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Dr M: People did not give us two-third majority to fulfil pledges
Why there was a delay in fulfilling some of the promises in the manifesto,
Though Pakatan Harapan (PH) inherited the government reign following the 14th General Election (GE14), it was still insufficient to fulfil some of the promises the pact made in its election manifesto.
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said, for instance, to undertake amendments to the Federal Constitution, PH needed the backing of two-thirds Members of Parliament in the Dewan Rakyat, which the pact did not possess.
"We were (also) given a certain amount of time, 100 days, but not much can be done within the period.
"To amend the constitution, we must have a two-third majority.
"Although promises were made, people did not give us the two-third majority (mandate).
"That was why there was a delay in fulfilling some of the promises in the manifesto, but I believe over time we can do it," he said during an interview with CITYPlus FM radio today.
The Parti Pejuang Tanah Air Chairman also highlighted the inexperience of PH ministers in the cabinet during his tenure.
He added that civil servants were also used to serving ministers from Barisan Nasional for almost 60 years.
Due to the change of government, time was needed to adjust to working with the new ministers.
"They (PH ministers) had no experience in government. They do not know how to work with the civil servants," explained the Langkawi Member of Parliament.
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Q: still same error, module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'get_default_graph' Could you please help me with tensorflow? I have been very frustrated with tensorflow for many months. I know they don't work well with python 3.7. Now I am using python 3.6 with tensorflow 2.0.
What the heck this tensorflow? It is so frustrated to use tensorflow.
Here is my code:
import keras
import keras.backend as K
from keras.layers.core import Activation
from keras.models import Sequential,load_model
from keras.layers import Dense, Dropout, LSTM

The error of AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'get_default_graph' is for next line:
model = Sequential()

Thank you so much.

A: Try importing libraries like that:
from tensorflow.keras.layers import Dense, Dropout, LSTM

A: I solved it. I downgraded tensorflow from 2.0 to 1.8. then it runs fine.

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Thom Mayne (* 19. Januar 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut) ist ein US-amerikanischer Architekt. 1972 gegründete er das Architektenbüro Morphosis, wo er auch heute noch arbeitet. Seine Lebensleistung wurde 2005 mit dem Pritzker-Preis für Baukunst, einem der weltweit renommiertesten Architekturpreise, gewürdigt.

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Thom Mayne studierte Architektur an der Universität von Südkalifornien, wo er 1968 den Bachelor-Grad erlangte. Seinen Masters Degree erhielt er 1978 von der Graduate School of Design der Harvard University. Er ist eines der Gründungsmitglieder des Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

Maynes Architektur ist von komplexen geometrischen Formen geprägt. Sein mutiger Stil reflektiere die "einzigartige, ein wenig wurzellose Kultur Südkaliforniens", hieß es am 20. März 2005 in der Bekanntgabe der Hyatt-Stiftung, dass er der diesjährige Pritzker-Preisträger werde.

Der Kalifornier wurde von der Pritzker-Jury auch als Innovator, als "Produkt der turbulenten 1960er Jahre" mit einem "rebellischen Geist und Leidenschaft für Veränderung" beschrieben. Mayne, der für sein explosives cholerisches Temperament bekannt ist, schmückt sich selbst gerne mit dem Leumund des "Bad Boy" der Architektur.

1987 erhielt er den Rome Prize der American Academy in Rome. 1994 wurde Thom Mayne zum Mitglied (NA) der National Academy of Design gewählt. Im Jahre 2008 wurde er mit der Aufnahme in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences geehrt. Seit 2010 ist er Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2019 wurde er mit dem Österreichischen Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst ausgezeichnet.

Im Juni 2014 erwarben Mayne und seine Ehefrau Blythe Alison-Mayne in Los Angeles das Haus, das der Schriftsteller Ray Bradbury von 1958 bis zu seinem Tod bewohnt hatte, und ließen es abreißen, um auf dem Grundstück ein neues Wohnhaus für sich zu errichten. Mayne zeigte sich von der öffentlichen Kritik am Abriss überrascht und erklärte, zu Ehren Bradburys solle die neue Umfassungsmauer des Grundstücks die Titel seiner Werke tragen.

Werk

Für Bauwerke, die im Rahmen des Büros Morphosis errichtet wurden, siehe den Artikel Morphosis.

In Österreich das 1999 als Hauptsitz für die Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank in Klagenfurt eröffnete Gebäude, das in seiner Funktionalität kritisiert wurde.

Weblinks
 Website von Morphosis
 Thom Mayne (Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate)

Einzelnachweise

Architekt (Vereinigte Staaten)
Pritzker-Preisträger
Hochschullehrer (Los Angeles)
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters
Träger des österreichischen Ehrenzeichens für Wissenschaft und Kunst
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1944
Mann

