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Take a Byte
"Take A Byte" furthers the strong feminist influence throughout Dirty Computer and pulls from the myths and stories of a diverse group of powerful women, both culturally… Read More
Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Take a Byte Lyrics
I'm not the kind of girl you take home to your momma now
I tell you no lies (I tell no lies)
Your code is programmed not to love me but you can't pretend
Oh, what a surprise
Maybe it's lust, maybe it's love, maybe it never ends
Ooh, say your goodbyes (Say 'em now)
Play in my hair and nibble there all on my mocha skin
Yeah, just take a byte
Take a byte (Just take a byte)
Help yourself (Help yourself)
It's alright (It's alright)
I won't tell (It feels so good when you nibble on it)
Help yourself (You look so good, just help yourself)
Don't think twice (Don't think twice)
I won't tell
My random access memory wants you to come again
No, don't say goodbye (Don't say goodbye)
I saw my therapist, she thinks you are my magic sin
Oh, maybe she's right (Well, maybe she's right)
Well I'll just lick an angel just to purify again
Ooh, angels are fun (They're so fun)
So dress me up, I like it better if we both pretend
Yeah, make love 'til we're numb
Help yourself (Just go ahead and help yourself)
I won't tell (Take a byte)
Help yourself (It feels so good just help yourself)
I won't tell (It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, oh)
Take a byte (Won't you just take a byte?)
Help yourself (Go on and help yourself)
I won't tell (I-I-I, I)
Just take a byte
Ooh, you look so good, just help yourself
Ooh, it's alright
Take a little byte, take a little byte
Take a little byte
Genius Annotation
"Take A Byte" furthers the strong feminist influence throughout Dirty Computer and pulls from the myths and stories of a diverse group of powerful women, both culturally and historically. These include the Ethiopian Bilquis, Queen of Sheba, Eve, from the Book of Genesis, Scheherazade from Arabian Nights, and the actress Marlene Clark.
The song's title is a play on words, bringing together Eve "taking a bite" of the forbidden fruit in the story of Adam and Eve and computer jargon- a "byte" is a unit of digital information. This pun follows a central theme in Dirty Computer: the melding of human characteristics with something more synthetic in a contemporary, digital age.
In addition, within the album's accompanying "emotion picture", the scene during which "Take a Byte" is played depicts Janelle's android character, Jane 57821, having her memories being cleansed. That Jane 57821 is an android, effectively a computer, her memories could be measured in bytes as they are taken from her data storage hardware.
What inspired this song?
Genius Answer
In the official tracklist reveal, Monáe reveals the inspiration behind the track:
["Take a Byte" is] inspired by Eve in the Garden of Eden, Bilquis the Queen of Sheba in American Gods, Marlene Clark in Ganja & Hess, and Scheherazade in Arabian Nights.
Dirty Computer (2018)
Crazy, Classic, Life
Jane's Dream
Django Jane
PYNK
I Got the Juice
Stevie's Dream
So Afraid
Janelle Monáe, Kellindo Parker, Nana Kwabena, John M. Webb, Jr. & Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Jane Lle Publishing, Tang Nivri Publishing, Daddy Kellis Publishing, Jon Jon Traxx & EMI Foray Music
Performance Rights
ASCAP, BMI & SESAC
Bad Boy Entertainment
Phonographic Copyright ℗
Additional Production
Nana Kwabena
Chuck Lightning, Jon Jon Traxx & Janelle Monáe
Jon Jon Traxx, Thundercat & Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Nana Kwabena & Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Jon Jon Traxx, Kellindo Parker & Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Jon Brion, Nana Kwabena & Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Janelle Monáe & Nate "Rocket" Wonder
Mick Guzauski
Dave Kutch
Background Vocals
Wondaland Records, Bad Boy Entertainment & Atlantic Records
Recorded At
Wondaland Studios (Atlanta)
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What is a blue light filter? Also known as night mode, this handy function is available on many Android smartphones. It allows you to apply a filter to the screen, minimizing eye strain and reducing the blue light emitted by your smartphone screen. In this article, we'll tell you how you can activate this function in your settings, and recommend a blue light filter app in case you can't.
What is blue light filter and why do we need it?
Why do we need a blue light filter?
More and more users are having problems with eye strain due to the amount of time they spend in front of screens. It's not surprising when you consider our modern lifestyles (staring at the TV, computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.). Eye protection mode, as Huawei calls it, is an effective way to reduce blue light. It has a negative impact on sleep as it disturbs the production of melatonin, an essential sleep hormone. Fortunately there are ways to reduce your exposure to blue light, either in your smartphone's default settings, or via a blue light filter app.
Recognizing the importance of this mode, Google decided to integrate it into newer versions of Android such as Android Oreo. The latest, Android Pie, also has the night mode function. So long as your phone has reasonably up-to-date software, you can enable night mode like so.
To activate it, just go to Settings > Display > Night Light. You can also configure it so that Night Light will turn off automatically at certain times.
Other manufacturers aren't waiting around for the next Android update to introduce a Night Mode or Blue Light Filter on some of their phones. This is the case for Honor, Huawei, Asus, OnePlus, Samsung…generally, all you need to do is just go to Settings (then usually Display) or the shortcuts to activate it.
Most of these night modes can be scheduled, usually with an automatic setting designed to activate at sunset and switch to 'normal' light at sunrise, but you can customize it to your preferences.
So, you've looked through your current phone's settings and it doesn't appear to have a night mode. This can happen, especially if you're on Android One or stock Android, without any extras added by Google or the manufacturer's UI. You shouldn't worry though.
At the moment there are a number of apps available on Google Play that allow you to achieve the same result. One of the most popular ones around at the moment is Bluelight Filter. It has the same functionalities as those you find on Android, with even more options - selecting the filter color from seven available shades, shortcuts on the home screen, a notification widget and an activation time schedule.
If you do a lot of reading on your smartphone or tablet, then it's better to do it using a dedicated e-reader app. Not only do these apps offer a range of convenience features, but many also integrate a blue light filter to ease the strain on your eyes during your nighttime reading.
One of our favorite e-reader apps, Moon+ has a great blue light filter features integrated into the app. Google Play Books also has it in the form of its own Night Light settings.
Night mode is great for bedtime reading.
Do you use a light filter on your smartphone? Do you find it helps minimize eye strain? Let us know in the comments below.
Somehow I never got either DND option or night light to work properly on Android. It is almost as if they turn on & off on their own.
It's a lot easier, people. Night Mode can be accessed using the Google Play Books App settings. It's that simple.
First, is it safe for the screen to use those apps from the play store ?
2nd from my experience of 3 years using a screen filter, the best is Réduire Luminosité l'écran, it does not put a filter, it just reduces the brightness more than your phone gives you from settings.
I have an S4 mini (android 4.4.2) for 3 years now. I used the Blue Light Filter downloaded from the Play Store, I really liked it, but when my phone completed a year of usage, the display got wierd, it looked divided in half and the colors were wrong. I took it to a technical assistance and the display had to be changed. OK, the job was done. I don't know what damaged the display, but I suspect it had to do with the app filter. I never used it again, and the problem never occurred again. Maybe it was the app, maybe it wasn't. I would say it's not safe... I'm only using again when it's a native app from Android.
You just messed up your settings the technician had put them in right setting back.
no material defect, just an unskilled user with the wrong settings.
bluelight from phone settings or app will never damage a LCD screen.
A so-called bluelight filter is supposed to reduce strain on your eyes if you are in the habit of using your mobile phone for long hours, especially if you use it to read extensively. However, the medical justification for this kind of thing is still controversial. Some people solve this issue by using an ebook reader like a Kindle for reading. In my experience, installing and using an app for bluelight filtering is not an option. All the apps available are too crude or have intrusive adds or are not well-integrated into the system. Only the Nougat filter is worth using. Even the much-touted Twilight is worthless. Such things need integration into the operating system, not an app. That should perhaps teach us that basic smartphone functions need integration into the ecosystem, not imposed by an app.
I use it on my phone and find it helps at night when my eyes are tired. Bottom line is it's supposed to help if you plan on going to bed because the blue light is supposed to make it so that it's more difficult to fall asleep.
Nearly all my long form screen time is on ereader apps like Kindle, Moon+, and the RBDigital magazine app - except for that last, I can choose a background/foreground format that's comfortable and don't want Android or some other app to fool with it. Don't want discoloration and dimming of photo or video viewing or editing, or digging into system settings to turn it off and on for different applications.


