Lighting has the unique ability to change the mood of a room's occupants. It can even affect how the size of a room is perceived by its users. For commercial buildings, intelligent lighting control systems offer businesses a simple way to achieve a range of elegant interiors, without the price tag associated with high electricity consumption. ADF explores how lighting control systems from CP Electronics have been used to inject a sense of luxury to a Premier League football club, and one of Manchester's most highly sought-after apartment blocks.
Many of the world's leading companies are known for their unique interiors and often, the way in which their buildings are lit can form part of the brand's identity. Think Apple and you associate its stores with bright lighting and minimalist decor. On the other hand, clothing company Hollister has previously made national headlines due to its dimly lit shopping environment. Undeniably though, the atmosphere in both stores have become synonymous with their household names.
To offer luxurious surroundings and furnishings to occupants, customers or guests is an investment many businesses cannot afford to prioritise. However, with a suitable lighting control system, an atmosphere that smacks of style and elegance is easier to achieve than you might think.
Effective lighting control systems can be used to change the mood within a room, depending on the occasion.
Newly promoted Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers, were recently looking to use a lighting control system to impress guests in the club's main boardroom. Used for conferences, match day hospitality and functions such as weddings, the multifunctional room required a variety of different lighting scenes to set the appropriate tone but retain the room's lavish character.
Providing this functionality was the RAPID system from CP Electronics, the UK's largest supplier of lighting controls. Using a scene plate, this fully addressable system enables Wolves' team to operate eight different pre-programmed scenes. Scenes include controlling perimeter lights, through to dimming them to an optimal level for presentations, and even a disco lighting setting at a touch of button. Furthermore, the system allows users to set the scene by controlling the lights with a smartphone via the Rapid Scene Control App.
Leading the way with the electronics and lighting work was Stuart Walters, Managing Director of CKW Contracts.
"While football is the main revenue generator, we understood that Wolves also do a lot of business through the corporate side. To that end, their main boardroom needed to excite.
"Not only does CP Electronic's RAPID system give the space that wow factor, it's also easy to control for the end users, and with a fully addressable system, it can be easily re-programmed if required".
Similarly, CitySuites in Manchester has recently cemented its place as one of the city's most desirable places to live and stay. With the likes of Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, as one of its residents and Michelin Starred chef, Tim Allen, serving up some of the finest cuisine within its walls, it was integral that the building's lighting matched the status of its clientele.
To help create and control the luxury ambience of CitySuites, CP Electronics supplied its D-Mate® room control system to the communal areas of the building, including the reception, gym and pool.
"CP Electronics demonstrated an understanding of the luxury feel we were going for with CitySuites immediately with the suggestion of their D-Mate® system. The scene setting plate in the reception allows reception staff to easily control the lighting and mood, while it was simple to commission, adaptable, and helps CitySuites save energy and cost when areas aren't in use.
To that end, corridors that link the building and apartments have all been installed with standalone long-range microwave detectors. These detectors are set to presence detection mode and work via motion sensors. The long-range microwaves pick up movement and switch the lights on when motion is detected and turn the lights off again when there is no movement.
With long corridors, CP Electronics specified microwave detectors that can sense movement up to 25-30 metres away from where the detector is installed. This means only one detector is needed per corridor and capital expenditure on detectors is reduced, while maintenance is also decreased in the long term.
Before splashing out on extravagant furniture or redecorating a room, it quite literally pays to consider how lighting control systems could change its mood.
The technology's ability to create luxurious settings combined with its power to provide significant efficiency benefits, means luxury can be achieved without the associated costs. Over a period of time, technology such as presence detectors can even mean the system will be paid off within years of installation.


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The Waterhen River (French : Rivière de la Poule d'Eau) is a river of Manitoba, Canada. It is the primary outflow for Lake Winnipegosis and flows into Lake Manitoba.

From Long Island Bay at the southeast end of the Lake Winnipegosis the West Waterhen and Little Waterhen rivers flow north about  into Waterhen Lake then the Waterhen River flows south  into Lake Manitoba.

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See also

List of rivers of Manitoba

References

Rivers of Manitoba
Hudson's Bay Company trading posts

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Marching Towards Not So Distant Drums.
The coverage of the All Under One Banner march in Glasgow last weekend was instructive. The one overtly nationalist Scottish daily paper gave over several pages devoted to pictures of some of the 35/55/85 thousand (pick your own estimate) who turned out to process from Kelvingrove to Glasgow Green. The one fairly sympathetic Scottish Sunday paper found itself getting pelters for foregrounding a pic which appeared to give equal prominence to the small band of Union Jack waving dissenters. The bulk of the mainstream media found itself looking elsewhere. By Monday one columnist was explaining to the lieges why the marchers had got it all wrong on four counts, and why Nicola Sturgeon should beware of listening to the man in the street. It was a fairly classic example of the "your betters know best" school of analysis.
So far, so predictable. But what the weekend also threw up were some interesting new strands to the overall Indy debate, and, more particularly, anent the timetable for running another poll. Some people, including an erstwhile and long term advisor to the First Minister, proposed that the the most practical course for the Scottish Government would be to throw in its lot with those Lib Dems, Greens and dissident Labour voices demanding a second Brexit Referndum; a peoples' vote on the final deal if they ever manage to come up with one. There are perfectly rational arguments for this course of action. You add grist to the stop Brexit mill, and you build cross party alliances against the day when IndyRef2 will need all the friends it can find. Whether this thought was offered by the Scottish Goverment and floated through an intermediary, or was an entirely personal observation I know not. But it is out there now.
This prompted a raft of other opinions; those who pointed out that opposing Brexit might alienate independence inclined Leave voters, and those who suggested that regardless of what we thought of Brexit in Scotland, our natural Remain majority would be ignored from a great height as it has been since June 2016. There were also those who, not unreasonably, reminded the would be UDI contingent that unless and until we had official sanction from London to run another Independence referendum the DIY variety would have no standing and would lose rather than garner those undecided electors needing to be brought on board.
All of these arguments can be said to have merit, in different contexts. My own instinct is that backing a people's vote on Brexit and planning for a second Independence Referendum should not be viewed as mutually exclusive. I still believe the likely fallout from Brexit to be economically catastrophic and that voters are entitled to endorse or reject the final deal. I still believe too that Brexit offers a substantial platform from which to mount another push for Scotland to reclaim full nationhood. If, as now seems likely, Holyrood and Westminster have to slug it out in the Supreme Court as to which previously devolved powers can be annexed by the UK Government "temporarily", then that too will concentrate many Scottish voters' minds.
All that said there is much work still to be done in refining the offer - not least on the economy - which might be put to the Scottish electorate in IndyRef2. There is a small mountain to climb in persuading my generation that neither with Brexit or Independence is it entitled to mortgage the future of its grandchildren. The young have overwhelmingly supported both Remain and Independence; they should not be shouted down at the ballot box by those whose race is much more nearly run.
I think that work and these efforts have to be redoubled now rather that at some indeterminate time when the starting pistol is fired. And, for the record, I think the man and woman in the street, the many thousands of men and women in the street, are rather more streetwise than many of the commentariat.

