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Wingword Poetry Competition
WINGWORD POETRY PRIZE 2019 IS COMING SOON
Results of Wingword Poetry Prize 2018 have been announced.
In the last year's competition, we received over 1500 entries from all states of India. The poems have set a new benchmark for contemporary poetry; demonstrating a combination of aptitude and versatility.
Wingword Poetry Prize accepted entries in multiple languages this year, such as Hindi, English and Urdu.
We thank the many talented poets who participated in the competition, from different age groups and states of India. The judging committee is in admiration of the creativity shown by the participants. Certificate of merit is emailed to all participants.
1st Prize: ₹ 1,00,000
2nd Prize: ₹ 50,000
3rd Prize: ₹ 25,000
Top 30 Posititons: ₹ 10,000
Top 200 Winners will be published in 'All Winners' Poetry Book.
Wingword Poetry Prize 2018 is created to provide a platform to upcoming poets like you. It is an online competition that annually awards its winners with hefty prize money. Yes, poetry is not just a hobby, it is a recipe for success.
The first prize winner receives a sum of 1 Lakh Rupees and gets their very own poetry book published by us. Second prize is 50,000 Rupees and third prize is 25,000 Rupees. Top 30 positions are awarded 10,000 Rupees Each. We also publish a Poetry Anthology that has compiles poems of top 200 ranks.
In 2018, the competition aims to fulfil dreams and aspirations of budding poets from around India. We appreciate diversity and accept all styles and themes of poetry. We believe every poem is unique and you are the master of that beautiful creation.
Submit your poems to the competition today!
Welcome to Wingword Poetry Competition 2018
We provide 5 Lakhs in rewards to budding poets
500+ poets have started their careers with us
200+ have become published authors with us
We have fulfilled the dreams and given confidence to many writers
We are looking for creativity and originality
Beginners are encouraged through the competition
India's biggest poetry competition for motivating new poets is open
Participate today for your chance to win!
The competition is open to Indian nationals.
You must be 14 years and above.
Poem must be original work of the participant.
Any length and style of poetry is accepted.
Previously published poems are allowed.
Entry fee is INR 500 for one poem and INR 1000 for three poems.
Beginners are encouraged to participate.
Copyright of the poem remains with the author.
Win exciting prizes and national recognition in Wingword Poetry Competition 2018!
1. First, you have to pay the entry fee online. The participation fee is ₹500 for one poem and ₹1000 for three poems. If you want to submit one poem, click 'Submit One Poem'. If you want to submit three poems, click 'Submit Three Poems'.
2. After you have paid the entry fee, check your e-mail id. We will send you a participation form where you can easily paste your poems.
Winners and commendable mentions are awarded certificates of merit. We provide electronic certification to every poet who takes part in the competition.
We are looking for budding poets like you! You can win.
Sponsored by Delhi Poetry Slam


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Daily Trivia (Formerly Trivia Tuesday), Movies
Daily Trivia – 11/7/11
November 7, 2011 Paul Stroessner	Leave a comment
Question: What is the name of the aircraft carrier that we see in both the beginning and ending of "Top Gun"?
A. USS Missouri
B. USS Intrepid
C. USS Enterprise
D. USS Alabama
Last Question: What pint-sized songwriter played Little Enos in all three Smokey and the Bandit movies?
Answer: Paul Williams
Paul Williams a legendary songwriter who penned some famous songs from the '70s and '80s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song", the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun", and best of all, "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie!
In addition to his music career, Williams also acted in several movies and television shows. He played Virgil, the genius orangutan in Battle for the Planet of the Apes. On Feb. 9, 1973, Williams combined his singing and acting careers on the Tonight Show, singing a song dressed as Virgil:
He made numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, including guest appearances on Hawaii Five-O, Match Game '79, The Love Boat, The Hardy Boys, The Odd Couple (as himself), The Muppet Show, The Fall Guy, and The Gong Show.
However, his most popular acting role was Little Enos Burdette in Smokey and the Bandit. He played the son of Big Enos (Pat McCormick), who bet the Bandit to get him to haul shipments to different states. In the original (1977) they got him to bootleg 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas to the "Southern Classic" in Georgia— in 28 hours:
In Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), the bandit had to haul an elephant to the GOP National Convention.
And in Smokey and the Bandit III, Burt Reynolds had a smaller role. This time, Big Enos (McCormick) and Little Enos (Williams) offering a sizeable wager on one's ability to transport a shipment a large distance in a short period of time. Offering a slight twist, however, the offer is this time made to a retiring Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason), betting $250,000 against his badge on his ability to transport a large stuffed fish from an eatery in Florida from Texas.
Paul WilliamsSmokey and the Bandit
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The snarling beast prepared to charge. A clawed foot pawed at the dirt, stirring up a cloud of dust. Black eyes partially hidden beneath a mass of unruly brown fur stared at her. Its enormous square head tilted to the side. The thing looked like a cross between a wooly mammoth and an alien from a scary movie.
Nick jumped to his feet while shouting a warning at her. Glued to the ground, she couldn't move. Cold fear held her in a tight grip. He caught her arm, hauled her to her feet, and dragged her with him. The heavy tromp of footsteps thundered behind them. The border monster was coming. It would overtake them at any second.
Bay-Lee cringed, expecting to be impaled on sharp horns.
They ran through the forest, dodging trees in a mad dash. Nick's hand slipped on her arm and he almost let go. His grip tightened around her wrist. She forced her legs to move faster, desperate to keep up with him. The hairy beast leaped over their heads and slammed down in front of them even though she would have bet the thing was too enormous to jump that high. The ground shook as if they were caught in an earthquake. A cloud of dust enveloped them like a post nuclear mushroom cloud.
The border monster charged them, but Nick darted to the right. He moved so fast Bay-Lee didn't have time to think. Avoiding the shadows, Nick kept to the light so it could see him. The monster changed course. Head bent, it tried to flatten Nick. He leaped into the air at the last second. The monster's head scooped him up. Nick landed on its back. One of his hands tangled in the long matted hair, using it to hang on, while his other hand brandished the branch like a sword. He looked like a man riding a rampaging elephant.
He shouted a warning to her, telling her to hug a tree. It was the only safe place. She wanted to help him slay the thing, but she didn't know anything about border monsters. They hadn't gotten to them yet in Maxx's class.
Bay-Lee wrapped her arms around the nearest tree and held on tight. If she didn't move, the thing wouldn't be able to see her. She wished she hadn't left her cell phone in her room. Nick was going to die, and there wasn't anything she could do to stop it. Now she wished she'd gone for help instead of following him into the woods.
Nick drove the sharp tip of the branch into the monster's back. Howling in pain and anger, the thing stood on two legs, freaking her out. Apparently this was another thing she didn't know about border monsters. They could stand on four legs or two. It reached around, grabbed Nick by his ankle, and ripped him free. The thing lifted him high in the air. It was going to slap the ground with him, breaking bones and causing massive internal injuries.
Without giving it a thought Bay-Lee ran at the giant monster. Desperation drove her to action. She hit it with a flying kick. Surprised, the monster dropped Nick. He executed a summersault and rolled away from the fight. The border monster turned in her direction. She retreated fast, blending in with the trees. As long as she wasn't moving and wasn't in the light, it couldn't see her.
The border monster bent forward and sniffed, trying to catch her scent. When it exhaled, the heavy whoosh of air blew hair around her face, momentarily obstructing her vision. Her nose itched. She clenched her fists and fought the urge to scratch. She remained frozen, refusing to even blink. The monster was not going to trick her into moving, no matter what it did. Her fingers dug into the tattered bark of the tree. A silent scream lodged in her throat, searching for an exit. If the monster didn't get out of her face soon, she might lose control and release the scream.
Nick laughed. The sound seemed to infuriate the monster. It whipped around, ready to finish crunching Nick to dust. The monster charged at him. Nick brought the branch around in an arcing sweep and plunged it into the monster's gut. The thing staggered backwards before crashing forward. It was going to fall on top of Nick. He lurched to the side, trying to get out of the way, but he wasn't fast enough. The monster fell.


Should we save in building the necessary infrastructure for energy and waste in the night?
Also built to the energy could be the production of nuclear weapons store, since the ramp to 60-75% of the night?
They are are about 5%.
We can save energy at night, then use it during peak hours.
Because you need all the storage of alternative energy sources (excluding hydro) energy viable Ins't have already lost their first choice?
If it were not eliminate gas customers on solar and wind energy.
No storage is not in a position to make a connection to existing facilities.


