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When I Was 8
A little while ago, I realized that whenever I talked about being a kid and the subject of how old I was during any event came up, I would say that I was 8.
The truth is, in comparison to most people I know, I have very few solid memories of my childhood. I own approximately 20 photographs from when I was a kid, so I can't even really use pictures to jog my memory. I'm not really sure when the most traumatic events from my childhood happened, but I feel like the worst of them happened when I was 8, therefore, everything has just become "when I was 8 years old" when I talk about it.
The reason that I'm bringing that up is because, when reading about people who finally come forward with a history of abuse, a lot of people won't believe them. I mean, if they were abused, why didn't they come forward sooner, right? Why did they wait so long?
I can't speak for every abuse victim, but I know why I never pursued any sort of action against the people who sexually abused me (yeah - there was more than one. Three, to be exact.). First - my memories are screwed. Like, they are so disjointed and all over the place, it's just a disaster trying to put them in any sort of order. Apparently this is not uncommon with childhood trauma. When everything is a mess in your life, it remains a mess in your mind for a very, very long time.
The worst memory that I have is really, really bad...and then it's just blackness. Like - I literally cannot remember past a certain point. I can guess what happened based on my unfortunately very vivid recollection of what I do remember. I'm pretty sure I know what happened. But I'll never really be sure. The most vivid part of that memory is waking up the next day and thinking something along the lines of, "I really didn't like that. I don't want to do that again. But I don't want to make ***** mad."
I decided to turn it into a game. I found string and I put it across my bedroom door and I told everyone that my room was now a museum, and no one was allowed to cross the red velvet rope to get inside. I then moved a pillow and blankets into my closet, told everyone it was my "fort," and that's where I started sleeping.
The thing is - I didn't even realize that I was being abused. I mean, if you knew that you were being abused, you'd be like, oh hey! Stop that! You're abusing me! Or something...right?
But...when you're young and naive and trusting and really, just a kid...you literally have no idea what the hell is going on. For me, I just knew that I was uncomfortable. And I didn't want anyone to feel bad about me being uncomfortable, so I just...worked around it.
Our family also had deep Southern roots, and those roots require that you keep up appearances, and you never, EVER let anyone know that anything is wrong.
When life was probably at it's worst in our household (I don't know exactly when - when I was 8?), the Department of Children and Family Services came to see me at school, and pulled me out of class for an interview. They wanted to know about life at home. Was it good? Did I feel safe? Did I want to talk about it? Did I know how my brother got that black eye?
It's good. I feel safe. There's nothing to talk about. I think he fell down.
When I got up to leave, I could see the sweaty outline of my handprints on the table and I remember feeling terrified that they would be able to tell from that that I was nervous, and lying.
I mean - think about that. Life at home is absolute hell, and I was scared that the people who wanted to help me might find out. Because abusive people just screw up everything about the way you think and what's supposed to be normal. Because they're abusive.
A few years later, in a family therapy session, I told my mom about the sexual abuse. She loudly declared that I was manipulative and lying and that I was trying to destroy our family and her life. So...you know...telling someone didn't really turn out so great.
Years later, I know people that know and love *****. And if I really got into this history, they would be hurt. I don't want to hurt people. And, I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't believe me anyway. After all, the ***** that I was so afraid of so many years ago, is not the person that they know today. And besides, the official stance from my family is that life when I was a kid was practically the Brady Bunch.
Everything was awesome, we swear.
So, in a nutshell, why do I think people don't come forward? Because their memories are chaotic, and people will use that against them. Because they literally may not have had any idea at the time that what was happening was abusive. Because telling someone might be worse than what's actually happening...or you might think that it could be worse. And because, when you finally do decide to tell somebody about it, the flat out refusal to believe what you say hurts so much, why on earth would you ever want to talk about it again? I mean - what's the point? So you can relive the traumatic event and people can call you a liar?
But then...you know...you get to a place where you feel like maybe, if you talk about what happened to you, then other people will feel ok talking about their experience, and you can all hold each other up during the healing process, because you are absolutely not alone, and that's really comforting to know.
And then somebody is like, "Well why didn't you say something sooner? I mean, if it really happened, why didn't you call the police or something? I just don't believe this really happened."
And the reason is because it's just not that simple. And until you have been completely violated by the people that you trust most in the world, you're never going to know how you would react. You're never going to know what it's like to be on this path. The very best thing that you can probably do is listen, and try not to loudly declare the million reasons why your own life experience dictates that someone with a completely different life experience must be a liar.
Justine said...
I will always admire your bravery and honesty.
Kate Rasmussen said...
Dizzy Ms. Lizzy said...
Love you, Jessica.
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Romana Noack
Romana Noack is a graduate of Cologne's Musikhochschule. During her studies she was engaged at Berlin's Comic Opera, where she performed in productions of Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte with Harry Kupfer. Since her guest appearance with Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1995 she has been a member of its ensemble and has sung all the major parts in her field, for example, Adele (Die Fledermaus), Musetta (La Bohème), Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Elvira (L'Italiana in Algieri). In addition, she has also given guest appearances both at home and abroad, for instance, at Wiener Festwochen as Adele under the baton of N. Harnoncourt, in Copenhaagen as Ännchen (Der Freischütz) and in Le nozze di Figaro in Geneva. In Germany she was successful in Cologne in the role of the Forest Bird (Siegfried), as well as in Leipzig, Hanover, Darmstadt and Berlin in The Merry Widow. In 1998 Romana Noack won a prize in the renowned Belvedere singing competition, and since that time has been a frequent guest at festivals in Austria.

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N'Guelbely este o comună rurală din departamentul Maine-Soroa, regiunea Diffa, Niger, cu o populație de 1.000 locuitori (2001).

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This was a terminus of a branch from Niddrie [1st] opened on the shoreline at Leith, just east of the Water of Leith in 1835 (the land on the east bank is South Leith). Passenger coaches ran here from 1838. This largely forgotten station is important in the history of the expansion and development of Leith and its docks. Known as simply 'Leith' until 1868 when it first appeared as 'South' in Bradshaw's timetable.
At Leith there is merely a shed-building. contiguous to this station, the coalowners have large enclosed yards, connected by sidings or small branches with the main line.
The station appears to have had two sheds - the northern one probably largely a goods shed and the southern the tacked on passenger shed - and the line ran through this west by Tower Street to reach the Water of Leith. A small goods yard was to the east of the station, on the north side of the line, and approached from the east. The station was open for goods and minerals only from 1835-1838.
When opened the station was at the north end of Constitution Street and the line was bounded by the seashore on the north side. Leith was already a town and this station was on the north edge of it. Dock development was on the west bank of the Water of Leith, in North Leith, with the exception of a small timber basin.
The line was built to the 4"6' gauge (converted to standard after 1845) and was a single track. A horse drawn dandy was used for the line which had a halt at Portobello [1st] and began at Niddrie [1st] junction, an interchange station.
The Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway opened to North Leith, on the west bank of the Water of Leith, in 1846 and the Leith Victoria Dock opened 1851.
The line was improved again around 1856 and when the station re-opened in 1859 the branch was no longer served from Niddrie but from a connection to the North British Railway main line at Portobello.
After removal of the trainshed the station consisted of a booking office building at the west end of the station site and a platform with a rudimentary shelter built to the south of the line. The line continued to run west on the north side of Tower Street. The building and platform were added to the rear (north) of the Edinburgh and Leith Gas Works. The platform was narrow and on its south side a series of turnplates served the gas works.
North of this station was a new goods shed and north of that a coal depot.
Further docks now developed on the east bank, associated with goods, and increasingly, coal export. By 1877 a large part of the foreshore had been reclaimed, ready for further developments.
South Leith Goods was added to the east of the station, at Bath Road. A marshalling yard Leith South Yard was laid out to the east of the docks which expanded as further docks were added. The line was doubled around 1900.
The station was always awkwardly served as a reversal was needed when approaching from Edinburgh, unless by a long route round by the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway. Increasing coal traffic on the branch probably put paid to the passenger service in addition to the opening of the better sited Leith Central in 1903. North Leith remained open nearby. Alterations to Portobello West Junction in 1915 changed access to the branch to via Portobello Yard.
An extension east of Tower Street now covers the site of the later station building, platform and shelter. On the south side is a very poor condition wall sometimes said to be the station, but this is the north wall of the Edinburgh and Leith Gas Works. The Tower Street Industrial Estate occupies the site of the station and coal yard.


