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WWF SmackDown! for the PlayStation - Second Opinion
THQ's long-awaited WWF PSX wrestling game finally showed up at my video store this week, and I've spent most of the week playing the heck out of it. This game got a lot of hype in the gaming press as "the best wrestling game for the PlayStation to date," or at least better than Attitude. Is it?
GRAPHICS: Well, we get the most recent entrance videos and music (except for Al Snow's), but most of them get old after a while. The wrestlers themselves don't look quite as good as they could. The detail isn't quite what Attitude players are used to, although they look somewhat better in this game than in WrestleMania 2000 for the Nintendo 64, where the bigger guys appear to have been put together with Lincoln Logs.
That said, the wrestlers are all the right size (no more of Kane looking eye-to-eye with X-Pac), and the ring environments (in-ring and backstage) all look good by THQ standards. Plus, when a wrestler gets knocked down, he'll actually sell the impact (yes, even the Rock) rather than lying there for a few seconds like in the Acclaim games. **1/2 (of 5 stars).
SOUND: The entrance themes sound good, but the in-game fighting music is nothing to write home about. But the big problem is the complete absence of ringside commentary. While it's a good thing that we are spared Shane McMahon's uninspired ramblings from Attitude, I still missed Jerry Lawler's acerbic, high-strung color commentary work. ("Not really, Shane. He just reverted to idiocy - his natural state!") *1/2.
CONTROL: For anyone who hated the Mortal Kombat-like button mashing in the Acclaim games, you will love the simplicity of SmackDown! It's one button to grapple, one button to whip, one button to attack, and one button to run. All you have to do then is aim the D-pad and you're doing a move. What a novel concept.
You execute your finishing move (called a "special" move here) by pressing L1. That's all. No Twister-like button/D-pad combinations here. The catch is that you can only do it when the SmackDown! indicator flashes below your name on the screen, and that's exactly what it does - flashes. If you don't see it in that second, forget about pulling the move off.
I only have one other gripe with the control, and it's the same thing Justin Transue touched on in his review, which you can read here if CRZ is nice enough to put in a link: it's almost impossible to pick up a weapon. I've actually done it, but it was purely by accident and I don't remember how I did it. Otherwise, THQ got this part right. ***3/4
CREATE-A-WRESTLER: Let's start with the positive. You can select a specific style of wrestling for your creation, then select moves to fit that style. You can also add skill points to strengthen your expertise in other areas, so you can have a speedy high flyer who can hold his own in a brawl, or, in my case, a fast technical wrestler with some decent standard power moves.
All right, enough of that. Hey, THQ, the point of having a Create-A-Wrestler mode is so that you can actually create NEW wrestlers, not mix and match parts from CURRENT wrestlers. This part is the most unimaginative CAW since they started putting them into wrestling games. The only good thing about this part of the CAW is the ability to adjust height and weight. Justin rants on this much better than I could. *, for the style thing I mentioned.
GAMEPLAY: This is SmackDown!'s strength. First off, this game is FAST - it plays much faster than Attitude, and that makes it look more realistic, more like a wrestling match.
SmackDown! boasts a lot of the standard wrestling game mode options, but it does do a few things better. The Falls Count Anywhere mode really means "anywhere", not just "around the ring and two feet up the ramp", which is a lot more entertaining to play and watch. The "Special Referee" mode is also quite cool (Fast counts! Nothing but fast counts!), but I wasn't crazy about the "Submission/Knockout" option; I would have rather had these two separated.
The Season mode presents you with the opportunity to play your chosen superstar through a career wrestling house shows, TV events, and pay-per-views. The Pre-Season mode, available only with user-created wrestlers, allows you to make friends and enemies backstage, as well as earn the aforementioned skill points to increase attributes and unlock more moves for your wrestler.
When the Season starts, you try to move up in the rankings by winning matches. The higher you go, the more title shots you could find yourself in line for. The matches start off seeming like they're randomly generated, but as you play on, you begin to see patterns and feuds emerge.
The "Easy" difficulty mode is just that... my "Agent" character beat Steve Austin for the WWF title after only one year in Season mode. The "Normal" mode is better if you want to be challenged, but not totally frustrated. Great job on the gameplay, THQ. ****1/2.
MANUAL: The source of a lot of this game's problems. There's so much left out of it it's criminal, and what's in it is so poorly explained, it's a wonder I was able to figure out how to play the game at all. _*, and that's only because the game's so easy to pick up without it.
OVERALL: While it's not the "savior" of PlayStation wrestling some would have you believe it is, SmackDown!, with its numerous play options and realistic action, is still pretty enjoyable. ***1/2.