It Was 50 Years Ago Today. . . Youth Culture, The Beatles, And How Time Flies. . .
I remember my pre-teen self feeling four news-induced punches to the gut during my "wonder years". Three were assassinations. The TV news bulletins (no Internet back then!) disrupted the normalcy of our days when JFK, RFK, and MLK were each gunned down unexpectedly. The fourth was something I learned about when I got to the school bus stop and Steve King told us the Beatles had broken up. That was on April 10, 1970.
Stuff like that rattles and rocks a kid's life. That's why we all remember where we were and who we were with when we first heard the news. All this came to mind this morning when I read that it's been 50 years to the day since the Beatles last performed together. It was an impromptu 42-minute concert high up on a London rooftop. I went back and watched the video this morning. . . and it brought back memories of my own adolescence and the music that served as its' soundtrack. When they sang "Don't Let Me Down" (check it out below. . . ), little did I know that the band would be letting me down by parting ways in just over a year. It wasn't so much that I had embraced the philosophy of the band, because I hadn't. Rather, they had become a familiar part of my childhood.
All of this caused me to go all introspective this morning. Fifty years. Wow. Seems like a flash. I remember that it was only the old people who thought time flies. Now, I know what they were talking about. James tells us that our lives are "like a mist that appears for a little time then vanishes" (James 4:14). The Psalmist asks God to "make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!" (Psalm 39:4). In other places the Bible tells us that we are like a breath or a wind that passes away.
As I pondered that reality occasioned by today's hard-to-believe-it's-been-fifty-years anniversary, I also remembered the beauty of who God is and what He's given us in His Word. God is eternal and in control. And even though winds and breaths shift and come and go, "the word of the Lord remains forever" (I Peter 1:24). That's why we must never cease preaching the Gospel to ourselves and to our kids.
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Baghdad, Iraq, 15 November 2017 -- In response to the recent earthquake in the border region between Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq, WHO's office in Iraq has deployed a medical team supported with 3 ambulances, 4 tents and emergency lifesaving supplies to Sulaymaniyah governorate in northern Iraq. The health supplies, sufficient for 200 surgical operations, have been prepositioned at the Emergency Hospital in Sulaymaniyah governorate.
An interagency assessment mission to Sulaymaniyah governorate reported that 8 people had been killed, more than 500 people injured and 3 health facilities damaged, 2 of which remain nonfunctional as a result of the earthquake. WHO's support is in response to a request from the Directorate of Joint Crisis Coordination Centre, Ministry of Interior, Kurdistan Regional Government and the Directorate of Health Sulaymaniyah.


Intriguing - nice job on the "lost and found" lines of the wine glass in the background, not to mention the excellent job on the bread and cheese!
Good enough to eat! I just love your still life paintings they are truly amazing. The detail that is missing is so easily filled in by the eye of the beholder.
Your breads are always wonderful. And the little gourmet is right. I want a bite of that beautiful cheese. I meant to wish Ruth Joyeux Anniversaire 3 days ago!!! I do so now.
Love the negative wine glass and the power of the white to create it! I always love your pieces. A treat for my day!


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Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna im. Zofii Nałkowskiej w Wołominie – powołana w 1949 roku na mocy dekretu z dnia 17 kwietnia 1946 roku o bibliotekach i opiece nad zbiorami bibliotecznymi (Dz.U. nr 26, poz. 163). Do 1978 roku mieściła się w budynku przy ul. Przyjacielskiej, po czym Urząd Miasta przyznał jej nowy lokal przy ul. Wileńskiej 23. Od 12 listopada 2009 roku mieści się na I i III piętrze wyremontowanego zabytkowego budynku dawnej szkoły "Jedynki" przy ulicy Wileńskiej 32, w centrum Wołomina.

Filie
 Osiedle Niepodległości (ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 1, Wołomin)
 Ossów (ul. Matarewicza 148, Ossów)
 Zagościniec (ul. 100-lecia 41, Zagościniec)

Nadzór merytoryczny
Nadzór merytoryczny nad Miejską Biblioteką Publiczną w Wołominie sprawuje Biblioteka Publiczna m.st. Warszawy – Biblioteka Wojewódzka, z siedzibą przy ul. Koszykowej 26 w Warszawie.

Przypisy

Zofia Nałkowska
Biblioteki w województwie mazowieckim
Kultura w Wołominie

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 Below are several examples of topics for a compare and contrast essay.
A compare and contrast essay examines two or more topics (objects, people, or ideas, for example), comparing their similarities and contrasting their differences. You may choose to focus exclusively on comparing, exclusively on contrasting, or on both-or your instructor may direct you to do one or both.
After you identify your basis for comparison, you should examine the literary texts for similarities and differences. The similarity and differences should focus on the basis of comparison. For example, you might conclude that in "Sense and Sensibility" women appear strong willed and confident, while in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," women appear weak willed and two-dimensional. You will use these observations, along with your list of similarities and differences, to construct your thesis statement and an outline for your comparative essay.
A publishing outline that is structured is likely to be necessary for your skilled essay writing document. Whether it could be even an easy compare and contrast essay paper or school research paper, the protocol that is same subscribe to the prep quantities of composition writing. You need to spend time and attempt into this stage as the composition in addition might absolutely raise to the fee within your undertaking. It'll not be impossible to make greater fights and link your suggestions more easily, stop having a smarter choice and so employ the English lingo to convince and even identify tell definitely better. The very first action that is critical would be to cautiously go through the material you've to add to your article. The dissertation will likely be made out of a certain predicament, and even will be needing a kind that is particular, just like comparison and compare or consider. This implies it's very important to write specially regarding issue will be likely from you or the way you'll manage to discuss this dilemma or reply the matter for the finest of your capacity. Are you aware the problems that are most crucial to eliminate? Where could I get evidence along with info to write research-paper? What study, suggestions in addition to facts will I try to help my response that is personal to obtain a research report homework?


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Home Local News An electric bus pilot program is coming to the Southside
An electric bus pilot program is coming to the Southside
Southside Daily Staff
The electric buses that HRT will use have already made a few visits to HRT locations for employees to ride and try out. The HRT logo will be affixed to the outside of the buses before they deploy in December 2020. (Southside Daily/courtesy of Tom Holden)
NORFOLK — Hampton Roads Transit was the recipient of $3.9 million in state funding to buy six new electric buses and seven charging stations.
The funding came as part of more than $12 million in state money which will be exclusively used to deploy electric transit buses in three Virginia localities: Alexandria's DASH transit program, Blacksburg's Transit Program and HRT.
In total, 17 electric buses and charging infrastructure will be used by local transit systems in Alexandria, Blacksburg and Hampton Roads, Gov. Ralph Northam announced.
Nearly $9 million of the funding will come from the Environmental Mitigation Trust the state received as part of its settlement with Volkswagen, Northam said.
Funding recipients must buy the electric buses and place them into service within two years.
The use of electric buses is expected to reduce operational costs for transit agencies through savings from lower fuel and maintenance costs. They are also expected to avoid tons of carbon emissions and pounds of nitrogen oxide emissions, according to the governor's office.
The money HRT got is not the only funding they will be using to deploy the pilot program, said Ray Amoruso, chief planning and development officer of HRT.
HRT has been working on the grant process to receive enough funding to buy the electric buses starting about three years ago.
After receiving two federal grants and now the state grant, HRT has a total of $7.8 million to buy six, 40-foot all electric buses plus parts, seven charging stations, funding to retrofit their 18th street facility for charging stations and funding for workforce training to use the new equipment, Amoruso said.
The long-term goal of HRT is to transition all of its diesel buses — about 300 — to electric buses, he said.
Zero emissions at the tailpipe is the ultimate goal, said Tom Holden, spokesman for HRT.
Engineers have estimated the cost of maintaining electric buses will be much cheaper over time, Amoruso said.
Starting December 2020, HRT hopes to begin its pilot program with the six electric buses using Bus Route 20 as the path, Amoruso said.
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Melanie Occhiuzzo started her professional journalism career at Southside Daily in June of 2018. She has since become a storyteller for the local community with special interest in anything locally-owned or animal related. You can find her running between meetings, researching the latest dog story online or reporting on the local school systems.


A knitted skirt is a skirt made from a natural fibre, such as sheep's wool or alpaca wool. A knitted skirt can also be made from a blend of manmade fibres, such as acrylic and polyester, although there is often a percentage of natural fibre within the blend. The knit can range from a fine rib or to a chunky cable knit. Knitted skirts were perhaps at the height of their popularity in the 1970s, when they were sometimes used to create floor length maxi skirts in vibrant colours and stripes. Crochet mini skirts- crochet is a form of knitting - as well as longer varieties, were also popular amongst the young at the time.
Womens knitted skirts are sometimes worn as part of a suit, a classic matching outfit that always looks elegant and stylish, for more formal occasions. A geometric design of black and white, in a well-fitting suit, would definitely make a statement when worn with black tights and a high-quality black leather handbag.
To minimise the proportionally large hips and thighs of characteristically pear shaped figures, choose a knee length knitted skirt that is made of stretchy fabric and is figure hugging. A skirt that flares out around the knees and skims over the hips would also be very flattering. You could wear it with a V-necked top, possibly with a belt around the waist. Teamed with leather boots, it's a look that could be worn on any number of smart-casual occasions. Full or A-line knitted skirts can also flatter a pear-shaped figure, if worn with a clingy or fitted top.
Any length of knitted skirt could work on apple shaped figures; the important thing is to choose a knitted skirt that is not full as the aim is to draw the eye-line downwards, away from the larger tummy and chest. An empire line top in a dark colour would flatter this type of figure as the fabric is designed to flow over areas that you might wish to minimise. Worn with a knitted skirt in a pattern, possibly brightly coloured, this could be a feminine and eye-catching outfit, especially if accessorised with an attractive necklace to accentuate the neckline of the empire line top. For added comfort, look for knitted skirts with a good amount of stretch in the fabric and possibly an elasticated waistband.
If you are lucky enough to have a figure with the proportions of an hour glass, the world is your oyster when it comes to knitted skirts as virtually all knitted skirts are designed with this body shape in mind. You can express your personality and sense of fashion in any way you choose. Why not choose a dark pink knitted skirt in a decorative jacquard and wear with a matching top?
If you are tall and slim with a boyish figure, you are also lucky enough to suit most styles. You could show off long and slender legs with a knitted mini skirt or flared A-line skirts, which could add dimension to you lower half if that is what you desire.
Whatever type of knitted skirt you choose, there are a few things to bear in mind. One is to always follow the care instructions in the inside label as washing and drying instructions can vary considerably according to the type of fabric from which it is made. If it is made from wool, for example, washing at too hot a temperature could result in the skirt shrinking, which would be a pity. Another tip is to always buy the most expensive knitted skirt you can afford, as more expensive garments tend to be better quality and longer lasting. Finally, if buying a skirt with a zip fastening, always run it up and down a few times first before purchasing as faulty zips are extremely annoying.