After being awarded my PhD in 1997 from the University of Amsterdam, I took up a postdoctoral fellowship position at the University of Queensland funded by UQ, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), 1998-2001. I moved to Britain in 2001 and spend nearly 6 years at the University in Exeter. In 2007, I joined the University of Queensland again as a Research Fellow. I am currently employed as an ARC Future Fellow (2012-2016).
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KENOSHA, Wis., Sep 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Snap-on Incorporated (NYSE:SNA), a leading global innovator, manufacturer, and marketer of tools, diagnostics, equipment, software and service solutions for professional users, was once again the overwhelming choice of service technicians in the 2011United States (U.S.) Automotive Technicians' Choice: Evaluation of Automotive Tools. In the survey conducted by Frost & Sullivan, Snap-on® products were chosen the overall best brand in hand tools, tool storage, scan tools, power tools, and pneumatic/air tools, and set a service technician preference record in three of those categories.
For the sixth consecutive year, Snap-on was the number-one selection among service technicians in the hand tools category. The 75 percent of service techs who picked Snap-on as best brand represented a record high for the category since Frost & Sullivan began conducting the survey. Snap-on far outdistanced the second ranked brand, which was chosen by only eight percent of those surveyed. An example of Snap-on's continuing innovation in hand tools is the Wire Stripper/Crimper/Cutter (PWCS7), a popular hand tool among technicians today. Its compact design works well in confined areas such as under the dash or within electrical service enclosures. Technicians appreciate the ease-of-use in tight places, the serrated gripping nose and the precision-ground stripping holes.
As it has for every year since the survey started, Snap-on was rated first when it came to tool storage. In 2011, a record 68 percent of service technicians rated Snap-on the best brand. The next nearest competitor was favored by only 12 percent of the respondents. Snap-on's industry-leading Clear Coat Series offers the highest shine finish ever created for tool storage. Designed to add depth and a mirror-like gloss, the Clear Coat enhances performance with superior resistance to harsh chemicals, chipping, scratching and abrasion. The clear top coat allows the base color to remain intact under the toughest shop conditions. In the event of minor wear, the top coat is easy to refinish, keeping the tool storage unit looking as good as new.
Snap-on also far outranked the competition when it came to scan devices. With a record 62 percent choosing Snap-on over the next nearest competitor (16 percent), Snap-on was the number-one choice of professional service technicians for the sixth consecutive year. The Snap-on SOLUS Ultra(TM) is the latest example of cutting-edge technology in this category. This full-function scan tool boasts a ″steady-charge″ battery, best-in-class seven-inch widescreen display and touch screen operation. SOLUS Ultra(TM) provides enhanced coverage for 40 makes and OEM-specific coverage for the new systems techs are servicing, including hybrids, TPMS, steering, body controls, EVAP, clean diesels and more.
Forty-nine percent of respondents ranked Snap-on as the best brand when it came to power tools, an increase of seven percentage points from the 2010 results. The nearest competitor in this category was chosen by only 11 percent of surveyed technicians.
In only its second year as a category, Snap-on was the pick once again when it came to pneumatic/air tools, with 44 percent of service technicians naming Snap-on as their first choice. Snap-on's latest innovation in pneumatic tools is the PT400 Series of die grinders. These classic tools now provide more power and speed, improving productivity in the repair shop, while giving technicians the comfortable and durable performance they would expect from Snap-on.
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Q: removing item from comboBox if it matches a cetain cell in dataGridView in VB.net I have a list of names (employees) in a comboBox that I use to add into a dataGridView. I'm trying to make it so that once the employee is in the database and displayed in the dataGrid, their name is removed from the comboBox so as not to appear available to add to the dataGrid.
The code I've written for the task looks like it should work, but it doesn't.
Public Class Main
Public techPhones As New PhonesDataSet.TechCompanyPhonesDataTable
Public techPhonesTableAdapter As New PhonesDataSetTableAdapters.TechCompanyPhonesTableAdapter
Public employees As New PhonesDataSet.EmployeesDataTable
Public empTableAdapter As New PhonesDataSetTableAdapters.EmployeesTableAdapter

