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European Patent Judges agree on rules and procedures for new EU Patent Court
Twenty six patent judges from all over Europe gathered in San Servolo, Italy, for the second time to discuss and decide on rules and procedures for the EPLA court, the first centralized European Patent Court. After meeting for a week all 26 judges agreed and signed a Resolution ("Second Venice Resolution"), approving new rules how to conduct the procedures in this newly to be established EU patent court. The Rules deal with all aspects of patent litigation, from how to start the litigation to case management, the way oral arguments will be heard and which protective measures can be ordered by the court, and much more.
The unanimous vote in favour of Uniform Rules of Proceedings is a striking result, as it is quite a challenge to get Europeans to decide on anything so far reaching as how to litigate under uniform principles. Most of the EU countries have their own rules of procedure which differ substantially. One can imagine how difficult it must have been to agree on rules that could work for all European states that will eventually participate in the EU court.
The judges' choice seems to be made for an EU patent court modelled after a continental European, rather than the UK judicial system.
Bloomberg cites Kevin Mooney, the President of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW), which organized the judges conference:
"What the judges are saying to the politicians is to get on with it. If the
European Commission supports it and if the European Parliament supports it, then
we could see a patent court within three years."
The unity within the judiciary is the more prominent in comparison with the deep divides among politicians, as was reported in our earlier post. It remains to be seen how much "cloud" the judges have over the legislative process. It surely signals a strong support among practitioners and judges that EPLA and the EU patent court is the only way forward or a united patent enforcement system. Now the politicians must move.
For the 11-page, full text of the "Principles Relating to the Rules of Procedure of the European Court", click here.


Hartley and his wife, Gertrude Mary Frances. She was a British National. Her father was born in Scotland in 1882 and her mother in Darjeeling in 1888. They were married in 1912 in London.
Mr.Ernest Hartley came to Bangalore (India) in 1917 as a staff of the Army. His wife and Vivien stayed in Otacamund in India.
Vivien Leigh joined a Convent School at Darjeeling and was then sent to Sacred Heart at London. She also attended schools in Europe while her parents were traveling. She learned French and Italian fluently.
The family returned to Britain in 1931. Here, Vivian saw an English film and dreamt of becoming an actress. She expressed her desire of becoming an actress to her parents. Her father enrolled Vivien at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at London.
Vivien Leigh married Herbert Holman, a barrister and very senior to her in 1932 and had a daughter, Suzane in 1933. They got separated in 1940. But they remained friends for the rest of their life.
Laurence Oliver met Vivien to congratulate her for her performance in a film in 1940. They developed a friendship. They got married after they got divorced from their respective spouses, in 1940. Again she got separated from Oliver in 1960.
Britain confirmed "Knighthood" to Oliver in 1947. Vivian was known as "Vivien, Lady Oliver," even after divorce, as was the social custom.
Vivien Leigh, at the age of three, made her debut stage appearance for her mother's theater group in 1917. Gertrude Hartley introduced Vivien to works of great authors, Greek mythology and Indian folk stories. She appeared in her first film as a schoolgirl in "Things are Looking Up." The reviews on her role in "The Mask of Virtue" in 1935 were excellent.
Oliver and Vivien acted together as lovers in a film, "Fire Over England" in 1937. Vivien read a novel viz.," Gone with the Wind." A film under the same title based on the novel was under production. Vivien desired to play a leading role in that film.
Vivien Leigh met the film producer and sought a leading role in "Gone with the Wind." She participated in a scene test with the Director of the film. She was selected for the leading role in 1938. During the shooting of the film, she quarreled with the Director, but she was very professional and disciplined as an actress.
In 1938, she appeared in a film, "A Yank at Oxford" and she received attention in the USA. She also appeared in "Sick Walks of London." She was criticized as a terrible actress because of her changing moods.
Vivien Leigh had joint ventures with her husband, Oliver. There was criticism for and against their performance. The film "That Hamilton Woman" in which both husband and wife starred became a success and famous in the USA and the Soviet Union. The film was even screened at a party where Franklin D Roosevelt was present.
Vivien resumed her career, after a brief illness and treatment, in 1948. A film "The Skin of our Teeth" in which she had a leading role was produced.
The Olivers toured Australia and New Zealand for six months to raise funds for a theatre. The tour was a success. They played in "The School for Scandal" and "Skin of our Teeth." Later, they started their "West End" appearance together.
Vivien Leigh then played in "A Street Named Desire." She was awarded The "Best Actress" for her performance in the film.
In 1951, she was awarded Best Actress for film "Street Car Named Desire" from New York Film festival, Golden Globe Awards.
In 1963 Tovarich – Best Leading Actress in a Musical and many more.
During 1944, Vivien Leigh was ill and treated for tuberculosis. She was in deep depression and sometimes hysterical. She recovered and continued her acting. The illness recurred in 1967, and her lungs collapsed. She died in July 1967 in London.


