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April 20, 2014 fasab Numbers, Uncategorized	100000, 100000 page views, 100000 views later, Africa, amusing, anniversary, Asia, Australia, blog, blog friends, bloggers, Blogging, blogging career, Blogs, blogsphere, bureaucracy, canada, comment, countries, Current Events, English language blog, Europe, factoids, fasab blog, fighting against stupidity and bureaucracy, follow, funny, Humor, Humour, India, internet statistic, jokes, like, milestone, Misc, Miscellaneous, morons, niche, page views, Personal Writing, Pinterest, politics, post, posts, pun, puns, quiz, quizzes, rant, Rants, regulars, smile, social networking, South and Central America, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, support, Tumblr, Twitter, United Kingdom, United States, visitors, word play, Wordpress, writing
I missed marking my first year anniversary of this blog with an appropriate post and then not to be outdone by that, I also managed to miss the second year anniversary too. I guess I had other things on my mind at the time.
However this post marks another significant milestone in my blogging career, if I can call it that, because earlier today the fasab blog managed to push its way through the 100,000 page views threshold. Certainly a lot more than the humble beginnings when literally only a handful of people turned up!
I know it's not a world shaking internet statistic, not even in the blogsphere either, but for me and this blog I think it is remarkable. Even more so since I have a tendency to sometimes write about people I know, so I can't really publicize my blog via the usual "friends and family" route.
Before I started my blog I'd obviously heard about them, but I'd never even read one. I had a bit of time on my hands and I thought I would give it a go. As I've probably said before, I wasn't really into social networking sites like "Myface" or "Spacebook" or whatever, not that there's anything wrong with them if you like that sort of thing and many people I know do.
But I thought blogging might be my thing.
So I read blogs and I read about blogging and I created my own little niche of "Fighting Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy", which I found I was doing every day anyway, and mixed it with a bit of humor, politics and so forth – and here we are 100,000 views later, and counting.
It has been an interesting time.
Apart from a handful of hopefuls who think they'll make a fortune out of it, I think most people are like me, blogging for themselves. But it is also very nice and very rewarding when other people stop by to read the posts and even better when they acknowledge them with a "like", a "follow", or a "comment".
I am delighted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has visited the fasab blog and particularly those who have decided to follow whether on WordPress, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, or whatever. Some bloggers and readers, who I like to call my "blog-friends" have become regulars here. I very much appreciate your support. I have tried to reciprocate by visiting your blogs too when time permits.
One or two others – who I have no doubt are thoroughly ashamed of themselves 🙂 – have fallen by the wayside, but most visitors I do not even know. Which brings me to another thing that I wasn't expecting, and that was the variety of countries visitors come from. The bulk are from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and India – which is more or less what you could expect for an English language blog. But interestingly there have also been visitors from many other parts of Europe, South and Central America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa too. And all are very welcome.
So what does the future hold for the fasab blog?
I don't exactly know the answer to that. Probably more puns, and factoids. Maybe a few more quizzes. Definitely the odd rant about things that annoy me (that's a lot of things, the list grows every day!). But hopefully a lot of humor too.
A smile never does any harm – unless some big stupid bloke thinks you're laughing at him – so prepare yourself for more.
My sincere thanks to everyone who has visited and who reads this.
And don't forget the "Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy!"
