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The new NFL CBA has been approved: breaking down the details, salary cap set at $198.2 million
17 game seasons, more playoff teams, expanded gameday rosters, and more.
By Chris Pokorny@DawgsByNature Mar 15, 2020, 11:15am EDT
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By a vote of 1,019 to 959, the players voted to ratify the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement through the 2030 season. The votes were tallied Sunday morning, and now we will see a whirlwind of news today. It is also believed that the coronavirus situation is what allowed the ratification to happen, because it pushed a lot of "no" votes to the "yes" side, given the economic uncertainty of the country right now.
Start of the New League Year?
According to multiple reports, the league and the NFLPA are now discussing whether the new league year, including the start of free agency, will start on Wednesday as scheduled. A decision is expected to be made swiftly.
The NFL and NFLPA are currently in discussions about issues related to the 2020 league year, including the salary cap and whether the league year will start Wednesday as planned. More news to come as the day progresses.
— Dan Graziano (@DanGrazianoESPN) March 15, 2020
2020 NFL Salary Cap
The 2020 salary cap was officially announced today, and it will be $198.2 million, which is lower than the projected $200 million.
The NFL Management Council just informed team officials the salary cap will be $198.2 million per club in 2020, per sources.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 15, 2020
Biggest Changes of the New CBA
The number of playoff teams will increase from 12 to 14, as early as this season.
The regular season schedule can be increased from 16 to 17 games, as early as the 2021 season. Additionally, there would only be 3 preseason games, with that "fourth preseason game" being converted to a bye week before the regular season.
Rosters will increase from 53 to 55 players, and the gameday active roster will increase from 46 to 48 players.
Players making the minimum salary will get a $100,000 annual bump in salary.
There will be plenty of more nuances to work through, once we see the full CBA. In the coming days, we will thoroughly review all of the major changes.


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package io.dropwizard.migrations;

import io.dropwizard.Bundle;
import io.dropwizard.Configuration;
import io.dropwizard.db.DatabaseConfiguration;
import io.dropwizard.setup.Bootstrap;
import io.dropwizard.setup.Environment;
import io.dropwizard.util.Generics;

public abstract class MigrationsBundle<T extends Configuration> implements Bundle, DatabaseConfiguration<T> {
    @Override
    public final void initialize(Bootstrap<?> bootstrap) {
        final Class<T> klass = Generics.getTypeParameter(getClass(), Configuration.class);
        bootstrap.addCommand(new DbCommand<>(this, klass));
    }

    @Override
    public final void run(Environment environment) {
        // nothing doing
    }
}

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A few days ago, I baked a cake. This is no easy feat for several reasons. First off, my kitchen is small. It's so small that it makes a closet feel rather comfy. Being in it to do anything cooking related is frustrating when there's only one person in it. Add two cats and it's nearly impossible. Lots of tripping, stepping on paws, and cursing. Secondly, I haven't been exactly dying to cook or bake, recently. In fact, I've been downright slacking on my end of the whole cooking thing. I'm sure the marriage "contract" makes a good point to emphasize just how jointly cooking should be done. Along with house cleaning, feeding cats, and taking turns driving. Still, I was slacking. I blame work but the truth is that I have a wonderful husband who is also a great cook. I digress.
The reason it has really been so long is that my taste is different from Hubby's. I want extra, extra chocolate and he wants something more simple, like yellow. He is always so giving when it comes to food, that I had to make a point to get a cake he was going to like. So I bought his favorite, a lemon cake mix. Mmm. It is actually very tasty and goes great with a vanilla buttercream frosting. Mmm.
At any rate, the cake came out wonderfully! It was tall, moist, not overly done, and the icing was spread thick. The only problem now is that there just isn't enough of it! Since only Hubby and I were eating it, I figured it was pointless to cut it into tiny little squares, so I just cut myself out a big hunk. By hunk, I mean I mentally cut the cake in half and then in thirds. Yes, a very large but yummy "slice".
The next day, I went back for another slice hunk, only to find that it must have been a good idea. Hubby had cut himself a slice of the same proportions. Things only escalated from there. At one point, I took a piece that was two hunk put together. Mmm. Cake.
10 of the most wonderful things..
I figured that since I did a top ten list for annoying things, I'd counteract it with this one. You know you love it.
My Hubby. Oh I know, gag me with a spoon. It's true, though. Without my hubby, I wouldn't have anymore sanity. He keeps the humor going and that's a difficult thing to do with my overly serious attitude. Not to mention he's a wonderful cook!
My cats. I love my little furballs, despite the littler box fiascos. They are always there for me when I need a good cuddle and provide plenty of antics for me to laugh at.. or to yell at them over.
Books. I love to read and don't do nearly as much of it as I would like. Good books can help you forget your sorrows altogether, or give you some insight into better ways to manage them.
Crafst and hobbies. Oh my, this should be a sub-list. Let's see.. crochet and knitting, drawing and doodling, writing, crossword puzzles, and the odd bit of wreath making now and again. I wish I could devote all of my time to these wonderful activities, but I must make a living. Unfortunately.
The outdoors. Again, something I don't do nearly as often as I should. Being outside on a wonderful day (or a gloomy one) can really lift the spirits. Even better is time spent outside with people you like being around.
Food. This really should be number 1.5. I love food. Seriously, I am addicted to all the wonderful morsels of yummyness. If ever I'm in a bad mood, food will set me right again. Especially chocolate. Mmm, if chocolate were a person I'd do very naughty things with them all the live long day. Chocolate..
Sci-fi and fantasy. This could fall into the "books" category, except that I also like movies, games, and other sci-fi and fantasy oriented things. I'm not a diehard fan of anything in particular so I don't consider myself a geek, though I truly wish I had the attention span to be one. Still, absolutely wonderful.
Sleep. I'm a daydreamer so I love to just lie back and let my mind wander. Well, when it isn't mulling over stress and worry.
Technology and all that. I am fascinated by coding languages and troubleshooting computers. I am still working on my comptia A+ certification (more slowly than I should be).


Clear Choice Cannabis > cannabis > Will Taking a Break from Weed Reset My Marijuana Tolerance?
Is your cannabis just not working as well as it used to? A little less euphoric, a little less inspired, always needing to take just a wee bit more to get back to the same sweet spot?
Don't worry: it's not you, it's not your bud, it's not poor quality.
You're likely experiencing something common to many regular cannabis users: tolerance.
How Does Marijuana Tolerance Happen?
Tolerance is a biological phenomenon. Your body likes to keep things in balance, and it has incredibly complex and sensitive means of accomplishing this. With many drugs — pharmaceutical or recreational — your body becomes accustomed to its presence.
It starts noticing that this one chemical seems to be here pretty often, so it reasons that it could safely turn down the sensitivity. The baseline gets reset, that way it can measure and respond to changes in the baseline.
Studies have found the brain does this by down-regulating CB1 receptor — a cannabinoid receptor located primarily in the central and peripheral nervous system — density in the brain. With fewer receptors to be triggered, cannabis has fewer places act on. With fewer buttons to push, the same hit that got you to a great place a month ago does almost nothing with regular, repeated use.
You need more and more and more to elicit the same effect.
And in our age of dabs and ultra-high potency strains, tolerance can set in surprisingly fast.
The beauty of our brain is that it responds to changes in both directions. Therefore, if you take a break from cannabis, your sensitivity will return.
That's right; cannabis tolerance is reversible.
Another study from 2016 found that CB1 receptor density began to recover in as little as two days after cessation from cannabis, continuing to improve after 28 days.
Given that for most users, marijuana only stays in your system no longer than a month, it is conceivable that with even a little more time your tolerance could completely reset back to zero.
Reconnect with reality. Cannabis is an enhancement; it is a boost, an accent to our experience of life. It is not life itself. While some things may be more pleasurable or more vivid, cannabis is not the experience. Taking a break will put you back in touch with the reality of your experience. You may find you have actually been missing something in the luscious haze of marijuana.
Less is more. When you reset your tolerance, you can get the same effect with a small amount of weed. This, of course, can be incredibly economical, allowing you to go further with less. It may even make micro-dosing an attractive option, something pretty much meaningless to someone with a strong tolerance.
Change your habits, change your life. For many of us who love cannabis, it can become ingrained into particular rituals, habits, and patterns of activity. Creative people, for example, may use marijuana to stoke their creative fires and get into the zone. But if you predicate creativity on consuming cannabis, it can become a conditioned experience. Your creativity may end up dependent upon marijuana. Taking a break can shake things up, give you a new perspective, and decondition yourself, all of which will give you more freedom to create the life you want to live.


