dragon's Back Trail. It's one of the best-loved walking routes in the whole archipelago, with one foot in the apartment blocks of Chai Wan and another on the soft-sanded beaches of Shek O. You can ride the MTR and then jump on a bus to the start of the trail, which typically takes a couple of hours as you undulate through the scrub forests, rise to lookouts over Tai Tam Bay, and finish in the company of the roaring rollers of Big Wave Bay – a surf, perhaps?


Once a showpiece of the British Empire, Kolkata has managed to preserve some of the extravagance of its grand old colonial residences, while steadily making a name for itself as the intellectual and cultural capital of India.
The former home of poet and playwright Girish Chandra Ghosh has been locked up for decades by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, which once a year gives it an exterior paint job, renewing the original red and yellow. Historians want to get into the mansion as no one knows what's beyond the padlocked door. Some newspapers have speculated that there may be important relics still stored there, but that is only speculation until access is granted.
Loosely based on Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, this domed general post office (1868) evokes Saint Paul's Cathedral in London and the former Government House. The three-storey building consists of large halls with arched corridors that are surrounded by acres of gardens. Imposing lion figures stand atop tall elaborately designed wrought iron gates upon entrance.
A branch of the highly influential Tagore family, which included the poet Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, built this guest house modelled after Windsor Castle. Sadly, the castle never made it to the heritage-buildings list, due to unsympathetic renovations. However, it has become a shrine-like museum commemorating the great modern poet of India.
The Marble Palace in Chorbagan district was built in 1835 by Raja Rajendra Mullick Bahadur, who spared no expense in what has been described as "audaciously vulgar" magnificence. The family still lives in its great halls paved with varicoloured Italian marble and chock-a-block with collections of oversized porcelain vases, chandeliers loaded with Venetian crystals, ormolu on nearly every surface, giant mirrors now foxed from the climate, a collection of statues of Queen Victoria and hundreds of paintings, some purporting to be the work of Titian and Rubens. In the surrounding gardens, a visitor could trip over statues of sweetly napping lions, roaring lions and other mythological figures. The Marble Palace, inside and out, is strictly off limits to photographers.


Praeger Security International is accepting proposals to publish volumes in the PSI Guides to Terrorists, Insurgents and Armed Groups.
Each volume in this series is meant to be a relatively short but authoritative research study of a particular terrorist group, insurgency, organized criminal network or other armed group.
The volume should include organizational biographies, 5-6 narrative chapters that provide a concise overview of the origins, ideology, growth, activities, etc. of your chosen group.
* NOTE: Chapter 1 should provide basic facts about the group, and address key questions the reader will need to know: When was the group founded, by whom, and where are their primary bases of support and operations? How are they organized, led, etc.? What are the primary sources of their weapons, finances, other kinds of logistics support? What are the main pillars of their ideology, and have these changed over time? Where are their primary recruitment bases? Do they control territory? Providing these and other basic facts about the group will be necessary before leading the reader through your narrative in subsequent chapters.
Envisioned as works aimed at a broad audience (not specifically specialists in their respective fields), these volumes will chronicle the rise and (in many cases, but not all) the demise of terrorist organizations, insurgencies, and armed groups from around the globe, while addressing issues of international security, transnational threats, and regional concerns specific to each entity.
Beyond the narrative chapters, each work must include content specific appendices, to include maps, glossary, brief biographical sketches of leaders, prominent organizational members and a timeline of key organizational events (establishment of, key events such as hijackings, bombings, taking/releasing hostages, etc.). When possible, original documents that illustrate organizational philosophies, organizational responses to international actions, or national policies directed toward the organizations would be a welcome inclusion in any appendix.
1. Complete name and street address of each co-author or co-editor. Include phone, fax, and email.
3. Length: Our ideal is 70,000 - 90,000 words.
4. Proposed delivery date. This should not be longer than 18 months after contract at the latest. We will aim to publish 6-9 months after determining that the manuscript received is acceptable. This determination process may include peer review and subsequent revision by the author. Also, if significant portions of the manuscript have already been written, please indicate this in your proposal.
