It is all about connecting with your customers and providing them the best solution in a reasonable period of time.
Nevertheless, many live chat extensions for internet stores offer you a far too intimidating interface using tools that are overkill for such a basic support moderate.
Pure Chat is a live chat software that helps small businesses provide instant answers and convert more leads.
You're not likely to find anything crazy with this particular tool, but that is the glory of it. The pricing is simple. The features are easy, and the overall interface makes it quite easy to communicate with clients who want answers quickly.
So let's take a deeper look into the live chat platform to know who it is best for and which of the features are impressive.
Pure Chat is a live chat software which allows users to communicate with their customers directly on their site. Its features include unlimited brokers, boundless chats, full chat background, widget customization, and much more. We compiled Pure Chat user reviews from around the net and determined that it has normally favorable ratings. We also shared its available pricing options.
Users who gave Pure Chat a favorable review stated that the app is easy to setup and navigate due to its user friendly interface. They also like the way the tab switches into an email form when all the operators are all offline.
An individual who left a favorable review of Pure Chat on G2 Crowd stated that they were in a position to convince customers to commit to a buy within minutes of communicating via the program. He also likes how the tool supplies them with a way to answer clients' questions quickly and market their goods without the use of phone calls.
A user who left a negative review of Pure Chat on Capterra whined about getting timed out without notifications. He explained that this makes it hard to maintain agents who have retail duties on chat during high traffic hours causing them to lose potential business. He also suggested adding an on-screen prompt that reminds them whenever they've been logged off.
The obvious beginning to this review is the actual chat interface. Does this feel useable for both novices and advanced users?
Notifications are sent to you when a conversation comes in, and you can schedule when you're available for chatting to ensure customers know when you are online.
Implementing a conversation box on your website only takes a fast copy and paste of a code or the use of the Shopify, Weebly and WordPress plugins. You then have the ability to customize what the chat box looks like before, during and following the conversation. Don't hesitate to change around colors, set triggers for as soon as the chat box pops open and then configure the types that you need people to fill out before talking to you.
You've got the opportunity to go with the default option stylings (which can be nice,) but the design tools are easy enough for beginners and powerful enough for more sophisticated users.
Both iOS and Android apps are offered for those who'd like to handle live chats while on the go. By way of instance, if you need to leave the workplace but still wish to provide the best support on the market, you won't have to worry about it using a mobile program.
Pretty much all the features that you would find on the regular dashboard are all carried over to the cellular apps. You have settings for actually carrying out the talks, along with setting your availability, managing transcripts and more. This gives you a little boost of confidence since it doesn't matter where you are when viewing who is on your website in real-time. Your customer service is continually handled, as it works just like texting from your cell phone.
The coverage is one of the strongest parts of Pure Chat, since it not only gives you the functionality for exporting reports, but it supplies amazing graphs and imagery for viewing chat metrics with time. You can monitor your client satisfaction to make decisions about your staff or to determine which unruly customers you may be spending too much time .
The Pure Chat support outlets are far more impressive than a number of the other solutions you'll find for live chat. For example, a blog is supplied for studying about updates and suggestions, while the Guides page is full of information on how to sell online, the way to handle rude clients, the way to obtain more live chats and more.
The FAQ page offers you a good notion of what other men and women are talking about using PureChat, while the primary Support page is a knowledge base with documentation for setups, integrations, chat boxes and more. I didn't find any service modules for calling in or emailing, so it seems as if you are going to need to complete the majority of the research yourself.
Pure Chat does not have a free trial. But you do not need one at all, since the provider delivers a strong free plan you can continue to work with for as long as you want. The paid plans are reasonably priced as well, along with the monthly payments bring along a wide set of characteristics that you don't get together with the free package.
Free — For $0 you get support for a single user, 1 site, unlimited chats per month, a 1 day discussion history and native mobile apps.
Starter — For $20 per month you get support for 2 users, two sites, unlimited chats each month, a 30 day chat history, native mobile programs, reports, visitor monitoring, SMS notifications and integrations.
Business — For $50 a month you receive everything from the previous plan and support for five customers, three websites and 90 days of discussion history.
Growing — For $100 per month you receive everything from the previous plan and service for ten users, five sites, an infinite chat history and the ability to remove the Pure Chat branding.
We like the Free plan for people just testing out the system, but the genuine functionality comes into play when you choose the Starter Plan. The only gripe I have is that you need to get all of the way up to the $100 a month strategy to remove branding.
Best Live Chat Software 2017: Zendesk vs LiveChat vs Pure Chat — We took a closer look at three of their best and up-and-coming live chat software to small businesses and reviewed their attributes and pricing. Read this guide to understand our recommendations.
7 Ways Live Chat will be able to help you Achieve First Contact Resolution — Addressing a customer's concern at the very first point of contact is an integral performance indicator. Check out this guide to find out more about how employing a live chat software can improve your customer service and grow your client base.
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Yes. Pure Chat has a 30-day money back guarantee for clients that aren't satisfied with their services. Read the following instructions to find out the cancelation terms and other specifics.
Yes. Pure Chat offers apps for both iOS and Android to allow agents to react to clients' inquiries from anyplace.


The last six months of 2014 brought new opportunities and improvements in retrofitting old or technically out-of-date DMS signs.
SES America will provide site surveys for DMS assets to properly evaluate condition, design, and potential cost savings of these upgrade solutions. There is more than $100m in potential savings that continues to exist in non-functioning, outdated or unreliable signage in the transportation industry on the interstates alone.
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Kenyan Billionaire Businessman Chris Kirubi Pockets Sh700 Million in BIC Sale Deal
By John Wanjohi Fri, 03/15/2019 @ 09:39am 2829 views 2 comments
Kenyan business mogul Chris Kirubi pocketed €6.3 million (Sh714 million) from the recent sale of one of his companies, Forbes reports.
The US business magazine reports that the billionaire businessman earned the amount from the sale of BIC brands East Africa franchise to French conglomerate Société BIC.
The French multinational revealed details about the deal with Kirubi in its Q4 and Full Year 2018 results published on its corporate website.
Haco Industries, a consumer goods manufacturer which is owned by the Kenyan industrialist, held the exclusive franchise for BiC products in the East African region for more than four decades.
In August last year, Haco Industries announced it was giving up its manufacturing and distribution rights of BIC stationery and personal care products to Société BIC, the original owners of the brand.
The transaction was approved by the Kenyan Competition Authority in October 2018 but the takeover was completed in January 2019.
Haco Industries is one of the largest consumer goods makers in the country and has agreements with several multinationals to manufacture and sell their brands in Kenya and East Africa.
Some of the products manufactured by the company include soaps, beauty lotions, and pasta.
The firm is 100 percent owned by Kirubi, who is also the largest shareholder in Centum Investments.
Centum is a Nairobi Stock Exchange-listed investment company.
Mugikuyu
This money worshipping media is part of the reason why Kenya finds itself in peril.
Fundi
6.3 Euro only. Hiyo si pesa mingi. Though it should have been 100 times that