Did You Know…. Another Twenty Fascinating Facts From Fasab's Files
May 7, 2013 May 5, 2013 fasab Factoids, Uncategorized, Unusual	13 couples, AIDS, Alaska, alcohol, americans, Arkansas, Arkansas Diamond Corporation, astronauts, athlete, average person, bald, barbie, beams, birth mark, car accidents, carat, career, cocaine, cockatoo, Cocky, colorblind, consonants, crack, Crater of Diamonds State Park, Crayola, crayon, crayons, diamond, eagle, earth, earthquakes, education, Emerson Moser, Entertainment, events, face, fact, factoid, factoids, facts, feathers, fire, fuel, Haiti, hamburger buns, Harley Davidson, heroin, high-speed cameras, Hoagy Carmichael, homicide, honeymoon, honorificabilitudinitatibus, I'm a Cranky Old Yank, information, July 1874, largest diamond, laser beams, Life, London Zoo, longest English word, longest title, Mary Anderson, Mattel, mileage, mirrors on the moon, Murfreesboro, Nebraska, oldest bird, paint, Prairie Creek pipe mine, rain, rain drops, Random, richter scale, Sahara Desert, scientists, song, Sports Illustrated, Sportsman of the Year, suicide, swarm of locusts, tear shaped, the Moon, the White House, Tidikelt, Tiger Woods, Titanic, tobacco, transportation, trivia, U-Haul trucks, Uncle Sam, United States, vowels, Wesley Oley Basham, white diamond, windshield wipers
Time for another selection of fascinating facts. How you use these is up to you, but some of them may well come in handy sometime.
Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes,
1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale
There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle
– even a bald one!
The average person changes their career every 13 years
The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year
is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon
five times a day for an entire year
Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered
that rain drops are not tear shaped
but rather look like hamburger buns.
570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House
– make that 570 gallons of white paint
Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named
by magazine Sports Illustrated two times
In 1996, toy company Mattel released a "Harley Davidson" Barbie.
This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face
that changes position with every new release of the doll
In the Sahara Desert there is a town named Tidikelt,
which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years
The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser
retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola.
It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
There are mirrors on the moon.
Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth.
These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few meters.
Tobacco kills more Americans each year
than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide,
suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined
The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who lived in London Zoo.
He ceased being Cocky at the age of 82.
There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic
In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska
covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles.
It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects.
These insects became extinct thirty years later
is the longest English word that consists strictly
of alternating consonants and vowels
In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car which is ironic
considering approximately 33% of the country's budget on imports
is spent on equipment for fuel and transportation.
The largest diamond found in the United States was a 40.23 carat white diamond.
It was found in 1924 at Murfreesboro, Arkansas at the Prairie Creek pipe mine,
which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder,
Wesley Oley Basham, a worker at the Arkansas Diamond Corporation.
In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers
The song with the longest title is
"I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank
on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama
Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o,
Hirohito Blues"
written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945.
He later claimed the song title ended with 'Yank' and the rest was a joke
Fifteen Mind Benders For A May Monday
May 6, 2013 May 5, 2013 fasab Factoids, Tests, Uncategorized, Unusual	#, Annie Mae Bullock, Basenji, breed of dog, cat, collective name, continental states, country, desert in Canada, education, Entertainment, famous singer, group of owls, human body, keyboard, largest island in the world, letter in the alphabet, longest running animated series on TV, Misc, Miscellaneous, moving objects, N-A-S-C-A-R, NASCAR, organ, pound key, production of Insulin, proper name, psychic power, questions, quiz, quizzes, Random, real name, retract claws, smallest bone, stapes bone, test, tests, the Union, toothbrush, United States
Fifteen mind benders to start off the week.
Don't worry, they're all easy when you know the answers, which are given waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below as usual.
But please, NO cheating!!!
