Little, Big Don Muang Airport used to be the largest airport in Thailand, though nowadays, it's a mere shadow compared to the second international airport in Bangkok.
One notices quickly that things seem to work a little bit differently around here as it's impossible to miss the golf course, which is nestled right between the airport runways of Big Muang Airport!
"Not ready for boarding, we need a little bit time," says a member of the ground staff. "Bit more," adds the other one. The old adage, "time is of the essence," just doesn't exist here.
The flight to Mandalay was very pleasant and took about an hour and a half. When you fly with AirAsia, you receive a free shuttle bus downtown, which is approximately a 45 minute drive, (airport is new, but quite far away from the town).
FYI-If you're in need of cash, not a worry, as there's an ATM inside Mandalay Airport or almost anywhere in the city.
I liked the name of the hotel "AD1," which was my main reason for choosing it. (I work as a 1stAD, (Assistant Director), so something resonated). The hotel itself, was fairly poor, though clean and cheap, with a rooftop restaurant, overlooking Mandalay.
There was a market on the left side of the hotel, close to where I spent my mornings taking pictures before breakfast.
I was so fascinated by all the colors, scents and the morning rush.
You'd be amazed at how people in Mandalay, respond to you with a smile, perhaps even out of shyness, but you smile back, nonetheless. This was really astonishing for me… So many smiles, and smiles in return. It was wonderfully overwhelming.
On a side note, should you be wondering, (like I was) of a curious practice, whereby women cover their faces with a white powder, it's called "thanaka" a yellowish-white cosmetic paste made from ground bark, which acts as a natural sun screen.
In regards to food, I wondered how prices in restaurants would compare to those in Thailand, whether they would be higher, lower or the same..
As the name suggests, curry is the central element, but after you've chosen one- typically a meaty, somewhat oily curry based on pork, fish, shrimp, beef or mutton- a seemingly never ending succession of side dishes will follow.
We were really surprised when we got the bill- lunch for two was 800 Kyats (0,50Eur)!! The next restaurant we tried, was one where we saw other tourists eating. Portions and meals, were tourist friendly, but the prices were "slightly," different- dinner for two was 10.000 kyats (7,50Eur), a significant mark-up!. Outcome: eat with the locals if you want to save some money!
I had a great meeting and chat with a Myanmar Buddhist monk, named Pyinnya , while walking around Shwenandaw Monastery, where he also permissed me to take a few portrait shots of him.
The next experience with him, I'll never forget! He called us a taxi with his mobile phone and we had a mad-mototaxi-ride back to the hotel. We were laughing like children for the whole evening, until our adrenalin went back to normal.
Speaking of adrenalin, there was another travelling experience with much of it, this time whilst taking a night train, with no sleeping car, from Mandalay to Bagan.
It was couple of days just before the water festival was supposed to begin, so I shouldn't have been surprised, at the first thing that happened, as I took a place in the compartment: A bucket of water coming in through the open window, right to my face! Fortunately there was no air-conditioning on the train, because I would have turned into an icicle!
A further interesting journey, I happened to see a rat running between the seats and some huge insects flying around. Whuaaa!
The train was rattling and bumpy, so I had to use some pills to ward off motion sickness, for the first time in my life. No kidding! And admittedly, I have to say that I was even a little bit scared on this particular train!
The train from Mandalay arrived to Bagan at 4AM, in the morning.
We took a taxi to the Bagan Umbra Hotel, (well known among the local residents, for their great breakfasts), and paid the compulsory tourist entry fee of(15USD), en route.
It was possible to take an e-bike (electronic bike), and check out the area or take a nap, and chill out at the hotel pool, after an exhausting train trip, so we did both.
Bagan is beautiful, not yet spoiled by tourists, compared to Angkor Wat, for example.
Surely though, this is the fate of Bagan, though fortunately for us, not yet.
I took it upon myself to take the e-bike (electronic bike) around, though was sometimes overtaken by busses filled with Asian tourists, every now and again.
Our next trip was to Yangon, so off we went to purchase train tickets.
When travelling, there's always much to see, and it's so easy to lose track of time- which we totally did, almost missing our train to Yangon! We weren't even able to finish our hot and spicy ginger soup in the midst of our huge rush! Grabbing our luggage, we hopped in a taxi towards the train station, until (thankfully!), I remembered that my macbook was charging at reception, so back we went. Luckily we just made it in time for our next train adventure!
I found travelling by train far more enjoyable then travelling by bus. It was wonderful to watch "Myanmar's National geographic program," through the open window, and surely we took many pictures on the way.
The next day around 11AM we arrived to capital of Myanmar.
I found it funny so I booked another film themed hotel, this time "MGM Hotel," owned by the Chinese community. The hotel was standard, and we were tired from travelling, so we decided to catch up on some much needed rest. This is where Indian Bollywood movies came in handy-especially those starring Shah Rukh Khan.
Yangon is perfect for a short stay- one or two days maximum.
One of the most interesting things I noticed was the abundance of people chewing on something red, then spitting it out. You notice this everywhere in Myanmar. .
The betel (Piper betle) is the leaf of a vine belonging to the Piperaceae family, which includes pepper and kava. It is valued both as a mild stimulant, and for its medicinal properties. Betel leaf is mostly consumed in Asia, and elsewhere in the world by some Asian emigrants, as betel quid or in paan, with or without tobacco, in an addictive psycho-stimulating and euphoria-inducing formulation with adverse health effects. It's also notable for staining the teeth of regular users.
Kun ja, (as the Myanmar people call it), is said to be good for chronic bad breath and getting rid of intestinal parasites as well.
Always a curious cat, I arrived to a stall, whilst wandering around, and said "one please." The stall owner looked a little surprised, smiled, and made us two portions. I offered him money, though he refused to take it.
Well, yes we tried it, and to make a long story short, it was disgusting and we spat it out practically immediately!
Indeed, we were feeling funny, likely even stoned, after chewing betel for only a short time .. It left such a terrible aftertaste, which we washed away with Coke, as you do ;).
Our next plan was to see the Golden Rock Pagoda, which is 210km from Yangon, but the buses were packed, likely due to the water festival, and though we'd be able to catch a later one, we decided not to risk missing our flight back to Bangkok, the following day.
1) People are very honest. It's welcome, after the tourist scams of the other countries in South East Asia. The scale for negotiation of prices is limited, but do negotiate and you can save a few bucks.
2) Don't rely on good internet connection in Myanmar. It's really slow and almost unusable. Skype calls will not work.
3) No one speaks English (Like most of southeast Asia- just a bit worse). Sharpen your sign language and don't string long English sentences to confuse the locals. Use 1 or 2 word sentences. Maximum 3 words in a sentence.
4) Transportation options are limited. From one city to another there are usually 3-4 buses in a day. 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening. Take the evening bus to save time using overnight travel. Most of the buses drop you off at 3-4 am in the morning. And check out timing for most guest houses is 10 AM. So be prepared to rough it out. Train journeys are a fun adventure, but trains are too slow to use. Unless you have a lot of time don't use them. There are VIP buses that are a bit expensive, but a little bit more comfortable. Buses have really cold aircon settings, and play bad Burmese movies on full blast. So carry good headphones!
5) Don't spend too much time in Yangon. It's a rich cultural experience, but other than that there is nothing much to do there. Plan no more than 1 or 2 days max.
6) Compared to other Indo-Chinese countries, Myanmar is a little more expensive. Be prepared to pay around 15$ a night for a single room, in budget accommodation.
November to February. Also the busiest – so budget rooms are full and it's harder to find cheap budget places to stay. The weather is perfect.


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Thank you to all people who had any part in the organisation of the Gallipoli Dinner on Saturday evening, Barbara & myself had a thoroughly excellent evening, excellent food, Good wine, excellent entertainment & most of all excellent company. Thank you to Brian Oldham,Pat & Nichola, and not forgetting our team photographers Clifford Tilley & Michael, Dennis Laverick, for making the evening a complete & enjoyable one. Just one sad note! Our dear absent friend, Joe Eastwood was Truly missed but fondly remembered.