Please send your proposal, as well as any requests for information or clarification, to PSI@teachingterror.net.


An SDK/plugin/etc to send/receive messages to/from Whatsapp?
Our company has a website running on WordPress. My boss asked me if it's possible to make a chat application on the website.
Our work hours are from 8 am to 5 pm. After work hours we sometimes get a lot of phone calls with questions.
My boss wants to have a chatapp on the website. When a visitor asks a question in the chatapp outside of business hours, the people inside a specific whatsapp group(including me and my boss) gets a whatsapp message containing the content the visitor typed in.
Are there any SDKs/plugins/etc out there to accomplish this?
Send and receive one-off faxes within the UK?


Essential Oils are the liquid Essence from the flower, leaves, roots, bark, or seeds from plants and trees. This essence contains not only the essential aroma of the plant, like Roses or Chamomile, but also all of the medicinal and therapeutic properties of the plant, root, flower or tree as well.
Like all of the Oils we use, the Essential Essences that Gaea's Garden uses in all of our products are chosen with the highest rigorous standards of purity and quality. All of the essential oils that go into our products are steam distilled from plants, flowers and trees that have not been contaminated by pesticides, chemicals, or toxins of any kind.
Many of our products feature very special rare essential oils. These essential essences come from high up in the Rif Mountains of Morocco, where the plants are harvested by hand in the mountain valleys. Wildcrafted Herbs, Trees and Flowers that have an ancient lineage, that have grow for centuries and are untouched by modern meddling. These heritage plants still carry their original medicinal values, unaltered by genetic modification, chemical pollutants and cross pollination.
It is unfortunate that most essential oils that come from Europe and North America come plants that are polluted and highly corrupted by modern farming techniques, cross politation that is tainted with genetically altered plants, and cross bread with other species of plants to create "designer" flowers and herbs that cater to the perfume industry and corporate consumerism.
In the Rif Mountains of Morocco, we are working with a family that has created a village cooperative to gather wildcrafted herbs and flowers, and then steam distille them at their peak freshness to bring out their amazing essential oil. One of most incredible essences is Moroccan Chamomile. The unassuming wildflower that produces this oil is called "Blue Tansy" in North America and Europe, yet, the heritage Tansy that grows in the mountains of Morocco is vastly different. While it's much poorer cousins in America and Europe have had generations of pollution and cross pollination that have watered down much of their medicinal value, Moroccan Chamomile plants in the Rif Mountains have remained untouched by time. This essential oil has the deepest indigo blue colour that is never seen in any of the modern Chamomile family of essential oils. It's fragrance has an instant effect, both physically and mentally, to calm mind and relax the body. This is the essential oil that gives our S.O.S Serum it's signature colour.
Other essential oils from the Rif Mountains that we use in many of our hand crafted skincare products are all ancient heritage, wild gathered herbs: Oregano, Thyme, Rosemary and Mint. Each is amazing and far surpasses the usual farmed herbs that are mass produced and genitically altered.
Lavender & Neroli Essential oils from the deep south of Morocco are also essences that we feature in many of our products. Much like the Moroccan Chamomile and wild Rif Mountain Herbs, our Lavender and Neroli essential oils far surpasses the mass produced oils from southern Europe and India.
The Lavender Essential Oil that we use, is very rare indeed. Most lavender essential oil contains only the steam distilled essence of just the tiny flowers. This is due to the perfume industries desire for "pretty" and not functional. Our Lavender Essential Oil is steam distills not just the flowers, but the the whole plant. This increases the healing potency of the Lavender Essence to it's highest level.
Neroli Essence is one of the most sought after oils in the world. The fragrance is instantly uplifting, invigorating and relaxing all at the same time, and brings a blissful smile to anyone's face. Neroli is one of the most expensive essential oils in the world as it takes a tonne of flowers to produce just one kilogram of this exquisite essential essence, yet it is worth every bit of the price.