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Q: The connection to the server 192.168.1.11:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port? I have configured a 2 ubuntu VM in Virtual box where configured k8s, i am unable to get out of "kubectl get node" output.
I have configured one master and one slave, "u-worker1" is not ready beacause i shutdown that machine..
The main problem is sometime it works and sometime it won't, i am not sure what causing here..
root@master:~# kubectl get node
NAME        STATUS     ROLES           AGE   VERSION
master      Ready      control-plane   41h   v1.25.4
u-worker1   NotReady   <none>          41h   v1.25.4
root@master:~#

root@master:~#
root@master:~# kubectl get pod -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                                       READY   STATUS             RESTARTS         AGE
kube-system   calico-kube-controllers-798cc86c47-rddgx   1/1     Running            10 (2m8s ago)    40h
kube-system   calico-node-4nstx                          0/1     Running            9 (2m27s ago)    40h
kube-system   calico-node-qsvdg                          0/1     Init:0/3           0                40h
kube-system   calico-typha-667b5bfff9-nz552              0/1     Pending            0                40h
kube-system   coredns-565d847f94-2mthg                   1/1     Running            6 (65s ago)      41h
kube-system   coredns-565d847f94-vm46p                   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   5 (30s ago)      41h
kube-system   etcd-master                                1/1     Running            37 (6m12s ago)   41h
kube-system   kube-apiserver-master                      1/1     Running            35 (7m43s ago)   41h
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-master             0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   42 (11s ago)     41h
kube-system   kube-proxy-98c2f                           0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   8 (40h ago)      40h
kube-system   kube-proxy-c98cm                           0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   41 (41s ago)     41h
kube-system   kube-scheduler-master                      1/1     Running            41 (6m3s ago)    41h
root@master:~#

root@master:~# kubectl get pod
The connection to the server 192.168.1.11:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
root@master:~#

I tried reconfiguration, changed almost all CNI & i tried moving config file at other folder still no luck

A: Looking at the pods status it is clear that most of the components are failed with CrashLoopBackOff error.
You need to revisit the steps that are followed to setup the cluster. If you can  share the steps we can review it and confirm what went wrong.
Cheack the pod logs/pod description of kube-controller manager, coredns, kube-proxy pods also might help
Note: Make sure to put the information that you have posted is put in proper format and is easily readable.

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Subcultures
How Pickup Artists Work
by Cristen Conger
A Pickup Artist Is Born: History of the Seduction Community
Strauss and "The Game" also introduced the world to Erik von Markovik, better known by his PUA alter ego Mystery. The Canadian magician-turned-pickup artist served as Strauss' primary guru, introducing him to the aforementioned seduction community. As Mystery's personal mythology goes, he spent seven years honing his flirting skills, slowly figuring out what worked and what didn't, whittling it down to a semi-science (and book) called the Mystery Method [source: Belknap]. Due to his prominent role in "The Game," along with a two-season PUA reality show on VH1, Mystery is one of pop culture's most famous members of the seduction community. But he wasn't the first man to make a name for himself by teaching men how to talk to women.
Former comedy writer Ross Jeffries is considered the godfather of the modern-day seduction community. Although Eric Weber's 1970 "How to Pick Up Girls!" is a seminal title in the PUA library, Jeffries planted the seeds for tactics like those featured in "The Game" with his 1988 guide to getting women. Jeffries' "How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed" centers on a concept called Speed Seduction, a type of verbal hypnotism that supposedly amplifies a man's attractiveness. Teaching techniques, such as mirroring a woman's breathing patterns, deepening the voice and employing a host of sample pickup lines, Jeffries essentially encourages men to exert confidence and keep on trucking if a woman rejects an offer.
In 1994, Lewis De Payne, a Ross Jeffries fan, started the online group alt.seduction.fast, and the PUA community was born [source: Clift]. For the first time, men who had been reading and practicing pickup strategies could finally hop on Internet forums and message boards to learn from each other and share tips. Better yet , an online cloak of anonymity whereby men select screen names -- Mystery, Style, Juggler and so forth -- freed PUAs-in-training to share their fears, hits and misses regarding flirting with women. By the early 2000s, when Neil Strauss' editor caught wind of the phenomenon, the seduction community had spawned multiple blogs, Web sites and self-published e-books [source: Clift]. Offline, some groups of PUAs organized into local "lairs" or hangouts where they could talk "targets" and "field reports" in-person and chart out their next pickup ventures. Because when you're a PUA, practice makes perfect -- in theory.
Pickup Artist Slang Terms to Know
AFC: average frustrated chump. Where every aspiring PUA begins.
IOI: indicator of interest. A subtle sign of interest a woman might direct toward a PUA, such as leaning in while talking to him.
HB: hot babe. Every PUA wants to "sarge," or talk to, an HB.
Close: How an interaction with a "target" ends. Number close, for instance, means phone numbers were exchanged before parting ways.
Field report: PUAs love to gossip about themselves. After they go out, they may field report their successes or fails on PUA message boards.
Game: All female interactions are framed as "games." Phone calls are "telephone games," daytime dates are "day games" and so on.
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#ifndef __COCOA_CC_MUTATLE_ARRAY_H__
#define __COCOA_CC_MUTATLE_ARRAY_H__

#include "CCObject.h"
#include <vector>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

namespace   cocos2d {

// the element should be pointer of CCObject or it's sub class
template<class T = CCObject*>
class CCMutableArray : public CCObject
{
public:
	typedef std::vector<T>								CCObjectArray;
	typedef typename CCObjectArray::iterator			CCMutableArrayIterator;
	typedef typename CCObjectArray::reverse_iterator	CCMutableArrayRevIterator;

public:
	CCMutableArray(unsigned int uSize = 0)
	{
		m_array.resize(uSize);
	}

	virtual ~CCMutableArray(void)
	{
		removeAllObjects();
	}

	unsigned int count(void)
	{
		unsigned int uCount = 0;

		if (!m_array.empty())
		{
			CCMutableArrayIterator it;
			for (it = m_array.begin(); it != m_array.end(); ++it)
			{
				if (*it == NULL)
				{
					break;
				}

				++uCount;
			}
		}

		return uCount;
	}

	unsigned int getIndexOfObject(T pObject)
	{
		if (m_array.empty() || (pObject == NULL))
		{
			return 0;
		}

		CCMutableArrayIterator iter;
		unsigned int uRet = 0;
		int i;
		for (iter = m_array.begin(), i = 0; iter != m_array.end(); ++iter, ++i)
		{
			if (*iter == pObject)
			{
				uRet = i;
				break;
			}
		}

		return uRet;
	}

	bool containsObject(T pObject)
	{
		if (m_array.empty() || (! pObject))
		{
			return false;
		}

		bool bRet = false;
		CCMutableArrayIterator iter;
		for (iter = m_array.begin(); iter != m_array.end(); ++iter)
		{
			if (*iter == pObject)
			{
				bRet = true;
				break;
			}
		}

		return bRet;
	}

	T getLastObject(void)
	{
        T pObject = NULL;
		int count = this->count();

		if (count > 0)
		{
			pObject = m_array[count - 1];
		}

		return pObject;
	}

	T getObjectAtIndex(unsigned int uIndex)
	{
		assert(uIndex < count());

		if (uIndex >= count())
		{
			return NULL;
		}

		return m_array[uIndex];
	}

	// Adding objects
	void addObject(T pObject)
	{
		// make sure the pointer is not null
		if (pObject == NULL)
		{
			return;
		}

		// add the refrence
		pObject->retain();

		// if the vector is empty, push back
		if (m_array.empty())
		{
			m_array.push_back(pObject);
			return;
		}

		// find a position to store
		int count = 0;;
        CCMutableArrayIterator it;
		for (it = m_array.begin(); it != m_array.end(); ++it)
		{
			if (*it == NULL)
			{
				m_array[count] = pObject;
				return;
			}

			++count;
		}

		// the array is full, push back
		m_array.push_back(pObject);
	}

	void addObjectsFromArray(CCMutableArray<T> *pArray)
	{
		if (pArray && pArray->count() > 0)
		{
			CCMutableArrayIterator iter;
			for (iter = pArray->begin(); iter != pArray->end(); ++iter)
			{
				if (*iter)
				{
                    (*iter)->retain();
					m_array.push_back(*iter);
				}
			}
		}
	}

    void insertObjectAtIndex(T pObject, unsigned int uIndex)
	{
		// make sure the object is not null
		if (pObject == NULL)
		{
			return;
		}

		// add the refrence of the object
		pObject->retain();

		// resize the capacity if the index out of it
		if (uIndex >= m_array.capacity())
		{
			m_array.resize(uIndex + 4);
		}

		// insert the object
		m_array.insert(m_array.begin() + uIndex, pObject);
	}

	// Removing objects
	void removeLastObject(bool bDeleteObject = true)
	{
		int count = this->count();

		if (count > 0)
		{
			removeObjectAtIndex(count - 1, bDeleteObject);
		}
	}

	void removeObject(T pObject, bool bDeleteObject = true)
	{
		if (m_array.empty() || (! pObject))
		{
			return;
		}