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Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly 'games night' and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them – and their friendships – to pieces. Don't Move.
Don't Move Directed and Produced by: Anthony Melton
Edited and Produced by: Ben Franklin
Director of Photography: Jonny Franklin
Written by: David Scullion
'Don't Move' represents the directorial debut of Bloody Cuts producer Anthony Melton, and is our most popular film to date. A tense, disturbing and brutally bloody short – dare you watch to the end?
Developed as a challenge to create a horror script with little movement and hardly any dialogue, 'Don't Move' crawled out of writer David Scullion's twisted brain in 2010, where he promptly left it on a shelf to gather dust. When producer Ben Franklin discovered it two years later, the team quickly realised they'd found their Episode 8.
Funded by the fantastic generosity of horror-lovers all over the globe, the month-long Kickstarter campaign for 'Don't Move' raised over £3000 and ensured our ambitious vision was able to be realized… in spectacular fashion!
Featuring the biggest cast, the most deaths, the heaviest visual FX and the largest crew to date, 'Don't Move' was filmed over a weekend in an isolated holiday home in Norfolk, where over thirty people came together to make the bloodiest & tensest cut yet.
The shoot was so 'messy' that fake carpet had to be laid down and director Anthony Melton was forced to spend Monday morning cleaning blood off the walls…
'Don't Move' once again uses the special effects make-up talents of Millennium FX, and stars an excellent cast that includes Rachel Bright (Eastenders), Ian Whyte (Game of Thrones, Prometheus) and Jake Hendricks (Hollyoaks).
Incidentally, director / producer Anthony Melton's favourite horror film is Hellraiser and the demonic entity in 'Don't Move' was designed & created by industry-legend Cliff Wallace… who actually worked on the original Hellraiser! An absolute honour.
Trivia: the voice of 'Paul' at the beginning of 'Don't Move' isn't actually voiced by actor Martin Skipper. This was added later by Ben Tillett, who is also the director, writer and 'Narrator' of Suckablood… Oh, and did you spot the Demon in the opening Steadicam Shot?
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Lenovo's ThinkPad P52s is a slim but power-packed mobile workstation
By Darren Allan
Plus the firm has unveiled a pair of new ThinkStation tower PCs
Lenovo has revealed a pair of fresh ThinkStation offerings, alongside a new ThinkPad which the company notes is the thinnest and lightest quad-core workstation notebook it has ever made.
Let's start with the latter, the ThinkPad P52s, which crams plenty of power into an Ultrabook-style portable.
We're talking an 8th-generation Intel Core i5 or i7 quad-core processor, Nvidia Quadro P500 graphics, up to 32GB system memory, and on the storage front, up to a 1TB NVMe SSD and 2TB spinning disk.
All this fits into a laptop which is 19.95mm thick and weighs 1.95kg, which in the workstation world is nicely portable indeed.
The IPS display can be a Full HD model, or optionally you can plump for a 4K resolution (or a Full HD touchscreen). There's an option on a fingerprint reader for extra security, too.
Lenovo also notes that battery longevity is a strong suit with this notebook, stating that: "Lenovo's PowerBridge technology provides all day power – allowing you to work seamlessly, without the hassle of recharging."
No claimed battery life figures have been given at this point, though.
Thinking bigger
Moving onto the ThinkStation tower PCs, the first is the P520, which is backed up by a more compact machine in the form of the P520c, and these are mainstream single CPU workstations.
Both can be equipped with an Intel Xeon W Series processor boasting up to 18 cores and speeds of up to 4.5GHz.
With the P520 you can specify up to 256GB of system memory, and a pair of Nvidia Quadro P6000 graphics cards. It will also accommodate up to eight system drives. The system's tower case measures 455 x 165 x 440mm (W x D x H).
As for the P520c, that allows for up to 128GB of system RAM, a single Nvidia Quadro P5000 graphics card, and up to six system drives. Its tower case measures 175 x 426 x 376mm (W x D x H).
All of these fresh Lenovo offerings will go on sale towards the end of January 2018, with exact pricing to be confirmed.
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Have you ever wondered how an angel would look like in snow? Well, this was how my nail art idea started!
Paint your nails with polish of your choice. I used a vibrant dark blue. With Mitty Stripy Glamour nail art brush draw a wide line at the end of your nails.
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The design was straightforward — 59 black and white bars. And the inventors' objectives were simple enough, too — to speed up the grocery checkout line and give supermarkets a new tool to track their stock.
But the bar code has become much more than that since it was first used to read the price on a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum (67 cents) on the morning of June 26, 1974. Now they are used to board airplanes and track packages. Bar codes help people with diabetes calibrate glucose meters and researchers study the pollination habits of bees. They inspired a hand-held video game, Barcode Battler, in 1991.
They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-President George H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had already become a technological staple of everyday life.
Today, bar codes are scanned more than 10 billion times a day around the world. And after 35 years, they are both the mundane minutiae of modern life and cultural icons of cold efficiency, identification and control.
Now 84 and retired, Mr. Laurer continues to be a cheerleader for his invention even as the bar code is challenged by newer and much more sophisticated competitors. Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is one such technology.
RFID uses the same technology as dashboard toll collectors and building access key cards and allows businesses to identify and track specific items without a direct line of sight. But even as big players like Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble have pushed ahead with the RFID technology, the cautious retail business, in particular, has pushed back, in part because of concerns about price.
Bar codes, after all, cost just half a cent each, while the electronic tags used in RFID cost more than 5 cents each. As a result, a significant portion of Wal-Mart's suppliers rejected its mandate to adopt the newer technology.
"The technology took a bit of a black eye," said Bob Sanders, a Motorola executive who once led a company that developed the first hand-held bar code scanner. A Wal-Mart spokesman, John Simley, acknowledged that "we hit realism" after the initial surge of "media-generated hype" for RFID in 2003. But he said Wal-Mart continued to introduce the technology.
Bar codes have evolved to respond to the competition. In recent years, two-dimensional matrices, which resemble jumbled checkerboards and carry much more information than bar codes, have come into use in Japan and have gained a foothold in America. Cellphones equipped with technology for scanning those patterns can read them and display bar codes that could, for instance, be used instead of a ticket for a concert or board a plane.
Mr. Laurer recalled that several designs, including a circular symbol, were considered before the team settled on what is now recognized as the Universal Product Code, the name of the familiar format that uses 30 black and 29 white lines to convey 95 bits of data in binary code. The 12 digits give nothing more than "an address to look up information" in a database, Mr. Laurer said.
When the initial design was proposed to a committee of reviewers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, he said, it was returned with only one recommendation: that the font of the "human readables," the numbers found below the bar code, be changed to another font that was soon expected to become readable by machines and to supplant the striped pattern.
Mr. Laurer said neither I.B.M. nor any of its developers ever patented the bar code, though manufacturers pay a minimal annual fee to a nonprofit group, GS 1, to cover the administrative costs of overseeing the international standards.
A bar code taken from the front page of The New York Times.
Sharon Buchanan was a 31-year-old cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, the day the bar code made its debut. One or two other clerks were working that day, but she was chosen to work the checkout, she said Thursday in an interview.
For all the excitement that day, the adoption of the bar code was gradual. For years, businesses were hamstrung by shoppers who refused to buy bar-coded products, worrying that they might be cheated at the checkout counter without price labels.
The bar code "has almost acquired a certain antique appeal as an early expression of the sorting and categorizing impulse in computer-driven marketing and sales," he added.
An article on Friday about the 35th anniversary of the introduction of the bar code in grocery stores misstated the number of data bits in standard Universal Product Code symbols. The total number of bits in a bar code is 95 — not 12.


