Over estimation of oneself and arrogance makes one intolerant. Modesty and an understanding of ones status and capabilities and their limits, nurtures tolerance. This realization opens up another window of perception, about the Supreme Controller and Creator of material nature and the mode of his administration. The truth is, he is not a punishing, or even an avenging God who wields pain and suffering as rods of retribution. Suffering is of our own making, and the responsibility for its occurrence must not be conveniently offloaded on God the Creator, in which case attempting to relegate Him to the ignominious role of a silent scapegoat.
The Gita states that all experiences in life are passing events and should be tolerated just as everyone must tolerate the changing of seasons. People may try to lessen or escape the unsavoury aspects of certain seasons, say for example excessive heat, cold or rains, or hay fever in Spring, through some external adjustments and manipulations, but these are on an individual basis only. Besides, the seasons themselves are there to stay as long as Mother Nature wills it. And whether we like it or not, everyone must simply accept it. In this respect, animals are not harassed by arrogance and pride, so instinctively but humbly they accept the stringent laws of nature . We humans should modestly learn from them. However, what we have to learn cannot be done without grasping the dynamics of the functioning of natural laws. These laws are irrevocable, but not partial or prejudiced, and simultaneously are equally disposed towards all. The fact is, just as laws of the land are meant to protect the law-abiding and righteous, so also natural laws given to us by the Supreme Controller are intended to reward us with living in freedom from fear and in happiness.
One of the most important factors determining the course of our lives is Time. Every event and non-event in life awaits the right moment before manifesting, never prematurely nor belatedly. However, due to our lack of insight into the mysterious functioning of Mother Nature we speculate and decree that some results came earlier or posthumously. Fishermen or farmers, whose profession trains them to become more perceptive to the changing moods of Mother Nature by being able to read certain signs know when to take their boats out to sea, or plant the seeds. Watering a plant with litres or, and tending it with a mound of fertilizer hardly helps in its premature sprouting or fruition. Thus one learns the art of patience through waiting, and the ability to judge for how long, through wisdom garnered through experience.


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NEW YORK (WABC) -- A technical malfunction in the New York state electronic database used to positively identify individuals who are arrested, through fingerprinting and other related means, is causing headaches for law enforcement agencies across the state.
A spokesperson with the Division of Criminal Justice Services confirmed The Statewide Automated Biometric Identification System went down Wednesday at around 1 p.m.
Law enforcement officials in New York City confirmed the outage has slowed efforts to positively identify individuals who are arrested resulting in delays to arraignments.
Sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed "work arounds" are being utilized to ensure no offenders are incorrectly released due to the system outage.
Sources added that information which could usually be processed quickly must now be done manually.
"The system is currently processing priority transactions to ensure that all necessary parties, including the courts, have all of the information they need. We are working to restore the system to fully operational status as soon as possible," said a Division spokesperson, adding that employees are working around the clock to fix the problem.
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Sessions: DOJ will adopt 'responsible policies' on marijuana
February 27, 2017 - Updated December 17, 2021
In his first public remarks about marijuana since being confirmed as U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions told reporters on Monday that his Department of Justice will strive to find "responsible policies" regarding the enforcement of federal cannabis laws.
According to the Associated Press, Sessions – who was a vocal marijuana critic as a U.S. senator before being chosen as President Donald Trump's attorney general – added that he doesn't believe the United States would be better off with "more people smoking pot."
"I am definitely not a fan of expanded use of marijuana," he added. "But states, they can pass the laws they choose. I would just say, it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not."
Sessions also said the DOJ is reviewing an Obama-era memo that enabled states to pass marijuana laws, and that marijuana and violence are linked more than "one would think." Obama's justice department drafted two major cannabis-industry related memos, the Ogden Memo in 2009 and the Cole Memo in 2013, along with two other Cole Memos.
Sessions also met Monday with Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson. According to NPR, Peterson told Sessions he was worried about a "big overflow" of cannabis from Colorado, a neighboring state where recreational and medical marijuana is legal.
Sessions' comments are consistent with those of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who last Thursday predicted an uptick in enforcement of federal laws against adult-use marijuana businesses, while also indicating that medical cannabis companies would likely be left alone.
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BEAR GRYLLS: BARE SKILLS OR RARE THRILLS?
People are zip-lining from a Chinook. There's a crashed plane balanced precariously in a tree and we're hearing reports of tarantulas. We're just 15 minutes outside of Birmingham and we're about to plunge, cage-free, into a tank full of sharks. Welcome to The Bear Grylls Adventure.
So WTF? Well, Edward Michael Grylls — or "Bear" to you and me — has essentially created an adventure park between the NEC and Resorts World full of activities designed to test you, physically and mentally, and presumably make a stack of cash. Zip, leap, fly, dive, climb, get a little bit shouted at, then go down a really aggressive slide (where we sustained our only lasting injury of the trip), before eating a pizza with scorpions on it — you zany nutter, you. Whatever big ticket activities you ultimately select (like the high ropes, pictured — the highest in Europe!), the experience starts at basecamp (£20), which includes the hardest escape room we've ever been in, an ace archery session with happily cheesy photo opp (see top), a faintly terrifying maze complete with creepies, crawlies and a healthy dose of claustrophobia just in case you're starting to get too comfortable.
But the out-and-out winner for us was the (apparently) Marines-grade assault course, which we only needed to be pushed, pulled, or rolled over a few times by our obliging instructor: it was challenging without being impossible, the feel-good spot. If you don't like participation, or the idea of Bear telling you to "NEVER, GIVE, UP" in a growling voice by the medium of motivational videos, basecamp might start to grate on you. And without giving too much away, there's definitely room for improvement around the snake room, the basically impossible escape rooms and the flow of the experience generally. But at £20, this bizarre, unique and, at times brilliant, experience being just down the road means probably only a fairly miserable person wouldn't give it a whirl.