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load, MyBase.Activated

    LoadForm()

End Sub

Private Sub cboEmployee_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cboEmployee.SelectedIndexChanged
    lblOffice.Text = "Office: " + cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Office")
    lblPhone.Text = cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Phone")
    lblEmpID.Text = cboEmployee.SelectedItem("EmpID")
End Sub

Private Sub btnAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click, DataGridView1.CellDoubleClick

    Dim addEmp As New AddEmployee(cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Employee"), cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Office"), cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Phone"), _
                                  cboEmployee.SelectedItem("OfficeID"), cboEmployee.SelectedItem("EmpID"), cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Contract"), cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Returned"), _
                                  cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Loaner"))
    addEmp.ShowDialog()

End Sub

Private Sub DataGridView1_CellContentClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.CellContentClick

    Dim name As String = DataGridView1.Rows(DataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex).Cells(2).Value
    Dim employee As String

    For index As Integer = 0 To cboEmployee.Items.Count - 1 Step 1
        If cboEmployee.Items(index)("Employee") = name Then
            employee = cboEmployee.Items(index)("Employee")
            cboEmployee.SelectedIndex = index
        End If
    Next

End Sub

Private Sub btnDelete_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDelete.Click
    techPhonesTableAdapter.DeleteQuery((DataGridView1.Rows(DataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex).Cells(1).Value))
    LoadForm()
End Sub

Private Sub LoadForm()
    techPhones = techPhonesTableAdapter.GetData()
    DataGridView1.DataSource = techPhones

    employees = empTableAdapter.GetData()

    cboEmployee.DataSource = employees
    cboEmployee.DisplayMember = ("Employee")
    cboEmployee.ValueMember = ("EmpID")

    lblOffice.Text = "Office: " + cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Office")
    lblPhone.Text = cboEmployee.SelectedItem("Phone")
    lblEmpID.Text = cboEmployee.SelectedItem("EmpID")
    cboEmployee.Focus()
    cboEmployee.SelectAll()
    lblRowCount.Text = "There are " + DataGridView1.RowCount.ToString + " phones accounted for."

    ' the code below is supposed to check every row in the data grid against the employee list in
    ' cboEmployees and remove it from the list when they match
    With DataGridView1
        For indexDGV As Integer = 0 To .Rows.Count - 1 Step 1
            cboEmployee.Items.Remove(.Rows(indexDGV).Cells(2).Value)
        Next
    End With
    cboEmployee.Refresh()
End Sub

End Class
I've also tried this minor variation:
 With DataGridView1
            For indexDGV As Integer = 0 To .Rows.Count - 1 Step 1
                For indexCBO As Integer = cboEmployee.Items.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
                    If .Rows(indexDGV).Cells(2).Value = cboEmployee.Items(indexCBO)("Employee") Then
                        cboEmployee.Items.RemoveAt(indexCBO)
                    End If
                Next
            Next
        End With

A: You don't even need to iterate through the comboBox items.  .Remove (string) will work, and if the item you want to remove is not there, it ignores the command.
With DataGridView1
    For indexDGV As Integer = 0 To .Rows.Count - 1 Step 1
        cboEmployee.Items.Remove(.Rows(indexDGV).Cells(2).Value)
    Next
End With

A: Try like this
With DataGridView1
    For indexDGV As Integer = 0 To .Rows.Count - 1 Step 1
        For indexCBO As Integer = cboEmployee.Items.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
            If .Rows(indexDGV).Cells(2).Value.Equals(cboEmployee.Items(indexCBO).Tostring()) Then
                cboEmployee.Items.RemoveAt(indexCBO)
                Exit For
            End If
        Next
    Next
End With