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package aip0191

import (
	"fmt"
	"testing"

	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/rules/internal/testutils"
)

func TestPhpNamespace(t *testing.T) {
	for _, test := range []struct {
		name         string
		PhpNamespace string
		problems     testutils.Problems
	}{
		{"Valid", `Google\\Example\\V1`, testutils.Problems{}},
		{"ValidBeta", `Google\\Example\\V1beta1`, testutils.Problems{}},
		{"ValidServiceNamespaceCase", `Google\\FooBar\\V1`, testutils.Problems{}},
		{"InvalidBadChars", "Google:Example:V1", testutils.Problems{{Message: "Invalid characters"}}},
		{"Invalid", `google\\example\\v1`, testutils.Problems{{
			Suggestion: fmt.Sprintf("option php_namespace = %s;", `Google\\Example\\V1`),
		}}},
		{"InvalidVersion", `Google\\Example\\v1`, testutils.Problems{{
			Suggestion: fmt.Sprintf("option php_namespace = %s;", `Google\\Example\\V1`),
		}}},
		{"InvalidBeta", `Google\\Example\\V1Beta1`, testutils.Problems{{
			Suggestion: fmt.Sprintf("option php_namespace = %s;", `Google\\Example\\V1beta1`),
		}}},
		{"ValidServiceNamespaceCase", `Google\\Foobar\\V1`, testutils.Problems{{Message: "Case"}}},
	} {
		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			f := testutils.ParseProto3Tmpl(t, `
				package google.example.v1;

				option php_namespace = "{{.PhpNamespace}}";

				service FooBar {}
			`, test)
			if diff := test.problems.SetDescriptor(f).Diff(phpNamespace.Lint(f)); diff != "" {
				t.Errorf(diff)
			}
		})
	}
}

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Кла́ус Бо Ла́рсен (; ) — датский футбольный судья международной категории. С 1996 года по 2010 — судья ФИФА. Судит международные матчи с 2000 года.

Карьера
С 1994 года судит матчи датской высшей футбольной лиги.

Кроме судейства в Датской Суперлиге Клаус Бо Ларсен участвовал в судействе матчей на Олимпийских играх 2004 года в Афинах, судил матчи кубка УЕФА начиная с сезона 2003—2004 (7 матчей, показал 32 жёлтые карточки), матчи Лиги Чемпионов — начиная с сезона 2000/01 (22 матча, 45 жёлтых карточек). Судил 7 отборочных матчей Кубка мира 2006, 6 отборочных матчей Кубков Европы в 2002—2003 и 2006—2007 годах. 29 сентября 2007 года Клаус Бо Ларсен отсудил матч российской Высшей лиги между «Зенитом» и ЦСКА. Матч закончился победой «Зенита» 2:1.

В 2008 году был выбран судьёй матча на Суперкубок УЕФА между командами «Зенит» (Санкт-Петербург) и «Манчестер Юнайтед». Матч состоялся 29 августа 2008 года.

14 ноября 2009 года в рамках чемпионата Мира 2010 судил стыковой матч Россия - Словения. Тогда игра завершилась победой сборной России со счётом 2:1.

Ссылки
 http://www.football-lineups.com/referee/54/

Футбольные судьи Дании
Судьи на летних Олимпийских играх 2004 года


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Home / Windows / News
Microsoft trumpets Windows 10's momentum at IFA
Windows 10 continues to roll on, Microsoft's OEM chief says.
By Mark Hachman
Senior Editor, PCWorld	 Sep 4, 2015 7:34 am PDT
Microsoft's Windows 10 is a thing, apparently.
Nick Parker, corporate vice president of the OEM division at Microsoft, introduced the IFA audience here in Berlin to Windows 10, pointing out the momentum that the operating system already has.
"Our strategy is clear and our strategy is to build the best mobile and productivity services for the cloud-first mobile-first world," Parker said. However one cuts the data—509 million new Windows devices in the coming year, or 1.5 billion Windows users—Microsoft is poised to succeed, he said.
The numbers that Parker was here to talk about, though, was how Windows 10 has fared—and it has fared well. 75 million devices already run Windows 10, and 90,000 unique device models already upgraded to Windows 10 across 192 countries. "And this is a month. It will just get better from here," Parker said.
Why this matters: Windows 8 began with a whimper. Windows 10 appears to be off with a bang, which is good news for the PC industry in general.
Showing the power of Windows 10
Microsoft's Bryan Roper showed off the new features of Windows 10, including the digital assistant, Cortana, as well as Continuum, Microsoft's way to turn a tablet or a phone into a full-fledged PC when connected to a large-screen display.
Windows 10 Continuum.
Earlier in the week, Parker and Acer showed off what they called the world's first "PC phone": the Jade Primo. It used the Continuum technology inside Windows 10 to launch Windows 10 Universal apps—though not traditional desktop software—on an external monitor.
Roper also showed off Windows Hello, the Windows biometric identification that ships with Windows 10. Windows 10's Hello feature requires specialized hardware to be built into the PC, however, which some manufacturers have begun to include.
Parker highlighted some of the hardware from Microsoft's partners that best showed off Windows 10.
For school, the Acer Aspire One Cloudbook begins at $169. It has two mics for Cortana. The Lenovo IdeaPad 100s, just 99mm thin, manages to include a 12 hour battery. It's priced at $229.
For business, Parker showed off the previously unannounced Dell Latitude 11 5000 2-in-1, as well as the $1249 HP Elitebook with an Intel vPro chipset, two mics, and a thin, light screen. All of the ports that business users need are included. The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 with Windows Hello fingerprint sensor starts at $999. Rugged Windows 10 notebooks include the Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1, with an 8-hour battery and a bright display.
Further reading: The 10 coolest, fantastical, and most powerful PC reveals of IFA 2015
Microsoft also believes in the power of all-in-ones. The Dell Inspiron 24 7000 series and others represents the future of desktops, he said. An Asus Zen AiO S includes a 24-inch screen with a 4K option, and improvments to Windows Hello, with 6 speakers, 4 mics, and a 4K UHD screen.
Parker also showed off a grab bag of other notebooks. The HP Pavilion 15, running Intel Core i3, can be had for $399, which includes a DVD drive. "It brings touch to the masses," Parker said.
The Asus ROG G752 gaming notebook.
Parker also highlighted the $1,399 Asus ROG G752, with a 17.3 inch screen, Nvidia GTX 980 card, and an anti-dust cooling system. The Toshiba Radius 12, for $899, which also includes Windows Hello and its Cortana button, "is an incredible PC," Parker said. Parker also showed off a new, thin Toshiba 2-in-1 that hasn't previously been announced.
Windows also powers the Internet of Things. Windows will power ATMs, gas pumps, and medical devices, he said. Parker showed a Toshiba environmental data logger with 20 sensors and a battery life of about six months.
As PCWorld's senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.
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APC anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) Antibody
5A6 (See other available formats)
S5.7, CVID6, TSPAN28
Human peripheral blood lymphocytes were stained with anti-human CD81 (clone 5A6) APC (filled histogram) or mouse IgG1, κ APC isotype control (open histogram).
Compare all formats See APC spectral data
CD81 is a 26 kD non-glycosylated member of the tetraspanin superfamily (TM4SF), also known as TAPA-1 (target of an antiproliferative antibody). CD81 is expressed on T and B cells, NK cells, monocytes, dendritic cells, thymocytes, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts. It also has low levels of expression on granulocytes. CD81 induces B cell adhesion via VLA-4 integrin and has been shown to play a role in early T cell development. CD81 associates with several other cell-surface proteins in a multimolecular complex, including CD19, CD21, CD20, CD37, CD53, and CD82 in B cells, and CD4, CD8, and CD82 in T cells.
Human, African Green, Baboon, Cynomolgus, Rhesus
Human OCI-LY8 cell line
The antibody was purified by affinity chromatography and conjugated with APC under optimal conditions.
Red Laser (633 nm)
Additional reported applications (for the relevant formats) include: Western Blotting3 and immunoprecipitation2,3.
Menno C, et al. 2010. J. Clin. Invest. 4:1265.
Oren R, et al. 1990. Mol. Cell. Biol. 8:4007. (IP)
Clark K, et al. 2004. J. Biol. Chem. 279(19):19401. (IP, WB)
Mochida K, et al. 2008. J. Virol. 13:6711.
Rappa G, et al. 2014. Mol Cancer Res. 12:1840. PubMed
Angeloni N, et al. 2016. Sci Rep. 6:22915. PubMed
Oguri Y, et al. 2020. Cell. 182(3):563-577.e20. PubMed
Najm FJ, et al. 2018. Nat Biotechnol. 36:179. PubMed
Zimmerman B et al. 2016. Cell. 167(4):1041-1051 . PubMed
26 kD, type III transmembrane protein, member of the TM4SF tetraspanin family. Complexed with CD82, CD19, CD21, or CD4, CD8.
T cells, NK, monocytes, B cells, endothelial and epithelial cells, low on granulocytes.
Regulates cell activation and growth and cell aggregation.
B cells, Endothelial cells, Epithelial cells, Monocytes, Neural Stem Cells, NK cells, T cells
Cell Biology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Neuroscience Cell Markers, Signal Transduction, Stem Cells, Transcription Factors
Adhesion Molecules, CD Molecules
1. Menno C, et al. 2010. J. Clin. Invest. 4:1265.
2. Fearon D, et al. 1995. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 13:127.
3. Wright M, et al. 1994. Immunol. Today 15:588.
TH2 Pathway (Humoral Immune Response)
Biotin anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
TotalSeq™-A0373 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 PG
Purified anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC, WB, IP
FITC anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
PE anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
PE/Dazzle™ 594 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
Pacific Blue™ anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
Alexa Fluor® 700 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
TotalSeq™-B0373 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 PG
PerCP/Cyanine5.5 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
PE/Cyanine7 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 FC
TotalSeq™-C0373 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1) 5A6 PG
Clone: H5C6
APC anti-human CD9
Clone: HI9a
PE anti-human CD9
FITC anti-human CD9
Biotin anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
TotalSeq™-A0373 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
Purified anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
FITC anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
PE anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
PE/Dazzle™ 594 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
Pacific Blue™ anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
Alexa Fluor® 700 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
TotalSeq™-B0373 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
PerCP/Cyanine5.5 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
PE/Cyanine7 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)
TotalSeq™-C0373 anti-human CD81 (TAPA-1)