Everywhere we travel, we look for those very special essences that are pure and untampered with, and that have not been contaminated by pesticides, chemicals, or toxins of any kind, and are absolutely 100% NOT GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms). We strive to meet small independent producers and farmers who are just as passionate as we are about the oils they produce. This way we can insure that we are bringing you only the very best and highest quality essential oils in everyone of the products that we make.


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How I trust myself in front of people
Self-confidence is very important to the person; it is a renewed method, and everyone has this method as he learned and gained in his life and daily life and the circumstances that made him strong personality and grew self-confidence, but not all people have the same amount and amount of confidence; Where life conditions contribute to that feeling either negatively or positively in principle and dealing with boldness.
Self-confidence is defined as a feeling that gives a person the status, value, and importance of a person, allowing him the freedom to act and to give his opinions at all times and times without fear of the reactions of people around him. The self-confidence is divided into two parts, but they do not resemble each other; The excess confidence sometimes called vanity or persistence and this feeling inappropriate.
how to develop my self
Self-confidence sections
Self-confidence in a good spirit: It is the complete and absolute feeling that your views are built on a good study, thinking, analysis, support around you and help others and that is what everyone aspires to.
Self-confidence in a wild spirit: It is a sense of gross profanity that contributes to the inconvenience of others and sheds very disagreeing opinions and does not accept anything, and often the owner of this confidence is balanced and intransigent and hard in his opinion and wants others to apply what he says causing people to dislike him.
How do you produce self-confidence?
There are many ways to produce self-confidence and acquire it in many ways, including:
Self-confidence as a result of exposure to certain things has been resolved in the past.
Exposure to strong problems and disposal.
Exposure to intruding by others, which gives the person confidence in himself.
Great success in a business.
Full support from family and friends.
The emotion that plays an important role in building confidence.
Parents' commitment to remove problems from their children in childhood and adolescence.
Pay attention to good things. Keep away from bad companions. Take criticism from others and accept it well.
Strong determination.
Causes that lead to personal weakness
Lack of opinion.
Inability to defend oneself.
Autism and isolation.
Not receiving social situations in one form or another.
Transfiguration in character changes personality.
Do not deal with people.
Exposure to emotional problems is very strong.
Feeling of failure.
A disintegration of the family.
How to trust yourself in front of people?
You must be ready to change your edition.
Make good choices available. Help others.
Respect and mutual appreciation.
You have to know your destiny; it is the people who know their fate.
Be social with others.
Create a good psychological state without any pressure.
Rely on yourself and not rely on others.
Take responsibility seriously.
Assess the consequences and consequences of your actions.
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LeVar Burton Is New Host And Executive Producer Of 'Trivial Pursuit' Game Show
17th November 2021 by BOTWC Staff
Nobody can block your blessings!
Our national treasure, Levar Burton, has been tapped to host a game show based on the classic trivia game "Trivial Pursuit," which is being developed by Burton's LeVar Burton Entertainment (LBE) alongside Hasbro's Entertainment One (eOne), according to Variety.
"'Trivial Pursuit' is one of the best-known brands in the gaming universe," Burton said. "I am thrilled to have partnered with Hasbro and eOne to bring this beloved game to market as a premium show for television."
The announcement comes off the heels of Burton's campaign to take over "Jeopardy!" following the passing of beloved host Alex Trebek last year. He was a fan favorite, an online petition in support received nearly 300,000 supporters and he was a popular guest host in July; however, he was passed over for the role in favor of now-fired executive producer Mike Richards. After the public outcry over the show's decision, Burton thanked his fans, tweeting that he felt blessed by the outpouring of love.
This past September, while speaking on "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah," Burton told Noah that although he was grateful for the chance to pursue his dream of hosting the show, he realized it wasn't what he wanted.
"The crazy thing is that when you set your sights on something…they say be careful of what you wish for, because what I found out is that it wasn't the thing that I wanted after all," Burton told Noah. "What I wanted was to compete. I mean, I wanted the job, right, but then, when I didn't get it, it was, like 'Well, okay, what's next?'"