There's a Brum institution that's survived war, recession and eighties fashion. The CBSO's 2018/19 season includes everything from Broadway biggies, to the brooding sounds of Shostakovich, all via Nat King Cole's caressing croon; so it ain't just for the orchestrally initiated. The must-hear highlight, however, is the UK premiere of Roxanna Panufnik's Faithful Journey. Panufnik's recent Last Night of the Proms showing received big love, and her performance, on November 21, marks the return of virtuosic Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla from mat leave. If the price tag is holding you back, how's about a mystery seat? Pay £13 to guarantee a seat worth £19.50, with a shot at a top seat. Sorted.
The seasons are on the turn and the films down the pictures are starting to have awards on their minds: Glenn Close is out of the gate with this classy dark comedy, which is almost a cert to have her on a few podiums come spring time. She plays the wife of a world-famous novelist who's growing fed up with living in his shadow; and she's absolutely fantastic in a part that's not as obviously showy as other Oscar plays. Close's growing frustration with her hilariously pompous husband is elegantly done, and there's an extended sequence with a quasi-stalker – played by, of all people Christian Slater – that's hilarious. Yes, this is one of those films where all anyone does is talk about books at cocktail parties, but there's an interesting take on how folks — as liberal as they come — can be gormlessly unaware that they are also as sexist as they come.
Life is a Rollercoaster, crooned Ronan Keating. As always, he was along the right lines. In a brand new production, The Capital, Life is a Treadmill and you got to ride it (all night long!). Internationally high-fived theatre company, Stan's Cafe, takes this premise and plasters it all over the practices of modern life, as the show sees the cast navigate moving travellators (pictured) — seven metres in length and weighing a tonne — evoking interconnecting careers, relationships and friendships like some sort of multi-award winning music video from 2006. In case you've somehow missed them, Stan's Cafe's previous out-there productions include 24 Hour Scalextric — which does exactly what it says on the tin — and I See With My Eyes Closed, which you need to see for yourself, eyes open. The Capital starts Oct 24 at The Rep and tickets are from £15. Ready to get yours? Ok, Go!
One Friday in 1981, the owners of the Smith and Pepper factory closed its doors, never to return. Formerly one of the biggest manufacturers of gold in the UK, the JQ family setup seriously avoided modernisation, making the site they abandoned much like a factory operating in the fifties would have looked, and a dreamland centrepiece for the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter. The order books are still out and the tooling functional. Other than cleaning items, the changes Birmingham Museums Trust has made since taking over the big gaff are tiny, allowing you to step into this time capsule of a factory via an actually interesting tour: there's a bit with fire and everything. It's £7 to look around. And for the first time, there's a triplet of wintry screenings, all at £12 a spot. Catch Gremlins on Nov 29, The Nightmare Before Christmas on Dec 6 or It's a Wonderful Life on Dec 13. Watch out for gold dust.
Grandfather of black British photography, Vanley Burke, is in conversation at Opus on October 10. It's free to attend but you need to register here. Stay for dinns after and it's three courses for £30.
Mad Hatter is taking over the taps at The Juke today from 6pm. Tzatziki sour anyone?
Oxjam Brum is in Digbeth on October 13. Expect live music, entertainment and fun(d)-raising at The Mockingbird, Suki10c, The Engine Room and Dig Brew Co. Tickets are £12.50.
We don't want to cook dinner tomorrow night either. Bun Shop is at Caneat from 5pm with a proper good cheesebuger, kimchi gravy poutine and two plant-based burgers — aloo tiki and an aubergine "bacon" option on vegan potato brioche. Oh momma.
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This week Anda Corrie from Etsy shares a tutorial for creating fabric designs out of drawings using Photoshop.
Make cute and simple fabric from your drawings!
your subject all over the paper, repeatedly.
Don't worry if some of the drawings look a little off, just keep drawing—you'll get better as you repeat the image. Try a few variations as you go. Once you have a ton of little images all over the page, take a pencil and circle the ones you like best.
Take a second sheet of paper and lay it on top of the first paper. If you can't see the lines you drew through it, you may have to hold both sheets up and tape to a window. Grab your crayons and "color in" the drawings you like on the second paper. Color loosely, a bit lightly, and use blocky color. Let your coloring go a bit out beyond the lines if you like.
Scan both images at 300dpi and open in Photoshop.
First, make sure the background of the crayon image is pure white. We'll use Replace Color for this.
Click Image > Adjustments > Replace Color, make sure Preview is checked, and set Fuzziness to 25.
Click on the background of the image in the Preview window—this is the hue that appears next to the word "Color".
Now drag the Lightness slider all the way to the right—the "Result" box will turn white. You should see your image background turn bright white as well. (If you start to lose image detail in the crayoned parts, adjust Fuzziness to 15 or 10.) Click OK.
Now's a good time to crop your crayon image. I like to leave around 1-2cm at the top and left sides, and crop closely on the bottom and right. This will usually make the repeat flow nicely once it's uploaded to Spoonflower.
You can also open Image > Adjustments > Hue & Saturation if you want to quickly tweak your colorway.
Now for the line art image. Open Image > Adjustments > Threshold, set it to 128 and click OK. This will make your image completely black and white without any gradient.
Zoom (+) way, way into the drawings you've decide to work with. Using the Magic Wand tool, hold down Shift and click all the black parts of the image until it's completely selected, then copy what you've selected to your clipboard. Just work with one little drawing at a time here.
Head back over to your crayon image and Paste the drawing as a new layer. Move it so it's positioned on top of its colored-in background, and use Edit > Transform > Rotate if you need to line them up better.
Repeat with the remaining drawings you've colored. Flatten all the Layers of your image and if you like, open Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast—bumping both up will give you a more vibrant fabric, lowering them a touch will give a more muted image, which can be nice for a vintage look.
Open Image > Image Size and set the print size for your design. I like to set my image dpi to Spoonflower's default of 150dpi here, too.
Save and upload to Spoonflower! You can preview your pattern in different repeats—here I've decided half-brick is best. You're all done!
Great tutorial! — Really love your work.
Looks amazing! And so easy to make! Thanks.
Excellent tutorial! I tried it out and ordered my test fabric (heavily based on your drawings) and can't wait to try some more. You can see my results on my blog – http://fourletterbirds.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/my-spoonflower-fabric-arrived.html .
Thanks for this. I really like what you've posted here and wish you the best of luck with this blog and thanks for sharing.
I have been wondering how to do this for several years and really am excited as I have loads of ideas for my own quilting fabrics and craft fabrics that I can't find locally! Thanks for walking us through the process!
NICE PATTERNS OF FABRIC DESIGN.NICE TUTORIAL.REALLY LOVE YOUR WORK.
Bless you for making this tutorial!
I have been looking everywhere for one. Seems I should have just come here first.
So glad you enjoyed the tutorial, Lindy! We'd love to see what you create!
Great Blog For Mack A Fabric Designs. Thanks For Sharing.