At this year's CES show, Samsung unveils a space-saving desk screen that aims to promote the 'ultimate user productivity'. Space Monitor leverages its sleek design and functionality to allow users to focus on what's on the screen and not what's around it. Its unique built-in space-saving solution, a minimalist fully-integrated arm, clamps to the desk and frees up desk space. Samsung Space Monitor is easy to set up and adjust when you aren't using it, and simple to push back and store flat against the wall. Through easy ergonomic adjustment, port access and a discreet cable management system, Space Monitor improves the form and function of any workstation or home office.
Space Monitor gives users a unique arm stand, which can disappear into the back of the monitor's slim-bezel. When using the stand, Space Monitor can be easily tilted or extended from the wall.
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An Interview with Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
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An interview with Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. She discusses: geographic, cultural, and linguistic background, influences and pivotal moments in major cross-sections of early life; backgrounds, and influences and pivotal moments in development converging to determine the personal interest in economics, history, English, and communication; global economy probable future in the next 5, 10, 50, and 100 years; interrelationship of philosophies and positions, and the joke; motivation for perpetual output of productions; ethical responsibilities to the general public, academic world, the economics profession, and fellow Christian Libertarians comes with this extensive media, academic and general public, representation; and greatest emotional struggle in personal or (inclusive) professional life.
Keywords: Christian Libertarian, Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor, economics, English, global economy, history.
An Interview with Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago Deirdre Nansen McCloskey[1],[2],[3],[4]
*Please see the footnotes, bibliography, and citation style listing after the interview.*
1. In terms of geography, culture, and language, where does your personal and familial background reside?
I was raised in Boston, eventually marrying someone from Vermont, and think I understand New England. But both my parents were from the Midwest, and as a child I would stay summers with my grandmother and cousins in Michigan. I have always worked in Chicago or Iowa, with occasional work in California. So I understand the Midwest and New England, what Colin Woodward calls "Yankeedom." The rest of the country, excepting a glimmer about California, is more or less mysterious. I am Anglophone—indeed monolingual, despite attempts throughout my life to erase the shame with Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, Dutch, etc., etc. My base culture is British—The World of Pooh and The Jungle Book when little. My first scientific work was in British economic history (I take credit for bringing quantitative economic history to Britain from the US), and I have taught there, and in Australia and South Africa. I am an anglophile of an extreme sort. How extreme? I love the game of cricket!
2. What about influences and pivotal moments in major cross-sections of early life including kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, and undergraduate studies (college/university)?
That's a tall order.
I always stuttered, quite badly until I finally stopped being ashamed of it, late in college, and spoke up, whether or not stuttering. I learned decades later that a British teacher of mine described me as "a stutter surrounded by a red beard." Oddly, the handicap was I think an advantage. I therefore could never imagine myself to be perfect, and was always sympathetic to other humans in a way that a handicap teaches, if you do not dissolve into self-pity.
Age 11 I would fall asleep praying (our home was secular, but I was a bit holy for a while) that I would wake up (1.) not stuttering and (2.) be a girl. At last at age 53 I got the second half, and by then the stutterer was a minor obstacle even to someone who earned her living talking.
My father was a professor at Harvard, my mother an opera singer when young (I am their oldest child of three, born when my mother was 20). So the cultural atmosphere of the house was high, though oddly not pretentious: my dad liked baseball and played billiards and pool expertly; my mother remodeled the house on her own, and mowed the grass. The opera director Sarah Caldwell took me to my first circus. Famous academics drifted in and out of our house.
I went to a good, small, private school in Cambridge for boys (sic) in the eighth grade, which was crucial. The Wakefield schools were not up to snuff. A few teachers at Browne and Nichols encouraged me to think of myself as gifted in literature and in social thought. I got into Harvard in my junior year of high school.
Harvard College was good for me—though not for all my classmates, I must say. I intended to major in history, but found reading so many books onerous, and with my adolescent socialism found economics, and helping the poor. I was a guitar-playing Joan Baez socialist, and to this day know vastly more labor songs than most of my left-wing friends. Studying economics gradually killed my socialism, but not my goal of helping the poor.
3. How did these familial geographic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, and influences and pivotal moments in development converge to determine the personal interest in economics, history, English, and communication?
It was slow, and by no means settled when I got my first job, at the University of Chicago in 1968 (tenured in 1975). I remember deciding at the tenure age of 33 that, having learned to be an economist, it was not enough. I subscribed to The [London] Times Literary Supplement, which was for me a textbook into the humanities. When I left Chicago in 1980 for the University of Iowa I started taking Latin courses and started the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, in which I worked with political philosophers, professors of English and of communication, teachers of rhetoric, and so forth.
4. You remain Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[5] You teach a wide variety of courses in various fields centered on economics.[6] Furthermore, you have been a Guggenheim Fellow (1983), Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer (1993), and President of the Economic History Association (1996 to 1997). With this broad suite of expertise, and professional recognition, your analyses and opinion hold weight. In terms of the global economy, what seems like its most probable future – that is, the next 5, 10, 50, and 100 years?
Briefly, highly optimistic. There is no reason at all why Zimbabwe, say, freed of Mugabe, can't in a two or three generations have a real income equal to that of the USA. It's happened repeatedly. In 1948 Hong Kong's real income was down at the $2 a day characteristic of China generally. Now it is $140 a day, above that the the USA. Taiwan, the same story. Botswana, next door to Zim, is the African success story.
5. At Harvard, you had description as "an anarchist, socialist, uneducated Trotskyite. I was Keynesian economist, a social engineer."[7] In the recent past, you self-described as a "Christian Libertarian," "a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man," and a "postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian."[8] What interrelates these philosophies and positions?[9]
Nothing interrelates them. That is the serious joke in my self-descriptions. Anyone who tries to keep philosophical consistency through her life is going be dominated necessarily by her immature plan for philosophy—whatever it was at age 14. It's like the many intelligent people who decide in their wisdom at age 14 to be courageous, independent-thinking atheists (following slavishly in this most of the intelligent children in their cohort), and then never pause at age 30 or 60 to reexamine the 14-year old's life plan. It's childish—though unhappily it characterizes many otherwise intelligent people. I knew slightly the British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. In his brilliant autobiography he gave reasons for remaining a Communist (after Stalin, after Hungary) until the British Party disbanded itself, in the early 1990s. The reasons were surprisingly stupid in so intelligent a man. He decided at age 14 to be a Communist, and so he remained until his death at age 95. "A foolish consistency," wrote Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Use your mind to discern the truth, which will probably change from age 14 to age 95, unless you've shut down your mind in favor a Party Line.
6. You have extensive representation in the media.[10] You wrote many, many articles and books.[11],[12] Unfortunately, we don't have time to conduct a comprehensive interview. Even so, as a general commentary on the continuous output of professional work and calls for interviews, what motivates this perpetual output of productions?
Discerning the truth. I keep pursuing it. Instead of grinding away at the same idea I had at age 14 or 24 or 34, as so many people do, I try to think. Yes, I know, it's irritating: Why doesn't she settle? Well, too bad. Science is hard, and you need to keep thinking. The thinking should regularly result in new ideas. If not, maybe it's not thinking.
7. What ethical responsibilities to the general public, academic world, the economics profession, and fellow Christian Libertarians comes with this extensive media, academic and general public, representation?
To tell the truth as I see it, having earnestly pursued it, by thinking and rethinking. I would be deeply ashamed if the "media representation" you speak of arose from some Party Line I was adhering to. I could have had a comfortable career at the University of Chicago, for example, if I had not decided around 1978 that the naïve behaviorism and positivism of Chicago, and the melding of it with MIT-Stanford formalism of "proof," was a silly form of not-thinking. I left out of vexation. The great poet and Latin textual critic, A. E. Housman, gave an address to the Classical Association meeting in 1921 at Cambridge called "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism" in which he advised his colleagues to stop using mindless rules ("The more sincere text is the better"; an equivalent rule in economics would be "one must never ask people what they are doing" or "macro must always have micro foundations") and to actually think about the Latin text at hand, and what the poet might have written.
8. What seems like the greatest emotional struggle in personal or (inclusive) professional life?
Well, obviously my gender change. I was happily married to the love of my life for 30 years, and had two children I love and loved. The three have not spoken to me for 20 years. They will not let me see my three grandchildren. If I had been required to give up my career to become a woman, I would have. Fortunately, though, I didn't, and aside from the three, I have continued to lead a charmed life.
Thank you for your time, Professor McCloskey.
Finney, J. (2016, March 10). Q&A: Deirdre McCloskey. Retrieved from http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/2016/03/qa-deirdre-mccloskey/.
McCloskey, D. (2016). Deirdre McCloskey. Retrieved from http://deirdremccloskey.org/.
University of Illinois at Chicago. (2016). Deirdre McCloskey. Retrieved from http://econ.uic.edu/economics/faculty/deirdre-mccloskey.
Appendix I: Footnotes
[1] UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics and of History Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago; Professor of English Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago; Professor of Communication Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago.
University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago
[2] Individual Publication Date: May 1, 2016 at www.in-sightjournal.com/an-interview-with-distinguished-professor-of-economics-history-english-and-communication-at-the-university-of-illinois-at-chicago-deirdre-nansen-mccloskey; Full Issue Publication Date: September 1, 2016 at https://in-sightjournal.com/insight-issues/.
[3] Ph.D., Harvard University.
[4] Photograph courtesy of Distinguished Professor Deirdre McCloskey.
[5] University of Illinois at Chicago. (2016). Deirdre McCloskey. Retrieved from http://econ.uic.edu/economics/faculty/deirdre-mccloskey.
[6] McCloskey, D. (2016). Courses, Spring 2013. Retrieved from http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/courses.php.
[7] Finney, J. (2016, March 10). Q&A: Deirdre McCloskey. Retrieved from http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/2016/03/qa-deirdre-mccloskey/.
[8] Formal Biography (2016) states:
Deirdre N. McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written fifteen books and edited seven more, and has published some three hundred and sixty articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. She taught for twelve years in Economics at the University of Chicago, and describes herself now as a "postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian." Her latest books are How to be Human* *Though an Economist (University of Michigan Press 2001),Measurement and Meaning in Economics (S. Ziliak, ed.; Edward Elgar 2001), The Secret Sins of Economics (Prickly Paradigm Pamphlets, U. of Chicago Press, 2002), The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives[with Stephen Ziliak; University of Michigan Press, 2008], The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism (U. of Chicago Press, 2006), and Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (U. of Chicago Press, 2010). Before The Bourgeois Virtues her best-known books were The Rhetoric of Economics (University of Wisconsin Press 1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1998) and Crossing: A Memoir (Chicago 1999), which was a New York Times Notable Book.
Her scientific work has been on economic history, especially British. She is currently finishing a book, the third in a series of three initiated with The Bourgeois Virtues, on Dutch and British economic and social history, Bourgeois Equality: How Betterment Became Ethical, 1600-1848, and Then Suspect. She has written on British economic "failure" in the 19th century, trade and growth in the 19th century, open field agriculture in the middle ages, the Gold Standard, and the Industrial Revolution.
Her philosophical books include The Rhetoric of Economics (University of Wisconsin Press 1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1998), If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise (University of Chicago Press 1990), and Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics(Cambridge 1994). They concern the maladies of social scientific positivism, the epistemological limits of a future social science, and the promise of a rhetorically sophisticated philosophy of science. Recently she has turned to ethics and to a philosophical-historical apology for modern economies.
Informal Biographical Remarks
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2000 to 2015 in economics, history, English, and communication. A well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, she has written 17 books and around 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistical theory to transgender advocacy and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues. She is known as a "conservative" economist, Chicago-School style (she taught in the Economics Department there from 1968 to 1980, and in History), but protests that "I'm a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not 'conservative'! I'm a Christian libertarian." With Stephen Ziliak in 2008 she wrote The Cult of Statistical Significance, which shows that null hypothesis tests of "significance" are, in the absence of a substantive loss function, meaningless (in 2011 the book figured in a unanimous Supreme Court decision). Her latest book, out in January 2016 from the University of Chicago Press—Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World—argues for an "ideational" explanation for the Great Enrichment 1800 to the present. The accidents of Reformation and Revolt in northwestern Europe 1517–1789 led to a new liberty and dignity for commoners—ideas called "liberalism"—which led in turn to an explosion of trade-tested betterment, "having a go." The earlier book in the trilogy, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (2010) had shown that materialist explanations such as saving or exploitation, don't have sufficient economic oomph or historical relevance. The first book in the Bourgeois Era trilogy, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006), had established that, contrary to the clamor of the clerisy left and right since 1848, the bourgeoisie is pretty good, and that trade-tested betterment is not the worst of ethical schools.
McCloskey, D. (2016, April 15). Formal Biography. Retrieved from http://deirdremccloskey.org/main/bio.php#300.
[9] Q&A: Deirdre McCloskey (2016) in the opening question and response stated:
You explicitly push back against people who describe you as "conservative," and opt instead to define yourself as a "literary, quantitative, postmodern, free market, progressive Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man."
That's absolutely right. I'm a Christian, but a free-market Episcopalian. I was a guy, now I'm a woman. I'm from Boston, but I've always lived as an adult in the Midwest. Being postmodern doesn't mean you have to be left wing. Being postmodern is to say that I don't believe in the naïve theory of knowledge that facts are just lying out there, we go collect them, and that's it. We ask human questions. The Danish physicist Niels Bohr said that back in the 1920s. Physics is not just about the world, physics is what we as humans can say about the world. That is the essential message of the Sophists of ancient Greece, and of Montaigne and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century, and of the 'crazy,' postmodern people in English departments. I'm quantitative: So many social and scientific questions depend on how big things are, numbers, quantities. Yet, I believe truth can be found in poetry, theology, philosophy, and history. It is truth that cannot be translated without loss into propositional statements, like E=mc2. But what is human life about? One kind of answer is there was once a babe born in Bethlehem of the house of David. This other kind of knowing is not propositional, but it's very important to humans. It's not softer than math. To talk about knowledge as 'hard' and 'soft' is sexist — it means girls can't do math. A stupid distinction. The Greek aorist mood is harder to understand than most calculus. Humanities is not easier than physical and biological sciences.
[10] McCloskey, D. (2016, April 17). Interviews. Retrieved from http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/interviews/index.php.
[11] McCloskey, D. (2016, April 17). Articles Published or in Press by Deirdre McCloskey. Retrieved from http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/articles/index.php.
[12] McCloskey, D. (2016, April 17). BOOKS WRITTEN and PUBLISHED. Retrieved from http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/books/index.php.
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An Interview with Graham Powell on the Asia Pacific, Mathematical Objects, "Dasein," Atheism-Theism, and Freud and Einstein (Part Seven) December 22, 2019
An Interview with Distinguished University Professor Gordon Guyatt, OC, FRSC on Red Meat and Processed Meat Intake, Smoking, Antioxidants, NMAs Combined with GRADE (Part Five) December 15, 2019
An Interview with Distinguished University Professor Gordon Guyatt, OC, FRSC on 2019 EBM, and Science-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Medicine (Part Four) December 8, 2019
An Interview with Professor Michael Ruse, FRSC on Biology and Philosophy, Teaching, Accolades, Mentors, and Modern American Science (Part Three) December 1, 2019
An Interview with Professor Michael Ruse, FRSC on Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution, and History and the Future (Part Two) November 22, 2019
An Interview with Professor Michael Ruse, FRSC on Personal Background and Intellectual History, and the Flavours of Belief (Part One) November 15, 2019