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Our craftspeople and customer service teams have been busy creating and delivering our handmade lampshades ready for the festive season, and it is time for our annual break.
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Aviva Investors targets GBP10bn of investment into UK infrastructure and real estate in next three years
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, is targeting GBP10 billion of investments into UK infrastructure and real estate projects over the next three years.
In the process, these investments, made on behalf of savers and investors, will support job creation in the infrastructure and real estate industries in cities and regions across the UK. In addition, Aviva Investors expects to direct over GBP3.5 billion into UK structured finance and private corporate debt strategies.
Aviva Investors is already a significant investor in infrastructure and real estate via its GBP47 billion Real Assets business, which targets investment opportunities in both asset classes, as well as private debt and structured finance.
Amanda Blanc, CEO at Aviva plc, says: "Aviva is investing in UK infrastructure and real estate to help our economy and communities bounce back. We plan to invest in the UK's regions and cities, in critical areas such as social housing, renewable energy and rail networks. The investments being made will ultimately fund people's savings and retirement, aiming to deliver stable returns to our customers and funding a sustainable future for the UK."
With the UK facing a sizeable funding shortfall in meeting its infrastructure needs, GBP10 billion of capital will support the development of UK real estate and infrastructure, including renewable energy projects in-line with the government's long-term commitment to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
The increase in allocation from institutional investors to real assets comes as interest rates remain low and public markets continue to suffer from heightened volatility and squeezed yields. This has led to assets under management in Aviva Investors' Real Assets business growing by nearly 28 per cent to GBP47.3 billion since its launch in May 2018.
Almost GBP6.5 billion of commitments will come from Aviva group companies, with the remaining amount expected to come from external client mandates.
Mark Versey, Chief Investment Officer, Real Assets at Aviva Investors, says: "Investors are recognising the enhanced yields they can get from holding real assets compared to the return on a comparable publicly listed security. Being backed by an asset with a tangible value means that they often carry much lower volatility too. The market uncertainty caused by Covid-19 should make the resilience of long-term cashflows offered by real assets increasingly appealing to institutional investors. With interest rates likely to remain lower for longer, we expect clients will continue to look towards the sector for risk diversification and returns."
In its inaugural Real Assets House View in March, Aviva Investors identified renewable energy as one of the sectors offering greatest long-term relative value. Earlier this year, the business provided financing for the acquisition of the Galloper Wind Farm offshore transmission operator assets, which can produce enough energy to power 380,000 homes. It previously invested GBP400 million in 2018 towards the construction of Hornsea 1, the world's largest offshore windfarm, which generates enough electricity to supply over one million UK homes.
Aviva Investors recently completed two investments into the UK's social housing sector, providing financing to Coastal Housing Group and settle housing respectively. The funding will help both housing associations deliver additional housing and advance ESG standards through improved energy efficiency performance.
Aviva Investors is currently undertaking significant development projects across the UK, including two flagship buildings on Liverpool Street and Moorgate in the City of London as part of TfL's Elizabeth Line project, as well as the redevelopment of Rosebery House in Edinburgh's Haymarket into one of the most sustainable locations in the city. The business has also made significant investments into Manchester and Cambridge, two cities it believes are particularly well-placed to deliver strong investment performance over the long-term.
Versey adds: "Investing in real assets has an important social and economic benefit; funding everything from new offices and student accommodation to renewable energy facilities and rail infrastructure. They can also deliver better investment outcomes for employee pension schemes and insurers, whilst creating jobs in local communities. As a long-term investor, we recognise the impact we can have, from regeneration work in partnership with local authorities, through to creating renewable energy networks as part of the UK's sustainable future. It's important we better-connect investors with the assets they own and demonstrate the value that their investments can have in local communities and society."
Real Assets
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets acquires Viamed Salud
Real assets to continue to attract institutional investors
RM Funds launches new Global Real Asset Opportunities Fund
JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets launches C-Share issue
Edgertonz provides new way to invest in Northern Powerhouse properties
Executives granted shareholding in Prime Capital
FUND FLOWS
Property funds hit by GBP1.1bn of outflows in 2020, despite suspensions, but outflows are slowing
New Prime Central London serviced accommodation investment company launches
Prime London market sees demand climb during Q4 as Covid-19 continues to influence buyer location
UK residential rental demand drops in Q4 as landlords are hit hard by Covid-19
SolidBlock to list USD150m in real estate security tokens on INX
Stenprop sells Berlin shopping centre for EUR30.8m
CRE sustainability goals: How investment in technology can help
BNP Paribas REIM sells Bords de Seine 2 building in Issy-les-Molineaux to two funds managed by Generali Real Estate
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Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) officials finalized a bold, vibrant design for the new 95th Street Terminal — a $280M project to completely rebuild the Red Line South's busiest station to create a safer, more-efficient environment for transit riders while creating a signature statement for the South Side.
The CTA also said it is preparing to launch the first of several bus and rail enhancements that will be rolled out this summer and fall to improve transit service on the South Side, a plan announced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA last month.
The new 95th Street Terminal design is a refinement of previous designs for the bus and rail terminal. The new designs present a much bolder architectural statement, befitting what will be the signature station of the CTA system.
The 95th Street project will expand and greatly improve the terminal, which is one of CTA's busiest, with 24-hour Red Line service and more than 1,000 CTA and Pace bus trips on a typical weekday. This work will help improve the movement of train traffic in and out of the 98th yard and through the 95th Terminal which services the Red Line, which is the CTA's busiest rail line.
The design, developed with the project's general contractor Paschen Milhouse Joint Venture IV and architectural firm exp US services, keeps all of the terminal's primary design elements, including covered bus bays and pedestrian walkways to provide protection from the weather as well as the pedestrian bridge that will connect the two terminal buildings to be located on the north and south sides of 95th Street.
The design has been refined to include the distinct red color of the station exterior, which will serve as an iconic identifier to CTA's busiest rail line, and other modifications to the design throughout the station.
Customers will begin to enjoy the new station beginning in 2017. CTA began the construction on the foundation of the new terminal in 2014, which will be located along the Dan Ryan Expressway at 95th Street, where the current 95th station is located. Construction of the new south terminal building begins this summer. The new south terminal will be completed in 2017 and the new north terminal building will open in 2018.
The first of CTA planned improvements to bus and rail service on the South Side and Far South Side will begin Monday, June 20, when service on the #26 South Shore Express is extended into the weekday morning and evening hours. Northbound morning service will begin earlier at 4:20 a.m. Southbound service will begin more than an hour earlier with the first trip leaving Chicago/Michigan at 1:10 p.m. and the last southbound trip will depart downtown at 9:20 p.m., a total of an additional three hours of evening service for customers.
Additionally, the CTA this fall will increase the frequency of Green Line service on the Cottage Grove and Ashland/63rd branches during the morning and evening rush periods.
These improvements are the latest among several enhancements over the past year designed to improve bus and rail service. In December 2015, the Mayor and President Carter reintroduced express service on the #9 Ashland and #49 Western bus routes, two of CTA's busiest bus routes. Also in December, the CTA and Chicago Department of Transportation launched Loop Link, a first-of-its-kind corridor connecting the West Loop commuter rail stations with the heart of the Loop and Michigan Avenue.
Featuring dedicated bus lanes, bus-only traffic signals and raised-platform stations along Washington and Madison Streets, Loop Link was designed to provide faster, more reliable travel times and an improved customer experience. In March, the Mayor and CTA unveiled the first-ever Bus Tracker arrival-time displays at 51 rail stations, an expansion of CTA's most-popular technology for customers. CTA also announced it will soon begin pilot bus routes on the #11 Lincoln and #31 31st routes.