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We've never lost a Varsity and we're in great shape to retain our title.
King's Table Tennis is at its strongest in years. Our women's team, led by Hong Kong's Ellie Fong, have secured 3rd place in the top division. With many new players arriving, Ellie has been the standout performer, losing only once all season, and proving to be a formidable doubles star. The men's team, under the stewardship of our Lion from Luxembourg, Eric Belche, have their division wrapped up as they push for a return to the Southern Premiership. Outstanding performances from new additions, Nik Gontarev, Agnimitra Saha and Stephen Domingo will have all opponents quaking. In fact King's Men's Table Tennis Team have gone unbeaten all season.
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Most notable about this finding is that one of these ancient ticks was entangled with a dinosaur feather and found in a dinosaur nest, giving evidence that featured dinosaurs were infested with these parasites. Because the amber dates back to the Cretaceous period, it is evidence that ticks fed on dinosaurs, since modern feathered birds weren't around at that time.
Pacific leaders in Paris for climate summit
Buhari said his administration is not under illusion of the challenges in the country. The UK is to provide £140 million of new funding to help the world's poorest communities address the effects of climate change. Another key focus of the summit is to develop a global action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from worldwide shipping in 2018. Such measures can work, they said.
Kumimanu biceae: A giant human-sized ancient penguin has been discovered
The species , which has been named Kumimanu biceae , is thought to have lived between 60 and 55 million years ago, making it one of the oldest known penguin species. The benefits of this find to the study of the modern penguin's evolution are innumerable, and may help us discover more about the process that turned a collection of flying birds into grounded swimmers.
Free State ANC conference begins today
His deputy Thabo Manyoni, who boycotted the provincial elective conference, rejected nomination for the same position. The matter is expected to sit in court on Thursday. On Monday, the ANC's Free State spokesperson Thabo Meeko said while the provincial leadership had resolved to go ahead with the conference, they were sensitive to the litigation against them by some from within the party, which is why the conference proceedings were delayed.
SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition coming to Switch on December 28
Image & Form says SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition will cost £14.99 / $19.99 Dollars (although the United Kingdom eShop now lists it as £17.99) when it releases in Europe and North America on December 28th. SteamWorld Heist is now available for PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Wii U, 3DS, PC, Mac, Linux, and iOS. With strategy being focused on skill rather than chance, as their captain, you will lead a hearty steambot crew to board , loot , and shoot their way through procedurally generated ...
All-Day GO Train Service On Barrie Line
Combined with the existing service, Metrolinx says travellers along this section of the Barrie GO line will now benefit from all-day train service, seven days a week. The hourly service will begin on December 30. "It is exciting to be offering more than 100 new GO Train trips running in both directions between Aurora and Toronto each week".
Accusations of sexual misconduct 'fabricated,' Trump says
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) spoke out against the president. Brzezinski addressed the first daughter on Morning Joe just after Donald Trump laid into Gillibrand because she joined a group of Democrats on Monday in asking the president to step down over allegations of sexual misconduct.
Stocks To Invest: CSX Corporation (CSX), Sea Limited (SE)
The company has market cap of $176.01 million. The stock decreased 0.08% or $0.05 during the last trading session, reaching $56.92. About 758,475 shares traded. This represents an increase of 13% in the number of shares being shorted compared to the previous reading, and implies that investors felt more pessimistic about the stock during the past two weeks.
Roy Moore, Doug Jones vote in Alabama's Senate election
In the early stages of the race, Moore seemed to be galloping away (pun intended) with the seat but a series of stories outlining his alleged history as a sexual predator and pedophile caused his numbers to take a nosedive. Numerous Republican members of Congress have sought to distance themselves from the controversial candidate. Richard Shelby, Alabama's other senator, said on Sunday he could not endorse Mr Moore because he found his accusers "believable" and the state "deserves ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones wishes father-in-law Kirk Douglas a happy 101st birthday
Legendary actor Kirk Douglas turned 101 yesterday and his equally famous daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones took to Instagram to wish the Hollywood icon on his birthday. Kirk Douglas was nominated for lead actor Academy Awards three times in the 1950s, for "Lust for Live" (1957), "The Bad and the lovely (1953), and " Champion " (1950)".
Interpol asked to probe teen Dutch model's death in Kuala Lumpur
She was staying with an American man and his wife from Kazakhstan. Smit had Dutch-Belgian citizenship and had previously appeared in Malaysia's Supermodel Search 2014, when she was 15. "My daughter can no longer contradict them", Marcel said. Shaharuddin said although police had classified the case as sudden death but would reclassify the case if criminal elements involved.
Hudaibiya case hearing adjourned till tomorrow
The bench also inquired as to where the Hudaibiya case was mentioned in the Panama Papers case verdict, to which the NAB prosecutor replied that the judgment directed the filing of fresh references if new evidence surfaces. Justice Isa remarked that the apex court can not rely on statements and needed solid evidence from accountability watchdog. On September 20 this year, NAB filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the LHC's 2014 decision, naming former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his ...
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Colony Gru Limited Liability Co holds 1.08% in The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE:PNC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October 13th. The rating was maintained by JP Morgan on Wednesday, November 1 with "Overweight". The firm earned "Equal-Weight" rating on Monday, October 16 by Barclays Capital.
I Can't Take Back What Happened to My Daughter...
Mathis, 74, said his daughter, who was gay, died by suicide when she was 23 years old. A 32-year-old Roy Moore dated teenage girls ages 14 to 17. He continued: "If she was a pervert, what about him going with them young girls?" Please don't vote for Roy Moore!' "I was taught that gay was wrong".
Elderly suburban woman mauled to death by pit bull
Officers were called about 3:30 p.m.to a home at 11604 S. Komensky Ave. for a report of a person being attacked by a dog in the back yard, Alsip police said. When police arrived on the scene and went into the backyard of the residence, they came upon the lifeless body of 77-year-old Dorothy Ford, as Chicago Tribune reported.
Blues place Pietrangelo on injured reserve
Since then, Pietrangelo has been a consistent contributor for St. Louis and has made two All-Star teams. Pietrangelo has led the Blues' offensive blue line this season, tying for second among National Hockey League defensemen with seven goals and ranking fifth with 23 points.
Florida Professor Fired After Newtown Hoax Blog Loses Case
James Tracy alleges that FAU. Tracy , a tenured professor at the university, sought to be reinstated to his former position, with back pay and an unspecified amount of damages, saying he was sacked because the university disagreed with his conspiracy theories.
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is Carret Asset Management LLC's 6th Largest Position
The company's market cap is $659.83 Billion, and the average volume is $20.69 Million. Microsoft Corporation ( MSFT ) ended its previous trading session at $85.23 with the Gain of 1.27%. Iab Bank has invested 1.13% of its portfolio in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT ). Norman Fields Gottscho Capital Management Llc owns 58,275 shares or 0.8% of their USA portfolio.
China Building Refugee Camps Along North Korean Border
The document, which started circulating on the Chinese internet last week, claimed that the Changbai County authority planned to build five "refugee settlement points" because "the situation on the North Korean border has been unstable". Last Wednesday, Jilin Daily, the state-run newspaper of the province, published an article titled "common knowledge of nuclear weapons and how to protect yourself against them".
New Year's Terror Plot Foiled in Moscow, Russia's FSB Says
The bombings were planned by members of an ISIS-affiliated group, a separate statement by the FSB press service said. The Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) announced that three people from Central Asia were in police custody but the "management of the cell was carried out by the leadership of global terrorist organisation ISIS, from overseas".
2 people killed in school bus fire southeast of Oakland, Iowa
Officials received additional calls that not everyone may have made it off of the bus. When Pottawattamie County Sheriff's deputies arrived they found the bus completely engulfed in flame. There was no one else on the bus at the time of the fire. The Riverside school district, which serves Oakland, Carson and Macedonia, Iowa, is based in Carson, which is about six miles south of Oakland.
Over 8M Yemenis 'a step away from famine': United Nations official
The blockade was created to cut off the alleged supply of weapons to Houthi rebels from Iran but has exacerbated what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis . Commander of the Arab Coalition Forces on the west coast of Yemen Brigadier-General Abdul Salam al-Shehhi said in a statement to the Emirates News Agency, WAM, that the Houthi militias have suffered a "major collapse" in their defenses, adding that hundreds of their dead, injured, and captured elements ...
Hammond joins European Union ministers in attack on Trump's tax plans
Mr Hammond's decision to sign the letter amounts to a political gamble because it risks angering Mr Trump at a time when Britain is trying to strengthen its trade links with the US. 'The inclusion of certain less conventional worldwide tax provisions could contravene the US's double taxation treaties and may risk having a major distortive impact on global trade.
Williamson, Southee Rested as NZ Announce ODI Squad for WI Series
But Worker will be focusing on his work in each match, and not paying too much attention to the bigger picture. Kane Williamson will rest from the second and third ODIs, with Tom Latham to take over the captaincy. New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson and spinner Todd Astle have been recalled in the 13-man ODI squad for the three-match series against West Indies beginning December 20 in Whangarei.
Freeway traffic nightmare after suspected DUI driver hits LAPD officer
The freeway crash occurred around 11:41 p.m Monday.at the Santa Monica Boulevard exit, said LAPD Officer Irma Mota. The suspected DUI driver then crashed into the officer's cruiser, which caused him to be pinned between the vehicle the auto of the motorist he pulled over.
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The Original Series competition featuring songwriters performing their own material is ramping up now. Performances begin Tuesday February 12, 2019 in Buckhead at the always cool, Rock 'N' Taco. With so many venues around town offering open mic nights, we thought it interesting to ask the series producer and host Shane Denmark, Events Director for DMT Logistics, what inspired this competition and how it differs from other comparable events. In our conversation, Shane offered up his take on the Atlanta music scene and what helps set apart Original Series contestants. These tidbits of advice seem so universally applicable to music artists anywhere at any level that they deserved to be included here.