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a study by the British Medical Journal has proved that second hand inhalation of vapour has no potential risk to a non-user.
scientists recently confirmed that there are virtually the same toxins in the e-cig as there is in a room inside your home. They also noted that tobacco produces over 1,500 more carcinogenic compounds than e-cig vapour.
The American Association of Poison Control Centers has shown in a report that children are more likely to have toxin exposure and /or poisoning through household products such as bleach etc than they would from e-cig vapour.
Action for Smoking & Health have mentioned that e-cigs are both safe and a good alternative to smoking tobacco. Also confirming that changing from tobacco to e-cigs have helped people to stop smoking.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information in America, have published a report confirming that e-cigs are the greatest improvement in lowering smoking-related deaths and illnesses associated with smoking in over 10 years.


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March 2015 Edition Now Available
April 3, 2015 Uncategorizedartwork, fascination, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount, Mount Sinai, narrative medicine, ophthalmology, optometry, perception, photography, vision, visualnarrativevisions
Please find our March 2015 edition here, featuring our first photography piece from a contributor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Please find our February 2015 edition here, featuring artwork, poetry, and a reflective essay from contributors at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, and Guilford College. This month's edition reflects on diabetic retinopathy, blindness, and a mission trip to Guatemala.
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We are pleased to share our January 2015 edition featuring a reflective essay on global health and ophthalmology by Bala Ambati, MD, PhD.
"Sight for the Sightless" can be found here.
We are now accepting submissions for our February 2015 edition. Please refer to the Call for Submissions and Submission Guidelines pages for more information.
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The Journal of Narrative Visions (JNV) is a newly established online journal that accepts narrative medicine and creative pieces related to ophthalmology, optometry, and vision care. We are now open for submissions including non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and artwork.
We welcome submissions from patients, caregivers, ophthalmologists, optometrists, and other healthcare workers including medical students and residents from all over the world.
If you would like to submit a piece, please follow our submission guidelines located under "Submissions" on our website. All submissions should be emailed to narrativevisions@gmail.com.
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Antoneta Kastrati's She Comes In Spring (2013) is a really great film. My only complaint about it is that it's just too damn short. Somebody should give this fine filmmaker the resources she needs to make a feature length film on the same topic because she obviously has some real filmmaking talent, and she is obviously familiar with the issues involved.
Films like this uncover the violence and the stories from these wars in our own lifetime, stories that we seldom get to hear, and the crimes that can never be brought to justice.
A harsh but necessary look at the conflict in the Balkans from the 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc from the point of view of the people who were brutalized in the conflict. The horror in this film is that these people were once neighbors, figuratively, and became reduced to violence and prejudice. The past will always haunt them.
This is a powerful and disturbing short film about the Serbian massacres of Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. I can't say much more than it hit me like a truck.
Terse, crushing, brilliantly acted. Really threw me.


Older Single Mum: Decisions, Decisions.
Comparison sites make interesting fodder for conversation. They're a relatively new thing and I find them quite scary at the outset. Before long, though, you get used to them and even get to like them. Every hour spent exploring them can reap many £££ in savings.
We're all time short and no-one likes to be ripped off, so why not let them do the leg work for us?
People my age or thereabouts will remember a Yellow Pages advert. this kind of thing is reminiscent of. It was really ground-breaking at the time because of the slogan 'Let your fingers do the walking,' which has made it into common every day language now - as it stands us all in just as good stead on a computer keyboard.
So things are easier than they've ever been in that way, but the pay off is all the decisions and choices we're forced to make from the extra information that is generated. It's even impossible to order a coffee without half a dozen considerations nowadays!
Talking to the children about setting our sights on going to Barbados one day got me wondering where else would be the perfect place for a holiday for them. IceLolly.com comes up with some lovely, classy ideas, along with interesting guides about each.
They don't cover the Channel Islands which is where we might be heading this summer, but as I used to live there and we stay with a friend there is no evaluating to do. Phew.
But I'd happily invest any number of hours exploring any of these IceLolly resorts, saving many £££ in return. Which one would we decide on though?
Where would you like to take your children?
I'd love to take the family on a safari! Maybe one day.
If I had the money I'd like to take my daughter around Europe - one of those grand tours like they did way back when.
I think you make a really valid point about choice - we have so much choice these days and it can get very overwhelming at times - as we have just moved, me and Little A are having fun discovering the local area at the moment - there's a butterfly park I want to take her to in St Albans. X.