		CCMutableArrayIterator iter;
		int i;
		for (iter = m_array.begin(), i = 0; iter != m_array.end(); ++iter, ++i)
		{
			if (*iter == pObject)
			{
				m_array.erase(iter);

				if (bDeleteObject)
				{
                    pObject->release();
				}

				break;
			}
		}
	}

	void removeObjectsInArray(CCMutableArray<T>* pDeleteArray)
	{
		if(pDeleteArray && pDeleteArray->count())
		{
			CCMutableArrayIterator it;
			for( it = pDeleteArray->m_array.begin(); it != pDeleteArray->m_array.end(); ++it)
			{
				removeObject(*it);
			}
		}
	}

	void removeObjectAtIndex(unsigned int uIndex, bool bDeleteObject = true)
	{
		if (m_array.empty())
		{
			return;
		}

		if (bDeleteObject)
		{
			T pObject = m_array.at(uIndex);
			if (pObject)
			{
				pObject->release();
			}
		}

		m_array.erase(m_array.begin() + uIndex);
	}

	void removeAllObjects(bool bDeleteObject = true)
	{
		if (bDeleteObject)
		{
			CCMutableArrayIterator iter;
			for (iter = m_array.begin(); iter != m_array.end(); ++iter)
			{
				if (*iter)
				{
					(*iter)->release();
				}
			}
		}

		m_array.clear();
	}

	void replaceObjectAtIndex(unsigned int uIndex, T pObject, bool bDeleteObject = true)
	{
		if (m_array[uIndex] && bDeleteObject)
		{
			m_array[uIndex]->release();
		}

		m_array[uIndex] = pObject;

		// add the ref
		if (pObject)
		{
			pObject->retain();
		}
	}

	CCMutableArrayIterator begin(void)
	{
		return m_array.begin();
	}

	CCMutableArrayRevIterator rbegin(void)
	{
		return m_array.rbegin();
	}

	CCMutableArrayIterator getLastValidIterator(void)
	{
		CCMutableArrayIterator iter;
		CCMutableArrayIterator ret;
		for (iter = m_array.begin(); iter != m_array.end(); ++iter)
		{
			ret = iter;
			if (! (*iter))
			{
				break;
			}
		}

		return ret;
	}

	/*
	 * end is a keyword of lua, so should use other name
	 * to export to lua
	*/
	CCMutableArrayIterator endToLua(void)
	{
		return m_array.end();
	}

	CCMutableArrayIterator end(void)
	{
		return m_array.end();
	}

	CCMutableArrayRevIterator rend(void)
	{
		return m_array.rend();
	}

	CCMutableArray<T>* copy(void)
	{
		CCMutableArray* pArray = new CCMutableArray();

		pArray->m_array.assign(m_array.begin(), m_array.end());

		if(pArray->count() > 0)
		{
			CCMutableArrayIterator it;
			for(it = pArray->begin(); it != pArray->end(); ++it)
			{
				if(*it)
				{
					(*it)->retain();
				}
			}
		}

		return pArray;
	}

public:
	static CCMutableArray<T>* arrayWithObjects(T pObject1, ...)
	{
		CCMutableArray<T> *pArray = new CCMutableArray<T>();
        pArray->autorelease();

		va_list params;
		va_start(params, pObject1);

		T pFirst = pObject1;
		while (pFirst)
		{
			pArray->addObject(pFirst);
			pFirst = va_arg(params, T);
		}

		va_end(params);

		return pArray;
	}

	static CCMutableArray<T>* arrayWithArray(CCMutableArray<T> *pSrcArray)
	{
        CCMutableArray<T> *pDestArray = NULL;

		if (pSrcArray == NULL)
		{
            pDestArray = new CCMutableArray<T>();
		}
        else
        {
            pDestArray = pSrcArray->copy();
        }

        pDestArray->autorelease();

		return pDestArray;
	}

private:
	std::vector<T> m_array;
};

}//namespace   cocos2d

#endif // __COCOA_CC_MUTATLE_ARRAY_H__


A number of armed police and dog units have been spotted attending an incident in Colchester.
The heavy police presence was seen at Conifer Close just after 1pm today (September 9), nearby Greenstead Community Centre.
At least two armed response vehicles and a dog unit was sited by witnesses at the scene.
It is not yet known what the exact nature of the incident is.
Get the latest news and breaking news from Essex Live.