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Heinrich Raphael Eduard von Handel-Mazzetti (connu également son le nom Heinrich baron von Handel-Mazzetti), né le  à Vienne et mort le  à Vienne, est un explorateur, mycologue et botaniste autrichien qui fut curateur au département de botanique du muséum d'histoire naturelle de Vienne et qui fut un pionnier des explorations botaniques en Chine, en Mésopotamie (actuels Irak et Syrie) et au Kurdistan.

Biographie
Son grand-père, le baron Heinrich von Handel, officier supérieur de l'Armée impériale autrichienne, épouse la baronne Caroline von Mazzetti, dernière représentante du nom et obtient l'autorisation de rajouter le nom de sa femme au sien. Leur fils, le baron Eduard von Handel-Mazzetti, né à Pavie en 1838 et mort en 1898, est officier à l'état-major. Il épouse en 1881 la marquise Fredina de Mauro, née à Florence en 1853, dont la mère était issue de la noblesse de Prusse-Orientale. C'est la mère du futur botaniste qui lui inculque l'amour de la nature. La femme de lettres Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1871-1955) est sa cousine germaine.

Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti reçoit sa première éducation à demeure jusqu'à l'âge de dix ans, et il est fortement impressionné par sa jeunesse dans le Tyrol, puis il poursuit ses études secondaires au collège d'Innsbruck, où il a comme professeur Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre, ensuite à Dobling et chez les bénédictins de Seitenstetten, où il a comme professeur le fameux mycologue Pius Strasser. Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti entre en 1901 à l'université de Vienne, contre la volonté de son père, officier, pour étudier la botanique. Il publie son premier article avant ses vingt ans Contribution de la flore du Nord-Tyrol dans Flora von Tirol (publié par Dalla Torre)  grâce à son herbier de jeunesse qu'il avait récolté pendant ses excursions dans les montagnes tyroliennes, et décrit l'hybride naturel Gentiana tiroliensis Hand.-Mazz., aujourd'hui Gentiana × tiroliensis. Il trouve auprès de son professeur Richard von Wettstein un soutien à ses aspirations scientifiques qui lui permet de développer ses talents naturels. Il effectue sa première expédition botanique en 1904 en Bosnie occidentale, suivie d'une autre en Suisse en 1906, et dans le Sandjak et dans la région de Trébizonde en 1907.

Il devient démonstrateur de l'institut botanique de l'université en 1903 et devient assistant en 1905. Il accède au doctorat en 1907, grâce à sa thèse considérable portant sur le genre Taraxacum. Il effectue une expédition botanique avec son frère Hermann en 1909 en Bosnie-Herzégovine et une autre en mars- en Mésopotamie (avec Viktor Pietschmann) et au Kurdistan. En , il sert de guide botanique à l'archiduc François-Ferdinand dans un voyage aux Dolomites. L'académie des sciences de Vienne l'envoie en Chine l'année suivante. Il embarque de Trieste le  et arrive le  à Haïphong et en février en Chine. Il visite et cartographie les régions montagneuses des provinces du sud-ouest de la Chine: celles du Yunnan, du Sétchouan, du Hunan et du Kouytchéou, alors que le monde est en guerre depuis l'été 1914 (la Chine n'entre en guerre contre l'Allemagne qu'en 1917). Il rentre en Autriche en 1919. L'Autriche-Hongrie a disparu et il ne reste plus qu'une petite république. Il se dévoue entièrement alors à la description de la flore de Chine, s'appuyant sur son propre herbier et sur les spécimens rapportés par d'autres botanistes, et décrit de nouvelles espèces. 1 307 nouvelles espèces sont décrites dans Plantae novae Sinenses sur les 8 015 étudiées et 35 nouveaux genres sont identifiés. Handel-Mazzetti est le rédacteur des tomes VI (fougères) et VII (plantes à fleurs).

L'institut botanique devient un département du muséum d'histoire naturelle en 1923 et Handel-Mazzetti y retrouve un poste en avril et promu en 1925 comme second dans la hiérarchie.

Il visite les Abruzzes en 1924, et la Thessalonique en 1927 (avec August von Hayek). Il est obligé de prendre sa retraite anticipée en 1931 à cause de dissensions internes à l'intérieur du département de botanique et se consacre à ses travaux personnels.

Il meurt victime d'un accident de la circulation à Vienne, alors rattachée à l'Allemagne en guerre. Le baron von Handel-Mazzetti ne cachait pas ses opinions pacifistes à ses proches. Il était célibataire et ne vivait que dans un petit studio de location. Son traitement lui permettait néanmoins d'avoir un assistant particulier et d'effectuer chaque été un voyage dans les Alpes. Il était considéré comme peu sociable et ne manifestait une certaine chaleur qu'avec ses trois frères. Ses assistants successifs lui vouaient un grand respect.

Outre l'allemand, il parlait couramment le latin (pour ses travaux botaniques) et l'italien (appris de sa mère), et parlait aussi le français et l'anglais et un peu le chinois.

Il était membre honoraire de la Royal Horticultural Society de Londres (depuis une conférence à Londres en 1928); membre honoraire de la Botanical Society d'Edimbourg (1934) ; membre correspondant de la Société botanique de Genève et membre de la Société géographique de Berlin. Il est élu membre-correspondant de l'Académie des sciences de Vienne en 1939, mais il meurt avant que le ministère à Berlin ne confirme sa nomination.

Publications
Monogrographie der Gattung Taraxacum, 1907, in: Österr. Botan. Zs. 72, 1923;
Ergebnisse einer botanischen Reise in der Pont. Randgebiete im Sandschak Trapezunt, in: Ann. d. k. k. naturhist. Hofmus. 23, 1909;
Pteridophyta und Anthophyta aus Mesopotamien und Kurdistan, sowie Syrien und Prinkipo, ebd. 26-28, 1912-14;
Zur Geographie von Kurdistan // Aus den Ergebnissen der Mesopotamienexpedition des Naturwissenschaftlichen Orientvereins in Wien, 1910, Gotha, 1912;
Neue Aufnahmen in NW-Yünnan und S-Setschuan (Erläuterungen zur Karte), A. Hölder, Vienne, 1921;
Die Vegetationsverhältnisse von Mesopotamien und Kurdistan, ebd. 28, 1914;
Plantae novae Sinenses, diagnosibus brevibus descriptae, in: Anz. d. Ak. d. Wiss. in Wien, math.-nat. Kl. 57-63, 1920-26;
Naturbilder aus Südwest-China, 1927   Texte en ligne; traduction en anglais;
Systematische Monographie der Gattung , in: Beihh. z. Botan. Cbl., Abt. 2, 44, 1927;
Symbolae Sinicae T. 6 (Pteridophyta) et T. 7 (Anthophyta), 1929–36.
Article dans Flora von Tirol de K. W. von Dalla Torre et L. Gf. von Sarnthein, Flora des gefürsteten Gfsch. Tirol, des Landes Vorarlberg und des Fürstenthumes Liechtenstein I, 1900, VI, T. 4, 1913,
(contribution à la flore asiatique) in: E. D. Merrill u. E. H. Walker, A Bibliography of Eastern Asiatic Botany, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 1938.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Janchen, E., Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft, Osterr. hot. Zeitschrift 57, 1940, pp. 179–201

Liens externes

  Heinrich v. Handel-Mazzetti (IPNI)
   Biographie (in Deutsche Biographie)
  Biographie en anglais
   Liste des taxons portant l'épithète handelii en son honneur (IPNI)
  Liste des taxons portant l'épithète mazzettii en son honneur (IPNI)
  Liste des taxons portant l'épithète handel-mazzettii en son honneur (IPNI)

Naissance à Vienne (Autriche)
Naissance en février 1882
Décès en février 1940
Décès à 57 ans
Botaniste autrichien du XXe siècle
Explorateur autrichien du XXe siècle
Mycologue autrichien
Noblesse autrichienne
Naissance en Autriche-Hongrie
Décès à Vienne (Autriche)


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Q: Apache CXF + Mule ESB, SOAP + RESTful web service. How to go about it? I am new to Java web-services and am working on one currently, using Apache CXF. It will have both JAX-WS(SOAP) and JAX-RS(REST) support. It will be consumed by desktop and mobile applications. In learning Apache CXF, I have come across some showstoppers. Can anyone help me with the flow in terms of layers?
FYI: I have worked with the Google Maps API earlier. I developed a consuming application in .NET, and have a fair idea of web services (both SOAP and REST). I am having problems with these implementation details in Java.