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Q: Grails run-app 'Application metadata not found' I downloaded a serverpush example called GrailsChat and trying to run is on grails 2.4.4.
I had some issues with dependencies missing that took me a while to figure out (don't think it's related but just mentioning it).
When I run grails run-app I get:
 | Application metadata not found, please run: grails upgrade

When I run grails upgrade I get
 | Script 'Upgrade' not found, did you mean:
1) MigrateDocs
2) IntegrateWith
3) SetGrailsVersion
4) InstallDependency
5) DependencyReport

> Please make a selection or enter Q to quit:

I figure the issue is probably to do with the grails version I have being newer than the grails version that the sample app was targetting but I don't want to move back version simply to run an example (I'd rather understand the underlying issue).
Can anyone point me to some documentation that will help me understand what the application metadata is and how to move forward please?

A: Grails Upgrade command is removed in 2.4. You might have to upgrade the app manually following the guide.
Or you can just run the service wrapper which will download the grails version automatically base on the app.
./grailsw run-app

A: It seems like you have missed any one of mentioned

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*Not set grails proper Version

*Missing application.properties file (with proper grails version)

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SERVICE RECOGNITION PROJECTS CONTACT
Infrastructure and PPP is one of the most rapidly developing practices in our company. The impetus for its emergence was the active development of infrastructure projects in St Petersburg, which is considered a leading city in this sphere, both in law and in practice.
PPP in Russia is quite new, and its framework provides newfound advantages and enables beneficial developments, both for private business and for the state. An increasingly important aspect developing major infrastructural projects is project finance. Knowing that the city was successfully realizing PPP and infrastructure projects one after the other, we couldn't help but start this new practice with a great enthusiasm.
The international legal ratings The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa 2021 — 2012, Chambers & Partners Europe 2021 — 2014 and IFLR1000 2021 — 2015, as well as the leading Russian ranking of law firms Pravo.Ru-300 2016 — 2021 and the 2019 rating "Leaders of the Legal Services Market" of the "Kommersant" newspaper recommend Kachkin & Partners in the sphere of PPP. The involvement in legislative process of the Managing Partner Denis Kachkin is mentioned specially.
In 2019 Denis Kachkin was included in top 10 list of Russian lawyers who work in the sphere of PPP according to the rating "Leaders of the Legal Services Market" of the "Kommersant" newspaper. In 2020, according to the "Kommersant" newspaper, Kachkin & Partners is in top 5 Russian legal consultants on PPP and was listed among the TOP-3 managers in the field of consulting and law in St. Petersburg. Denis Kachkin has been also included into the best experts' list in the personal ranking.
In 2019 Kachkin & Partners has been also recognized among the finalists of the most prestigious award for lawyers Chambers Russia Awards 2019 in the category "Law Firm of the Year in PPP".
Denis Kachkin has been repeatedly awarded the honorary title «Lawyer of the Year for Project Finance and Development» according to the international professional ranking Best Lawyers (2014, 2019).
Being aware that English PPP experts are traditionally recognized as the best ones, we employ lawyers with Western education and experience in Russian PPP project implementation. We are successfully working in the local market, since long-standing practice has shown that both public and private enterprises prefer to work with a Russian law firm that knows the realities of Russian business practice and speaks their language.
the development of legal framework to introduce PPP principles upon request of public institutions and governmental bodies
advising public institutions and governmental bodies on developing the regional PPP policy and forming the institutional framework for the implementation of PPP projects
preparation of the legal basis for optimum infrastructural projects implementation model using PPP models
tender documentation preparation, support of contractor selection process
legal assessment of project risks and preparation of recommendations on optimum stratification of risks among project participants
advising on material law issues arising from infrastructural project implementation
advising on legal and land rights in immovable property
drafting concession agreements and related contracts, mediating the implementation of PPP projects (including project agreements, construction agreements, construction management and financing agreements)
advising on and preparation of documentation for corporate and tax structuring, incl. SPV and consortium operations
advising on corporate and project financing, drafting relevant documentation, including security instruments
support of construction activity, including assistance in obtaining relevant permits and accessing utility services
advising on regulatory issues involving the use of natural resources, subsurface use, monument protection and other special legal structures
Denis Kachkin
Head of Infrastructure and PPP Practice
Head of Joint Department at HSE University in Saint Petersburg, attorney
denis.kachkin@kachkin.ru
Legal support for an investor at the stage of preparing a proposal on a PPP project in the field of medicine
Legal support of the largest PPP project in the field of public transport in Russia — building and operating a tram network with total investment of about RUB 26 billion.
Legal support for the participant in a tender for the right to conclude a concession agreement on highway construction
Drafting of PPP legislation in Pskov Region
Legal support for a project involving reconstruction and operation of the Leningrad Regional Medical Rehabilitation Center in Leningrad Region on the basis of PPP
Support of conclusion of concession agreements on hotels construction in the frames of private initiative procedure in favour of private investors
Legal support in preparing the private investor's proposal on implementing a concession project in the field of medicine
Development of a concept for the creation of an Innovational medical cluster in the Caucasian Mineral Waters Region spanning a total area of several tens of thousands sq km and an action plan for its implementation
Participation in expert review and development of the draft federal law on PPP of the Russian Federation
Comprehensive support for a project involving the creation of a "Regional Medical Rehabilitation Center" in Leningrad Region on the basis of PPP
Support for a project involving the design, construction, operation and maintenance of road infrastructure in Moscow Region
Legal support for two projects involving the creation of swimming pools in Leningrad Region, implemented on the basis of private concession initiative
Legal study of prospects for the entry into economic circulation of the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve "Ropshinsky Palace" on public-private partnership terms
Advising the Lipetsk region public authorities on the regional legislation improvement
Advising the City of St. Petersburg authorities on the PPP project implementation
Expert review and development of recommendations on improvement of draft law on Public Private Partnership of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Joint work aimed at ensuring constructive interaction between government agencies, business and public organizations and support for interregional investment projects implemented on the basis of PPP
Preparation of the Concept for the implementation of an investment project involving the construction and operation of a social-services facility on the basis of PPP
Legal support of a PPP project on water utilities
Formulation of legal arguments for the implementation of a recreational project on the basis of PPP
Anti-corruption expertise of the existing laws and draft laws and subordinate acts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation)
Advising a large food manufacturer in frameworks of acquiring state co-funding to a project to be fulfilled in Volga region (factory erection)
Legal advice to KIT Finance holdings on construction of chain of boarding houses with medical treatment for elderly people
Support of real property buyout in respect to the St. Petersburg Ring Road construction
Expert review of draft law on Public Private Partnership of Udmurt Republic (Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation)
Advising Kalmyk Republic government on the review of regional PPP legislation
Advising the Slantsevsky municipal district's governing bodies within the stadium construction project with the PPP mechanism application
Advising the Slantsevsky municipal district's governing bodies on the improvement of municipal legal and regulatory framework
Advising the government of the Leningrad region on the review of regional PPP legislation
Legal support to the project on creation a large landscape and leisure park located in the Moscow region
Advising on a PPP project involving comprehensive repair of the city lightning networks fulfilled in one of Ural region major cities