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You can create a great look on a budget. It helps to start out with a great backdrop. In a later post I will show you the before and after pictures of this fireplace. I HATED it! I was ready to rip it out and replace it with manufatured stone, but i decided to save my money for many many other things and paint it instead.... So back to the fall decor...I got the tin bucket at a garage sale for $1, I found the old books in 2 different places some are from Canton, TX (First Monday trade days in Canton, TX) and the others I got in upstate New York at an antique mall. I didn't pay more than $2 each but most were $1 each. My mom and brother-in-law gave me lots of grapevine so I used some here, my mom also gave me the pine cones from the trees around her house. I splurged on the ribbon that came from Paul Michaels in Canton, TX. The leaf garland came from big lots a few years ago. The Iron Ribbon came from Canton this summer for $5. The white pearl garland I got from a garage sale for $2, The sticks in the bucket came from my old tree in the front yard. The candle holders also came from Canton. Can you tell I really like to shop in Canton?! I wrapped a little piece of burlap ribbon around the tin bucket and added a few of Hobby Lobby's scrapbook flowers.
Basically you start off with placing a few large items on your mantel. I like to have something in the middle then balance each side. So I placed this metal basket I got at an antique mall in the center, then the bucket on the left and placed the candles on the right. I used thumb tacks to hold the mesh onto of the mantle. I folded the mesh in half then gathered it in the center and placed a pin in it. I then did the same on both ends of the mantel. Next was to place the leaf garland. I just draped it same as the mesh. Then I followed suit with the ribbon twisting it a little as I placed it, pulling the leaves out around the ribbon. Lastly, I draped the pearl ribbon on top. Once this was all done I gently placed the grapevine on top of it all, breaking it in places where it would not lay down properly. Don't be afraid of breaking off pieces and just laying them on top. And there you have it!
Found you and am inspired! Can't wait to see more in 2014!
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My DesignJet 450C is now 18 years old, and while it hasn't exactly been trouble-free, in general I've been pretty satisfied with its performance. But this morning its yellow cartridge crapped out, and ink cartridges for it are no longer being manufactured. I can find new-but-expired cartridges on eBay, but I don't know if they'll work, and their availability going forward is likely to be limited. I thought this might be the time to explore the service bureau option again.
I don't generate many prints these days -- most of my deliverables are digital -- but I do need to see check prints occasionally, and Records of Survey have to be on mylar. So I'm reluctantly thinking that I need to retain an in-house plotter. What's the latest recommendation for a minimum D-size plotter?
I still have the cartridges I sent you a list of last August. The black shows an Expiration date of Nov. 2017 and the colors are earlier. I assumed that you got the list, but weren't interested as I never heard back from you. I've always had some luck with getting an out of date cartridge to work by wetting a paper towel and working with it to get it flowing again. I still have the list if you would like to nsee it again. Let me know.
After starting my business a year ago, I began to realize that I needed to have a plotter in the office. I didn't have time to wait for Staples or the builders exchange to print check prints let alone drive to get them. Also being a small town, no one will print on mylar for recording even if I provided the mylar.
I went with the Canon IPF780. Love this machine. Quality and speed are great and price is affordable.
My Designjet 500 is still lugging along. I use it to plot originals and check prints. However deliverable copies are done at the local UPS store. I don't do color but I am not paying anywhere close to what you are being charged. Is FedEx picking them up at your office and delivering them? Do the prints come framed?
I just came from my local UPS store where they charge $5/sf for color prints.
Local print shops, around here, are about half of what the big chains charge, for color and Mylar.
You might look at leasing a plotter; that way you'll get a new one every couple years. Just make sure you fold the extra cost, into your hourly rate.
What I've observed about you. I'd recommend a cheap one.?
My town has a shop that fills empty inkjet cartridges at 1/2 the price HP sells them for. They usually work the same as originals. HP has a chip on the newer cartridges that won't let them work, but I just keep taking them back till I get one that works.
You can't give away old Plotters.
Ditto what others have said re: the local UPS Store.