About the service
Here is what I understand. Mule will run on a separate server, and since Mule already supports Apache CXF, it will be able to run both RESTful and SOAP services.
Quick question 1: What is the purpose of Apache CXF in Mule?
Quick question 2: I have seen some Apache CXF RESTful web services without Mule. Does it run in a servlet container in such a case? If yes, how is it different from deploying the web-service in Mule?
About Intgration
The consuming application will run in another server. It will will make SOAP or rest URL calls to the aforementioned web service. Based on the application type, a response will be sent to the consuming application.
Quick question 1: Is my service endpoint common for both REST and SOAP calls?
Quick question 2: Is it even possible to put a RESTful and SOAP web-service on a common endpoint? If not (which I guess is the case most probably), how is the consuming application to know what it is getting?

tl;dr? How does an Apache CXF web service withboth REST and SOAP definitions work when deployed in Mule ESB? What is the end-to-end flow through each layer?

A: Quick question 1: What is the purpose of Apache CXF in Mule?
Mule uses CXF to implement both consuming and providing WebServices. There's nothing special about it. It is just a library that mule uses.
Quick question 2: I have seen some Apache CXF RESTful web services without Mule. Does it run in a servlet container in such a case? If yes, how is it different from deploying the web-service in Mule?
You can use CXF also in your own application that you will deploy for example into a tomcat. In that way it will, yes, run in a container. Well, it really don't have that much of a difference. Mule runs in a container itself too. :) Mule ofcourse contains a lot of other functions as well because it is an ESB. You should consider if you need all the features of an ESB or not. If you only need to deploy a couple of WebServices then I think that an ESB is an overkill for your needs.
Quick question 1: Is my service endpoint common for both REST and SOAP calls?
No it will not be. You need to create separate endpoints for both services.
Quick question 2: Is it even possible to put a RESTful and SOAP web-service on a common endpoint? If not (which I guess is the case most probably), how is the consuming application to know what it is getting?
Well, you could use the same inbound-endpoint but I think that you would shoot yourself in to a leg doing so. You could do the separation by the HTTP Request type. SOAP requests are POST requests while a simple REST call (assuming you are fetching data, not posting) would be a GET request.

A: My first suggestion is (having done it before) to not use Mule for web service deployment.  It can, of course since CXF provides the ability for Mule to consume and deploy web services. However, if you are not using the ESB features of Mule you would be better off deploying your services to an application server like Tomcat.  Even if you are using the ESB for service mediation, message routing, data transformation, etc. you might still be better off deploying your services to an separate server.  Even MuleSoft offers a version of Tomcat (Tcat) for this purpose.
In Mule, you create an endpoint configuration for your web service (and, yes I do believe you have to have multiple endpoints).  With Tomcat (and other application servers) you create a war file of the web application and deploy it the server, typically.  I use JAX-WS (SOAP) and JAX-RS (REST) annotations in my code along with JAXB for data binding.  I Spring to configure the SOAP and REST endpoints in the web service configuration.  I also use Maven to build, test, package, run and deploy the web service.
The client will need to know which web service it is using ahead of time in order for it to work.  SOAP and REST request/responses look different.  Typically, to consume a SOAP service, you will generate the client code using wsdl2java.  You can also consume SOAP services by POSTing xml strings of the SOAP envelope to the SOAP endpoint.  You can call a RESTful service in approximately the same way (without the SOAP envelope), but it could also be a GET or a PUT (not POST).  It is possible to generate a WADL using CXF, which describes the RESTful service in a similar way.  This can be used to generate client code using wadl2java.

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Isn't this skirt from August Wrinkle just the cutest thing? Just so you know, it's also got pockets! Any dress or skirt that has pockets is golden in my book. I also had to show off some of the new jewelry I've gotten. You have no idea how long I always thought about getting a cross ring. Well, I'm glad I waited - this one from Rox My Sox is perfect and adjustable for my chubby fingers. Then the spiked necklace from Estarer adds a nice touch in my opinion.
At work lately, I've taken to wearing my big, nerdy glasses all the time now. They're just so much easier on my eyes for those long days of going straight from school to late nights at Golden Corral. People have gotten used to me wearing them now, and they garner quite a few compliments. This one chef in the back likes to say, "Hey what's up Clark" whenever he sees me. You know, as in Clark Kent (Superman)? Haha, they are pretty similar frames I guess. Then this older guy, Al, overheard me talking to someone about how I hated being nearsighted, so he consoled me by saying, "It doesn't matter whether you are or not - you know why?"
"Because you're a hottie either way, and if anyone says otherwise, you send them to me!"
You look great!I'd love it if you could come and visit and blog and follow each other?
I want that cardigan!! Too cute!
I love the starry skirt! The color goes really well with the brown top and the wedges!
I think your star print skirt is just so adorable!
I love your skirt. I have a thing for stars and then these are gold stars...love.
Love the skirt. The tiny golden stars on the skirt look cute. It is well accessorized with the spiked necklace.
Hehehe this is such a cool post! That Al guy sounds awesome too! Love your style!
So nice you get along with the people you work with, really makes a difference when you can have fun at work!
Very cute skirt. And I'm really loving that cardigan too. It looks so cozy.
I love that necklace, so simple, but so awesome!
That skirt is sooo pretty!!!! Love the print!
Oh my goodness, LOVE the pattern mixing you have going on here! Stripes and stars? Stellar combo! Plus you finished it off with those awesome boots-So cool!
I am loving all the warm tones in this outfit, that skirt in particular is beautiful!
i love your outfit! the shoes and the necklace are so great!
I LOVE THIS OUTFIT! oh gosh, the skirt is beautiful and the fact it has pockets is fabulous. i love dresses and skirts that have pockets. you styled it well!
That IS such a cute skirt! Love it with the cardigan and specs too, its super cute! And those boots are awesome and perfect for fall!
Your cardigan is so sweet!
Love these colours. Perfect for autumn!
Love the skirt and necklace! ^^ Cute look.
I agree! Pockets add like 1000 "buy me" points to any dress or skirt!
Hi gorgeous girl! Your star printed skirt is insanely adorable! I'm so happy you stopped by my blog because now I have found yours! I'm excited to be your newest follower darling! I hope you stop back by mine so we can stay in touch!
Thanks for Visiting me! Happy Blogging!
Absolutely love that cardi paired with those heels. Great accessories too!
Such a fun casual outfit! It's perfect for fall!
beautiful pictures!!! such a fun causual look, yet perfect for fall!!!
DEFINITELY a super cute skirt! I love the starry print and yes pockets, such a small thing but such a great addition haha.
Ooh, I like this outfit =) The star-print skirt is cute, and it's good that you like the people you work with!
Thanks have a good day!!
love your stars and stripes!
I'm loving the entire outfit and I like how everything was thrifted/inexpensive, but still looks very cute! Amazing post!
Super cute and girly look! I love your skirt and cardigan.
love these warm colors together! pretty necklace too!
The skirt looks so cute, I love it!
I like your necklace and shoes! they're both fab!
loving the color combo, very nice!
Great fall outfit. I love.
I love this outfit so much! The colors look so great together!
HI sweetie, adore the stripes and stars print mix and that you did it so subtly and with class...its a very cool laid back festival type look.