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St. Lawrence's Church, Gotham is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Gotham, Nottinghamshire.

It is part of an informal grouping of five churches that are known collectively as "The 453 Churches" as they straddle the A453. The other churches in the group are:
St. George's Church, Barton in Fabis
St. Winifred's Church, Kingston on Soar
Holy Trinity Church, Ratcliffe-on-Soar
All Saints' Church, Thrumpton

History

The church dates from the 13th century and was restored in 1789 and repaired in 1869.

St. Lawrence, Gotham is the largest of the five churches and was re-ordered in 2010 to create a flexible modern worship space that is used for many different events throughout the year.

Incumbents

???? Robert de Nottingham
???? Saher de St Andrew
???? Richard de Role
???? Peter de Leyke
1303 John de Gotham
1342 John de Gotham
1351 John Cayn
1353 William Hunt
1395 John Swyft
???? William Maltby
1431 Richard Peas
1440 John Ketall
1463 William Redeman
1480 William Buckley
1487 John Haygate
1507 Hugh de St Andrew
1528 Thomas Babbington
1543 John Sacheverell
1546 Richard Walker
1567 John Lowthe
1590 Richard Dodds
1607 John Savage
1609 Oliver Withington
1619 John Foxcroft
1663 Moses Foxcroft
1673 William Danvers
1674 John Bridges
1710 William Bridges
1746 Samuel Martin
1776 John Lightfoot
1788 John Kirkby
1836 John James Vaughan
1882 Frederick A Wodehouse
1915 Reginald Alfred Bidwell
1925 Claude Wilfred Good
1930 Bernard Parker Hall
1954 Norman Copeland, O.B.E.
1971 Alfred Donald Williams
1989 David Gorick
2000 Stephen Osman
2011 Richard Coleman

Memorials
There are many memorials within the church including:
Anne Borrow, 1799
Thomas Borrow, 1773
John Barrow, 1707
Isaac Barrow, 1745
Samuel Martin, 1775
Gergii Loxcroete, 1619
John Bridges, 1710
John Foxcroft, 1662
John St. Andrew and his wife, 1625

References

External links
 Southwell & Nottingham church history project

Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire
Grade I listed churches in Nottinghamshire
13th-century church buildings in England

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Q: WebM live streaming via DASH I am following the instructions here to try to make WebM live streaming via DASH.  My input is from an Axis camera and it is streaming as h264 encoding.  I am using node to spin up the ffmpeg processes.  I am able to create the .hdr file and the .chk files.  The .mpd file is even created but it's empty and I get an error saying:
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): Operation not permittedStream mapping: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)

Here's all of my code:
var express = require('express');
spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

var app = express();

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.listen(8080);
console.log("Running on Port 8080");

var ffmpeg1 = spawn('ffmpeg', [
    '-y',
    //video
    '-i', 'rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.54:554/axis-media/media.amp?videocodec=h264&resolution=1280x720',

    '-map', '0:0',
    '-pix_fmt', 'yuv420p',
    '-color_range', '2',
    '-c:v', 'libvpx-vp9',

    '-s', '1280x720',
    '-keyint_min', '25',
    '-g', '25',

    // //VP9_LIVE_PARAMS
    '-speed', '6',
    '-tile-columns', '4',
    '-frame-parallel', '1',
    '-threads', '8',
    '-static-thresh', '0',
    '-max-intra-rate', '300',
    '-deadline', 'realtime',
    '-lag-in-frames', '0',
    '-error-resilient', '1',

    '-f', 'webm_chunk',
    '-header', 'public/glass_360.hdr',
    '-chunk_start_index', '1',
    'public/glass_360_%d.chk',
]);

setTimeout(()=> {
  var ffmpeg2 = spawn('ffmpeg', [
    '-y',
    '-f', 'webm_dash_manifest',
    '-live', '1',
    '-i', 'public/glass_360.hdr',
    '-c', 'copy',
    '-map', '0',
    '-r', '25',
    '-framerate', '25',

    '-f', 'webm_dash_manifest',
    '-live', '1',

    '-adaptation_sets', '"id=0,streams=0"',
    '-chunk_start_index', '1',
    '-chunk_duration_ms', '2000',
    '-time_shift_buffer_depth', '7200',
    '-minimum_update_period', '7200',

    'public/glass_live_manifest.mpd'
  ]);
  ffmpeg2.stdout.on('data',
      function (data) {
          console.log('ff2std: ' + data);
      }
  );

  ffmpeg2.stderr.on('data',
      function (data) {
          console.log('ff2err: ' + data);
      }
  );
}, 5000);

ffmpeg1.stdout.on('data',
    function (data) {
        console.log('ff1std: ' + data);
    }
);

ffmpeg1.stderr.on('data',
    function (data) {
        console.log('ff1err: ' + data);
    }
);

Here is all of my output:
Running on Port 8080
ff1err: ffmpeg version 3.2.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.2.4 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-opencl --disable-lzma --enable-libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=jpeg2000 --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/Cellar/openjpeg/2.1.2/include/openjpeg-2.1 --enable-nonfree --enable-vda

ff1err:   libavutil      55. 34.101 / 55. 34.101
  libavcodec     57. 64.101 / 57. 64.101
  libavformat    57. 56.101 / 57. 56.101
  libavdevice    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
  libavfilter     6. 65.100 /  6. 65.100
  libavresample   3.  1.  0 /  3.  1.  0
  libswscale      4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100
  libswresample   2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
  libpostproc    54.  1.100 / 54.  1.100

ff1err: Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.54:554/axis-media/media.amp?videocodec=h264&resolution=1280x720':
  Metadata:
    title           : Session streamed with GStreamer
    comment         : rtsp-server
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.033344
ff1err: , bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc

ff1err: [swscaler @ 0x7f8df281bc00] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly

ff1err: [libvpx-vp9 @ 0x7f8df2800600] v1.6.1

ff1err: Output #0, webm_chunk, to 'public/glass_360_%d.chk':
  Metadata:
    title           : Session streamed with GStreamer
    comment         : rtsp-server
    encoder         : Lavf57.56.101

ff1err:     Stream #0:0: Video: vp9 (libvpx-vp9), yuv420p(pc), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=-1--1, 200 kb/s, 25 fps, 1k tbn, 25 tbc
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc57.64.101 libvpx-vp9
    Side data:
      cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/0 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> vp9 (libvpx-vp9))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help

ff1err: frame=   10 fps=0.0 q=0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:00.36 bitrate=N/A speed=0.71x
ff1err: frame=   25 fps= 25 q=0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:00.96 bitrate=N/A speed=0.946x
ff1err: frame=   40 fps= 26 q=0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:01.56 bitrate=N/A speed=1.03x
ff1err: frame=   55 fps= 27 q=0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:02.16 bitrate=N/A speed=1.07x
ff1err: frame=   70 fps= 28 q=0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:02.76 bitrate=N/A speed=1.09x
ff1err: frame=   85 fps= 28 q=0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:03.36 bitrate=N/A speed=1.11x
ff2err: ffmpeg version 3.2.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
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Why is ffmpeg creating an empty .mpd file?