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How Class Works
Video December 1, 2019 Lawrence Christopher Skufca, J.D. Leave a comment
Econonomist, Richard Wolff, summarizes how the American class-based system functions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euH3pAuLuko
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Camden Civil Rights Project Endorses Bernie Sanders in 2020
January 31, 2016 Lawrence Christopher Skufca, J.D.	Leave a comment
Bernie Sanders has a consistent thirty year track record of advocating for social justice and economic empowerment of the middle and working classes…..
Camden Civil Rights Project supports Sanders' racial justice, women's rights, LGBT equality, single payer healthcare, tuition free higher education, minimum living wage and corporate reform proposals
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all? Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class, or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy? These are the most important questions of our time, and how we answer them will determine the future of our country.
IT'S TIME TO MAKE COLLEGE TUITION FREE AND DEBT FREE
GETTING BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS AND RESTORING DEMOCRACY
CREATING DECENT PAYING JOBS
COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE TO SAVE THE PLANET
A FAIR AND HUMANE IMMIGRATION POLICY
FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS
FIGHTING FOR LGBT EQUALITY
CARING FOR OUR VETERANS
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STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY
FIGHTING TO LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES
IMPROVING THE RURAL ECONOMY
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WAR SHOULD BE THE LAST OPTION: WHY I SUPPORT THE IRAN DEAL
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Video January 4, 2016 Lawrence Christopher Skufca, J.D. Leave a comment
This video was produced by the National Association of County and City Public Health Officals (NACCHO) as a part of thier Roots of Heath Inequality Project. The project is a web-based course for the public health workforce and "How Class Works" is one section of the course.
The social and economic origins of health inequity have been well-documented since the industrial revolution in the 1840s. Recent data demonstrates a staggering and growing degree of social and economic inequality in the U.S. not seen since the Great Depression. Rates of disease and illness for people with low income are worsening across almost all categories and geographic areas in the U.S.
In this short video, economist Richard Wolff explains our class society and applies that understanding to our current financial recession. Wolff argues that a minority class determines the way our society distributes the output and places those who receive the profits in the position of deciding how they are utilized, "…We all live with the results of what a really tiny minority in our society decides to do with the profits everybody produces." As you watch and listen, consider what we have learned about disease and illness patterns among groups with lower income, more stress, and less control of their lives. Consider how investment decisions in neighborhoods over transportation, school facilities, parks, location of grocery stores, quality of affordable housing, etc. influenced by powerful interests, affect the quality of life for large segments of our population.
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The Great Sit Down
The 1976 BBC documentary, The Great Sit Down, focuses on the United Auto Workers' struggle for recognition and the sit-down strikes against General Motors which took place in February 1937.
At 8 p.m. on December 30, 1936, in one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States, autoworkers occupy the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in Flint, Michigan. The autoworkers were striking to win recognition of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as the only bargaining agent for GM's workers; they also wanted to make the company stop sending work to non-union plants and to establish a fair minimum wage scale, a grievance system and a set of procedures that would help protect assembly-line workers from injury. In all, the strike lasted 44 days.
The Flint sit-down strike was not spontaneous; UAW leaders, inspired by similar strikes across Europe, had been planning it for months. The strike actually began at smaller plants: Fisher Body in Atlanta on November 16, GM in Kansas City on December 16 and a Fisher stamping plant in Cleveland on December 28. The Flint plant was the biggest coup, however: it contained one of just two sets of body dies that GM used to stamp out almost every one of its 1937 cars. By seizing control of the Flint plant, autoworkers could shut down the company almost entirely.
So, on the evening of December 30, the Flint Plant's night shift simply stopped working. They locked themselves in and sat down. "She's ours!" one worker shouted.
GM argued that the strikers were trespassing and got a court order demanding their evacuation; still, the union men stayed put. GM turned off the heat in the buildings, but the strikers wrapped themselves in coats and blankets and hunkered down. On January 11, police tried to cut off the strikers' food supply; in the resulting riot, known as the "Battle of the Running Bulls," 16 workers and 11 policemen were injured and the UAW took over the adjacent Fisher Two plant. On February 1, the UAW won control of the enormous Chevrolet No. 4 engine factory. GM's output went from a robust 50,000 cars in December to just 125 in February.
Despite GM's enormous political clout, Michigan Governor Frank Murphy refused to use force to break the strike. Though the sit-ins were illegal, he believed, he also believed that authorizing the National Guard to break the strike would be an enormous mistake. "If I send those soldiers right in on the men," he said, "there'd be no telling how many would be killed." As a result, he declared, "The state authorities will not take sides. They are here only to protect the public peace."
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt urged GM to recognize the union so that the plants could reopen. In mid-February, the automaker signed an agreement with the UAW. Among other things, the workers were given a 5 percent raise and permission to speak in the lunchroom.
Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworker's Movement
"The Fight in the Fields" traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union and the life of its founder, César Chávez, from his birth in Arizona, his education into organizing and non-violence, his formation of the union, to his death in 1993. It includes newsreel footage of the Delano grape boycott, Senate hearings conducted by Robert F. Kennedy, Chávez's fasts, encounters with growers and rival Teamsters. Recent interviews with Chávez family members, Ethyl Kennedy, Roger Cardinal Mahony, Governor Jerry Brown, and current and past UFW leaders round out the history and assessment of Chávez and the Union.
The Fight in the Fields: Ceasar Chavez and the Farm Workers Movement
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"Struggle" – Short Documentary on Homelessness in New York and New Jersey
A short documentary on the current dilemma that countless Americans are facing, from those on the streets, to those who simply cannot afford housing on their low wage jobs within a crippled economy.
Economic Empowerment, Philosophy, Videos
John Rawls: The Veil of Ignorance (2015)
Video November 25, 2015 Lawrence Christopher Skufca, J.D. Leave a comment
Synopsis: What's your blueprint for a just society? Your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in. If you're rich, you may well be in favour of the freedom to earn and enjoy the fruits of your efforts; if you're poor you're likely to be more supportive of a system that redistributes wealth. John Rawls argued it might be more just to construct this blueprint from behind a 'veil of ignorance'.
From the BBC Radio 4 series about life's big questions – A History of Ideas. http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofideas
This project is from the BBC in partnership with The Open University, the animations were created by Cognitive.
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Karl Marx: On Alienation (2015)
Synopsis: Karl Marx believed that work, at its best, is what makes us human. It allows us to live, be creative and flourish. But under capitalism he saw workers alienated from each other and the product of their labour. Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out what was inhuman and alienating about it.
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Economic Empowerment, History, Videos
Howard Zinn: Hidden History of The American Working Class (1992)
Synopsis: Social activist, political scientist and labor historian, Howard Zinn, delivers a presentation on "The History Of The American Working Class." The presentation took place in San Francisco at an educational forum sponsored by the Labor Video Project. Zinn was political science professor at Boston University and was considered the preeminent scholar on civil disobedience during the Vietnam War Era. He has authored more than twenty books, including his highly influential work, A People's History of the United States.
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Martin Luther King Jr: The Other America (1967)
Synopsis: In the final weeks of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. increasingly turned his focus on Americans plagued by poverty – "the other America." On April 14, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Stanford University suggesting there are two America's: one which "is overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity," and another where individuals "find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." He called for "a guaranteed minimum income for all people," urging social justice advocates to turn their attention towards organizing a national movement to address the problem of the nation's growing economic disparity.
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María Emilia Mernes Rueda (born October 29, 1996) known as Emilia Mernes or Emilia is an Argentine singer-songwriter, model, actress, and author. She became known for being part of the band Rombai. In 2019 signed with label Sony Music Latin and management company WK Entertainment represented by Walter Kolm. She was one of the songwriters of Lele Pons's single "Bloqueo".

History
Born and raised in Nogoyá, Entre Ríos. Emilia's devotion to music began when she was just 12-years-old and her grandfather gave her a guitar. Since then, creating melodies, strumming her guitar, singing and dancing have become her passions. Like any girl, she studied in college. She had chosen Literature, but after 6 months she realized that this career was not her thing. So she went home and asked her parents that she wanted to study music at National University of Rosario. However, she never made it to her first class. In her spare time, she began to rehearse songs locked in the bathroom, because there were good acoustics. This is how she recorded her first cover and uploaded it to Instagram. From there, everything happened in fast motion. They asked her to do a casting in Buenos Aires, she traveled and got a place in the Rombai group. She replaced Rombai's former vocalist Camila Rajchman in 2016. Within a week, she was already doing her first show at Luna Park. Later, she left Rombai, became a soloist and went to live in Miami.