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Home Father's Day * Favourite Stories * Talking It Over With Dad Across The Time Zones
* Favourite Stories *
Talking It Over With Dad Across The Time Zones
Writer Bre Graham's dad is based in Sydney, she in London, and he travels the world for his job. But they never miss the unbreakable ritual of chatting on the phone twice a day…
Bre Graham
We all map time in different ways. We wake up, eat breakfast, do things to earn money, whinge about it a bit, eat dinner – and then we do it all over again. However, in between this, I know that I'll get two calls at either end of the day from my dad.
Always en route to the airport or office, or sometimes on his way home. He calls me twice a day without fail, and has done so ever since I was a child. Millennials are said to hate talking on the phone, preferring to text – but I don't. Quite the opposite, in fact; I love it.
Speaking on the phone gives me an instant insight into where Dad is since he can't be by my side. We spoke on his 40th birthday when he was alone, on the Yugoslavian border, we chatted for a few minutes just before he got onto a camel near Rajasthan and he texted me photographs of sports cars deep in the Black Forest in Germany in a few snatched moments as he was on his way to a business dinner. My father is a businessman, working for a large, global organisation, and a busy one at that.
"I'm eating dinner as my parents are having breakfast – and on Facetime, even just for a moment, it feels like we're all at the same table"
When I was growing up, our dinner table was mostly set for three. Just for my mum, my brother and me. Dad was usually away travelling for work. "Your dad's on the phone", Mum would yell out to us while we were watching The Simpsons after dinner. I recall the questions and instructions. "How was your day?" "How was school?" "No one likes doing maths homework, Bre." And the regular "Stop fighting with your brother."
The calls were never long but they meant everything to the young me. It became part of the daily ritual of family life in my primary school years.
When I was old enough to have my own phone, from around 12, I had a variety of different mobile numbers for him saved in it. Numbers with different international dialling codes, numbers better suited for us calling him numbers for him calling us.
Over the years, hearing that familiar voice saying "hello!" down the line has been a constant in my life. In early teenage years when I was moody and had dyed my whole wardrobe black, the calls were mostly grunts of disapproval from me.
But no matter how miserable I sounded, how ungrateful for the privileged circumstances in which we lived, he still always called every day that he was away from home.
But now, in my adult life that's ruled by meetings, emails and invoices I'm the one that's chosen to be away. I moved out of home at 18 and have lived on the other side of the world away from my family ever since.
There is a huge time difference between London and Sydney, but sometimes rituals cross over and I'm eating dinner as my parents are having breakfast. And on Facetime, even just for a moment, it feels like we're all at the same table.
Technology has made this lifestyle a lot easier. I can't even imagine what Dad's phone bills must have been all throughout the Nineties and the Noughties.
Even in 2012 when I first moved to London, Facetime didn't really exist and we relied on Skype or over-priced phone calls. "How do I fix a washing machine, Dad?" "I hate university, Dad!" "Can you proofread my essay, Dad?" "Oh yeah, sorry, I meant to tell you – I bought a cat, Dad!"
Our daily calls are never long. Nothing pushes three minutes. But the phone still rings ten or so hours apart, twice a day.
When oceans and the Earth's landmasses split you up as a family, the main interruption is that you lose the small details of each others' days. But in the regularity of these calls, the more nuanced moments of life can be measured in minutes. He always calls at the times of day that you miss the people you love.
When you're home from work alone in an empty flat and you're boiling pasta for dinner, you want to be able to tell your dad all about the sort of terrible television show you're watching or when you're pouring milk on your morning cereal you want to talk about what the weather is like that day.
Because it's in these little things like weather, what we're watching and the mundane tasks of daily life that we are absent from our loved ones' lives. In all the important moments of life, Dad and I don't need a phone. He's always there.
But I often wonder if mobiles hadn't been invented in my lifetime, what would we have lost with all this distance physically between us?
The calls are still timed the same but the conversations have changed now that I'm running my own business as a writer, editor and soon-to-be publisher. We talk as he reads over contracts I'm due to sign, work I have to send off and he's always there to guide me as I make big career choices.
I'm no longer complaining about homework but rather taxes. The problems of school and bickering with my brother over the television remote are also far behind me. But, as grown-up as I may feel and as much as it surprises some people, I really love chatting to my dad twice a day. I have friends that have gone for months without even so much as a hello from their dads. I have other friends who haven't seen or heard from theirs in years.
Speaking to your father twice a day as an adult woman may seem needy or clingy, but there is no part that I take for granted in the role that he has chosen to play in my life.
It's important to touch base every day with the people that you love. From those early morning calls when I'm walking to work and he's in a taxi coming home from the airport, our days beginnings and ends are mirrored, and in that so are we.
Calls – unlike other forms of communication – capture the monotony of life, in small details that are lost in distance. Just this morning we compared the weather where we were and compared notes on cities that he's visited recently or to which I'll soon be on my way.
And, as we always do, we ended with saying, "Love you; talk tomorrow."
Bre Graham is a daughter and a sister. She is also a freelance writer and Associate Editor at Oh Comely Magazine and lives in London with her cat, Jones.
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The SF-85 is used for public trust or lower-risk positions. The SF-86 is used for all security clearance determinations, including Secret and Top Secret clearances.
The forms are similar. The SF-85 requires slightly different information in terms of reporting dates, so pay attention to how far back you're required to list information such as criminal or employment history.
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Cost of brand-name epilepsy drugs increased by 277% over eight years
Generic anti-seizure drugs' costs went down during the same time, study shows.
Adapted from the American Academy of Neurology
The cost of all brand-name drugs for epilepsy paid by the Medicare system increased by 277% from 2010 to 2018, according to a new study from a University of Michigan team.
During that same time, the amount that Medicare paid for generic drugs for epilepsy decreased by 42%, the team reports in a paper published online in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Brand-name drugs made up 79% of total epilepsy drug costs, even though they made up only 14% of pills prescribed for the condition to Medicare participants.
"The costs for brand-name antiseizure medications have consistently increased since 2010, particularly boosted by increased prescriptions for the drug lacosamide in addition to a steep increase in the cost per pill, with brand-name drugs costing 10 times more than their generic counterparts. The really interesting thing is that total brand name costs decreased from 2008 to 2010 as on key player (Keppra) became generic (levetiracetam), but then shot back up after 2010 as brand name drugs became more expensive per pill and a new brand-only drug (lacosamide, sold as Vimpat) entered the market erasing the initial cost gains" said lead author Samuel Waller Terman, M.D., M.S., of the Michigan Medicine Department of Neurology.
"Previous studies have shown that drugs are the most expensive part of neurologic care, and antiseizure drugs were the second highest category of costs among drugs prescribed by neurologists," he added.
For the study, researchers looked at records for a random sample of 20% of Medicare beneficiaries with coverage from 2008 to 2018. There were 77,000 to 133,000 people with epilepsy in this sample each year.
The cost of brand-name drugs to treat each patient's seizures rose from $2,800 per year in 2008 to $10,700 per year in 2018, while the cost of generic drugs decreased from $800 per year to $460 per year during that time.
An increased number of prescriptions for the drug lacosamide was responsible for 45% of the total increase in brand-name costs, Terman said. Brand-name drugs represented a smaller proportion of pills over time, from 56% in 2008 to 14% in 2018.
Terman said the decrease in prescriptions for brand-name drugs over time likely corresponded to the increasing availability of generic equivalents. He noted that the expiration of the patent for lacosamide in March 2022 and other changes will likely affect prescribing patterns going forward.
Many new drugs for epilepsy have been introduced in the last several decades. Doctors must tailor the drug selection to the individual, and there is no single best drug. Many drugs for epilepsy can have interactions with other drugs as well as side effects such as cognitive problems.
The study found that use of epilepsy drugs introduced earlier, called first-generation drugs, as well as enzyme-inducing drugs that carry the risk of many interactions with other drugs, decreased from 2008 to 2018.
"We all know that medications can be difficult for patients to afford sometimes," Terman said. "But this study adds something else: that doctors really need to also consider the societal cost of ever-increasingly expensive brand name medications. Particularly given we typically think of generic medications as equally effective as brand name equivalents, we really should be reaching for generic options when available given equal efficacy at 10 times lower cost."
A limitation of the study was that only Medicare prescription claims for people with fee-for-service Medicare coverage were included, so the results may not apply to a younger population with private insurance, or to those with Medicare Advantage coverage.
The study received no direct funding. Independent of this study, Terman is the recipient of the 2021 Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Epilepsy from the American Epilepsy Society, Epilepsy Foundation and the American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology.
Terman, and co-authors Chun C Lin, Ph.D., M.B.A., and Brian C Callaghan, M.D., M.S., are members of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. The study's authors also include Wesley T Kerr, M.D., Ph.D., Lindsey B DeLott, M.D. and James F Burke, M.D.
Citation: Changes in the Use of Brand Name and Generic Medications and Total Prescription Cost Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Epilepsy, Neurology, DOI:10.1212/WNL.0000000000200779
Samuel (Sam) Terman, M.D., M.S.
Epilepsy outcomes, quality, and healthcare delivery
Chun Chieh (Anna) Lin, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Health services research across neurologic care
Brian Callaghan, M.D., M.S.
Improving efficiency in neurologic diagnostic testing
American Academy of Neurology
Kara Gavin
kegavin@umich.edu


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Sloane's froglet (Crinia sloanei) is a species of frog in the family Myobatrachidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and intermittent freshwater marshes in and around the floodplains of the Murray-Darling Basin

Description
The Sloane's froglet is dull grey in colour, with darker flecks or lines on its skinfolds and warts. Adults are about 25mm in length. Their call has described as both a single, low 'squelch', and as a short, high pitched 'chirp'.

Habitat and range
Sloane's froglet can be found in and around temporarily indundated grasslands. Its distribution is still not properly understood, however significant populations have been recorded in the Albury and Corowa regions of NSW, as well as in the Wahgunyah/Rutherglen region of Victoria. A small population has also been recorded as far north as Mungindi, on the border of NSW and Queensland.

Conservation status

Internationally
Crinia sloanei is listed as Data deficient by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Australia
The Sloane's froglet is listed as Endangered on the Australian EPBC Act.
The froglet is listed as Vulnerable in NSW under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.
 The species is listed as Endangered in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.

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Emiel is a Dutch cognate of the masculine given name Emil. People with the name include:

Emiel Boersma ((born 1980), Dutch beach volleyball player
Emiel Christensen (1895–1988), American architect from Nebraska
 (1909–1995), Belgian Bishop of Bruges
Emiel Faignaert (1919–1980), Belgian cyclist
Emiel van Lennep (1915–1996), Dutch diplomat and Minister of State
Emiel Mellaard (born 1966), Dutch long jumper
Emiel Pauwels (1918–2014), Belgian track and field athlete
Emiel Pijnaker, Dutch film producer, composer and singer
Emiel Puttemans (born 1947), Belgian middle- and long-distance runner
Emiel Rogiers (1923–1998), Belgian racing cyclist
Emiel Van Cauter (1931–1975), Belgian racing cyclist
Emiel van Heurck (1871–1931), Belgian folklorist
Emiel Wastyn (born 1992), Belgian racing cyclist