Summer is here and Father's Day is just around the corner!
Ahead of the big celebration this weekend, we pulled together a list of our favourite items that would make a perfect gift for Dad, no matter his personal likes and preferences. Take a look at these ideas; we know it will inspire your shopping choices.
As in previous years, Nespresso has released its summer collection and we just can't get enough of it! The newest on-ice capsules are inspired by the tastes of Italy. They are available for both Original and Vertuo systems, so you can experiment with a versatile range of coffee creations.
Ispirazione Shakerato (have we mentioned that we love these names?) is a full-bodied, smooth iced coffee with cocoa aromas and long-lasting roasted notes. Ispirazione Salentina, on the other hand, is a bold option that features a smooth and round texture, revealing nutty aromas and roasted notes. Both are absolutely delicious and a perfect pick-me-up in the morning or a refreshing option throughout the day.
One of BACARDÍ's latest releases, Añejo Cuatro is a new premium rum. Barrel-aged for a minimum of four years (hence, the Cuatro name), this rum has excellent notes of mild vanilla, toasted oak, clove and honey. Its hue is focused on apricots.
This golden rum was inspired by BACARDÍ founder Don Facundo's original recipe. It has a smooth palate that's rounded out by the inclusion of some five- and six-year-old rums. Perfect for summer cocktails!
When it comes to vodka, Grey Goose is the king. Made in France from the finest ingredients, such as soft winter wheat from the Picardie region, we particularly recommend the Grey Goose by Quentin Monge, which is the latest instalment of the brand's annual Riviera series.
The 2018 summer bottle design reflects Monge's signature "stylishly whimsical" take on the French Riviera, the scenic birthplace of many renowned artists, such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Andre Derain. This limited-edition Grey Goose bottle was just released on June 1 and you don't want to miss it.
Released just a few weeks ago, on May 30, Hugo Boss' latest fragrance is now available in stores. Featuring BOSS Parfums 2018 Soccer campaign, the brand is celebrating the individual paths to success of universally distinguished players Julian Draxler, Philippe Coutinho, Harry Kane and Alvaro Morata.
To celebrate this campaign, BOSS introduced its BOSS Bottled United, a new limited edition fragrance. Combining the crispness of the outdoors with an urban warmth, the scent opens with South African Buchu, combined with Blood Orange to create a citrus edge. BOSS Bottled United has a heart of Spearmint, Peppermint and Orris Concrete. It features a stylish silver-shaded flacon that was inspired by the shape of player trophies.
It's summer, it's hot and another excellent gift is one that involves hydration, hydration, hydration!
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Blackburn Perth
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R.B.3A Perth
A Perth, flying with the MAEE in 1935
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company
John Douglas Rennie
Blackburn Iris
The Blackburn Perth was a British flying boat in service during the interwar period. It was essentially an upgraded Iris, hence the largest flying-boat to serve with the Royal Air Force at the time (and the largest biplane flying boat ever to serve with the RAF).
The Blackburn R.B.3A Perth was designed as a replacement for the earlier Iris to Air Ministry Specification 20/32. Developed from the Iris Mk. V, the Perth first flew in 1933.[1] It differed from the Iris by replacing the Rolls-Royce Condor engines of the Iris by more powerful Rolls-Royce Buzzards and having an enclosed cockpit for the pilots. Unusually, in addition to its normal armament, the Perth was fitted with a Coventry Ordnance Works C.O.W 37 mm (1.46 in) autocannon in its bows.[2]
Four Perths were ordered for service for the RAF.[3]
The Perth entered service with the RAF in January 1934,[3] when the second aircraft was delivered to No. 209 Squadron RAF at RAF Mount Batten Plymouth.[1] Perths remained in service until 1937,[1] being replaced by the Short Singapore and the Saro London. One aircraft was retained by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment until 1938.
No. 204 Squadron RAF
Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment
Specifications (Perth)
Data from Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57[1]
Length: 70 ft 0 in (21.34 m)
Wingspan: 97 ft 0 in (29.57 m)
Height: 26 ft 5.5 in (8.065 m)
Wing area: 2,461 sq ft (228.6 m2)
Empty weight: 20,927 lb (9,492 kg)
Gross weight: 32,500 lb (14,742 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 38,000 lb (17,237 kg) [3]
Powerplant: 3 × Rolls-Royce Buzzard II MS V-12 water-cooled piston engines, 825 hp (615 kW) each
Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propellers
Maximum speed: 132 mph (212 km/h, 115 kn)
Cruise speed: 109 mph (175 km/h, 95 kn) [3]
Range: 1,300 mi (2,100 km, 1,100 nmi)
Service ceiling: 11,500 ft (3,500 m)
Rate of climb: 800 ft/min (4.1 m/s)
Wing loading: 13.2 lb/sq ft (64 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.076 hp/lb (0.125 kW/kg)
1 × C.O.W 37 mm (1.46 in) automatic cannon in bow
3 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis guns in bow, amidships and tail positions
Up to 2,000 lb (907 kg) bombs
Related development
Felixstowe Fury
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Short Singapore
Short Sarafand
Hall XP2H
^ a b c d Thetford, Owen (1957). Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57 (1st ed.). London: Putnam. pp. 76-77.
^ "C.O.W. 37mm cannon fitted to Blackburn Perth flying boat", YouTube
^ a b c d Donald, David (Editor) (1997). The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Aerospace Publishing. p. 134. ISBN 1-85605-375-X. CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
British Blackburn-General Flying Boats
"New Plane Hunts Submarines" Popular Science, January 1934
"Huge All Metal Flying Boat Weighs Ten Tons" Popular Mechanics, March 1931
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'Loose Amours', or Love in the time of Plague by Rebecca Rideal
Rebecca Rideal is a writer, historian and former specialist factual TV producer, whose TV credits include Adventurers' Guide to Britain, Bloody Tales of the Tower, and the triple Emmy award winning series David Attenborough's First Life. She runs the online history magazine, The History Vault, and is currently studying for her PhD on Restoration London at UCL. Her first book 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire is published by John Murray and out in paperback on 23rd February 2017. You can follow her at @RebeccaRideal
Charles II painted by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1653
Adapted from '1666: Plague, War and Hellfire'.
In June 1665, Charles II was a king in his prime. At the age of 36, he was five years into his restored reign, virile and interested, he was married to Catherine of Braganza, had a pack of illegitimate offspring, a couple of mistresses, healthy heirs in the shape of his younger brother, nephews and nieces, and his prized navy had just defeated the Dutch in the much-celebrated Battle of Lowestoft. There was just one problem – after a thirty-year absence, an epidemic of plague had broken out in the capital. At first, it seemed to be confined to a handful of cases in the outer parishes of the city. By June, however, the weekly Bills of Mortality revealed the number of plague dead across the city to have passed a hundred. Along with his court and a handful of hangers-on (actors, actresses, artists, playwrights and the like), the king fled London to find refuge in Salisbury and then Oxford.
Away from London, the threat of plague and an ongoing war did little to curb the licentious behaviour of the court. In fact, if anything, the unfamiliar setting of Oxford threw the court's frisky and frivolous activities into sharp relief. Describing Oxford during this time, a French servant named Denis de Repas found a place of jollity and extravagance, writing: 'There is no other plague here but the infection of love; no other discourse but of ballets, danse and fine clouse [clothes]; no other emulation but who shall look the handsomere . . . none other fight than for "I am yours" . . .' He even came across a rumour that a proclamation was to be ordered forcing everyone to be cheerful or they would suffer the pillory. Yet it wasn't all sweetness and roses.
Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond
During their stay, a fierce rivalry broke out between the king and his brother, the hot-tempered Duke of York, over a beautiful court ingénue named Frances Stewart – described by their sister as the 'prettiest girl in all the world and the most fitted to adorn a court'. The king was infatuated and visited her chamber every morning before breakfast. The duke was also enamoured. Confiding to Samuel Pepys 'as an infinite secret', the duke's secretary revealed that 'factions are high between the King and the Duke, and all the Court are in an uproare with their loose amours; the Duke of Yorke being in love desperately with Mrs. Stewart'. Stewart (who the following year would pose as the Britannia we see on British coinage) refused them both.
The Whores' Petition (also known as The Poor Whores' Petition) was a satirical letter addressed from brothel owners and sex workers affected by the Bawdy House Riots of 1668, to Lady Castlemaine, lover of King Charles II of England
The royal wives also set tongues wagging. Queen Catherine's newly appointed Master of Horse was the narcissistic Ralph Montagu, described as a man who 'doth both admire and Love himself'. The appointment might have been unremarkable had he not been the brother of the recently-deceased previous Master of Horse, Edward Montagu; a man who had been exiled from court after making romantic advances towards the queen. It was also during this time that rumours started to circulate that the Duchess of York had 'fallen in love with her new Master of the Horse, Mr Harry Sidney'. Described as 'the handsomest youth of his time', Sidney was purported to be 'so much in love with her' that the 'Duke for many days did not speak to the Duchesse at all'.
Suffering perhaps the most public scandal while residing in Oxford was the king's long-term mistress, Lady Castlemaine. While she was heavily pregnant with the king's child she became the focus of a vicious pamphlet campaign. Seemingly organised by university scholars, it climaxed in a note being pinned to the door of her chamber, declaring: 'The reason why she is not duck'd / Because by Caesar she is fuck'd' (the 'Ducking Stool' was a humiliating punishment for sex workers). It was not the first and certainly not the last time Lady Castlemaine would be publicly likened to a prostitute. During the Bawdy House Riots of 1668, she was regularly 'celebrated' in print as the chief whore of the kingdom.
With their complex rivalries and romances, backstabbing, drinking and politicking, the residents of Oxford found members of court to not only be 'rude, rough, whoremongers', but arrogant and physically dirty too. On their departure, the contemporary academic Anthony Wood reflected:
"The greater sort of courtiers were high, proud, insolent and looked upon scholars no more than pedants or pedagogical persons . . . Though they were neat and gay in their apparel, yet they were very nasty and beastly, leaving at their departure their excrements in every corner, in chimneys, studies, coalhouses, cellars."


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Author: Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and translator. In the late `90 active in the Polish left and later in the labor movement, particularly the biggest Polish labor confederation — The All-Poland Trade Union Alliance. Until 2012 editor-in-chief of its weekly magazine. Contributor at Baricada.org and Strajk.eu, Polish correspondent for the Bulgarian National Radio. Currently working as an editor and journalist for the Polish labor portal Strike and as a correspondent to the Bulgarian National Radio in Poland.
28 April 2019 Boyan Stanislavski
Op-ed: The banana outrage in Poland
There is no limit to the perverted prudery and hypocrisy of the current Polish government. One of my favorite ministers, the one in charge of culture, Piotr Gliński, has however elevated it all to a new, even more embarrassing level. This man, with the look and mentality of an officious,
2 April 2019 Boyan Stanislavski
The Catholic fanatics in Poland take on witchcraft by publicly burning books
Had it not been tragic it would have surely been funny. The Catholic jihadists are really fighting for Christians in Europe!From the regular meddling in the internal political process of the country, via their lament against 'satanic' LEGO bits and hue and cry over goat cheese sold at 6.66 PLN
20 February 2019 Boyan Stanislavski
In a trap of credit and loans: Private debt in Poland is skyrocketing
The most recent report by the Polish National Debt Register (KRD) is a horrifying read. The indebtedness of Poles has more than tripled in the last four years. Still, the mainstream continues to claim that today's economy and the transition are a major success.Statistically speaking, an average Polish citizen is
Disgusting neo-Nazi recidivism in Sofia – 16 years of the Lukov March
February 2019 marks the 16th year of the annual neo-Nazi Lukov March in Sofia in remembrance of Bulgarian general and Nazi sympathizer Hristo Lukov. Somewhere around 1,200 people took part. Many of the demonstrators came from outside Bulgaria.The Lukov March is an abhorrent event. It is a torch-lit, neo-Nazi demonstration
28 January 2019 Boyan Stanislavski
Desecrated anniversary: Polish proto-fascists and anti-Semites march at the gates of Auschwitz
The official celebration of the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by the Red Army was an utter disgrace. Not only were extreme right-wingers and open anti-Semites allowed to stage a rally and shout slogans like "It's time to stand against Jewry and free Poland," but
What is behind the murder in Gdansk?
The stabbing of Paweł Adamowicz is a tragic incident and one that is very symptomatic of the current Polish reality. But for reasons different than you might think.Certainly the mayor of Gdansk is not a random person and his death had to provoke a major disturbance in the public sphere.
17 June 2018 Boyan Stanislavski
[VIDEO] Reprivatization in Poland or how crooks massively take over schools, hospital and houses
The Barricade sat down with the Polish lawyer and activist Beata Siemieniako about the criminal injustice of the so called reprivatization process in Poland. She wrote about her experience in the field of organizing social resistance against it in the book she recently published Reprivatizing Poland. Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish
3 May 2018 Boyan Stanislavski
[VIDEO] Jonathan Clyne: "This is an existential crisis for the establishment"
Jonathan Clyne is a longstanding socialist activist, author of numerous articles and analysis, he's also co-written the book "War and Resistance – Reaping the Whirlwind" and is now working on his new book "All Systems Go." He was politically active in Labour Party in the UK in the 70s. After