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West Bengal seeks investments for agriculture sector
By: Indronil Roychowdhury |
Kolkata | Published: October 20, 2015 12:03:52 AM
After the exit of the Tatas and Sajjan Jindal, the new area the West Bengal government is looking at for corporate investments is the agriculture sector where farm mechanisation...
After the exit of the Tatas and Sajjan Jindal, the new area the West Bengal government is looking at for corporate investments is the agriculture sector where farm mechanisation can pave the way for engineering industries to invest.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee through industry bodies like CII and Ficci has been pitching for industrial investments in the state citing existence of large land bank, surplus power and other infrastructural amenities. But there has been no significant private sector investment. The state's new thrust area is agriculture, for which it has roped in industry body like CII to find out possible avenues for investment.
CII and the state government organised Krishi Unnyan Mela in Burdwan, popularly known as the rice bowl of the state, to introduce concepts of farm mechanisation, which can create market of farm equipment for industries.
West Bengal's agriculture minister Purnendu Basu said there are 71.23 lakh farmers in the state involved in cultivating 55.10 lakh hectares of land. The state has brought 29,000 hectares of fallow land under irrigation. The state government has given kishan credit cards to 35.81 lakh farmers in the last four years and an agri credit of Rs 17,513.08 crore during the same period. This shows the size of a potential market, with which industry can set its linkage, Basu said.
Although the state has the APMC Act in place and has opened farm gates for procurement of agri products to corporates like Reliance Retail, Sanjiv Goenka's Spencer's and Aditya Birla's More, organised agri retailing has not got stem in the state. There is no bar of contract farming in the state but Pepsi has done it in a little way with the potato farmers only.
"We will have to look at West Bengal's agri market in a different way. It is not the farm products that corporate India can bank upon for retailing but farm equipment, which it can think of putting in every farmer's hands. Thus concept of farm mechanisation has to be popularised," PK Mazumdar, Mamata Banerjee's agricultural advisor, said.
CII has started working on creating enhanced linkage of agriculture with industry. Going by the suggestions of McKenzie, which says that food processing and export of processed food from India would increase 5 times in the next 5-7 years, West Bengal should thrive for doing a large part of it, Sanjiv Puri, ITC's president of FMCG business, said.
West Bengal's share of agriculture in gross value addition is 19% against the national average of 16%. So the state should gain a commanding position in the domestic as well as overseas processed food market. Enhanced agriculture and industry linkage can unleash such potential, Sanjiv Paul, managing director of Tata Metaliks said, adding that Tata Metaliks has a very remote linkage with agriculture in West Bengal since ductile pipes are used for supplying irrigation water to the fields.
Irrigation in West Bengal is mostly state-controlled and there are very few farmers, who could develop with their own system of irrigation. But mechanisation can bring companies like Tata Metaliks closer to the farmers.
But the major problem in mechanisation was the pattern of land holding in the state, since most holding were fragmented and majority of the farmers were marginal. In fact combined harvester has barely any market in West Bengal because its harvesting window is very big and cannot work on small land.
Sarvajeet Raj, deputy sales manager of Claas Agricultural Machinery, said the company sold 500 combined harvesters in Punjab last year, 120 in Orissa during the same period but could sell only 15 in West Bengal. "This year we may double our sales in West Bengal but this is not big enough a market to concentrate on," Raj said.
Basu said since West Bengal has a different situation with small land holding and marginal farmers, the state has to look at mechanization in a different way. "We are trying to promote low cost bio – pesticides and low cost agri equipment to bring down cost of farming, which has more than doubled in the last ten years. The Centre's Paramparagath Krishi Yojana is a fit scheme for the state. We will have to push organic farming in a big way. States like Karnataka, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu have made huge advancement in organic farming. We are trying to promote the concept of organic village in the state," Basu said.
According to Mazumdar since West Bengal has been aggressively pursuing non basmati rice exports and exported 12 lakh tonne in FY 14, it has to keep itself competitive in the global markets in terms of pricing and quality. At present 59 countries were importing rice from the state but with Thailand suddenly reducing the price of rice, imports to Africa might get a hit. West Bengal has 60 lakh tonne of buffer rice stock and it was hard getting a market for it. So bringing down cost of production was imperative, while also ensuring quality. Mechanization was the only mean to strike a balance between demand, production and quality, Mazumdar said.
"We are also looking at possibilities of IT application in agriculture and so industry linkage is must," Basu said. Better industry linkage could also ensure better credit flow to agriculture and industry body like CII can act as a catalyst in credit linking, Puri felt.


Face cleanser. You scrub it on and rinse it off. Surely in those 30 seconds it can't harm your skin, right?
Think again. While it's true that rinseoff products don't sit on your skin as long as things like, say, moisturizers—limiting your exposure to potentially harmful chemicals—that's only part of the story. The simple act of cleaning your face could set you up for premature aging.
In fact, you may be surprised to learn that your cleanser is the most important product in your skin care regimen. Before you put on your facial oil, moisturizer or your anti-aging treatment, you need clean, refreshed skin, or that next product just won't work as well.
Unfortunately, many of today's popular cleansers not only fail to clean well, but they can actually damage your skin, encouraging dryness, dullness, and the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Your cleanser could be aging your skin!
You've probably heard about pH balance in the skin, and how some products can disrupt it. But what is pH balance?
Travel back in time to your high school chemistry class and you may remember that pH means "potential hydrogen." (Don't feel badly if you don't—most of us were snoozing.) Scientifically, it measures the hydrogen ions in a concentration. You can think of it as an abbreviation for "power of hydrogen." More simply, it's a measurement of the acid-alkaline ratio of something, which ranges from 0 (the most acidic) to 14 (the most alkaline).
The number "7" is considered the midpoint. Anything above 7 is more alkaline, and anything below more acidic. Those elements with a pH of 7 are considered neutral—like pure water, which has a pH of 7.
Milk of magnesia is an alkaline substance with a pH of 10, which is why it helps soothe an acidic stomach. Any time you bring substances at opposite ends of the scale together, they can help balance each other.
Vinegar has a pH of 3, making it more acidic than water. This is why it helps dissolve things like hard water deposits.
Soda pop has a pH of 2.5, making it more acidic—which is why it can wear away your tooth enamel.
Baking soda is highly alkaline, and can help balance out acidic substances.
What does pH balance have to do with your skin? Like most things, your skin has a preferred pH level where it is most healthy and vibrant. The skin's outer layer, for example—which keeps in lipids and moisture—works best when it's slightly acidic, at a 5.5 pH level.
When the outer layer is too alkaline, it gets dry and sensitive, which can lead to fine lines, wrinkles, dullness, and even skin problems.
A 2010 study published in the British Journal of Dermatology reported that after eight years, women with an alkaline outer layer developed more fine lines and crow's feet and were more prone to damage than those with more acidic skin.
On the other hand, skin that is too acidic isn't happy either. It's likely to respond with increased breakouts, and may feel raw, irritated, and sore.
Balancing skin pH is a great way to delay the signs of aging and encourage vibrant, youthful looking skin. Unfortunately, many of us mess up the pH balance first thing in the morning when we clean our faces, setting the stage for premature aging.
Even if you're doing everything else you're supposed to do, including applying sunscreen, facial oil or moisturizer, and anti-aging treatments, if you don't have the right cleanser, you could be wasting your money!
Determining which side your skin is on can help you discover what's going wrong in your skin care. Of course, if your skin is vibrant, dewy, and perfectly moisturized, you're well balanced and have nothing to worry about. Very few of us fall into that category, however!
Why is your cleanser so important to your skin's pH? Because surfactants—the ingredients in your cleanser that clean skin—can easily disrupt the pH. Soap that is too alkaline, for example, can break up the acid in your skin, causing dryness. That's why we recommend you don't use soap to clean your skin as most are too drying with pH levels between 9-12. Once you disrupt your skin's pH with soap, it can take hours to restore itself, leaving your skin vulnerable to aging during that time.
The pH level of most cleansers is slightly higher than 5.5—your skin's preferred level—so they can break down dirt and oil. They have to be slightly different to be effective, but the balance is critical. Those that are too alkaline may get your skin clean, but they will also strip your skin of its natural oils, causing dryness, dullness, irritation, and wrinkles.
There is a very fine line between creating the perfect cleanser one to be completely balanced and in harmony with your skin. Start using the right cleanser now, and you will be on your way to beautiful healthy skin. Oh, and by the way—ignore the words "pH balanced" on a product. It's just marketing hype, as most soap-free cleansers are pH balanced.
How can you tell if a product will clean your skin without damaging it? The next step—watch out for harsh ingredients.
We talked about sodium laureth sulfate and sodium lauryl sulfate in a former post. These are two popular ingredients used in skin care products, but they're too harsh and drying. Their pH levels are around 10, which means they can strip the skin's natural oils and create dryness, particularly if you use them every day.
On the other hand, ingredients like alpha hydroxy acids and amino fruit acids can help exfoliate and deep clean, but they can also be overly acidic, which can disrupt the lipid barrier in skin and even weakens skin's natural defenses to environmental pollution.
Looking at the ingredient deck on your products will help you choose more nourishing, tender cleansers. The best gauge for how your products are working, however, is your skin! If it feels dry, dull, and irritated, your cleanser may be too alkaline. If it's oily, red, sensitive, or breaking out, your cleanser may be too acidic.
Note that you'll likely find differences in your skin as you age, as well. What worked for you when you were in your 20s probably won't work as well anymore. Skin naturally gets dryer as we age, as it doesn't produce as much natural oil. The outer layer also becomes damaged, and is less able to hold onto moisture.
It all comes down to a delicate balance between you, your skin, and your products. At Annmarie Skin Care, we use nourishing plant ingredients that clean your skin without being too harsh or too drying. Our cleansers also include protective antioxidants and restorative moisturizers.
When you start your day off with a perfectly balanced cleanser, like our Citrus Mint Cleanser or Aloe Herb Cleanser, you're helping your skin to appear more vibrant and smooth while keeping it clean and refreshed.
While most cleansers for oily skin strip the excess oil with each use, the Citrus Mint Cleanser helps to balance oil production over time. It's important to understand the role of pH in your skin care to choose the best natural, anti-aging cleanser for your skin!
How does your skin feel after using our Citrus Mint Cleanser? We would love to hear your story!
In the clues of acidic / alkaline skin, I found that I had a few factors of both?
Excellent article. Super information for us all. Also the aloe vera is one of the ingredients that is helps immensely to repair the skin after it is burned by the sun or hospital treatments. Good choice for your cleanser. Thank you.
So happy you enjoyed the article. Thank you Judy, we just love Aloe in all it's forms :). And it is so silky in our cleanser and leaves skin radiant. Make it a wonder-filled day :).
I know for a fact that the Aloe Herb cleanser has totally brought my skin back to it's proper balance and my once extremely uncomfortably dry skin is now normal!:) Thank you Annmarie!!