Q. 1: What is the only cat that can't retract its claws.
Q. 2: What famous singer's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
Q. 3: What is the longest running animated series on TV.
Q. 4: What is the largest island in the world.
Q. 5: In what country was the toothbrush invented?
Q. 6: Which was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.
Q. 7: Which organ in the human body is responsible for the production of Insulin?
Q. 8: What is the collective name for a group of owls?
Q. 9: What is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Q. 10: What do the letters N-A-S-C-A-R stand for?
Q. 11: What is the proper name for the pound key (#) on a keyboard?
Q. 12: What is the unusual feature of the Basenji breed of dog?
Q. 13: What name refers to the ability of moving objects through psychic power
Q. 14: The only desert in Canada is located where?
Q. 15: The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone, but where is it located?
A. 1: The cheetah
A. 2: Tina Turner
A. 3: The Simpsons
A. 4: Greenland
A. 5: In China in 1498.
A. 6: Arizona
A. 7: The pancreas.
A. 8: A parliament.
A. 9: Q
A. 10: National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
A. 11: An octothorpe
A. 12: It is the only breed of dog that is not able to bark.
A. 13: Psychokinesis
A. 14: In Osoyoos, British Columbia.
A. 15: In the ear.
The Ultimate Signs From The Churches
May 5, 2013 May 1, 2013 fasab Bloopers, CLASSIFIED, comedy, Humour, Religion, Uncategorized, Unusual	amusing, announcements, church, church signs, churches, classified ads, classifieds, Comedy, Community, fools, funny, Humor, Humour, Misc, Miscellaneous, Random, sign, signs, stupid
Today we have the final selection in our look at some Church signs that went the way of the failed classifieds.
See if you can pick out the ones that didn't quite turn out as the author probably intended.
May The Fourth Be With You – And This Time I Mean It!
May 4, 2013 fasab Current Events, Factoids, Shopping, tv, Uncategorized, Unusual, video	advertisement, alien, aliens, anniversary, blockbuster, bungalow, Current Events, dog, elected Britain's first female Prime Minister, Entertainment, film, films, flash of light, force fx, gadgets, Hansard, highest grossing, history of the cinema, Hollywood, Hollywood movies, hummm, indignity, inflation adjusted, laser gun, light sabre, lightsabre, Margaret Thatcher, May the force be with you, May the Fourth Be with You Maggie Congratulations, memorable phrase, merchandising, merchandising material, Misc, Miscellaneous, moron, morons, movie, movies, mutt, Obi-Wan Kenobi, original 1977 movie, party, People, phasers, pun, Random, ridiculous, robots, sci-fi, science fiction, space, star trek, star wars, Star Wars Day, Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber, Star Wars suit, sublime, t-shirts, television, the force, The London Evening News, tribute, trivia, UK Parliament, Universe, video
I remember on this day last year starting out with great intentions of doing a Star Wars based post in tribute the day that has become known to many as 'Star Wars Day' because of the pun on the memorable phrase coined in the movie series "May the force be with you".
Unfortunately I failed miserably last year because the post ended up as one about a guy who had built himself a really cool looking laser gun based on the phasers from Star Trek, not Star Wars. (Here's the link if you missed it – click here)
So time to make amends.
Taken together the Star Wars series of movies has to be one of the most watched and highest grossing ever in the history of the cinema, if not THE greatest. The original 1977 movie itself has been estimated to have taken $2,710,800,000 in today's inflation adjusted terms.
On top of that it has spawned a plethora of merchandising material from t-shirts to robots to gadgets to almost everything that could be seen in the movies themselves, and then some!
Top of everyone's list has to be a lightsabre – I have never met anyone who has seen Star Wars who didn't want to be the proud owner of a light sabre, including me.
From the first time you saw the flash of light and heard that 'hummm', way back in 1977, in Obi-Wan Kenobi's bungalow, even though you didn't really know what it was, you still knew you wanted one – needed one!
Well for a bit north of $100 now you can own one, the Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber! It has the light, it has the sound, and it looks the part – well almost.
From the sublime, however, we also have the ridiculous.
Somewhere out there is that great Universe you just know that at least one moron has subjected their poor dog to the indignity of a Star Wars suit. Poor mutt, even the look on its face says it all.
And there are lots of other stuff in between, including these
Finally, an interesting little piece of trivia that would just as easily have taken its place in one of my 'Did you know factoids'.
Star Wars fans were not the first to introduce the line "May the fourth be with you". When the recently deceased Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain's first female Prime Minister on May 4, 1979, her party placed an advertisement in The London Evening News that said "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations." This reading of the line has also been recorded in the UK Parliament's Hansard.