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Hey, I just set my osw up. Only problem I had I was using the newest Logitech software as I also use this setup on PS4 which needs the g29 driver. As soon as I installed the older g27 driver it worked.
I'm using OSW with mmos, Fanatec universal hub with a teensy lc USB conversion, Fanatec sq shifter and HE ultimate pedals.
I set it to Logitech g27 in game (forza7) but when I adjusted the dead zones it went to custom controller.
Can confirm it works well in forza 7 with full ffb.
Many thanks to gimx awesome adaptor, I bought one from gimx shop for pc and made one for PS4 so I don't have to keep changing firmware.
Can you please tell me how you set it up on pc to play Forza 7 , do yoi turn on Mmos, i just need some help . im about to pull my hair. Thank you .
I've just read through your settings and they look pretty much the same as mine.
As soon as I open gimx loader and click the start option Logitech g27 comes up in the Logitech profiler.
I do have mmos installed but I don't have to have it opened. My wheel shows as mmos in the gimx config when I assign the wheel to the wheel axis. As I said the only problem I had at the start was using the newest Logitech drivers. As soon as I install the older g27 profiler it worked.
I have done pretty much what you have done, I selected ps3 g27 then saved as renamed it so I had a new xml file to work with.
I then assigned all the axis's and buttons saved them, then installed the older Logitech software, ran the gimx program and it all worked. Your wheel should show up as a g27 in the controller tab and should be working in the Logitech profiler on the test page.
Just to check you do have both ends of the gimx plugged into the pc right ? So the gimx adaptor is using two USB slots. I'm sure you do just making sure. Also have you installed all the drivers in the gimx tools folder ?
posting all of this here as I also am having trouble finding tutorials for using gimx on pc games (most info is for console games).
Question: When using gimx on PC do you just plug both USB ends of gimx adapter into 2 USB ports on pc? How about all of my USB devices (wheel, pedals, shifter, handbrake)... I have 4 separate USB devices plugged into 4 separate USB ports... is that a compatible way to plug everything up assuming you have enough USB ports which I do? I was not planning to use any USB hubs.
I'm planning to buy a gimx adapter from gimx shop. Planning to use it to play games only on the PC for games that don't recognize my peripherals, starting with WRC7 on the PC.
Hoping to use gimx with a G27 firmware and g27 Logitech drivers on Windows 7 64 bit OS, to use my Fanatec Clubsport wheel, fanatec sequential shifter, HE Pro Pedals, and HE Handbrake on WRC 7. PC WRC 7 does recognize HE (Heusinkveld engineering) brand pedals and handbrake, hoping to use gimx to solve this. I was going to bind my analog HE handbrake axis to the g27 gimx clutch axis, and then in game bind the g27 clutch axis to the game handbrake (since I don't think g27 has a spare 4th axis than can be used for handbrake). This way I should get everything working including handbrake analog axis, but I will have to give up my analog clutch... however I can at least bind my analog clutch to one of the g27 buttons I think so I can still use my clutch pedal seen as a button in game.
Should this setup work fine with GIMX for PC games that support G27? Did I misunderstand anything? Sharing here as I know others are also needing gimx even on pc games for similar needs.
Some people use a second computer, but it should work fine with a single one, and with all USB plugs (both ends of the adapter, and all your devices) connected to this computer.
GIMX can assemble all your devices into a single emulated G27 wheel.


Book taxi transfers from airports and cities worldwide. This service is an alternative to booking a taxi to/from an airport in a foreign country. It is possible to order a transfer to travel between cities or tourist locations, but most of all this service can get you to/from an airport, a train, a bus station, or even a river port.


We are pleased to inform you that even this year WAY and Yuvsatta (youth for peace) will jointly organise the international exchange programmes, the Children's Peace Fest and the Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF) in Chandigarh, India. As you know by adopting the 2030 Agenda, Member States have committed to leave no one behind in their implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
You will be glad to know that theme of this year's 14th Global Youth Peace Fest-GYPF2019 is #LeaveNoOneBehind fortifying further youth partnerships for a better world. The GYPF2019 will take place from September 30th to October 2nd, 2019 at Peace-city Chandigarh in India.


CadnaA is an excellent tool for the calculation of noise maps and for Strategic Noise Mapping according to the EC Directive on Environmental Noise. A great number of users value its richness in features, calculation speed and last but not least, usability. Numerous noise maps of cities and even entire countries have been calculated and are calculated using CadnaA.
Strategic Noise Maps involve a specific workflow regardless the size of the project. A big number of local and state administrations use CadnaA from the very first stages to the final delivery of results according to the regulations. The first step is the creation of a digital city model, where each single element (roads, railway lines, terrain, buildings, etc.) and their related data (traffics, elevation, inhabitants, etc.) may have different formats which are imported and combined into the software. Then, the model is validated by appliying automated workflows for the simplification and optimization of the model. After noise grid and building evaluation calculations have been performed by using quality assured calculation standards, the statistics on noise exposure versus number of residents as required by Annex VI of the Directive are produced automatically.
In some cases local and country administrations have developed GIS environments, where all aspects (or "layers") of a city are integrated into a digital urban planning tool. These systems are long-term projects and involve several departments within the government to ensure consistent information. That is also true for the definition of all layers and related databases and how they should be transferred into other software. CadnaA is used here as a runtime calculation program so all data required for calculation is prepared within the GIS system. By simply pressing the calculation button integrated into the GIS front end, the data is automatically imported into CadnaA and the results are exported back to the GIS system once the calculation has been finalized.
According to article 9 of the EC Directive, the member states have to ensure that strategic noise maps and action plans are made available and disseminated to the public in a clear, comprehensible and accessible way. Many governments have decided to publish online maps since then. Usually, implementation costs are high and require an outsourcing of IT services for the development and maintenance of the webpage. A time and cost efficient solution is the export of noise maps to an end-user browser format that can be published into any webpage. Using this CadnaA feature, the noise map results can be checked by the public on any computer or even touch screen devices connected to the Internet.
Strategic Noise Maps must be updated every five years in order to reflect the modifications approved in the action plans. Although the update is based on new digital data (such as new roads, modification of traffic flows, etc.) more and more cities also implement noise monitoring networks installed along main roads or at the vicinity of industrial plants. These measured data can be transferred to CadnaA to update the noise map. This technique is not limited to the use of measured sound level data, but also automatically registered traffic count data or other source parameters can be used. Dynamic noise maps can even be generated for past time periods. Whether the Lden of the preceding year or the mean sound level on all Sundays of the last month shall be displayed.


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Carlos Pardo
Carlos Pardo was the NASCAR Mexico Series champion in 2004. He was killed in a NASCAR Mexico Series race at Pueblo, east of Mexico City.
Carlos Alberto Pardo Estévez was born in Mexico City.
He won the NASCAR Mexico Series championship in 2004 and had 10 career victories in 74 starts with 8 poles. He was third in standings in 2005 and 2006.
Pardo competed also in six races in the NASCAR Camping World East Series in 2004 and 2005 and made one Nationwide start in the 2006 TelCel Motorola 200 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. He started 35th and finished 42nd after radiator problems knocked him out of the race.
Pardo was killed in a round of the NASCAR Mexico Series at Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Amozoc, Puebla, just east of Mexico City in 2009. Driving for Motorcraft team, he had started from the back row but had his made his way into the lead. Then on the 97th lap of the 100 lap race, he was clipped from behind by Jorge Goeters, pitching him sideways into the barrier at the entrance of the pit lane. He hit the concrete barrier sideways at over 200 km/h completely destroying the car. He was transported to a local hospital by helicopter where he was pronounced dead. He was declared the winner of the race since he was leading the race at the last completed lap before the accident occurred, beating Goeters by 0.044 seconds.
Pardo's brother Ruben also competes in the NASCAR Mexico Series and finished sixth in the race that his brother won posthumously.
The following drivers were born on the same day as Carlos Pardo (17th - January)


A hundred years ago, humans almost exterminated all large mammals in Norway. Government protection has since ensured the overwhelming return of species, only to result in a newer problem: CONFLICT.
This State of Forest Report 2009 is the eleventh edition in a biennial series published by the Forest Survey of India. Shows that India's green cover during the period 1997-2007 had grown by 3.13 million hectares. For the first time, India's forests have been mapped into 16 forest type groups and forest & tree cover has been estimated with due consideration to altitudinal levels.
This is the summary of State of Forest Report released today. The eleventh edition in a biennial series published by the Forest Survey of India estimates that India's forest and tree cover in 2007 is 78.37 million ha (23.84% of India's geographical area). This is an increase over the previous assessment.
Rajahmundry, Sept. 19: The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education has taken up a study to find out the rate of absorption of carbon by forest soils of the country.