A: I think the error from ffmpeg relates to the output arguments you passed, or either you are writing to access protected directory like /var/www/
Check your output parameters and also try it with sudo.
/home/tilak/bin/ffmpeg -f webm_dash_manifest -live 1 -i /var/www/webm_live/glass_360.hdr -vcodec libvpx  -map 0 -f webm_dash_manifest -live 1 -adaptation_sets "id=0,streams=0" -chunk_start_index 1 -chunk_duration_ms 2000  /var/www/html/glass_live_manifest.mpd
The above command creates MPD file in my case.

A: Just delete extra quotes.
'-adaptation_sets', 'id=0,streams=0',

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UNICEF says,1,500 Bauchi communities now open defecation free
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has said that 1,500 communities in four Local Government Areas of Bauchi State have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) as validated by the National Task Group on Sanitation (NTGS).
Mr Bhanu Pathak, the Chief of UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, who disclosed this at the exit meeting for the Sanitation Hygiene and Water in Nigeria (SHAWN) project for the state on Tuesday, in Jos, identified the local governments as Dass, Warji, Bogoro and Gamawa, who have provided access to basic sanitation facilities for the people.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SHAWN II project, which began in the state in 2014, supported by UKAid and UNICEF, is currently being implemented in 20 other local government areas.
Bhanu disclosed that the project had constructed 100 hand pump boreholes, 65 solar motorised boreholes and 30 blocks of Pour Flush latrines across communities in the state,
including providing access to improved water sources for half a million people.
Pathak thanked the state government for the collaboration and promised continued support in scaling up efforts to eradicate open defecation in the entire state.
He also pledged to invest in institutional and community capacity building toward achieving the set goals, particularly in the water and sanitation sub-sector.
According to Pathak, the exit meeting would roll out a sustainability and consolidation plan in the area of sanitation and hygiene, water supply systems, among others.
In his address of welcome earlier, Barr. Jidauna Mbami, the state Commissioner for Water Resources, thanked donor organisations for supporting the state in implementing the project, describing them as "partners in progress"
Represented by Mr Muazu Nathaniel, the commissioner said the project had been of tremendous benefit to the people, adding that it had also addressed some of the worrisome challenges of water, sanitation and hygiene in the state.
"We are all living witnesses to the past worrisome situation of lack of proper sanitation and hygiene in our localities, before the introduction of this laudable project. This is one giant effort we will continue to cherish till eternity, because this project has provided succour to our people in terms of access to clean water.
"We commend our donor partners, and I wish to assure that we will continue to provide the necessary platform for better partnership with any organisation that means well for us as a state", he said
Mbami called on the beneficiaries of the project and other stakeholders to ensure a sustainability plan that would enable the facilities provided serve the people into the long term.
NAN reports that the meeting was attended by members of benefitting communities, representatives of donor organisations, government agencies, among others. (NAN)
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On May 1, Evan Hughes of FLOC informed John Stauber that they "are targeting Reynolds American, parent company of RJ Reynolds.
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Earthquake strikes Maharashtra's Palghar, Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district
| Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 13:26 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 13: An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 on the Richter Scale hit Palghar district in Maharashtra at 10:44 am on Wednesday. However, no damage to life or property has been reported yet.
Meanwhile, yet another earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale hit Andaman Islands region today (February 13). The India Metrological Department, in a tweet, said the earthquake occurred at 1:51 am. The earthquake was at 10km depth in the Andaman Islands region.
Earlier in the day, a 3.5 low-intensity magnitude earthquake struck Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Wednesday, officials said. No loss of life or property was reported, they said.
The epicentre of the earthquake was north of Dharamshala town at a depth of five kilometres, Director, Shimla Meteorological Centre, Manmohan Singh, said. "The earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale was recorded at 7:35 am today," he said.
Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Bay of Bengal, tremors felt in Chennai
He said mild tremors were felt in areas across the district. Most parts of Himachal Pradesh, including Kangra district, fall in the high-seismic sensitive zone.
Tremors were felt in Chennai and several other parts of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning as an earthquake measuring 5.1 on Richter scale hit the Bay of Bengal.
On February 10, a mild earthquake occurred on the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh. The earthquake measured 5.2 on the Ritcher scale.
The India Metrological Department said the earthquake occurred at 8:52 am and had a depth of 10km. No damage has been reported so far.
The year 2019 has just begun and India has already seen a number of earthquakes, out of which most of them have occurred in the last couple of days. Most of these quakes have occurred in either Himachal Pradesh or Jammu and Kashmir region with tremors being felt in the neighboring areas.
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New online publication takes students into the beating heart of a newsroom
Chloe Watson
The newly launched Newsworthy initiative provides real-world journalism experience and practical publishing skills for UNSW students.
Connie Levett works with students on stories for Newsworthy.
There's a new player in Australia's news media industry. UNSW School of the Arts & Media (SAM) has launched a news website featuring writing, audio and video produced by media students.
Newsworthy will be based at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences and will feature work from postgraduate and undergraduate journalism students, plus a network of contributors from across the faculty. The site will also house content from creative writing, photography and film students. It will run under the guidance of a former editor of The Sydney Morning Herald news app, Connie Levett.
Ms Levett, who has more than 30 years' experience in the industry, came on board as Newsworthy's editor because she saw the value in students gaining practical experience in online publishing.
"Newsworthy is about student learning," Ms Levett says.
"The experience of working in a high-powered digital newsroom ... it can be a brutal world. You need some basis before you get thrown into that.
"We made a decision to have a place where the students could publish their work, because one of the big things when you're leaving university is to have a portfolio and get that first job."
Initially, the site will publish a couple of stories a week which will come predominantly from course assignments but can also be pitched by students and commissioned by Newsworthy. The publication aims to cover a range of editorial pillars including justice, society, technology and gender.
Newsworthy is more than the average student newsroom, Ms Levett says. What sets it apart from the rest is its focus on other elements of the news production cycle such as audience building and cross-platform distribution.
"It's not just about being published," Ms Levett says.
'I loved that from the outset the team behind building the publication was interested in developing a quality news and opinion outlet that showcased students' voices at a standard that demands they are heard.'
"It's helping students understand the protocols, the standards that they're going to need to meet to successfully operate in that world.
"The integrated learning platform is a really important teaching tool for students in terms of helping them see how it all works.
"The process also teaches them how to find an audience, how to sell the story on our social media accounts – skills which are all about the digital world."
Ms Levett believes Newsworthy provides a point of difference by covering the issues facing 21st century Australia through the eyes of the generation who will live it.
"We're interested in ideas and in potential," she says.
"We wanted to have a flavour of youth, both in terms of subject material and contributions. We want to mould our coverage to something that talks to our students and to the things they are engaged with."
Third-year Bachelor of Media and Law student Reena Mukherjee says working on Newsworthy as a reporter and contributor is incredibly rewarding, pushing her out of her comfort zone.
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BOJ Offers Quake-Aid Loans as It Grows Concerned About Economy
Thursday, 07 April 2011 07:14 AM
The Bank of Japan unveiled a lending program to help companies in areas affected by the nation's record earthquake, while voicing concern the disaster may depress economic growth in coming months.
The BOJ unveiled the 1 trillion yen ($12 billion) facility as board members downgraded their economic assessment for the first time since October. The bank held the benchmark overnight rate at a range of zero to 0.1 percent and kept unchanged a credit program and an asset-purchase fund that represent its main policy tools.
Governor Masaaki Shirakawa's efforts to restore stability to the world's third-largest economy since the March 11 temblor have focused on pumping record one-day credit into money markets and adding 5 trillion yen to its asset-purchase program. Even together with today's targeted lending facility, the efforts are less than a tenth of the U.S. Federal Reserve $600 billion quantitative easing program.
"Banks already have enough cash and don't really need liquidity," said Hiroshi Miyazaki, chief economist at Shinkin Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. "What Japan needs from the BOJ is monetary easing that's beyond the ordinary."
The yen traded at 85.27 per dollar as of 5:10 p.m. in Tokyo. It has weakened more than 5 percent since Group of Seven authorities sold the currency on March 18 to stem its advance. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 0.1 percent to 9,590.93.