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e-Mobility around the world
The rickshaw that runs on coal-fired power
Guest article by WEKA Industrie Medien/Piotr Dobrowolski
India has the opportunity to assume a pioneering role in e-mobility similar to the one Norway has in Europe. Just under different conditions. As the first country of its size, India plans to make a complete switch to electric drives.
Punit Goyal, founder of Blu Smart Mobility in Western India, has a vision: "In 2047, the year of India's hundredth birthday as an independent state, cars with electric drives will be the only ones driving on our roads." This dream vision is not entirely altruistic - after all, Blu Smart Mobility's business model is based on the internet-based sharing of e-taxis. However, the National Institution for Transforming India which is close to the government is also very clear in its vision of the future when it recommends to the government that only e-vehicles be registered starting in 2030. This could make India a benchmark in terms of e-mobility for emerging countries similar to what Norway is today for the industrialized countries of the global North.
Norway wants to stop registering fossil-fueled cars starting in 2025. However, one third of newly registered cars in Norway were already electric last year; in India, this figure is less than one percent. And while the total share of e-cars on the road in Norway is six percent, it is currently less than half a percent in India. The majority of these are not conventional cars, but two-wheeled and three-wheeled small taxis, so-called e-rickshaws.
Land of hope
Still, India is considered a country which offers high hopes for e-mobility. One reason is the government's promise of huge benefits for both producers and buyers in order to promote e-mobility. One plan is to support the production of batteries in India through tax incentives and customs concessions on the import of lithium. Buyers can expect a subsidy of up to USD 4,000 if they decide to buy an electric car.
And there is another reason why less developed India, of all countries, is given a good chance to succeed in switching to e-cars: Car ownership in this country is very low. India has just 22 vehicles per thousand inhabitants, Austria or Germany have more than 500.
"The big car-buying wave in India is still ahead of us," says Gaurav Gupta, COO of MG Motors India. "At the same time, e-vehicles can be produced more and more cheaply because batteries are becoming less costly. This creates a good environment for e-mobility." Gupta points to China as an example that demonstrates how vigorously the e-mobility sector in India could develop going forward. Today, China already accounts for more than one third of all electric vehicles worldwide, and the growth rates are enormous: From 2017 to 2018, the market volume more than doubled.
Subsidies for three-wheelers
Still, experts continue to expect the largest e-vehicle growth in India in the two- and three-wheeler sector rather than the classic passenger car segment. These vehicles are also the primary target of the second part of the FAME program, launched this year by the Indian government to promote electric and hybrid drives. The subsidies under this program are intended to support the purchase of one million electric two-wheelers, 500,000 electric three-wheelers, 55,000 electric passenger cars and 7,000 electric buses. Private individuals, however, can only benefit from the subsidy for two-wheelers, while the rest of the money is reserved for the electrification of public transport, especially taxis and rickshaws.
However, the subsidies for taxis and rickshaws have also come under fire. It would make more sense to invest more in buses, says energy expert Disha Agarwal from the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation in New Delhi. She points out that many cities have neither the necessary parking space nor the necessary charging infrastructure for taxis and rickshaws. A recent study by Arthur D. Little agrees. In 2018, there were only 200 to 250 charging stations in all of India. Many times, charging on the grid at home is not an alternative either: Eight- to ten-hour power outages per day are the rule rather than the exception in many cities of the country. And there is another drawback: about 50 percent of India's electricity production comes from coal. "At the moment, we are merely transferring a large part of pollution from the cities and their streets to areas outside the cities," says Disha Agarwal.
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Winterhawks Game Day Preview: Portland vs. Vancouver – Game #58
Winterhawks Game Day Preview winterhawks vs. giants
Richard Fedyck
Portland (35-18-1-3) vs. Vancouver (29-18-5-3) – 7:00 p.m. – Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2nWNy7a
Listen: http://winterhawks.com/listen
This is the fourth and final meeting between these two teams this season. In their last game, Hawks Shane Farkas came away with his first career shutout in 2-0 Portland win in Langley, BC against the Giants. Portland has won five straight games.
PREVIOUS GAME: Winterhawks 5 vs. Seattle 3: Portland scored three times in the third period to comeback and defeat the Thunderbirds 5-3 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the Jack in the Box Daylight Classic.
Seattle got on the board first on a Dillon Hamaliuk goal just 4:48 into the first period. The Hawks responded shorthanded, with Joachim Blichfeld burying his 19th of the season on a breakaway. Seattle would take the lead again however, with Turner Ottenbreit wiring one home on the powerplay to give the Thunderbirds a 2-1 lead after 20.
In the second, Jake Gricius drove around the net, and with under five minutes remaining, found Lane Gillis infront who potted his fourth of the season to tie things at two. But again, a late powerplay marker from Seattle gave the Thunderbirds a one-goal lead heading into the intermission.
In the third, the Hawks took over. First, Ryan Hughes scored his 11th of the season and fourth in his last five games to tie things at three. Then, on a two-on-one, Alex Overhardt deposited a Blichfeld rebound to put Portland up by one. Blichfeld would then bury an empty-net goal with under a minute remaining for his second of the night and gave Portland the 5-3 win.
Shane Farkas made 19 saves in his fifth win in his last six starts.
TODAY'S OPPONENT: The Giants are coming off a 5-0 shutout loss to the Everett Silvertips on Saturday and have now lost three straight road games.
Vancouver will be without some of their top defenseman tonight due to injuries. The Giants expect defensemen Darian Skeoch, Dylan Plouffe and Matt Barberis all to be out tonight. 15-year-old defenseman and first-round WHL Bantam pick Joel Sexsmith is expected to make his WHL debut tonight.
Forward Ty Ronning has scored 49 goals this season, breaking the all-time single season scoring record for Vancouver. The New York Rangers prospect has seven goals in his last five games, but has scored just once in three games against Portland this season.
Goaltender David Tendeck has played incredible versus the Hawks this year. He's gone 2-1-0-0 with a 1.35 goal-against-average, a .963 save percentage and one shutout.
WINTERHAWKS TO KEEP AN EYE ON: Joachim Blichfeld leads all Hawks with five goals in three games versus Vancouver this season. However, defenseman Dennis Cholowski has put up the most points against Vancouver this season. The Detroit Red Wings first-rounder has faced the Giants seven times this season, once with Portland, six times with Prince George, and in those seven games, Cholowski has 11 points.
Alex Overhardt buried his sixth game-winning goal of the season on Sunday. For Overhardt, nearly half of his 13 goals this season have been game-winners.
Shane Farkas picked up his first career WHL shutout versus Vancouver in Langley back on January 20th. Farkas has been playing great hockey for Portland recently, winning six of his last seven starts and allowing three or less goals in six of those games.
STAT OF THE DAY: Skyler McKenzie (0.72) and Kieffer Bellows (0.71) sit 8th and 9th in the WHL in goals per game.
Here's how the two teams have played head-to-head this season:
Winterhawks: 1-2-0-0 Giants: 2-1-0-0
This Year's Season Series:
12/05/17 – Portland 3 @ Vancouver 5
12/08/17 – Vancouver 1 @ Portland 0
02/14/18 – Vancouver @ Portland
Portland's next home game is Wednesday, February 21st at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum versus the Kamloops Blazers! Make sure to grab your tickets HERE!