I was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma in February 2010, one month before my 13th birthday. When I was first diagnosed, I was terrified and felt alone. I had no idea what scleroderma was; I hadn't even heard the word before! I've always known something was different about me because ever since I was a little girl, my hands turn purple when I get cold. I never thought it would end up being something like scleroderma.
I wanted to know more about the disease, so my doctor - Lisa Petiniot, M.D. - at Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin suggested I read about scleroderma on the Scleroderma Foundation's website. I joined the Scleroderma Foundation to educate myself. It was a relief to read stories about how other people cope with this disease since I didn't know anyone else who had it.
When I found out there was a national conference for scleroderma patients, I told my mom I was eager to attend the next conference, and she agreed that we should go. As summer 2012 approached, I became more excited. I wanted to learn more about scleroderma and maybe even meet other kids my age.
Finally, the first day of the conference arrived. On Saturday morning, when I attended my first workshop in the juvenile program, I was so glad to finally meet other kids who have scleroderma. They may not have the systemic type like I do, but knowing that someone my age had the same disease gave me some relief that I was not alone.
I instantly became close with all the kids in the juvenile workshops and began to share what I felt when I was diagnosed and how I cope. We talked about how all of us felt hopeless and scared when we were first diagnosed, but then how meeting other kids with our disease gave us happiness and hope. We talked about how we have to take lots of medication and go to the doctor more often, but having scleroderma doesn't scare us as much as it did when we were first diagnosed. One girl mentioned her mom ordered her a T-shirt that said "I Have Scleroderma, But Scleroderma Doesn't Have Me." I really was amazed by that phrase, because it is so true. Having scleroderma puts limitations on some of the things we can accomplish, but if we work hard, we can exceed those limitations. Scleroderma won't ever stop us from chasing a dream.
I later attended the Juvenile Panel workshop. Hearing the girls I had become friends with talk about their own scleroderma stories made me feel less lonely. I could relate to everything they were going through and I was glad to have support. Finally, I knew others understood the struggles I have gone through having this disease.
I'm so thankful to the Scleroderma Foundation for putting on this conference because it gave me a feeling of hope. I still keep in touch with some of the other kids from the Juvenile Program so I can talk to them about my doctor's appointments or my struggles, and they will understand like no one else can. I'm thankful for the friendships I made during that weekend because they will last a lifetime.
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of "Scleroderma Voice."
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Slanging Paint In 160 | We are slanging (throwing) paint, in room 160! Come see what we made!
Second grade explored chalk pastels with these super cute trees. We added water to paint the pastel onto the picture like water color, and ended with oil pastel on top for details Great job!
These first graders followed along with the teacher to draw the bodies of their snowpeople, and then were shown different examples of mouths they could draw. I love how fun these are!
Fourth grade got another lesson in how to draw trees using the "Y" technique. Can you see the "Y's"? Then they used white oil pastel to make the ground and the snow in the sky, and finally painted the entire paper with blue/purple watercolor. Beautiful!
These little artists were given a template to trace around and then they colored them in using warm colors. Once they were done there, they used an india ink wash to add contrast to their papers. Great job!


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Q: How to create a UserControl with WinForms based on another UserControl? I added some screenshots and steps to reproduce below.
My data model has a base class, let's call it CommonThing which has lots of properties. Then there are several specialized versions of this class with additional properties. I now want to create a UI to input data into this model.
I created a UserControl which contains controls for all the common properties like this:
internal partial class CommonThingControl : UserControl {

    public CommonThingControl() {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    // Controller code
}

This also adds a CommonThingControl.Designer.cs which is populated by the GUI designer.
I now created a SpecialFooThingControl as a UserControl and changed the class header to read:
internal partial class SpecialFooThingControl : CommonThingControl {

    // implementation
}

When I now open the SpecialFooThingControl in the GUI designer, I see the controls of the CommonThingControl but they are all locked. I however have a TableLayoutPanel in the CommonThingControl I want to add stuff to, but I cannot change anything, and when I try to drag a control into the TableLayoutPanel the mouse cursor becomes a "No parking" sign and VS does not let me. This even happens when I set the accessor of the TableLayoutPanel to public.
I can move a control into the TableLayoutPanel via the document outline, but when I then rebuild the project, it disappears from the UI.
Is what I am trying to achieve not possible with the UI designer and do I have to set this up by hand or is there some additional step I forgot?
Here is what I did:
First, created a User Control, this is straightforward. I created a table layout panel which I set to Protected because I want to add to it.

This is the code for FooControl.cs:
namespace GuiTest {
    public partial class FooControl : UserControl {
        public FooControl() {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}

And FooControl.Designer.cs:
namespace GuiTest {
    partial class FooControl {
        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) {
            if (disposing && (components != null)) {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        #region Component Designer generated code

        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent() {
            this.tableLayoutPanel1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel();
            this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.textBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.SuspendLayout();
            this.SuspendLayout();
            //
            // tableLayoutPanel1
            //
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnCount = 2;
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle());
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Percent, 100F));
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.label1, 0, 0);
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.textBox1, 1, 0);
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.Name = "tableLayoutPanel1";
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.RowCount = 1;
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.RowStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.RowStyle());
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(360, 28);
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.TabIndex = 0;
            //
            // label1
            //
            this.label1.AutoSize = true;
            this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(3, 7);
            this.label1.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 7, 3, 0);
            this.label1.Name = "label1";
            this.label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(25, 13);
            this.label1.TabIndex = 0;
            this.label1.Text = "Foo";
            //
            // textBox1
            //
            this.textBox1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Top;
            this.textBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(34, 3);
            this.textBox1.Name = "textBox1";
            this.textBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(323, 20);
            this.textBox1.TabIndex = 1;
            //
            // FooControl
            //
            this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);
            this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
            this.Controls.Add(this.tableLayoutPanel1);
            this.Name = "FooControl";
            this.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(360, 28);
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.ResumeLayout(false);
            this.tableLayoutPanel1.PerformLayout();
            this.ResumeLayout(false);

        }

        #endregion

        protected System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel tableLayoutPanel1;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;
        private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1;
    }
}

Now, I added BarControl:

Now I changed the extend from UserControl to FooControl in BarControl.cs:
namespace GuiTest {
    public partial class BarControl : FooControl {
        public BarControl() {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}

BarControl.Designer.cs:
namespace GuiTest {
    partial class BarControl {
        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) {
            if (disposing && (components != null)) {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        #region Component Designer generated code

        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent() {
            components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
            this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

And this is how it turns out:

A: The reason that the controls in CommonThingControl are locked is because the sub-class SpecialFooThingControl doesn't have access to them (they are privately scoped).
What you can do however in the designer for CommonThingControl is change the modifiers property on them, which will allow you to consume/modify them in your sub-class. You need to do this on each individual control, and can simply change the dropdown in the Properties window. You can probably change them in the commonthingcontrol.designer.cs file however I would also be wary on the basis that this file is auto-generated and changes can easily be over-written if you're not careful.

I'd recommend using something like Protected to ensure they're visible to the sub-controls but prevent them being abused outside of the inheritance chain.
EDIT
So further looking into this reveals that this is a limitation of the TableLayoutPanel. Taken from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171689.aspx:

Avoid Visual Inheritance The TableLayoutPanel control does not support
  visual inheritance in the Windows Forms Designer. A TableLayoutPanel
  control in a derived class appears as "locked" at design time.

A: Due to controls accessibility, you cannot update them.
To do so, go into your CommonThingControl.Designer.cs, change for exemple private Button MyButton1 to protected Button MyButton1