It is a murky, grey day towards the end of Setpember 2010. I cannot see blue sky but I am not sure whether it is a sheet of cloud or mass of drizzle above my head. It was about mid-day when I went to the hive. Fine drizzle, quite cold so imagine my surprise when I saw, excuse the pun, a hive of activity. There were masses of bees around the entrance and having watched a video of bees getting ready to swarm, it was reminiscent of that. But they were mainly facing the hive and there were still many bees entering carrying pollen. Perhaps this is the day the drones are expelled? I wondered whether I'd see any on the floor – not really, an odd one or two perhaps but nothing unusual. I took a couple of still pictures which I can upload here and a couple of videos I can host elsewhere.
Another surprise is that there is still so much pollen coming into the hive. The queen should stop laying or reduce for the winter. The activity is not confined to the hive entrance. The sky above is also typical of a much warmer summer day – bees who seem either to rise from the hive and get their bearings from a few straight line sweeps of the air above or who, on their return, make almost a square spiral of movement down into the hive.
As I watched, coincidentally or not, there was suddenly what looked a much larger bee going across the hive and away to the South East. It did not hesitate near the hive so possibly has no connection to the sense of alarm or at least heightened excitement, but my mind thinks 'hornet' and remembers a video I saw on you tube of a hive destroyed by hornets. I get some comfort from how thriving my colony appears – with this many outside the hive surely those who pass would not tackle what could be a relentless army.
When I awoke this morning, I saw what appeared to be bees flying across the roof by the bedroom. From the balcony I could see their focus seemed to be just behind a corner of the window. What an irony if we now have been that have taken residence. They couldn't be some of my colony, could they? I guess the best thing is to leave them for now and then see if they survive the winter.
PS: No, they did not survive teh cold winter of 2010/2011.


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The reversible balloon cap LEO is sewn so easily and so quickly that even beginners won´t have any problems!
Of course you may use remnants - the fabric you have chosen determines the desired effect of the cap.
It is up to you to use ribbons, flowers or small-sized appliqués as an additional adornment. It is suggested to use different remnants.
The result will be a multicoloured and attractive cap which possibly matches the dress.


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// Classes for finding packets in index of filebundles for the portable server.
// This class is used for deployed portable globes and should minimize
// dependencies so that it can be easily compiled on multiple platforms.

#ifndef GEO_EARTH_ENTERPRISE_SRC_FUSION_PORTABLEGLOBE_SERVERS_FILEUNPACKER_SHARED_PACKETBUNDLE_FINDER_H_
#define GEO_EARTH_ENTERPRISE_SRC_FUSION_PORTABLEGLOBE_SERVERS_FILEUNPACKER_SHARED_PACKETBUNDLE_FINDER_H_

#include <fstream>  // NOLINT(readability/streams)
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "./packetbundle.h"

class GlcReader;

/**
 * Class for reading in packets from a directory of packet bundle
 * files and their associated index.
 *
 * TODO: Add a second finder that implements FindPacketInIndex
 * TODO: by cacheing the index in memory. E.g. for qt packets.
 * TODO: depending on available ram.
 */
class PacketBundleFinder : public PacketBundle {
 public:
  PacketBundleFinder(
      const GlcReader& glc_reader, uint64 index_offset, uint64 index_size);

  /**
   * Find the index in the index file. Set index item fields if it
   * is found.
   * @param reader Object for safely reading the packet file.
   * @param index_item Index item with btree, level, packet_type, offset and
   * packet size info set.
   * @return whether the index item was found.
   */
  bool FindPacketInIndex(IndexItem* index_item);

 private:
  static const int MAX_CACHE_SIZE;
  const GlcReader& glc_reader_;
  uint64 index_offset_;
  uint64 index_size_;
  uint64 num_index_items_;

  // The cache uses a very simple idea: if you are looking at a particular region,
  // most of your binary search through the packet index will be indentical to what
  // it was for the previous packet. Since this is very cheap in terms of memory,
  // i.e. O(log2(# of packets)), it should be fine for multi-globe situations.
  // If you are on a large quadtree boundary, the cache may not help much, but it
  // shouldn't hurt performance either.
  // Assumes that the number of packets will not exceed 2^64 - 1.
  // Assumes that the globe does not change underneath it.
  // Both of these assumptions are already made in other parts of the code.
  // The cache is not thread safe. Using the cache in a multi-threaded context
  // might not be very useful since it defeats the local neighborhood idea if
  // lots of people are looking at different parts of the globe at the same time.
  std::vector<uint64> index_cache_location_;
  std::vector<IndexItem> index_cache_;
};