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Students win $100,000 prize from Elon Musk's carbon-removal competition
From top left clockwise are Drew Rich, Chris Langdon, Anwar Khan, Zach Berkowitz, Nancy Lewis, Laura Stieghorst, Isabelle Fitzpatrick, and Eden Leder. Photo: Jenny Hudak/University of Miami
By Jenny Hudak
Led by senior Laura Stieghorst, a team of University of Miami students will use the award to advance their idea for reducing atmospheric carbon levels.
Last spring, as Laura Stieghorst watched Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket blast off from Cape Canaveral, the University of Miami undergraduate wished the billionaire would pour as much money into saving the planet from climate change as he was enabling people to leave it.
Just a few days later, Stieghorst was delighted to learn that the Musk Foundation had launched the $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal project, a global contest aimed at generating ideas for extracting and sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean—and the prizes included a total of $5 million for ideas from students.
Stieghorst immediately got to work. She spent her summer researching various methods for ocean-based carbon removal and was intrigued by those that would increase the alkalinity of the water and neutralize the acidification that, along with warming waters, is imperiling coral reefs and other marine ecosystems. She connected with Greg Rau, a renowned carbon cycle expert who patented such a process, and recruited a team of students and faculty members from five schools across the University. They spent seven intense weeks developing a proposal for the XPRIZE.
On Wednesday, Stieghorst and her Accelerated Carbonate Ion Dissolution and Dispersal (ACIDD) student team members—Isabella Arosemena, Zach Berkowitz, Jeanette Betke, Isabelle Fitzpatrick, Anwar Khan, Eden Leder, Nancy Lewis, and Drew Rich—learned their work had paid off. XPRIZE announced that ACIDD is one of five student projects awarded $100,000 to advance Musk's goal of removing 1 billion tons of CO₂ per year from the atmosphere.
Now, Stieghorst, who is graduating in December with a degree in ecosystems science and policy, acknowledges that the hard work really begins. "I am over the moon," she said. "I had so much confidence in the solution that I imagined this happening. But everything we did was theoretical. So, now we have to prove the idea works in the real world and at scale."
The ACIDD proposal was based on a process developed by Rau, the chief technology officer and co-founder of Planetary Hydrogen, a carbon-capture startup. The process generates a low-carbon form of alkalinity using waste products from mining, water, and renewable electricity, and harvesting valuable byproducts such as hydrogen—a key ingredient to a decarbonized energy system. When added to the ocean, the alkalinity enhances the ocean's uptake of CO₂ from the air while countering local ocean acidification.
"Essentially, it's like one big Alka Seltzer," Stieghorst said. "When the tablet dissolves in water, it can neutralize acid. Distributing this liquid in the ocean will have a similar effect—and speed up a natural part of the geologic carbon cycle that takes thousands of years. Accelerating it to human-time scales can safely lock away our anthropogenic carbon emissions for more than 100,000 years."
Working with Planetary Hydrogen, the ACIDD team will assess the environmental impact of the process by measuring its effects on laboratory corals.
The team's faculty advisors, Chris Langdon, a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science who was instrumental in connecting Stieghorst to Planetary Hydrogen, and Esber Andiroglu, associate professor of practice in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, guided the students through the XPRIZE proposal, with Planetary Hydrogen's support. Now, with the ACIDD team's prize in hand, both teams plan to work together to advance their common goal of unlocking the power of the oceans to address the climate crisis—and win the grand XPRIZE in 2025.
"Laura and her team are an inspiration to all those who are working to advance climate solutions," said Jason Vallis, Planetary Hydrogen's vice president for external relations. "We were extremely impressed with her leadership in getting this project off the ground and are thrilled to learn of the team's success in the student XPRIZE competition. We look forward to working together to bring ocean carbon dioxide removal to the forefront."
The partnership is one that Langdon, who studies the biology and ecology of corals, said could expand important research in the future. "Corals are a super delicate organism," he said. "If we can show that we can add the Planetary Hydrogen product to the water and it doesn't injure the health of the corals—or even enhances their health—that could go a long way in convincing people that a larger-scale experiment would be safe to try."
For her part, Stieghorst looks forward to the day that the ACIDD team's job is building a market for and social acceptance of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal technologies. "CO2 is invisible. Alkalinity is complicated," she said. "If we're creating a solution that is, hopefully, going to be global one day, you need a lot of public support."
To learn more about the ACIDD project, email Laura Stieghorst at lxs962@miami.edu or visit the team's Instagram or Twitter pages.