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The temperatures are slowly but steadily rising. With every ray of sunlight we get more Vitamin D and thus more energy. The waiting is over. We no longer have to breathe heavily. We are ready to inhale the warm air and exhale the spirit of summer.
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Chain Letters Dangerous
People are always looking for a way to "get rich quick," and
college students seem to be no exception. The current fad which is
spreading across the nation involves U.S. savings bond chain letters.
According to the Associated Collegiate Press the scheme has
been tried at colleges in Indiana, Kansas and Wisconsin. The Col-lege
Chronicle, student newspaper at St. Cloud State College, St.
Cloud, Minnesota, reports the plan reached that campus from St.
John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and St. Mary's College,
Winona, Minnesota.
Northern would appear to be in the path that the fad is taking
across the country.
Chain letters using U.S. savings bonds are illegal according
to federal law, U.S. Code 1341, Item 18. The penalty for violation is
a fine of $1,000 and or imprisonment up to five years.
Even though the names of the participants are not circulated
in the mails, this does not effect the illegality of the scheme
because the bonds or other evidence of participation are usually
mailed.
The legality of these chain letters should be enough to deter
any student from engaging in the plan. However, the possibility of
losing money should also be considered. This operation has been
termed a "lose everything" scheme by the Associated Collegiate
The fad could very well progress to Northern's campus. NSTC
students must be aware of the seriousness of involving themselves
in this illegal, "lose everything" action.
Phipps Receives Award
Joe Phipps, talented Wolf quarterback, receives the Exponent's Player
of the Year Award from Rita Raines, editor of the publication, as Coach Clark
Swisher looks on. Phipps has previously been cited as Player of the Week
by the college newspaper and collected many other sports awards during
his Northern career.
Northern State Teachers College
it 1F YOU ASK
ME ff? 5AY L.1.-0
fi5
NEW FORMAL
RATHER.
Published weekly during the college year by Northern students. Entered as Second
Class matter July 16, 1904, at the Post Office at Aberdeen, S. D. under the act of
Congress of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage on July 13.
1918 under provisions of paragraph (d., Section 34.40 P.L.&R.) Subscription rate $2.50
per year.
Rita Raines
Dave Ulmen
Managing Editor Gary Crippen
Circulation Manager Mary Schindler
News Editor Brad Nelson
Sports Editor Mike Williams, Jack Hayes
The Exponent is represented by National Advertising Service, Inc., 18 East 50th
Street, New York 22, N. Y.
Editor ..... ---
Business Manager _
Page Two THE EXPONENT
Some men make contributions m
this life that cannot be measured in
cold facts and impersonal statistics.
For this reason the members of the
Department of Social Science and
Business feel it is appropriate that
we should express ourselves on the
loss of Dr. W. Sheldon Wingerd.
"Shel," as we knew him, was first
a member of our department and
then, for some years, Chairman. In
all of this time he enjoyed our respect
without ever commanding it. Surely,
he always had the common touch,
but with it never descended to the
common. Without being arrogant, he
believed in and practiced the cult of
the excellent. This was particularly
evident in his command of language
and his never-ending efforts toward
improvement of the self.
In the classroom "Shel" had a
style all his own. He brought to his
students an extensive background in
law and government which enriched
the classroom experience. Probably
As a campus newspaper the EXPONENT welcomes comments and
observations from its readers. Letters must be signed; however,
the writer's name can be withheld on request. The EXPONENT
reserves the right to edit letters of over two hundred words.
Dr. Wingerd was a "natural" teacher;
Vex 805 Holly Proves Annual Favorite
For Decorating Since Romans
By Mary Schindler
Down through the centuries, holly
has been a popular winter decoration.
The Romans gathered it for use fur-ing
the Saturnalia, carried it in their
processions, and decked images of
their deities with its glistening leaves.
The custom of using holly at Christ-mas
was brought to the United States
by the English settlers.
While some have stated that "holly"
is a corruption of "holy," and the
plant often has been called the
"holy tree," the name really comes
from the Old English holen or holegn,
and was applied to the genus of
trees and shrubs with glossy leaves
and bright red berries.
There are more than three hund-red
species of holly; and it is found
in almost every country in the world,
both in temperate and tropical re-gions.
However, the most highly priz-ed
type is native to the British Isles;
it grows best where the humidity is
high and the summers, cool. This is
especially favored for Christmas use
because of its sharp, shining leaves
and brilliant berries.
In our country, holly is native to
the Eastern states, and is found from
Massachusetts to Florida as well as
westward to Missouri and Texas. One
of the largest Eastern nurseries is lo-cated
in Robinsville, New York.
The plant has male and female
varieties, the latter being the type
Faculty To Explain
Use Of Recordings
"Use of Library Recordings as a
Class Supplement on Northern's Cam-pus"
will be the topic under discus-sion
on Northern's weekly TV show
over station KXAB Sunday, Decem-ber
15 at 12:15 p.m., according to Dr.
Lloyd F. Johnson, director of special
The program will be introduced by
moderator Helen Holgate, and Mrs.
Arloene Becklund, assistant professor
of library science.
Other members of the panel in-clude
Dr. Perry Armin, assistant pro-fessor
of social science; Edward Gib-son,
assistant professor of English; and
William Chdloner, assistant professor
of music and director of bands.
The members of the panel will tell
how each of them have used the li-brary
recordings for effective teach-ing.
Kramers To Host
Xmas Open House
Members of the professional staff,
all secretaries and clerical workers,
and their husbands and wives have
been invited to a Christmas Open
House at the apartment of Dr. and
Mrs. J. Howard Kramer Tuesday,
December 17, from 9 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Operational and custodial em-ployees
will be guests of the ICramer's
Wednesday, December 18 from 9:30
a.m. to 10 a.m.
that produces berries. It takes eight
years for the trees to mature before
the growers know which will have
the coveted berries. So, the business
of raising this Christmas green is
much of a gamble.
Among the numerous beliefs con-nected
with holly is the Druid idea
that its eternally green leaves proved
that the sun never completely deserted
the earth; so they considered it as
sacred. Also, they thought the spirit
of the holly tree kept its beauty all
year round so the world would still
be attractive when their sacred oak
trees were bare of leaves.
After the adoption of the Christian
faith, a church goer always tried to
get a sprig of the plant — that had
been used as a church eecoration —
to take home with him. If anyone
wearing a piece of holly entered a
church on Christmas Eve, he was
given supernatural power, and would
see a procession of all the parishioners
destined to die the coming year. An-other
belief was that the holly tree
had been the "burning bush," from
which God had spoken to Moses, in
regard to his taking over the leader-ship
of his people.
The plant, according to another
legend, was symbolic of the Virgin
Mary, the pure maiden, who had
been chosen to be Christ's mother.
When Jesus walked on earth, holly
is said to have sprung up in his foot-steps.
Following this miracle, animals
revered the holly, and never harmed
it; and stubborn beasts could easily
be subdued by the use of a holly
branch.
Another story was that, when
Christ's enemies were searching for
Him, the plant concealed his where-abouts.
As a reward, holly was allow-ed
to keep its leaves throughout the
year, thus becoming the emblem of
immortality, with the promise of life
everlasting.
Summer Bulletins
Expected In Jan.
Copy for the general cataloge and
summer school bulletin has been sent
to the printers, and the books are
expected soon after January 1, 1964,
according to Dr. Walter J. Jerde,
Dean of the College.
Special courses to be offered at
the summer sessions include a work-shop
in Driving Education; Remedial
Reading Clinic; Speech Clinic; and
internship in teaching the mentally
retarded.
A new course offered both sessions
is "New Concepts in Elementary
Mathematics."
Dr. Jerde, in commenting on the
new course said "The elementary
math course will be of special im-portance
at this time since the state
department of public instruction is
publishing a new guide for teachers
in elementary math. This new state
department guide will be available
to students taking that course."
Featuring NSTC
Available At Union
Christmas cards with a Northern
flair may be purchased this year by
students from members of Epsilon Pi
Tau who will be in the Memorial
Union each day until Friday, Decem-ber
The cards will be sold on Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
and on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The cards are of two styles featur-ing
engraved pictures of Mewalt-
Jensen Hall and the Administration
Building and are printed with brown
ink on white paper. A Christmas
greeting is stamped on the inside.
Prices have been set at 5 cards for
$.50, 10 for $.85 and 20 for $1.50.
Debaters Do Well
At Wayne College
The NSTC debate squad compiled
a record of ten wins and five losses
at the intercollegiate debate tourna-ment
December 6 and 7 at Wayne
State Teachers College, Wayne, Ne-braska.
Kathy Weber, Aberdeen senior, and
Karen Nelson, Langford senior, won
4 out of 5 debates. John Stone, Pierre
sophomore and George Wosika also
won 4 out of 5. Winning two out of
5 were Phil Salem, Madison fresh-man
and Charles Weibel, Aberdeen
sophomore.
Sixteen schools participated in the
event which included rounds of ora-tory
and extemporaneous speaking.
Friday and Saturday the debators
will travel to Grand Forks. All mem-bers
will attend with the exception
of Karen Nelson.
Senior Class Meet
Set For Tomorrow
A senior class meeting is scheduled
for tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. in U-100,
according to Andy Parks, president
of the class. The seniors will elect a
candidate for the Sno-Sho and submit
talent for the event.
Graduation business and the dis-cussion
of gifts to the college will be
included in the order of business.
Members of the class may purchase
14 carat gold pins at sixty cents per
pin, concluded Parks.
Grad Scholarships
To Hawaii Offered
One-hundred graduate scholarships
for a two-year period at the Univer-sity
of Hawaii are being offered by
the East-West Center of Monolulu.
The program will include field study
in Asia for those who qualify.
Beginning in September, 1964, the
scholarships will provide full tuition,
living expenses, plus round-trip trans-portation
and a small personal allow-ance.
American students will join stu-dents
from Asia and the Pacific Area
for intercultural exchange in classes
and campus activities.
In order to be eligible for scholar-ship
consideration, students must have
a high scholastic standing, a deep in-terest
in Asian affairs and plan to
study an Asian language.
Further information concerning the
scholarships may be obtained by writ-ing
the Director of Student Selection,
East-West Center, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.
Sno-Sho Beauties
Scheduled For TV
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, men's na-tional
honorary music fraternity and
Sigma Alpha Iota, women's national
honorary fraternity will appear on
Helen Holgate's weekly TV program
Wednesday, December 18, at 12:30
p.m. over television station KXAB
for the purpose of reviewing the Sno
Sho candidates, according to Curtis
Hollan publicity chairman.
The candidates will appear for pur-pose
of presenting themselves to the
Two of the talent acts will also
appear on the program, stated Hollan.
he had the gift, the flair for the art
of teaching.
We who knew Shel best probably
appreciated most his disarming hon-esty.
Shel knew that "the mark of
an educated man" was not to be
found in degrees, or in vestments, or
titles — that education was far more
subtle than any of these. His striv-ing,
for himself, for his students, and
for his associates, was toward the
subleties that are the mark of the
educated.
Dr. Wingerd knew that the world
is made up of saints and sinners —
and all who lie between. He knew
that most of us would never be saints,
but he put his influence to that side
of the scale, In short, our world is a