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'The next best thing to angels'
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Rose Moremoholo & Senate Sekotlo
When Matlotlo Nte was admitted at St Joseph Hospital in Roma in 2008 she was complaining of dizziness, blurred vision and headache.
She was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and was hospitalised.
Nte was later transferred to Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Maseru hoping she would be helped deliver her baby without incident.
She was 39 weeks pregnant.
What happened following her admission at the hospital can only be described as a scene from a horror movie.
First she fell off her hospital bed.
Later that evening she was taken to the theatre for a Caesarean section operation. But the following morning, her sister who visited her, says although she had successfully delivered her baby, she was unconscious.
Nte did not even realise that she had delivered her baby as she was semi-conscious.
The drip was empty and was now drawing blood. The catheter bag was now overflowing.
Later that day, Nte died.
Nte's mother, 'Mannyalleng Nte, filed a M1.5 million damages claim in the High Court against Queen Elizabeth II Hospital over her daughter's death, arguing the hospital had been negligent.
In his judgement delivered on December 17, 2014, Justice Monaphathi found that Matlotlo "seems to have been generally neglected and even after the Caesarean section operation she was still not given proper nursing care".
A health expert who testified in court said pre-eclampsia, a condition Matlotlo was suffering from, occurs when there is placental dysfunction.
She said the patient has to be hospitalised and put in a cot bed or bed protected on the sides to prevent her from falling.
The patient would also need to be under constant care, the expert said.
He said because of the dizziness and propensity to suffer from fits, the patient is likely to fall if proper protective or preventive measures are not taken.
Should the patient fall, or trauma be inflicted on the abdomen or the cord contract the placenta may rupture prematurely, separate or tear asunder, causing more complications.
Evidence presented in court showed that Matlotlo's death was as a result of a haemorrhage caused by rupture of the placenta.
Nte was also claiming damages on behalf of her daughter's minor child for loss of support. She also claimed damages on behalf of the child who was born with a disability as a result of the negligent treatment of her mother while giving birth.
Speaking at the International Day of Nurses in Mohale's Hoek last week, the President of the Nursing Student Chapter, Relebohile Manyala, said the association is alarmed by the rising cases of misconduct by some rogue nurses at work.
Manyala said it is worrying that some nurses at health centres treat patients with contempt.
"Our strength lies in finding our weaknesses that contribute to lack of good services," Manyala said.
Manyala said some nurses' attitude "is shameful".
"It is people we are working with, not objects," she said.
While the incident involving Nte happened eight years ago, it appears nothing much has changed in terms of the treatment of patients at Lesotho's health facilities.
Patients who spoke to thepost last week say incidents of malpractice continue unabated at Queen 'Mamohato Memorial Hospital, Lesotho's biggest referral hospital.
'Mamakoae Lethoba says her son broke his leg and arrived at the hospital at 11am only to be attended to at 4pm.
"I brought my son from Mokhotlong to Tšepong for services yesterday. His leg was broken while at school. We were transferred from Mokhotlong to Tšepong because the boy was badly injured. Due to poor services I had to stay for another day," Lethoba said.
"I was assisted but late around four o'clock yet I arrived at eleven o'clock in the morning," she says.
"We had to pay M10 per night and were provided with matrasses only, no food, no blankets. I personally insist that more nurses should be hired to speed up services," she said.
Lethoba says she would have wanted the nurses to attend to her son first and assess the seriousness or otherwise of her son's injuries.
She says waiting for five hours before being attended to is unacceptable.
'Mahlompho Semahane, however, says the quality of services at Queen 'Mamohato have improved significantly of late.
"I was assisted on time, I was going to change the bandages to my eye and though I found many people waiting to be assisted, I did not wait that long," she says.
Studies have found that Lesotho nurses work under pressure because they are few in number while patients are too many.
In their 2013 report, Stacy Stender, Alice Christensen, Leah Hart, Tracey Shissler and Maleshoane Monethi-Seeiso showed that the country's Human Resources Development and Strategic Plan 2005−2025 indicates that a health centre should be staffed with a minimum of one nurse clinician, one general nurse, and one nursing assistant.
However, "despite such staffing norms, 78 percent of health centres are not meeting these requirements".
Delivery of health care services in the country occurs under Health Service Areas (HSA), each based upon a government or mission hospital with affiliated health centres. Health centres — or local clinics — are staffed predominantly by nursing assistants, nurses, and nurse-midwives and are responsible for basic curative services, immunization, and maternal and family planning services.
"More than half of the country's health care is provided in health centres; however, less than 20 percent of the formal sector labour supply works at this level of care," the study says.
In Lesotho, there are four urban filter clinics (clinics linked to the district hospitals), 17 health posts, and 192 health centres, of which 78 are owned by the government, 35 by the private sector, and seven by the Red Cross. District hospitals, of which there are 17 across the country, provide the first level of inpatient care.
The Christian Health Association of Lesotho (CHAL) is responsible for the administration of eight hospitals, 72 health centres, and four schools of nursing and midwifery affiliated with district hospitals.
The country's one national referral hospital — Queen 'Mamohato Memorial Hospital — operates as a partnership between the government and Netcare, a private hospital and health care group based in South Africa.
This facility employs nearly 200 registered nurses — approximately six percent of the registered nurses in the country. There are two specialised hospitals, also in Maseru: Botsabelo Leprosy Hospital and Mohlomi Hospital. Mohlomi provides care for individuals living with mental illness and has 41 registered nurses on staff.
Nurses from assistant to midwife or clinician account for 90 percent of personnel directly engaged in patient care.
In Lesotho, there are two primary basic nursing qualifications: nursing assistant, which requires two years of education, and registered nurse, which can take from three to five years depending on the institution.
The National University of Lesotho's Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Midwifery takes five years. The National Health Training College and four CHAL colleges all offer a three-year diploma in general nursing.
At these five institutions, midwifery requires an additional year of education and is considered a "post-basic" qualification.
Nurse clinicians are specialist nurses with clinical experience, trained in health assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; the training for this qualification is 18 months.
Additional post-basic qualifications for registered nurses exist in areas such as primary health care, mental health, anaesthesia, and ophthalmology.
The Lesotho Vision 2020 calls for health for all and a well-developed human resource base.
"Despite this, Lesotho is facing an HRH crisis, partly due to an inability to produce adequate numbers of health workers, as well as the issue of "brain drain," whereby health workers are not retained in the country once trained and deployed," the report reads.
The HRH strategic plan for 2005−2025 underscores the government's commitment to decentralise health services to the district level using district health management teams, which provide each district more autonomy to address its specific health priorities and HR needs.
Through this plan, the government's strategy is to train and employ nurse clinicians to expand
clinical services, working to fulfil its recommendation to increase the number of nurse officer and
nurse clinician graduates along with the number of positions to which they are deployed.
According to the Lesotho Nursing Council registration records, 2 888 registered nurses and 1 458 nursing assistants were in the country as of 2013.
To reach the minimum threshold of 2.28 doctors, nurses, and nurse-midwives per 1 000 population, as put forth by the World Health Organisation, Lesotho needs to nearly triple the number of nurses/nurse-midwives employed.
Addressing the attendees at the Nursing Day in Mohale's Hoek, the Lesotho Nursing Council chairlady, Tlalane Ramaili, bemoaned the scarcity of skilled labour force as one of the factors putting nurses under immense pressure at work.
"A broken soul has no way of mending another," Ramaili said.
Ramaili said lack of skilled human resources crippled the health care system.
The theme for this year's International Nurses Day is 'Nurses: a force for change – improving health system resilience'.
'Mateboho Khoanyane-Leohla, the LNA General Secretary, said the health system resilience can be defined as "the capacity of health actors, institutions and populations to prepare for and effectively respond to maintain core functions when crisis hits, informed by lessons learned on crisis".
She further said nurses have deep practical knowledge of delivering best health care services.
"Lesotho Nurses Association plays an important role in making nurses well informed, advised, encouraged and supported to deliver the best services," she said.
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Discussion in 'Anime Discussion' started by VannVann, Nov 8, 2018.
I love this anime very much, but I forgot the name. The story revolves around three brothers and their friend. The brothers are basically in charge of bringing prisionets to the island via a boat as well as catching the escapees.
The oldest brother is cool and a skilled fighter.
The second brother wants to be just like the oldest brother but always find himself lacking.
The youngest doesn't remember the deceased family members as he was too young when they died.
Later in the story a girl from the white haired friends clan shows up but half of her hair is black and one of her eyes is also black. She is a half baked.
There is more to the story but I don't want to spoil it so much.
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It's been a dream of mine for sometime to be able to pay for a trip for my mom and dad. I always thought it would be a really cool gift to send them somewhere unique and different from anywhere else they have been. Unfortunately, as a student/shoe-string online entrepreneur, buying plane tickets for other people is a difficult task.
Thankfully, I began to get really involved in the ancient art of travel hacking last year. I had always been the kind of guy to look for special deals on travel, but had always looked the other way with airline reward programs. Luckily, that all changed when I began to take it more seriously.
The world of reward mileage is not the same everyone. The U.S. has the best programs of all and is insanely easy to get enough points to never pay for a flight again. In Canada, it's a little harder but I quickly found out that it's still possible to get 100,000 points or so each year. Of course, this number can even be higher with the amount of time you put in.
For me, my deepest interest was credit card deals since they seem to offer the best bang for the buck. I did some research and ended up finding 3 cards in particular that allowed me to earn thousands of points quickly, with almost no fees what so ever. 2 of the cards allowed me to earn a total of 45,000 Aeroplan points with no added fees. That's already enough for a round-trip to Mexico. Another card allowed me to earn 25,000 points for just $75. Not bad for a round-trip anywhere in the U.S.
After earning all these points plus dabbling in other deals, I began to realize how awesome it really was. Before I knew it, I had gathered more than 80,000 points in about 6 months. I now had enough points to bring my girlfriend and I to Mexico.
But I still wanted to get my parents to Mexico as well and show them such a unique and different place than what they were used to.
So I began to tell them about all the deals they could participate in to earn the points I had earned. At first, they scoffed at the idea and told me it must be some sort of scam. I kept on telling them it wasn't a scam. Sure, it seemed to good to be true, but in this case, it was real.
Finally, I managed to talk them into one credit card. Once they reached their bonus points, I talked them into another, and then another. Before they knew it, they also had over 80,000 points each.
Voila, we were all going to Mexico. I offered to pick up the taxes, and just like that, I had achieved a dream of bring my parents on a trip for nothing. All of us were booked and heading to Mexico City to visit my girlfriend's family and to see the amazing history that the city and surrounding area offers.
They were pretty amazed that these trips were paid for in points that took almost no effort to earn. The only thing we needed to pay was taxes of about $125 per person. I took care of that for them and also coached them into a free stopover in Vegas on their way home to see a beautiful cirque du soleil show.
After booking the flights, other friends and family began asking me about the deals I had found and how to go about earning points more actively. So, I thought I should create an EBook for Canadians. Chris already has one for Americans (affiliate link) but I wanted to create one specifically for Canadians since our deals here are so different. It's still in production mode, but if your interested in buying a copy, sign up here and I'll notify you upon it's release. If your signed up and choose to buy, you'll also get $5 knocked off and some other goodies.
That's a good start. These sites are great and are packed with lot's of information. A lot of it is geared towards Americans but it can definitely still help you out.


The Muzz Buzz Drive-Thru coffee franchise has seen rapid sales growth in recent years. This may be attributed to strategic marketing initiatives, but it is also due to the fact that Muzz Buzz is selling a great product that many consumers have a need for. We caught up with Steven Pynt, CEO Muzz Buzz Franchising Pty Ltd, to talk about recent trends in the drive-thru coffee market and why this business model is drawing such great interest from potential franchisees in Australia.
The rapid pace of modern life and our increasing dependence on motor vehicles for suburban transportation makes drive-thru the logical, modern retail experience.
The Drive-Thru business model has been dominated for years by fast-food organisations who could successfully accommodate the drivers' need for a quick meal and rapid service and payment.
Coffee is another product which perfectly fits into this business model. The business caters to drivers who can't afford to wait in line at regular coffee shops, ensuring consumers are served instantly, wasting no time as they wait for a single cup of coffee.
The Drive-Thru Coffee franchise concept has tapped into a market where the demand was high for the product to be accessed more conveniently, served faster, with friendly customer service at a reasonable price.
"However not all franchise systems are the same when it comes to the level of marketing support provided, so to be successful in selecting and owning your franchise business, there are some things you should consider."
Drive-Thru coffee has been accepted and embraced by Australian consumers who love the convenience and have developed a sophisticated taste for premium coffee.
In response to the growing demand for a quick and good coffee, the first Muzz Buzz Drive-Thru coffee was formed in 2001, in the Perth metro area. This drive-thru business became extremely popular because of its uniqueness.
In particular, Muzz Buzz Drive Thru Coffee is spearheading the rapid growth of the drive thru coffee market in Australia and in less than 6 short years has become the dominant player in this rapidly expanding industry.
But what in particular is appealing for potential franchisees in the Drive-Thru coffee model?
Muzz Buzz stores are sold to franchisees on a "turnkey" basis, which means virtually everything you need to occupy your store and start running your business is provided for you. This is a tremendous advantage to a new franchisee. The other advantage is that you can operate the business yourself, or under management, so you have the flexibility to decide how much, if any, time you spend working in the store. Owning a Muzz Buzz franchise provides you with lifestyle opportunities that simply don't exist in other industries.
Muzz Buzz is a good example of the success of this business model as it now operates franchises in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia and is looking at international growth opportunities to expand its brand.
Competition among retail franchising businesses for good quality franchisees is more intense than ever.
Typically, Muzz Buzz franchisees are self motivated, hard working people who have a burning desire to make themselves financially independent and to live a balanced lifestyle that allows them time with family and friends. They are often people who have been highly successful in a previous career and are now looking for new opportunities and challenges.
Owning a drive-thru coffee outlet such as a Muzz Buzz franchise is a great opportunity for franchisees to build an exciting new lifestyle, to take control of their destiny and to be their own boss.
Muzz-Buzz franchisees come from all walks of life. The one thing they all share is the desire to become financially free and to control their own destiny.


Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan starrer Kalank is all set to hit the screens on April 17. A new song from the film featuring Kriti Sanon will be dropped online tomorrow. Check out the teaser of Aira Gaira below.
It won't be wrong to say that Abhishek Varman's upcoming directorial Kalank has created immense anticipation among the audience owing to its gripping storyline and stellar star cast. The period drama which has been produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions features Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditya Roy Kapur, Madhuri Dixit and Sanjay Dutt in lead roles. After dropping four superhit songs online, the makers of Kalank are all set to release the film next track, Aira Gaira featuring Kriti Sanon tomorrow.
Announcing the news, Kriti took to her Instagram and treated fans with a teaser of the song. Along with it, she wrote, "This one's really special!! Can't wait for you all to see it! My 1st Dharma song and also back home with NGE!! Had the time of my life shooting for this! #AiraGaira releases tomorrow."
Apart from the Luka Chuppi star, Aira Gaira will also feature Varun and Aditya. Check out the teaser below.
Not only Kriti but even actress Kiara Advani, who will be next seen in the movie Kabir Singh alongside Shahid Kapoor, has also done a special song for Kalank. Last month, her song First Class in which the actress is seen shaking a leg with Varun was dropped online. Watch the song below.
Set in the '40s Kalank is an epic love saga that will have Varun playing Zafar, a man who flirts with life and danger. Alia, on the other hand, will be seen as Roop, a girl who is full of life and has a heart of gold. Aditya will be portraying the noble Dev Chaudhary and Sonakshi will be seen as his wife Satya Chaudhary, the one who holds the family together.
While Madhuri will play the ethereal Bahaar Begum, Sanjay will be portraying the formidable Balraj Chaudhry. Kalank will hit the screens on April 17.
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World's Most Scenic Train Trip: Part 1
By Natasha Dragun	| February 24, 2017
There is no better perspective on the world than from the comfort of a train carriage. From London to Singapore, Australia to Canada, MiNDFOOD brings you the greatest rail journeys on Earth
This fabled luxury train service from London to Venice is the epitome of a classic rail journey. Running the tracks since 1982, the Art Deco-style train operates from UK to France and Italy on overnight trips, with extended voyages to Istanbul and Budapest available. And no expense has been spared. Cabins are finished with polished woods, plush fabrics and crystal, nodding to the elegance and experiences of the golden age of travel. Dining is also five star – begin your evening in the new Champagne Bar before moving into the restaurant where white-gloved waiters lay heavy silver cutlery, pour the finest wines and serve set meals inspired by the seasons.
The Rocky Mountaineer
Offering a number of routes around western Canada, the Rocky Mountaineer takes passengers through some of the country's most jaw-dropping scenery – book the First Passage to the West and your route will take you along Kicking Horse River, through the Spiral Tunnels, along a route famous for uniting the country and connecting British Columbia to Canada more than 125 years ago. Trips operate exclusively through the day, with guests sleeping in hotels before re-boarding and continuing their journey. There are a number of classes available, but it's hard to go past the GoldLeaf service: a custom-designed, bi-level, glass-domed coach with full-length windows and reclining seats. Gourmet meals are prepared on board and served to guests in the lower level dining car.
Travel between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand in style aboard this luxurious train, passing vibrant cities, rural villages, dense tropical jungle and gleaming pagodas along the way. Extremely comfortable air-conditioned cabins come with ensuite bathrooms, but many while away days in the colonial-style, teakwood open-air Observation Car, located at the rear of the train – the ideal perch for sightseeing, cocktail in hand. Breakfast is delivered to your cabin daily, while other meals can be enjoyed in the restaurant car.
This unforgettable train journey is a dazzling introduction to the forts and palaces of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Over eight days, the journey takes you from New Delhi to Jaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and finally Agra, where you will discover the history and romance of the Taj Mahal. On board, the train's saloons are designed to highlight the cultural ethos of the state, represented through the use of furniture, handicrafts, painting and furnishings. After a day of exploring, make the most of the newly introduced spa where therapists offer Aryuvedic massage treatments.
It takes 54 hours to travel the 2979km from Adelaide to Darwin aboard The Ghan, with a four-hour stopover in Alice Springs along the way. There's plenty to delight on board, including meals inspired by the destinations you visit: think, saltwater barramundi and grilled kangaroo fillet, complemented by boutique beers and some of Australia's finest wines. Off-train experiences are truly immersive and might include a leisurely boat cruise around Nitmiluk Gorge, an indigenous painting experience in Katherine, or a visit to the Royal Flying Doctor Service base and the Alice Springs Telegraph Station.
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Friedrich Wellermann, auch Fritz Wellermann, (* 28. September 1865 in Münster; † 25. Januar 1951 in Bremen) war ein deutscher Architekt.

Biografie

Wellermann betrieb gemeinsam mit dem Architekten Paul Frölich seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts das Architekturbüro Wellermann & Frölich, das durch zahlreiche bemerkenswerte Bauten das Erscheinungsbild Bremens mitgeprägt hat. Ihr Büro befand sich 1898 zuerst im Haus Richtweg 3, von 1899 bis 1901 An der Weide 14, anschließend für zwei Jahre in dem von ihnen erbauten Geschäftshaus Am Wall 163 und seit 1904 bis hinein ins Jahr 1936 in der Kohlhökerstraße 37. Wellermann & Frölich entwarfen markante Bauten, die in ihrer erfolgreichsten Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg allgemein barocke Stilelemente mit einer durch den englischen Landhausstil beeinflussten modernen Formensprache verbanden. Zu den frühesten Arbeiten der Sozietät zählen 1899 das Wöchnerinnenasyl auf dem Gelände der Krankenanstalt Am Schwarzen Meer und das Landhaus des Kaufmanns Caspar Kulenkampff in St. Magnus; es folgten ab 1907 Schiffsausstattungen für den Norddeutschen Lloyd, das Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, zahlreiche Wohnhäuser, vor allem im Parkviertel – allein drei davon am Stern –, die Schröder-Bank in der Obernstraße (heute Peek & Cloppenburg) und schließlich ab 1927 verschiedene Erweiterungen des St. Joseph-Stiftes.

Im Bürgerpark sind Wellermann & Fröhlich mit zahlreichen Bauten vertreten. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Architekten und dem Bürgerparkverein mag sich im Jahre 1903 mit dem Bau des aus dem Vermächtnis des Bremer Bankiers Bernhard Loose gestifteten Wildgeheges so günstig entwickelt haben, dass die Architekten nicht nur den Auftrag für den Ersatz der Niemannbrücke erhielten, sondern auch noch die beiden Inselbrücken am Emmasee westlich des Kaffeehauses mit dem Hoffmann-Pavillon entwerfen konnten. Auch den Melcherspavillon, von Konsul Carl Theodor Melchers 1905 gestiftet, entwarfen Wellermann & Fröhlich für den Bürgerparkverein und ebenso das schöne Aufseherhaus im Stadtwald.

Bauten und Entwürfe (1898 bis 1936 zusammen mit Paul Frölich)

 1897: Landhaus des Kaufmanns Hermann Kulenkampff, "Haus Bucheneck", Lesmonastraße 80
 1897–1898: Katholische Marienkirche in Bremen-Walle, Steffensweg Ecke St.-Magnus-Straße, kriegszerstört, Neubau 1953–1954
 1898–1899: Landhaus Caspar Kulenkampff "Barg up", Lesmonastraße (abgebrochen)
 1898–1899: Hofmeierhaus des Caspar Kulenkampff-Anwesens, Lesmonastraße 52
 1899: Wöchnerinnenasyl im Auftrag des Vereins zur Pflege armer Wöchnerinnen, Bremen, Am Schwarzen Meer
 1899: Wohnhaus des Kaufmann Wilh. Heinr. Adalbert Voigt, Teilhaber der Firma W. B. Michaelsen & Co., Osterdeich 69
 1900: Wohn- und Geschäftshaus Dr. jur.  Emil von Pustau, Am Wall 163
 1900: Katholische Kirche St. Godehard, Bremen-Hemelingen, Godehardstraße 23/25
 1900: Villa des Kunstmalers W. Otto, Hollerallee 67 (Am Stern); Entwurf der Innenarchitektur nach Entwürfen von Richard Riemerschmid, Bruno Paul und Bernhard Pankok 1901
 1900–1902: Villa Rechtsanwalt August Lürman, Hollerallee 71 (1935 abgebrochen)
 1901: Kapelle des St. Joseph-Stiftes, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 54
 1901–1903 Haus Lassmann für den Kaufmann Gottlieb Lassmann jr., Schwachhauser Heerstraße 339,
 1901–1902: Villa Johann Friedrich Hagemeyer, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 341
 1901–1903: Villa Alfred Hoffmann, Hollerallee 79, (in den 1920er Jahren Wohnsitz des Bankiers Johann Friedrich Schröder – "Johann Fortune" – heute Standesamt)
 1902–1903: Villa für den Holzkaufmann L. P. Overbeck, Parkallee 48 (Am Stern)
 1903-1904: Villa Fritz Pappier, Hollerallee 85 (1935 abgebrochen)
 1903: Villa Korff, Parkallee 79/81 (Am Stern)
 1903: Gerdespavillon auf der Meiereiwiese im Bremer Bürgerpark (Geschenk des Kaufmanns Skröder Gerdes aus Anlass seines 80. Geburtstages)
 1903: Haus Mindeströmmen für den Kaufmann Albert Kulenkampff, Lesmonastraße 70 (ehemals Lesmonastraße 64)
 1904–1905: Innenarchitektur der Villa von Theodor Francksen; Speisesaal – "Weißer Salon" – im Stil des Rokoko; Bibliothek und Arbeitszimmer im Jugendstil, heute Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Am Stadtmuseum 4–8
 1905: Haus Schwalbenklippe für Emmy Kulenkampff, Admiral-Brommy-Weg 5 in Bremen-Lesum
 1905: Bankhaus E.C. Weyhausen, Wachtstraße 15 (zerstört, ehem. direkt neben der Baumwollbörse)
 1905: Wiegand-Brücke im Bremer Bürgerpark (Geschenk von Lloyd-Direktor Heinrich Wiegand)
 1905: Hofmeierhaus Lesmona in Bremen – Burglesum
 1907: Kaiserzimmer auf dem Schnelldampfer des Norddeutschen Lloyd Kronprinzessin Cecilie
 1907: Aufseherhaus im Stadtwald für den Bremer Bürgerparkverein
 1907: Aselmeyerbrücken im Bremer Bürgerpark, Kunstschmiedearbeiten Justus Leidenberg (Vermächtnis von Emma Aselmeyer)
 1907–1909: Grandhotel "Atlantic", Hamburg, An der Alster 74
 1908 (vor): Innenarchitektur des Grandhotels Kaiserhof in Berlin
 1909–1910: Verbindungsbau zwischen zwei Stadtvillen für die Kunstausstellung der Sammlers Theodor Francksen, heute Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Am Stadtmuseum 4–8
 1911: Pfarrhaus St. Godehard, Bremen-Hemelingen, Godehardstraße 25
 1911–1913: Landhaus und Hofmeierhaus für den Petroleumkaufmann Henry Lamotte, Am Gütpohl 9/11
 1914: Wohnhaus Dr. jur. Wilh. Leymann, Marcusallee 35
 1914–1915: Villa Franz Albrecht Schütte, Marcusallee 9
 1917–1922: J. F. Schröder Bank (heute Kaufhaus Peek & Cloppenburg), Obernstraße 2/12
 1925: Wohnhaus für den Bankier Albert Weyhausen, Teilhaber der Schröder Bank, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 65a
 1927: Fließer Stieralphütte im Zanderstal an der Fließer Stieralpe in der Samnaungruppe (Tirol)
 1927: Erweiterungsbauten für das Krankenhaus St.-Joseph-Stift, Bremen, Schubertstraße
 1927–1929: Villa Pavenstedt, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 222
 1927–1930: Wohnhaus für den Fabrikanten Hermann Gustav Uhde, Marcusallee 39