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Islamic Genius, AMK
Reader comment on item: Islamophobia?
Submitted by Vishnu Gupta (India), Dec 8, 2005 at 02:59
***You didn't answer my question, will cutting off hands increase or decrease crime....***
Sorry, AMK, for having overlooked this classic case of Islamic genius in jurisprudence. This was the second time you asked, and my brain must have numbed over for a long time, but its thawing pretty fast now.
Supposing all secular nations decided to apply this law to Muslim criminals in their midst, and in the international courts. Will it permanently put paid to their headaches on account of Islamofascism or not?
Where shall we begin? There's Saddam Hussein for one thing. And all the terrorists pending trial, including Omar Shaikh in Pakistan. Surely Pakistan would not object to Sharia' law? In fact we need not wait for the niceties of western human rights conventions, but follow the magnificent example of Taliban. Will it put an end to terrorism or not?
Or say we start with A. Q. Khan, the pride of Pakistan, the father of the proliferating Pakistani nuke, for having *stolen* the Dutch nuclear designs. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan,
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/pakistan/khan.htm,
http://www.krl.com.pk/,
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092604G.shtml,
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/southasia/khan_memo.html, http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper567.html
" Dr A.Q. Khan is the only Pakistani to have received the highest civilian award of "Nishan-I-Imtiaz"(NI) twice -in 1996 and 1998. He also has received the honour of Hilal-I-Imtiaz. (HI). Yet, his critics call him differently, such as "Evil Scientist", "Rogue Scientist", "Horrible Example" etc."
-- Will your suggested punishment of chopping off hands in this case effectively seal the nuclear blackmarket or not, AMK?
Then there are the likes of Dawood Ibrahim, the most wanted man on earth, currently enjoying Pakistani hospitality in Karachi. Will this put an end to the underworld weapons trade, hawala rackets and narco-terrorism or not?
Chopping the hands (and feet) of Muslim criminals currently languishing in police custody and prisons of India. Will this end at least 80% of crime in India or not? Applying the same law to beleagured countries like France, UK and the US -- will it see a felicitous end to major criminal activity or not?
And there is a real 'manna from the heaven' side effect to this: Will it summarily end criminal conversions to Islam, putting an end to the demographic threats or not?
And closely related to the above, supposing we were to naturally stretch the law a little bit, by castrating all Muslim rapists. --Will it put an end to most of the rapes or not?
Supposing the above rule was applied to all the fathers-in-law who rape their sons' wives (assuming that Allah has not granted them special pardon as in the case of his beloved Prophet). --Will it put an end to this crime or not?
Now Yuval Brandsetter, MD, commenting elsewhere in this site, offered the idea that most criminals converting to Islam were because it placed them in a considerably superior position over its women. A sage friend, responding to that theory, offered the following:
"But, criminals - even according to the laws prevailing in Muhammad's (PBUH) Arabia - were the first "natural" converts to Islam, because it gave them much-aspired-for legitimacy!!!!! A brigand faith is a brigand faith after all....."
--Elaborating on it, I'd say that most religions are meant to temper negative aspects of human nature among their adherents, for which purpose certain codes were dictated, so as to bring them within the fold of human 'civilisation'. There is plenty of scope offered for errant behaviour being corrected and reformed through relatively humane censure and punishment.
We are agreed that Islam charts the opposite course, variously. I see another spin off in applying the Islamic code to Muslim criminals: This is likely to swell the ranks of beggars with no other means of sustenance outside the mosques on Fridays, mopping up most of the Islamic charities that otherwise go into funding criminal and terrorist activities. It would effectively serve to neutralise the threat of Islamofascism in a dual manner.
--Do you agree or not, AMK?
Such logic applied selectively to Muslims might sound a trifle evil to you, AMK, but may I say it here that the idea came out of your warmly fecund brain, repeatedly, to enliven this debate in its current round?
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Jellyfish sting in Malta - what to do?
Jellyfish sting – what to do?
It must have happened eventually, right? I got stung by a jellyfish. I believed it wouldn't be something new for me, as I grew up on the shore of the Black Sea, but apparently jellyfish in Mediterranean sea is different and much more unpleasant (read: it hurts soooo *** much!). The jellyfish I met was a Mauve Stinger – one of the most widespread jellyfish near Malta shores.
What to do if you were stung by the jellyfish in Malta?
Jellyfish like Mauve Stinger has small "hooks" on its tentacles that stack in your skin and keep releasing poison even after you get rid of the jellyfish.
1. First thing you have to do – scratch the skin on the place of a sting with something sharp – if you don't have knife, try to scratch it off with credit cards. Don't scratch it with your fingers/nails – you'll just make it worth.
2. Keep the part of you that got stung in the sea water. Don't apply fresh or hot water!
3. If you have some alcohol with you – you can put it on. That would stop further releasing of the poison. You can also apply vinegar.
Although, Mauve Stinger is the most common jellyfish, there are other species and they might be more poisonous. So it is a good idea to take a look on the jellyfish to see how does it look like.
If there are Lifeguards nearby – you better ask them for assistance, they might have something special to apply on a sting.
Important! If a large part of your skin has been affected, or eyes, or mouth, or you start feeling dizzy, or hot, or it's hard to breath, or there are other abnormalities – go to the doctor immediately! Some people get severe allergic reaction. Also if a small child got stung or an old person – it is better to go to the doctor.
The problem with mauve stinger sting – is that it could hurt for a long time – up to couple of weeks (depending on how well you managed to scratch a sting off), and it can start to inflame again. That was the case with me – we scratch off the sting very well from my hand (thanks to a fisherman who came to help and had a knife), but we didn't scratch it off between my fingers – after 2 weeks I had an inflammation and went to see a doctor, that prescribed to apply Benovate Cream 0,1% twice a day for 5 days.
Where to find a doctor?
1. In severe cases go to Mater Dei Emergency department (map) or call emergency 112 (see also).
2. General Practitioners (GP) are seeing patients in the cabinets in pharmacies. For example – Potter's pharmacy in Paceville, St. Julians.
What you can do to prevent jellyfish sting?
Among some obvious things like "swim with goggles or mask", "dress you kids in full swimming suite", "apply anti-jellyfish gel" etc. – there is another very efficient thing – follow the wind! Pick up locations where wind is blowing from the shore into the sea not vice versa – http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/luqa.
Hope this article was helpful! Some more information can be found here.
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If you looking for a French cuisine at affordable price in a comfort and casual ambience, near the beach, then Sunrise Bistro & Bar at Big Splash East Coast will be a good place to consider. Sunrise Bistro & Bar is helmed by Execute Chef and Owner Vincent Teng with 22 years of culinary experience under his belt. He used to work at many well established hotels and restaurants, latest was at Table 66 and Skyve Elementary Bistro & Bar before venturing out on his own.
The first dish that was served, already got me curious with Chef Vincent's cuisine. Tomato is added to the Seafood Chowder Soup ($12) to give it a bit of acidity on top of the creamy soup with seasonal seafood. It is then topped with chives and a few drops of extra virgin olive oil. The creaminess of the soup and the tanginess from the tomato provided a comforting and hearty enjoyment.
I am not sure how the kitchen managed to sliced the luncheon meat into such thin slices. These Luncheon Chips are extremely addictive.
The Seared Foie Gras ($19) is a nice starter before mains. The beautifully seared goose liver is rest on a brioche bread layered with mango, with citrus jam and berry compote at the side. I like the use of mango to cut through the gaminess of the foie gras, with the jam and berry compote providing an injection of acidity.
This is definitely not your usual fish & chips. The Sunrise Fish & Chips ($26) actually comes with a whole red snapper deep fried to crispy. It is served with lemon myrtie pepper, mango salsa, tartare sauce and french fries.
The other fish item on the menu is the Cereal Crusted Cod Fish ($28). The cod fish is baked with cereal crust and served with vegetable braised in sesame oil, in a ginger shoyu broth. It actually tasted like a Chinese dish, like those Hong Kong style steamed fish with the ginger shoyu broth.
Chef Vincent is known for his sous vide cooking which can be seen in the following dishes. We started with the Asian Five Spice Duck Leg Confit ($28) which is sous vide for 8 hours, infused with five spice. The crispy skin and the tender meat is paired with passionfruit sauce and served with citrus salad. A classic French dish with Asian inspired flavours, subtle but not throwing it off.
The Marmite Canadian Pork Shoulder ($26) is sous vide and grilled with marmite marinate. The pork shoulder has a consistent tender bite to it. The marinate gives a nice sweetness to it but I was hoping that the marmite taste can be stronger.
The BBQ Beef Short Ribs ($32) is sous vide for 24 hours and roasted in a homemade BBQ sauce. It is another enjoyable dish on the menu with the tender and fall of the bone meat.
Moving on to the dessert, we had the Tiramisu Semi Freddo ($12). It is made up of semi frozen mascarpone cheese layered with coffee liqueur jelly sponge topped with milo crunch and tuile biscuit. Unfortunately the pretty presentation did not transpire to taste. I find the various components have too much individual character on the plate and it did not come together as a dish.
If the night is still young, hit to the bar and have an Espresso Martini. Sunrise has an extensive wine and beer list. It also makes some great cocktails and mocktails.
The most looking forward dessert for the night was the Salted Egg Yolk Custard Molten Chocolate Cake ($14). Cutting into the molten cake, is the flowing salted egg lava. Maybe it was my high expectation, I felt that the chocolate overpowered the salted egg and got lost in the richness.
Sunrise Bistro & Bar presents a casual French fare at a more affordable price in a comfortable and casual ambience, near the beach. The quality of food at Sunrise is as good as what one can experience in fine dining, but at a much more affordable price in a less intimidating environment.
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Team Members Honored at 2020 Awards Ceremony
Written by: Clara McKenney
On November 13, employees throughout the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) were honored for their exceptional efforts and years of service at the 2020 Distinguished Staff Awards ceremony.
The Distinguished Staff Awards recognize team members for extraordinary contributions that impact the institution and support its mission of higher education, patient care and research.
These awards recognize employees on each campus who have gone above and beyond in their many roles at TTUHSC.
Additionally, hundreds of team members were recognized for their years of dedicated service. The Years of Service Award is presented based on the employee's length of service with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. These awards recognize years of service in five-year increments and consist of a distinctive pin designating the appropriate years of service.
"I am beyond grateful for the outstanding efforts of our Distinguished Staff Awards recipients and our longtime team members," said TTUHSC President Lori Rice-Spearman, Ph.D. "Their recognition is well deserved."
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the awards were presented digitally in a prerecorded program. View the virtual ceremony and join us in celebrating these individuals and their accomplishments below:
To view honorees and learn more, please visit the Distinguished Staff Awards website and the Years of Service website.
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Beginning in 1969 as the Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is now a five-school university with campuses in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas/Fort Worth, Lubbock, Midland and Odessa.
TTUHSC offers students the opportunity to expand knowledge in programs that are on the forefront of health care education. Our programs and facilities give students the opportunity for hands-on research and clinical experience, and various collaborations with community entities provide students the practical knowledge that is vital to their success.
Almost 50 years since opening, TTUHSC has now trained more than 20,000 health care professionals, and meets the health care needs of more than 2.5 million people in the 108 counties including those in the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico.
Through research, education and patient care, TTUHSC aims to promote a greater health environment for West Texas and beyond. We strive to decrease health disparities for rural populations and improve the health of the community through collaborations with area hospitals and health centers.
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Q: Rings of fractions If $R$ is a ring, $I$ is an ideal of $R$ such that $I\ne R$, and $S$ a multiplicatively closed set of $R$, and we have that this property is true, $$\frac{a}{s} \in S^{-1}I \implies a\in I$$
Can we prove that $S\cap I= \varnothing$ ??
If yes, how is it done?
Any help is appreciated...