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Ntseki announces Bafana Bafana squad to face Ghana and Sudan in 2021 AFCON qualifiers
29 October 2019 – Bafana Bafana head coach Molefi Ntseki has named a squad of 25 players to face Ghana and Sudan in back-to-back Cameroon 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers scheduled for next month.
South Africa kick-start the journey to the African football's premier showpiece with an away match against Ghana on Thursday, 14 November 2019 in Accra.
Bafana Bafana will then host Sudan three days later (Sunday, 17 November) at the Orlando Stadium.
Kick-off for that home match is 15h00.
The other country in Group C is Sao Tome e Principe, which South Africa will only meet next year.
Ntseki has selected the bulk of the team that defeated Mali 2-1 in the 2019 Nelson Mandela Challenge played in Port Elizabeth earlier this month – that was his first assignment as the head coach of Bafana Bafana.
He has brought back defenders Thami Mkhize (Cape Town City) and Sifiso Hlanti (Bidvest Wits), – the duo missed the last match due to injuries.
In midfield Bongani Zungu makes a return after he was withdrawn from the past training camp, also due to an injury.
Also being recalled after a long absence is midfielder Aubrey Modiba (Supersport United), who takes the place of the injured Keagan Dolly.
"If it is not broken, why fix it. We have decided to keep the bulk of the team because they already understand what we want to do, and you will recall this will be my third camp with them – even though we did not play a match in the first one, so it was important to keep that consistency as we also don't have too much to work on things seeing that we are playing two match in a space of three days, which also involves significant travelling," said Ntseki.
This will be the Bafana Bafana's 12th meeting against the Black Stars of Ghana, and the third clash against Sudan.
South Africa has beaten the West Africans five times and lost on three occasions, with three matches drawn.
The first encounter was back in 1994 in the Four Nations Cup which Bafana Bafana won 2-1. The last encounter was in 2016, which ended in a 1-1 draw in Durban – it was an international friendly match.
Bafana Bafana have never lost to Sudan.
"These are very crucial matches in that they could determine our destiny in the competition. We have to start on a good footing and avoid playing catch-up as it puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on everyone – the coaching staff, players and the even the fans," added Ntseki.
"We have to make sure we start positively because winning brings about a lot of energy to the team, which makes the next assignment not easy but more manageable, but I am confident we will do well."
Bafana Bafana assemble for camp on Sunday, 10 November and depart for Ghana the next day – Monday, 11 November.
They return to South Africa on Friday, 15 November to prepare for the Sudan fixture.
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BAFANA BAFANA AFCON 2021 FIXTURES:
Ghana vs South Africa (a)
South Africa vs Sudan (h)
South Africa vs Sao Tome e Principe (h)
Sao Tome e Principe vs South Africa (a)
South Africa vs Ghana (h)
Sudan vs South Africa (a)
SOUTH AFRICA vs GHANA – HEAD-TO-HEAD
P W D L GF GA
11 5 3 3 11 10
SOUTH AFRICA VS SUDAN HEAD-TO-HEAD
SA SENIOR MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM LIST vs Ghana & Sudan
Cameroon 2021 Africa Cup of Nations
PLAYER'S NAME
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3. Ricardo GOSS Bidvest Wits FC (SA)
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8. Thapelo MORENA Mamelodi Sundowns FC (SA)
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Earl Grey Flavours from Twinings - Discover our Range
Earl Grey Flavours from Twinings
Discover our range.
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Sometimes it feels like Earl Grey has practically become synonymous with Twinings. It was invented at our shop on the Strand in 1831 at the behest of the Prime Minster, Charles Grey, the second Earl Grey. And we named it after him.
But Earl Grey tea, believe it or not, is not its own category of tea. It falls into the category of flavoured teas. Flavoured teas include any type of tea - white, green, oolong, black - that has been scented or flavoured with fruit, flowers, spices, oils, extracts, and natural or artificial flavours.
This being the case, Earl Grey tea is not as simple as it first appears.
Our master blenders have exploited the freedom that being a "flavoured tea" brings; flavour meaning the distinctive taste of a food or a drink. Traditional Earl Grey has, of course, a very distinctive flavour – perfumed as it is with the smell and taste of bergamot. But we have a veritable plethora of variations on the theme of this beloved tea.
Read on as we give you the full kaleidoscope of Earl Grey flavours and infusions to tickle your taste buds.
Earl Grey Types
Traditional Earl Grey tea is a national favourite – black tea flavoured with bergamot and notes of lemon – and the Twinings range includes classic Earl Grey flavours that come in a variety of "types" such as decaffeinated, organic, blended or infused with other flavours and teas (such as green tea… yummy!)
Tea Bags or Loose Leaf
Today our Earl Grey comes in all varieties: Loose Tea caddies with stylish designs, perfect for tea aficionados and turning tea times into a bit of an occasion, our silky pyramid tea bags for an easy to facilitate loose leaf experience, string & tag tea bags, as well as regular tea bags in our brand new boxes containing foil sealed wrapping for extra freshness.
Earl Grey With Our Without Milk
Earl Grey, and any of its blended flavours, can be enjoyed at any time of day, with or without milk, a slice of lemon, or a drop of honey.
Twinings Earl Grey Favourites
Shop Twinings Earl Grey
Earl Grey 100 Tea Bags
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Earl Grey Citrus Loose Leaf Tea Gift Box 100g Loose Leaf Tea
If you're after something really refreshing why not try our lightly zingy Lady Grey? Inspired by rolling orange and lemon groves, we developed Lady Grey for Earl Grey lovers who wanted something a little bit fruitier.
We couldn't possibly play favourites, but Lady Grey will always have a special place in our hearts. Lady Grey tea is a modern invention, created by and trademarked by Twinings in the early 1990s to appeal to the Nordic market, which found Earl Grey tea too strong in flavour. Lady Grey differs from Earl Grey in that it contains additional lemon peel and orange peel. It first went on sale in Norway in 1994 and in Britain in 1996.
Twinings Earl Grey Ranges
The Original Blend
This is our Classic Earl Grey, with bergamot and light orange and lemon flavours, created for a British Prime Minister nearly 200 years ago. An amazing 100 fabulous tea bags of this favourite Earl of all times.
Decaffeinated Earl Grey
No need to forgo your after dinner tea any more – decaffeinated yet still full of your favourite Earl Grey flavours. Drink it day or night – yeah!!
Loose Leaf Earl Grey
For those who like the theatricality of the tea ceremony! A marvellously flavoursome addition to a traditional afternoon tea party. The tea caddies also stylishly decorate the tea table. Caddies last and last, making wonderful presents, and you can top them up with re-fills of loose tea.
Plummy Earl Grey
A light, floral tea, with rich, juicy plum and a dash of star anise – this fabulous tea is destined to become a classic in its own right! We are just a little bit addicted to it.
Russian Earl Grey
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London Strand Earl Grey
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Q: Slack Python Listening Events I'm trying to learn how to crate Slack Apps using the Slack Bolt Framewok, so I'm studying this tutorial (https://api.slack.com/start/building/bolt-python). I followed all the steps but my bot is not listening to the events.
The python class:
import os
from slack_bolt import App

app = App(
    token = 'xoxb-xxxxxxxx-2463004875172-0pnMlWzr30pFg2vFGtt52wzx',
    signing_secret = 'xxxxxxx3eba2b1fc11bf6076'
)

# Start your app
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.start(port=int(os.environ.get("PORT", 3000)))

@app.event("message")
def handle_message_events(body, logger):
    logger.info(body)

The response I get when I write a message to the bot:
response
The response in the ngrok:
ngrok response
The bot events subscriptions
subscriptions
Does anyone know what I am forgetting to do?

A: As per the official documentation, functionality goes before you start the app.
 https://github.com/slackapi/bolt-python#creating-an-app
app = App()

# Add functionality here

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.start(3000)  # POST http://localhost:3000/slack/events

Can you move following code accordingly, and check?
 @app.event("message")
 def handle_message_events(body, logger):
 logger.info(body)

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Q: Browserify doesn't link to my function I am trying to use Browserify to refactor my project into modules. In my main file I have something like this:
var $ = require('jquery');
var data = require('./cv-data.js');
var menu = require('./components/menuScript.js');
menu();

The jquery library and the data is imported correctly but when I try to use my menu function I get an error message Uncaught TypeError: menu is not a function. My menu script looks like this:
var menu = function() {
  console.log('hello'); // not really but lets say it looks like this.
}
module.export = menu;

I've tried many different ways of doing this but none seem to work.
var menu = {
  init: function(){
    console.log('hello');
  }
}
module.export = menu;

and then:
var menu = require('./components/menuScript.js');
menu.init();

I'm sure I've missed something small, but can't see it!

A: It's exports, plural:
module.exports = menu;
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\section{INTRODUCTION}

The 2D materials hold great promise in the design of new nano-devices for future applications, due to their fascinating electronic, mechanical,
optical, and thermal properties which are caused by their low dimensionality and quantum confinement effect.
The some of these novel properties not seen in their bulk counterparts \cite{gupta2015recent}. 2D nano-sheets
with hexagonal structure, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted extensive research effort in recent years.
The utility of these materials, however, is limited by some imperfections such as the lack of a band-gap in
graphene and the relatively low mobility in some TMDs \cite{radisavljevic2011single}. It has motivated continuing work in search of
more 2D materials that demonstrate their properties that may lead to improving specific performance.

Recently, another class of 2D materials, metal chalcogenides, came into being and attracted considerable attention.
These layered materials generally possess the chemical formula MX, where M= Group IIIA and X= Group IVA.
Gallium sulfide is an indirect band gap semiconductor.
 A primitive cell of GaS contains four Gallium atoms and four sulfur atoms.
 Its structure is formed from four layered of S-Ga-Ga-S type as illustrated in Fig.~\ref{GaS-structure}.
The interlayers dominantly experience  the weak Van der Waals interaction, while within the layer the Ga and X atoms
form the strong covalent bond similar to graphene and TMDs.

 GaS nanosheet was successfully isolated by micromechanical cleavage technique \cite{late2012rapid}\cite{aono1993near}.
 Monolayer gallium sulfide has been used in photodetectors, photoelectric devices, electrical sensors,
 near-blue light emitting devices \cite{shen2009vapor}\cite{hu2013highly}\cite{aono1993near},
and field effect transistors (FET). The mobility of 0.1 $cm^2/V.S$ have been measured
by David et al \cite{late2012gas} in ultra-thin GaS bottom-gate transistors.
Moreover, the piezoelectric coefficients of GaS monolayer are of the same order
of magnitude as discovered two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials.
(The boron nitride
(BN) and $MoS_2$ monolayers \cite{li2015piezoelectricity}).