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Architekt (Bremen)
Deutscher
Geboren 1865
Gestorben 1951
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A network's diagnosability is the utmost range of faulty vertices the network can discriminate solely by performing mutual tests among the vertices. It is an vital live of a network's robustness. The original diagnosability while not any condition is typically rather low as a result of it is bounded by the network's minimum degree. Many conditional diagnosability have been proposed within the past to extend the allowed faulty vertices, and hence enhancing the diagnosability of the network. The g-sensible-neighbor conditional diagnosability is the most number of faulty vertices a network will guarantee to spot, under the condition that each fault-free vertex has at least g fault-free neighbors (i.e., smart neighbors). During this Project, we establish the g-sensible-neighbor conditional diagnosability for the (n; k)-arrangement graph network A n;k . We have a tendency to can show that, under both the PMC model and the comparison model, the A n;k 's g-good-neighbor conditional diagnosability is [(g + 1)k - g](n - k), which will be many times higher than the A n;k 's original diagnosability.


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Kapu Beach
Kapu is a beach village in coastal Karnataka. Kapu's long sandy beaches offer a panoramic view of the Arabian Sea. With its tropical climate and a bevy of attractions that beckon tourists from across the country, Kapu is predominantly known for its greenery that surrounds the beach. One of the main attractions of the Kapu beach is the century-old 130 ft. lighthouse. Other must-see spots in Kapu include the two temples of Goddess Mariamma and the Jain Basadis.
Lighthouse: Kapu lighthouse was built in 1901. Kapu lighthouse is 27 meters tall. Constructed on a rock, the lighthouse has stood the test of time and has guided ships to safety during the days when ships did not have satellite navigation and relied on lighthouses on the shores for warnings.
Kapu light house is open to visitors from 4 PM to 6 PM daily. Visitors may go up the stairs and get a bird's eye view of Kąpu beach. The lighthouse may be closed during heavy rains for safety reasons.
Beach: The Beach near Kapu lighthouse is worth visiting as Kąpu beach gets fewer crowds compared to other nearby beaches such as Malpe beach or Surathkal beach.
Places to visit near Kapu: Malpe (20 kms), Udupi (15 kms), Mangaluru (45 kms), Sasihithlu Beach (30 kms) are some of the attractions to visit along with Kapu.
How to reach Kapu: Kapu is 400 kms from Bengaluru and 45 kms from Mangaluru (nearest airport). Udupi is the nearest railway station (15 kms). Regular buses are available from Mangaluru and Udupi to reach Kapu.
Places to stay near Kapu: Multiple hotels are available in Udupi city.
Kapu Lighthouse


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued regulations to improve visibility, or visual air quality, in 156 national parks and wilderness areas across the country. These areas include many of our best known and most treasured natural areas, such as the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Rainier, Shenandoah, the Great Smokies, Acadia, and the Everglades. The regulations call for States to establish goals for improving visibility in national parks and wilderness areas and to develop long-term strategies for reducing emissions of air pollutants that cause visibility impairment.


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Q: How to open a shared folder in network after authentication in java I need to do following using Java code:
 1. win+R (run)
 2. Paste a shared folder location say: "\10.10.10.0\aaa\bbb"
 3. need to fill user id and pwd in the authentication window
I wrote following code ...
public void accessSharedPath(String path) {

        Authenticator.setDefault(new SharedPathAuthenticator());

        try {
            new ProcessBuilder("explorer.exe", path1).start();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

class SharedPathAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
    private String userName = "xxxx";
    private char[] password = { 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x' };

    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
        return new PasswordAuthentication(userName, password);

    }
}

Now the problem is if in my machine the authentication has been done previously then it works fine (even without the Authenticator), but when i remove the saved passord and run this it opens My Document folder.

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Can UTL be configured to use certain runways at specific airports?
Example: KSFO - generally uses 28L/R for arrivals and 1L/R for departures. Can this be configured in UTL?
No, UTL just injects traffic. The ATC and how ai is handled is the same from FSX/P3d.
It is possible to force traffic to use specific runways, but it requires special software.
What software is this? I have looked for an AI configuration addon but haven't found anything yet.
Airport Design Editor is the most common program, with it you can close particular runways to landing or departing etc.
That would work, except I have the Steam edition of FSX which does not include the full SDK. I don't have the boxed version of FSX which did include it. So, without the compiler ADE won't do me any good.
Seems like there should be some utility out there that will allow AI traffic to be managed on an individual airport/runway basis!
Thanks very much, that was a big help!


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Niels Hemmingsen er en tidligere dansk reserveofficer.

Han blev i 1987 arresteret i Polen sammen med reserveofficer Jens Ellekær for at have fotograferet militære installationer. De polske myndigheder hævdede, at de to var agenter for Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE), hvilket FE og de danske myndigheder dog benægtede.

Umiddelbart var der ingen hjælp fra de danske officielle myndigheder. De to blev efter flere måneders fængsling dømt for spionage med fængsel i hhv. ni år (Jens Ellekær) og syv år. De blev dog begge udvist til Danmark ca. et halvt år efter dommen.

Efter Den kolde krigs afslutning var der fortsat ingen officiel dansk stillingstagen til sagen.

Kilder

Spioner fra Danmark
Tjek fødsels- og dødsår
Officerer fra Danmark
Danskere i 1900-tallet
Spioner for Danmark


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Professor who called Trump's big win says he will be impeached
by Peter W. Stevenson, Washington Post
Few prognosticators predicted a Donald Trump victory ahead of Tuesday night. Polls showed Hillary Clinton comfortably ahead, and much of America (chiefly the media) failed to anticipate the wave of pro-Trump support that propelled him to victory. But a Washington, D.C.-based professor insisted that Trump was lined up for a win - based on the idea that elections are "primarily a reflection on the performance of the party in power."
Professor Allan Lichtman uses a historically-based system of what he calls "keys" to predict election results ahead of time. In our conversations in September and October, he outlined how President Obama's second term set the Democrats up for a tight race, and his keys tipped the balance in Trump's favor, even if just barely.
At the end of our September conversation, Lichtman made another call: That if elected, Trump would eventually be impeached by a Republican Congress that would prefer a President Mike Pence - someone who establishment Republicans know and trust.
"I'm going to make another prediction," he said. "This one is not based on a system, it's just my gut. They don't want Trump as president, because they can't control him. He's unpredictable. They'd love to have Pence - an absolutely down the line, conservative, controllable Republican. And I'm quite certain Trump will give someone grounds for impeachment, either by doing something that endangers national security or because it helps his pocketbook."
So while Republican voters clearly came home before Nov. 8 - network exit polls show 90 percent of GOP voters cast ballots for Trump - it's less clear that the party leadership is onboard. (Lichtman actually isn't the only person to predict a Trump impeachment; Friday morning, The New York Times' David Brooks suggested a Trump impeachment or resignation was "probably" in the cards sometime within the next year.)
It's worth noting that Lichtman's predictions use very different methods than pollsters and data-based prognosticators. Some statisticians take issue with the structure of his system, a set of 13 true/false questions, saying that the binary nature of his keys leads to what's called "overfitting," which is basically creating a system that fits the data but has little statistical significance. But Lichtman counters by saying that system has correctly predicted every election since 1984 (specifically, his predictions have picked the next president correctly in all of those elections but 2000, when he picked Al Gore, who won the popular vote). And Lichtman has his own criticism for data-based predictions.
"Polls are not predictors," he said Friday in an email. "They are snapshots that simulate an election. They are abused and misused as predictors. Even the analysis of polls by Nate Silver and others which claimed a probable Clinton victory with from more than 70 percent to 99 percent certainty are mere compilations that are no better than the underlying polls."
And he has particular disdain for prediction systems that assign a likelihood of winning.
"For all his acclaim, Nate Silver is only a clerk, not a scientific analyst," Lichtman said.
As for the real reason for Trump's win, Lichtman says the blame can't be put on Hillary Clinton or her campaign - rather, he says, it was decided by the larger forces that shape American politics.
"The Democrats cannot rebuild by pointing fingers at Hillary Clinton and her campaign, which as the Keys demonstrated, were not the root cause of her defeat," he said. "The Democrats can rehabilitate themselves only by offering an inspiring progressive alternative to Republican policies and building a grassroots movement."
Peter W. Stevenson, Washington Post


Switzerland will recognize a US birth certificate or US Parentage Order/Judgment.
** Any US judgment establishing parentage should be a pre-birth or post-birth judgment and not an adoption decree or make any reference to an adoption.
**A match involving an unmarried GC does simplify the process for establishing the child(ren)'s Swiss citizenship.
The US birth certificate should reflect what the parent(s) would like the Swiss birth certificate to state.