Career
Before fame, she used to post song covers on social media before debuting as a singer with the band Rombai. In 2012, she modeled for the clothing brand 47 Street after winning a modeling contest. Emilia rose to fame in 2016 as lead singer of the cumbia-pop group Rombai. From 2016 to 2018, the group performed on some of the most important stages of Latin America, until Emilia announced her departure from the group to focus on her solo career.

In 2019, after signing a contract with W. K. Entertainment and Sony Music,  home of superstars acts such as Maluma, Wisin, CNCO, Carlos Vives and Prince Royce. Emilia released her debut single "Recalienta" which peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100.  In May 2019 she collaborates with Ana Mena and Nio Garcia for the song "El Chisme". In August 2019, she released with Darell, the single "No Soy Yo", whose video is starring Joel Pimentel from CNCO , Oriana Sabatini and Johann Vera.  On November 28, 2019, she collaborates in the song Boomshakalaka with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Afro Bros, Sebastián Yatra and Camilo. In late 2019, Emilia released her third single, "Billion". On January 30, 2020, she released the video and the single "Policía". In March 2020 she collaborates with the MYA duo for the song "Histeriqueo". She also released along with Vevo the song "No Más" a song first presented in February via Vevo DSCVR. Which managed to become the only video clip within the platform to exceed 1 million views, 2 million views and 3 million views in 2020 (Only 9 songs have managed to exceed 3 million views in all history in Vevo DSCVR) regardless of language or genre, in a short period of time. Today it accumulates more than 3.5 million views on YouTube and 1 million views on Spotify. In May it was listed as an official song. Also, a model for brands such as Ripley in Chile and 47 Street in her native country, Emilia represents the global fashion brand Benetton as an ambassador.

Musically, Emilia's songs have been described as reggaeton, pop, and urban pop. Emilia as a composer wrote with other composers a song for Lele Pons called "Bloqueo". Emilia released "Já É Tarde (No Más)" on August 14, 2020, with the Brazilian singer Bianca. On October 15,she released his new hit "Bendición"  with the Puerto Rican singer Alex Rose. On May 18 she released Perreito Salvaje with the Panamanian singer Boza. On July 13 she released her new hit "Como si no importara" with Argentine singer and rapper Duki.

Personal life
Emilia started dating Uruguayan singer Fer Vázquez in 2016 after being part of the band "Rombai". Then in 2018 they ended their relationship. In 2021, she announced her relationship with urban artist Duki via Instagram.

Filmography

Discography

 ¿Tú crees en mí? (2022)

Awards

Footnotes

See also
 List of singer-songwriters

References

External links

 Emilia official website

1996 births
Actresses from Buenos Aires
Argentine reggaeton musicians
Argentine female models
21st-century Argentine women singers
Argentine pop singers
Latin music songwriters
Latin pop singers
Living people
English-language singers from Argentina
Spanish-language singers
Sony Music Latin artists
Urbano musicians
Argentine women singer-songwriters
21st-century Argentine women
Women in Latin music

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X-ing Design is an Indigenous owned and operated graphic design studio based in Regina, Saskatchewan on Treaty 4 land. We have the unique capability to utilize appropriate symbology and cultural references into our visual design and communication. Cross-cultural communication and branding are the strengths and focus of X-ing Design.
Designer, artist, avid traveler, photographer, illustrator, from English River First Nation (Dene/Metis) ...X-ing's creative director Megan Currie specializes in cross-cultural design and communication as well as branding.
Her latest endeavours had her involved in rebranding a local university, revamping a national magazine, producing stunning annual reports & publications whilst knocking out a few logos in between.
Her educational pursuits have taken her through Northlands Design College in Melbourne, Australia, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Las Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Mexico and finally The First Nations University of Canada here in Regina.
This global education, combined with her First Nation's background, provides her with an unique perspective on design that is evident in her techniques, styles and design process.


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The Symbol
Posted by : Thaen93 on Jul 11, 2020, 3:25am
((OOC: Yes, I missed parts. Sorry!))
He had gone through the cargo bay and found an old work bench covered in a tarp and dust of unuse. He whipped it off, running a hand over the plasteel. His vision was still blurry and could not see fine detail, but he could still Feel it.
He sighed, continuing his small tour. Nearest to the engineering, he found some loose mechanical parts. With another sigh, he began to sift through the junk. He knew what he needed, for the saber itself was fine. The emitter needed roughly the same parts it originally had. Though these junk parts would be enough, he hoped. Often the plasma, even within the containment imposed by the emitter's secondary battery, melted inadequate parts.
Grav coupler? Nope.
Piece of steel piping about an centimeter and half long? ...Perhaps.
He sifted through the junk some more, idly pushing aside pieces here and pocketing there. When he felt he had enough to work, he stood and carefully went back to the unused workshop. He felt a wave of dizziness take him, making he swoon with a moan. He gripped a crate nearby to steady himself. Within a second, he regained his composure but turned his head to the side.
Did someone call out? he thought.
He felt along the crate to just near the first hinge of the back. Vol-Kur had a curious look upon his face as he touched the Spot.
Take it...!
Someone, a woman!
....Take it...!
No!!
...Run!
vvrrRBOOM!!
The Moxla clansman gasped as the pain slashed up his back, grasping backwards before falling to his knees. He stared at the floor as he tried to control the gasps that sprung up his throat. There was no mistaking the sound of a lightsaber, nor the sound of flesh being caught in its fiery violence.
As he regained his legs again, Vol-Kur thought about what he felt. The voices were shouting, the second one a man. He couldn't tell who, but there was enough pain there that he could also sense... Determination. Fear. Loss. He looked to his disabled saber, putting it onto the workstation as he set to work.
A weapon of a more civilized age, a symbol of peace. Why has it been this very device that has caused so much death and war? he thought. He finished walking forward, remembering those days long ago now.
"It comes to no surprise that violence still exists. It may be for peace, it may be for righteousness. It will exist in all forms, for war and corruption, no matter how many times an order of opposite mind fights against it. It reminds us of the Force, in more ways than one. But it reminds us forever; now it is needed when all else fails," Master Itio Vikes had said.
The click of the pieces sliding into place as he blinked a bit more detail into view sharpened his thoughts. He raised it, setting still clean tools to the side. It floated from his hand, parts now raising slowly to the saber. He finally guided it, Touching his lightsaber and knowing its contour. He Felt it, knowing its weight and strength.
He Knew it all too well.
It came to the clansman's waiting hands. The ignition called the bright green light to even his deficient eyes.
"And it is the symbol that reminds us... Master," Vol-Kur said, lowering his brow towards the blade.
He was so focused, he never heard them come into the ship. Not until Ryder showed up with the woman he first attacked. Ryder stated at him before speaking.
"He's right in front of you." Ryder took a step back so the two could talk. "Don't take long, I don't know how long those outside will keep their attention. Though I think the cube has them more worried than anything. They're gonna get us killed. So... if you all think its gonna go down and they are, I offer you two a lift out of this. Take you far as you want, let you off you can start over."
"Thank you, captain," Moxla said to him with a gentle smile.
"Are you alright?" She asked and turned her head sideways. "What is it that noise" she said. She reached out with her right hand eventually finding Vol-Kur's hand and his lightsaber. "What is that your holding and why is it makeing noise?" she asked.
He looked to her and deactivated the saber. The blade dissipated with its telltale, the padawan turning fully to her. His gentle smile stayed as he regarded her. There were so many thoughts as to what he could he say to her. Many truths as well. "It is a symbol," he said to her simply, truthfully.
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from django.forms.util import flatatt, to_current_timezone
from django.forms.widgets import Select, DateInput, TextInput, MultiWidget

class JqSplitDateTimeWidget(MultiWidget):

    def __init__(self, attrs=None, date_format=None, time_format=None, time_widget='text'):
        date_class = attrs['date_class']
        time_class = attrs['time_class']
        del attrs['date_class']
        del attrs['time_class']