Dutch masculine given names


During the PASS 2011 Keynote (back in October 2011), I had the honor to demo Hadoop on Windows / Azure. One of the key showcases during that presentation was to show how to connect PowerPivot to Hadoop on Windows. In this post, I show the steps on how to connect PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure.
Here, we will go about creating a File DSN Hive ODBC Data Source.
Thanks to Andrew Brust (@andrewbrust), the better way to make a connection from PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure is to create a File DSN. This allows the full connection string to be stored directly within the PowerPivot workbook instead of relying on an existing DSN.
Go to the ODBC Data Sources Administrator and click on the File DSN tab.
Click on Add, Choose HIVE, Click Next, Click Browse to choose a location of the file; click Finish.
Open up the PowerPivot ribbon and click on the Get External Data from Other Sources.
From the Table Import Wizard, click on the Others (OLEDB/ODBC) and click Next.
From here, click Build and the Data Link Properties, click on Provider, and ensure the Microsoft OLEDB Provider for ODBC Drivers is selected. Click Next.
In the Data Link Properties dialog, choose "Use connection string", and click Build and choose the File DSN you had created from Step #2. Enter in the password to your Hadoop on Azure cluster. Click OK.
The Data Link Properties now contains a connection string do the Hadoop on Azure cluster.
Note, after this dialog, verify that the password has been entered into the connection string that that has been built into the Table Import Wizard. Note, the blue arrow points to a lack of a PWD=<password> clause. If the password isn't specified, make sure to add it back in.
Click OK, click Next. From here you will get the Table Import Wizard and we are back to the usual PowerPivot steps.
Choose your table (e.g. hivesampletable) and import the data in.
It looks like a lot of steps but once you get into the flow of things, it's actually a relatively easy flow.
Great demo, thanks for this.
i'm trying to follow your demo but i'm experiencing problems : cannot turn port 10000 on. each time i set it on, when i come back to setting page it's off again… ever heard about this ?
Please let me know when this issue is fixed.
ok it works nows. Thank you for resolving.
I haven't personally tried it on AWS yet but it should be compatible with Hive 0.7.1. Checking AWS' documentation at http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/faqs/#hive-9 – it appears that their Elastic Map Reduce 0.20 and 0.20.205 both support Hive 0.7.1. So it should work provided that the ports are open to allow for that type of connection. Worst case scenario, you can setup your HadoopOnAzure cluster and connect to Amazon S3 from Azure.


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During last week's vice presidential debate, Joe Biden dropped some old man slang on the world when he called fellow candidate Paul Ryan's response malarkey.
"Your grandma smells like pickled beets!" Morris yelled.
"Well, I think your grandma drinks blood," Walter said snidely.
"No way. That's malarkey!" Morris cried.
"What you just said was malarkey," Walter responded.
"That's malarkey that you think what I just said was malarkey." Morris replied.
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, we don't know the origin of malarkey. But we do know that it entered American English in the mid-1920s. It's also a surname, which makes me think some guy with the last name Malarkey was quite the storyteller in the mid-1920s.
Malarkey. Who knew where it came from? No one, as you point out. As one who is at or near the age of the VP, I do not see the word as archaic, jut quirky. Tnx for a fun post. Another word of aging interest — copacetic.
I'm glad that "malarkey" got some new attention. I'm hoping that it will encourage more people to use it.
I believe what you wrote made a great deal of sense. But, cdinsoer this, suppose you were to write a killer title? I am not saying your information is not solid, however what if you added something to maybe grab people\'s attention? I mean Hacks & Tricks is kinda boring. You could look at Yahoo\'s front page and see how they create news headlines to grab people to open the links. You might add a related video or a picture or two to get readers interested about everything\'ve written. Just my opinion, it might bring your website a little bit more interesting.


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The Pandemic Transformed Brick-and-Mortar Retail
By Joseph Pimentel Orange County
PUBLISHED 4:17 PM PT Mar. 11, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:17 PM PST Mar. 11, 2021
This story is part of Spectrum News' special reporting on the coronavirus pandemic in Southern California.
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Nearly one year ago this week, Sandy Sigal gathered all of his employees and read a letter he wrote on the possible impact the coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns might have on their retail business.
Before the pandemic, retail was facing the retail apocalypse
More than 12,000 stores closed in 2020
Outdoor dining, curbside pick up, online delivery at retail centers is most likely here to stay post-pandemic
"We're going into uncharted territory," said Sigal, the founder, president, and CEO of NewMark Merrill Cos., which owns and operates 85 shopping centers with 2,000 tenants across California, Colorado, and Illinois. "While people can make plans, plans rarely follow a predictable path. What makes a difference between success and failure is the strength of the team."
"Will we be proud of who we are after this pandemic?" Sigal added. "Leave no one and no tenant behind."
One year later, with the pandemic that is still going on and some see waning, Sigal read that same letter to his team of 100 employees as a reminder of how far they've come since the pandemic upended the brick-and-mortar retail industry.
"It's undeniable this has been a transformative year in our lives," Sigal told Spectrum News.
Of all the industries impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent government shutdowns, brick-and-mortar retail arguably suffered the most. The sector saw a record number of bankruptcies, vacancies, and store closures. But the pandemic also served as a transformation that could change how people shop and visit retail centers in the future.
"The pandemic forced us to accelerate our transformation and face the reality of our industry," Sigal said.
Before the pandemic, the brick-and-mortar retail industry was in the midst of the retail apocalypse.
Consumer habits were changing. With the rise of e-commerce, more people were opting for their goods to be delivered to their homes rather than having to get up and go to a physical store. Big box brick-and-mortar retail chain stores were closing at a rapid pace.
Then the pandemic hit, fueling an already burning retail industry.
Retail saw a slew of bankruptcies, from mom-and-pop small businesses to big national tenants.
In 2019, 17 major retailers such as Forever 21, Payless Shoe Source, and Barney's New York filed into bankruptcy, according to RetailDive, an online news outlet for the retail industry.
In 2020, at least 30 major retailers filed for bankruptcy. Pier 1, J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus, J. Crew, Lord & Taylor, and Modell's Sporting Goods were among the retailers that filed for bankruptcy, RetailDive reported.
According to the American Bankruptcy Institute, more than 3,200 businesses filed for bankruptcy in California last year. That number was lower than the previous year, thanks to government measures to stem the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
"While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a serious financial impact across the globe, the economic stabilization measures put in place by the government have enabled many distressed families and businesses to delay filing for bankruptcy," said Amy Quackenboss, the executive director of ABI. "Bankruptcy remains a proven shield for families and companies seeking protection from the lingering financial distress and economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic."
Still, commercial real estate felt the effects of the pandemic. According to JLL, Los Angeles retail vacancy jumped 1% year-over-year from 4.8% in 2019 to 5.8% in 2020. Orange County retail vacancy was at 4.8%, a 0.8% increase from 4.1% in 2019.
Sigal, the NewMark Merrill founder, said of the 2,000 tenants his company leased to pre-COVID, 50 are no longer there.
According to Fortune, more than 12,200 stores closed last year.
"It was a rough year," said Cheryl Todd, a principal at Coreland Cos., a third-party retail management company that oversees five million square feet of retail centers in Southern and Northern California. "Retail has changed a lot. It was a rough year. A lot of businesses closed their doors. Obviously, we still had lenders, debt services, tenants that couldn't operate. Many landlords proactively addressed [financial issues] with their tenants like rent deferrals were discussed to be repaid at a later date."
Todd said people often forget a real human element when it comes to the pandemic's emotional toll on business owners and landlords.
"As managers, my team and I had to deal with a lot of people struggling. It was a very emotional feeling. People didn't know what was going to happen. There was a great deal of uncertainty. It was hard not to take it personally."
JLL Executive Vice President Paul Chase said most of the businesses that filed for bankruptcy had pre-existing conditions leading up to the pandemic. The pandemic and the shutdowns, and the lack of visitors further fueled their demise.
"The slowdown in traffic accelerated their previous issues," Chase said.
Once the pandemic hit and the shutdowns happened, business owners had to find ways to survive.
"Those that were able to pivot quickly really accelerated," Chase said.
With indoor shopping and eating either prohibited or limited, the pandemic forced the retail centers to transform.
Many retail owners and landlords turned unused parking spots into outdoor dining setups. Online ordering became popular. So retail owners had to reserve parking spots specifically for that. Gyms that couldn't operate indoors had tents set up in front of their store. Curbside pick-up became a thing. Restaurants with a drive-thru component became extremely popular.
"For us, the pandemic accelerated the omnichannel shopping for both the business, the tenant, landlords, and consumers," said Christy David, the chief operating officer at InvenTrust Properties. InvenTrust owns 65 grocery-anchored shopping centers, seven of which are in Southern California. "Everybody adopted new shopping behaviors, and everyone had to adapt accordingly."
Sigal said they launched a company-wide mural program at all of their shopping centers. Since so many people were outdoors, he wanted to make visitors enjoy the retail center's space.
Sigal also created a community and tenant outreach program. Communication became vital to not only the community but also tenants.
Every other week, the local community would receive a letter highlighting a business owner's story and imploring the community to support local and small businesses.
"It's part of the humanization of our tenants as people, as dreamers, and owners of a small business," Sigal said.
For those shopping centers and malls with big vacant boxes, many expect those to be converted into a mixed-use component, either an apartment, hotel, office building, or even a distribution site.
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Many customers' big question is if these trends such as outdoor dining and curbside pick-up shopping will remain as restrictions are lifted and post-pandemic.
All signs point to a yes.
Before the pandemic hit, there was a lot of chatter about how the physical shopping experience was dying and that the pandemic accelerated that trend.
But the COVID-19 pandemic was a form of retail evolution, David, the COO of InvenTrust said.
"Retail is not going to go away," David said. "Retail continues and will always evolve through time."
As people begin a sense of normalcy due to the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines, they will venture outside and spend at retail centers.
"I'm sure you've heard of revenge spending," she said. "Once people are comfortable coming back to retail centers and out of the post-pandemic era, you're going to see people want to go out, want to go shop, and want to spend their money for experiences because they've been pent up for so long."
Sigal points out what happened during the COVID era. Even when people were still unsure about COVID-19, many still ventured outside to brick-and-mortar retail centers with other people to shop.
"[The retail center] was their one connection point they had with the regular world while they were quarantining," Sigal said. "If anything, brick-and-mortar reinforced the relationship and the importance of a community center in the community."