#endif  // GEO_EARTH_ENTERPRISE_SRC_FUSION_PORTABLEGLOBE_SERVERS_FILEUNPACKER_SHARED_PACKETBUNDLE_FINDER_H_

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The actress opens up in her latest podcast
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Posted Aug 20, 2019 4:10 PM CDT
Actress Alyssa Milano speaks at a campaign event for democratic congressional candidate Katie Porter on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Tustin, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
(Newser) – Alyssa Milano is getting personal about abortion. The actress—who recently called for a sex strike to oppose anti-abortion laws—revealed in her podcast Sunday that she had abortions twice in her 20s. "In 1993, I had two abortions," the 46-year-old said, per USA Today. "I was in love for the first time, in the breathless way you can only be in love when you are young. It was huge. … It filled every part of living. It was a joyful and exciting and powerful time in my life." She was "not ready to be a parent" and was devastated when the pill didn't work, she says. "I was raised Catholic and was suddenly put in conflict with my faith. … I had a career and a future and potential. And also, I suffered from sometimes crippling anxiety."
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Q: Lua Gideros: Trouble drawing line with touch In my Game using Gideros and Lua, I want players to be able to draw a straight line from the point they touch the screen until the point they release. However, when I try run this code, I always get an error message. Here is the code:
local function onMouseDown(event)
    event.x = startx
    event.y = starty

    event:stopPropagation()
end

local function onMouseUp(event)
    event.x = endx
    event.y = endy
    event:stopPropagation()
    local line = Shape.new()
    line:setLineStyle(5, 0x0000ff, 1)
    line:beginPath()
    line:moveTo(startx,starty)
    line:lineTo(endx,endy)
    line:endPath()

end

This next line is line 66 in my code:
scene:addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown)
scene:addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_UP, onMouseUp)

Here is the line where I set up "scene":
scene = gideros.class(Sprite)

Here is my error message:
main.lua:66: index '__userdata' cannot be found
stack traceback:
    main.lua:66: in main chunk
Does anyone know why I am getting this message?

A: If you do
scene = gideros.class(Sprite)

it means scene is a class, but you can add event listeners only to the instance of the class, not the class itself.
So something like this should work:
Scene = gideros.class(Sprite)
local scene = Scene.new()
stage:addChild(scene)

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Tag '19 November'
Launch of the European Enterprise Promotion Awards 2015
Tags: 19 November, competition, EEPA 2015, Luxembourg, SME
Today the European Commission has launched the 2015 edition of the European Enterprise Promotion Awards, a competition to reward the most imaginative and successful initiatives from public bodies and public-private partnerships which support entrepreneurship, and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
The competition officially starts today across all EU Member States and Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey. In June, the two national winners from each country will be selected to compete at the European level and represent their country. Participants' ultimate aim is to win the Grand Jury Prize, which will be announced in Luxembourg on 19 November, which is part of the SME Assembly, the main European SME Week event.
The competition has two stages; applicants must first compete at the national level and will then be eligible to compete at the European level. For the national competition, each country will select two entries to be nominated for the European competition by June 2015.
A shortlist of nominees will be chosen by the European jury. All nominees from the national and European competitions will be invited to attend the Awards ceremony, which recognises the winners for their efforts and gives them the opportunity to present themselves in a pan-European environment.
For more information on the European Enterprise Promotion Awards in your country, visit the website, follow the Awards on Twitter in English, French, Spanish, Italian or German or visit the official Awards Facebook page.
You can also get in touch with your National Co-ordinator to find out about how to apply for the Awards in your country.
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Печать американских Островов Самоа основана на местном мотиве.

Фуе или мухобойка — символизирует мудрость, в то время как To'oto'o или посох символизирует власть. Оба символа используются правителем при разговоре — отличительный знак, уровень королей. Таноа (шар кавы) — ещё один символ Самоа (апельсиновый напиток).

Внизу надпись Samoa Ia Muamua Le Atua — «Самоа — Первый после Бога». Наверху — 17 апреля 1900 — дата присоединения островов к США и получения ими официально статуса.

Литература
 Все про світ. Країни. Прапори. Герби: енциклопедичний довідник / [відповідальний за випуск М. Ілляш]. —  : Школа, 2001. — 622 с. ISBN 966-7657-79-5.

Американское Самоа
Государственные символы Американского Самоа


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Researchers Create Plastic-Degrading Enzyme
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An international team of researchers from the United States, UK and Brazil has engineered an enzyme which can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the primary material used in the manufacture of single-use plastic beverage bottles, in some clothing, and in carpets.
The research team made the breakthrough when they were examining the structure of PETase, a natural enzyme which is thought to have evolved in a waste recycling center in Japan, allowing the recently-discovered bacterium Ideonella sakaiensis to degrade plastic as a food source.
PET, patented as a plastic in the 1940s, has not existed in nature for very long, so the researchers set out to determine how the enzyme evolved and if it might be possible to improve it.
The goal was to determine its structure, but they ended up going a step further and accidentally engineered an enzyme which was even better at breaking down PET plastics.
"Serendipity often plays a significant role in fundamental scientific research and our discovery here is no exception," said co-lead author Professor John McGeehan, from the University of Portsmouth, UK.
"Although the improvement is modest, this unanticipated discovery suggests that there is room to further improve these enzymes, moving us closer to a recycling solution for the ever-growing mountain of discarded plastics."
To generate a 3D model of the PETase enzyme, Professor McGeehan and colleagues used the Diamond Light Source, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the Sun to act as a microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.
They discovered that PETase looks very similar to a cutinase, but it has some unusual features including a more open active site, able to accommodate man-made rather than natural polymers.
These differences indicated that PETase may have evolved in a PET-containing environment to enable the enzyme to degrade PET.
To test that hypothesis, the researchers mutated the PETase active site to make it more like a cutinase.
And that was when the unexpected happened — they found that the PETase mutant, S238F/W159H, was better than the natural PETase in degrading PET.
Significantly, the new enzyme can also degrade polyethylene furandicarboxylate (PEF), a bio-based substitute for PET plastics that is being hailed as a replacement for glass beer bottles.
"The engineering process is much the same as for enzymes currently being used in bio-washing detergents and in the manufacture of biofuels — the technology exists and it's well within the possibility that in the coming years we will see an industrially viable process to turn PET and potentially other substrates like PEF, PLA, and PBS, back into their original building blocks so that they can be sustainably recycled," Professor McGeehan said.
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Q: Trying to multithread a Sieve of Eratosthenes, with each thread taking a range of numbers to sieve I am unfortunately very very lost on how to start with the multithreading. Here is my un-threaded sieve code. I assume the threaded code will look very similar. perhaps something like this??? :
public class PrimeThread extends Thread {

    private int start, stop;
    ArrayList<Integer> list;

    public PrimeThread(int start, int stop, ArrayList<Integer> list) {
        this.start = start;
        this.stop = stop;
        this.list = list;
    }

    public void run() {
        boolean done = false;
        int currPrime = 0, pos = 2, initVal = 0;

        outerloop:
        for (int i = start; i < stop; i++) { //for every number in the list
            while (list.get(pos) == 0) {
                if (pos == list.size() - 1) {
                    break outerloop;
                }
                pos++;
            }

            currPrime = list.get(pos++); //set the current prime
            initVal = currPrime; //save the initial val of the prime
            done = false;

            while (!done) {
                try {
                    //increment the currPrime by its initial value
                    currPrime += initVal;
                    //set the number at the new currPrime position to 0
                    list.set(currPrime, 0);
                } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
                    //if currPrime position > list size, break out of while loop
                    done = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Can someone help explain how to get started please?