Shirakawa ordered his staff to map out details of the quake-aid program by their next policy meeting. The bank said today the one-year loans will be at 0.1 percent interest, matching the upper range of the benchmark rate. To ease funding restraints, bank staff will also draft measures to broaden the range of acceptable collateral for lenders in disaster areas.
'As Soon as Possible'
"We would like to start implementing loans as soon as possible after our April 28 board meeting," Shirakawa told reporters in Tokyo today. "We're now carefully examining how measures we have taken so far will affect the economy."
Japan's economy is under "strong downward pressure" after the earthquake damaged production facilities and weakened the financial positions of companies, particularly small enterprises, the central bank said. Pressure will persist "for the time being" before the economy recovers, it said.
Ten of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predicted the central bank would unveil an emergency lending program today. Eight said the central bank may provide more monetary stimulus at its next gathering this month and expand its asset-buying fund and buy more bonds.
Semi-Annual Report
The bank is scheduled to release its semi-annual economic outlook report at the next board meeting and project economic growth and consumer prices through the next fiscal year ending March 2013. Waiting until then to add stimulus will give policy makers the opportunity to examine evidence for hints of the scope of damage from the earthquake and crippled nuclear power plant that has spurred electricity shortages.
By then, board members would have viewed March data for factory output and exports, which were disrupted from the temblor and ensuing tsunami. The unemployment rate, housing starts and consumer prices will also be released April 28. They would have also gathered evidence on how regions are coping with the disaster at a BOJ branch managers meeting on April 11.
"The BOJ may increase its asset-purchase program on April 28, in tandem with a March production data release, though it will remain tough to assess developments with economic indicators alone," said Naka Matsuzawa, chief strategist at Nomura Securities Co. in Tokyo.
Record Cash
The BOJ injected a record amount of emergency cash into the banking system following the quake and doubled its asset-buying fund to 10 trillion yen on March 14. Funds in the loan program announced today represent about 7 percent of total lending in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in northern Japan affected by the quake, according to Maoki Matsuno, an analyst at Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. in Tokyo.
"Regional banks are facing increased lending needs from small enterprises, who are seeking to boost funds on hand," Matsuno said. The program "will make it easier for them to lend, helping small enterprises in the area," he said.
Data reflecting the state of the economy after March 11 point to a slower expansion. Japan's large manufacturers expect business confidence to slump in June and new car sales fell 37 percent in March, the biggest drop on record for the month. Manufacturing shrank at the fastest pace in nine years, according to a purchasing managers' index.
Economists are divided over how quickly the Japan's gross domestic product will resume expanding on the back of demand from reconstruction projects such as rebuilding roads, ports, bridges and thousands of houses.
Economic Contraction
Economists of BNP Paribas SA and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. predicted the world's third-largest economy will shrink for the first and second quarters after contacting at an annualized 1.3 percent in the three months ended in December.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development this week said Japan's GDP growth may be reduced by as much as 0.6 percentage point in the first quarter and up to 1.4 percentage points in the second in the aftermath of the quake.
Federal Reserve policy makers said on March 15 that economic implications of Japan's disaster, including those on global supply chains, "were not yet clear" while the incident "had further increased uncertainty about the economic outlook" along with turmoil in the Middle East, minutes of the Fed's meeting indicate.
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Debbie Harry's memoir FACE IT: 17 amazing anecdotes
Stories and observations from a memoir packed full of them
Jessie Atkinson
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Writing as she speaks, in a soft, somewhat despondent voice that compels the listener to lean in, Debbie Harry has produced her absorbing first memoir. FACE IT, out today with Harper Collins, is an urgent, addictive account of the life of Deborah Harry, from her adoption aged three months, up to the recent 2017 album Pollinator.
As you might imagine, quite a lot has happened in between.
Gigwise read FACE IT in a flurry of life-changing and fame-filled anecdotes, written in such a momentous blur that you could easily miss stories that others would rinse at parties for the rest of their lives.
Below, we've retold you some of those, and thrown in a couple more observations too.
1. She's always been sexualised…& still is
Early in the book, Harry says that "even as a little girl, I always attracted sexual attraction," with examples that include a doctor telling her she had "bedroom eyes" and perverts exposing themselves to her. Buddy Rich invited her out on a date when she was eleven years-old, she writes. Later on, as an adult, she says that "there were many times when people would review how I looked instead of how our music sounded," a complaint that holds true now: in a review for this very book, the Washington Post originally went with the headline "In her memoir, Debbie Harry proves she's more than just a pretty blond in tight trousers."
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2. She was in a band called the Wind in the Willows
In the sixites, Harry joined her first band, the Wind in the Willows, named from the children's book. She only sang on one song, and was otherwise "something pretty to stand in the back." Her second band was a trio formed with two other women. The Stilletos had an ever-changing, all-male backing line-up that once included Marky Ramone.
3. Her stage persona is a style of drag
A lot of Harry's drag queen friends have told her that the persona she exhibited on stage in the seventies and eighties "definitely" counted as drag. On the act, Harry says: "My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side."
4. She was a waitress at Max's Kansas City
The storied NYC restaurant and bar Max's once boasted a pre-fame Harry as one of its best waitresses. The most famous people of the day would hang out there, and Harry came into contact with most of them, including Miles Davis, Janis Joplin - who was "a big tipper" - and Jefferson Airplane, who Harry served food to a couple of days before they played Woodstock.
5. She played sitar
Harry mentions in passing that during the sixties, she was learning sitar from a teacher called Dr. Singh.
6. Blondie was originally called Angel and the Snake
After The Stilletos, Harry formed a new band with her new boyfriend Chris Stein. It was called Angel and the Snake, and it included future Television bassist Fred Smith. Soon, the band changed its name to Blondie and the Banzai Babies before it reverted to the simple Blondie moniker so recognisable today.
7. She's Suffered From Anxiety
Though she doesn't mention any kind of diagnosis, Harry details several moments in which she has felt "anxious." As a small child, she identified separation anxiety from her parents ("I would be a nervous wreck") and reports terrible stage fright, from performing in school performances to being on stage in The Stilletos. She also reports obsessive compulsive actions, particularly surrounding self-cleaning, that suggest OCD: for example, she admits that she would collect "every strand of hair" as well as all of her nail clippings, and "flush them down the toilet."
8. 'Heart of Glass' was inevitable from Blondie's very creation
In the earliest formation of Blondie, when it still had backing singers, and costumes and props were a big part of their shows, Harry said that her "idea was to bring dancing back to rock." In 1979, 'Heart of Glass' combined disco and new wave, peaking at number one.
9. Clem Burke was the fiftieth of fifty drummer try-outs
The man who still drums in Blondie, Clem Burke, was the final person to try-out for the gig. During his audition, Patti Smith checked in uninvited, sensing that the blossoming band would soon prove to be a point of competition…she didn't think too much of Burke's drumming.
10. She still insists the close-call she had was with Ted Bundy
Walking barefoot through glass-strewn Manhattan, Harry eventually agreed to a lift - her first ever hitchhike - from a man she described as "in fact, good-looking." Inside, she realised that there was no window crank or handle, and that "the whole car had been stripped of everything." Through a small crack in the window she managed to reach the outside door handle and escape. Fifteen years later, she connected the man in the car with a news story on Ted Bundy, who had just been executed. "My story has been debunked since," she writes, "but it was him."
11. Blondie supported Iggy Pop and David Bowie on their first tour
Described as Blondie's "first real tour", Debbie Harry remembers opening every night for Iggy Pop, who had Bowie as his keyboard player during his tour for The Idiot. They hoovered up her cocaine supply sharpish, and Bowie exposed himself to the room "as if I were the official cock checker or something."
12. Her and Chris Stein bought the first ever Basquiat painting
Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was "homeless at the time," sold a painting called Self Portrait with Suzanne - a rendering of his then-girlfriend - to Harry and Stein. The artist thought that he'd swindled the pair out of more than the painting was worth, though they handed over just $300 for the piece.
13. Jean-Luc Godard conned her out of $1000
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wanted to remake Alphaville, so they contacted director Jean-Luc Godard to purchase the rights. He sold them for a grand, though it later came to light that he didn't even own them.
14. Andy Warhol would have liked to have had Harry's face
When the idea of doing Harry's pop art portrait came up, Warhol commented that if he could have "anyone else's face" it would be Debbie Harry's. The pair became close, and the artist even put on a disco party at Studio 54 when 'Heart of Glass' went to number one.