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Jessica especially loves designing and stocking the wine room with interesting and unusual items.


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MTS serves enterprise and residential customers in Manitoba with a full suite of services ranging from wireline voice and high-speed data services, to next-generation wireless services, to MTS TV, through its MTS (Manitoba) division.
Virtual Attendant is a powerful, automated call routing solution that allows businesses to connect wired, mobile, home phones and other Virtual Office extensions, regardless of geographic location, under a single primary phone number. Virtual Attendant can be used as either an independent service or in conjunction with an accompanying Virtual Office Service Plan. Callers are greeted promptly and professionally by an automated attendant that forwards the incoming caller to the designated numbers.
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Call worldwide from the US�it's just as easy as picking up your phone. Simply dial "+" followed by the country code, city code, and local number. If you�d like, check our great rates or look up country codes before you call.
Total Call International exemplifies their mission of providing superior communication services at an affordable price. The initial product line of Direct Dial Long Distance, Dial Around Service and Prepaid Phone Cards continues to be very popular; helping customers stay connected to friends and family around the world. In anticipation of the customers need for more communication choices, the selection of services now includes Internet Services, VoIP/Broadband Phone Service, and Mobile International Long Distance.
There are so many advantages to using VoiceWingSM for your calling needs that we felt inclined to point them out. In addition to all the features jam-packed into this service, you can also take your phone number wherever you go, make calls from anywhere and access your online Personal Account Manager as long as there is a broadband connection. So no matter how far away from home you may be, the convenience of calling from home doesn't have to be.
Using an existing high-speed Internet connection, Vonage technology enables anyone to make and receive phone calls - worldwide - with a touch-tone telephone. Offering quality phone service bundled with enhanced IP communications services, our interactive communications portal is a gateway to advanced features only available through digital telephone service. Utilizing our global network and advanced routing technologies, Vonage offers an innovative, feature-rich and cost effective alternative to traditional telephony services.
Database Systems Corp. provides both digital and analog telephone systems. PACER and WIZARD telephone systems are outbound phone dialers and inbound answering systems that process calls for a wide variety of call centers. Phone calls are either initiated by the phone system or accepted from the outside and distributed in an intelligent fashion to telephone service representatives using our award winning Interactive Voice Response software. The phone systems also include voice broadcasting and call recording and monitoring capability.
Using industry standard components, the PACER and WIZARD phone systems have features and functions that can only be found in large scale PBX�s and both include predictive dialing capability that cannot be found in most of these larger phone systems.
These contact center phone systems can connect calls to employees who are working at home or in a local or remote offices. Our intelligent phone systems communicate with applications written on Unix, Linux, or PC servers over a LAN.
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Strategy and Marketing are the driving forces behind all of the capabilities our team offers here at Ignite XDS. Every partnership initiated and every project completed are founded on the underlying value-add that will result. We're dedicated to achieving realistic results, which means we must first establish the playing field: where do you currently stand in the market, where do your competitors stand, what makes you different, what do your customers think, and more. By taking a 360° approach to analyzing your business and processes, we can identify opportunity for improvement. Only after establishing a clear foundation, can we successfully implement messaging and processes that can result in true business development. Once the train is in motion, analyzing the results is where the magic happens. By analyzing the data from all efforts executed by our team, your team, and any third party partnerships, we can successfully examine how all endeavors are performing, where results can be improved, and what adjustments need to be made.
At Ignite XDS, our design team is dedicated to building a consistent visual identity that accurately represents your brand on any platform, through colors, fonts, graphics, and additional design elements. Our goal is to create an identity that your consumers instantly recognize and connect with. From our initial research phase to the long-term achievement of your business goals, it's a laser-like focus on brand strategy that will help us get you there. After working together to develop your brand strategy, it remains at the center of everything our team produces for you.
Whether it's a problem you're trying to solve or a business objective you're trying to achieve, software may be the solution. Our development team can build a custom software solution that is tailored to your needs. From user management, product management, data integration, and everything in-between, our team offers the skills to build you a back-end tool that will transform your business. Further, we pride ourselves on providing completely integrated websites and back-end application solutions that are supported by the industry's leading security protection. On the front end, if you want to be sure that users can find your website on any device, and that their experience is consistent across devices, you can't sacrifice quality development. At Ignite XDS, through quality website development techniques, cutting-edge technology, and extensive user testing, our fully responsive websites function with ease, simplify user experience, and highlight your brand message.
Technology is moving fast, and in today's world your website and marketing efforts must move too, or you'll be left behind. The Ignite XDS film and photography team specializes in cutting-edge design principles to make audio and visuals more exciting, more memorable, and more emotionally convincing, frame-by-frame. Even where you'd least expect it, it's subtle movements and thoughtful details that will catch the eye of your consumer and engage their decision-making brain. From full-span commercials and storytelling videos to quick GIFs and subtle cinemagraphs, your marketing goals can come to life through movement.
Content creation requires a 360° approach to achieve true success in a digital world where the rules are constantly changing. We always begin with the most important question: what's your story? Your story is what made you and what drives you. It helps people connect on a deeper, more emotional level, allowing you to attract the customers you want. By pairing your story with strategic content development, we can help you access the decision-making brain of your consumer. Consumers spend countless hours researching before committing to a company or purchase. Search engines are the main source of their investigation, and you need to be there. Everyone wants to rank as one of the first results on Google, and we can help you get there, through research, quality content, and an organic-first strategy; supplementing with paid advertising if necessary. We start with organic content because while paid advertising can drive views, clicks, and traffic temporarily, we are committed to building a strong foundation that will stand the test of time. In addition, we utilize social media as a tool to support these efforts. Creating a brand-centric personality online through social media takes a solid content strategy, responsive customer service, engaging content, and community engagement. You must be there, be helpful, and be personable as a brand. From everyday social engagement to long-term campaigns, we'll help you stand out.
In today's digital world, web design, social media, and online advertising are an omni-channel experience. Our UX/UI teams are expert in building memorable interactions from the bottom up. The ultimate goal is to provide your users with an experience that is enjoyable, responsive, and that fully supports your brand strategy. On the flip side, when it comes to print and traditional marketing, we know a thing or two. With a background initially founded in print, we remain true to our roots by offering our clients cutting-edge marketing materials for a variety of uses; always ensuring proper color matching and quality production. Our team will work with your preferred printer or recommend cost effective options in your area. From full book catalogs and short brochures to POP materials and packaging design, our team is expert in providing optimized assets that deliver a positive physical experience and cohesive brand message, on-point with the rest of your marketing efforts.