somewhat better place in which to
live because Shel Wingerd was with
us for a short time.
Members of the Divi-sion
of Social Science
and Business
Transcription Chain Letters Dangerous People are always looking for a way to "get rich quick," and college students seem to be no exception. The current fad which is spreading across the nation involves U.S. savings bond chain letters. According to the Associated Collegiate Press the scheme has been tried at colleges in Indiana, Kansas and Wisconsin. The Col-lege Chronicle, student newspaper at St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, Minnesota, reports the plan reached that campus from St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and St. Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota. Northern would appear to be in the path that the fad is taking across the country. Chain letters using U.S. savings bonds are illegal according to federal law, U.S. Code 1341, Item 18. The penalty for violation is a fine of $1,000 and or imprisonment up to five years. Even though the names of the participants are not circulated in the mails, this does not effect the illegality of the scheme because the bonds or other evidence of participation are usually mailed. The legality of these chain letters should be enough to deter any student from engaging in the plan. However, the possibility of losing money should also be considered. This operation has been termed a "lose everything" scheme by the Associated Collegiate Press. The fad could very well progress to Northern's campus. NSTC students must be aware of the seriousness of involving themselves in this illegal, "lose everything" action. Phipps Receives Award Joe Phipps, talented Wolf quarterback, receives the Exponent's Player of the Year Award from Rita Raines, editor of the publication, as Coach Clark Swisher looks on. Phipps has previously been cited as Player of the Week by the college newspaper and collected many other sports awards during his Northern career. The Exponent Northern State Teachers College Student Publication it 1F YOU ASK CUT ME ff? 5AY L.1.-0 LOW, \11 fi5 NEW FORMAL RATHER. Published weekly during the college year by Northern students. Entered as Second Class matter July 16, 1904, at the Post Office at Aberdeen, S. D. under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage on July 13. 1918 under provisions of paragraph (d., Section 34.40 P.L.&R.) Subscription rate $2.50 per year. Rita Raines Dave Ulmen Managing Editor Gary Crippen Circulation Manager Mary Schindler News Editor Brad Nelson Sports Editor Mike Williams, Jack Hayes The Exponent is represented by National Advertising Service, Inc., 18 East 50th Street, New York 22, N. Y. Editor ..... --- Business Manager _ Page Two THE EXPONENT December 12, 1963 Dear Editor: Some men make contributions m this life that cannot be measured in cold facts and impersonal statistics. For this reason the members of the Department of Social Science and Business feel it is appropriate that we should express ourselves on the loss of Dr. W. Sheldon Wingerd. "Shel," as we knew him, was first a member of our department and then, for some years, Chairman. In all of this time he enjoyed our respect without ever commanding it. Surely, he always had the common touch, but with it never descended to the common. Without being arrogant, he believed in and practiced the cult of the excellent. This was particularly evident in his command of language and his never-ending efforts toward improvement of the self. In the classroom "Shel" had a style all his own. He brought to his students an extensive background in law and government which enriched the classroom experience. Probably As a campus newspaper the EXPONENT welcomes comments and observations from its readers. Letters must be signed; however, the writer's name can be withheld on request. The EXPONENT reserves the right to edit letters of over two hundred words. Dr. Wingerd was a "natural" teacher; Vex 805 Holly Proves Annual Favorite For Decorating Since Romans By Mary Schindler Down through the centuries, holly has been a popular winter decoration. The Romans gathered it for use fur-ing the Saturnalia, carried it in their processions, and decked images of their deities with its glistening leaves. The custom of using holly at Christ-mas was brought to the United States by the English settlers. While some have stated that "holly" is a corruption of "holy," and the plant often has been called the "holy tree," the name really comes from the Old English holen or holegn, and was applied to the genus of trees and shrubs with glossy leaves and bright red berries. There are more than three hund-red species of holly; and it is found in almost every country in the world, both in temperate and tropical re-gions. However, the most highly priz-ed type is native to the British Isles; it grows best where the humidity is high and the summers, cool. This is especially favored for Christmas use because of its sharp, shining leaves and brilliant berries. In our country, holly is native to the Eastern states, and is found from Massachusetts to Florida as well as westward to Missouri and Texas. One of the largest Eastern nurseries is lo-cated in Robinsville, New York. The plant has male and female varieties, the latter being the type Faculty To Explain Use Of Recordings "Use of Library Recordings as a Class Supplement on Northern's Cam-pus" will be the topic under discus-sion on Northern's weekly TV show over station KXAB Sunday, Decem-ber 15 at 12:15 p.m., according to Dr. Lloyd F. Johnson, director of special services. The program will be introduced by moderator Helen Holgate, and Mrs. Arloene Becklund, assistant professor of library science. Other members of the panel in-clude Dr. Perry Armin, assistant pro-fessor of social science; Edward Gib-son, assistant professor of English; and William Chdloner, assistant professor of music and director of bands. The members of the panel will tell how each of them have used the li-brary recordings for effective teach-ing. Kramers To Host Xmas Open House Members of the professional staff, all secretaries and clerical workers, and their husbands and wives have been invited to a Christmas Open House at the apartment of Dr. and Mrs. J. Howard Kramer Tuesday, December 17, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Operational and custodial em-ployees will be guests of the ICramer's Wednesday, December 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. that produces berries. It takes eight years for the trees to mature before the growers know which will have the coveted berries. So, the business of raising this Christmas green is much of a gamble. Among the numerous beliefs con-nected with holly is the Druid idea that its eternally green leaves proved that the sun never completely deserted the earth; so they considered it as sacred. Also, they thought the spirit of the holly tree kept its beauty all year round so the world would still be attractive when their sacred oak trees were bare of leaves. After the adoption of the Christian faith, a church goer always tried to get a sprig of the plant — that had been used as a church eecoration — to take home with him. If anyone wearing a piece of holly entered a church on Christmas Eve, he was given supernatural power, and would see a procession of all the parishioners destined to die the coming year. An-other belief was that the holly tree had been the "burning bush," from which God had spoken to Moses, in regard to his taking over the leader-ship of his people. The plant, according to another legend, was symbolic of the Virgin Mary, the pure maiden, who had been chosen to be Christ's mother. When Jesus walked on earth, holly is said to have sprung up in his foot-steps. Following this miracle, animals revered the holly, and never harmed it; and stubborn beasts could easily be subdued by the use of a holly branch. Another story was that, when Christ's enemies were searching for Him, the plant concealed his where-abouts. As a reward, holly was allow-ed to keep its leaves throughout the year, thus becoming the emblem of immortality, with the promise of life everlasting. Summer Bulletins General Catalogues Expected In Jan. Copy for the general cataloge and summer school bulletin has been sent to the printers, and the books are expected soon after January 1, 1964, according to Dr. Walter J. Jerde, Dean of the College. Special courses to be offered at the summer sessions include a work-shop in Driving Education; Remedial Reading Clinic; Speech Clinic; and internship in teaching the mentally retarded. A new course offered both sessions is "New Concepts in Elementary Mathematics." Dr. Jerde, in commenting on the new course said "The elementary math course will be of special im-portance at this time since the state department of public instruction is publishing a new guide for teachers in elementary math. This new state department guide will be available to students taking that course." Christmas Cards Featuring NSTC Available At Union Christmas cards with a Northern flair may be purchased this year by students from members of Epsilon Pi Tau who will be in the Memorial Union each day until Friday, Decem-ber 20. The cards will be sold on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cards are of two styles featur-ing engraved pictures of Mewalt- Jensen Hall and the Administration Building and are printed with brown ink on white paper. A Christmas greeting is stamped on the inside. Prices have been set at 5 cards for $.50, 10 for $.85 and 20 for $1.50. Debaters Do Well At Wayne College The NSTC debate squad compiled a record of ten wins and five losses at the intercollegiate debate tourna-ment December 6 and 7 at Wayne State Teachers College, Wayne, Ne-braska. Kathy Weber, Aberdeen senior, and Karen Nelson, Langford senior, won 4 out of 5 debates. John Stone, Pierre sophomore and George Wosika also won 4 out of 5. Winning two out of 5 were Phil Salem, Madison fresh-man and Charles Weibel, Aberdeen sophomore. Sixteen schools participated in the event which included rounds of ora-tory and extemporaneous speaking. Friday and Saturday the debators will travel to Grand Forks. All mem-bers will attend with the exception of Karen Nelson. Senior Class Meet Set For Tomorrow A senior class meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. in U-100, according to Andy Parks, president of the class. The seniors will elect a candidate for the Sno-Sho and submit talent for the event. Graduation business and the dis-cussion of gifts to the college will be included in the order of business. Members of the class may purchase 14 carat gold pins at sixty cents per pin, concluded Parks. Grad Scholarships To Hawaii Offered One-hundred graduate scholarships for a two-year period at the Univer-sity of Hawaii are being offered by the East-West Center of Monolulu. The program will include field study in Asia for those who qualify. Beginning in September, 1964, the scholarships will provide full tuition, living expenses, plus round-trip trans-portation and a small personal allow-ance. American students will join stu-dents from Asia and the Pacific Area for intercultural exchange in classes and campus activities. In order to be eligible for scholar-ship consideration, students must have a high scholastic standing, a deep in-terest in Asian affairs and plan to study an Asian language. Further information concerning the scholarships may be obtained by writ-ing the Director of Student Selection, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. Sno-Sho Beauties Scheduled For TV Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, men's na-tional honorary music fraternity and Sigma Alpha Iota, women's national honorary fraternity will appear on Helen Holgate's weekly TV program Wednesday, December 18, at 12:30 p.m. over television station KXAB for the purpose of reviewing the Sno Sho candidates, according to Curtis Hollan publicity chairman. The candidates will appear for pur-pose of presenting themselves to the public. Two of the talent acts will also appear on the program, stated Hollan. he had the gift, the flair for the art of teaching. We who knew Shel best probably appreciated most his disarming hon-esty. Shel knew that "the mark of an educated man" was not to be found in degrees, or in vestments, or titles — that education was far more subtle than any of these. His striv-ing, for himself, for his students, and for his associates, was toward the subleties that are the mark of the educated. Dr. Wingerd knew that the world is made up of saints and sinners — and all who lie between. He knew that most of us would never be saints, but he put his influence to that side of the scale, In short, our world is a somewhat better place in which to live because Shel Wingerd was with us for a short time. Members of the Divi-sion of Social Science and Business