Did You Know…. Another Random Selection Of Facts From The Fasab Files
April 30, 2013 April 29, 2013 fasab Factoids, Humour, Uncategorized, Unusual	500 shades of gray, abdication, Abraham Lincoln, amusing, Andorra, angels, apple, apple seed, armored knights, change for a dollar, Charles X, dance, dare, decaying organic matter, Did You Know, Duff, durst, education, english, facts, female mosquitoes, Files, forest floor, France, Friday the 13th, Gabriel, ghost, haunt the White House, Henry V, Hitler, Hitlers, human eye, immigrants, king, King Louis XIX, ladies room, longest average lifespan, Lucifer, Michael, military salute, Misc, Miscellaneous, new babies, New York City cabbies, New York phone book, non-colorblind, parents, past-tense, pregnant goldfish, Random, spain, Sunday, the Bible, The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick, tongue-twister, twit, visors, volume of the earth's moon, volume of the Pacific Ocean, Winston Churchill, WWII
More from the fascinating fact file.
Here are a few more things that you didn't know you didn't know.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye
can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
So the book is wrong!
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
– especially by her parents!
If you plant an apple seed,
it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree
of a different type of apple.
Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain,
has the longest average lifespan:
83.49 years.
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"
is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
'Duff' is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst"
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
(and ninety percent of that ninety percent have no clue where they are going!)
The volume of the earth's moon is the same
as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII.
The New York phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
King Louis XIX ruled France for about 15 minutes
– he succeeded with abdication of Charles X
only to abdicate in favor of Henry V.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king.
This custom has become the modern military salute.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
(and all new babies look just like him, except your own of course!)


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Peel the turnips and grate.
Finely chop the ham and rehydrate the dried shrimps then chop. Cut the spring onions into small pieces. Put in a bowl.
Add ingredients A into Step 2 and mix well.
Add the warm water into Step 3 a bit at a time and mix well. Use the water for rehydrating the shrimps within the 200ml.
Heat a frying pan on medium and add the sesame oil. Pour in half of Step and spread out. Turn down the heat to low, put the lid on and steam fry for a few minutes.
When it's nicely browned, turn over and fry the other side until brown. Mix the dipping sauce ingredients together in a small bowl and serve alongside.
This is the rice flour I used, available in Asian foodstores in London.


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New EU data protection laws: ok, but a tremendous missed opportunity with possible threats looming
The major overhaul of data protection laws in Europe is finally over, after three years of arduous and sustained political and lobbying activity by all those with a major stake and interest, including us at Privacy International (See our initial analysis of the two laws in 2012). We welcome this long overdue closure, but is this 91-articled, 200-paged piece of legislation been worth the enormous effort and no doubt millions of euros, dollars and pounds spent on it?
The legislative package consists of a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and a Data Protection Directive that applies primarily to the law enforcement sector, police and judiciary dealing with crime and crime prevention. Neither applies to state security, i.e. surveillance practices, or to the EU institutions themselves
The General Data Protection Regulation
With regards to GDPR, our initial reaction is that, certainly, Europe continues to be the most advanced and comprehensive legislature in terms of promoting protection of personal data as a fundamental right (in all but 'state security' activity). But the initial grand ambition of making EU data protection laws fit for 21st century, the age of big data and Internet of Things, and unprecedented intrusion and profiling into people's lives, has not been achieved. Thankfully, the new rules do not go below existing provisions, but several of our key initial concerns have not been met, and more weaknesses have been introduced to achieve compromise in the negotiations. Compromise has also meant that some of the articles in the Regulation are so contorted and convoluted that corporate lawyers will be able to feed on them for years to come.
Some of the good:
The rights of the people ('data subjects') have been reasserted and improved: for example you will be now able to demand erasure of all your information if you have left a service, or take away in an easily readable format the data you've given a business provider.
The definition of personal data has been extended and clarified, it now clearly includes IP addresses and location data for example.
The enforcement of the law and deterrents, such as fines, are more effective.
The redress and complaint possibilities are better: privacy and consumer groups will now be able to act on behalf of one or more individuals.