It's been an exciting couple of weeks for Modern. With Krark-Clan Ironworks getting the axe and Ravnica Allegiance hitting shelves last Friday, the Modern metagame is beginning to shift more than one would expect.
Taking a look at Dylan Donegan's sideboard, that's a lot of real estate being eaten up by cards to fight against Ironworks.
That's discounting the fact that there's a strong argument to be made for Flame Slash being able to take out Sai, Master Thopterist.
One of the benefits to Ironworks abusing so many different axes in order to combo was that there were several cards that had applications against it, but its resiliency demanded several interactive pieces in order for it to be stopped completely.
Zero copies of Ceremonious Rejection? Abrade over Ancient Grudge? Without having to worry about Ironworks, sideboards can play cards that cover more bases and not be forced into dedicating as many cards to a single matchup.
This diversification of sideboard slots is going to mean a couple of things: sideboards are going to be less focused, and this is going to open a window of opportunity for decks that need more committed hate in order to be combated.
Dredge players, you have a week.
Ironworks was one of Dredge's bad matchups, and with that deck leaving the format and sideboards being unfocused for a couple of weeks, Dredge is in a prime position to make waves. Once people realize what deck(s) they need to be fighting, the focus will shift and people will use the newly-vacated slots in the sideboard to hate on graveyards as soon as they realize that Dredge is a real player.
Pyromancer Ascension is being used as a way to simply double the power of cantrips in this deck, which is worth a ton against the decks that are leaning on Path to Exile to clean up the threats from Izzet Phoenix. Izzet Phoenix is a deck that's historically strong against the removal-heavy archetypes of the format, but those decks have adapted, and Ascension is a tool that helps Phoenix grind into the lategame.
Whir Prison may not be the specific archetype, but the final big winner from the Ironworks ban is the artifact decks that people are going to feel safe from on the short term. Whir Prison, Lantern, and the various Arcbound Ravager decks are all poised to have a great weekend.
The artifact decks that exist in today's Modern format are hyper-redundant. That's to say that they aren't going to be folding to a single piece of interaction, as they had to survive in a world that included people trying desperately to hate out Ironworks. Without that hate being present, it's easy mode.
An easy trap to fall into is to be under the assumption that this is a good weekend to bust out your favorite grindy deck. These decks suffered previously because it was near-impossible to Thoughtseize or Logic Knot every single copy of Krark-Clan Ironworks or Scrap Trawler that Ironworks had access to in each game. With the deck gone, there's a natural inclination to gravitate in this direction, but that's very much incorrect. Outside of the artifact decks, most of the other larger decks in the format suffer against the fair midrange and control decks.
Sleeving up Jund on a weekend that Dredge and Izzet Phoenix are in prime position is not a good idea. The same can be said for Mardu Pyromancer and most Celestial Colonnade decks.
That's not even getting into the problems that these decks have with The Big GuysTM.
The format's most difficult-to-disrupt turn 3 deck left the format. That sounds great for the decks that don't start playing the game until turn 3 or 4.
With Ironworks out of the picture and all the aforementioned decks being pushed out of the picture, it's probably time for Becky Adlman to go ahead and just win an Open.
Lands are still difficult to interact with, and Blood Moon wasn't catching on when Amulet Titan was one of the biggest decks in the format. It's completely unsurprising to see Valakuts spike the first large Invitational Qualifier after the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks.
On the other hand, Blood Moon is a card that decks didn't have room for before but do now.
The biggest takeaway from all these decks is that other linear decks are in a good spot to get a "free" weekend: a weekend without people hating their deck out before realizing how hard it is to otherwise beat.
Bannings aren't the only thing breathing change into Modern.
Red got a bunch of new tools with Ravnica Allegiance, and players are already making use of them.
Ryan Ferries has been playing Burn constantly for a year now, with a spattering of Classic Top 8s and a finals appearance in Indianapolis last year. This list of his is something he's undoubtedly been thinking of for a while, and there isn't much I would change about the spells in the deck. The plan that Skewer the Critics opens up is simply being a bit lower to the ground and having a quantity of one-drops.
Couple this with Light Up the Stage, and it's easy to start toying with the idea of playing eighteen or nineteen lands. It's a subtle change, but over the course of a tournament, having this heightened spell-density is going to be the deciding factor in more than one game.
The only thing I'd be looking to change about Ferries' deck is putting the sideboard copies of Blood Crypt and Sacred Foundry into the maindeck over Mountains, and then find room for three Skullcracks in the sideboard. The most important thing to note about this take on the deck is that it's consistent, which is about all that a Burn player can ask for. One of the biggest ways that Burn tends to lose games is to getting choked on two-mana spells, and this take on the deck reduces the odds of that happening.
On the note of jamming one-drops, Richard Mulligan is taking an entirely different approach. Notice anything missing from the maindeck? Look at the sideboard and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Rather than having any copies of Eidolon of the Great Revel for Game 1, Mulligan has chosen to really lean into having a pile of one-drops and not wanting to punish himself in the process for doing so.
When there are decks that can race Burn, Eidolon of the Great Revel can actually be an enormous liability. If its controller finds themselves behind on life, suddenly it becomes impossible to win. This conundrum is exacerbated by the "overload on one-drops" plan that Skewer the Critics has created.
Without the white cards from the Boros version of Modern Burn, Burn's cards are less powerful on average, and Burn must cast more of those spells in order to win. More spells equals more damage from Eidolon.
The expectation that Burn players must be casting more spells is affecting how people are looking at sideboarding against the deck as well. Remember Tariq Patel's sideboard from earlier?
There's some nice 2014 Burn sideboard tech looming in there.
If the opponent is planning on casting more spells, playing the card that punishes them for doing so is a great way to play.
Finally, a moment to talk about a card that I've already written about the Modern applications of , and is near and dear to my heart: Electrodominance.
Magic Online grinder BobTheDog was able to reach the semifinals of the Modern Challenge last weekend with his take on casting Living End via Izzet-colored spells, and the rest of the internet took notice. In the time since their finish, Living Dominance has been on every Modern decklist dump, with builds tweaking cards here and there but always being fairly close to this shell.
BobTheDog's decision to include Tolaria West as a way to search up combo pieces even allows for a small package of cards that can hose entire strategies. There's some seriously powerful stuff going on here.
It turns out that the traditional Living End deck was always pretty close as a linear one-trick pony, but when Cryptic Commands, Remands, and other interactive spells are thrown into the mix, the deck is a real player.
All kidding aside, the backup plan of the Jund-colored Living End deck was always to start just jamming its creatures as the big clunky Draft chaff they were planned to be, but with the interactive spells in this deck, that plan is far more realistic. That's not even getting into the fact that Curator of Mysteries is a reasonable costed spell on its own, and it having a text box that plays well as a threat in a deck with a million cards that cycle can't be understated.
If a single deck were to come out of left field and blow the tournament out of the water, my money would be on this one. It's doing something that generally requires hate cards to answer, but can easily go about its business and win a heads up game of Magic in the face of those hate cards.
The point with all these decks is that they can be answered. Most of them are doing something that's abusing some easily-exploited axis of Magic, be it busted artifacts, graveyards, land stuff, or some other [thing]. Most people are going to be expecting some subset of cards, and the key to succeeding in a Modern metagame that's wide open is doing something as powerful as you can while dodging the hate cards for your powerful strategy.


When things turn sour in my life, they turn bitter before they get sweet.. My family is always hit on every angle all at once.. We can never have just a small storm, but rather an shattering earth quake..
As I've mentioned our Aunt Mary passed this morning.. This week my brother is having many financial issues.. Many of you know that he suffers from Bipolar, which is a mental health disorder. Individuals with bipolar are no different then individuals who have their apendix explode. Individuals who's apendix explode are treated with medical care. You cant help it if you apendix explodes, it just does. Same thing with individuals with bipolar. They cannot control the fact that their brain doesnt produce or over produces Monamies, which are basically neurtransmitters that help the brain function such as dopamine or norephrine. These individuals are given drugs to help them function.. It is no different then a apendix being removed, but often so much sterotype surrounds mental health disorders and it makes me cleary ANGRY..
As I mentioned he is kind of in a financial mess.. He is a couple months late on his house payment as well as his car payment. God extends me mercy all the time.. In this situation, I am not sure what my role is or how I should help. .I know that I screw up all the time and God extends me mercy, but I dont have all the means to pull him out of this mess either..I know he hasnt made the best decisions, but I know I havent all the time either.. I remember a pastor once saying.. Treat people the way you want God to treat you.. I would want God to extend mercy to me.. How do I extend Mercy and Grace in a loving way, that provides his needs?
On another note.. Possible hurricanes are expected to maybe hit Flordia.. It is too early for weather forecasters to be 100% sure, but it is a possibility.. We really need this Disney trip.. I am praying that it will disappear or it will after we go... prayers are appreciate on all levels for my family..