The indirect band gap of GaS monolayer presents an obstacle for optoelectronic devices applications involving
light harvesting, light emitting, photodetectors and lasers. The thicker thinfilm with direct optical band gap is desired.
The strain plays an important role to engineer band gap of semiconductors in the field of microelectronic.
It would be very interesting to investigate the effect of strain on the band structure of GaS.
The effect of strain on graphene and TMDs have been widely studied\cite{topsakal2010response}\cite{choi2010effects}\cite{peelaers2012effects}\cite{scalise2012strain}
\cite{ghorbani2013strain}\cite{sun2016indirect}\cite{wang2015strain}.
 The band structure of these can be remarkably
tailored by applying strain \cite{ni2008uniaxial}\cite{huang2011strain}.
If the energy difference of the indirect and direct band gap is small, then it may be possible to achieve
indirect-direct band gap transition.
The GaS nanoribbons can be directly obtained by cutting the GaS monolayer (Fig.~\ref{nanoribbon-stracture}).
Depending on the direction of termination, there exist two kinds of nanoribbons: armchair and zigzag. The armchair GaS
nanoribbons and zigzag GaS nanoribbons can be identified by the number of dimer lines or zigzag chains across the
ribbon width and are labeled as $N_a$-AGaSNR and $N_z$-ZGaSNR, respectively.

\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=16.5]{1.pdf}
\caption
{A schematic showing the crystal structure of GaS monolayer with (a) top view and (b) side view.
The blue and yellow spheres represent the Ga and S atomic species, repectively. $a_0$ and $d$
represent the lattice constant and the thickness of the GaS monolayer as defined by the distance
between the top and bottom layer of sulfur atom. The x and y orientations correspond
 to the zigzag and armchair direction, respectively.}
 \label{GaS-structure}
\end{figure}

In the present work, we have studied the electronic properties of GaS monolayer under strain. The strain
can easily perform by a lattice mismatch on the substrate or mechanical loading\cite{shi2013quasiparticle}.
we employed two type of deformations: uniaxial and biaxial. The uniaxial strain is parallel to x and y directions
in the range of $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$ to $\varepsilon$=+10$\%$.
The biaxial compressive strain can firstly increase the band gap, up until 2.76 eV at $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$ and then reduce it,
while biaxial tensile strain reduces the band gap gradually. Both of them can not change the indirect band gap to direct band gap.
Monolayer GaS undergoes indirect to direct band gap transition under
uniaxial compressive strain along y-direction. It can indicate that as biaxial strain increasing the semiconductor to metal transition
occurs by the energy crossover of one state in conduction band from Fermi level. Also, we focused on the
effect of edge passivation on the electronic band structures.
We demonstrated that the electronic properties
of edge zigzag and armchair GaS nanoribbons can be largely tuned by edge passivation. Therefore, offers a
powerful tool for customizing to a particular application.
The band gap of nanoribbons can be also reduced or enlarged, depending on the direction
of termination (zigzag or armchair) and width of nanoribbons.

\section{METHOD}
The calculations were performed using ab initio density functional theory (DFT) in conjunction with
projector augmented wave (PAW) potentials \cite{blochl1994projector} and Perdew-Burke Ernzerted (PBE) generalized
gradient approximation (GGA) to the electronic exchange and correlation \cite{perdew1996jp}, as implemented
in the Quantum Espresso (QE) package \cite{giannozzi2009quantum}.
The K-point mesh in the lateral directions was always 9$\times$9$\times$1 while,
the 8$\times$1$\times$1 grid K-points was used for armchair nanoribbons
and 1$\times$12$\times$1 for zigzag nanoribbons.
A kinetic energy cutoff of 500 eV was used for the plane-wave expansion.
Test calculation with the bigger number of K-points and higher cutoff gave essentially the same results. Bader analysis was used to
calculate charge transfer between Ga and S under different strain by Critic2 \cite{henkelman2006fast}.\\
The layered GaS is modeled using a supercell method with 2D periodic boundary conditions.
A vacuum region of 20 {\AA} along the c direction was used to separate the layers system in order to
avoid spurious interactions. The geometric
structures of the GaS monolayer are optimized by the conjugate-gradient minimization
scheme. All of the atoms in the unit-cell are fully relaxed until the force on each atom is minimized.
Our calculated lattice
constant for GaS monolayer is 3.64 {\AA}, and the band gap of 2.45 eV in good
agreement with other theoretical calculation \cite{zolyomi2013band}\cite{huang2015effects}.

\section{RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS}
Here, we examine the band gap evolution under biaxial and uniaxial strain.
In spite of DFT band gap underestimation in semiconductor, the Si
nanostructures strain-dependency is similar compared to optical
band gap predicted by the quasiparticle and advance configuration interaction methods \cite{peng2006strain}.
Therefore, we can predict the general trend of the strain effect on band structure.
The present work is mainly focused on the strain effect on the electronic band structure by the GGA-PBE.
As expected not only the Ga-S bond length but also the distance between S atoms vary with applied strain, thus,
the band gap can be significantly tuned by biaxial and uniaxial strain as shown in Fig.~\ref{band-biaxial} and Fig.~\ref{band-uniaxial}.
So the GaS monolayer with an indirect band gap can tune into a direct band gap with a suitable
uniaxial strain and experiences a semiconductor to metal transition with biaxial tensile strain.\\

 The equilibrium structure was exposed to mechanical strain via two strategies:
First, biaxial deformation, 2D isotropic deformation on the hexagonal unit cell with simultaneous change of $a_0$ and $b_0$
lattice vector.
Second, uniaxial deformation of $a_0$ ($b_0$) along the zigzag (armchair) direction x (y) in the rectangular unit cell.
The strain along the x and y direction are given by

\begin{align}
\epsilon_x=(a_x-a_0)/a_0
\end{align}
and
\begin{align}
\epsilon_y=(b_y-b_0)/b_0
\end{align}
respectively. Where $a_x$ and $b_y$ are deformed lattice vector along x and y directions. The calculated lattice parameters
$a_0$ and $b_0$ in the unstrained structure of GaS monolayer are 3.64 {\AA} and 2.35 {\AA}, respectively.

\subsection{Biaxial strain}

 Our DFT calculations found that the strain-free GaS monolayer is the semiconductor with an indirect bandgap that,
 the valence band maximum (VBM) locates along the $\Gamma$-X line while the conduction band minimum (CBM)
 lies at $\Gamma$ as shown in Fig.~\ref{band-biaxial}.
 To better understand the strain-depend band gap behavior, we calculated the effect of biaxial
 strain on the band structure was presented in Fig.~\ref{band-biaxial}. Note that, irreducible Brillouin Zone
 of GaS under biaxial strain remains unchanged, as the hexagonal symmetry is saved.
 With tensile biaxial strain, the energy of the CBM at $\Gamma$ reduces rapidly.
 But the reduction of energy of VBM as labeled $\Lambda$ is slower than up to +6$\%$.
 When more strain is added, the energy of $\Lambda$ (at VBM) increases.
 The result indicates that when biaxial tensile strain is applied the CBM and VBM always locate
 at $\Gamma$ and $\Lambda$ point, which moves close to the Fermi level with an increase of
 tensile strain and suggesting a stronger indirect band gap.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=14]{2.pdf}
\caption{First-principles band structure of monolayer GaS under biaxial tensile and compressive strain.
The negative value indicates the compressive strain. The VBM and CBM are labeled by
A and B. The dashed lines are guide for an eye for energy shifts of states.
The horizontal dashed lines indicate the Fermi level.
The fermi level is set to zero.}
\label{band-biaxial}
\end{figure*}

  \begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=16.75]{3.pdf}
\caption{The projected density of states of GaS monolayer under
(a) biaxial tensile strain and (b) biaxial compressive strain. The panels a-c and b-d refer to the Ga and S atoms,
respectively. The vertical dashed lines indicate the Fermi level. The Fermi level is aligned at zero.}
\label{pdos-biaxial}
\end{figure*}

 \begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=12]{4.pdf}
\caption{The band structure calculated under tensile and compressive strain along
(a) zigzag and (b) armchair directions. The variation of states A, B and C with strain are marked out by
dashed lines.}
\label{band-uniaxial}
\end{figure*}