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In Chances of Light is the debut album from I'Anson, evoking one man's relationship with a wild and immutable landscape - the Isle of Jura in Scotland.
Written, performed and produced by Hugh Carswell, the album also features Steve Jansen (ex Japan, David Sylvian) playing drums & percussion, Dudley Phillips (Robert Wyatt, Mark Knopfler, Amy Winehouse) playing double and electric bass, and one of the world's finest contemporary string orchestras, the Scottish Ensemble.
The album was recorded and mixed at Hugh's studio in Jura, with additional recording sessions at David Sylvian's Samadhi Sound in New Hampshire, The Caird Hall in Dundee, The Bunker in Letchworth and Air Edel in London. It was mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis, London.
Hugh has written listening notes to accompany In Chances of Light - providing personal background and insight into the music.
In Chances of Light subtly features numerous field recordings made by Hugh in Jura. Whilst most of these are atmospheric and barely perceptible, the single Take Hold features a 'B Side' of unadulterated high quality sound recording from the beach just down the road from Hugh's cottage: Corran Sea & Reeds.
So if you wish to experience Jura without musical accompaniment then here's your chance.
Write your own review of In Chances of Light and we'll feature it here!


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Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand New, 13 Mar 2015 — 17 Mar 2015
Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand New
International Commerce Centre, 1 Austin Road West West Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui
Same Old, Brand New is a new work by the artist Cao Fei (b.1978, Beijing)– created especially for Hong Kong's iconic ICC building – that references video games, primarily from the 1980s, which have become an integral part of popular and youth culture, especially in Hong Kong but also across the world. By combining symbols and logos with moving images derived from wellknown computer games including Pac-Man and Tetris on the full length of the skyscraper, the visual display will create a heightened visibility, thereby revealing further meanings.
With this video installation, Cao Fei attempts to turn collective memories into a current reality. The work follows previous multi-media projects by the artist that explore the dreams and aspirations of a younger Chinese generation and their strategies for overcoming and escaping reality. Known for her multimedia installations and videos, Cao Fei mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and a documentary approach, reflecting on the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in Chinese society today. Visible from numerous locations across Hong Kong, including the HKCEC, 'Same Old, Brand New' can be witnessed by people all over the city. Recommended public viewing places are the terrace on Podium 3 and 4 of the IFC Mall where an accompanying audio piece by Hong Kong sound artist Dickson Dee will be broadcast. Also influenced by the music of 1980s computer games, the sound work will be synchronized with Cao Fei's visual installation.


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A man who walked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a teenager in Birmingham, Alabama participated in the march at Dunbar Jupiter Hammon Public Library on Monday.
"I see this decisiveness in our country… that brings a tear to my eye. All of the progress. You do not want to see that fade away," said Reginald Billups.
Billups is a founding member of the celebrations in Fort Myers. Hundreds of people made the march from Dunbar Jupiter Hammon Public Library to Centennial Park on Monday.
"My mom used to say one day there will be no races and we won't look at each other and say that's a brown person, that's a black person, that's a yellow person. That we will look first and say 'That's a person,'" said Billups.
Billups spoke about the progress he's seen over the years.
"I was having breakfast with a friend this morning and he said, 'What's the biggest difference?'…I always have the same answer. When I was marching in Birmingham Alabama…the police did not provide us with an escort," said Billups. "They were not there to befriend us. Today, the police gives us an escort and that's progress."
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'I had a tough month but I proved it's all behind me' – Murphy opens up over City return
Published: 5:54 PM October 25, 2017 Updated: 11:02 PM October 10, 2020
Josh Murphy gets past Arsenal's Reiss Nelson at the Emirates Stadium. Picture: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
Repentant Josh Murphy has no fears Norwich City's "machines" will be back in top form come their two big Carrow Road assignments.
Promotion hopefuls Derby visit on Saturday before Championship leaders Wolves follow suit three days later – all after Sunday's derby win at Ipswich and 120 minutes of intensive work in agonising extra-time defeat at Arsenal in midweek.
Fortunately City head coach Daniel Farke has done a good job of conditioning his troops since taking charge ahead of pre-season.
"I'd say everyone in this team is a machine now," said Murphy, with a smile on his face. "If you look at our stats compared to last season, we're covering a lot more distance and we're running a lot faster, and you can just tell that on the pitch.
"We've got a lot of strong players here and we've got a lot of togetherness where we don't want to lose, so everyone is going to run that extra 10pc for each other and I think that's why we've been doing so well.
"Recovery is going to be tough because a lot of them are playing 90 minutes, 90, 90, 120 – so it's just about the best preparation, eating the right things, sleeping well, all the normal stuff. But come Saturday, as soon as the adrenaline kicks in and we kick off at 3pm, I think everyone's going to be fine."
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That will hopefully include Murphy, who took to the field on Tuesday night with his own list of ailments.
"Broken toe, tonsillitis – but I'm a machine now, so I just get on it with," Murphy smiled once more.
"I'm getting there so hopefully I'll be available for Saturday. I just want to be out there with the team and everyone wants to be playing. You can see how well we're doing at the moment, everyone's itching to play and I'm no different."
Murphy admitted it hasn't been the easiest time, with a public admonishment from Farke and being dropped following his "unprofessional preparation" ahead of the trip to the Riverside Stadium last month.
"It was all dealt with fine," added Murphy. "I just want to put it behind me. I had a tough month but Arsenal was my second game since that and I think I showed and proved that it's all behind me and it's all done, and I'm just ready to kick on and take everything to the next level.
"The manager will do everything for his players and we'll do everything for him. So I think it was a mistake that I made, the same with Nelson (Oliveira at Fulham). But you can see the reaction with everyone. Everyone is going in the right direction and everyone is pulling together.
"There might be a couple of blips but as long as we stay on the right path, then everything's fine. So I think you've seen now that I'm back. I'm back."
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Overlooking Santa Maria Novella, a historic square that ranks among Florence's most idyllic, L'Orologio is in the true centre of town, just a few minutes from the Duomo and Ponte Vecchio. The piazza is also host to a Gothic Renaissance church of the same name: the city's first great basilica and its principal Dominican church. As such, its façade – completed in the 14th century – is suitably grand, featuring great green marble flourishes picked out against pearly whites. You'll also have Via Roma, the city's upmarket shopping street, on your doorstep along with a range of superb Florentine restaurants.
In its understated theme, L'Orologio welcomes you into the world of haute horlogerie – fine timepieces to the uninitiated. Each room is named for a collectible watch – think Rolex, Vacheron-Constantin and Patek Philippe – with styling to match in leather accents, mahogany furniture, wooden floorboards, original artwork and various memorabilia. Even the faucets in the marble bathrooms take their notes from a watch's crown. This said, it's subtly done and most of the design flourishes will have to be pointed out to you; the effect is luxury chic rather than thematic nightmare. For some, it's even a delightful frame to superb views of the next-door basilica and the city's famous cathedral, a sight best taken from one of the indulgent suites.
L'Orologio has to have one of the finest breakfast rooms in Florence. Found on the fourth floor, its giant windows look directly over the neighbouring square and its Santa Maria Novella Church. Here you'll enjoy continental buffets and American breakfasts made from rich selection of organic produce. On the ground floor you'll find the L'O Bar, which is ideal for either a mid-morning coffee or an end-of-evening nightcap at its oversized mahogany bar. There's even live music at certain periods of the year. It doubles as a bistro too, offering a refined menu of light bites.
Given Florence's compact nature, L'Orologio surprises with a wide range of facilities. Those seeking to keep fit can get their fix in the fitness centre, complete with latest-generation Technogym machines. There's also a Finnish sauna to soothe any sightseeing aches and a smoking room. Hark back to yesteryear with comfortably armchairs, fine spirits and a superb collection of coffee roasts. Of course, it's very possible – given your location – that you'll want to spend all your time exploring.