A: Suppose $s\in S\cap I$. Then
$$
\frac{1}{1}=\frac{s}{s}\in S^{-1}I
$$
and therefore $S^{-1}I=S^{-1}R$. It follows that $I=R$, because for every $a\in R$, we have $a/s\in S^{-1}I$, so $a\in I$.

A: Since $I \ne R \implies S^{-1}I \ne S^{-1}R$
Assume that $S \cap I \ne \varnothing \implies \exists s \in S \cap I$
But $1_{S^{-1}R}=\dfrac{1_R}{1_R}=\dfrac{s}{s} \in S^{-1}I$
$\implies S^{-1}I=S^{-1}R$ #contradiction.
Thus, $S \cap I=\varnothing$
Is my proof correct?

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What is David Kay up to in Iraq? Kay is a very suspicious character, and may even have been the person responsible for telling the Bush Administration that the International Atomic Energy Agency had produced a report in 1991 that indicated that Iraq was at the time just six months away from having a nuclear bomb, a report that Bush and Blair both used in their war propaganda but which in fact never existed. Many people, including me, thought that Kay was going to discover the weapons of mass destruction that he had previously planted in Iraq, thus saving Bush's bacon. This still might happen, although as we move farther along and he still has not found anything it appears more likely that he is going to come up with some other answer to Bush's problems with the missing weapons of mass destruction. Both Kay's words and the words of the Bush Administration seem to be leading us to the idea that Saddam had a 'program' of producing weapons of mass destruction, and the concept of a 'program' replacing the discovery of actual weapons seems to be the new answer of the Bush Administration:
In Bush's last pathetic 'press conference', which, given the lack of any real questions by the press was hardly a press conference, and, given the remarkable inability of Bush to think or speak, was hardly a press conference, Bush said (my emphasis):
"We know that Saddam Hussein produced and possessed chemical and biological weapons, and has used chemical weapons. We know that. He also spent years hiding his weapons of mass destruction programs from the world. We now have teams of investigators who are hard at work to uncover the truth."
"David Kay came to see me yesterday. He's going to testify in a closed hearing tomorrow, which in Washington may not be so closed, as you know. And he was telling me the process that they were going through to analyze all the documentation. And that's not only to analyze the documentation on the weapons programs that Saddam Hussein had, but also the documentation as to terrorist links."
"And in order to, you know, placate the critics and the cynics about intention of the United States we need to produce evidence. And I fully understand it, and I'm confident that our search will yield that which I strongly believe: that Saddam had a weapons program.
I want to remind you, he actually used his weapons program on his own people at one point in time, which was pretty tangible evidence."
Note how Kay is analyzing documentation to find the weapons program, and how Bush slides weapons and a program of weapons together by saying that Saddam used his weapons program on his own people, hardly likely unless Saddam hit them over the head with his documents. The play on words works because a 'program' might refer to the method of making the weapons and the weapons themselves, or may just refer to a potential plan to make weapons. Saddam just had the plan, and not the weapons. Bush's unscripted public appearances are so cringeworthy that you almost feel sorry for him for how absolutely unprepared he is for his job, but he did manage to remember to insert the key word: 'program'.
In early June, Bush said (my emphasis):
"Iraq had a weapons program. Intelligence throughout the decade shows they had a weapons program. I am absolutely convinced that with time, we'll find out they did have a weapons program."
In Kay's own last appearance, he said (my emphasis):
"We have Iraqi scientists who were involved in these programs who are assisting us in taking them apart. They are collaborating and cooperating."
He sidestepped questions about whether actual weapons of mass destruction had been found. A U. S. defense department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, even admitted that the American team has not found actual weapons of mass destruction but has uncovered documents pointing to a program to develop such weapons, saying (my emphasis):
"Certainly the case is being built that, no doubt in anybody's mind, they had a program. We have come across documentation of their program."
The origins of the reliance on the concept of a 'program' appear to go back to the lecture given by John Bolton, in which he introduces the concept that the attack on Iraq was justified because there was the "intellectual capacity in Iraq to recreate systems of weapons of mass destruction." His concept of 'intellectual capacity' is so absolutely vague that it seems to consist merely of having in the country a group of physicists who, if they were so directed at some unspecified time in the future, could conceivably build weapons of mass destruction. The current way to refer to this doctrine appears to be to call it a 'program'.
Despite being detained in conditions that may approximate torture, with the implicit or probably explicit promise that they can obtain freedom if they confess to the existence of weapons of mass destruction, absolutely none of the Iraqi scientists has stated that such weapons exist. The scientists have absolutely no reason to lie about this, and in fact every reason to give the occupiers what they want to hear, so we can be certain that there are no weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, the best evidence still available, that of Gen. Hussein Kamel interviewed in 1995, was that the weapons were destroyed after the Gulf War because Saddam feared their discovery by the weapons inspectors. At the same time, he may have wanted to maintain some ambiguity (or here) about their existence in order to make him appear stronger than he really was. He wisely decided to bide his time until he could start building weapons of mass destruction free of discovery. It was the presence of the United Nations weapons inspectors and the threat of future inspections which in fact ensured that he had no weapons of mass destruction. This raises two key points having to do with the Bush lies:
Bush constantly harped on the idea that the weapons inspectors were ineffectual, and were providing a screen behind which Saddam could continue to build weapons of mass destruction, when in fact the exact opposite was the case, with the inspection process being the sole reason why Saddam never did rebuild his stocks of weapons of mass destruction. Those who argued against the attack on Iraq argued that the U. N. weapons inspectors should be allowed to finish their jobs. They were right, as the weapons inspection process was working.
The whole case of the Bush Administration is that they had the right to preemptively attack a sovereign nation because the United States had the right to self-defense against an imminent deadly threat from Iraq. That is why all the members of the Administration focussed on the necessity of disarming Iraq by force. Even if they were able to establish that there was some kind of program, the mere existence of a program is in no way even close to being sufficient to justify the American attack on Iraq. As I've said before, the 'Bush doctrine', that the United States can preemptively use war in self-defense against countries that may pose a threat to the security of the United States, is of highly questionable validity in international law, and can apply, if it applies at all, only if: 1) the threat is real and imminent; 2) war is the only possible alternative; and 3) there is no time to consult the United Nations. The existence of a 'program' without actual weapons does not satisfy these tests.
It appears that what Kay is doing is creating a virtual Iraqi weapons program. He seems to be building an inventory of what scientists Iraq had and what they were trained to do, and what strategic assets Iraq had. He then determines what type of program he would institute if he were put in charge by Saddam of building a workable program for the production of weapons of mass destruction. This is five steps away from what the Bush Administration needs in order to provide a proper excuse for the attack on Iraq:
Saddam hadn't ordered anyone to start such a process;
the intellectual capacity of the scientists wasn't directed to such a purpose;
there was no manufacturing system in place;
there were no weapons of mass destruction built; and
there is absolutely no indication that Saddam had any kind of delivery system that could have provided an imminent risk to the United States.
As Kay labors to construct an imaginary system of weapons of mass destruction, we have to always remember that such dreams did not pose an imminent threat to the United States, and cannot possibly create a retrospective excuse for a completely illegal and immoral attack on a sovereign nation. The United States has completely destroyed its international reputation, ended much of the international cooperation it requires to fight the war on terror, and taken military steps that may result in the deaths of up to 60,000 people, and it will all be justified on what David Kay finds in his head.
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This is painful for me to do... but I have to pay for Rylie's (my oldest daughter) choir camp at Oklahoma City University. Not cheap.
I have a lot of six DROIDS figures that are in near perfect condition. I would love to see better examples of these... they are simply beautiful.
As you can see from my list above, the blue-black blaster is not correct. I bought a lost of almost 100 figures earlier in the year and all were in separate bags. The previous owner, who passed away, also had vehicles and play-sets which I believe is where the other 100% black blaster is located. These are up for eBay all the time, between $50-90. The price I'm asking reflects that difference. I am still including the blue-black blaster with the lot.
I'm asking $1510 OBO (was asking $1600 before I figured out the blaster mistake). If you have any questions please let me know. I'd rather not break these up... the amount I'm asking is about half of the cost of the camp, so $1000 won't help as much as the $1500. So if you wanted to buy the lot, you could do that later; sell the figures you don't need/want/.
Dang it, up for seconds and sold? That was quick. Just making sure they are sold right? So the thread can be locked?
I *HATE* having to sell them but gotta do what I gotta do for my girls.