 Fig.~\ref{band-gap-variation} shows variation
 of band gap as a function of biaxial strain. It can be found that, the band gap energy of GaS
 monolayer decrease approximately linearly with increasing tensile strain. As the more tensile
 strain applied up to $\varepsilon$=15$\%$, the band gap vanishes and consequently,
 the monolayer becomes metallic with band crossing the Fermi level at the $\Gamma$ point.
 On the other hand, when a compressive strain of $\varepsilon$=-2$\%$ was applied to the structure,
 the VBM remaining at $\Lambda$ while the CBM shifted to M.
 When $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$, the CBM of monolayer switches from M to K, while keeps the VBM unchanged.
 It is obvious that the band at A point gradually moves upward, consequently, at $\varepsilon$=-6$\%$ VBM
 changes to $\Gamma$ point. At the same time, the B (CBM) point energy downward under compressive strain.
 As the value of the compressive strain increases similar behavior occurs with
 the VBM and CBM. But the energy shift of B point is more prominent than A point.
 Moreover, except within $\varepsilon$=-2$\%$ and $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$ of compressive strain, the band gap
 generally reduced as the strain increase. (shown on the Fig.~\ref{band-gap-variation}).
 It is clear that the indirect band gap can not be transformed to be direct band gap by applying biaxial strain in the
 range of $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$ to $\varepsilon$=10$\%$.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=25]{5.pdf}
\caption{(a) Band gap variation of GaS monolayer versus biaxial compressive strain and tensile strain in the range of $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$ to $\varepsilon$=10$\%$.
      The various gaps are indicated by the location in the irreducible Brillouin Zone were the VBM and CBM occur.
       (b) Variation of $\Delta{E}$ between the
strain-free and strained GaS monolayer as function of biaxial strain}
\label{band-gap-variation}
\end{figure*}

 To understand the bandgap engineering via biaxial strain, the projected density of states
 (PDOSs) were calculated for the GaS monolayer.
 It can be found that from Fig.~\ref{pdos-biaxial}, the electronic
 states of GaS monolayer near the CBM and VBM contributed mainly from $p_z$ and $s$
 orbitals of the Gallium atoms and the $p_y$ orbital of the Sulfur atoms.
 It is clear that the S $p_y$ orbital plays a very important role in the VBM.
 As the tensile strain applied, the CBM and the VBM shift toward the Fermi level.
 At $\varepsilon$=4$\%$, the S $p_y$ orbital shifts back and VBM is replaced by S $p_z$ orbital.
 On the other hand, when a compressive strain was applied of $\varepsilon$=-2$\%$ and
 $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$, the CBM and VBM of sulfur atoms are not contributed
 by the same electric components as that of pristine one.
 As shown in Fig.~\ref{pdos-biaxial}
 at $\varepsilon$=-2$\%$ and $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$, the CBM and VBM of sulfur atoms are
 mainly contributed by $p_z$ orbital.
 At the same time, the electronic component of VBM
 of Ga is not changed and it is still contributed by Ga $s$ and Ga $p_z$
 orbitals, while the electronic components of CBM of Ga are changed and contributed by
 Ga $p_z$ and $p_y$ orbitals.
 The main changing in the electronic contribution of CBM and VBM of
 sulfur atoms, leading to a band gap enhancement for GaS monolayer at $\varepsilon$=-2$\%$ and
 $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$. As the compression increases further, above $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$ the S
 and Ga $p_y$ orbitals shift toward the Fermi level and the band gap decreases again.

 \subsection{Uniaxial strain}

 We have also applied uniaxial strain on rectangular GaS monolayer. Under uniaxial strain,
 the original crystal symmetry is broken, thus the K-points become no longer equivalent as before.
 We define the $\varepsilon_x$ and $\varepsilon_y$ along the zigzag and armchair directions.
 In the band structure of the pristine GaS monolayer, the VBM location between $\Gamma$-X and the
 CBM location at the $\Gamma$ point results in indirect bandgap (see Fig.~\ref{band-uniaxial}).

 Under zigzag compressive strain, the VBM is retained
 between $\Gamma$-X, as the value of the compressive strain increase, the energy of A point gradually
 increases. Beyond $\varepsilon$=-6x$\%$, A has a highest energy and thus represent the VBM.
 With an increase compression, the dispersion relation of the CBM at $\Gamma$ gradually deform,
 therefore making the pristine CBM point at $\Gamma$ move to another energy point between $\Gamma$-X,
 above $\varepsilon$=-4x$\%$.
 And the indirect semiconductor character is retained. As the zigzag
 tensile uniaxial strain applied, the band gap retain indirect.
 With continuous increase of the strain,
 the band gap decreases.
 As can be found, the CBM and VBM remain at $\Gamma$ and
 between $\Gamma$-X, respectively.\\

\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=15.5]{6.pdf}
\caption
{The PDOS on GaS monolayer under uniaxial compressive strain along y (armchair) direction. The panels a and b refer to Ga and S atoms, respectively.}
\label{pdos-uniaxial}
\end{figure}

 Under the tensile strain along the y-direction (armchair) keeping the VBM unchanged, while
 the energy of the CBM at $\Gamma$, decreases rapidly.
 Thereby strengthening the indirect
 band gap quickly.

 As the uniaxial compressive strain is taken along y direction,
 the CBM always locates at the $\Gamma$ point with experiences approximately 0.7 eV
 downward shift up to $\varepsilon$=-10y$\%$. At the same time, as the more compression
 was applied, the energy of a sub-VB (labelled B) raises rapidly.
 At $\varepsilon$=-10y$\%$, the energy of B at $\Gamma$ point has a higher energy than C
 and becomes the VBM. Therefore showing a direct band gap at $\Gamma$.\\

 In summary, the biaxial strain can not change the indirect band gap to direct,
 Nevertheless,
 has more influence on electronic band structure.
  But the armchair compressive uniaxial strain can reduce the band gap and leading to
 indirect-direct transition at $\varepsilon$=-10y$\%$ strain. For more details, the PDOS were
 calculated as shown in Fig.~\ref{pdos-uniaxial}. By analyzing the PDOS under armchair strain
 found that the role of $p_y$ orbital gradually increase for both Ga and S atoms.
 With the continuous increase of the strain at $\varepsilon$=-10y$\%$ (where indirect-direct transition happens)
 the CBM and VBM are mainly contributed by S $p_y$ $p_z$ Ga $s$ $p_y$ orbitals.
 Therefore, the band gap transition occurs at $\Gamma$ point caused by the increasing
 contribution of $p_y$ orbital.

  \section{Charge transfer}

 In this section, we examine the charge transfer between Ga and S atoms By Bader analysis \cite{henkelman2006fast}.
 The depletion of charge on Ga atom is 0.82e in pristine GaS monolayer, whereas excess charge
 on S atoms that proves the ionicity in Ga-S bonding.
 The charge transfer from S to Ga increases with increasing compressive biaxial strain.
 Thus, we conclude that the Ga-S bonds become less ionic and mix ionic-covalent in comparison
 with equilibrium structure. As the large tensile strain applied,
 (above $\varepsilon$=6$\%$) the charge of sulfur and Gallium come back to near isolate atom
 because of the distance between S and Ga increases.