Beginners Guide is written to provide all the guidance needed during the first year by phal growers, be they novices or power growers of other orchid genera. The book fills the gap between nursery handouts and the more complete manual, Culture of the Phalaenopsis Orchid.
Presumes reader has no greenhouse.


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Installing hardware should be faster and easier than ever under Windows 98, because of its extensive support for USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices.
By Steve Rigney
August 1, 1998 1:03PM EST
Windows 98 Put to the Test
The Upgrade Experience
System Diagnostics
From the Things We'd Like to See Dept...
Windows 98 the Hard Way
The History of Windows
Windows 98 Exclusives
Windows 98 Cheat Sheet
A Walk-Through of the Windows 98 Upgrade
Installing hardware should be faster and easier than ever under Windows 98, because of its extensive support for USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices. Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a hardware specification that lets you attach multiple peripherals to your PC without worrying about adding new adapter cards, finding available interrupts, or even taking the case off. IEEE 1394 is similar, but it's designed for devices that need more bandwidth, such as digital video cameras, digital video recorders, and storage devices. Our testing revealed that Windows 98 does make it easier to connect these devices, although currently there are not a great many of them out there. More USB devices are expected now that Windows 98 is here, with its strong native support.
USB devices include such peripherals as mice, scanners, and keyboards. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this technology is the number of devices you can use at once. You should be able to attach as many as 127 devices (through a series of hubs) to a PC without worrying about IRQs.
Although USB and 1394 also work with Windows 95, its support is more limited than that of Windows 98. USB support was added to Windows 95 with OSR 2.1, which supports 7 USB controllers from 6 vendors, compared with Windows 98's native support for 55 different controllers from 41 vendors. You can see which controllers and which vendors have built-in support by going to the Add Hardware applet on the Control Panel and looking at the USB controller section.
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Introducing Our New Shareware Library!
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Felt Mistress Louise Evans won't be at The Handmade Fair, but this guy will! Read on to find out more.
Well Louise, I am certainly intrigued. I know you won't be attending the fair personally but can we find out some more about you?
I am a UK based stitcher and prolific tea drinker who creates a range of one-off bespoke creatures. I originally trained in fashion design and millinery, and use many of the skills learnt through years of work as a couture dress maker to the world of character design. My work is used in fashion shoots, tv ads, films and has been exhibited worldwide.
So just a little bit to your name Louise ;-). Such a shame we won't get to meet you there, it sounds like you have some stories to tell. The character you are featuring today will be there though (in a way). Can you tell us about him?
"Poor old Grunch. Ever since he was young he's wanted to roller skate but, due to his long furry arms, he's never been able to skate for more than a few minutes without getting tangled up in his own limbs. On the plus side he's brilliant at wallpapering and is more than happy to be paid in broken chocolate biscuits"
So cute Louise, I love it and I love that your characters have a story to bring them to life. How and when did you develop your sewing skills.
I originally trained in fashion design and millinery and had a very strict elderly millinery teacher who would make me unpick and sew again any stitches that weren't neat enough. She hated the idea of cutting corners and gluing fabric trims to hats and passed this on to me. I still hand stitch all details on my pieces and never glue. I have been sewing professionally for over 25 years, working as bespoke dressmaker previously to working on character design.
Sounds like you learned life sewing lessons there! When did you make the decision turn your creative skills into a business?
I always knew I wanted to sew and have been lucky enough to have sewn for all of my professional working life but the change over from dresses to characters came about 8 years ago. I had made a few creatures as presents for friends and posted photos of them online. These were then spotted by Brix Smith Start who contacted me about using some of my creatures in her boutique for London Fashion week, this then lead on to me doing the Christmas Windows for Selfridges and since then making creatures took over from making dresses.
My goodness. How amazing to be part of Selfridges Christmas windows! Tell us what inspires and motivates you.
I love to travel and visit different fabric and haberdashery shops. I'm also inspired by people and surroundings, pretty much anywhere can be inspiring, you never know when you are going to spot something/someone that may spark an idea. Snippets of overheard conversations in shops, on train journeys, and people talking loudly on their phones (even though sometimes annoying) are entertaining and sometimes if you can't see the person talking it's great to imagine what they look like.
This is something that I have spoken about often with others; getting the balance of creating and inspiration right and ensuring that you spend enough time living life to be inspired by surroundings. Where can we find you online then Louise?
Where will visitors to The Handmade Fair find Grunch?
My brand new book, 'Make Creatures with Felt Mistress' (coming out 19th August), will be available at the Laurence King Publishing stand (W95) with 35% off. It includes patterns and tips on how to make your own cool and kooky creatures, including Grunch!
Are you up for a quick fire round of questions? Your crafting hero?
At the moment because I have just got back from Japan it's Meiji milk chocolate.
Jonathan, dogs and a new roll of calico.
Getting to work on the film American Interior.


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Q: Android: зачёркнутый текст в ListView Как правильно при нажатии на пункт в listview делать текст в нём зачёркнутым?
Пробовал нечто такое, но это не работает:
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Спасибо за помощь!
A: Нужно писать свой адаптер, в котором хранить индексы перечеркнутых элементов и метод который будет их задавать.
При клике вызывается этот метод и перерисовывается listview


Black and White Sesame seeds are so nutritious. You might have seen them on top of your bagel and as white sesame seeds on chikki. It is an excellent source of many essential minerals as well as a very good source of vitamin B1 (Thiamin) and dietary fiber. With many major minerals, black sesame seeds are an excellent source of magnesium and calcium.
This is last one in the series of Triple Delight. For Margazhi (Margashirish, December), for 30 days, we prepare one variety rice daily as offering to Goddess Andal. You can start adding this rice to that list. You can also make similar variety rice with nuts as prasadham without adding onion and garlic in these recipes. Preparation of this nuts rice is given in the tips.
First cook the rice and keep it ready.
Fry black sesame seeds without oil in the pan. Sesame will get fried much faster and start spluttering. Keep the lid closed for a second so that it will not splutter out of the pan and you will save time by cleaning the stove top. Transfer this also to a separate plate.
Separately add 1/2 tspn oil in the same pan now and add urad dal to be fried in golden brown.
When it is about to turn golden brown add red chilli and fry it for a minute and remove it immediately. Don't leave it in the same pan otherwise it might turn into dark brown and it give a bitter taste.
Now, grind separately to make coarse of Black Sesame seeds and urad dal, chilli.
In a Wok / pan add remaining oil, wait until oil is hot and then add mustard. When mustard starts spluttering, add curry leaves and hing.
Now add rice, salt and coarse powder and rice mix well. Immediately, put the stove in simmer until rice becomes hot.
Now separately fry cashews in the ghee and garnish to the top of rice.
Enjoy this hot rice with papad, boondi raita or any curry according to your choice.
Instead of black sesame, you can use white sesame seeds also.
Black sesame rice could be offered as prasadham to Lord Shani Bhagwan on Saturdays.
Using the above procedure, you could even prepare variety rice with nuts like badam, walnut, pista, musk melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews.
While doing with nuts, fry the nuts and red chilli without oil and make coarse powder out of it and mix with rice and salt. Temper with Mustard seeds and curry leaves.
This is type of nuts rice could also be offered as Prasadham for Margazhi (Margashirish, December), for 30 days, to God Andal.
Avoid adding red chilli when frying any dals at the beginning, otherwise it might turn into black and the color of the powder will not be great to look at.


Between April 22 and April 24th, 2016, Tom Atkins removed two ficus trees that had been blocking views and damaging the mauka-side Retention Basin fence in Kuau Bayview at Paia behind Lot 28.
Ficus trees have intrusive roots and grow to an enormous size very quickly so it is best to deal with them before they get out of hand. These were already too big, but not for Logger Tom.
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Q: How to best see, with some level of lenience, if a given string is inside another string? I am trying to create a program in laravel where a person can answer a question. In the controller, I want to check if the givenAnswer matches any of the actual answers.
I have seen a few things suggested online. The majority of people recommend using strpos. I have found however that it doesnt work as well as I would like it to.
For example, if one of the CORRECT answers is 'Quorin Halfhand', then strpos will show return true for answers such as "Quo, Half, Hand, alf," etc etc.
I would an option that lets me sanitize and state to what degree of error I would be willing to accept.
Is there anything out there that might be useful?
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A: You could try computing the levenshtein distance between your two strings, and comparing the result with threshold of your choosing.