        time_attrs = attrs.copy()
        time_attrs['class'] = time_class
        date_attrs = attrs.copy()
        date_attrs['class'] = date_class

        if time_widget == 'text':
            hour_widget = TextInput(attrs=time_attrs)
            minute_widget = TextInput(attrs=time_attrs)
        else:
            hour_choices = ((0, '00'), (1, '01'), (2, '02'), (3, '03'), (4, '04'), (5, '05'),
                            (6, '06'), (7, '07'), (8, '08'), (9, '09'), (10, '10'), (11, '11'),
                            (12, '12'), (13, '13'), (14, '14'), (15, '15'), (16, '16'), (17, '17'),
                            (18, '18'), (19, '19'), (20, '20'), (21, '21'), (22, '22'), (23, 23),)
            minute_choices = ((0, '00'), (10, '10'), (20, '20'), (30, '30'), (40, '40'), (50, '50'), )
            hour_widget = Select(choices=hour_choices, attrs=time_attrs)
            minute_widget = Select(choices=minute_choices, attrs=time_attrs)

        widgets = (DateInput(attrs=date_attrs, format=date_format),
                   hour_widget, minute_widget,)

        super(JqSplitDateTimeWidget, self).__init__(widgets, attrs)

    def decompress(self, value):
        if value:
            value = to_current_timezone(value)
            d = value.date()
            hour = value.time().hour
            minute = value.time().minute
            return (d, hour, minute,)
        else:
            return (None, None, None, None)

    def format_output(self, rendered_widgets):
        """
        Given a list of rendered widgets (as strings), it inserts an HTML
        linebreak between them.

        Returns a Unicode string representing the HTML for the whole lot.
        """
        return "%s %s:%s" % (rendered_widgets[0], rendered_widgets[1], rendered_widgets[2])

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The Ethereum Ecosystem – All You Need To Know About From The House Of KuCoin
CarronJune 17, 2022
When we talk about Ethereum, we talk about its success and how great of a coin it is, but not many people know about its ecosystem, that is, Ethereum's ecosystem and what it is. You can buy its coins from different platforms. Still, we suggest using Kucoin for your crypto trading, as it is a great, safe, and reliable platform available on many operating systems, including Windows, IOS, android, and such. With its unique security system and team, users can relax while trading as their assets and accounts will remain completely safe from invaders and hackers.
The Ethereum Ecosystem
Unlike other coins, Ethereum refers to an entire decentralized ecosystem with its blockchain, in which there can be even more cryptocurrencies. There can also be intelligent contracts whose data is saved in the blockchain immediately. This means when something is held in the blockchain, it is impossible to tamper with it, and these contracts are cheaper and much faster than traditional contracts. This, in turn, increases the trust in Ethereum.
However, after a hacking incident in the past, Ethereum was divided into two blockchains, one with a newer, more advanced system, the Ethereum, and one with the initial design, Ethereum Classic. Both coins are doing very well as of now.
What Is Ethereum Itself
When you buy an Ethereum coin, you purchase an Ethereum Cryptocurrency Ether[ETH], which is the most important thing for the ecosystem; you can think of it as fuel. You can use peer-to-peer [P2P] for increased computing power when you invest in it. This ETH is not just Ethereum; it refers to the entire ecosystem.
Another thing to remember is the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, also referred to as EAA. EAA is essential to the Ethereum ecosystem, as it works with many major companies like Microsoft, Intel, IBM, and others. These companies using EAA prove that cryptocurrency is rising in competency and importance.
Ethereum Prices In USD
Today, Ethereum price USD hangs at around 1025 US Dollars for each coin. This is the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world and is likely to increase in importance even more as more companies adopt the ecosystem in the future.
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The other day I posted about my Little DIY helpers and about this series, "Look at my House". However what I forgot at the time was that I hadn't actually finished the series, having still to do the bottom floor. The truth is, I was most excited about the ground floor and I think that's why I saved it till the end. However as the floor that also has the most rooms, I've been putting it off as it might take too long. However I'm diving in now, here's my ground floor!
When we first moved in, the lounge was red. The TV was on the wall (right where the sun shone in on it), there were black shelves up (already taken down by this picture), black fireplace and black curtains. It was a proper man den. This needed to be changed before we even moved in as I didn't like it at all and it didn't feel homely, so we decorated it a beige colour and tried to lighten the feel of the room.
Though this picture was taken on the night we moved in, you can see already the big difference and in all honestly we didn't touch this room much at all over the years. However in the big redecorate we did touch up some of the areas and of course over the years we have added pictures to the walls and nic naks around the room.
I personally think it looks a whole lot better than it used to and on a clean and tidy day, I'm actually pretty proud to call it the heart of my home!
The truth is, when we first moved in, the dining room was our junk room. I didn't really like it as a room anyway and Chris had used it as a gaming room, with his big white board on the wall and everything seemed a bit tatty and dirty. Since it wasn't essential to our home life, we didn't really touch it at all, except for tidying it bit by bit as we found room for the items. However over time, the dining room also became my work room – especially on the launch of Closet Geek. Even then, everything felt very junky and unorganised. On the day we decided to decorated, I actually had to close my store. I had so much stuff everywhere that it wouldn't have been possible to work around it and packing it all up and moving it away to a different room was the only option.
This was exactly what my dining room/office looked like before packing it all away!
Obviously the main outstanding point is that it's tidy, but believe me when I say we did a lot of work in the room! All the walls were painted, the ceiling was striped and painted, the coving was plastered and painted, plus all the skirting boards and glossing was done. Though sadly it didn't stay that tidy for long, its now one of my favourite rooms in the house – especially as all my Disney love splurges out there!
When I moved in with Chris, the kitchen left a lot to be desired. There was one side of the room which has a tiny sink, one cupboard and a set of drawers. On the other side of the room were 4 wall cupboards and 4 ground cupboards.
As such, the first thing we did was add more cupboard space and more work top space. We left the wall cupboards and added extra underneath, including a corner cupboard.
On the other side of the room, we added a double cupboard and a larger sink. There was also a free-standing set of drawers, which we put at the side of the cooker, along with a small worktop piece to cover it.
Other than that, we didn't do a lot. We had plans to add a new floor (since it was only half floored), another wall cupboard, paint the walls and re-plaster etc etc.
Over the years we added a new light fitting and even bought a new cooker, but the rest just got pushed to one side, until the big DIY we did earlier this year.
When we overhauled the house, the kitchen had one of the major upgrades. We plastered the walls and painted, we put up a wall cupboard. Of course there was a whole new flooring put down and the top cupboards from before got a new door coating, to pull the white altogether. Believe it or not we didn't have door cupboard handles or drawer handles for about two years, so we finally got them too!
When I first moved in, the bathroom was my least favourite room in the house which was so sad as I love a nice bath to relax and instead I didn't even want to be in there. The first thing we did was change the toilet seat, add a toilet roll holder, a new lampshade, a place to hang towels and a bathroom cabinet.
This definitely helped a little but it wasn't perfect. I wasn't keen on any of the wood parts, the radiator was rusty and the wall plaster was peeling. Over the years, we didn't do much except replace the shower when it broke. However in our DIY overhaul we pretty much sorted it all out.
Obviously this is the last of the rooms and the last floor but there was other work done too – both inside and outside. Here are my last few pictures.
With house prices rising steadily in the UK – banks are reporting increases from 8.5% overall to up to 20% in some areas of London – you may be considering selling up to take advantage of the housing boom. Maybe you're thinking that you should put your house on the market right now so you don't miss out.
You have the right idea – you certainly want to strike while the iron is hot. But you really have to ask yourself, Is my house sale ready? If you want to get the most bang for your buck when you sell your house, make some of these tiny changes for huge returns.
Have you ever noticed that people tend to gather in the kitchen at parties? It's considered the heart of the home and one of the first places people want to see when they're viewing homes for sale.
Ensure that you kitchen is clean and up-to-date. Replace the faucet set, update lighting fixtures, and be sure to de-clutter. If you've got the budget, ensure that the cabinets match – at least having matching handles.
The kitchen should feel homely, bright, and welcoming so that future residents can envision themselves preparing meals there.
A not-so-nice looking bathroom can be a huge turn-off to potential buyers and is a common reason buyers will undercut a sale price. A complete remodel of the bathroom can cost up to £8,000 but you don't have to be that drastic — Bathroom Takeaway has lovely bathroom suites for less than £100!
Replace what you can within your budget. If the floor is looking a bit dingy, you can re-tile the floor yourself and save a ton of money. Replacing the tub or shower can really make a huge difference to the look of the bathroom. If that's beyond your budget, re-grout the tile, replace the toilet seat and sink to completely refresh the room.
Property valuation experts estimate a new bathroom can add as much as 5% to the sale value of a house, so this should certainly make the top of your priority list.
Children's play rooms were probably great for keeping the kids occupied, but they can actually decrease the resale value of your home. A couple might visit your home and prefer to have a guest bedroom; a single man might want it as a man cave.
Let potential buyers see themselves living there. Empty nesters or a single person may view your home and be turned off (even unconsciously!) by a kiddie pool in the backyard or a climbing wall in the basement. Your house should be neutral, so turn that space into a den or another bedroom instead so potential buyers feel like they can make it home.
The first impression is a lasting impression, and the first thing potential buyers will see is the outside. People certainly will judge the value of your home based on how its curb appeal, so make sure there is nothing offensive about it.
A fresh paint and regular maintenance is all you need. Give your house or front door a fresh coat of paint or change the colour if it's a hue that divides opinion. A nicely mowed lawn and a clean walkway will make a great first impression. If it fits within your budget, you can hire a landscaper to plant a few shrubs and clean up the yard.
Making these small home improvements can change people's perception of your home and increase its value at the same time. It's both time and money well-spent if you're thinking of putting your home on the market.