 \section{Mechanical properties}

 The strain in the x or y-direction
 and the transverse strain in the y or x-direction are shown in Fig.~\ref{strain energy}.
 for the GaS monolayer Poission's ratio:
 \begin{align}
 \nu=d\epsilon_{transverse}/d\epsilon_{axial}
 \end{align}

are calculated by fitting the figure of transverse strain response. The obtained results are
0.23 and 0.24 under zigzag and armchair uniaxial strain, respectively. These two close
value of Poission's ratio indicate the isotropic nature of the mechanical properties of
the GaS monolayer. In another word, we understand the mechanical properties are independent of direction.
While phosphorene has anisotropic nature of mechanical properties with 0.24 and 0.7
value for Poission's ration in zigzag and armchair direction \cite{peng2014strain}.\\

In the Fig.~\ref{strain energy}, we plotted strain energy for two directions
(zigzag and armchair) $E_{strain}$ as:
 \begin{align}
 E_{strian}= E_T(\varepsilon)-E_T(\varepsilon=0)
 \end{align}
 where $E_T(\varepsilon)$ and $E_T(\varepsilon=0)$ are the total energies of the GaS monolayer with strain and strain-free,
 respectively.
 It is clear that the near
 degeneracy of strain energy in zigzag and armchair directions in the range
 of $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$ to $\varepsilon$=10$\%$, demonstrate that, for
 applying strain in either zigzag or armchair directions need equal energy.
 In addition, confirm the isotropic nature of mechanical properties. In the end,
 we calculated the energy difference ($\Delta{E}$)
 between strained and strain-free GaS monolayer as the function of biaxial strain.

 The $\Delta{E}$ increases monotonously (Fig.\ref{band-gap-variation})
 for both tensile and compressive strains, shows that the system is in the range of the elastic deformation.
 Therefore, after removing applied strain, the structure releases back to the original structure which is
 important for sensor applications.

 \begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=30]{7.pdf}
\caption{(a) The applied axial strains in the zigzag and armchair direction, respectively.
(b) The evolution of strain energy of GaS monolayer under uniaxial strain along
the x (black) and y (dashed red) directons}
\label{strain energy}
\end{figure*}

 \begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=28]{8.pdf}
\caption{Top and side views of the bare-edge (a) armchair GaS nanoribbon with $N_a$=6 and (b) zigzag GaS nanoribbon with $N_z$=8. The width $N_a$ and $N_z$ of AGaSNR and ZGaSNR are
depicted by black dashed line. The blue and yellow spheres represent Ga and S atoms, respectively.}
\label{nanoribbon-stracture}
\end{figure}

 \section{Nanoribbon}

 We have also investigated the electronic properties of bare and hydrogen saturated zigzag/armchair
 GaS nanoribbons to find indirect-direct band gap transition.
 First, we calculated the band structure of bare-edge armchair
 GaS nanoribbon with a width ranging from $N_a=4$ to $N_a=10$.
 We found that all armchair nanoribbons are indirect band gap semiconductor.
 with E$_g$ values of approximately 1.47 eV, independent of the width,
 which is smaller than the monolayer band gap(2.45 eV)
 and can not be interpreted by the well-known quantum confinement effect.
The new flat energy level at both conduction and valence band edges
came into being via edge atoms of nanoribbons presence.
engineering the band structure, both edges are passivated with hydrogen atoms (each edge
 Ga and S atoms are terminated by one H atom). Fig.~\ref{NR} depicts the band structure for
 passivated armchair GaS nanoribbons.
 It reveals that the AGaSNR remain semiconductor after
 hydrogen saturation and keep semiconducting independent with the ribbon width.
 After passivation, the band gap experiences a big jump from 1.47eV to 2.48 eV for all
 nanoribbons, approximately. As the width of the nanoribbons increase, the band gap decrease, slowly.
 At the same time, the band at $\Gamma$ point moves downward (not shown here) and become CBM in 10-AGaSNR.
 Consequently, the band structure undergoes an indirect to
 direct transitions in the 10-AGaSNR passivated.
 In addition, the energy bands around the Fermi level are rather flat for all
 the investigated nanoribbons Which suggest a large effective
 mass and improvement in their transport properties.\\

 Also, we examine the zigzag GaS nanoribbons with a width ranging from $N_z$=4 to $N_z$=10.
 The results indicated that, in contrast to armchair GaS nanoribbons, the zigzag structure are
 metallic and their metallic behavior is independent of ribbon width. As can be found that
 from Fig.~\ref{NR}, when saturating the zigzag nanoribbons edge with hydrogen, all of
 the nanoribbons retain metallic behavior, except 4-ZGaSNR that become semiconductor
 with a small indirect band gap of 0.16 eV and direct band gap of 0.15 eV.
 It caused by edge effects in 4-ZGaSNR that influences each other.

  \begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics*[scale=21]{9.pdf}
\caption{(a) The calculated band structure of H-saturated 10-AGaSNR (Left) and the relaxed H-saturated structure of 10-AGaSNR (Right). (b) The calculated band structure of
H-saturated 4-ZGaSNR (Left) and the relaxed H-saturated structure of 4-ZGaSNR (Right). The blue, yellow and red spheres represent Ga, S and H atoms. The Fermi level is aligned at zero.}
\label{NR}
\end{figure}

  \section{CONCLUSION}

 In conclusion, the first-principles DFT calculations introduce some special circumstance
 in which GaS structures experience indirect-direct band gap transition.
Applying the mechanical deformation via biaxial and uniaxial strain,
not only the Ga-S bond length, but also the angle
between S-Ga-S atoms have a significant impact on the band
structure of GaS monolayer.
 We show that under biaxial strain in the range of $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$
 to 10$\%$, the indirect to direct transition of GaS monolayer did not observe.
 The band gap always decreases under strain except at $\varepsilon$=-2$\%$
 and $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$ because the $p_z$ orbital shift towards the Fermi
 level and above  $\varepsilon$=-4$\%$, replaced by $p_y$ again and the GaS
 monolayer exhibits a semiconductor to metal transition at $\varepsilon$=+15$\%$.
 Under uniaxial compressive strain along y (armchair) direction, the upward shift of
 sub-VBM is more than VBM and become VBM at $\Gamma$ point and leading to
 crossover from indirect to direct band gap at $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$ due to $p_y$ orbital
 move toward the Fermi level in both Ga and S atoms.\\
 The Poission's ratio along armchair and zigzag directions
 has isotropic nature and we can tailor GaS band gap with uniaxial $\varepsilon$=-10$\%$ strain
 without concern to mechanical anisotropy in contrast to phosphorene that posses anisotropic nature of mechanical
  properties.\\
 For nanoribbon structures, we find that both bare and hydrogen saturated
 AGaSNR are a semiconductor, while the ZGaSNRs are metallic. The
 semiconductor behavior of the AGaSNR is independent of the ribbon width.
The band gaps of H-saturated AGaSNR increases in comparison to
bare-edge and the size of band gap do not vary significantly with ribbon width.
The indirect to direct band gap transition observed in 10-AGaSNR.
 when the armchair ribbon edges are saturated with hydrogen atoms.
 The 4-ZGaSNR exhibits an indirect band gap of
 0.16eV and the direct band gap of 0.15eV. Another H-saturated $N_z$-ZGaSNR with
 $N_z$=6 - 8 - 10 retain metallic behavior.
 The improvement towards controlling the band structure and optoelectronic
properties of GaS monolayer achieved with strain engineering.\\

\section{ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}

We would like to acknowledge the Isfahan University of Technology. The authors gratefully acknowledge
the Sheikh Bahaei National High Performance Computing Center (SBNHPCC) for providing computing
facilities and time. SBNHPCC is supported by scientific and technological department of presidential
office and Isfahan University of Technology (IUT).

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SUTHERLANDS RIVER, N.S. — Nova Scotia's Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal has requested environmental approval to twin a highway that has been the site of hundreds of crashes and multiple fatalities in the last decade.
In the registration document submitted Thursday, the department identified multiple environmental impacts of the project, including decreased air and water quality in the area, increased noise levels, loss of animal habitat and the loss of Mi'kmaq traditional use sites.
But the department says it plans to mitigate these effects in part by monitoring water quality throughout the project, creating a plan for losses to fish and fish habitat, implementing a wildlife passage monitoring program and conducting an Mi'kmaq Ecological Knowledge Study.
The public can submit feedback on the project until Jan. 15, and the province's environment minister is expected to make a decision on whether or not to approve the project by Feb. 4.
CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Michael Winters, Peggy's Cove, N.S.