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Mick Fleetwood's Tears Over Peter Green's Loving Gesture
Martin Kielty Published: March 19, 2021
When Peter Green was putting together the band that would become Fleetwood Mac, he invited Mick Fleetwood to join simply because the drummer was enduring heartbreak at the time.
But Fleetwood discovered the truth behind the loving gesture only a few years before guitarist Green died in 2020, as he told Classic Rock in a recent interview.
"I did a really lovely limited-edition book called Love That Burns, which was the beginning of an overture that the Peter Green concert is part of, too," he said. "And when I was doing that book, I spoke to Peter, spent a couple of hours with him. I've still got the interview tapes. … He said to me on the phone: 'Don't you remember, Mick, you were so heartbroken? You were my friend, and I wanted you to be okay.' Because my then-girlfriend had left me and I was totally brokenhearted."
Fleetwood admitted he "talk[s] too much, but when Peter said that, I stopped. He didn't know it, but I actually broke down in tears. Because it was just so indicative of my relationship with Peter. It had nothing to do with music, actually, at all. … He just basically said, 'Screw it, this guy is so down in the dumps, I've got to pull him out.' It actually meant so much more."
He also reflected on the drama surrounding Green's departure from the band in 1970, as a result of mental health and drug issues. Noting that they'd only realized something was wrong "when it was too damn late," he said, "I don't think we would have been, in retrospect, equipped to do anything about knowing how to help him anyhow. He intimated that he was done. We were on a tour in America and he said, 'We've got to give all our money away.' Of course, we didn't know that his illness was starting then. And he disowned himself. Disowned what he'd done. Said that he'd stolen everything he'd ever created.
"Of course, it's nonsense. But then suddenly it was like, 'Oh, shit, he's fucking leaving.' … He left very responsibly. He didn't dump us. Then came the real damage, which is public knowledge," Fleetwood added. "I think he was just so not equipped to being such a powerful entity. And then the drugs. … He was one person who didn't need any of that shit. He was so sensitive anyway."
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Family: Arecaceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Genus: Roystonea O.F.Cook
Roystonea regia (Kunth) O.F.Cook
This species is accepted, and its native range is S. Florida, N. Central & SE. Mexico to Central America, Caribbean.
According to Palmweb - Palms of the World Online
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Florida royal palm, royal palm (U.S.A.), palma criolla, palma real, palma de seda (Cuba), waa (Panama), yagua, palma macho (Nee, 1987), Cuban royal palm, royal palm (in culti vation).
Trunk gray-white, to 20(-30) m tall, 37-57.5 cm diam. Leaves ca. 15, lowest leaves hanging below the horizontal; crownshaft ca. 2 m long; rachis ca. 4 m long; middle segments 63- 119 cm long and 2.5-4.6 cm wide. Inflorescence ca. 1 m long and 1 m wide; prophyll ca. 36 cm long and 7.3 cm wide; peduncular bract 0.8-1 .6 m long and 9.8-13 cm wide, widest at the middle, apex acuminate; rachillae 11-31 cm long and 0.9-2.3 mm diam. Staminate flowers white; sepals triangular, 0.8-1.4 mm long and 0.9-2 mm wide; petals elliptical 10 ovate, 3.5-6.4 mm long and 2.2-3.5 mm wide; stamens 6-9, 3.2-7.5 mm long; filaments awl-shaped, 2.3-5.6 mm long; anthers 2.4-4.5 mm long; pistillode minute. Pistillate flowers white,2-4.5 per cm; sepals reniform, 0.7-1 .8 mm long and 1.8-3.4 mm wide; petals ovate, 2.7-3.7 mm long mm; gynoecium 1.1-3.5 mm long and 0.9-2.6 mm diam. Fruits spheroid to ellipsoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 8.9-15.1 mm long, 6.9-11.2 mm dorsi ventral thickness, and 7-10.9 mm wide; epicarp purplish black, stigmatic scar plain; endocarp ellipsoid, 7.5-11.1 mm long, 6-7.7 mm dorsi ventral thickness, and 5.8-7.9 mm wide; seed ellipsoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 5.5-9.7 mm long, 4-6.3 mm dorsiventral thickness, and 5.1-7.2 mm wide; raphe circular. Eophyll linear-lanceolate, 13.5-19 cm long and 1.3-1.5 cm wide, exstipitate, weakly costate. n = 18 (Sharma & Sarkar, 1957).
Abundantly distributed throughout the hillsides and valleys of Cuba and the hammocks of the Everglades in Collier, Dade, and Monroe Counties, Florida, U.S.A. (Small, 1928; Austin et al., 1980; Jones, 1983). Also present in the Yucatan Peninsula and Gulf Coastal Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. Indigenous populations also exist in the Cayman Islands. This species appears to be the palm found by Gillis et a1. (1975) in the Bahamas. This taxon is very commonly cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics and apparently naturalizes with ease.
According to Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 1800 m.
Árbol, palma solitaria
According to Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
Alt. 0 - 1800 m.
Cultivated in Colombia.
It is used in Cuba for timber, thatch, and hog feed. It is very popular as a cultivated ornamental.
Materials (State of the World's Plants 2016).
Unspecified Materials Chemicals
Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast
El Salvador, Leeward Is., Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago
Has 10 Synonyms
Euterpe jenmanii C.H.Wright
Euterpe ventricosa C.H.Wright
Oenocarpus regius (Kunth) Spreng.
Oreodoxa regia Kunth
Palma elata W.Bartram
Roystonea elata (W.Bartram) F.Harper
Roystonea floridana O.F.Cook
Roystonea jenmanii (C.H.Wright) Burret
Roystonea regia var. hondurensis P.H.Allen
Roystonea ventricosa (C.H.Wright) L.H.Bailey
Roystonea regia (Kunth) O.F.Cook appears in other Kew resources:
Oct 8, 1956 Jenman [2057], Guyana Roystonea jenmanii K000632571 holotype
Jenman [2057], Guyana Roystonea jenmanii K000632568 holotype
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Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots' Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2012). Nova Silva Cusatlantica. Árboles natinos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 2: Angiospermae - Familias M a P y Pteridophyta Englera 29-2: 1-300.
Meyer, J.-Y., Lavergne, C. & Hodel, D.R. (2008). Time bombs in gardens: invasive ornamental palms in tropical islands, with emphasis on French Polynesia (Pacific Ocean) and the Mascarenes (Indian Ocean) Palms; Journal of the International Palm Society 52: 23-35.
Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666.
Palmweb - Palms of the World Online
Zona, S. 1996. Roystonea.(Arecaceae: Arecoideae). Flora Neotropica Monograph 71, 1-35.
Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World's Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Q: Were the Mystical Events in "Temple of Doom" Based on Any Real Beliefs? In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy is told about the legend of the three stones and how one has been stolen from the local village.  In tracking down the stone (and the village's children), he find a cult with a leader who is seeking (and using) the power that all three of the stones, together, will give him.
Are the stones or the cult that is using them based on any actual legends, beliefs, or mythology?  Or is it totally made up for the sake of the story?

A: lNDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)
Artefact: The five Sankara stones
Facts: Sankara was a Hindu philosopher who had been given sacred stones by the god Shiva and who is often regarded as an incarnation of that deity. Sankara stones is today the name used for rare stones found in the bed of one of India's most holy rivers, the Narmada. Villagers gather this unique crypto-crystalline quartz when the water is low, using the stones as a fertility symbol and believing them to be the embodiment of Shiva.

A: As far as the Sankara stones, I believe those were inventions of George Lucas..."Sankhara" is a term in Buddhism, but the connection is tenuous at best, as far as I can see.
The bad guys, on the other hand, were the Thugees, a cult in India and Pakistan whence comes our term "thug". They were a true horror, and the British Colonials fought a quiet war with them and finally wiped them out (or...did they? Dun, dun, DUN!!!).
Basically, their belief was that each murder they committed delayed the return of Kali, and the end of the world. They would join travelers and sometimes walk for many miles with them to gain their trust before dispatching them with their weapon of choice, a.garotte (spilling blood was.forbidden). A very interesting topic.


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Q: Batch print out exit code of the scipt Hi lets say i have batch script that returns 0 on success and 1 on error
and i want to print/pass exiting value to console/another command
something like
echo script param1 param2
expected output
0 or 1

how can this be done in windws batch scripting ?