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Cutting-edge software can extract high-quality ALPR data from any CCTV camera feed.
The police department in Mobile, Alabama, makes dozens of arrests a month based on information from an intelligent camera surveillance system that is able to read license plates and flag those that belong to a stolen vehicle or a known perpetrator of a crime. Yet it does not own a single surveillance camera, nor does it intend to purchase any.
Mobile's use of camera surveillance technology that can read vehicle registration plates is not new. Police departments all over the USA and elsewhere have been using automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) for the better part of two decades. What makes Mobile noteworthy is its reliance on an entirely camera-agnostic system, which is where ALPR appears to be heading next.
Systems that do not require a vendor-specific camera or a vendor-specific integration between the camera and the ALPR software are cheaper to assemble and operate, and can extract a much wider range of information about a vehicle than just an alphanumeric ID, thanks to cloud-based computing that harnesses artificial intelligence and machine learning.
According to Lieutenant Brian Hess at the real-time crime center of Westchester County Police, New York, an ALPR system that is analogous to Mobile's helps his police department look for stolen cars and people wanted for crimes. But it also allows the local department of public works, responsible for road maintenance, to count cars.
Neither Mobile nor Westchester use their ALPR systems for traffic enforcement – like red light or speed cameras – for reasons of privacy and local traffic enforcement laws.
Although Westchester County Police has been operating traditional ALPR units, both fixed and mobile, for some years, it turned to camera-agnostic ALPR last year because it was much cheaper.
Not all surveillance cameras produce video feeds that are ALPR-ready. Of the 5,400 feeds that the Mobile Police Department has access to (as part of Project Shield, a public-private partnership that gives the department's cyber-intelligence unit access to surveillance cameras in businesses, schools, residential communities and other establishments in and around Mobile) only about 80 are good enough to be processed for license plates information. But that number may be as high as 1,000 within a year as Project Shield expands, Levy says.
According to Alan A Quinn, a USA-based independent consultant who specializes in video detection, license plate recognition and CCTV surveillance, a dedicated ALPR system will outperform a camera-agnostic system because the vendor is in control of the setup, positioning of cameras and illumination.
"Normally speaking you will find that the vendors will guarantee you a percentage of captured plates and the percentage accuracy on those plates," he says. "It's very difficult for them to do that if there are a variety of camera technologies out there." According to him,a camera-agnostic system is far more cost-effective, but its "accuracy level will fluctuate" in low light or different weather conditions, for example.
But this is beginning to change, according to Steve Lewis, vice president for business development at openALPR, the software-only company that powers the camera-agnostic ALPR systems for both Mobile and Westchester police forces. "Any camera can be an ALPR camera today," he says, provided it can deliver a sharp enough image and the license plate in that image is at least 100-120 pixels wide.
Lower costs mean that ALPR can spread beyond the traditional confines of law enforcement and city-wide surveillance. It's worth noting, however, that dedicated cameras often have usability and durability advantages, being built for road use. They are weather-sealed, come with external lighting and are also built to last. Being able to take any camera off the shelf does not mean it will last through the rigors of being used 24/7 in all types of weather.
Open-road tolling is one growth area for ALPR that is based on machine learning. This is because traditional ALPR systems, which are typically based on character matching, struggle with specialty and vanity plates, and also with state indicators in the USA.
Other emerging applications, according to Lewis, include parking access, VIP recognition, tracking the efficiency of delivery in logistics, and so-called frictionless retail payments where the license plate authorizes payment in a drive-through restaurant or a gas station.
Also important to ALPR's future is what one does with the data, particularly whether it continues to be kept in agency-specific silos or is put to wider use. In this respect, the Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) is a sign of things to come.
According to Dale Stockton, an ARJIS project coordinator, the system was created to share criminal justice data among more than 80 local, state and federal agencies in San Diego and Imperial counties in California.
ARJIS enables authorized law enforcement personnel to query ALPR data from a much wider geographic area than would be covered by a single agency and, at the same time, to match the data against a much wider range of criminal justice information sources, such as citations, arrests and crime reports.
While there is the potential to use software-only ALPR systems for daytime parking enforcement, and they will certainly help with making plate identification more accurate in open-road tolling,it's difficult to see possible pure traffic enforcement applications for camera-agnostic ALPR in the near future. Currently software-only solutions don't provide the level of robust reliability required for legal enforcement. Only dedicated camera vendors can guarantee that.
The reasons for this include the special build for a camera required to withstand 24/7 road use, to work at night and deliver sharp images from vehicles that are traveling in excess of 70mph (110km/h). This last point alone eliminates cameras that would work for a managed parking facility, for example.
Another important consideration is that traffic management systems are typically not sold or operated piecemeal. They are often huge commissions that require a great deal of integration and customization. "For highways and tunnels we are talking about very big tenders, so it's not just cameras and software for automatic incident detection. Very often the tender covers the building of a tunnel, the road, plus all the technology," says Renato Clerici, CTO, Sprinx Technologies.
But as software that makes simple cameras smarter becomes more commonplace and its uses multiply, we may begin to see much more crossover from other uses with traffic management. For example, as police departments begin to share data, there could also be benefits of sharing this data with traffic managers and vice versa. As with so much disruptive, emerging technology, the question quickly becomes not whether the technology can do it, but whether the law will allow it.
Automatic incident detection has long been reliant on software solutions. Soon improvements in AI will mean even greater functionality.
In Europe, automatic incident detection (AID), which is another way in which video analytics is used in camera-based road surveillance, is not just nice to have. It is the law. According to European Directive 2004/54/EC on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network, automatic incident detection is essential for tunnels over 500m (1,600ft) in length.
AID solutions are typically radar-or video-based. The former currently produce fewer false and unwanted alarms, while the latter are cheaper and "in any case cameras must be installed in the tunnel for video surveillance," says Renato Clerici, CTO at Sprinx Technologies, an AID software and engineering company based in Italy.
Also, as video-based AID matures, it begins to offer greater flexibility, according to Andrea Sebastiani, who is responsible for electrical and technology systems on Autostrada A2 in the south of Italy. The 274-mile (441km) stretch of highway features 56 two-bore tunnels and more than 400 AID-enabled cameras.
Currently the cameras can detect events such as a stopped vehicle, the beginning of queuing or a pedestrian in the road, according to Sebastiani, who works for Anas, a government company responsible for the construction and maintenance of Italian motorways. "In the near future, I expect that systems will be able to understand vehicle behavior better, to follow and track a vehicle passing in front of different cameras and to match all this data with other technologies, thus increasing intercommunication between traffic systems," he says.


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Show-Stopping Banner For The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies Teases Middle-Earth's Final Chapter
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Come December, ardent fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's monumental The Lord of the Rings saga will bid farewell to Middle-earth and its luscious fantasy landscape for the final time (yes, even after all those false endings in Return of the King) when The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies hits theaters.
The conclusive chapter in Bilbo Baggins' story, initially branded as The Hobbit: There and Back Again, is arguably one of the most-anticipated releases of the holiday season and to tease the epic scale of the trilogy-capper, Digital Spy has unveiled a rather stunning banner poster for the upcoming film.
Attendees of this year's San Diego Comic-Con will instantly rrecognizethe tapestry, as Peter Jackson projected it on the big screen for all of Hall H to enjoy. Essentially, the artwork teases some of the key scenes from the threequel, with Smaug, Bilbo, Thorin Oakenshield and of course, the grand titular encounter all making an appearance.
Following the ruination of Lake-town by the aforementioned dragon, Thorin and his fellow dwarves must protect Bilbo as he becomes ever more attached to a certain gold ring. To make matters worse, Sauron has unleashed legions of orcs that march toward the Misty Mountain to execute a stealth attack. And so, the remaining men, elves and dwarves must unite against a common enemy or face certain death at the hand of Sauron's minions.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will launch across the UK and North America on December 12th and December 17th, respectively. In the meantime, be sure to bask in the glory of the recently-released banner below.
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This year's annual conference for training centre was held in the historical city of Bruges on October 23rd and was hosted by the VDAB training centre. More than 70 representatives of different training centres received information on various trending topics in the world of KNX.
The main focus of this year's conference was the training centre management tool which was introduced in June 2015. This tool is indispensable when a KNX certified training centre wants to organize KNX courses or when a student wants to sign up for a KNX course. Next to the introduction of the before mentioned tool, there were presentations on KNX web services, new & planned functionalities of ETS and a presentation on KNX Data / IP Security.
The audience also listened attentively to the presentations given by representatives of the companies Albrecht Jung and MDT Technologies who showed their KNX RF product novelties. Among other interesting topics the training centres Amaisys (Spain) and Instaver (The Netherlands) presented their solution for online theoretical & practical training.