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a lot of stuff being said.
is the slippery-slope of the devil.
and the devil is uninvited.
st. michael, with your sword of truth, shine down!
away satan! stand behind me!
for he is at your side.
pray those hearing not travel down the slippery slope.
pray the snare not be set for they too.
no hate set up in our house.
only friendship given. with hugs n' blessings.
but our god is stronger than a flock.
He is stronger when we are weak.
in His joy. shining bright.
His protection. no matter what may come.
get ye' to thee sunglass hut satan!
just hugs n' blessings given here!
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Thanks to plantingpotatoes for re-blogging this. I posted your image "Don't tell…" on my blog. Just way too pointed and true not to spread it around.
The image, for me, is a reflection of Revelations 3:16. A little humorous to think of God spitting us out from His mouth because we are 'lukewarm.' I know I do these things with 'unfavorable' tastes. And to me gossip is always something which leaves a bad taste behind…in our hearts & in our minds. Thank you for the re-blog…may it inspire others to never be lukewarm in His ways, ALL-ways! Hugs & Blessings!
Thank you so much… i am crying so much right now. Thank you. i needed to hear this song right now.
May God wrap you in His healing hands as He holds you and comforts your heart! You are loved and I am sending you my hugs & blessings too!


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The S&P500 and Dow Emini Futures traded lower today amid ongoing Euro worries and fresh concerns about China's lowered growth target. The opening hour gave us a 7 point range on the ES and and a 100 point range on the YM. Both markets managed to claw their way back to finish on par with Friday's close.
As you will see below on tonight's Emini Charts, the imporatnce of good support and resistance numbers cannot be underestimated or overstated. Whether it's fixed (WTZ) or dynamic, knowing where the market is attempting to go adds a tremendous level of clarity and helps a trader put things in the proper perspective. The markets don't always turn on a dime the way they did today, but when they do, we want to be quick to recognize it and trade accordingly to maximize the potential.
CFRN Partners receive the Weekly Trading Zones before the markets open every Monday morning. We currently publish Trading Zones for the S&P 500 Emini Futures, Dow Futures, Euro Futures, British Pound and the Russell. In general, these are "areas" where we expect the market to consolidate and make a decision. The outcome is always rejection or acceptance. Either way, price then begins its journey to the next Zone. Today's activity might look unusual but if you reference our historical charts, the real exception to the rule is "when price does not move zone to zone".


CS Intermediate course is ten months duration course which is the second stage course after clearing the foundation course on the path of becoming a Company Secretary.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India has released new syllabus for the Company Secretary (CS) Inter-Programme. CS Inter Study Materials have been incorporated with all recent amendments, circulars, and notifications.
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Gin Diaries
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Meet the Maker: Andrew Rall of Distillery 031
Tasting at Distillery 031 - Image courtesy of Distillery 031
Distillery 031, as the dialing code inspired name would suggest, is a Durban based distillery run by Andrew Rall – the founder and master distiller.
What is so special about them?
Well only the fact that they distill an award wining range that not only boggles the mind but includes three gins, vodka, rum, brandy, liqueur, absinthe and cachaca which is made from sugar cane. An impressive collection such as this warrants much closer inspection and tasting while we are at it!
Some of their impressive range along with their accolades
The inspiration behind the distillery
Andrew has been distilling for about 12 years with Distillery 031 coming in as the oldest craft distillery in Kwa-Zulu Natal and one of the first in SA. "We started distilling well before the Cape Town gin boom began."
Andrew has always had an interest in spirits but for a long time, focused on quantity rather than quality. It was during his period living in the UK that he spent some time in Scotland and happened to fall in love with single malt whiskies.
"Visiting whisky distilleries sparked and interest in distilling and quality spirits. About 12 years ago I was drinking with some friends when we started discussing why there were no quality spirits being made in South Africa. This was long before the "craft gin revolution" and at the time SA only produced good potsilled brandies."
So after some investigation, Andrew realised that the only reason that SA didn't produce great spirits was that no one had tried and he took it upon himself to give it a bash. "My passion was (and still is rum) but along the way I began to discover amazing craft gins in the US and Europe and fell in love with gin."
Andrew and his hard working still
What goes into the gins
Regarding their botanicals, Distillery 031 lean toward both the classic gin botanicals as well as a few that are unique to Kwa-Zulu Natal.
"We combine botanicals like juniper, coriander, cardamom, angelica root with unique botanicals like African Rosehip, coffee cherries and then some."
Where do the botanicals come from?
They are sourced from around the world but wherever possible, Andrew tried to favor local ingredients with the exception of juniper which unfortunately is not cultivated here.
"In fact, we are super fussy about the juniper berries we use in our gins and source them from Tuscany in Italy. The barrels we use for D'Urban Barrel Aged Gin are made with French oak (the same type as used to make Cognac) because they impart a very subtle flavour to the gin. We do use many local ingredients however."
Time to meet The D'Urban Gin Trio
1. D'Urban Dry Gin
The signature botanical in our D'Urban Dry Gin is African Rosehip which is indigenous to Kwa-Zulu Natal. It is a classic, London Dry style gin which won 2017 South African Gin of the Year at the New York International Spirit Competition.
I personally find it very juniper forward and great for true London Dry style lovers.
2. D'Urban Scarlet Gin
For our Scarlet Gin they use cascara (the bright fruit from coffee cherries) which is sourced from Beaver Creek Coffee Estate on the Kwa-Zulu Natal South Coast. The world's first gin made with cascara (coffee cherries) and winner of 3 gold medals (in San Francisco, New York & London).
The is a very bold and unique gin, not only for the colour but for the botanicals too. Scarlet, in spite of her name, is not for the faint of heart but is lovely nonetheless.
3. D'Urban Barrel Aged Gin
To be honest, this is my firm favourite in their range, the aging imparts a flavour that no still can give on its own.
SA's first barrel aged gin and winner of a gold medal at the Gin Masters in London in 2017.
It's interesting to note that their D'Urban Barrel Aged Gin is the first in SA and one of the first in the world.
"We age it in French Oak (the same type as is used for Cognac). We use a unique aging process with smaller barrels to achieve a mellowing of the gin and impart subtle spicy & caramel notes without losing the fresh notes that make it a quintessential gin."
Life beyond the distillery
Apart from the gin distillation, Andrew was (and still is) involved in a number of other businesses. The most recent venture was the development of the Station Drive Precinct.
This is Durban's first urban renewal district and is similar to Woodstock in Cape Town and Maboneng in Jozi.
Their website http://www.distillery031.com/ offers a comprehensive history of the various alcohols, this history behind the distillery and more importantly how to book a tasting and tour of the distillery. Booking is essential so contact them asap because I can't think of anything better to do on the weekend than a gin tasting can you?
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This scene is to the northwest of the recently named crater Magritte, in Mercury's south. The image is not map projected; the larger crater actually sits to the north of the two smaller ones. The shadowing helps define the striking "Mickey Mouse" resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury's long geologic history.
This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-incidence-angle base map. The high-incidence-angle base map is a major mapping activity in MESSENGER's extended mission and complements the surface morphology base map of MESSENGER's primary mission that was acquired under generally more moderate incidence angles. High incidence angles, achieved when the Sun is near the horizon, result in long shadows that accentuate the small-scale topography of geologic features. The high-incidence-angle base map is being acquired with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel.
The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MESSENGER acquired 88,746 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is now in a yearlong extended mission, during which plans call for the acquisition of more than 80,000 additional images to support MESSENGER's science goals.