There is a new right to object to profiling for direct marketing purposes
Some of the bad and the ugly:
The user consent provision is confusingly mixed – defined as 'unambiguous', but has to be 'explicit' for sensitive data, such as health or political beliefs.
The very broad and undefined 'legitimate' interest provision, including for third parties (!) can still circumvent consent altogether.
Collective redress is only possible in countries where provisions for collective redress exist in national legislation, meaning that some people may end more equal than others and opening possibilities for forum shopping for companies.
There is a serious risk of dis-harmonisation, since there are many exceptions allowing Member States to pass their own laws.
The most ugly is the provision in Article 21 that allows countries to introduce legal exceptions to this law based on a loosely defined "general public interest". This can become a crucial loophole in the legislation, and ensure a few years down the line that we have 28 laws once again.
We have been, in the initial stages, much more critical of the Directive which applies to law enforcement authorities, including the fact that being a Directive it will still mean 28 different legal regimes for data protection--not just for those on trial or found to be guilty-- but for witnesses and victims too, so millions of people!. The progress of this piece of legislation has been much more obscure than that of the GDPR. On a first glance, a positive aspect is that is has been aligned closer to the provisions in the GDPR with regards, for example, to the data protection principles and some of the rights of the data subjects. But many key concerns we highlighted still remain, for example with regards to the effective supervisory role of the data protection authorities, or potentially allowing for transfers of highly sensitive data to authorities in third countries without serious safeguards.
The final vote by the European Parliament in full plenary is due in January, but it is virtually sure to be passed. We shall be analysing both pieces of legislation in detail in the New Year.
Enhancing Data Protection Standards
We demand change and litigate
PI collaborates with The Carter Center's election observation mission in Myanmar
The collaboration with PI seeks to explore how privacy and data protection issues and concerns can be incorporated into election observation methodology and operationalised in the election observation process. The Carter Center is a US based NGO that has been invited to observe 111 elections in 39 countries since 1989.
Data protection: a piece of the puzzle to "do no harm" in the digital age
PI presents its contribution to the "Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action" (2n Ed).
25 May 2020 marks the 2nd anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation. Two years on, where are we now?
Why we're concerned about profiling and micro-targeting in elections.
There is now an ecosystem that drives voter profiling and targeted messages, often known as micro-targeting, that accompany modern political campaigning globally. The targeted ad-supported internet is made up of thousands of companies that track and profile us all 24 hours a day- not just during election time.

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LAS CRUCES, NM (KTSM) - Four employees at a Las Cruces pecan plant were sent to the hospital after they were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes early Sunday morning.
According to a news release, firefighters responded at about 5 a.m. to a hazardous material call at the facility located at 2455 Entrada del Sol.
Officials say two of the employees were unable to move on their own before first responders evacuated them from the building.
A total of six workers were affected by the fumes.
According to the release, firefighters determined that the employees' symptoms were a result of two gas-powered pressure washers that were used inside the enclosed building, which resulted in a buildup of carbon monoxide.
The fire department's hazmat crew cleared the air inside the plant and removed the pressure washers.
A filter caught fire on the supply side of a compressor/recirculation pump supplying argon gas to the process chamber of an additive manufacturing machine. The plastic tubes and electrical wiring adjacent to the filter also caught fire. Employees were aware of the change schedule for the in-process filters and of the fire hazard dangers associated with these filters. They were not aware of an additional filter outside the process chamber that was hidden behind an enclosing panel.
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (KAMR/KCIT) - The United States Air Force has released its results from an inspection to determine if chemical compounds from firefighting foam used a Cannon Air Force Base is contaminating off-base drinking water supplies.
According to the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, 25 drinking water sources near the southeast corner of the installation were sampled.
Officials said they found thee locations where found where Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) concentrations in drinking water exceeded an Environmental Protection Agency lifetime health advisory of 70 parts per trillion.
The Air Force told us they have provided alternate drinking water at those locations.
Air Force officials told us two private wells had detectable levels of PFOS/PFOA below the EPA's lifetime health advisory, and the AFCEC will continue to monitor those wells to ensure levels remain below that level.