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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and self-defense system that focuses on grappling and ground fighting. "Jiu" translates to gentle or yielding and "Jitsu" translates to art or technique. Thus Jiu Jitsu is often referred to as the "Gentle Art".
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) emphasizes taking the opponent to the ground and utilizing ground fighting techniques such as locks, holds, submissions to neutralize the opponent. The advantage of fighting from the ground is that an opponent with superior reach and more powerful striking is often negated when fighting on the ground, which is why Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is an ideal art for smaller and less powerful people.
Some historians say that the "gentle art" can be traced back to India, practiced by the Buddhist monks. Along with Buddhism, the art spread to China and then Japan, where it developed and gained further popularity.
At the end of the 19th century, some Jiu-Jitsu masters emigrated from Japan to other continents, teaching the martial arts, as well as competing in fights and competitions. Mitsuiyo Maeda Koma, also known as "Conde Koma," was one such master. After traveling with a group which fought in various countries in Europe and the Americas, Koma arrived in Brazil in 1917, and settled in Belem do Para. This was where he met a man named Gastao Gracie, the father of eight children, among them five boys and three girls, Gastao became a Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast and brought his oldest son, Carlos, to learn to fight from the Japanese master. For the naturally frail Carlos, and his brother Helio, Jiu-Jitsu became not just a self-defense form, but a method of self-improvement and self-discovery.
With a goal of proving Jiu-Jitsu's superiority as well as to build a family tradition, Carlos challenged the greatest fighters of his time, as well as managing the fighting careers of his brothers. Fighting opponents fifty or sixty pounds heavier, the Gracies quickly gained recognition and prestige. Attracted to the new market which was opened around Jiu-Jitsu, many Japanese practitioners came to Rio, but none were able to establish schools as successful as the Gracies.Carlos and his brothers changed the techniques in such a way that it completely altered the complexion of the international Jiu-Jitsu principles. These techniques were so distinctive to Carlos and his brothers that the sport became attached to a national identity, and is now commonly known as "Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu," practiced by martial artists all over the world, including Japan.


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Lenny Montana
In 1961, Lenny Montana came to the Tampa Bay area wrestling under a hood, The Zebra Kid was an intimidating fella, often pinning his opponents in under one minute.
Lenny Montana was born Lenny Passofaro in Brooklyn New York in 1926. His classic battles with Eddie Graham sold out Fort Homer Hesterly Armory many Tuesday nights in the summer of 1961
Montana also wrestled under the names of Lenny 'Bull' Montana and "Chief Chickawicki" in the 1950s and 1960s before turning to acting.
His most famous role came in the 1972 classic "The Godfather", where Lenny portrayed Luca Brasi, a Don Corleone associate who meets an untimely death.
Lenny passed away from a heart attack in May of 1992 in Italy.
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EDDIE McGuire's Channel 9 colleagues made sure his stint hosting The Footy Show got off to an uncomfortable start on Thursday night as they made light of his sex life.
The skit was in response to the Collingwood president's announcement this week he will sue Facebook over a fake story that claimed he had erectile dysfunction.
A web page, mocked up to resemble an article in GQ magazine, emerged on social media featuring the broadcaster pushing a product called "TryVexan" - allegedly a similar product to Viagra.
McGuire dismissed the article as total fiction - a point he made again during The Footy Show - but that didn't stop panellists Sam Newman and Billy Brownless having their fun at his expense.
Newman donned a white lab coat and assumed the role of scientist as he pretended to concoct a fictitious substance designed to help McGuire's love life.
"Are you alright with this?" Newman asked.
"No I'm not," McGuire responded. "We're going to go after Facebook and the people who have perpetrated this lie and embarrassed me."
Cue some predictable below the belt puns from Newman and Brownless.
Then Newman continued the charade, mixing "rhinoceros horn" and "oyster sauce" together before telling another X-rated gag about life in the bedroom that left McGuire with his head in his hands.
Next up into the mixing bowl was some (again, obviously fake) "sweat from (Collingwood coach) Nathan Buckley's armpit" and "hair follicles plucked from the heads of the 2010 Collingwood premiership team".
McGuire didn't find the gag as funny as his colleagues and he looked uncomfortable before closing on a serious note.
"I'm telling you seriously it's out of line, it's complete bogus ... I'm not supporting this at all and we are taking legal action," he said.
Sam has the solution to all Eddie's problems. #9AFLFootyShow pic.twitter.com/3QWQRq1abU
— The AFL Footy Show (@AFLFootyShow) April 26, 2018
We've decided not to publish the specifics of Newman's jokes but if that's what you're into, you can check out the whole segment on The Footy Show's Twitter account here. Be warned though, some of his cracks contain graphic content.
Sam Newman had a laugh at Eddie McGuire's expense.
It may only be a small consolation but McGuire wasn't the only Footy Show panel member whose love life was a topic of discussion. Newman also took it upon himself to talk to West Coast premiership winner Chris Judd after his wife Rebecca revealed she used soppy love songs to keep the romance alive in their marriage.
"Apparently if she's not feeling like she's in the mood she gets a couple of these songs on and that does the trick," Judd said. "I'm not sure why she'd need any help when she's got this (himself) in the bedroom, but apparently she does.
"It's more of a pre-game rev-up.
"It was news to me when she went with it live on radio last week so it's good to see her opening up a bit to the public."
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Should We Talk About Ariana Grande's New Music Video? Thank U, in Advance
Nora Taylor
Ariana Grande just released the video for her hit song "thank u, next" and it's such a nice time! She spent the better part of this week teasing the video, letting folks know that it would be a candy pink (which is different from millennial pink) fantasia based on beloved, women-centered teen movies from the mid-to-late aughts and thereby would feed the internet's constant and unquenchable need for nostalgia.
And it's so fun!
You've got your Mean Girls, you've got your Bring It On, you've got your Legally Blonde and you've even got a fleeting 13 Going on 30 moment*. Is there a large overarching narrative connection? Not really. Does it have to do with the song's central tenet of looking back on past relationships with gratitude while moving forward to focus one oneself? Little bit. Are there fun cameos? Youuuuu betcha.
I'll leave it to younger, hipper and more energetic minds than mine to list out all of the Gen-Z-esque cameos (I did recognize Troye Sivan! Give me a Snapchat!), but: Comic genius Jennifer Coolidge shows up in a retelling of her iconic bend-and-snap scene. Kris Jenner throws on a pink tracksuit and plays the role she was born to play. And while Gabrielle Union doesn't make an appearance (booooooooooo), Jonathan Bennett a.k.a Aaron Samuels does, so at least I can partake in my favorite pastime of saying "wow, they've aged well" out loud to no one in particular. Also, there's a very nice 13 Going on 30 wig that deserved more screen time — give us the wig-centric director's cut we deserve you cowards!!!!!!
Ariana Grande might have succeeded in making the Platonic ideal of a modern internet-focused music video. Feminist-ish, visually appealing, well-produced and a veritable Highlights magazine of references, its goal is to be talked about rather than to say too much of anything. It coyly acknowledges the Twitter dialogue around Pete Davidson's… attributes but stops short of saying much else about her high-profile relationships (which is entirely understandable). Some may find that frustrating — "sue me if I just want Ariana to marry her form with content!!!" Edith Young exclaimed over Slack — while others may think Let Ariana have some fun! Let us have some fun with Ariana!!!!
Much like the "thank u, next" video there isn't a thesis to this, just kind of wanted us to all hang out and have a nice time. Share your thoughts! Tell me what I missed! Should we talk about how three of the four movies referenced have been turned into musicals? One with music from Lin-Manuel Miranda?? IDK just something to consider!
*I have to confess I've never seen 13 Going on 30 so I thought it was maybe from The Wedding Planner (which I also haven't seen because I've been wasting my life). That thought led me to this scene and wow oh boy if this isn't some of the best accent work in cinematic history I don't know what is. It's like they hired the guy from The Room to do a Marlon Brando impression and used it to dub over that guy from Grey's Anatomy's voice. Please watch this clip. Please. Simedar, Jasmin and myself laughed out loud about it for a good five minutes, but we are hopped up on a lot of By CHLOE. sugar.
Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia.
Nora Taylor is the Partnerships Editor at Man Repeller.
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Pink Lemonade: 30 Days of Thankfulness: 17 & 18 & Another Layers of Color New Release Project!
My card today is one of the newest projects created with Layers of Colors new Nina B Designs Release. Using Tsukineko's VersaMagic inks in Cloud White & Purple Hydrangea I tried to keep the color fluid...with a hint of kraft cardstock to warm it up a bit and touch of black to make it all POP! What I loved about this project was that I used Spellbinders Grommet Tags die and just "altered" the die cut to fit what I was looking for...a little fun and shapely tag for the sentiment to stick out from beneath the layers on. Enjoy!