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Camera IconSam Vokes scored Burnley's winning goal in their 2-1 Premier League win at Cardiff.
Warnock rues luck as Cardiff lose again
October 1, 2018 2:51AM
Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock was left bemoaning a lack of good fortune after his team suffered a 2-1 home English Premier League defeat by Burnley.
Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Sam Vokes netted second-half goals either side of Josh Murphy's equaliser on Sunday to give the Clarets back-to-back league wins for the first time since April.
Cardiff knew victory would take the Welsh team above Burnley and outside the relegation zone.
But Warnock's side are now winless after seven games and, with away trips to Tottenham and Liverpool in October, the situation is already looking bleak for the Bluebirds.
Warnock felt his side should have had a penalty for hand ball in the first half to go with a header that was cleared off the line, a disallowed goal and a shot against the post by Josh Murphy.
"The lad's hands are up there in an unnatural position and I think that's a penalty," Warnock said.
"We don't get them (decisions) as smaller clubs but that would have changed the game. Sometimes it depends which ref you get."
Burnley have also had a difficult start, mainly because of being involved in six Europa League matches, so their manager Sean Dyche was pleased his team came through a serious examination to record their second successive win.
"We couldn't get into the game but I was pleased with our reaction," he said.
"Second half we calmed a little bit but we had to defend resolutely and show the desire to get a result."
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So where did Katie go? Everywhere. Her husband was on sabbatical in Brussels, and the whole family went with him to experience the wonders of Europe. But Pop Goes the Page was never far from Katie's mind. Cue the music…it's time for a photo montage!
What was your favorite travel destination?
I have to choose just one? I would have to go with Iceland. The unrivaled beauty of the island is amazing. Everywhere we went, we stopped to take a million photographs or more. There is unique landscape to behold, friendly people to meet, delicious food to eat, and rich history to learn. Something about that place touched a deep spot in my wanderlust soul and I must go back. My husband and son wholeheartedly agree.
What did you miss about the States?
My family and friends. It was very hard to be that far away. And peanut butter. We found peanut pate in Brussels, but it did not taste at all like good 'ol fashioned American peanut butter.
What do you miss most about Europe?
I miss being able to jump on a train and be in a different country within a few hours. It was incredible to suggest going to Paris or Luxembourg City or Amsterdam for a quick weekend trip and just being able to go. I also loved the convenience of living in the city and not needing a car to go about my daily business. We had everything we needed within a five block radius of our apartment: our son's school, several grocery markets, a bakery, a meat and cheese shop, a pharmacy, many retail stores, a movie theatre, and dozens of great restaurants. It was such a freeing feeling to not have to drive a car everywhere and that I really miss. When I returned to Princeton after not driving for nearly a year, I was dizzy from all of the crazy traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike!
Do you have any awesome travel hints?
Skip the preplanned tours (if possible) and explore on your own. It may require you to step out of your comfort zone, but you could end up in places you never knew existed. One of the last trips we took before coming back to the States, we went to Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic with little planned other than to explore the towns where my husband's ancestors lived. We ended up stopping one night in an old walled city in Slovakia that dates back to the 13th century, and the next day we explored nearby Spis Castle. We hadn't at all expected to spend a day pretending to be knights in an enormous castle, but it was well worth the unexpected detour.
If Dr. Dana could guilt trip you about your glorious year of travel while she remained confined to the States, what would be the most effective angle for her to take?
Hmmm, she could demand I deliver more Belgian chocolate, which I'm happy to do. And she doesn't even need to share.
So Katie has returned to the library, and got back into the swing of things immediately. Here she is testing out a new photo backdrop whilst wearing a Charmander onesie. Yup. Just another day at the office.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I too was wearing a Pokémon onesie. It was very comfy.
Now that Katie has returned, must we say goodbye to Miss Marissa? Nope! She's staying on while simultaneously working on her library degree. So you'll be seeing both Katie and Marissa on the blog from here on out. Aw yeah.
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WBB: Johnson Downed by Husson
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Husson 18 20 23 23 84
Northern Vermont-Johnson 14 8 10 11 43
Pts: Kenzie Worcester - 20
Pts: 2 Players (#34, #44) - 8
Reb: Team - 11
Johnson, VT — The Northern Vermont University-Johnson women's basketball team fell 86-43 in a North Atlantic Conference matchup versus Husson University at Carter Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. Freshmen Amorette Rodriquez (Downey, CA) and Melissa Ann Clark (Philadelphia, PA) led all Badgers in scoring with eight points each. Husson's Kenzie Worcester (24), Emma Alley (13), and Barrett Campbell (11) all reached double-figures for the Eagles. Sophomore forward Devin Libby (Burlington, VT) led all players in rebounding with eight boards.
The Badgers (1-6, 0-2 NAC) came out in the first quarter ready to match Husson basket for basket, and they capitalized on great opportunities, capturing their first lead of the game with 4:38 remaining in the first quarter. The Eagles broke a 12-12 tie as they went on an 8-0 run to end the first quarter, emerging with a 20-12 lead entering the second stanza.
With the Badgers putting up a strong fight, the Eagles switched up their defense, causing trouble for Johnson as they searched for an offensive flow. The Eagles continued to make the Badgers uncomfortable on offense and a trio of three-pointers by Husson's Kenzie Worcester led to a 20-point lead for the Eagles going into the second half.
Despite shooting well from behind the arc, the Badgers were unable to fast break or consistently find the shots they needed in order to pull out a victory over the Eagles. Husson emerged victorious, taking the game 83-43 to move to 3-2 overall and 2-0 in NAC play.
The Badgers will travel to Maine on Friday, December 7th for a conference tilt versus University of Maine-Farmington. The women's game is slated to begin at 7:30pm, following the men's 5:30pm matchup.
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Maria Zuber
Geophysicist
Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle
Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes
The greatest mysteries in the universe are dark matter and dark energy, and a husband and wife at JPL are united in their quest to solve them. In fact, the hunt for these strange phenomena is what first brought Jason Rhodes and Alina Kiessling together.
The universe is expanding at an ever-faster pace, with no discernable force propelling it. Scientists have named this effect "dark energy." Meanwhile, galaxies spin in a way not explained by our understanding of physics. Extra mass could account for this disparity, but all attempts to directly detect this dark matter have come up empty.
Dark matter has been detected indirectly, by seeing how its gravity bends light. Using this "gravitational lensing" effect, Rhodes helped create the first high-resolution maps of dark matter in 2007.
Rhodes grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, and when he was 7 he suddenly decided he wanted to be an astronaut. He went to space camp three times, and physics was the only goal when he entered college. He doesn't know where his attraction to science came from, since no one else in his family shares that interest. "I'm the anomaly," he says.
Starting from a friendship born of shared research interests, Kiessling and Rhodes gravitated closer together at JPL as they studied the mysterious push and pull of the universe.
While he was working at Caltech he was contacted by Alina Kiessling, a PhD student who was visiting Southern California and seeking scientists who study gravitational lensing.
Kiessling grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and her interest in science also sparked at age 7. Her family was on a camping trip near an opal-mining town, and the glitter in the ground that caught her eye was not a generic gem, but an opalized dinosaur bone.
"That discovery made me wonder how the Earth began," she says. By the time she was a teenager she decided that question was too small; instead she should be asking how the universe began. Astrophysics became her life's goal.
Starting from a friendship born of shared research interests, Kiessling and Rhodes gravitated closer together at JPL as they studied the mysterious push and pull of the universe. They married in 2014.
They've banded together in a JPL group known as the Dark Sector, where different experts meet to share their ideas about the unseen aspects of the cosmos.
Rhodes and Kiessling are also involved in the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, set to launch in the 2020s.
"To explain dark energy and dark matter will require new physics, because they don't fit with our current models," Rhodes says. "Whatever that new physics is, we need good evidence for it."
"We'll find some answer, or at least we'll shrink the error bars on our ignorance," he adds. "We might be able to say what is happening, but still not have an understanding why."
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Duneau, une commune française, située dans le département de la Sarthe en région Pays de la Loire.

 François Duneau (1599-1684), un jésuite français, prédicateur et agent de renseignement du Cardinal Mazarin.

Voir aussi
 Site archéologique de Duneau, un site archéologique qui se trouve à Duneau

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ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI), a leading provider of consulting services and technology solutions to government and commercial clients, was recently awarded continuations and expansions of two current contracts with Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI). The contracts have a combined value of more than $14 million; each has a term of 32 months.
ICF will continue to administer the residential energy efficiency portfolios for two of PHI's Maryland utilities: Pepco and Delmarva Power. In addition, ICF will now support both utilities' commercial multifamily programs with the same comprehensive suite of energy efficiency implementation services, including energy efficiency expertise, digital and interactive services, data analytics and IT solutions, creative and marketing expertise, and incentive processing and call center support.
"Pepco and Delmarva Power are expected to surpass their EmPOWER Maryland energy efficiency goals this year," said Selim Karabulut, vice president for ICF International. "Both are recognized industry leaders and consecutive winners of ENERGY STAR awards in 2014 and 2015. We are proud of the contributions the ICF team has made to these accomplishments and look forward to working with PHI to identify innovative approaches to achieving even greater energy savings and customer satisfaction."
"ICF continues to invest in innovative new program designs that can stand alone or support an existing portfolio," added Mike Mernick, senior vice president for ICF. "This commercial multifamily program is a perfect example of an additive program that will complement our ongoing work with PHI, while helping its operating utilities reach an important market segment—their multifamily customers."
The EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Act is a statewide initiative with the goal of reducing the overall per capita electric consumption and demand by 15 percent by 2015.


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Остатък в аритметиката съществува, когато резултатът от делението на две цели числа, не може да бъде изразен с цяло число. Остатъкът е това, което не може да бъде разделено при делението.

При естествените числа
a:b=c (ост. r) => a=bc+r, където 0 ≤ r ≤ b (a – делимо; b – делител; c – частно; r – остатък)

Примери
 13:10 = 1 (остатък 3), проверка: 1×10+3 = 13
 27:5 = 5 (остатък 2), проверка: 5×5+2 = 27

При целите числа
a:b=c (ост. r) => a=bc+r, където 0 ≤ |r| ≤ |b| (a – делимо; b – делител; c – частно; r – остатък)

Примери
 -42 = 9 × (-5) + 3, което може да бъде представено и като -42 = 8 × (-5) + (-2)

Следствия
При r=0 a дели b (тогава казваме, че остатък няма, но това помага в рашаването на някои мат. задачи).

При r≠0 а не дели b.

Математически обекти
Аритметика