Dunnett, Dorothy. Niccolo Rising. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Reason read: Dunnett's birth month is in August.
When Dunnett finished the Francis Crawford of Lymond series she felt there was more to Francis Crawford's story that needed to be detailed. By way of explanation she went back to the 15th century. Niccolo Rising is the first in the House of Niccolo series and features Nicholas de Fluery, three generations before Francis Crawford of Lymond's birth. For reference, the 1459 Queen of Scots is thirteen years old.
As an aside, the list of characters, both real and fictional, is daunting. Read and reread this book extremely carefully. You might miss something if you don't.
Author fact: Dunnett also wrote about Macbeth.
Book trivia: Niccolo Rising is the first book in the Niccolo House series and since they tie into the House of Lymond series Dunnett suggested reading them in the order they were written and not in chronological order. Yay! I'm actually reading them in the right order…for once.
Nancy said: Pearl said it would be a shame to miss out on the House of Niccolo series (More Book Lust p 80).
Ekman, Kirsten. Under the Snow. Translated by Joan Tate. New York: Picador. 1999.
Reason read: August is Ekman's birth month; read in her honor.
I love it when someone calls a book "moody." It's even better when I agree with them.
There are tensions in an isolated village near the Lapland border where everyone knows your name, wants your secrets, and suffers together through a winter that is "5,064 hours long" (p 4). Even Police Constable Torsson has an attitude when he learns he has to travel 25 miles over the ice and snow to investigate the death of a young teacher. When a man is found frozen to death in a snowbank and the entire community won't talk about the details, for all appearances it looks like an accident. This much is true – after getting into a fight after a mah-jongg game Matti Olsen collapsed and died of exposure. Case closed. Or is it? A friend of Matti's arrives the next summer and convinces Torsson it isn't really over; the case deserves a second look. Is it connected to a woman with a piece of bloody rope in a backpack?
For most of the story it bounces from perspective to perspective as different characters share what they want you to know. Most effectively, Ekman reserves the first person narrative for the murderer's detailed confession.
Quotes to quote even if they are a little abstract, "Waves of small talk were now lapping over the place where he had sunk" (p 12) and "The headwaiter decided not to love him, a delusion requiring no great spiritual struggle" (p 45).
Author fact: Ekman also wrote Black Water which is also on my Challenge list.
Book trivia: Under the Snow was first published in 1961. For some reason that took me by surprise. It wasn't translated by Joan Tate until 1996.
Nancy said: Nancy didn't say anything specific about Under the Snow.
BookLust Twist: from Book Lust To Go in the cute chapter called "Swede(n) Isn't It?" (p 223).
Zinovieff, Sofka. Eurydice Street: a Place in Athens. London: Granta Books, 2005.
Reason read: Domition of the Holy Mother Virgin occurs on August 15th.
British-born Sofka Zinovieff travels back to Athens, Greece with her Greek husband and children. In Eurydice Street she recounts the first year of her efforts to "become" Greek. Embracing culture, politics and customs, Zinovieff vividly describes the swirling life around her. Because of her unbridled enthusiasm, friends comment she is more Greek than her husband. Eurydice Street is an interesting blend of history, travelogue, memoir, and political commentary on all things Athens.
Author fact: Eurydice Street is Zinovieff's first book.
Book trivia: Eurydice Street includes two hand drawn maps.
Nancy said: Eurydice Street was an "excellent choice" for reading about Greece.
BookLust Twist: from Book Lust To Go in the chapter called "Just So Much Greek To Me" (p 120).


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Vorticity-Based Flow Structures and Cavitation Evolution in High-Pressure Submerged Waterjet
S. Teng 1
H. X. Liu 2
C. Kang 1
W. B. Zhang 3
1 School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212013, China
2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212013, China
3 Shanghai Marine Equipment Research Institute, Shanghai, 200031, China
The present study aims to describe flow structures and cavitation phenomenon in the submerged waterjet. A non-intrusive experimental work was performed. The waterjet was produced through a nozzle characterized by a short straight segment adjacent to the nozzle outlet. Waterjet pressures were varied from 5 to 22 MPa. The time-resolved particle image velocimetry (TR-PIV) was used to measure velocity distributions. The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method was employed to extract flow structures from the flow-measurement results. Cavitation was created through increasing the waterjet pressure. A comparison of cavitation patterns at different waterjet pressures was implemented. Similarity of the distribution of average velocity is revealed as the waterjet pressure varies. The POD results indicate that two high-vorticity bands close to the nozzle, symmetrically distributed with respect to the nozzle axis, dominate the waterjet stream. Further downstream, small-scale flow structures are sparsely distributed and assume a low percentage of the total energy. Initial cavitation is featured by small-scale cavities which are formed near the high-vorticity zone. As the waterjet pressure increases, the volume fraction of cavitation increases and morphological features of cavitation change significantly as waterjet develops. At a later stage, stable cavity clouds are evidenced. A high relevance between vorticity distribution and cavitation cloud pattern is demonstrated.
Submerged waterjet
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Teng, S., Liu, H., Kang, C., Zhang, W. (2021). Vorticity-Based Flow Structures and Cavitation Evolution in High-Pressure Submerged Waterjet. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 14(4), 1257-1267. doi: 10.47176/jafm.14.04.32184
S. Teng; H. X. Liu; C. Kang; W. B. Zhang. "Vorticity-Based Flow Structures and Cavitation Evolution in High-Pressure Submerged Waterjet". Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 14, 4, 2021, 1257-1267. doi: 10.47176/jafm.14.04.32184
Teng, S., Liu, H., Kang, C., Zhang, W. (2021). 'Vorticity-Based Flow Structures and Cavitation Evolution in High-Pressure Submerged Waterjet', Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 14(4), pp. 1257-1267. doi: 10.47176/jafm.14.04.32184
Teng, S., Liu, H., Kang, C., Zhang, W. Vorticity-Based Flow Structures and Cavitation Evolution in High-Pressure Submerged Waterjet. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 2021; 14(4): 1257-1267. doi: 10.47176/jafm.14.04.32184


My husband, Mitch, and I live in an area where the temperature becomes very cold starting in the fall. During the winter the temperatures fall into the negatives so a proper heating system is imperative. Mitch and I, on the other hand, do not have a nice heating system. Our furnace is over forty years old and it barely pumps out any heat during the cold seasons when we need it. Luckily Mitch and I often work all day in heated buildings so comfortable heat during the day in our house is not a necessity. Unfortunately, during the nights, we would prefer if we had a nice warm temperature when we eat and when we sleep. This is why Mitch and I recently invested in a new HVAC system. This last summer we called up our local HVAC provider and they installed a new HVAC system which hooked up right to our existing vents. While they were at our house we also had them clean our vents since we haven't done that in a while. This fall we really saw a complete difference; when it got even slightly cold, our HVAC system kicked on and maintained the warm temperature whereas our old furnace would have never been able to do that. In the winter we never had to wear heavy clothing in the house since the HVAC system kept the house at nice comfortable seventy-five degrees. Now that our house is heated properly we don't mind actually taking days off to relax properly. With our new HVAC system, we understand the importance of having a working form of heat to warm your house. We have also scheduled yearly HVAC system servicing from our HVAC providers so we never lose our heat when we need it.