This is book 1 in the Hunt Club series.
Caroline Hawkins is trying to get her sister married. She is passed the age of finding herself a good match, so she puts all her energy into her sister. Going so far at to demand to see the Duke to get her sister noticed. Unfortunately her plan backfired...for with her visit the Duke became intrigued with her. At the ball, Caroline and Ashton find themselves alone and end up being compromised. Fate had determined the outcome of the ball.
Married in haste, Ashton takes Caroline to his hunting lodge where nothing goes as planned. Can this hasty marriage turn into one of true love?
I liked the idea behind the story. The H/H of the story have an attraction to each other and then they get caught in a compromising situation. Caroline had no plans of marrying, so Ashton could have let her reputation be ruined. But instead he steps up and does the right thing.
I don't know if it was the writing style or the writing quality that had me skimming over the second half of the book, but it just didn't hold my interest.


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Aretirea () era una polis dell'antica Grecia ubicata nell'Argolide, menzionata da Omero nel catalogo delle navi del'Iliade.

Storia

Uno degli argonauti, Fliante, figlio di Dioniso, veniva da Aretirea. Apollonio di Rodi commenta che era ubicata alla sorgente del fiume Asopo.

Pausania, si rifà ad una tradizione secondo la quale la città si chiamava un tempo Aranzia. Il suo fondatore eponimo era stato Arante e la città era stata costruita sopra un monte chiamato Arantino, diverso dal monte su cui era l'acropoli di Fliunte e un santuario dedicato a Ebe. Arante aveva due figli, Aoris e Aretirea, e quando morì Aretirea, Aoris rinominò sia il paese che la città in onore di sua sorella. Sul Monte Arantino vi erano le tombe dei due fratelli con colonne e si svolgevano riti in onore di Demetra che invitavano alle libagioni in onore di Arante e e dei suoi figli di fronte alle loro tombe.

Secondo Strabone, si trovava vicina al monte Celosa (attuale Megalovuni) ma i suoi abitanti la abbandonarono e fondarono, a trenta stadi, la città di Fliunte, dove si trasferirono. Si sconosce l'esatto sito in cui era ubicata.

Note

Città antiche dell'Argolide

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This Sunday's Miller Bowl is going to be more than a game which will decide the 2001 champion of the Miller Football League...it's going to settle the score. With the Miller Bears and Hal's Mobil Angels splitting their regular season series - each defeating the other once - you can expect this to be al all-out war.
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The second game was the exact opposite, being a shootout between Bears QB Brant McCreadie and Mobil leader Sean McCoy. Nearly a four-and-a-half hour melee, the Bears-Angels battle resulted in exactly 100 points being put on the board, as the Angels played heartbreaker, ousting the bears 52-to-48. Mobil's Mr. Razzle-Dazzle, the diminutive Josh Fenwick pulled off the two biggest plays of the game, as he scored on a 102-yard kickoff return, and on a seemingly-impossible counter run that wound up becoming a 56-yards mad dash for the end zone. Both plays came during times when Mobil had their back to the wall.
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Q: adding string numbers together ruby I have made this program which counts characters in your name.
puts 'What is your first name?'
forename = gets.chomp
puts 'what is your middle name?'
middlename = gets.chomp
puts 'what is your surname?'
surname = gets.chomp
puts 'Did you know there are ' + forename.length.to_s + middlename.length.to_s + surname.length.to_s + ' characters in your name?'

However this adds the numbers next to each other to equal 555 instead of 15.
I cant convert the lengths to integers as I won't be able to add the string of text before.

A: puts 'What is your first name?'
forename = gets.chomp
puts 'what is your middle name?'
middlename = gets.chomp
puts 'what is your surname?'
surname = gets.chomp
name_length = [forename,middlename,surname].map(&:length).inject(:+)
puts 'Did you know there are ' + name_length + ' characters in your name?'

OR simply without the #to_s. With #to_s you are converting numbers back to string and concatenating string.
puts 'What is your first name?'
forename = gets.chomp
puts 'what is your middle name?'
middlename = gets.chomp
puts 'what is your surname?'
surname = gets.chomp
puts 'Did you know there are ' + forename.length + middlename.length + surname.length + ' characters in your name?'


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A native of New York, Ellyn has lived in Georgia for 42 years and has been married to her husband David for 38 years. Their two children attended local public schools and they now have four grandchildren. The family worships at Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs.
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Q: Updating related data in firebase If I had a structure that looks like the below in firebase, how do I update the comment for a particular link
link1 node:
    {
  links: {
    link1: {
      title: "Example",
      href: "http://example.org",
      submitted: "user1",
      comments: {
        comment1: true
      }
    }
  }
}

Comment 1 node:
    comment1: {
  link: "link1",
  body: "This is awesome!",
  author: "user2"
}

I just need to update link1 by adding more comments, note that in real application, auto ids are generated for the nodes and makes it difficult to keep track of them. comment1 and link would be replace with auto generated ids.
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Ok I have tried nesting the comments into the link so I can update the comment like this:
$scope.addComment = function(id){

  var cRef = $firebase(new Firebase("https://musicfs.firebaseio.com/comments"));
  var pRef = $firebase(new Firebase("https://musicfs.firebaseio.com/posts/"+id+"/comments"));
  var data = {body:$scope.commentBody, maker:Auth.$getAuth().facebook.displayName, post:id};

  pRef.$push(data)

}

and that is all I have tried doing. But I dont have an idea at all on how I can isolate update the comments after isolating it from the links
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I was able to put some code dowm:
$scope.addPost = function(){
    console.log($scope.category.name)
    var cat = ref.child('categories');
    var post = ref.child('posts');
    post.child($scope.post.title).set($scope.post)
    cat
    .child($scope.category.name)
    .child('posts')
    .set({$scope.post.title: 'true'});

  }

I just need to get the id of the last created post and set it to true in the category node.
Thanks


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Let's face it – screens are everywhere! Not only at home, but in malls, at school and in every public building we venture into these days there are screens. So how do we help our children (and ourselves) reduce our time looking at screens?
In my house you are either in the living space (which is a small living room and dining room combo) or you are upstairs in the bedrooms. If the tv is on, you are essentially watching it, whether you care to or not. Honestly I don't like that at all, but it's my reality.
This month my daughter, the one in grade 5, is doing a screen time challenge. She has a timer and is supposed to record how much time she watches screens for each day. The target is to stay below 2 hours. So far she's managing, but I don't know if she'll keep it up.
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I know I pay a lot less attention to screens when I'm busily doing the dishes or sorting laundry. Pull your kids into these tasks and it'll keep them away from screens for as long as you can stand the "help"!
This works for everyone – screens are often hard to see outside so go for a walk or to the park. Gather some neighbours for an impromptu playdate or backyard afternoon gathering.
Family game time is so fun. Learning a new card game or playing a favourite board game is a great way to connect as a family and get away from the tv. We got Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit for Christmas so we've been playing that a bit – I'm so glad I've got my girls interested in the Wizarding World!
A lot of the time we enjoy having the tv on for company, or background noise. An easy way to get away from screens is to find something else to listen to when you need that auditory stimulation.
We listen to the radio in the morning – not just for the music, but also for news and weather to help prepare us for the day. On weekend afternoons we'll often pick out a cd to listen to while doing chores or playing together.
We have been frequenting the library a lot lately. My girls will take out at least 2 books each and enjoy them for a few weeks. The afternoons after the library are my favourite – we each sit and read for half an hour and I often actually just watch the girls get absorbed in their books.
Believe it or not, actually being at the library isn't necessarily a screen-free experience. Our libraries have computers and tablets for the kids to play games on, computers for searching (not quite the same "screen time" as playing), and sometimes even tvs with rotating ads and such.
I prefer reading for a bit before bed, though my husband likes the tv. Often (or at least sometimes) I will head to bed first so I can read a chapter in my book. It helps me relax before bed better than watching tv.
I know I spend too much time looking at my phone. My husband does too. We'll both tell you we do it for our jobs (paid or unpaid), and while that may be true we could both make more of an effort to put our phones and computers away.
This is where family game night comes in handy – an easy way to reconnect and have fun while phones are tvs are not even thought about. Spending active time together outdoors, having designated reading time, and even doing housework together can keep boredom and inactivity at bay, which stops us from reaching from our screens.
Here in Kingston the KFL&A Public Health team is currently running a Sit Less campaign. While it's not directly focused on screen time, we all know vegging out in front of our screens drastically decreases the amount we move around on a daily basis.
We were lucky enough to be included in this campaign! Emma and Rose are the subject of one set of photos they are using in a banner. The photo crew came to the house and spent some time deciding on a set up and taking tons of photos. It was fun and everyone was super nice!
Sitting on their screens, but time's almost up!
Standing and playing – no screens in sight!
Check out their website (we're not featured there, yet) and search #SitLessKFLA on social media to read their important messages and suggestions for staying active and away from screens.
What do you do in your home to stay busy and away from screens? Any ideas to share? I'd love to hear what works for your family – share in the comments!
I struggle with screen time on a personal level. I use the computer a lot for my writing and research, but at the end of the day I also want to relax in front of the tv!
Over the weekend we all stay off our screens until about lunchtime. On Saturday the kids tidy their bedrooms and help with the housework and on Sunday the kids find something to do while I prepare lunch and do things around the house.
I'm glad to hear you have a routine that doesn't include screens Kim! We try to keep the girls toys accessible for play at a moment's notice. It helps keep them occupied and not asking for screens. Sometimes we give in and all watch a movie on the weekends, but I'm trying hard to minimize time on screens!