I received an ARC of Nightingale through NetGalley. It's a YA horror novel set in the 1950's. This one's a flop so far for me.
I've been meaning to get to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for ages, and I'm so glad I finally made time for it. I'm absolutely loving this book.
One of Us is Lying is described as "The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars," and that feels pretty succinct. I'm almost done with this one and it's pretty enjoyable so far, if a bit cheesy.
I had a pretty busy reading week, apparently, and it was a rather good one. I think the biggest flop of the week for me was On Burning Mirrors (which was pretty disappointing because I was excited about it in terms of representation) but even that one I rated 3 stars, so I didn't read anything truly awful this past week.
Click the links for my reviews of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, On Burning Mirrors, and Goodbye, Paris.
The Dinner List and The Book of Speculation will be up at a later date.
The Woman in the Window is the next of my Book of the Month books I'm planning to read. I've seen pretty much unanimously positive reviews for this one, so I'm excited to get into this thriller!
Nice list!! I have no idea what I'm reading since I'm not feeling any of my ARC's at the moment. And I have six. 😦 It's like I'm not the same person as I was when I requested them or something? IDK.
One of Us is Lying is AMAZInG! I loved it!
The Woman In the Window was also pretty good! Kind of a slow burn, but i really enjoy those.
The Dinner List was decent, but not remotely what I expected. From the blurb, you'd expect a cute, light read, but it got pretty dark and emotional. Worth reading, just not at all what you think it's going to be.
Thanks for the heads up! I try to balance my current reads by having one cute/fun book per every heavy/dark book I read, and now I know which pile that one belongs in.
Yes, good to know! That's also on my TBR, and I definitely wouldn't have expected dark from the description.
So many of these are on my TBR! I can't wait to see what you think of Hunger. I have been wanting to read it for awhile now but I know it's going to be emotional.
I've been meaning to pick up One of Us is Lying, I get a We Were Liars vibe from it and it sounds pretty good. I also want to check out Roxanne Gay's writing, particularly Ayiti as I've heard so many wonderful things about it.
One of Us is Lying is fun. It's super tropey and kind of cheesy, but it's just really fun.
I keep hearing so many good things about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! Glad to hear you're enjoying it too.


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Tag: Team of the week | Roscommon Herald
Two Roscommon senior footballers have been selected on the GAA.ie Football Team of the Week. After spearheading Sunday's terrific...
The Fahey Cup is in Strokestown – but who's in the Roscommon Herald SFC Team of the Year?
A remarkable 2022 Hodson Bay Hotel Senior Football Championship is all over (unless you own a pub in Strokestown, in...
County final places secured – but who makes the Roscommon Herald JFC/IFC Team of the Week?
With the senior final just over the horizon, the talk at the moment is all about Boyle and Strokestown –...
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Juniors to the fore – it's the Roscommon Herald JFC Team of the Week!
The action is hotting up across all grades of adult football in Roscommon, and this past week we also saw...
Friday, 07/10/22 - 11:47am Read More
The Fast and the Fuerty-ous – it's the Roscommon Herald IFC Team of the Week!
Fuerty and St. Croan's advance by a landslide, Creggs paid the price for missing early goal chances against St. Dominic's...
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Gaels on the march, Tulsk survive – but who's on the SFC Team of the Week?
Roscommon Gaels knocking over the reigning Connacht champions was the big story of the weekend, while Elphin's return to intermediate...
Wednesday, 05/10/22 - 2:48pm Read More
Intermediates, take the spotlight! It's the IFC Team of the Week…..
Fuerty and St. Dominic's moved well clear of the chasing pack while Éire Óg also made light of the absence...
Wednesday, 21/09/22 - 10:41am Read More
Knockout stages looming, but who's in form? It's Senior Team of the Week time!
It was a weekend of tense finishes, returning emigrants and serious declarations of intent in the Roscommon senior football championship,...
Tuesday, 20/09/22 - 4:05pm Read More
More Team of the week
Inters in action – it's the Roscommon Herald IFC Team of the Week
Wednesday, 10/08/22 - 2:33pm
Round One complete, it's time for the first Roscommon Herald SFC Team of the Week!
Pearses take the Fahey Cup – but who makes the Roscommon Herald SFC Team of the Year?
Celebrations continue in Ballyleague – but who makes the Roscommon IFC Team of the Year?
The Cunniffe Cup is Athleague's – but who makes the Roscommon SHC Team of the Year?
Friday, 22/10/21 - 3:45pm
Dominic's and Faithleach's dominate, the Joes go into Europe! It's the JFC/IFC Team of the Week!
Pearses and Clann make the final – but who makes the Roscommon Herald Team of the Week?
Favourites crash out, parish rivals elated – it's the SHC Team of the Week!
Four clubs advance to the semi-finals, but who makes the Roscommon Herald IFC Team of the Week?
The semi-final lineup is settled – but who made the Roscommon Herald SFC Team of the Week?
Free-scoring goalkeepers and 3-19 from the full-forward line – it's the Team of the Week!
Rampaging defenders and free scoring full forwards – it's the Roscommon Herald IFC Team of the Week!