Is eating like our ancestors the answer to our current health problems? Can we eat like cavemen? Should we try? Dr. Amy Ryan joins us to chat science, nutrition, and our ancestors to help us figure out why, if at all, we should follow diets like the Paleo Diet. Join us to take a peek behind the scenes of her primate research and learn about other cool studies that can help us understand the validating of diet trends like the Paleolithic Diet.
Dr. Amy Ryan is a scientist who studies primate behavior and cognition. She is currently an Autism Research Fellow at the University of California Davis studying how we can potentially learn more about causes of and treatments for Autism by studying monkeys. She has studied monkeys in a variety of settings, from human-managed ones such as laboratories and zoos, to wild populations in in the forests of Uganda in Africa. She has a passion for engaging the public about the animals we share our planet with and for increasing opportunities for others to participate in science.


King's Hobby was founded in 1973 in Austin, Texas to support modeling and promote modeling communities. Since then it has achieved nationwide recognition for its quality products, product knowledge and high level of customer service.
We have the most comprehensive product lines in model railroading and plastic modeling. This does not mean that we stock every product out there, but that we stock quality products, tools and accessories. Our goal is to give our customers what they need to succeed in their hobby.
King's Hobby Shop, the best locally owned hobby store in Austin! We are proud members of Austin Independent Business Alliance (AIBA). Don't forget to shop locally owned!
Our handling time from the moment our customers pay will be no more than 4 days from the moment we receive confirmation of payment. Our aim is to get your merchandise to you as soon as possible.
You have 30 days to return a product. King's Hobby Shop does not issue cash refunds. We will be glad to replace the product if it is defective or exchange the product out with another product. You must pay for shipping if you wish to exchange, but King's Hobby Shop will pay the shipping fee if item is defective.
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Do you stock slot cars and slot car products?
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Answer: Yes we do. Our repairman, John Urban will be glad to examine any problems you are having with your trains. Call the store for more information.


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The over 1,500-room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center under construction in Aurora on Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction continues for the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews work on the interior of the Grand Lodge at the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews work on the Aurora Ballroom and Exhibit Hall in the convention center of the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
David Bray, RIDA Development Corporation VP, architecture and construction, stands in the Aurora Ballroom and Exhibit Hall in the convention center of the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Swimming pool that will feature a lazy river and slides under construction at the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews work on a lazy river feature at the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews work on the tennis courts surface at the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews on lifts work on the exterior glass facade of the Grand Lodge at the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews on lifts work at the peak off the exterior facade of the Grand Lodge at over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Construction crews work on the convention center side of the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Inside look at a model of a two-bed room at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Inside look at a model room at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
A Virgin America plane takes off from Denver International Airport with the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center under construction in the foreground Dec. 07, 2017.
It seems only fitting a project the size and scope of the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center should be home to a really big TV.
And the megahotel casting long shadows over the prairie as it rises near Denver International Airport in northern Aurora certainly won't disappoint in that regard when it opens to guests late next year.
Inside the resort's 24,000-square-foot Mountain Pass sports bar — one of its 10 dining and drinking establishments — will reside the largest indoor LED screen in Colorado. At 75 feet long and 14 feet tall, the screen will be too big to broadcast a single image without distortion. Instead, the long screen will break down into three huge screens or infinite combinations of smaller ones, according to David Bray, the vice president of architecture and construction with Gaylord builder RIDA Development Corp.
Construction crews on lifts work on the exterior of the Grand Lodge at the over 1,500 room Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
"Fight nights will be very popular," Bray cracked when leading a media tour of the hotel's many one-of-a-kind features Thursday.
Of course, the size of that screen is just one of many eye-popping facts about the 1,501-room, 2 million-square-foot project that is now roughly 70 percent complete. The project, which got underway early last year, is drawing from $800 million in funds.
Gaylord is receiving $84.1 million in state Regional Tourism Act funds and an estimated $300 million in tax breaks from Aurora and other local governments.
One sign of the project's progress: At the height of construction, there were 12 cranes in operation. On Thursday, there were four.
Perhaps most exciting for Aurora economic development folks (and heartburn-inducing for other Front Range hoteliers and event planners): By the end of September, Gaylord Rockies has already booked more than 600,000 individual room nights between 2019 and 2028.
Inside look at a model of a room at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center Dec. 07, 2017.
Those bookings, being made by groups and organizations planning to use at least some of the complex's 485,000 square feet of convention space, begin Feb. 1, 2019. Michael Kofsky, the hotel's director of sales and marketing, said that will give the resort a few months' buffer between opening and first big bookings to work out any kinks. Small groups and single-room guests will be invited to stay during that time, with online reservations expected to open in late July. It's a prime opportunity for curious people to check out the resort's indoor-outdoor heated lazy river and two heated pools. The aquatics area, along with the fitness center, is one of two features of the Gaylord Rockies that will be reserved for guests only when the hotel opens, Kofsky said.
Bray said workers on site, an average of 1,400 on any given day, finished the process to seal off the interior from the weather around Thanksgiving, meaning interior work will now continue unabated. Bray said 79 subcontractors are working on the project.
"For them to find qualified labor has probably been the biggest challenge in construction," Bray said.
While rooms in the hotel are just now getting their carpeting and wall finishing, a pair of model rooms in a nearby sales office gives a taste of the Colorado flavor the Gaylord chain is bringing to the facility. Rooms feature aspen tree wallpaper and artistic renderings of moose and bears on the walls.
The centerpiece of the project is its Grand Lodge entry way. It features a 9-story, self-supporting glass window oriented toward the Denver skyline and houses a caboose car that once rode on the Sante Fe railroad.
Gaylord's opening will kick off even more construction activity. Bray said that RIDA expects to start construction on a phased, mixed-use development on 130 acres it owns around the hotel in mid-2019.
It's an early estimate, but Kofsky shared one other important stat Thursday: For groups, the hotel's advertised rate will be about $230 per room plus resort fee.