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Children held at Heathrow Airport in 'degrading' conditions
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-18055890
Image caption About 15,000 people are held at immigration custody facilities at the airport every year
Children are being held in "degrading and disgraceful" conditions at Heathrow Airport by the UK Border Agency (UKBA), a report has said.
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said rooms were "small and stuffy" and children, at times, spend the night at the non-residential facility.
But the UKBA stressed the problem lay with Heathrow operator BAA offering only poor quality accommodation.
BAA said however, that the UKBA had not raised any concerns with it.
'Matter of urgency'
The IMB report shows that in 2011, up to 3,000 people were held for more than 12 hours, requiring many - including children - to spend the night there rather than at immigration removal centres.
The government-appointed IMB for Heathrow Airport was set up five years ago to monitor the welfare of people held in the non-residential, short-term holding facility. Up to 15,000 people are held there each year.
In the report, inspectors said the rooms where children were held had no natural light, no access to the open air, and no sleeping arrangements.
The conditions under which children are held and that detainees have to endure overnight are degrading and disgraceful
IMB report
The rooms had only hand basins and children were kept with unrelated adults. The report added that Terminals 3 and 4, had the worst accommodation.
"The conditions under which children are held and that detainees have to endure overnight are degrading and disgraceful," the it said.
A IMB spokesman said it recognised that children "cannot always be admitted to the country straight away and are sometimes held for their own protection".
"But it recommends that non-custodial, child-friendly accommodation is provided at Heathrow for families with children as a matter of urgency," he said.
The report noted that care for detainees had improved over the past five years.
UKBA raised 'concerns'
However, it added: "The accommodation remains unsuitable for anything but a very brief period of detention and is quite inappropriate for holding children or for overnight use.
"Improvements to the accommodation were promised in 2011 by the UK Border Agency, but very little has happened."
A UKBA spokesman said it shared the IMB's concerns about the quality of accommodation.
"We have raised this with [BAA] on numerous occasions in the past and will continue to do so to ensure those held at the border have proper facilities to meet their and our needs," he said.
However, a BAA spokeswoman said: "We have not seen the report and therefore can't comment but are somewhat surprised by UK Border Force's response, since we have had many meetings with them recently and it has not been raised."
Hundreds of children 'detained'
Child detention 'must be banned'
Migrant children detention to end
Child migrant detention attacked
Independent Monitoring Board
UK Border Agency
The number of cases of the respiratory illness triples, as it spreads to Beijing and Shanghai.


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Wonder Woman (Black and White) by JJ Adams
Regular price £540.00 £378.00 Sale
Size Standard Artist Proof
Standard Artist Proof - Sold out
EDITION OF 95 + 10 AP's
FRAMED SIZE: 41.5" x 35.5"
JJ's Hidden Gems
Let's look at all of 'JJ's Hidden Gems' in the brand new 'Wonder Woman' print, available in both black and white and colour versions, and all the details in this image definitely pack a right good punch!
First thing to jump out at us right away is the tattoo on her right arm - a portrait of a man. The closer you look the more you will see - the blue and red outfit he's wearing and the slicked back hair.... It's Superman of course. This correlates perfectly with the brand new lenticular 'Is It a Bird, Is It a Plane..' where you will see Chris Reeves as Superman sporting a full length tattoo of Wonder Woman on his forearm also. The two characters have typically been depicted as love interests throughout their history, as they share similar superhuman traits which both elevate and isolate them from normal humans. This is not the first time JJ has suggested a romantic link between two characters in his artwork - in 'The Morning After' you will find He-Man adorning some familiar bunny ears and on his chest you can read 'Call Me, Jessica' below a kiss mark. Who's Jessica?! Well.. if you take a closer look at Dirty Disney II you will see Jessica Rabbit wearing those very same bunny ears! This very much suggests a romantic link - or at the very least a wild night out between the two!
There are the more obvious tattoo's like a huge KAP-OW! sign on her hand and 'BACK OFF' spelled out on her knuckles which are clear references to her superhero characteristics. You will also spy the beginning of a 'PowerPuff Girls' inking on her arm. Again, these are another trio of bad-ass cartoon girls who fight crime and were role models for lots of kids out there. In the cartoon 'SuperFriends' the Powerpuff Girls' actually save Wonder Woman and Aqua Man from a very sticky situation - so their paths have crossed before too!
The famous 'Spider Web' tattoo that you will spot here and also in so many of JJ's works - including 'The Morning After', his very first Audrey Hepburn creation and 'Spiderpool' to name but a few. The Tattoo always appears on the elbow because it is in fact one of JJ's very own tattoo's around his own elbow!
She is also sporting a tattoo under her cuff which you can just make out to be the word 'Perfect' - this could be because Lynda Carter really has been praised as the perfect Wonder Woman - so much so that she's even received her own Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
The last thing we want to discuss is Wonder Woman's cuffs and headband - which JJ has given a little upgrade to designer, and Louis Vuitton to be exact. Luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Givenchy, along with mass-market retailers have all created products inspired by the 75-year-old character. Wonder Woman is a pioneer in many ways including being a fashion icon because of her strong associations with female empowerment and resilience!