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Update 3: Malta, Italy In New Migrants Standoff
Malta insists it cannot take migrants rescued closer to Italy
The Times Of Malta
Friday, 17th April 2009 – 13:37CET
(A map showing the position of the Pinar E when it rescued the migrants yesterday afternoon.)
(Adds details, PL's statement, government's statement)
A Turkish cargo ship with 154 migrants on board has been refused entry in Lampedusa but Malta is also refusing landing.
The migrants were picked up 41 nautical miles off Lampedusa (114 from Malta) but the ship has been refused entry into Italian waters by the Italian authorities, who are insisting the migrants should be brought to Malta, which is responsible for the search and rescue region.
Malta is insisting, however, that in terms of international conventions, the migrants have to be landed at the nearest safe port, which in this case is Lampedusa.
The Armed Forces of Malta reported that the Pinar E, a Turkish owned Panamian flagged ship en route to Sfax was yesterday followed by two boats with migrants. Malta informed the vessel that if the migrants were in distress, it was bound by international obligations to assist them and take them to the nearest safe haven, in this case Lampedusa.
The crew of the Pinar E reported that the migrants appeared aggressive and nervous and there could be injured people on board and at around 5 p.m., the merchant vessel took two boatloads of migrants on board, including a pregnant woman and 25 injured individuals, with seven requiring urgent medical aid, some with fractured limbs. All needed food and water.
As Italian authorities informed Malta that they had no assets available capable of arriving in the area to render assistance, MRCC Rome informed the AFM that the rescued migrants were to head towards Malta. Soon after, the Italian authorities instructed the Pinar E not to enter their territorial waters, and that an Italian naval vessel was being dispatched to ensure this.
The merchant vessels master reiterated that they had injured migrants onboard in a bad condition, and they requested medical supplies from Italian authorities. The Italian authorities then directed the vessel to proceed to its next port of call in Sfax, Tunisia.
As medical supplies promised by the Italian authorities were being dispatched, the merchant vessel was then again directed by them to proceed to Malta.
In their attempt to maintain their obligations as per international law, the Pinar E informed the Italian authorities that it would still proceed to Lampedusa, insisting that there were rescued persons onboard needing assistance. The Italian authorities restated that Pinar E was not authorised to enter Italian waters, and directed the merchant vessel to a position 24 NM south west of Lampedusa, to receive a doctor via an Italian navy corvette.
The Italian navy corvette said that inclement weather in the area last night prevented this transfer operation to take place, and they maintained a one to two NM distance from the merchant vessel.
At around noon today, the dispatched Italian navy corvette winch-hoisted a doctor onto the merchant vessel.
In a similar case on March 16, Malta had refused entry to an Italian frigate which also rescued migrants 40 miles off Lampedusa. They were later taken to Italy.
Meanwhile, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni this morning accused Malta of not taking its responsibilities on migration and instead dumping the migrants on Italy.
In tough language, Minister Maroni said that relations between Malta and Italy had taken a bad turn recently over this issue and said that he has asked EU Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot to intervene and convince Malta to assume its responsibilities.
But Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, who was speaking in an unrelated press conference, said that Italys objections were unacceptable.
While he understood that Italy has its immigration problems to face, the Maltese government could not accept immigrants found closer to Italian ports, he said.
A few days ago The Times revealed that Frontex has postponed its planned anti-migration patrol mission in the Sicily-Malta-Libya strait due to this dispute.
Italy is insisting that all illegal immigrants found during this mission should be taken to Malta even if they are closer to Lampedusa, while Malta is insisting that they should be taken to the closest safe port and not all brought to Malta. Speaking during a conference in Italy this morning, following questions sent to the Italian Interior Ministry by The Times yesterday, Minister Maroni said that Malta is not intervening to save immigrants.
The areas related to the responsibility of search and rescue are well defined but in many cases Malta is not intervening, leaving this responsibility to Italy. Last year we had to do this 80 times. I have now referred the issue to the EU to make sure that who has the responsibility does his duty. If not we should change the rules," Minister Maroni said.
Dr Mifsud Bonnici said that for the past 45 years Italy has been respecting an arrangement stating that immigrants saved at sea were to taken in by the closest port of call. Italy was now trying to change the rules and this was a no can do.
"Italy cannot expect to solve its immigration problems by dumping them on Malta" Dr Mifsud Bonnici said.
In a statement, the government said it was apparent that Mr Maroni was not being correctly informed by his officials.
"The Maltese government would like to emphasise that Malta has always honoured its international obligations in accordance with international law. Malta has always co-ordinated the search and rescue operations, carried out within the Search and Rescue Area falling under its responsibility, in strict adherence of its obligations, namely that it coordinates maritime search and rescue operations and that rescued persons are to be disembarked at the nearest safe port"
Last year, the Malta Rescue Coordination Centre of the Armed Forces of Malta coordinated 380 migrant cases, apart from many other cases involving merchant shipping, pleasure and fishing industry. These figures, the government said, provided more than ample proof of Maltas strict adherence to its international obligations.
"Minister Maroni seems to be mixing up the obligations that a State has to coordinate search and rescue operations within its Search and Rescue Region with the obligation that a State has in rendering assistance to a vessel in distress. Such obligation is not related at all to the Search and Rescue Region.
"The Maltese government would like to reiterate that Malta is abiding by the international law as applicable to Malta. It will continue to abide by these international obligations to the full, but cannot and will not carry burdens that are clearly not its own," it said.
In a statement, the Labour Party said the standoff between Malta and Italy confirmed the need for the plan of action proposed by the Labour Party.
The party insisted that, under no circumstance, could the immigrants be accepted in Malta. The government, it said, should not give in to the Italian government's pressure or to the threat that the case would be taken to the European Union. The PL promised its support should the government take this course of action.
Malta, the PL said, had suffered enough because of the lack of goodwill at an international level and the time had come for the national interest to come first and foremost.
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Blind spots are harsh. You can struggle with something for years, only to realize that an obvious problem in your thinking has been undermining your efforts all along. In the past I wasted a six-digit investment by starting a project with many incorrect assumptions and didn't realize it until the company ran out of money. While failures like this helped me to discover some of my blind spots, I am pretty sure that several big ones are still right in front of me.
Running a software business is hard, and developers who are trying to build their own products tend to have similar issues. It probably happens because our previous software engineering experience has given us a similar set of cognitive biases — so-called professional deformation. Unfortunately, I can't say that it's easy to unlearn these biases completely, but knowing where to look can reduce their negative effects.
Engineering constantly acts like a strong gravitational force that drags you from business tasks again and again. Nontechnical entrepreneurs usually perceive development as a cost center. Their main goal is a profitable business, and creating software is an expensive obstacle on the way there. But for developers, writing code is relatively easy, so we often jump into adding extra features or overcomplicating the project without thinking twice.
Probably the worst case is picking features or even business ideas because they look technically challenging and fun. It may work every once in a while, but generally these decisions should be made based on the market research — like talking with potential or existing customers.
90% of the results of your business, and somewhere around 90% of the effort, are caused by non-coding activities: dealing with pre-sales inquiries, marketing, SEO, marketing, customer support, marketing, website copywriting, marketing, etc.
Then there is the black hole of building and maintaining internal tools. While sometimes this work may seem unavoidable, if it takes more than a week to hack together, beware! Its gravity can completely collapse your project. Most of the time, you can find an existing solution that will save you a lot of money in the long run, even if it requires an expensive subscription.