The QSO Log area is where additional information about the ham radio contact (such as recording the QSO as a multiplier, showing a QSO as a dupe, etc.) is stored. In addition, mistakes from the storing of the QSO from the QSO Entry area (you hit Enter way too early…) can be fixed using the QSO Log screen.
It would be great to have Jordan as a multiplier, but, unfortunately, K9JY is just another one of those 'W' contacts that count for points in the CQ WW SSB contest and won't really count for a new multiplier to that many people. Well, to modify the contact in WriteLog is really very simple and follows normal Windows conventions.
You will notice that the Log Edit area automatically pops to the top of the QSO Log container. As a result, there is no need to position it on your screen; it pops up, takes the correction, and then politely goes away until needed again.
You will note that the field that needed modification is what is available to you. If you noticed that you had the wrong frequency in the log (when I had no RS-232 radio control this happened a LOT!), then you would double click on the QSO and the Frequency of the ham radio contact to make the frequency available to change.
Note two items: first, the Log Edit window politely went away. Second, note that WriteLog also corrected the country and country prefix with the change so that the 'new country' multiplier is no longer in the log and the score has been corrected.
However, note that the Zone for the contact is still zone 20 and not zone 4 so WriteLog is still showing a zone multiplier for the ham radio contact and your contact will still be incorrect. Follow your modification process again and double click on the zone number for the K9JY QSO to bring up the Log Edit area, change the zone to 4, and press the Enter key to update the contact. Doing so will fully correct the information.
Editing the time, date, or frequency of a QSO will produce a little dialog box that will allow you to either type or mouse click in the correct information.
B These are QSO's that are 'Out of Band' and are most often found where you are working a Single Band in the contest and you work other ham radio stations on other bands than your entry.
There are two windows that control what information is shown in the QSO Log window. The first is the QSO Display Format found by selecting 'Setup|Display format' from the main WriteLog toolbar. The second is the 'QSO Exchange Fields' found by selecting the 'Contest|Exchange Format Setup' from the main WriteLog toolbar. Their functions are similar – but, of course – different.
The main difference between the two is that the QSO Display Format controls minimum fields used for all QSO's in all ham radio contests. It is a 'universal' dialog box. The Exchange Format Setup, on the other hand, controls what information is shown in your QSO Entry Window and your QSO Log window for the particular ham radio contest you have opened on your screen.
Setup Display Format gives you the ability to control the display of the QSO data that WriteLog maintains for all QSO's. The data is collected and stored for all QSO's and you may use this menu entry to turn its display on or off at any time. This is the default out of WriteLog; I have not changed it.
Sequence number controls the display of both the sequence number of the QSO's and its dupe field. The dupe field is normally blank, but is a D for dupes, an X for QSO's you have explicitly disallowed, and B for out of band QSO's.
QSL Info controls the display of the QSL sent/received columns. The Received column is normally blank, but will have an R if you have indicated. Similarly, the Sent column is either blank or has an S. See QSL Records.
Time controls the display of the time of the QSO's.
Date controls the display of the date of the QSO. Note that WriteLog only displays the date of the top QSO in the Log unless the date changes down the page.
Mode controls the display of the mode of the QSO's.
Frequency controls the display of the frequency of the QSO's.
Transmit Frequency controls the display of the transmit frequency. This is interesting only if you are working split and are logging the frequencies directly from your ham radio.
This selection will then take you to a standard Windows dialog box where you can select the font of your choice.


It's time for another Family Science Night! This Thursday, September 22nd, bring the entire family out to experience 'Bits & Bots.' Lots of hands-on activities, science experiments and creative projects. And, it's all FREE!


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#include <kdb.h>

// for keySetComment
#include <kdbextension.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

/**A functional access to keys.
 *
 * Instead of writing your own loop you can write
 * a function working with a key and pass it to
 * this method.
 *
 * The function will be executed for all keys in
 * the keyset.
 *
 * @param ks the keyset to work with
 * @param func the function to execute on every key of the keyset
 * @return the sum of all return values
 * @retval -1 if any function returned -1, the execution will stop there, but
 * 	ksCurrent() will tell you where it stopped.
 * @see ksFilter()
 */
int ksForEach (KeySet * ks, int (*func) (Key * k))
{
	int ret = 0;
	Key * current;

	elektraCursor cursor = ksGetCursor (ks);
	ksRewind (ks);
	while ((current = ksNext (ks)) != 0)
	{
		int rc = func (current);
		if (rc == -1) return -1;
		ret += rc;
	}
	ksSetCursor (ks, cursor);
	return ret;
}

/**Filter a keyset.
 *
 * filter is executed for every key in the keyset result. When it returns 0,
 * the key will be dropped, when it returns 1 it will be ksAppendKey()ed to result,
 * when it returns -1 the processing will be stopped. You can use ksCurrent()
 * on input to see where the problem was. Because of this input is not const,
 * apart from ksCurrent() the input will not be changed. The keys that have
 * been in result before will stay untouched.
 *
 * @param result is the keyset where keys are added.
 * @param input is the keyset the filter works on.
 * @param filter is the function to execute on every key of the keyset to decide if
 * 	it should be ksAppendKey()ed to the result.
 * @return the number of keys added on success
 * @retval 0 when nothing was done
 * @retval -1 when filter returned an error (-1), ksCurrent() of input will
 * 	be the problematic key.
 * @see ksForEach()
 **/
int ksFilter (KeySet * result, KeySet * input, int (*filter) (Key * k))
{
	int ret = 0;
	Key * current;

	elektraCursor cursor = ksGetCursor (input);
	ksRewind (input);
	while ((current = ksNext (input)) != 0)
	{
		int rc = filter (current);
		if (rc == -1)
			return -1;
		else if (rc != 0)
		{
			++ret;
			ksAppendKey (result, keyDup (current, KEY_CP_ALL));
		}
	}
	ksSetCursor (input, cursor);
	return ret;
}

Key * global_a;

int add_string (Key * check)
{
	return keySetString (check, "string");
}
int add_comment (Key * check)
{
	return keySetMeta (check, "comment", "comment");
}
int has_a (Key * check)
{
	return keyName (check)[5] == 'a';
}
int below_a (Key * check)
{
	return keyIsBelow (global_a, check);
}
int direct_below_a (Key * check)
{
	return keyIsDirectlyBelow (global_a, check);
}

int sum_helper (Key * check)
{
	return atoi (keyValue (check));
}
int below_30 (Key * check)
{
	return atoi (keyValue (check)) < 30;
}
int find_80 (Key * check)
{
	int n = atoi (keyValue (check));
	return n > 70 ? -1 : 1;
}

int main (void)
{
	KeySet * out;
	KeySet * ks = ksNew (64, keyNew ("user:/a/1", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/a/2", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/a/b/1", KEY_END),
			     keyNew ("user:/a/b/2", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/ab/2", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/b/1", KEY_END),
			     keyNew ("user:/b/2", KEY_END), KS_END);
	KeySet * values = 0;
	KeySet * values_below_30 = 0;

	global_a = keyNew ("user:/a", KEY_END);

	ksForEach (ks, add_string);
	ksForEach (ks, add_comment);

	out = ksNew (0, KS_END);
	ksFilter (out, ks, has_a);
	ksDel (out);

	out = ksNew (0, KS_END);
	ksFilter (out, ks, below_a);
	ksDel (out);

	out = ksNew (0, KS_END);
	ksFilter (out, ks, direct_below_a);
	ksDel (out);

	ksDel (ks);
	keyDel (global_a);
	global_a = 0;

	values = ksNew (64, keyNew ("user:/a", KEY_VALUE, "40", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/b", KEY_VALUE, "20", KEY_END),
			keyNew ("user:/c", KEY_VALUE, "80", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/d", KEY_VALUE, "24", KEY_END),
			keyNew ("user:/e", KEY_VALUE, "32", KEY_END), keyNew ("user:/f", KEY_VALUE, "12", KEY_END),
			keyNew ("user:/g", KEY_VALUE, "43", KEY_END), KS_END);

	/* add together */
	ksForEach (values, sum_helper);

	values_below_30 = ksNew (0, KS_END);
	ksFilter (values_below_30, values, below_30);
	ksForEach (values_below_30, sum_helper);

	ksForEach (values, find_80);
	ksCurrent (values);		       /* here is user:/c */
	ksLookupByName (values, "user:/c", 0); /* should find the same */
	ksDel (values);
	ksDel (values_below_30);
}

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Sarah Trainor was welcomed to IARC in 2012, along with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) research unit. As ACCAP Director, Trainor oversees the organization's mission to improve links between climate science and society, through better communication of science research and strong relationships with stakeholders. Trainor has been published and recognized widely for her work, which includes project support from the US Department of the Interior, the Joint Fire Sciences Program, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Most of my recent work relates to the two grant-based organizations—ACCAP and AFSC—that I've had the pleasure to lead. Because of ACCAP's important focus on Alaska's various stakeholder groups, which include federal and state agencies, industry, tribal governments, and various non-profit groups across the state, I've sought out work that bridges the gap between climate science and the way our communities respond to change.
One of these projects documents Alaska's current and ongoing response to climate and environmental change. Since climate change is happening more rapidly here than elsewhere, it is instructive to understand how our communities, industries, and governments react. This can also help us assist with adaptation to environmental change.
Another project aims to construct networked maps of current scientific research, application, climate services, and adaptation; by making these knowledge networks clearer, we can enable more efficient partnership of science with our stakeholders.
What do you think is important for people to understand about your work?
I think what distinguishes my experience from a more traditional scientific career is that regardless of the subject matter or stage of research, I have always maintained a sharp focus on potential human connections. Sometimes, these elements are clear, as in ACCAP's work to connect scientists and communities.
Other times, they have more creative results, as in the "Art of Fire" AFSC project, which promoted public awareness of fire science through commissioned visual artwork and associated field trips, lectures, and gallery shows. I believe it's important to regard science as a part of culture, and as such, to engage with other aspects of society and culture.
For one, my education has been strongly interdisciplinary, with degrees in philosophy, environmental studies, and energy and resources. As a result of my formal study as well as a lifelong, pervasive interest in the natural world, it's always been important for me to recognize connections between the way we study the world around us and the way we think of ourselves.
I think this kind of approach also makes it much easier to see and undertake ways of making the world a better place to live.
What advice can you offer for students in the sciences?
The most meaningful scientific work, in my view, derives from recognizing problems, questions, and situations from many different perspectives—for me, this may mean different industries, government agencies, or tribal groups; for others, it could be various disciplines or academic departments. Regardless, it emphasizes what I consider the scientific skills of listening, writing, and the practice of seeing different points of view, values, and priorities.
Art of Fire project with the Alaska Fire Science Consortium.