A: Your script returns 0 and 1 at the moment.
Add this:
@ECHO off
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cmd.exe /c somecommand
if errorlevel EQU 0 CALL script2.bat param1 param2 & goto :END
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This week saw the limited cinema release of The Last Sparks of Sundown – the debut feature from James Kibbey which features The Pajama Men, Emily Bevan, Miles Jupp and Kayvan Novak in its ensemble cast.
Ahead of a wider release, TVO got a sneaky peak of the picture, and here's our onion-shaped verdict.
In this digital age, when multi-millionaires are forged of people who talk at a webcam and put it on YouTube, and auto-tuned 'singers' are packaged to make millions, it can sometimes be hard to see exactly what the magic ingredient is. Here at TVO, we've seen countless comedy productions come and go, on stage, television, radio, the web and even the big screen, and a lot of them fell by the wayside, never to make that break into the mainstream. Given how many people of questionable talent make a fortune these days, it can be incredibly frustrating to watch real talent trying the old fashioned way to make a dent.
Of course, there are ways that work can reach a wider audience over time, and we can only hope that The Last Sparks of Sundown and its writer/director James Kibbey is one of the lucky ones. His path has crossed TVO's way before: an experienced commercials director, he was responsible for the Southampton FC viral videos featuring Tom Davis as a stripe-obsessed coach earlier this year. And in his first feature, following his award-winning short House Cocktail two years ago, he's roped in Kayvan Novak in a supporting role. Naturally, TVO was intrigued.
The film itself is a vehicle for cult sketch comics The Pajama Men – Shenoah Allen and Mark Chave – who play Harvey and Matthew Sparks: two out of work, down and out, pretty crappy actors who inherit a massive house in the English countryside from their recently departed grandfather, Sir Buster Sparks. They also happen to be brothers, though the exact reasons for their non-resemblance remain a mystery until a beautifully nonsensical info-dump in the middle of the movie.
Heading over to the UK, the duo plan to sell the house and make a tidy profit fast. Matthew wants to get back to the woman he loves, and Harvey has managed to run up an ever increasing debt to a camp, flamboyant, and dangerous gangster known only as Seven (a typically pitch perfect Kayvan Novak).
Upon arrival, however, they find the house is far from empty: Lucy Fairweather, allegedly Buster's servant, has moved in alongside her dear old Nana, Lydia (played by The Casual Vacancy's Emily Bevan and Olivier Award winning actress Sara Kestelman respectively).
Naturally, this being a movie, the timid and awkward Matthew begins to fall for that West Country gal Lucy, while the increasingly paranoid Harvey refuses to trust anyone. After all, he keeps having flashbacks to his brutal treatment from the hands of Seven, and knows that pretty soon, he's going to pay the brothers a visit.
The weirdest part of all of this is seeing the Pajama Men, who are famed for their flights of nonsensical fancy, in someone else's world – and quite a natural world at that. Of course, there are a few contrivances along the way, as the boys attempt to sell the house to a posh English gent (Christian McKay, The Theory of Everything). And around their "humble and gout ridden" agent Jeffrey H Chicken (a very likeable Miles Jupp) as he tries to find them acting work whilst simultaneously spying on his wife in a bizarre sub plot that, at a pinch, could probably have been excised if we have to be picky.
Yet the charm of the film comes out of that fusion of seeing these naturally bonkers performers in a more human environment. Placing two Americans – one brash, sweary and hard to like; the other in essence like Steven Wright after a few too many energy drinks – in this quaint countryside, the sun drenched hues highlighting all the detail in the oak and brick of the house, just somehow works.
Of course, Allen and Chave are a love-or-loathe act, and while they have huge amounts of critical acclaim and a cult following, it's fair to say they won't appeal to everyone. Yet they have a natural chemistry, and a penchant for being enchantingly silly: witness for example the moment one says to the other: "Listen with your ears, not your face." and the timid reply: "My ears are part of my face." – and you get every inch of their long-standing relationship coming across on screen.
Okay, so they're not the best actors in the world, and a few dramatic beats stumble when they're asked to do too much, but whether it's levelling with one another (literally) or discussing the childhood game of Find the Vacuum, they're hard not to fall for if alternative comedy is your thing.
Throw in a mad final act that involves a helpful accident, some surprise treachery, an antelope costume (or is it a moose?) and a startling resurrection, and you've got yourself an engrossing, and downright likeable comedy. Maybe at times it's a bit contrived how one character gets from A to B, but at others, Kibbey's script is throwing you curveballs so you truly don't see the end coming the way it does.
TVO can only hope that the film's initial run – at one admittedly fantastic cinema in that there London – is followed up with a wider release, perhaps buoyed by the presence of Miles Jupp, Kayvan Novak and the voice of British TV legend Geoffrey Palmer as the tale's not-so-humble narrator. If, in this world of web-cam superstars we need to get a little slaggy to sell a movie to audiences, so be it: because this is a film that audiences should see. And hopefully, most of you will.
The Last Sparks of Sundown is showing at The Prince Charles Cinema in London until 30th July. For more info on the film, visit the official website.


The Carretera Austral (the Southern Road) is a 1,240 kilometres long road (Ruta 7) in Chile from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins. Built between 1976 and 1996 it leads through a savage and largely inaccessible landscape but politically is of strategic importance. In contrast to its length it provides road connection for (only) 100.000 people. In mid-January, Franz and I drove some 700 km of the southern section from Villa Santa Lucia to Porto Yungay.
Coming from Bariloche we entered Chile via the Paso Futalefu. The Rio Futalefu is a world-renown outdoor sport location which offers top white-water kayaking, rafting, canyoning, and mountaineering. We then moved along the Carretera Austral to Puerto Puyuhuapi, a port with some 800 inhabitants which has been founded by German settlers in the mid-1930s. Close by is the Parque Nacional Queulat with an impressive hanging glacier. While the landscape becomes more and more scenic we continued to Coyhaique and Cochrane where we were lucky to attend a local Rodeo festival. After reaching Porto Yangun from where you would need to cross a fjord by ferry for the last 100 km to O`Higgins we turned back and went east to enter Argentina via the Paso Roballo.
Notwithstanding the road conditions the Carretera Austal is popular among travellers using any kind of transport.
One of the pictures shows a big yellow Overloander truck/bus transporting tourists across South-America. The amzing story is that I had met the bus driver (Mick) standing next to me in April 2015 in Jinja / Uganda. There we talked about my plans to travel around the world. By pure cooincidence we meet again at a road construction site on the Carretera Austral. Seems in life one always meets twice.
Port Puyuhuapi still carries many German street names.
The road from Coyhaique to Lago General Carrera, Puerto Rio Tranquillo, and the Valley Exploradores. Pictures show a glacier which is part of the northern ice shield.
Rodeo in Chochrane: Unlike in Spain no animal is killed in the event. The Rodeo is a competition where pairs of gauchos prove their skills in directing young bulls to run a certain path. The task: to lead the bull two loops in the small area and two loops in the big circuit. The aim is to force it to turn exactly at a certain point (where the cushions are). The competition lasts for three days and each pair collects points depending on the number of successful runs. At work the technique is used to gather cattle in the pasture for branding.
The stretch of the Carretera Austral from Cochran to Porto Yungay.
The road from Cochran to the Paso Roballo which connects to Argentina.
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Junior's Taqueria is a mom-and-pop Mexican restaurant located at the intersection of Fairgrounds Road, Jefferson St., and Winter St. NE. A fellow classmate enjoyed her meal here and said I should try this place. So naturally, I just had to check it out.
When I walked in, I found the place to be very clean and inviting. A Hispanic family runs this establishment, and Hispanic customers were happily enjoying their meals -- a very good sign that the food here is the real deal. I ordered their lunch special that day, the Pork Guisado: fairly large cubes of grilled pork cooked in a spicy salsa verde, served with rice, beans, and about 4-5 family-made corn tortillas. It's normally $6.50 (under the "JR's Small Orders" section of the menu), but as the special that day, I paid just $5.50.
I enjoyed the pleasurable heat of the green salsa verde. Strips of green chile stewed in the verde, reinforcing the spice and adding texture to the entree. The pork was cooked well on the flattop grill, but may have been better off stewing for a while in the salsa verde itself to break down and get even more tender. The rice and beans were good, but not mind-blowing. As for the consistency of the salsa verde, I would have liked it chunkier instead of having it mainly liquid with the green chile strips.
The house-made corn tortillas had just come out of the steamer. While they were a bit hot to handle at first, they were pliable, yet thick enough to make little pork tacos to nosh on. I always love anything made in-house, and if a Mexican restaurant will go the extra mile to make their own corn tortillas, I really tip my cap to them.
A side note: I got my meal to go, and Junior's uses styrofoam containers. It doesn't really bother me, but it's something that the more environmentally conscious individual would raise a red flag over.