Officials also said 20 wells did not have detectable levels of either contaminant.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A former worker at a national laboratory who was fired for shipping weapons-grade plutonium by air instead of ground alleges in a lawsuit that he was made a scapegoat for problems at the New Mexico facility.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the legal action by Juan Montoya cited "root cause systemic failures in processes, procedures, supervision, resources (and) training" at Los Alamos National Security LLC.
Lab spokesman Matt Nerzig denies Montoya was singled out over the incident.
"Los Alamos National Security held accountable those involved from the individual contributor level up the management chain through actions that included terminations, suspensions and compensation consequences," Nerzig said in an email.
The incident followed a series of safety problems at the lab, including a fire in the plutonium facility that was linked to an unlabeled container and the shipment of mislabeled hazardous waste to a facility near Denver.
Montoya worked at the lab for 15 years before he was fired last summer from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Federal regulations require the shipping of plutonium by ground.
Montoya is asking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, among other things. Efforts by the newspaper to reach him for comment Wednesday were unsuccessful.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Hazmat units are responding to a northeast Albuquerque Costco Friday afternoon after a Freon leak at the store may have injured one person, according to Albuquerque Fire Rescue.
AFR says multiple teams are responding to the leak at the store off Renaissance Boulevard. It's unclear at this time what may have caused it.
Airlocks installed on LANL gloveboxes include neoprene and/orfluoropolymer elastomer sealing materials which are subject to aging, and chemical degradation during their service life. Some gaskets, have failed resulting in actions to temporarily restore sealing functionality. The current LANL designed glovebox airlock has remained the same since it was placed into use in the 1950's. This configuration was not designed to be easily replaceable or maintainable. This project was commissioned to design a replaceable airlock to correct degraded airlock sealing materials and install them without moving the glovebox. The airlock needed to be adaptable to various configurations as well as meet design requirements to prevent failure in the case of over-pressurization. The adjustable turnbuckles solved this issue and relieved the stress on the GB walls.
As more activities are being released for normal operations, it is important to review past sharps related events. Sharp tools have the potential to contribute to personnel contamination incidents resulting from glovebox glove breaches/punctures. The heightened awareness is necessary to reinforce safety behaviors and practices while performing glovebox work. Proper hazard identification and controls are crucial to the safety of the worker. The sharps hazards include the use of hand tools and portable power tools. Incidental, or latent, sharps may include items that were not intended for cutting but nevertheless have the potential to cause a wound or glove breach with potential contamination and/or nuclear material uptake. This article includes several examples of significant glove breaches that have occurred at LANL's PF-4 facility.
At around 4 a.m. today, New Mexico State Police officers were dispatched to a semi crash and possible hazmat situation on Interstate 25 around mile post 110 ... about 40 miles south of Socorro.
After careful investigation, the cylinders on the semi carrying chlorodifluorobromomethane, were determined not to be ruptured and there was no hazmat spill. The driver of the CMV received only minor injuries.
Authorities say two people have been injured after a battery tank fire at an oil refinery in southern New Mexico.
The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon at a refinery a few miles east of Loving and triggered a hazmat situation.
KRQE-TV reports that six tanks caught fire and the area around the refinery was evacuated.
Refinery officials say a perimeter at least a mile in all directions has been secured.
SANTA FE – A division of Los Alamos National Laboratory paused plutonium work in March after workers improperly placed a plutonium "pit" — the core of a nuclear weapon — in a glove box not authorized for that purpose and also placed fissile material samples into a pit hemishell, in two separate incidents.
The shutdown at the Pit Technologies Division in the lab's plutonium facility was in response to the recent "process deviations" and provided time for managers to evaluate various safety issues, according to a report posted last week by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, an independent federal agency that provides oversight at the nation's weapons labs.
While there has not been a criticality accident — where an uncontrolled nuclear reaction takes place — at LANL since the 1950s, the lab has faced criticism over criticality safety issues in recent years. When too much plutonium is put in close quarters, a reaction can take place and lead to bursts of radiation that can be deadly.