St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds has appointed its first nurse consultant as it prepares to launch a number of new nurse-led beds.
Catherine Malia, formerly an advanced nurse practitioner at the facility, started her new job this week.
Her appointment comes as the hospice gets ready to introduce several nurse-led beds for terminally ill people in its inpatient unit. The development has been funded by the Health Foundation's Innovating for Improvement Fund.
Ms Malia's job will involve leadership, sharing good practice, service development and research and evaluation. At least half of her time will be spent in clinical practice.
Director of nursing Cath Miller described the role as "pivotal" within the nursing team.
"One of the hospice's key clinical priorities is the development of end-of-life beds in our in-patient unit, which will be nurse-led," she said.
Ms Malia, who has worked at St Gemma's since 1999 having joined as a staff nurse before becoming a team leader and then an ANP, said she was excited about her new role.
"I am very much looking forward to working with other providers across Leeds, in addition to regional and national networks, to help influence and develop end-of-life care for patients and their families," she said.
The Bolton Hospice is calling on the public to sponsor a nurse and help it "provide care, hope and support for the local people who need it most".
The majority of hospices in England are caring for and supporting people in a compassionate way at the end of their lives, according to the Care Quality Commission.
The first full audit of specialist palliative care services in London, including specialist nursing, has revealed patchy provision for terminally ill patients across the capital.
With the Assisted Dying Bill due to be introduced in the House of Commons this September, palliative care nurse, Jo Fernandes, appeals to nurses to consider the implications for them if the law changes.
Debbie Chester is about to embark on a new career as a district nurse at the age of 40, after being inspired to join the profession by the end of life care given to a close relative.
Hospices are being called upon to adopt a culture of "rehabilitative palliative care" so they can support patients to "live well" in addition to caring for them in their last days of life.
The proportion of people dying in hospices in England has nearly doubled over the last 20 years, according to latest research.
A well-known hospice in east London has appointed its second nurse consultant to boost access to palliative care in community settings.
A hospice charity has launched a bid to reduce the number of people dying unnecessarily in hospital.
Perhaps Catherine would consider involving Nrsing Homes in her area as they have been involved in this field for years.


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Welcome to the Mount Rainier region. Listed below are commonly asked questions with answers. If you have a question and don't see the answer please reach out to us. We're happy to help and we'd love to hear from you.
Q: How much does it cost to visit Mt. Rainier National Park?
A: There are a variety of options for fees and passes at Mt. Rainier National Park. The most common option is the Mount Rainier Single Vehicle Fee of $30 which grants unlimited entry for one vehicle and passengers for seven consecutive days. The vehicle must be private, noncommercial, and with a seating capacity of 15 or less. There are additional options for annual passes, walk-ups for people who hike, bike, or ride a motorcycle. Click here for the complete list.
Q: Are dogs allowed at Mt. Rainier National Park?
A: The short answer is, not on the trails. A longer answer is, dogs on a leash can accompany a visitor in places where you can drive a vehicle. So areas like officially developed campgrounds, parking lots, and paved roads near viewpoints are areas where visitors can take a dog on a leash. Click here for the MRNP official pet policy. There are dog-friendly trails in the region located outside of the national park. Click here for a free copy of our travel guide with a complete list of dog-friendly trails and more.
Q: Is Mt. Rainier National Park open year-round?
A: Yes, it is. Keep in mind there are multiple entrances to the national park. Only the Nisqually Entrance is open year-round.
Q: What's the highest point of the mountain I can drive to?
A: Sunrise is the highest point of Mount Rainier you can drive a vehicle to. This area is located at 6,400 feet elevation. The road to Sunrise is not open year-round. Click here to check the road status. Please note due to the steep, narrow, and winding nature of the Sunrise Road, it is recommended that RVs and vehicles with trailers longer than 25 feet LOA not travel up the Sunrise Road beyond the White River Campground intersection. Currently, there are no restrictions for unmodified motor coaches of standard length.
Q: What are the hours of Mt. Rainier National Park?
A: Mt. Rainier National Park does not publish operating hours for the different park entrances at this time. Typically when we get this question it's from visitors who want to arrive really early in the morning for a sunrise hike, or late in the day for stargazing. If that's your reason your best bet is to purchase a pass online ahead of time so that if you arrive and find the entrance station isn't staffed you can enter the park and display your pre-purchased pass. Please note, during the wintertime, the gate at Longmire closes daily.
Q: What's open during COVID?
A: The Mt. Rainier region covers multiple counties, during the pandemic conditions may change. It's always a good idea to check on the status of an area or attraction before departing for your hike, adventure, or road trip. Currently, the following areas are open: Mt. Rainier National Park, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Pack Forest, Federation Forest, Crystal Mountain Resort, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, and the Thunder Dome Car Museum. Guided trail rides at EZ Times Outfitters in Elbe and Echo River Ranch in Enumclaw are open. The lodging properties, most restaurants, and shops are open.
Q: What's closed during COVID?
A: The visitor centers at Mt. Rainier National Park are closed and ranger-led activities are canceled. The Mt. Rainier Railroad is closed for the foreseeable future.
Q: I have a specific Mt. Rainier National Park question I don't see answered here. How can I contact the park directly?
A: You can call the park directly at (360) 569-2211 or fill out this form to contact them via email. And just in case it's helpful here's a link to the park's FAQ page.
Q: Mount Rainier is a volcano, is it safe to visit?
A: Mount Rainier is monitored on an ongoing basis. The United States Geological Survey states an eruption is likely to be preceded by days to months or more of small earthquakes that could be detected giving communities time to be alerted and take precautions. For more information click here.
Q: Can I scatter my loved one's ashes at Mount Rainier National Park?
A: We're sorry for your loss. Ashes may not be spread within half a mile of Tipsoo Lake or Reflection Lake. These areas are not available for Scattering of Ashes. Yes, however, you'll need a special use permit for the scattering of ashes. Click here for more details.
Q: If I want to camp overnight in the backcountry of Mount Rainier do I need a special permit?
A: Yes, you'll need a wilderness permit. For more information on wilderness permits click here.


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Colin Self and Vic Reeves to give guided tour of exhibition of their work
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The entrance to the Fairhurst Gallery on Bedford Street, Norwich.PHOTO BY SIMON FINLAY - Credit: SIMON FINLAY
An exclusive guided tour of the exhibition 'I think we should all just be friends' will be given at the Fairhurst Gallery in Norwich by the artists themselves - Colin Self and Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves).
The pair will discuss the works, their friendship, creative processes, and inspirations before guests can ask questions and learn about their practice.
The exhibition explores the friendship between the two and their relationship to the wider world of art.
Interim director of the Fairhurst Gallery, Nina Fowler, said: 'We are thrilled to host the first exhibition of one of Britain's most celebrated artists, Colin Self, alongside one of history's greatest comic icons, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves). Their works are linked not only by their mutual rapport but also a whimsical, often mischievous approach to the creative process.'
Tickets for the guided tour, on March 16 from 6pm to 8pm, cost £25 and are available at bit.ly/2FpxNAd


Be Our Guest Restaurant has been taking Magic Kingdom by storm since it opened in late 2012! It has been incredibly popular and rather difficult to score a reservation for dinner even though it's been open for quite a while! When describing the experience with friends and family, I describe it as magical, but that doesn't give enough information! So, here are 7 reasons I love Be Our Guest.
1. It's in a castle!
Something about dining in a castle is extremely appealing; Be Our Guest and Cinderella's Royal Table are the only two restaurants at Disney World that allow you to do this. Part of the appeal is the feeling that you are actually in the movie, rubbing elbows with Cinderella and the Prince and Beauty and the Beast. It's also popular and a hard reservation to get, so it is exciting when you feel like you are invited to a hard to go spot. But, more than anything: it's special, cool, romantic and gorgeous and allows you to feel like you are a Prince or Princess, too!
I love that Be Our Guest is a quick service location for breakfast and lunch and then a table service for dinner. It allows you to experience Be Our Guest for less money during the breakfast and lunch hours, with an increase for dinner. I think Disney restaurants will continue this trend in other locations. It is also really, really cool that you can make a reservation for breakfast or lunch at a quick service spot and you can actually order your food in advance for those two meal periods, so your food is ready for you when you sit down! Beginning Friday, July 27, 2018, Be Our Guest is changing their dinner to a prix fixe, 3-course menu which will be replacing the current À la carte dinner options.
I am not a fan of having alcohol at Magic Kingdom, as it was against Walt Disney's vision for the park, but I am also not vehemently against it. Be Our Guest serves wine and beer, though I've been told they limit each guest to 2. Imagineers have commented that beer and wine add to the experience of French food and that is why it is allowed. I agree and let's face it…after a long day at Magic Kingdom, a glass or two of wine or beer is sometimes much needed!
A tough character to find around Disney World for photo ops, the Beast is part of the allure of having dinner at Be Our Guest. It's his castle, after all! He'll pose for pictures but doesn't sign autographs. He is also out most of the dinner hours and is introduced with fanfare, as he wouldn't want to miss out on meeting all of his guests! To see the Beast, though, you'll have to come to dinner, as he is not available during the day.
You can eat in 3 different rooms at Be Our Guest: The Grand Ballroom, The Castle Gallery, and The West Wing. The beautiful mural and animated window which features snow will draw you to the Grand Ballroom, where Beauty and the Beast danced to their namesake song. In the Castle Gallery, you'll love looking at pictures of Beauty and the Beast together and the incredibly beautiful and huge music box playing your favorite songs while Beauty and the Beast dance for you. My favorite room was the super dark, West Wing. In it, you'll experience the thunderstorm, the Rose and ripping of the Prince's painting by the Beast. You'll even see a surprise if you keep your eyes on the painting. It's so dark inside that servers need flashlights and it tends to be quieter than the other two rooms. I'm not sure little kids would love it, but my party of 2 asks for the West Wing every time. Of course, Disney tries to seat you where you ask for, but sometimes it is just better to ask for first available seating, as the dinner sit time is usually more than Disney projects it to be, frequently creating a wait even if you have a reservation.
The Rose deserves a special nod, as it is so impressive and it is the only item I have my heart truly set on seeing each time I go. Located in the West Wing, the Rose is a wonder; a true triumph of Disney Imagineers. It is really hard to capture its essence, but I assure you that the Rose will amaze you. As it loses its petals, the "show" begins. And, we all know that if all the petals fall before the Beast can find true love, he'll be cursed forever. Luckily, we know the last petal will never fall! Roses are also featured in the design of Be Our Guest, from the doors to the chairs and murals; see how many roses you can find throughout Beast's castle.
I love that you can feel like you are part of the story, being able to order an item that Lumiere asks you to! The Grey Stuff is featured differently for lunch and dinner. The lunch dessert menu includes the Grey Stuff as a The Master's Cupcake which is a chocolate sponge cake topped with Lumiere's special "Grey Stuff". The dinner dessert menu has "The Grey Stuff" which is a chocolate shell, cookie crème topped with Lumiere's special "Grey Stuff". I only have one thing to say about this… Try the Grey Stuff, it's delicious! Don't believe me, ask the dishes!