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Wednesday 29, May 2013
Rugby League Cooperation On Doping Urged by WADA
John Fahey, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency has urged the National Rugby League to stop stonewalling in the doping scandal that has engulfed two of the leading sports of the country.
In February this year, an Australian Crime Commission report revealed dozens of players in the Australian Football League and the National Rugby League might have used illegal supplements.
The project, code named Project Aperio, was a 12-month ACC investigation, supported by ASADA and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which examined four key issues: new generation Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs) that were previously considered to be only used by elite athletes and are now widely available, the involvement of organized criminal identities and groups in the distribution of new generation PIEDs, the use of WADA prohibited substances by professional athletes in Australia, and current threats to the integrity of professional sport in Australia. The report revealed peptides and hormones, despite being prohibited substances in professional sport, are being used by professional athletes in Australia, facilitated by sports scientists, high-performance coaches and sports staff. Widespread use of these substances has been identified, or is suspected by the ACC, in a number of professional sporting codes in the country. It was also found that the level of use of illicit drugs within some sporting codes is considered to be significantly higher than is recorded in official statistics.
Doping authorities cannot rely on that background for any potential action against the athletes, the WADA chief said and pointed to the success of the lengthy investigations of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that the eventual confession by Lance Armstrong that he had doped while winning the Tour de France.
Cronulla Sharks forward Wade Graham was the first player interviewed by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency as it investigates the possible use of banned drugs by the NRL club in 2011. However, the two sides soon realized they were far apart on key issues, and ASADA called an early end to the interview. Players, under their NRL contracts, are obliged to give ASADA "reasonable assistance," and that appears to be the main point of difference between Sharks players and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency, along with fears that answers could be self-incriminating.
The AFL, the Melbourne-based organizers for Australian Rules football, had been more proactive, Fahey said while continuing his attack on rugby league administrators in an interview. Fahey said there has been "a profound silence" from the rugby league. There was the possibility of reductions in penalties for athletes who provide substantial assistance and testimony in doping investigations, Fahey added.
A few weeks earlier, Australia's sports minister Kate Lundy she was concerned about not being able to provide names and details from the crime commission report. The sports minister was an important figure at the Canberra news conference that outlined the widespread use of prohibited substances including peptides, hormones and illicit drugs, and the infiltration of organized criminal groups in the distribution of performance enhancing drugs. Lundy said she feels frustrated at the time because she knew that it would take some time before authorities would be in a position to finalize their investigations and their progress would depend on a lot of cooperation from all parties involved.
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Home Cancer
The Teen Who Had a Rare Combination of Cancers at the Same Time—and Survived
Micah ToubUpdated: Nov. 06, 2018
Her odds of getting both were one in ten billion.
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The patient: Larisa*, 15, a high school student in Ukraine
The symptoms: Cough, abdominal pain
The doctor: Dr. Cynthia Herzog, deputy division head, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas
When Larisa began experiencing pain in her abdomen, pain that would come and go, the teenager's concerned parents brought her to their family doctor, who referred her to a gynecologist.
After an ultrasound detected a mass in Larisa's pelvis, an oncologist took a biopsy. A week later, the results came back positive for a germ-cell tumor, a type of cancer that occurs in the reproductive cells of the ovaries or testicles—and is one of the most common cancers in teens. Further testing showed that the disease had already spread to the lymph nodes around Larisa's spinal cord. Plus, find out what happened when one woman's "tiredness" turned out to be a condition linked to cancer.
Rather than seek treatment for their daughter near home, Larisa's parents headed overseas to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where Larisa became one of their many international patients.
By the time Dr. Cynthia Herzog, who treats pediatric patients, saw Larisa, the teen was also complaining of a cough whenever she lay down to sleep. A pathologist verified the initial diagnosis, and Herzog put Larisa on the standard chemotherapy regimen for a germ-cell tumor. When that caused inflammation in the teen's bowel, as well as diarrhea and vomiting, she was switched to an alternative, and successful, course of drugs.
Three months later, a surgeon removed Larisa's shrunken ovarian mass and a number of the affected lymph nodes and confirmed that the tumors were dead. New ones could always develop, but the prognosis was good. "Even with metastatic disease, the long-term survival rate is 50 percent, which is fairly high," Herzog says.
When Larisa arrived ten weeks later for her first post-surgery scan, she mentioned that her cough had returned. Test results explained why that might be: The disease had grown in the lymph nodes around her heart. Learn about some cancers that are notoriously difficult to detect.
Surprised by the about-face in her condition after treatment had proved so effective, Herzog wanted to perform a biopsy of the chest mass, but Larisa's parents refused. Their daughter's cough would make it difficult to lie down for the procedure, and she would have to be anesthetized. Larisa had already gone through so much, so they chose to continue the chemotherapy instead. After one cycle, however, scans revealed that the chest mass remained unaffected.
"It's very odd for the disease to come back and not respond to treatment," says Herzog. "That's when we said that we really need a biopsy to see exactly what we're dealing with before continuing."
A few days later, Herzog got one of the biggest surprises of her 33-year career. The hospital's pathologists informed her that Larisa had a separate primary cancer—a lymphoma. The doctor's shock is understandable: A girl Larisa's age has approximately a one in 100,000 chance of getting either one of those cancers, putting the odds of having both at one in ten billion. "It's the only time I've ever seen it," Herzog says.
Treating lymphoma is a longer process than for a germ-cell tumor—the standard regimen lasts a year and a half. Larisa and her family lived in Houston for most of that time, before moving back home to Ukraine for the remaining treatments.
Larisa's last course of chemo ended four years ago. She now returns to MD Anderson for follow-up scans once a year and so far remains cancer-free. The 21-year-old is living much like she did before her symptoms first appeared, with one notable change: She's now planning to pursue a career in health care. Next, check out these 30 simple ways you can prevent cancer.
*Patient's name and some details have been changed to protect privacy
Originally Published: November 06, 2018
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Be a Great Neighbor! Join us in welcoming newly arrived families to Charlottesville.
There are a number of ways to get involved with IN and help our refugee and SIV neighbors navigate this new experience. During the COVID-19 crisis, we offer volunteer opportunities with various levels of contact.
Complete a volunteer application today.
Great Neighbor Guides
Our Great Neighbor Guides are volunteers matched with a newcomer (an individual or a family) to provide friendship and guidance as they get to know their new community. This program requires in-person contact, and a six-month commitment. Becoming a Great Neighbor Guide is one of IN's most rewarding volunteer opportunities—and the most beneficial for everyone involved.
Online Learning Support
Everyone is struggling with an online start to the school year, but it is especially challenging for our refugee families who have varying levels of English proficiency and access to the equipment and WiFi necessary to participate in public education during Covid-19 protocols. IN has established five learning pods to support our English Language Learning (ELL) students, but we need your help. Sign up to assist K-4 students at IN's Virtual Learning Centers.
Groceries on the Go
Next time you're headed out to the store to pick up groceries for yourself and your family, grab a few extras for a neighbor. Many neighbors are facing reduced work hours and income, or transportation barriers due to shortened public transit hours. IN is coordinating contact-less dropoff of groceries and necessities. No need to make a special trip—just while you're out!
Special Delivery: Food Pantry Liaison
Because many neighbors lack the transportation to get to the food pantry, a significant resource is inaccessible to them. However, a new program bridges that gap. Volunteer Amy Long explains how she began serving as a food pantry proxy for several neighbors during the pandemic, and how you can too, in the video below. For more information on becoming a Food Pantry LIaison, or to volunteer, email: contactus@internationalneighbors.org.


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title: 'Problem 331: Cross flips'
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## Description

N×N disks are placed on a square game board. Each disk has a black side and white side.

At each turn, you may choose a disk and flip all the disks in the same row and the same column as this disk: thus 2×N-1 disks are flipped. The game ends when all disks show their white side. The following example shows a game on a 5×5 board.

It can be proven that 3 is the minimal number of turns to finish this game.

The bottom left disk on the N×N board has coordinates (0,0);
the bottom right disk has coordinates (N-1,0) and the top left disk has coordinates (0,N-1).

Let CN be the following configuration of a board with N×N disks:
A disk at (x,y) satisfying , shows its black side; otherwise, it shows its white side. C5 is shown above.

Let T(N) be the minimal number of turns to finish a game starting from configuration CN or 0 if configuration CN is unsolvable.
We have shown that T(5)=3. You are also given that T(10)=29 and T(1 000)=395253.

Find .

## Instructions

## Tests

```yml
tests:
  - text: <code>euler331()</code> should return 467178235146843500.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(euler331(), 467178235146843500);

```

## Challenge Seed

```js
function euler331() {
  // Good luck!
  return true;
}

euler331();
```

## Solution

```js
// solution required
```