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As Farmers Pray for Rain, Pecan Growers Want Sun
Why is it that no matter what type of weather farmers get, it always seems the opposite of what they need at the time?
"Our crop looks strong right now, but we need a lot of sunshine for the nuts to fill out," said Tom Crocker, a pecan horticulturist with the University of Georgia Extension Service.
"We sure don't want a hurricane clouding over south Georgia," he said as the season for tropical storms entered its peak. "That would prevent the nut growth we need for a good crop."
Crocker pointed out the problem that would cause for pecan growers while recognizing peanut and cotton farmers' great need for the rain a tropical system might provide.
This year's pecan crop started a long time ago -- last fall, actually. After farmers harvested the 1995 crop, the trees set the buds that formed this year's nuts. The weather last October and November were nearly perfect, Crocker said, for a good crop this year.
The latest estimates place the Georgia crop at 115 million pounds. That's about 42 percent of the U.S. crop.
Georgia pecans are famous around the world. But most pecan lovers can't name a single variety. Pecans just aren't marketed that way. "We just sell them as 'pecans,'" Crocker said.
Through the spring, most pecan orchards got enough rain to produce nuts from those buds set last fall. "Some areas got more than enough rain," he said, "and nuts are splitting open.
The rain can create another problem for pecan farmers. "The water helped the trees produce large nuts," he said. "But now we need sunshine and more water for the trees to fill those nuts."
When rain becomes scarce in pecan orchards, most growers can create their own. Irrigation systems water more than 60 percent of the Georgia crop. That allows farmers to water when the crop needs it most.
But sunshine is a little harder to create.
"We're looking for bright, drier conditions now, when many other farmers want rain," Crocker said. "It's a difficult situation for farmers with pecans and other crops. They have to hope for rain or sun on specific acres."
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A promise fulfilled: Bridging the gaps in Alzheimer's care 01/30/23 Lauren Baggett
At the same time they were building clinical capacity, the University of Georgia's CARE team was developing a curriculum to educate communities and health care providers about Alzheimer's and dementia prevention and the need for diagnosis. To help get that curriculum in front of rural communities and providers, they turned to experts at UGA Cooperative Extension.
Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture awards first seed grants 01/27/23 David Mitchell
The University of Georgia's Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture has awarded eight seed grants to fund initial research for projects at the convergence of agriculture, engineering, computing and related areas of study. The grants, the first of their kind from IIPA, follow a strategic push by the university to improve its industry collaboration across fields of study and support foundational research to advance agriculture and economic development in the state of Georgia.
UGA posts record $545.6M in research and development spending in FY22 01/26/23 Michael Terrazas
For the first time in its history, the University of Georgia surpassed a half-billion dollars in research and development spending in fiscal year 2022. With total expenditures of $545.6 million — representing a jump of more than 10% from the previous year — UGA did not simply exceed the half-billion mark, it rocketed past it.
Mental Health Day at Georgia Capitol to highlight rural mental health 01/25/23 Amanda Budd
Mental Health Day at the Georgia State Capitol will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Jan. 31, to raise awareness of mental health issues and allow mental health advocates to share their insights with lawmakers. The event is an opportunity to increase awareness about mental health and health services, especially for those in rural areas, according to University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agent Jennifer Dunn.
Where do bees go in the winter? 01/24/23 Amanda Budd
As temperatures continue to drop and many pollinators fade from view, you may be wondering what happens to bees during the cold season. Do they hibernate? Are they hiding in plain sight? How a bee spends the winter depends on the species of bee, but the insects have an arsenal of strategies to survive the chill, including burrowing, gathering in tight clusters, or hiding in flower stems or leaf piles.
UGA Extension helps farmers improve efficiency, save 100 million gallons of water 01/23/23 Emily Cabrera
Over the last few decades, water use-related disagreements between Georgia and its surrounding states have held the spotlight in the Southeast. To address the need for conservation, the Agricultural Water Efficiency Team (AgWET) was created to train University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agents to transfer advanced irrigation scheduling knowledge to growers through a unique one-on-one educational approach.


Seventy-five years ago today, September 27, 1936, baseball Hall of Famer Walter Alston started and ended his career as a big league player: One at bat, one strike out, and one error.
After his lone day at first base for the St. Louis Cardinals, Alston went on to be one of the top ten managers in baseball history as skipper for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers.
It took Alston eighteen years to make it back to the bigs. He managed at every minor league level along the way, encouraging young stars and consoling those who weren't.
After pondering Alston's career, and what attributes lift a manager to the top—even to the Presidency—it dawned on me who should be next in line for that job.
He's not the CEO of your company, or the principal of your school, although either might be well qualified.
He's never held public office and can't spell triangulate. But, he worked out a problem with his roofer by giving disputed money to charity.
Last week of his one kids made the varsity, and the other was passed over by every sorority in her school. He wept tears of joy and sorrow.
Today he lost his job. But, tomorrow he'll awake at 5 AM, kiss his wife, and soldier on.
He lives next door, and across town. He's the guy that lets you in when traffic is backed up, and stops to help your daughter change her tire.
He's not a Democrat, a Republican, black, white, Latino, or otherwise. He's just an average guy trying to manage what life throws at him.
If today were the end of his career, he'd be little remembered.
However, if like Walt Alston, he had a chance to manage a few seasons from a bigger dug out—say the one on Pennsylvania Ave.—who knows, we might even be World Champions again.


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Hackers Publish German Minister's Fingerprint
Kim Zetter
To demonstrate why using fingerprints to secure passports is a bad idea, the German hacker group Chaos Computer Club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister. According to CCC, the print of Schauble's index finger was lifted from a water glass that he used during a panel discussion […]
To demonstrate why using fingerprints to secure passports is a bad idea, the German hacker group Chaos Computer Club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister.
According to CCC, the print of Schauble's index finger was lifted from a water glass that he used during a panel discussion that he participated in last year at a German university. CCC published the print on a piece of plastic inside 4,000 copies of its magazine Die Datenschleuder that readers can use to impersonate the minister to biometric readers.
Several years ago the CCC published a guide to lifting and reproducing fingerprints.
Schauble is a big proponent of the use of fingerprints in passports but is not the CCC's only target. The group has called for help in obtaining the prints of other German officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The CCC's publication of the fingerprint coincides this week with the presentation of a security researcher who demonstrated a biometric keylogger that can capture digital fingerprints and other digital biometric data as its transmitted from a scanning device to the server where the information is processed. The hacker can then analyze and re-use the data to subvert biometric systems and gain entry to secured buildings.
Matt Lewis, a researcher with British-based Information Risk Management, demonstrated his Biologger tool at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam but said the easy part is intercepting the data -- the hard part is getting the biologger onto a network.
Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash
Hackers Clone E-Passports
Lawmaker Rips RFID Passprot Plans
Feds Rethinking RFID Passport
Kim Zetter is an award-winning, senior staff reporter at Wired covering cybercrime, privacy, and security. She is writing a book about Stuxnet, a digital weapon that was designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
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We are Cornwall member, Bosinver Farm Cottages has been announced as a WINNER in the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2017.
The team picked up the 'Family Friendly Accommodation of the Year' award at a ceremony at the Hilton Waldorf, London on Monday (24th April, 2017).
Bosinver has won a string of awards in recent years and won Gold for Best Self Catering Holiday Provider of the Year in 2015, along with many awards from the Cornwall Tourism Awards and South West Tourism Excellence Awards.
This year, following a fabulous refurbishment and continued innovation in sustainability and experiences offered for guests, the team have high hopes for this year's ceremony.
Huge congratulations to all the team at Bosinver!


This Tomy TF525 is a digital baby monitor that provides crystal clear sound to give you peace of mind whilst monitoring your baby. It also features a remote controlled adjustable nightlight and lullubies to help soothe baby.
The Tomy TF525 is a digital baby monitor with DECT technology to give you crystal clear, interference free sound. Featuring a sound light display, it means you can monitor your baby's needs even with the volume turned down, and also includes a really useful, adjustable nightlight that can be controlled remotely from the parent unit so there's no need to disturb baby with the main nursery light. In addition, the nightlight can be used independently from the monitor, providing extended use for your baby as they grow up.
Another useful feature of the Tomy TF525 baby monitor is the lullaby function too help sooth your baby to sleep, as well as a 2-way talkback allowing you to offer your baby words of reassurance. There's a helpful room temperature display to monitor the nursery environment and a belt-clip for day to day hands free convenience. The parent unit also can also be operated with the rechargable batteries. For extra reassurance the Tomy TF525 digital baby monitor features a low battery and out of range alarm, as well handy pager feature to help locate the parent unit if it gets misplaced in the home.
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