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Q: Careers won't let me list Reykjavik, Iceland as location If I type this into the Location box

Iceland

It works, but if I type (with or without the comma)

Reykjavik, Iceland

It turns it to

Reykjavik, Reykjavik Iceland

UPDATE: I found out why this is.
Check out this query
Careers is just listing the Region and City. But the issue is larger than that, since they can't just ignore region if it's == to city, or this query would be wrong.

A: Same silly nonsense for Zürich:

Zurich, Canton of Zurich Switzerland

It sounds harsh, but I find this to be a very "provincial" approach to city/something/country categorization that my fellow Americans tend to suffer from en masse.  I'm too scared to see what is says for such locations as Singapore and Dubai.
The form did not insist upon 5-digit postal codes, so I guess that is a plus.


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Q: How to write a web browser in java I am an amateur java program developer and was wondering if anybody knows how to write a web browser in java if possible.

A: If you need a component to render HTML, JEditorPane in the javax.swing library is capable of doing it for basic HTML.  You could mock browser behavior by adding an input for entering a URL, getting markup, and setting it to the editor pane.  Tracking URL history and that sort of thing would be up to you, and it could be a decent project for learning a lot about Swing, event handling, concurrency, etc...
If you're looking at building your own rendering engine for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript... that's a much larger problem.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JEditorPane.html


Mixed (49) - 44% of the 49 user reviews for this game are positive.
To get there you will first mine Bitcoins with your mouse, then later buy graphics cards, new processor or asic miner to mine without doing anything!
■ A Bitcoin / Dollar converter!
■ Bitcoin value variation system!
■ Graphics card and processor shop!
Earn 1 bitcoin in game with the promocode "REWINDAPP"


Toronto, ON., October 3, 2012 —The Mainfreight Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Taylor as the Branch Manager of the new Toronto, Canada branch. Paul brings 25 years of logistics, supply chain, customs brokerage and freight forwarding experience to the Mainfreight Canada team.
Paul believes that the Mainfreight culture is a refreshing change in the Canadian forwarding market and hopes that clients will quickly understand that the company believes in providing simple and customized solutions as a true partner. He feels it important that these aren't just words on paper but actions that the company lives by.