15. She wanted to star in Bladerunner, but her record label blocked it
Having starred in other films during Blondie's break from music, Harry found that she could not star in the 1982 Bladerunner because her record label at the time blocked it.
16. She started smoking in her sixties
After years of heroin use, Harry never fully enjoyed a full smoking habit. When she reached her sixties, she took up the "nasty habit," though she tries to keep the intake down to a few a day. Now, she most enjoys a post-show cigarette with a glass of wine.
17. Debbie Harry did not leave Chris Stein
Though it's been said in interviews (to Harry's quiet indignation), it was not Debbie Harry who left Chris Stein, but Stein who split up with Harry after thirteen years together. In fact, the split occurred on the same day that Andy Warhol died - a double loss that affected Harry for two more years.
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Cambodians Facing Stark Choice at Commune Elections
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Kem Sokha is expected to deliver a very different type of political approach after assuming the leadership of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) following Sam Rainsy's resignation and a raft of threats from Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Mild mannered with a focus on village economics and social issues, Kem Sokha has eschewed the extravagant lifestyles of Cambodia's political elites, commonly referred to as Khmer Riche, preferring more modest values that have endeared him to rural voters.
Whether that's enough to unseat Hun Sen in general elections next year will be tested in four months when thousands of local village posts are contested at commune elections, primarily between the CNRP and the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP).
Communes are clusters of villages, and in a country with no formal public opinion polls, these local elections offer the best indicators as to how the two main political parties are performing.
Elections pending
Hun Sen and the CPP maintained control in controversial 2013 elections that the opposition disputed with allegations of cheating. The CPP stayed in power with a substantially reduced margin, and the opposition needs to lift its tally by just seven seats in the 123-seat National Assembly during next year's general election if it is to form a government.
That prospect has rattled Hun Sen, and Sam Rainsy subsequently faced a barrage of defamation suits backed by the prime minister, resulting in convictions and two jail sentences.
Those cases were widely criticized by civil society groups for being politically motivated and backed by a judicial system often criticized for a lack of impartiality and transparency.
Sam Rainsy's decision to step down was made after Hun Sen announced he would introduce legislation banning people with criminal convictions from leading political parties and, according to Sam Rainsy, that would have resulted in the dissolution of the CNRP.
The government has denied allegations of election cheating and insists its courts are impartial and convictions are the result of an independent judiciary. When contacted for comment, a government spokesman was unavailable.
Ren Chanrith, a political coordinator at the Youth Resource Development Program, said legal posturing was aimed at preventing Sam Rainsy from contesting the June 4 commune and general elections, but his resignation would only inspire Kem Sokha and the CNRP faithful.
"So the resignation of Mr. Sam Rainsy (will) just make the opposition party become stronger and their activists and supporters will do more to get a successful (result) in the upcoming election. So you know, they will do more," he said.
The prime minister insists it is his ability to ensure security that led to an unprecedented era of economic growth since three decades of war ended in 1998. It's an argument that still wins votes.
He has also persistently warned of a return to civil conflict if he fails to win the election, but such threats carry far less weight among the nation's youth and don't resonate among older voters like it used to.
City versus the country
Importantly, analysts say, Sam Rainsy has secured the urban and youth vote for the CNRP, thanks in part to changing demographics and a postwar baby boom. More than 65 percent of the population is younger than 35 and many have grown tired of Hun Sen's autocratic-style.
CNRP advocate Van Thorn said Sam Rainsy's resignation was disappointing but was necessary to save the party and position the opposition ahead of the commune elections, where he expects Kem Sokha to do well.
"If we can look to the state of the new commune elections, I am kind of sure the CNRP will win a lot of seats and this will help the CNRP move ahead towards the national elections because generally in the countryside, almost everywhere in Cambodia, people are now more interested in the politics," he said.
Sam Rainsy's resignation took many by surprise, including Billy Chia-Lung Tai, an independent human rights consultant at CL Consulting who suggested there might have been some discontent with his performance within CNRP ranks.
A former investment banker and finance minister, Sam Rainsy is known for his skiing holidays and taste for the good life. He spends most of his time in self-imposed exile in Europe.
That stands in stark contrast to most Cambodians, particularly in the countryside, where issues such as illegal logging, land grabbing, corruption and a yawning wealth gap will dominate electioneering.
Forty percent of this country's population lives below the poverty line.
Focus on Kem Sokha
To win control of the government, Kem Sokha and the CNRP must improve in the countryside where Hun Sen is at his strongest with 20 years of peace and an older generation of war veterans behind him.
"Strategically I feel, the CNRP would feel they've got the urban vote kind of locked down," Chia-Lung Tai said. "They've probably reached all the people that they could convert and they're really trying to go for the rural sector and I would agree that Sokha, Kem Sokha, is a much better candidate for that."
Surveys conducted by the CPP, according to government sources and diplomats, suggest the ruling party could suffer at least a 10 percent swing against it at the commune election. Some have suggested the swing against the ruling party could be as high as 30 percent.
"That's going to be quite significant, and I have a nagging feeling that they will do everything above or below board to make sure that doesn't happen," Chia-Lung Tai said.
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From Turks and Caicos to New York City, these developments offer amenities like lazy rivers, indoor castles, and nature centers.
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From California to Hawaii, many resorts offer adults-only swimming pools and spa services so adults can unwind without the kids in tow. But a slew of residential properties are also moving in the opposite direction, unveiling kid-friendly amenities that the whole family can enjoy. The move may be fueled in part by necessity: According to data from the 2011–2015 U.S. Census, ultra-high-net-worth families are now having more children, so it's only fitting that properties are offering amenities that kids and parents alike can take advantage of.
At Turnberry Ocean Club in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., the kid-friendly amenities include a a tennis club, an indoor theater, and a kids' club with a massive playroom. Likewise, a playroom is the star of the show in Manhattan's Grand at SkyView Parc. The light-drenched room includes a built-in castle, an art display corner with a chalkboard, and a built-in bookshelf and reading corner. The building also comes with a seven-acre private garden (the largest private garden in New York City), which makes it easy for families to get plenty of sunshine and outdoor exercise, even in the midst of the concrete jungle.
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Outdoor amenities will be similarly on display at Rock House, a seaside residential resort on Turks and Caicos. Families can pass the time by swimming in the quarry pool that will be carved out of limestone (a first for the island) or head to the sugary white private beach to build sandcastles or look for shells. And at Oil Nut Bay in the British Virgin Islands, families can head to the nature center for learn-through-playing programming or relax in one of the villas, which can house up to 12 people at a time.
The hardest decision might be choosing which residential enclave is right for your family. But it's clear that no matter what you choose, there will be plenty of activities for kids and parents alike to participate in.
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If it is winter where you live, we can commiserate about the fact that in-season and tempting produce is non-existent this time of year. Our tomatoes are flavorless and even the apples are looking sad at this point. My go-to salad involves greens and whatever veggies I can chop and toss in the bowl, but I have to be creative this time of year when tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados, beans, etc. aren't tempting me at the store.
Enter the Roasted Vegetable Salad. It is the perfect time of year to take advantage of root and other vegetables that really shine when roasted. You could make this salad with whatever you have around to roast (I'd consider adding Brussels sprouts and beets or substitute them for the potatoes), but the one ingredient I wouldn't leave out is the fennel- I felt it really made the dish. The tangy dressing and and some crumbles of Homemade Goat Cheese complete the salad. An added bonus - the gorgeous colors!
1. Preheat oven to 425°. Toss onion, sweet and red potatoes, fennel, and bell pepper in a large bowl with 3 tbsp. oil and 1/2 tsp. each salt and pepper. Transfer vegetables to a rimmed baking sheet.
2. Roast vegetables until tender and golden, about 40 minutes, turning over halfway through baking time. About 10 minutes before they're done, sprinkle walnuts on baking sheet with vegetables and toast until golden.
3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together 1 tbsp. oil, the vinegar, honey, and 1/2 tsp. each salt and pepper.
4. Toss greens in a large bowl with one-quarter of dressing; divide among plates. Let vegetables cool about 5 minutes, then transfer to the large bowl and toss with about half of the remaining dressing; spoon the vegetables and walnuts over the greens. Garnish each salad with crumbles of goat cheese. Serve with remaining dressing on the side.