Big Fat Piggy Bank: Over $100 of Groceries for under $15 @ Publix!
Over $100 of Groceries for under $15 @ Publix!
It took me a while to make it out to Publix this week. The good news is that it's because we were doing really well with our food supply with all the great deals we have been getting.
This was another great week at Publix and I was also able to take advantage of the SC Johnson Manufacturer rebate I wrote about HERE. I think next week might be a very small shop for us.
*I could have saved even more if I had gotten more reusable bags (which I could have since I bought enough General Mills to do so), or if I had bought smaller packages of ground beef or if I had more of the $2 Healthy Choice coupons. I was in a bit of a rush and just grabbed the smallest packages of ground beef that I could find and could only find 3 of the reusable bags I wanted (the cute ones with the stars). All in all I was very happy with my shop and I'm looking forward to my Hamburger Helper dinner tonight.
Awesome job! I just love Publix. Love your cabinets too!
I stocked up on the same products! If you want to change up your Hamburger Helper, add a can of cream of mushroom soup (which I'm sure you probably have stocked since Publix recently had them on sale) and a can of regular diced tomatoes (on sale this week at Publix). It changes boring Hamburger Helper into something so much tastier. Hope you enjoy! Thanks for the awesome blog.
Katie- What a great idea! I had my first Hamburger Helper last night and it was ok but as we know it's not the most exciting meal. I will totally try that. Thanks so much for the tip!


Apple will release an upgraded version of AirPods in the second half of 2018, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
In 2018, we predict AirPods shipments will grow 100% YoY to 26-28mn units. We forecast the ASP of RFPCB for upgraded AirPods in 2H18 may increase, further benefiting business momentum of Unitech and Compeq.
Kuo said one internal change on the second-generation AirPods will include a "smaller quartz component," but he didn't provide any further details about new outward-facing features or improvements to expect.
Kuo said the new AirPods will continue to be assembled by Taiwanese manufacturer Inventec, with individual components supplied by fellow Taiwanese companies such as Unitech, Compeq, TXC, and HLJ.
Apple will also be releasing a new inductive AirPods charging case that will enable the wireless earphones to be charged with its new AirPower charging mat, which it said launches at some point in 2018.
Apple teased the AirPower mat at its iPhone X event back in September. It will be able to charge the Apple Watch Series 3, an iPhone X or iPhone 8 model, and AirPods inside the new charging case simultaneously.
As for the current AirPods, Kuo said Apple's suppliers are unable to make them quick enough to fully satisfy what he believes is robust holiday season demand, which likely explains why AirPods are sold out until January.
Kuo, who keeps a close eye on Apple's supply chain in Asia, said Apple has recruited Luxshare to help make AirPods, but RF printed-circuit boards for AirPods batteries are proving to be a key production bottleneck.
Kuo also reiterated his estimate that AirPods shipments will double in 2018 to 26-28 million units on a year-over-year basis, suggesting Apple will have sold around 13-14 million AirPods worldwide by the end of this year.
I would love a black/SG pair to match my iPhone X.
Better sound and noise cancelling and I'm in.
If they do this, I hope they a version without the noise cancellation. One of my favorite things about the AirPods is that I am not oblivious to the outside world while wearing them. I really like they I can still hear people trying to get my attention when I'm wearing them.
- Touch strip to allow for more precise controls on device. Slide up to increase volume, slide down to decrease. Keep the double tap controls, maybe add a single tap option to the top or bottom for next/previous.
Other than that, improved sound quality. I'm quite happy with everything else, even battery, though I guess battery on each individual AirPod could be improved. The case battery has been fine for me, I charge about once a week.
This has been my top purchase of 2017. I have never used headphones as much... and I've had everything from the original beats, to bluetooth gym models, the Bose Quiet Confort (I still use these on planes) etc etc.
pretty sure the airpods success are exceeding everyones expectations. apple must be thrilled.
i wish they would release a "sport" version.
Great first effort at AirPods.
Can't wait for the upgraded ones, hopefully it drowns out the outside world.
I put some universal headphone foam tips on my AirPods and was surprised at the difference. There's much more noise cancellation and the bass is much deeper. I can even leave them on when I put them in the case. Not a bad return on a $2 investment.
Can you share a link for these? I surprised you can use a case with foam tips on the buds.


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The factors of 795 are numbers that, when divided by 795, leave zero as the remainder. This means the numbers that ultimately divide the given number are named as their factors.
The given number's factors can be positive and negative, provided that the given number is achieved upon multiplication of two-factor integers.
Factors of 795: 1, 3, 5, 15, 53, 159, 265, and 795
Negative Factors of 795: –1, -3, -5, -15, -53, -159, -265, and -795
The factors of 795 are 1, 3, 5, 15, 53, 159, 265, and 795. These numbers are the factors as they do not leave any remainder when divided by 795.
To find the factors of 795, create a list containing the numbers that are exactly divisible by 795 with zero remainders. One important thing to note is that 1 and 795 are 795's factors as every natural number has 1 and the number itself as its factor.
Therefore, 1, 3, 5, 15, 53, 159, 265, and 795 are the factors of 795.
For 795, there are eight positive factors and eight negative ones. So in total, there are sixteen factors of 795.
The factorization of 795 is 1 x 3 x 5 x 53.
Adding 1 to each and multiplying them together results in sixteen.
The possible factor pairs of 795 are given as (1, 795), (3, 265), (5, 159), and (15, 53).
It is important to note that in negative factor pairs, the minus sign has been multiplied by the minus sign, due to which the resulting product is the original positive number. Therefore, –1, -3, -5, -15, -53, -159, -265, and -795 are called negative factors of 795.
Factor list of 795: 1, –1, 3, -3, 5, -5, 15, -15, 53, -53, 159, -159, 265, -265, 795, and -795
The total number of Factors of 795 is eight.
Factors of 795 are 1, 3, 5, 15, 53, 159, 265, and 795.


He lost his mother as a cub and was sold by the hunter who killed her - and was destined to fall victim to the live animal trade until he was rescued by Vietnam's Forest Protection Department.
He arrived whimpering, sad and lost. At six weeks old when he arrived, Murphy became the youngest bear at Animals Asia's Vietnam sanctuary - the youngest sun bear the team would ever raise.
Now, after working with our bear workers and vet team for the past three months, Murphy is starting to become ready to face the world again.
And what could be more exciting than to have his own personal playroom? That it's in the great outdoors is almost besides the point. The big draws for Murphy are the toys to play with, the structures to climb - and lots of space for twirls and tumbles.
This is a very brave bear indeed.
"It's been a privilege to watch Murphy grow up over these last few months. When he came to us, we couldn't believe he'd be able to get over the trauma of being taken from his mother at such an early age. It's a testament to this amazing sun bear that he's growing up to be such a happy boy - and a sad reminder of what his life might have been like if there was no bear trade.
It's hard to describe how proud I am of the strides he's taken, every new toy he conquers, every rotten log he finds. Working with him to get to this point is one of the most rewarding tasks I've taken on at our sanctuary, and I can't believe how coordinated he's gotten. He's grown up so fast, and we're so happy he's loving the long and fun life he has ahead of him."
Murphy is one of the lucky ones. There are still over 1,200 bears in cages in Vietnam facing regular bile extractions for use in traditional medicine. In China that figure is over 10,000. Bears can spend up to 30 years like this.
Thankfully - though Murphy has had a tough start to life - he'll be enjoying every sunny day from now on.