If ITER were an industrial fusion plant, the better part of the heat generated by the burning plasmas would be used to produce pressurized steam and (by way of turbines and generators) electricity. Only residual heat would need to be dissipated.
Work is ongoing on one of the ''final links'' of the cooling water system: a vast (6,000 m²) zone that accommodates two large basins and a cooling tower installation made of 10 independent cells. Fabrication of the cooling tower elements has begun in India.
But as an experimental installation, not designed to produce electricity, ITER will need to evacuate and dissipate all the power the fusion reaction generates.
And this means a lot. During the plasma burn phase, the amount of heat to be evacuated from the Tokamak and its auxiliary systems will be in the range of 1100 MW.
The complex system of piping, pumps, open and closed loops that form the ITER cooling water system ends up here, in a 6,000 m² area that accommodates cold and hot basins with a total volume of 20,000 m³ as well as an induced-draft cooling tower installation located above the cold basin.
Seen from above, the cooling water zone at the northeast end of the ITER site.
These supersize pipes (one metre and more in diameter) for the heat rejection system are designed for a flow rate of two cubic metres per second.


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Porto Vista Hotel is pleased to welcome the first Curator in Residence, Brunno Silva. The Berlin-based Independent Curator will live and work on site at the Porto Vista Hotel in San Diego from May 6, 2019 through July 18, 2019. While in residence, Silva will explore critical conversations surrounding the moving-image through a series of lectures, seminars, studio visits and exhibitions that are free and open to the public. From Warhol to Hito Steyerl, Silva will examine how video art has altered the art production landscape.
Brunno Silva (b. São Paulo) is a curator, art consultant and writer based in Berlin, London and Southern Italy. He received a Masters of Arts in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art in 2017. With a specialisation in Western (and Western-influenced) contemporary art, Silva has a particular interest in moving image, installation, sculpture and photography. Whilst working with emerging artists in his curatorial practice, he uses current technological and social-political theory to engage audiences with artworks in context with broader aesthetic and political debates.


John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM CARL BARTLETT, 65, of Eastpoint, Florida, formerly of Cheshire, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport to two counts of illegally transporting protected wildlife.
According to court documents and statements made in court, BARTLETT is a snake and reptile collector. In July 2012, BARTLETT shipped via overnight mail courier 10 Outer Banks kingsnakes from Connecticut to an individual in Emporium, Pennsylvania. Prior to that date, BARTLETT collected a male and female kingsnake from the Outer Banks in violation of North Carolina law. In North Carolina, the Outer Banks kingsnake is designated as a species of special concern. BARTLETT then bred the snakes in Connecticut.
Between April 29 and May 13, 2015, BARTLETT transported five Coastal Plain milk snakes from the Chesapeake Forest and the Pocomoke River State Forest in Worcester County, Maryland, to his home in Connecticut. The snakes were collected in violation of Maryland law.
Judge Garfinkel scheduled sentencing for February 28, 2018, at which time BARTLETT faces a maximum term of imprisonment of two years and a fine of up to $20,000. BARTLETT is released on bond pending sentencing.
This matter is being investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Office of Law Enforcement and Division of Refuge Law Enforcement, and the Maryland Natural Resources Police. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Chen.


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The last week of November is always an exciting time for us. It usually marks the beginning of Advent, we set up our tree and decorate the house for the holidays, we head into the busiest season of all for our restaurant, I begin prepping and baking our SCD and paleo cookies and I organize our Christmas card. The Christmas card is by far one of the most exciting projects that I take on. There is something so special about gathering the kids together, picking out just the right outfit (and the boys purposely adjusting it to what they feel like wearing) scouting out our location and plain old having fun. Ever since my oldest was born, eleven years ago, I have made the Christmas card a memorable event.
Over those years, I have learned a little bit about what works and what doesn't work. Yes, my camera has upgraded and I've learned a thing or two about the basics of photography, but these tips are a great way to get started, whether you're using a simple point-and-shoot, an iPhone, or a DSLR camera.
Talk to any professional photographer and they will tell you that the golden hour is the key. Basically, the time shortly after sunrise and shortly before sunset is when the sunlight is indirect and soft. Photos taken in indirect light will turn out with a natural, soft look. Yet, pictures taken during mid-day when the sun is bright and harsh will be full of shadows and high contrast. Photos should be taken outside but if you must take them inside find a spot with the most natural light. Notice how the kids stood by the window in the pictures above. You'll want them to face the light so their face is highlighted rather than in the shadows. And remember, avoid using a flash! Natural light is best.
Again, this is another basic photography concept. Imagine your picture broken into thirds with lines that run horizontally and vertically thus creating nine equal boxes. The rule of thirds states that your subject shouldn't be in the center box but should fall on the lines or, preferably, a point. You can read more about the rule of thirds here. But don't forget, sometimes rules are meant to be broken. Some of the most powerful photos I have seen are placed perfectly in the middle of the grid.
The focus of the Christmas card should be your children and family, not the outfits. However, you want to make sure you pick outfits that don't clash. I usually prefer neutral tones and hues and I let the boys dress down while I tend to dress my daughter up a bit more. Now that my boys are getting older it's hard to get them out of sports gear and sports clothes, but I can usually manage jeans and a casual button down, if I'm lucky. I'm able to sneak in some holiday flare with my daughter and I always try to get some sparkle, whether it's in the dress, shoes or an accessory.
You can capture the best Christmas card photo, but what's the point if no one had fun and you didn't laugh? Part of why I take this photo every year is so I can create memories with my children. The memories are far more important than any photograph or card. When I take photos for the Christmas card I don't hold back, you can always delete later. It is better to have too many photos to select from than not enough. I also like to have a range of photos, from serious to silly. If anyone observed me taking pictures of my kids they probably would think I was crazy. In order to get them to smile naturally and laugh I act my silliest, sing and dance. And it always works! I can always make them laugh.
Once my photos are uploaded I go through and delete any that I don't want. No need to have them hanging around taking up space on my laptop. I then highlight my favorite photos and edit those. I prefer a natural look that isn't over edited or too high contrast. I use Lightroom and VSCO to edit mine, but you can easily use a free online tool like PicMonkey. I usually don't crop my photos, but if you need to just remember that you lose quality as you crop. I almost always adjust my exposure, usually brightening up the image. I also sharpen just a little bit, you don't want to sharpen too much or you will lose that natural feel. On a rare occasion I will touch up certain pictures; fix red eye, whiten teeth, smooth skin.
Last year I used a picture above for our card, but I wanted to incorporate some of the amazing photos I captured on vacation. Minted offers a variety of cards and I was able to choose a card that had an option for a collage on the back; it was the perfect way to use my creative photo as the focus and still showcase photos from our year.


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For many applications in medical technology, the µsurf-technology of NanoFocus is an ideal alternative to scanning electron microscopy. It excels by virtue of its high-detail reproduction and measurement speed. Time consuming sample preparation is also no longer necessary.
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Dental implants are roughened by sand blasting and by a subsequent etching process. Roughening means the titanium implant heals into the jaw faster and more durably. The ongoing measurement of the 3D surface roughness during the production process guarantees the manufacturer adherence with the roughness tolerances defined in clinical studies. In the past, only qualitative assessment using SEM was available.
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In an artificial knee joint, different materials come together. The surface quality of the artifical knee-cap made of polyethylene is of special importance. New developments aim at maximum bio-compatabilty. With NanoFocus measurement technology, delivering surface characteristics in the micrometer and nanometer range, even this development can be facilitated and accelerated. Once the product is finished, the surface rougness, directional preferences (so-called isotropies) and wave areas can be safely determined.
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