Burton will also executive produce the series along with LBE's Sangita Patel, Tara Long, and Geno McDermott from eOne.
"LeVar Burton has been an iconic member of American pop culture for decades from 'Roots' to 'Reading Rainbow' to 'Star Trek' and beyond," Long, president of global unscripted television for eOne, said. "His love for intellectual curiosity paired with his ability to connect with audiences worldwide make him the perfect partner to bring Hasbro's beloved trivia game to households in a new and exciting way."
"Trivial Pursuit" is currently available in more than 26 countries and 17 languages. Over 100 million copies of the game have been sold, and it was named to the "Games Hall of Fame" by Games magazine. The Trivial Pursuit game show is the latest board game to TV to come from Hasbro's repository; a network hasn't picked it up yet.
When the internet found out that the "Star Trek" and "Roots" star was finally receiving his own show, they were overjoyed. Here are some of the reactions:
We're so proud of you, Lavar. A "no" just means you move to the next opportunity, congratulations!
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How to Go to Heaven
Dr. Donald Ramsey
Pastor Ramsey was born in Jackson, Tennessee, April 10, 1937. At the age of 9, the family moved to Green Cove Springs, FL. He attended Clay County schools along with his future wife. At the age of 17, he joined the United States Marine Corp where he served for 5 years. After receiving an honorable discharge, he began working for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P). In 1958, he married his present wife, Gloria Ann Horton, and continued to work for A&P. In 1960, he entered the United States Army, and served in Korea for 2 years as a Military Police Officer until his discharge. Upon returning to civilian life, he returned to work for A&P where he was promoted to manager. In August of 1968, he was called to be the Pastor of Mill Creek Baptist Church in St. Augustine, FL.
He attended Luther Rice Seminary in Jacksonville, Florida, for two years, and finished up at Freedom University where he received a Bachelor, Masters, and Doctors Degree in Christian Education. In 2002, he received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from LandMark University in Haines City, Florida.
His goal, which is very simple, is to hear the words "well done thou good and faithful servant," fall from the lips of his Precious Lord at the Bema Seat of Christ.
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I regret that I cannot provide support for ASIPathFinder, but if you find it useful, please drop me an email and let me know!
ASIPathFinder is a complete implementation of a cooperative path finding algorithm, and will probably be most useful for writing Real Time Strategy games. It is written in Objective-C, and is compatible with Mac OS and iPhone OS.
What is a co-operative path finder?
A co-operative path finder allows multiple objects to find a path on a map, planning ahead to alert other objects of where they're going to travel. This means that an object can avoid other objects ahead of time, before they collide.
ASIPathFinder is based on code I originally wrote for my Space Harvest game for iPod Touch and iPhone. Download the game to get a feel for its capabilities.
Does not rely on 'hinting' maps with pre-calculated intermediate way points. This means it works well with dynamically changing obstacles, but may be less performant than other implementations if obstacles are static.
Written in Objective-C (though much of the core stuff uses manual memory management with malloc() for speed), compatible with Mac and iPhone OS.
I've deliberately made these instructions relatively general - they describe how ASIPathFinder works, but don't make much detailed reference to the code itself. The code is fairly well commented, but the hard part is understanding the overall process, and that's what I've attempted to cover here. Additionally, I hope this may be useful to anyone implementing their own co-operative path finder, regardless of whether they program in Objective-C or not.
I would strongly recommend reading this before doing anything with ASIPathFinder. Though my implementation is slightly different, the overall approach (reverse A* for initial assessment, with partial path finding and a reservation table after that) is taken directly from this paper.
The sample application uses enormgeo's EGODatabase class to store its data.
© Ben Copsey, All-Seeing Interactive 2009-2010.


Find nearest fold that either starts right at or follows the given offset.
fold in the hierarchy that starts directly at the offset or follows it. The most important is the lowest distance of the start of the fold to the given offset. If there would be a nearest fold having a first child that starts at the same position like the parent then the parent would be returned.