Less dangerous but still a serious problem is using development to escape another entrepreneur's chores. Even hard engineering problems start looking really comfortable when you face vague tasks like "do marketing" or "improve the landing page." So it's useful to have your priorities arranged with something like the Eisenhower Matrix.
Don't write any code without doing market research first.
Use time-proven "boring" tech stacks, especially if you know them already. Avoid the trendy ones because they have more bugs, less documentation, less libraries, and less developers available for hire.
Pick the simplest implementations possible: a third-party service, a bash script, an automation via Zapier, or even something manual on a support request.
If you have higher priority business tasks, treat writing code as procrastination.
When you are designing and managing your first independent products, the freedom may become overwhelming. During one of my first projects, I studied the available tech solutions for almost a month, only to abandon the idea later. Not a single line of code was written.
To avoid situations like this, it's useful to set some constraints and then actually follow them. For example, go with the best available option after a week of research, or impose a deadline for the release and try your best to meet it. Don't worry about the release not being perfect: there's no need to have a 100 percent finished and polished product before starting to sell it. You can offer fewer features than competitors but solve some problems better than they do.
In general, features are not your friends. Every single one of them clutters the UI, adds more bugs, complicates code maintenance, and increases the number of support requests. This is why the "minimum viable product" approach is so efficient: it both validates the core idea and collects customer feedback to develop the correct set of features according to the real needs of the market.
As a developer, I always think features first and I have to actively ask myself, so what? The app can do this, this, that, and this. So what? Then that gets me to the benefits. I think marketers tend to think that way and developers tend to think in terms of features.
The customers also don't care if your software has a perfect code base or uses complex algorithms — they "hire" products to get some jobs done. A lot of successful software was hacked together initially but gradually improved after obtaining its first customers. On the other hand, there are countless products that didn't make it into release because their authors tried to "make it right this time" and got lost in perfectionism.
Set and follow deadlines to overcome perfectionism.
Aim to release as soon as possible to validate your idea and let the market direct further improvements.
If it's your first try, start small.
As a person who forces himself to be public, I totally understand the desire to stay comfortably reclusive. Sadly, it significantly reduces the probability of success: nobody will know about your product unless you talk about it loudly across the internet. It is especially true for business software that can't go viral, but even virality requires a lot of initial promotion to break through the noise and get traction.
Regular publicity and networking increase the chances of getting noticed by somebody who's interested in what you are doing — future customers, other entrepreneurs with a useful second opinion, or even a reporter writing about products like yours. Yes, there is a limit after which you can be labeled as a "self-promoter," but a lot of developers worry too much about it and barely act as a result. And if you are working on business software, doing sales is essential: business people send and receive offers all the time and won't get offended by a personalized pitch.
Most hackers who start startups wish they could do it by just writing some clever software, putting it on a server somewhere, and watching the money roll in — without ever having to talk to users, or negotiate with other companies, or deal with other people's broken code. Maybe that's possible, but I haven't seen it.
Missing the opportunities for promotion is not the only consequence of introverted development. When working on something for too long, you get to know it too well, which leads to filtering out some aspects. Your perception becomes rigid. This is the reason to ask for feedback often and from different people — they have a "beginner's mind" and can give you a new perspective because other people have different expectations.
Another unexpected danger of coding too much and socializing too little is the decrease in empathy because of staying in the analytical state of mind all the time. I don't know if it's that strong for everyone, but I definitely feel social numbness after weeklong coding marathons. Apart from possible difficulties in the daily life, the loss of empathy is harmful for marketing and product management because it inhibits the understanding of how others perceive your product.
Work on marketing and promotion at least once every week. It doesn't matter if you don't have anything to show — talk about your idea and the building process.
Don't shy away from contacting people you don't know — it is the core of doing business.
Regularly ask for feedback from others to tune your own perception.
Modern software development is extremely demanding: we have to constantly learn and update our knowledge of languages, frameworks, tools, and ever-changing platform APIs. Professional growth often takes up our time outside of work hours, and many software engineers tend to choose tech-related hobbies. But unfortunately, being so invested in technology can also undermine your success in a few ways.
The first problem is losing the sense of how the majority uses software products because you mostly interact with "power users." In tech communities you can often see people puzzled and even enraged by facts like Slack being so popular when it's "basically IRC" or the iPhone selling so well when Android devices are more flexible and affordable. Usually the explanation is along the lines of "consumers are fooled by marketing," but this is an example of lazy thinking. There's a lot to learn from these products about user experience and its importance for a nontechnical person.
Of course, it is possible to create software for other developers, but this niche is already too crowded. The same goes for the obvious consumer and business ideas: if you can think of some generic problem, then the market is probably oversaturated with decent solutions. For this reason, finding great ideas depends on forcing yourself out of the tech bubble and exploring the obscure needs of other industries or unusual lifestyles.
If something about your life is really unique, then you can use "scratch your own itch" in that area. If you are a freelance graphic designer in San Francisco who likes yoga and green juice, you're going to need a different strategy.
The other challenge for entrepreneurs with tech backgrounds is getting more familiar with fields beyond natural sciences and engineering. Every business relies heavily on psychology and social intelligence: product design, UX design, marketing, sales and PR are are all based in understanding the needs and behaviors of others. Finally, regular news about the disturbing behavior of tech companies indicates that we all should be more skilled in philosophy and ethics.
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
It may seem that just by being rational engineers we can easily deduce all the answers in these fields, but from my own experience it's the Dunning–Kruger effect in action. These are complex disciplines that were developed through centuries of research, and they can improve your thinking tremendously.
Observe how nontechnical people interact with software and what assumptions do they have.
Study the popular products, even if you don't like their use cases.
Look for opportunities to get in touch with different niches and industries to understand how they function.
Spend some time weekly on diving into subjects like design and marketing — to start, check the links in my guide to useful skills for a founder.


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04.01.09 :: Categories: Indian Point. Tags: cooling water, cost-benefit, Hudson, and power plants. News Types: Latest Developments.
Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper: A Closer Look
On April 1, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act provision governing cooling water intake structures does not forbid cost-benefit analysis when determining "best technology available" for power plants. The Court also ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may decide to not engage in such analysis. That's good news for Riverkeeper, who is now looking to the Obama administration and EPA to revise the rule it wrote in February 2004 and to write new regulations favoring the preservation of fish and other aquatic life. Given the environment-friendly stance of the President and EPA director Lisa Jackson, who joined us in an earlier lawsuit before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, it seems unlikely that EPA would create a rule using strict cost-benefit analysis. Any new regulations it writes will be subject to a public comment period, which could take up to two years. We'll be watching closely for those new rules, which should be coming within the next two months. Meanwhile, we remain buoyed by our wins from the Second Circuit suit, which the High Court left untouched.
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