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The Seven Bowls: A Companion to Ruin
17 May The Seven Bowls: A Companion to Ruin
Posted at 11:54h in Blog, Uncategorized by Jeff Wagner
by Hunter Ginn
Since 1970, heavy metal has courted a relationship with apocalypse, but outsiders to the genre often miss the complex ways in which metal engages with fear. The genre's most innovative and lethal artists have mapped out geographies of psychic terror, wherein imaginative dread often mingles with the horrors of this world. Anaal Nathrakh and Nuclear Death, for instance, forged careers based on travel across the permeable boundaries between abstraction and confrontation. Heavy metal has also demonstrated a broad vocabular capacity in its transmission of horror: it taps a reservoir not only of lyrical tropes but also a vast musical palette that marshals the resources of electronic music, post-punk, noise, progressive rock, and beyond. The plague year of 2020 has drawn into relief our collective sense of anxiety and apocalypse. Some listeners, no doubt, took refuge in the green pastures of New Age and Ambient music, but for those who preferred to lean into the murk and dislocation of the pandemic, metal was there, ever faithful, to offer an accommodating soundtrack. The escapism pandered by lighter genres does little to stave off the inevitability of our private and universal sufferings. Metal, by contrast, invites us to stroll through the flames, to dance to the blare of Gabriel's trumpet. The horrors illustrated in the genre's most bracing music offer the listener a comfort of a different sort – situated in the context of irreversible, comprehensive ruin, we find ourselves suckling at the tete of resignation. In this oedipal fugue state, we yearn to be enwombed by the death and decay that rap at our doors. The songs listed below explore the outsize, distorted terrors of nighttime, the interior landscapes and desert places that we occupy in our moments of greatest desperation.
Gorgoroth – Blodoffer
After three albums of blistering, though relatively orthodox, True Norwegian Black Metal, Gorgoroth signs with Nuclear Blast Records – an act of heresy in and of itself – and issues Destroyer, a misshapen, lurid album of musique grand guignol. Unstable in all regards, nearly every piece of music performed by a different lineup, layers of molten, spiteful noise spilling over the boundaries of what can only nominally be called "songs," Destroyer tests black metal's idiomatic boundaries. "Blodoffer," situated near the end of the album, vibrates at a particularly incantatory pitch, a bed of degraded percussion is lathered with Neubauten-esque crashing metal sounds, tortured vocals, and a droning guitar, all refracted through the lo-fi gauze of the Grieghallen production. Destroyer is one album that lives up to its title's apocalyptic promise.
Nuclear Death – Days of the Weak
The peculiar and sickening concept of Lori Bravo, Arizona's Nuclear Death explored a vision for extreme metal that remains misunderstood and, often, vilified. The band's grinding, subterranean death metal traded proficiency for savage horror and the smeared sounds of 1990's Bride of Insect, 1991's Carrion For Worm, and 1992's …For Our Dead EP constitute some of the genre's most penetrating, death-obsessed music. Nuclear Death is also distinguished by the totality of its vision, where music, lyrics, and artwork intersect to produce a singular effect on the listener. "Days of the Weak" tours through a sequence of events wherein two addict-fiends befriend a young, abused runaway, gain her trust, and then drug her and take her to a mountain top where they film her rape and murder. The song achieves a nauseating verisimilitude not unlike Michael Haneke's 1997 film, Funny Games, and inspires feelings both of compulsion and disgust.
Godflesh – Christbait Rising
On Streetcleaner, Godflesh's epochal 1989 missive, Justin Broadrick and G.C. Green apply Big Black's architectural feedback and drum machine abuse to a visionary post-metal rubric, creating a sound-world that recreates with stunning clarity the pasture of conflagration that adorns the album's cover. The album also displays a keen ear for hip hop's capacity for brutalism (via Public Enemy and Schooly D), as well as the willingness to manipulate post-punk's guitar vocabulary into a bleak new language. "Christbait Rising" synthesizes the album's many strengths into a 7 minute amble through psychic hellscapes, with arcing guitar flares spinning around an axis of dread-funk drum programming and bass that recalls the masochistic heights of early Swans. When Broadrick rages, "This is my own hell!," rather than trembling, he seems to be embracing apocalypse.
Anaal Nathrakh – The Supreme Necrotic Audnance
Anaal Nathrakh's first album, The Codex Necro, coopts the industrial/black metal hybrid previously explored by Norway's Mysticum and strains it until it ruptures into a blast of hopeless noise. Traces of eerie melody filigree the album's matrix of punishing electronics and black metal spite, and the vague humanity of this element complicates what otherwise sounds like blind, scorched-earth phrenzy. This uneasy dialog between hatred and bereavement is underscored by the title, "Human, All Too Fucking Human." But it is the album's opening salvo, "The Supreme Necrotic Audnance," that most clearly illustrates the group's intent: a single-minded eruption of 250 BPM drum programming, scalding guitar, and one of the genre's most acidic vocal performances. In the liner-notes for the album, the band declares that it will never print its lyrics, but the genuinely odious tone of the album leaves very little to the listener's imagination.
Deathspell Omega – Chore of the Lost
On 2004's Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice, France's still-anonymous Deathspell Omega created a new approach to black metal using the dissonant guitar webs of Gorguts' Obscura and organic, intuitive drumming. Three years later, Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeturnum continues the band's exploration of metaphysical Satanism and stretches the black metal form to its wildest limits. Fas widens the band's dynamic range, mingling stretches of bleak pause with brutal speed and lacerating, highly-choreographed guitar play. The final passages of "Chore of the Lost" elevate the proceedings to sublime heights, as melodic, even beautiful, guitar figures begin to emerge from the fiery mire. Black metal has always held a capacity for beauty but the loveliness of this guitar passage is heightened by its stark contrast with the howling lunacy of the earlier moments in the song. Deathspell has continued to evolve within this template, but rarely has its music achieve such stunning effect as on "Chore of the Lost."
Kataklysm – Orb of Uncreation
An outlier and fringe personality in a genre strewn with mavericks, the long-estranged Sylvain Houde, conceptual lynchpin in the early era of Montreal's Kataklysm, created, over the course of 3 short years, a body of work designed to drive the sane mad and force all of creation into an entropic spiral. Houde, indefatigable in his vision, insisted that the band's music be written around his schizophrenic vocal arrangements, which broadcast his cryptic lyrics through a range of guttural utterances and psychotic howls. Stacked on top of a bed of grinding, frenzied death metal, Houde's unyielding delivery threatens to bury the listener under a smoldering mountain of sound. One is left to wonder whether Houde, lost to the wilderness, succumbed to the apocalypse of his own making.
Satyricon – Tied in Bronze Chains
In 1996's Nemesis Divina, Satyricon produced an album that not only waged war against holiness but also against the strict aesthetics of the black metal style, flaunting a high-fidelity mix and glossy, bespoke artwork that, rather than indicate compromise, only amplified the band's hateful message. When the Norwegian duo returned in 1999, their ill-will toward men (clergy or not) had only compounded and the resulting album, Rebel Extravaganza, divested itself of the few florid elements left in the band's sound and replaced them with an astringent palette built on pounding drums and razor-wire guitars. The album's first track, "Tied in Bronze Chains," is not only the album's best but also one of the finest in the band's entire catalog. After a brief intro, the song crashes headlong as Satyr exhorts, "Sinful woman, walk with me, 'cos I'm the wolf on your shoulder. But complain not to me, 'cos I'm the accuser!" The album proved to be the final gasp of Satyricon's bloodlust fury, as it decamped to safer, more commercial pastures on subsequent albums. But there, at the end of the millennium, Satyricon, festooned in its brawniest warpaint, invited the end with glee.
Anaal Nathrakh, Apocalypse, Godflesh, Gorgoroth, Hunter Ginn, Kataklysm, Nuclear Death, Radical Research