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Geese – Projector
Brooklyn indie rock prodigies Geese are slated to take on the world with their debut LP, "Projector."
by Jay Camacho
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Projector (n.): an object that is used to project rays of light, especially an apparatus with a system of lenses for projecting slides or film onto a screen. Alternatively: one who projects their insecurities onto an ever-changing, challenging world. Geese frontman Cameron Winter plays with this dichotomy at-length lyrically throughout the Brooklyn quintet's immaculate first studio release. "Now I'm the only good man left on earth/So why don't you want me?" Winter croons on the title track. Spoken like a true projector. There is often a sense of mythologizing that happens within the New York City rock scene wherein the larger narrative of music genealogy leads to mental mapping of generational forebears and the descendants; to that end, Geese are undoubtedly the next generation of New York City rock. I happened to be fortunate enough to be there in-person at the secret album release party at Baby's All Right , where the five piece proved once again that they are the Empire State's rightful indie heirs.
The nine track LP runs a tonal gamut spanning from lively, to disaffected, to wistfully introspective. Debut single "Disco" is yet another frantic, masterful entry in the larger pantheon of first singles by a band that absolutely get it right fresh out the gate, and the seismic, climactic build-up and payoff was a sure sign of Geese's staying power. That initial single drew in the eyes of many critics who lauded the band's refusal of standard verse-chorus-verse lyrical structure in place of a more cinematic romp through the woods, into an abandoned house, and up the steps into the ancient attic. "Low Era" and eponymous "Projector" complete the trifecta of pre-release material that built upon the strengths exhibited on "Disco." Somber, self-serious introspection, and grit-teeth instrumentation are found at every turn, with Winter simultaneously emulating his indie heroes, and stamping out his own unique voice. Perhaps no greater display of their synergy as a band can be found on the immaculate "Fantasies/Survival," a fully-formed beast of a snarling track in which guitarists Dom and Foster set out to make their fingertips bleed.
The tail-end trio of "Exploding House," "Bottle," and "Opportunity is Knocking" (the latter of which namedrops the title) form a mosaic of whiplash performances that crescendos with Winter musing aloud "Is this the end?" Eagle-eared listeners will be thrilled to know that the opening and closing chapters of Projector form a perfect feedback loop wherein the final notes of the album bleed effortlessly back into "Rain Dance," as if to suggest that the process of projecting is never quite over. Through and through, "Projector" remains one of the very finest albums of 2021, and one of the most untouchable debut records from any band this year.
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Robert Hyde (born 1 November 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood and Essendon football teams in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s.