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Q: Is it ideal to solder joins by placing the solder first on the component, and then having the soldering iron on top of it? I know the proper way of soldering wires and other components on PCBs and breadboards is by first heating up the joint with the soldering iron and then feeding it solder.
However, the breadboards that my Electronics teacher is giving us at school are so small that I can't have the soldering iron and the solder both on the same joint, which makes it more difficult to make a good joint. Instead, would it work if I heated the joint I wanted to solder, and then place solder on that joint and then put the tip of the soldering iron on the solder.
Theoretically, that should make a good joint, although I just wanted some feedback before actually trying this next week at school, in case I make a big mess.

A: Yes, that is called tinning. But tinning won't make the best connection without adding some solder on top as well.
By breadboard, I assume you mean some type of protoboard, probably smaller than 0.1" spacing? Then your soldering iron tip might be too big, but even 0.05" spacing boards are easy to do with most standard tips. You might just need practice. Heck, people hand solder 1mm pitch with no problem. Also, use flux. It draws the solder towards it. You can also add the solder to the iron.

A: Yes, this should work, but requires a bit of experience.
There are few things to watch for:

*

*Cold joints - you did not apply enough heat after adding the solder, therefore part of the solder didn't melt

*Insufficient Wetting - the solder did melt, but you did not heat the pad (or the pin) enough which resulted in insufficiently good contact.

The above are not issues when you apply heat to pads/pins and feed solder afterwards because only after the pad/pin are hot enough and the solder melts, will the solder flow onto the pad/pin.
Make sure that you heat up both the solder and the pad/pin underneath. However, try not to burn components or detach pads. The latter requires a bit of experience :)

A: i find that to first a establish good mechanical tension between the components helps because then i hold the iron tip firmly against the thickest material, usually a copper wire.  the heat transfers through the wire, heating the pad, and then i stick the solder in the angle gap from the side and it just goes, whoop, sucks in there, and i can get the iron out quickly to avoid lifting the pad with excessive heat.
it doesn't usually work well to heat the solder because it melts and spreads out before transferring the heat to the underlying component


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Sara Lee Profits Rise, but It Guides Lower
The company cites a weak food-service environment.
Meredith Derby
(SLE)
posted a third-quarter profit increase but results still fell a penny short of analyst expectations. The company cited a weaker environment for food-service products during the quarter and weakness among some retail customers.
The company also provided fourth-quarter and full-year 2003 EPS forecasts below analyst guidance and said it plans to eliminate 45 bread brands in the fourth quarter.
Chicago-based Sara Lee earned $269 million, or 33 cents a share, during the quarter ended March 29, compared with $257 million, or 31 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Analysts expected 34 cents a share.
Sales increased 4% to $4.4 billion. Favorable foreign currency rates increased sales by six percentage points for the quarter, the company said. Sales in its meat business were relatively flat at $871 million but bakery sales decreased 1% to $774 million. Revenue in its household products business, however, grew 10%.
"Sara Lee's businesses continue to benefit from incremental cost savings and increased productivity related to previous restructuring activities," the company said. "In addition, our heightened investment in new product initiatives and our strategy to increase marketing support for our largest, most important brands are together driving higher growth rates for our key brands."
Looking ahead, Sara Lee expects fourth-quarter earnings within a range of 36 cents to 38 cents a share, compared with 43 cents in the year-ago period. Analysts expect 46 cents a share.
Sara Lee Bakery said it intends to eliminate about 60 small regional fresh bread brands; about 45 will be discontinued during the fourth quarter. The eliminations are part of the company's efforts to improve margins and profit growth. Sara Lee Bakery also intends to close 3 U.S. fresh bakery manufacturing facilities during the quarter.
Full-year fiscal 2003 EPS are expected to be in a range $1.49 to $1.51, compared with $1.23 in fiscal 2002; analysts expect $1.59 a share.
Shares of the company closed at $19.74 Wednesday on the


text:
By Andy Burns Posted on January 7, 2018 January 8, 2018
The Week in Horror: Scream, American Horror Story + more
The Ghostface killer is coming to video games, American Horror Story looks to the future, and lots more, as we take a look at some of the biggest stories from the week in horror.
Scream video game on the way?
It's been more than 20 years since the Scream franchise entered the world, and now an industrious video game creator is hoping to bring the series to consoles and computers. According to Scream: The Video Game's lead developer Brandon D. Santos,:
Scream: The Video Game is an asymmetric survival horror online multiplayer video game being developed by various independent video game developers – in association with Dimension Films, Miramax, Fun World, and MTV. It is the first and only commercial video game adaptation of the Scream horror films and TV series. One player takes control of the Ghostface killer, a masked psychopath whose true identity is hidden behind a rubber mask and black robe. The rest of the players control Victims. The goal of the game is to survive as long as possible while trying to determine the killer's true identity. That's about all we can tell you right now, as we are in the early stages of development. We appreciate your interest in the game and stay tuned for updates!
A Kickstarter begins February 18th to support the game's creation. You can find out more about Scream The Video Game here.
American Horror Story Season 8 heads to the future
In an interview with TV Line, American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy revealed the setting for the next season of the anthology series…sort of. He told Michale Ausiello:
"It takes place in the future…It's still topical, but [set in] the future, which I've never done… I think people will like it. It's different from what we've done before."
Murphy also said that the Murder House/Coven crossover will likely happen during the ninth season of the series:
"We're working on it, but that's not going to be [Season 8]… "That will probably be the one after that. We've already met about it and outlined it. But it won't be next because some of the [cast members] are not available."
Kiernan Shipka to play Sabrina
Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Netflix series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, from Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The hour long drama has been greenlit for twelve episodes across two seasons:
Shipka will play Sabrina Spellman, an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, who is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Intelligent, compassionate and brave to the point of recklessness, Sabrina is all that stands between us and the forces of darkness that threaten our world.
Slender Man trailer released
We just can't get away from the Slender Man, can we? The character that's haunted mobile and console games for years is now the focus of his own film, due out May 18th, 2018. You can get a look at the first trailer below.
Categories: Andy Burns, Andy Burns/Andy B, General, movies, televisionTags: american horror story, Andy Burns, horror, sabrina, scream, slender man, The week in horror
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text:
<?php
namespace Podlove\Settings;
use \Podlove\Model;

class Dashboard {

	use \Podlove\HasPageDocumentationTrait;

	static $pagehook;

	public function __construct() {

		// use \Podlove\Podcast_Post_Type::SETTINGS_PAGE_HANDLE to replace
		// default first item name
		Dashboard::$pagehook = add_submenu_page(
			/* $parent_slug*/ \Podlove\Podcast_Post_Type::SETTINGS_PAGE_HANDLE,
			/* $page_title */ __( 'Dashboard', 'podlove' ),
			/* $menu_title */ __( 'Dashboard', 'podlove' ),
			/* $capability */ 'administrator',
			/* $menu_slug  */ \Podlove\Podcast_Post_Type::SETTINGS_PAGE_HANDLE,
			/* $function   */ array( $this, 'settings_page' )
		);

		$this->init_page_documentation(self::$pagehook);

		add_action( 'load-' . Dashboard::$pagehook, function () {
			// Adding the meta boxes here, so they can be filtered by the user settings.
			add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_' . Dashboard::$pagehook, function () {
				add_meta_box( Dashboard::$pagehook . '_about', __( 'About', 'podlove' ), '\Podlove\Settings\Dashboard::about_meta', Dashboard::$pagehook, 'side' );
				add_meta_box( Dashboard::$pagehook . '_statistics', __( 'At a glance', 'podlove' ), '\Podlove\Settings\Dashboard::statistics', Dashboard::$pagehook, 'normal' );

				do_action( 'podlove_dashboard_meta_boxes' );

				add_meta_box( Dashboard::$pagehook . '_validation', __( 'Validate Podcast Files', 'podlove' ), '\Podlove\Settings\Dashboard::validate_podcast_files', Dashboard::$pagehook, 'normal' );
			} );
			do_action( 'add_meta_boxes_' . Dashboard::$pagehook );

			wp_enqueue_script( 'postbox' );
			wp_register_script(
				'cornify-js',
				\Podlove\PLUGIN_URL . '/js/admin/cornify.js'
			);
			wp_enqueue_script( 'cornify-js' );
		} );

		add_action( 'publish_podcast', function() {
			delete_transient('podlove_dashboard_stats');
		} );
	}

	public static function about_meta() {
		?>

				Podlove Publisher

				Podlove Initiative

				Podlove Community

				Documentation & Guides

				<a href="<?php echo admin_url( 'admin.php?page=podlove_Support_settings_handle' ) ?>">Report Bugs

				Donate

		<?php
	}

	public static function settings_page() {

		if (apply_filters('podlove_dashboard_page', false) !== false)
			return;

		?>

			<?php screen_icon( 'podlove-podcast' ); ?>

<?php echo __( 'Podlove Dashboard', 'podlove' ); ?>

					<?php do_action( 'podlove_settings_before_sidebar_boxes' ); ?>
					<?php do_meta_boxes( Dashboard::$pagehook, 'side', NULL ); ?>
					<?php do_action( 'podlove_settings_after_sidebar_boxes' ); ?>

						<?php do_action( 'podlove_settings_before_main_boxes' ); ?>
						<?php do_meta_boxes( Dashboard::$pagehook, 'normal', NULL ); ?>
						<?php do_meta_boxes( Dashboard::$pagehook, 'additional', NULL ); ?>
						<?php do_action( 'podlove_settings_after_main_boxes' ); ?>

			<form style='display: none' method='get' action=''>
				<?php
				wp_nonce_field( 'closedpostboxes', 'closedpostboxesnonce', false );
				wp_nonce_field( 'meta-box-order', 'meta-box-order-nonce', false );
				?>
			</form>