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Experience with Intradetrusor Injection of Botulinum-A Toxin for the Treatment of Idiopathic Detrusor Overactivity in a Single Irish Institution
Experience with Intradetrusor Injection of Botulinum-A Toxin for the Treatment of Idiopathic... Manecksha, R.P.; Redmond, P.; Siddiqui, K.; Creagh, T. 2008-01-01 00:00:00 Background: Intradetrusor botulinum toxin (BTX) therapy has been shown to be effective in treating neurogenic detrusor overactivity. Recently, BTX has been extended to patients with refractory idiopathic detrusor overactivity. We report our experience in this group of patients. The aim of this retrospective study is to assess if BTX is effective and improves quality of life, using the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire Urinary Incontinence Short Form and additional lower urinary tract symptom parameters. Patients and Methods: Forty-three patients had BTX (Dysport®, Ipsen) between June 2003 and December 2006. All patients were sent postal questionnaires. The response rate was 67% (29/43). Results: Mean age was 52 years (range 22–75 years) and mean follow-up was 23 months (range 7–47 months). Twenty-one of 29 (73%) patients had an improvement in nocturia, 5/29 (17%) were unchanged and 3/29 (10%) were worse following treatment (p = 0.0012). Seventeen of 29 (59%) patients had a reduction in daytime frequency, 10/29 (34%) were unchanged, 2/29 (7%) were worse following treatment (p = 0.0005). Twenty-two patients leaked at night, of which 16 (73%) improved significantly, 4 (18%) were unchanged and 2 (9%) got worse after treatment (p = 0.0016). Twenty-seven of 29 patients leaked in the daytime, of which 17 (63%) improved significantly, 9 (33%) were unchanged and 1 (4%) worsened after treatment (p = 0.0001). Nineteen of 29 (66%) patients reported an improvement in how much leakage interfered with their daily lives and 10/29 (34%) were unchanged after treatment (p < 0.0001). Seventeen of 29 (59%) patients reported an improvement in their overall symptom score and 12/29 (41%) were unchanged (p = 0.0001). Eight of 29 (28%) patients required a period of clean intermittent self-catheterization after treatment. Conclusion: BTX is very effective as a treatment for refractory idiopathic detrusor overactivity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Urology Karger http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/experience-with-intradetrusor-injection-of-botulinum-a-toxin-for-the-ZNlZ7yNZ0T
Manecksha, R.P.; Redmond, P.; Siddiqui, K.; Creagh, T.
Current Urology
, Volume 2 (2): 5 – Jan 1, 2008
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Current Urology /
© 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel
10.1159/000115409
Background: Intradetrusor botulinum toxin (BTX) therapy has been shown to be effective in treating neurogenic detrusor overactivity. Recently, BTX has been extended to patients with refractory idiopathic detrusor overactivity. We report our experience in this group of patients. The aim of this retrospective study is to assess if BTX is effective and improves quality of life, using the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire Urinary Incontinence Short Form and additional lower urinary tract symptom parameters. Patients and Methods: Forty-three patients had BTX (Dysport®, Ipsen) between June 2003 and December 2006. All patients were sent postal questionnaires. The response rate was 67% (29/43). Results: Mean age was 52 years (range 22–75 years) and mean follow-up was 23 months (range 7–47 months). Twenty-one of 29 (73%) patients had an improvement in nocturia, 5/29 (17%) were unchanged and 3/29 (10%) were worse following treatment (p = 0.0012). Seventeen of 29 (59%) patients had a reduction in daytime frequency, 10/29 (34%) were unchanged, 2/29 (7%) were worse following treatment (p = 0.0005). Twenty-two patients leaked at night, of which 16 (73%) improved significantly, 4 (18%) were unchanged and 2 (9%) got worse after treatment (p = 0.0016). Twenty-seven of 29 patients leaked in the daytime, of which 17 (63%) improved significantly, 9 (33%) were unchanged and 1 (4%) worsened after treatment (p = 0.0001). Nineteen of 29 (66%) patients reported an improvement in how much leakage interfered with their daily lives and 10/29 (34%) were unchanged after treatment (p < 0.0001). Seventeen of 29 (59%) patients reported an improvement in their overall symptom score and 12/29 (41%) were unchanged (p = 0.0001). Eight of 29 (28%) patients required a period of clean intermittent self-catheterization after treatment. Conclusion: BTX is very effective as a treatment for refractory idiopathic detrusor overactivity.
Current Urology – Karger
Published: Jan 1, 2008
Keywords: Botulinum-A toxin; Idiopathic detrusor overactivity
Manecksha, R., Redmond, P., Siddiqui, K., & Creagh, T. (2008). Experience with Intradetrusor Injection of Botulinum-A Toxin for the Treatment of Idiopathic Detrusor Overactivity in a Single Irish Institution. Current Urology, 2(2), 62-66.
Manecksha, R.P., P. Redmond, K. Siddiqui, and T. Creagh. "Experience with Intradetrusor Injection of Botulinum-A Toxin for the Treatment of Idiopathic Detrusor Overactivity in a Single Irish Institution." Current Urology 2.2 (2008): 62-66.


Moulin Roty toys are designed in France using the finest french fabrics and materials. Each new collection is an addition to the Moulin Roty family: from the funny "Jolis Pas Beaux" (literally the "Pretty Uglies") to the timeless "La Grande Famille", a multitude of characters and stories have punctuated the years.
Every day, Moulin Roty strives to create a soft world for kids to explore, dream and play with the best quality toys! Moulin Roty is very proud to be a worker-owned cooperative, putting quality, creativity and excellence first.


On Monday we provided the first of a few variants of shortcode that would render a SoundCloud audio player in your WordPress website. This article will provide code that'll periodically mine SoundCloud for a play count, download count, comment count, or like count. Because we're scraping the freely provided meta data, use of the API isn't required.
To demonstrate the code we'll mine the details of a cheesy Australian Bachelorette podcast from The Daily Telegraph (Australia). By default we'll render the play count, so [soundclouds url="https://soundcloud.com/daily-telegraph/the-bachelorette-model-david-bites-the-dust-in-show-two"] will return the value of 0 (bolding is mine). To return the number of downloads, we'll add the type attribute as follows: [soundclouds url="https://soundcloud.com/daily-telegraph/the-bachelorette-model-david-bites-the-dust-in-show-two" type="downloads"], and the shortcode will return the value of 0.
At the time of writing there aren't any comments or likes (I wonder why?)… but if they were to be returned you should use the type attribute as follows: type="likes", or type="comments".
Use of the code requires Simple Cache and BeliefMedia Meta Tags. Both are available as WP plugins. If you're a client, both features are available by default from within the BeliefMedia plugin.
The url is the destination page for a single SoundCloud audio player.
The type determines what data is returned; count, downloads, comments, or likes. If nothing is specified it defaults to count.
By default the value returned will be in a number format with grouped thousands. To turn this feature off, use n="0" in your shortcode or hardcode it into the shortcode function.
The cache is the amount of time the data is stored locally. By default we cache data for 8 hours.
Used outside of PHP, the following function may be used. Not unlike the WordPress version, usage requires the Simple Cache and Meta Tags functions.
While we mine the destination page for data, results are stored locally in your own WordPress installation using the transient API. We cache the results for 8 hours by default but, if you're comfortable doing so, you can query the SoundCloud URL more often.
Since our method of obtaining data is achieved by scraping META data, it will cease to work if SoundCloud stop providing that information.
Description: Insert Live SoundCloud Play Counts, Download Counts, Comment Counts, and Like Counts in WordPress with Shortcode (without the API).