Playing career
Hyde played 63 senior VFL football games between 1973 and 1979. A defender, Hyde won the Copeland Trophy in 1976 for Collingwood's best and fairest player. Hyde played for Collingwood in both the drawn 1977 VFL Grand Final and the Grand Final replay the following week. He finished his career with Essendon.

Coaching career
Hyde coached Greensborough to Diamond Valley Football League premierships in 1983 and 1984, and then spent time coaching North Old Boys in the Victorian Amateur Football Association. He was coach of the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup from 1996 to 2006, during which time he led the Cannons to five grand finals, winning three premierships After leaving Calder, he coached the Victorian Country team in the AFL Under 18 Championships. Hyde was appointed as senior coach of the Northern Blues in the VFL at the start of the 2012 season, a role he took on a part-time basis; however, he did not coach out the season, leaving the club on 28 June 2012. Hyde stated that the role was too large for a part-time coach, particularly because his own availability (as dictated by his primary job as a school principal) meant that he could not interact with AFL-listed players from , the Northern Blues' AFL-affiliate, except on game day.

Life outside football
Hyde was the principal of Epping Primary School - Greenbrook Campus in Epping, Victoria.

The Robert Hyde medal

The Robert Hyde medal is awarded to the Calder Cannons' best and fairest player each year.

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1954 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
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Essendon Football Club players
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Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler tease plans for fourth movie together
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler teased their plans to reunite for a fourth movie together at the 2020 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time on Sunday night (December 6, 2020).
The Hollywood pair won the golden GOAT for Dynamic Duo for their movies 50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer, and Blended at the ceremony, with Uncut Gems star Adam hinting another flick from them is on the cards in the future.
In their acceptance speech, Drew said to Adam as they appeared virtually: "It was so much fun to make a movie with you in every of the last three decades."
To which Adam replied: "Yes, yes, and Drew, it's 2020 so you know what that means…"
Drew responded: "Everything sucks?"
Adam continued: "Yeah, that's true — but also, it's a new decade so we get to make another movie together."
The actress then suggested they should wait until they find a really "special" story to tell, adding: "Right, well let's wait until we find something amazing, we do have 10 years."
Eager Adam replied: "Nine years and one month."
Drew concluded: "You're right. Well, that's not enough time. I don't know, it doesn't matter — it has to be special."
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UCLA at Oregon State Preview and Game Thread
After losing to Colorado Saturday, UCLA looks to get back on track tonight when the Bruins hit the road to play the Beavers.
By Joe Piechowski@JPiechowski Jan 18, 2018, 6:10pm PST
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The Bruins start this weekend off with a game in Corvallis against the Beavers. On paper, this is another game that should be winnable for the Bruins.
But, when you have a coach that doesn't seem to understand that it's ok for him to tell his players to get the ball to a certain player, you can't really expect to win every game you should.
Opponent: Oregon State Beavers (10-7, 2-3)
When: 8:00 pm PT, Thursday, January 18, 2018
Where: Gill Coliseum, Corvallis, OR
TV: Fox Sports 1 with Aaron Goldsmith and Doug Gottlieb
AM 570 in Los Angeles with Josh Lewin and Tracy Murray
Sirius Channel 81/XM Channel 81 (OSU feed)
Last season, the Bruins beat the Beavers in Corvallis by 13 points and in Westwood by 18. But, this year's Oregon State team is better than last year's team.
Last year, Wayne Tinkle did not have his best player available for either game. This year, his son Tres Tinkle has recovered from the wrist injury that forced him to miss most of last season and he's been on fire since getting back on the floor.
The younger Tinkle is the only player in the Pac-12 to score in double figures every single game this season and he is averaging 18.2 ppg. He also leads the team in both rebounds and assists with 7.4 rpg and 3.5 apg.
Oregon State's other leader is junior guard Stephen Thompson, Jr. who is averaging 16.5 ppg and is tied with Tinkle for the team lead in assists. In last year's game in Corvallis, Thompson scored 25 points against UCLA and he also led the Beavers at Pauley with 18.
So, the Bruins will need to stop Tinkle down low and Thompson up top.
Another returning starter from last year is junior forward Drew Eubanks. Eubanks is third in points per game and second in rebounding. He's the third biggest threat on the team this year with the return of Tinkle, but, last year, he was second in scoring against UCLA behind Thompson in both games and he had 9 rebounds at home and 7 as Pauley.
The Beavers have two newcomers in the starting lineup this year. The first is freshman guard Ethan Thompson, the brother of the Beavers' other starting guard and the younger son of one of the Beavers' assistant coaches. So far this year, Ethan is averaging 9.3 ppg.
The other Oregon State newcomer is graduate transfer Seth Berger. Berger played four season at UMass before deciding to transfer to OSU last Spring. Berger has had the smallest impact of Oregon State's starting five. He's currently averaging just 3.3 ppg and 2.7 rpg.
Look for the Beavers to come out hungry tonight as they are coming off a road trip to Arizona which saw them drop games to both the Wildcats and the Sun Devils.
This season, we are proud to, again, have today's audio feed for everyone who opts to use the Tune In player embedded below. For optimum results, start the audio feed then pause your DVR and sync them up together. There are times when I say that you shouldn't bother with the audio feed because of the announcers. Tonight is NOT one of those times. Bruin hater Doug Gottlieb is the analyst for tonight's game. So, leave your TV audio on at your own risk.
Join your fellow fans discussing today's game below. This is your UCLA Bruins at Oregon State Beavers game thread.


Lovely walk up in light mist, warm sunshine and nil wind. The mid valley mist cleared to a picturesque day with sheets of low cloud to the south and edging into the valleys and clear blue skies above.
I arrived at the top of the main bowl to find half a dozen gliders in the final stages of preparation and the odd one flying. A light/moderate breeze swept over the edge - fairly usual for here, and a nice, easy take off. I had a short soaring flight then landed to do some harness adjustments. The second flight was better and allowed the top summit ridge to be soared. Masses of people on the top plateau and plenty taking pictures. They should have been good as the air was very clear and the distant Lakes mountains were in clear definition.
With KO time looming I set off back to the cars and arrived with lots of height through a few valley wisps. A nice first flight of the year, but maybe I should have enjoyed it a little longer.
Storms in Brazil I hear.