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Field Reps Michael Garza and Rich Aguilar filed the grievances on behalf of detective class 18-10-01, whose members were forced to work Michigan Avenue on 30 June 2018.
The detectives were sworn in on and given their units of assignment on 27 June 2018, but the department detailed them to foot posts in uniform on Michigan Avenue instead of going to the areas.
One grievance, fled by field rep Mike Garza, claims the detectives were improperly detailed. It seeks time-and-a-half pay for all period in which they were improperly detailed.
Another grievance, filed by Rich Aguilar, claims the day off group for the detectives was changed in violation of the contract. It claims time-and-a-half for all hours worked on 30 June 2018.
Both reps believe the grievances are important to stymie further attempts by the department to fill positions in a manner that violates the contract.


The new Apex Legends update is here and the patch notes should be plenty pleasing for anybody who likes a larger legend, rocking a sniper, or hanging out in the drop ship longer than five seconds. Apex Legends update 1.1.1 went live on Tuesday with some of the biggest balance tweaks yet for the two-month-old game. We've pulled out three of the biggest changes to the game and how they'll affect your matches right here, but you can scroll on to see the full change log for yourself.
Poor Gibraltar and Caustic have been relatively unpopular in Apex Legends since launch for one simple reason: they're too big. They're waaaay easier to hit than teensy characters like Wraith and Lifeline, but they aren't otherwise powerful enough to make up the difference. Pathfinder had that problem too, but Respawn Entertainment was able to bring him up to spec with some refinements to his hitbox. The two big fellas needed some extra help, and now they have it in the form of a new passive perk: Fortified, which reduces all damage taken by 10%. Respawn says it will "aggressively tune" this ability in the next couple weeks if they still feel underpowered. Plus, Caustic's gas now deals four times as much damage per tick and Gibraltar's gun shield has 50% more HP.
Everybody moves so damn fast in Apex Legends that sniper rifles have always been tough to get damage (let alone kills) with. Character speed isn't changing but weapon sway is, which should make it easier to at least line up shots. You'll also only deal 10 percent less damage for landing a leg shot with a sniper rifle rather than the big ol' 25 percent reduction you got before. It's not enough to turn Apex into a sniper's game but it should make extra-long-range combat more viable. Also of note are further nerfs for the Wingman pistol: now it will start with only four rounds per magazine and top out at 10 rounds with an epic magazine extender mod equipped.
Speaking of Apex Legends being fast, why not make the jump ships faster too? Respawn Entertainment gave the match-starting vehicle a 50 percent speed boost in the latest patch, so it should be less of a boring wait if you want to land on the far side of the map. If we're lucky this will also means fewer impatient squadmates furiously pinging the map and/or dropping on their own.
Below, we've outlined the latest patch notes from the developers.


If, as the philosopher Francis Bacon wrote, "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power," then Philip Johnson might be remembered by future generations after all. Johnson, who will begin his ninetieth year next summer, is unlikely to be regarded very highly as an architect, however. During an exceptionally fortunate career of more than half a century—propelled by personal wealth, social connections, quick intelligence, ambition, skill at self-advertisement, dazzling charm, a sturdy constitution, impeccable timing, and an instinct for gravitating toward the powerful—he has produced only half a dozen structures of any real distinction. Some great architectural reputations rest on even fewer works, but they are not contravened, as in Johnson's case, by a much larger proportion of poor designs.
Johnson's carefully cultivated image as the perpetual enfant terrible of his conservative profession has been based both on his legendary role as co-curator of the Museum of Modern Art's epochal Modern Architecture: International Exhibition of 1932, which had a revolutionizing effect on American architecture equivalent to that of the 1913 Armory Show on American painting, and his support of a new generation of avant-garde architects from the 1970s onward. Yet throughout his career he has been bound to convention, albeit high-style convention, ceaselessly shifting his style to suit his perceived sense of the Zeitgeist. Symbolic of Johnson's establishment role in sponsoring those younger architects has been his series of private, black-tie dinners for them at New York's Century Club. His work has been good in direct proportion to who it is he has been copying.
Johnson first became a disciple of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Berlin in 1930, when the young American was in Europe gathering material for the forthcoming MoMA show and its accompanying publications. (He collaborated on the exhibition, its catalog, and a more extensive book with the architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.) Johnson came from a rich Cleveland family which gave him an independent income; he was then twenty-four and had graduated from Harvard with a degree in classics and philosophy. Unschooled in architecture but inspired by a chance meeting with Alfred Barr, founding director of MoMA, Johnson threw himself into the pursuit of the new way of building (which Alfred Barr named the International Style) and founded the museum's department of architecture. Johnson declared Mies the greatest living architect, not least of all because among the top modernists he lent himself the most readily to copying well.


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The Samsung Galaxy A8 Star is a midrange Android smartphone manufactured and marketed by Samsung as part of the Samsung Galaxy A series. It was announced in June 2018 for Southeast Asian markets, namely Korea, China and India. In China, it is sold as the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star.

Availability
The Galaxy A8 Star is intended for Eastern Asian markets, and as such, it is not sold in Western markets. In India, it is available exclusively through Amazon and retails for Rs34990.

Specifications

Hardware
The Galaxy A8 Star has a 6.3" 1080p Super AMOLED display and is powered by the Snapdragon 665. It has dual 24 + 16 MP rear cameras and a 24 MP front camera. The A8 Star relies on USB-C and has a 3.5mm audio jack as well as Bluetooth 5. Biometric options include a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and facial recognition. Externally, the A8 Star has an aluminum frame with glass on both the front and back of the phone.

Software
The Galaxy A8 Star runs on Android 9 "Pie" and uses One UI 1.1 .

Marketing
Samsung was criticized for using a DSLR to promote the A8 Star's portrait mode effect.

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NCAA Track&Field
Julien Alfred runs 10.90 to advance to 100m final at NCAA Championships alongside Nelson, Davis and Lloyd
Texas duo Julien Alfred and Kevona Davis as well as Syracuse's Joella Lloyd and Oregon's Kemba Nelson will all be present in Saturday's 100m final, at the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Championships, after advancing from the semi-finals at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on Thursday.
Alfred, the St. Lucian national record holder in the event, won her semi-final in 10.90 to be the joint-fastest qualifier to the final. Nelson also dipped below 11 seconds, running 10.97 to win her semi-final.
Jamaica's Davis finished third in her semi-final with a time of 11.11 to advance while the Antiguan Lloyd finished second in her semi with 11.08. Davis and Lloyd also advanced in the 200m with times of 22.38 and 22.66, respectively.
The Jamaican pair of Stacey Ann Williams of Texas and Charokee Young of Texas A&M will both be in the 400m final. Williams ran 50.18 to finish second in her semi-final while Young won hers in a time of 50.46.
Texas Tech's Jamaican junior Demisha Roswell ran 12.93 to finish second in her semi-final of the 100m hurdles and progress.
Texas senior and Trinidad and Tobago Olympian Tyra Gittens jumped 6.57m for third in the long jump behind Florida's Jasmine Moore (6.72m) and Texas A&M's Deborah Acquah (6.60m).