		<?php
	}

	public static function duration_to_seconds( $timestring ) {
		return \Podlove\NormalPlayTime\Parser::parse( $timestring, 's' );
	}

	public static function prepare_statistics() {
		if ( ( $statistics = get_transient( 'podlove_dashboard_stats' ) ) !== FALSE ) {
			return $statistics;
		} else {
			$episodes = Model\Episode::find_all_by_time();

			$prev_post = 0;
			$counted_episodes = 0;
			$time_stamp_differences = array();
			$episode_durations = array();
			$episode_status_count = array(
				'publish' => 0,
				'private' => 0,
				'future' => 0,
				'draft' => 0,
			);

			$statistics = array(
					'episodes' => array(),
					'total_episode_length' => 0,
					'average_episode_length' => 0,
					'days_between_releases' => 0,
					'average_media_file_size' => 0,
					'total_media_file_size' => 0
				);

			foreach ( $episodes as $episode_key => $episode ) {
				$post = get_post( $episode->post_id );
				$counted_episodes++;

				// duration in seconds
				if ( self::duration_to_seconds( $episode->duration ) > 0 )
					$episode_durations[$post->ID] = self::duration_to_seconds( $episode->duration );

				// count by post status
				if (!isset($episode_status_count[$post->post_status])) {
					$episode_status_count[$post->post_status] = 1;
				} else {
					$episode_status_count[$post->post_status]++;
				}

				// determine time in days since last publication
				if ($prev_post) {
					$timestamp_current_episode = new \DateTime( $post->post_date );
					$timestamp_next_episode = new \DateTime( $prev_post->post_date );
					$time_stamp_differences[$post->ID] = $timestamp_current_episode->diff($timestamp_next_episode)->days;
				}

				$prev_post = $post;
			}

			// Episode Stati
			$statistics['episodes'] = $episode_status_count;
			// Number of Episodes
			$statistics['total_number_of_episodes'] = count($episodes);
			// Total Episode length
			$statistics['total_episode_length'] = array_sum($episode_durations);
			// Calculating average episode in seconds
			$statistics['average_episode_length'] = count($episode_durations) > 0 ? round(array_sum($episode_durations) / count($episode_durations)) : 0;
			// Calculate average time until next release in days
			$statistics['days_between_releases']   = count($time_stamp_differences) > 0 ? round(array_sum($time_stamp_differences) / count($time_stamp_differences)) : 0;

			// Media Files
			$episodes_to_media_files = function ($media_files, $episode) {
				return array_merge($media_files, $episode->media_files());
			};
			$media_files       = array_reduce($episodes, $episodes_to_media_files, array());
			$valid_media_files = array_filter($media_files, function($m) { return $m->size > 0; });

			$sum_mediafile_sizes = function ($result, $media_file) {
				return $result + $media_file->size;
			};
			$statistics['total_media_file_size'] = array_reduce( $valid_media_files, $sum_mediafile_sizes, 0 );
			$mediafile_count      = count($valid_media_files);

			$statistics['average_media_file_size'] = $mediafile_count > 0 ? $statistics['total_media_file_size'] / $mediafile_count : 0;

			set_transient( 'podlove_dashboard_stats', $statistics, 3600 );
			return $statistics;
		}
	}

	public static function statistics() {
		$episode_edit_url = site_url() . '/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=podcast';
		$statistics = self::prepare_statistics();
		?>

Episodes

						<a href="<?php echo $episode_edit_url; ?>&post_status=publish"><?php echo $statistics['episodes']['publish']; ?>

						<?php echo __( 'Published', 'podlove' ); ?>

						<a href="<?php echo $episode_edit_url; ?>&post_status=private"><?php echo $statistics['episodes']['private']; ?>

						<?php echo __( 'Private', 'podlove' ); ?>

						<a href="<?php echo $episode_edit_url; ?>&post_status=future"><?php echo $statistics['episodes']['future']; ?>

						<?php echo __( 'To be published', 'podlove' ); ?>

						<a href="<?php echo $episode_edit_url; ?>&post_status=draft"><?php echo $statistics['episodes']['draft']; ?>

						<?php echo __( 'Drafts', 'podlove' ); ?>

						<a href="<?php echo $episode_edit_url; ?>"><?php echo $statistics['total_number_of_episodes']; ?>

						<?php echo __( 'Total', 'podlove' ); ?>

<?php echo __('Statistics', 'podlove') ?>

						<?php echo gmdate("H:i:s", $statistics['average_episode_length'] ); ?>

						<?php echo __( 'is the average length of an episode', 'podlove' ); ?>.

						<?php
							$days = round($statistics['total_episode_length'] / 3600 / 24, 1);
							echo sprintf(_n('%s day', '%s days', $days, 'podlove'), $days);
						?>

						<?php echo __( 'is the total playback time of all episodes', 'podlove' ); ?>.

						<?php echo \Podlove\format_bytes($statistics['average_media_file_size'], 1); ?>

						<?php echo __( 'is the average media file size', 'podlove' ); ?>.

						<?php echo \Podlove\format_bytes($statistics['total_media_file_size'], 1); ?>

						<?php echo __( 'is the total media file size', 'podlove' ); ?>.

						<?php echo sprintf(_n('%s day', '%s days', $statistics['days_between_releases'], 'podlove'), $statistics['days_between_releases']); ?>

						<?php echo __( 'is the average interval until a new episode is released', 'podlove' ); ?>.

				<?php do_action('podlove_dashboard_statistics'); ?>

			<?php echo sprintf( __('You are using %s', 'podlove'), 'Podlove Publisher ' . \Podlove\get_plugin_header( 'Version' ) . ''); ?>.

		<?php
	}

	public static function validate_podcast_files() {
		global $wpdb;

		$sql = "
		SELECT
			p.post_status,
			mf.episode_id,
			mf.episode_asset_id,
			mf.size,
			mf.id media_file_id
		FROM
			`" . Model\MediaFile::table_name() . "` mf
			JOIN `" . Model\Episode::table_name() . "` e ON e.id = mf.`episode_id`
			JOIN `" . $wpdb->posts . "` p ON e.`post_id` = p.`ID`
		WHERE
			p.`post_type` = 'podcast'
			AND p.post_status in ('private', 'draft', 'publish', 'pending', 'future')
		";

		$rows = $wpdb->get_results($sql, ARRAY_A);

		$media_files = [];
		foreach ($rows as $row) {

			if (!isset($media_files[$row['episode_id']])) {
				$media_files[$row['episode_id']] = [ 'post_status' => $row["post_status"] ];
			}

			$media_files[$row['episode_id']][$row['episode_asset_id']] = [
				'size'          => $row['size'],
				'media_file_id' => $row['media_file_id']
			];
		}

		$podcast = Model\Podcast::get();
		?>

			<?php
			$episodes = Model\Episode::all( 'ORDER BY slug DESC' );
			$assets   = Model\EpisodeAsset::all();

			$header = array( __( 'Episode', 'podlove' ) );
			foreach ( $assets as $asset ) {
				$header[] = $asset->title;
			}
			$header[] = __( 'Status', 'podlove' );

			define( 'ASSET_STATUS_OK', '' );
			define( 'ASSET_STATUS_INACTIVE', '' );
			define( 'ASSET_STATUS_ERROR', '' );
			?>

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Dr Hotchin is our lead GP trainer. He is also our safeguarding lead. He also has a special interest in sports medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is also the Academy doctor at Norwich City Football Club.
Dr McKenzie is one of our GPs supporting patients with drug and/or alcohol problems he is also our lead GP in prescribing.
Dr Connolly is our lead GP in diabetes.
Dr Delves is our lead GP in sexual and women's health.
Dr Bendre has a special interest in women and children's health.
MB BS 1998 University of London.
Dr Delves, Dr Hotchin and Dr Lilley are all qualified GP trainers. We will also often have a qualified doctor with us who is training to become a general practitioner. These doctors will normally stay with us for a period of nine months.
The surgery will shortly be hosting student nurses as a replacement for nurse training in association with the University of East Anglia.
Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.
The midwives work with the doctors to care for mothers before, during and after delivery and hold weekly antenatal clinics at the medical centre by appointment.
The nurses provide skilled care for patients living at home including dressings, injections and hospital after care.
Counselling is a way of helping people who have personal problems to find their own way through their difficulties. The practice has a very experienced counsellor and a Primary care mental health worker available. Referrals must be made by your doctor. There is a small fee contribution to our subsidised counselling service. However, patients who cannot afford to pay can be subsidised by SOS, our patient group.


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In mathematics, specifically convex geometry, the normal fan of a convex polytope P is a polyhedral fan that is dual to P.  Normal fans have applications to polyhedral combinatorics, linear programming, tropical geometry and other areas of mathematics.

Definition
Given a convex polytope P in Rn, the normal fan NP of P is a polyhedral fan in the dual space, (Rn)* whose cones consist of the normal cone CF to each face F of P,

Each normal cone CF is defined as the set of linear functionals w such that the set of points x in P that maximize w(x) contains F,

Properties
 NP is a complete fan, meaning the union of its cones is the whole space, (Rn)*.
 If F is a face of P of dimension d, then its normal cone CF has dimension n – d.  The normal cones to vertices of P are full dimensional.  If P has full dimension, the normal cones to the facets of P are the rays of NP and the normal cone to P itself is CP = {0}, the zero cone.
 The affine span of face F of P is orthogonal to the linear span of its normal cone, CF.
 The correspondence between faces of P and cones of NP reverses inclusion, meaning that for faces F and G of P,

 Since NP is a fan, the intersection of any two of its cones is also a cone in NP.  For faces F and G of P,

where H is the smallest face of P that contains both F and G.

Applications
 If polytope P is thought of as the feasible region of a linear program, the normal fan of P partitions the space of objective functions based on the solution set to the linear program defined by each.  The linear program in which the goal is to maximize linear objective function w has solution set F if and only if w is in the relative interior of the cone CF.
 If polytope P has the origin in its interior, then the normal fan of P can be constructed from the polar dual of P by taking the cone over each face of the dual polytope, P°.
 For f a polynomial in n variables with coefficients in C, the tropical hypersurface of f is supported on a subfan of the normal fan of the Newton polytope P of f.  In particular, the tropical hypersurface is supported on the cones in NP of dimension less than n.

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