The business world has its own rules and regulations, one of which is registration of trademarks. As a business owner, you have a specific business name, logo, or tagline that distinguishes your products or services from those of your competitors. These trademarks should be registered and that is where the services of a registered trademark attorney join the scene.
The trademarks are essential for identification and setting apart your business from others. By working with a reliable trademark attorney, you can get appropriate advice on trademark law that is helpful in registration and enforcement of trademarks.
What is a Trademark and What is it Important to You?
While many people would shy away from asking this question, it is basic and the right answers to it set a precedent for understanding the entire subject of a trademark. In addition, by asking this question, you eliminate any suspicion from the mind of your lawyer, that you already know more about the subject. It sets the attorney free to explain the meaning as well as the pros and cons of a trademark that you should know.
Most business owners just know about a business name or logo that they need to register. However, there are a lot more about trademark registration that your attorney can reveal. For example, you can register a product design or sound. A qualified Brisbane trademark attorney can walk you through all the aspects of your business that you need to register. For that reason, you need to choose a reliable attorney that specializes in trademark issues to explain everything in detail.
How Can You Select a Strong Trademark?
Sometimes you may approach an attorney before you decide on the right name or logo for your business. In that situation, it is up to the attorney to advise you on available options and help you choose a strong mark to support your business. Besides, your preferred attorney can conduct relevant research, explain the rules associated with trademark registration, and help you measure the strength of your business name and other marks. Check Wynnes Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys for more details.
How Do You Select a Trademark Class and Description?
The main role of a trademark registration is to protect the mark in a particular class. There is a long list of trademark classes and your lawyer can advise you on the right one for your business. Once you register your mark in certain class, you protect it from infringement. To avoid running into the confusion that often follows the selection, you should get support from a qualified trademark lawyer.
For instance, sometimes it is advisable to register for more than one class. When that is desirable, the attorney will advise you accordingly to make the right decision.


Perhaps you may want to review this thread. Unfortunately, some of the video links are broken, but if you go to the KSC video library, and search on "Sound suppression water test", you will get two video clips and stills.
One problem though... I get the message "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you." when clicking on your link.
I've read the 3 pages, very interresting stills, but no information on when the deluge inside the SRBs holes is started.
That's amazing to see how many deluges they have : 2 in SRBs holes, one for the SSMEs, one on the MLP with the rainbirds, one on the deflector edge and one in teh SRB trench, after the SRB deflector !!
I believe the flame trenches (both SSME and SRB) start to flood at the same time, around T-10 seconds (don't quote me on that). The "rainbirds", which deluge the MLP deck, start after liftoff.
These questions are probably better off in the Shuttle Q&A or LC39 Q&A threads.
Yep, thanks you're right, I'll go and ask there.
Another cool thread. What will be the main difference between the RS-25D and RS-25E? Will actual hardware be removed?
Engineering answer? Basically cheaper turbopump design, since no need for re-use.
Cynical answer? One exists, the other won't.


Objective: To explore the medical integration dietary guidance in cancer patients with diabetes mellitus and application effect of hospitalization.
Methods: 186 cases of patients with cancer combined with diabetes mellitus were selected, were randomly divided into control group (93 cases) and observation group (93 cases). Control implementation of tumor nurse and diabetes knowledge education and observation group in tumor nurse and diabetes knowledge education on the basis of the joint medical integration diet guidance. Compare two groups of patients before and after the corresponding nursing glucose control level, according to the medical behavior, quality of life, satisfaction with care.
Results: the observation group than control group in blood glucose control in patients with stable, comparing the two groups was statistically significant difference (P<0.05); Control diet, regular medication, appropriate exercise, regular monitoring of blood sugar, etc. According to the medical behavior significantly better than that of control group (P<0.01); Patient's quality of life and nursing satisfaction observation group was obviously higher than that of control group (P<0.05).
Conclusion : nurse in tumor and diabetes knowledge education on the basis of implementing the medical integration dietary guidance, according to the medical behavior, can significantly improve patients quality of life and nursing satisfaction, more conducive to control blood sugar levels, effectively strengthen in tumor patients nutritional intake, provide nutritional support for the smooth completion of radiation and chemotherapy, clinical effect is remarkable, is worthy of popularization and application.


Ever stumbled upon a font online and wanted to find out what particular font that was? I've certainly had this issue before and have wondered if there was some sort of service that could identify the font in question for me. Luckily enough there is a service which I have been using for some time called WhatTheFont.
The website which is available by clicking here is capable of identifying a font via the use of images. So for example, say you see a logo with a font you'd really like to use you can simply copy and paste the image URL into WhatTheFont, you choose which parts of the logo are which characters and WhatTheFont will give you a list of the fonts in it's database that most closely match the font in the image you chose.
If there is a font on a webpage that isn't an image, it's still possible to get an idea of what font it can be too. It's quite simple. Just take a screenshot on whatever device you're using, crop the image if you require and then simply upload that image to WhatTheFont. Using the same steps as detailed previously it should give you some idea of what font most closely resembles the one in the image.
There are a couple of limitations with this service however. One of the limitations is because of the fact that the service uses images, if the image in question is low quality and / or pixelated the website will have a great degree of difficulty identifying the font. The other issue there is, is that not every font is in their database so the website will give you the most accurate representation of the font you want but it may be slightly different. The other issue isn't necessarily an issue with the website but more of an issue of the fonts themselves. Fonts have different licensing, some fonts you can download for free, some we're talking thousands for a personal licence, then a bit more for a public license. So although the font may display on the website, you may still not be able to download the font.
But apart from the small issues, the website is potentially a great little tool for anyone wanting to identify a font.


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Architecture, Features, History
Architectural Saviors: NYC Landmarks Saved from Destruction
Posted On Thu, April 23, 2015 By Dana Schulz In Architecture, Features, History
Yesterday we rounded up some of the most heinous crimes committed against architecture in New York City, but today we're taking a look at the sunnier side of things. Our list of architectural saviors includes sites saved from the wrecking ball, as well as those that have remained intact and been adaptively reused. And with city-wide preservationists celebrating this year's 50th anniversary of the landmarks law, what better time to take a look back?
Dyckman Farmhouse
Though Penn Station tends to get all the credit for spearheading the landmarking movement in New York City, there were quite a few preservation efforts that took place long before that battle. One early example is the Dyckman Farmhouse. The Dutch Colonial-style house was built in 1785 by William Dyckman as part of his family's 250 acres of land on the Harlem River near West 210th Street. Constructed of fieldstone, brick, and white clapboard, the house remained in the Dyckman family until 1868, at which time it was sold and used as a rental property.
At the turn of the century, the house had fallen into disrepair and was threatened with demolition. To save the building, the Dyckman family bought it back and undertook an extensive renovation in 1915. The next year, they transferred ownership to the city, and the boroughs' oldest farmhouse became a house museum. Today, the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum exhibits an historically accurate depiction of life in rural Northern Manhattan that disappeared when the farming community was replaced with an urban landscape.
Hamilton Grange
Hamilton Grange was built to the designs of architect John McComb Jr. in 1802 as the home of Alexander Hamilton. Named "the Grange" after his father's estate in Scotland, the Federal-style home resided on Hamilton's 32-acre estate in upper Manhattan. Just two years after its completion, Hamilton died in his infamous duel with Aaron Burr, but the house remained in his family for the next 30 years.
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By 1889, the Grange was in foreclosure and had been condemned for demolition to accommodate the new street grid's northern expansion. At the same time, the congregation of Greenwich Village's St. Luke's Episcopal Church had moved uptown. The church bought the Grange, but moved it a few blocks to conform with the grid. In 1924, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society purchased the building and opened it as a public house museum, adding furnishings from the Hamilton family.
When the site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, ownership changed hands to the National Park Service, and congress authorized the building as a national memorial. But, there was one catch–the structure had to be relocated to a more appropriate setting where the architectural features lost in the previous move could be restored. St. Nicholas Park was chosen as the new home, a location that was part of the original estate, and the house was restored to its Hamilton-era glory. Today, the Hamilton Grange National Memorial educates about the history of Alexander Hamilton and his life on the Grange.
It's hard to imagine this bohemian public space without its signature street performers, hot dog vendors, NYU students, and chess players, but this vibrant community spirit came pretty close to extinction. After becoming Parks Commissioner in 1934, Robert Moses added to his agenda a plan to completely redesign the Greenwich Village park. The neighborhood had finally had enough, though, when in 1952 he announced that 5th Avenue would be extended through Washington Square, connecting the thoroughfare to his urban renewal projects south of the park.
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Though many of Moses' projects were met with fierce neighborhood opposition, none garnered the attention quite like his Washington Square Park plan. Though, at the time, the park was used as a turn-around site for city busses, extending the avenue would completely destroy its character for the rest of time. Eleanor Roosevelt and preservation's grand dame Jane Jacobs were among those who protested the plan. They succeeded in halting Moses' proposal, but the advocacy efforts didn't stop there. Shirley Hayes, then Chairman of the Washington Square Park Committee and member of the local Community Board, said that the park should be closed to all vehicular traffic, and thanks to her tireless efforts, the last car drove through the park in 1958, cementing Washington Square as the Village oasis we know today.
Penn Station wasn't the only grand train depot to face the wrecking ball. In 1968, as train travel declined, the New York Central Railroad, which traveled through Grand Central, merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central Railroad. Two other events occurred that same year–Grand Central was declared an official city landmark, and architect Marcel Breuer released designs for a huge tower over the 1913 station, utilizing the existing support structure of the Pan Am Building, but demolishing the façade and main waiting room of Grand Central. The plan drew huge public outcry, including vocal opposition from Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Philip Johnson.
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When Penn Central was unable to gain permission from the Landmarks Preservation Commission for their new design, they filed a suit with the Supreme Court, citing that the city was "taking" their property. The 1978 case, Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, was the first time the Supreme Court ruled on an historic preservation issue. They upheld the Landmarks Preservation Act and said it was an appropriate use of government land-use regulatory power. This historic ruling not only saved one of the city's greatest landmarks, but validated the field of preservation for future generations.
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Opened in 1887, the Eldridge Street Synagogue had a huge congregation of Russian and Polish immigrants who had settled on the Lower East Side. It was the first time in the country that Jews of Eastern European descent had built a synagogue from the ground up. A celebration of religious freedom, the building had 50-foot ceilings, an elaborate Moorish-style interior, stained-glass rose windows, and a façade decorated with dozens of Stars of David. For the next 50 years the synagogue flourished, with thousands participating in religious services each week. But by the 1940s, following the Great Depression and suburban flight, the congregation had severely dropped and only a small number of worshippers met in the building's lower level, as the main sanctuary was closed.
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In the early 1980s, preservationist Roberta Gratz visited the synagogue and saw a dust-covered structure with pigeons roosting in the ceiling beams, but through the disrepair, she knew it was worth preserving. She helped form the Eldridge Street Project, a non-profit group that raised more than $18.5 million to restore the building and transform it into a public educational and cultural center. In 1996, it was designated a National Historic Landmark, and by 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened to huge acclaim. Its crowning jewel is the gorgeous stained-glass rose window by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans. Still to this day, the congregation has not missed a single week of worship.
African Burial Ground
It's estimated that in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, between 15,000 and 20,000 burials of people of African descent, most of whom were enslaved, took place in what was then called the "Negroes Burial Ground." Located just north of present-day Chambers Street, an area that was on the outskirts of the populated city, the 6.6-acre cemetery developed when Trinity Church passed a resolution that no individuals of African descent be buried on their grounds. The city closed the African burial ground in 1794, raised the area 25 feet with landfill, and began development on the site.
In 1981, the General Services Administration (GSA) conducted a survey and excavation of the area during planning for a new federal office building at 290 Broadway. During the archaeological survey, GSA announced it had found human remains, but due to rising construction costs, continued with the site's excavation. After major public outcry, they halted construction work and found an additional 320 bodies. The African-American community and local preservationists became concerned about how the process was being handled, but President Bush signed a law prohibiting construction atop the site and allocated $3 million to a memorial site. Harvard University physical anthropologists conducted a large-scale analysis on the human remains, from which they gained invaluable knowledge about New York City history and the slavery that once existed. In 1993, the African Burial Ground was designated both a National and New York City Landmark, and a National Historic Monument in 2006. The 419 burials that had been found were reburied in 2003, and in 2007 the Rodney Léon-designed memorial opened at 290 Broadway.
TWA Flight Center at JFK
Finnish architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen was best known for his neo-futuristic work, and one of the most famous examples of his hand can be seen right at JFK airport. The TWA Flight Center opened in 1962, a year after Saarinen's death. It was designed to reference the shape of a bird, while incorporating TWA's branded identity. Towards the end of the century, TWA suffered increased financial decline and in 2001 was purchased by American Airlines, thus ending the terminal's operations.
Exterior: wallyg via photopin cc; Interior: gabriel.jorby via photopin cc
Initially, the Port Authority proposed converting the terminal into a restaurant and enveloping the structure within two new terminals, but their plan received public opposition from architects Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern, who felt it would completely destroy the character of the terminal. In 2005, the Port Authority began construction on a new terminal for Jet Blue Airways, which partially encircled Saarinen's gull-winged building. Though parts of the original structure were demolished to make way for the new Jet Blue space, the Port Authority completed a $20 million restoration of the TWA terminal in 2008. This past summer, they announced a renewed push for hotel bids for the site, which still seems to be the prevailing idea. Designated an official city landmark in 1994, Eero Saarinen's masterpiece must be preserved, but the verdict is still out on what will be an appropriate new use.
Of course, there are plenty more stories like the ones we've just told; from large, nation-wide oppositions, to small, neighborhood advocacy efforts, if the passion is there an historic structure can be saved. What other "architectural saviors" do you most appreciate? Let us know!
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City Launches Educational Website to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Landmarks Law
Preservationists Publish Report Asking City to Better Protect Soon-To-Be-Landmarked Buildings
Tags : African Burial Ground, Dyckman Farmhouse, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Eero Saarinen, Grand Central demolition, Grand Central Terminal, Hamilton Grance National Memorial, Hamilton Grange, NYC landmarks, NYC preservation, Rodney Léon, TWA Flight Terminal


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Another inconclusive result. Running fine now..... I've decided to sell it, after 9months of grief. It's too unreliable.
I certainly did. Was working perfectly before this...... god knows what's happening. Will go get the car tonight and find out more.
Used to use Green stuff with EBC vented and drilled discs on my errr...... Lotus..... never had a problem with them and that thing got tracked. Heard some BS about people warping the discs but I never had an issue and I dont' think they could have been pushed much harder . They were great for non-fouling the alloys and improved stopping distance. Eventually changed the lot to 4-pot Wilwoods though cos the standard calipers were the limiting factor.
Thanks guys. It's a 1999 Series 1 3.9 with Hotwire 14CUX EFI. Not sure it's got an alarm, but will look into that. Read the info on the Spider, it does sound like it could be that. Especially the starting at a later date... Inertia switch is easy to check too, will try again when I get home tonight.
Had it break down on me twice before and it's just happened again. Basically it will turn over but won't fire. There's no fuel getting to the engine. I've got a full tank before you ask! Last 2 times it just fixed itself! Main dealer fixed a pressure gauge and took it for 100km ride - no problems with pressure. What else could it be?? Can a faulty fuel temp sensor cut the fuel supply?
No Diesels in Qatar! I did have the Air Mass tuned just last week (by Bosch) but I guess the ECU is adaptive and I never drove it long enough with the new sensor on before getting it tuned?? Either that or they just didn't know the correct target setttings?? Also, I am wondering about the possibility of retro-fitting O2 sensors. I will run her "as is" for the time being and enjoy a little bit of reliabliity! Thanks for everyones help.
I'm pretty sure the problem is fixed. I took a voltmeter reading of the MAF CO trim value with the intention of having a little trial and error with the setting. I made the mixture richer with half a turn of the screw and hey presto I can't get it do anything it shouldn't. Gave it about 40km testing fast/slow/stopping suddenly - all good. Obviously still needs a little more testing and will probably get it tuned again through the main dealer, but for now it's looking good.