A lab spokesman provided a statement saying, "The Laboratory's criticality safety program continues to improve as evidenced by an increase in workers who are self-reporting process deviations and by a reduced rate of such deviation occurrences.
All work with special nuclear materials was put on hold at Los Alamos National Laboratory's plutonium facility in March following two violations of safety requirements meant to prevent a nuclear chain reaction, according to a federal report released Friday.
The site, which handles some of the laboratory's most sensitive nuclear missions — including production of plutonium pits, the grapefruit-sized plutonium metal shells used to trigger nuclear warheads — has been plagued for years with recurring safety issues.
Seven operations within the plutonium facility remained stalled as of March 30, the date of the panel's most recent report. It was unclear Friday if the work had resumed.
Waste was stored inside a flammable cabinet, highly toxic materials were kept in a cardboard box labeled "non-hazardous," and gallons of oxidizing liquids were stacked haphazardly atop flammable solids.
State inspectors reported these issues among a half-dozen violations of Los Alamos National Laboratory's hazardous waste permit in November. Discovered during an unplanned compliance inspection, the problems did not prevent the lab from shipping mislabeled waste out of state just two days later.
Other problems cited in the inspection report were the lab failing to clean up oil leaking at a nonnuclear weapons testing area and mislabeling containers with highly acidic waste.
The New Mexico Environment Department said the issues were resolved by mid-February.
While previous reports have listed a greater number of violations, the state inspections do not appear to prevent accidents or to provide a full picture of issues that may occur at the lab.
On Nov. 15, two days after state inspectors conducted the compliance inspection, two mislabeled containers of hazardous waste were shipped to a facility in Colorado, the third time in 13 months in which the lab had made errors in shipping waste to the facility. The incident prompted the lab to pause all shipments of hazardous and mixed, low-level radioactive waste for two and half months, which, in turn, led to some waste containers overstaying their allowed time on lab property. This violation could result in state fines of up to $1 million.
Several law enforcement and emergency departments responded to a sulfur fire in Artesia's industrial park Wednesday afternoon, resulting in the closure of U.S. Highway 285 at Mill Road.
Jennifer Armendariz, emergency manager with Eddy County, said Tractor Supply was evacuated as a result of the fire.
Residents in the area, however, are safe in their homes, Armendariz said.
The fire began at a chemical company around 4:30 p.m. One person was treated for smoke inhalation, but no other injuries were reported.
Los Alamos National Laboratory last December paused all shipments of hazardous and mixed, low-level radioactive waste for nearly three months after lab officials realized they had transported the dangerous refuse with incorrect labels to a facility near Denver.
The labeling incident, which apparently occurred in November 2017, is the third time in 13 months that the Henderson, Colo., facility, Veolia ES Technical Solutions, received waste from Los Alamos with incorrect information about the chemicals inside — information that is used to ensure materials are handled and stored in a safe manner.
It also set into motion a series of events that could cause the lab to incur up to $1 million in state penalties.
A worker responding to a low oxygen alarm found a pressure relief valve venting nitrogen into a room. He briefly entered the room, turned off the supply valve and then exited. The technical problem had been solved, however, the worker did not call Emergency Management and Response so personnel could ensure the safety of the area before entering. The primary purpose of the low oxygen alarm is to indicate that the atmosphere is likely oxygen deficient and that it may be unsafe for personnel to be in the area. Initial calculations after the incident indicate that the atmosphere did not pose the risk of a fatality; however, the employee did not know the exact conditions at the time he entered the room. When responding to alarms, it is important to pause and analyze the situation first. Mitigating the situation or condition in the heat of the moment without thoughtful consideration of hazards and work requirements can place workers at potential risk.


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index to 10 Sri Lanka government pages contact us
'16 squad' promoting SLFP-Pohottuwa alliance?
Since 'February 10', the panicked government politicos have clustered into formal and informal groups, that frequently shuttle between Paget Road [re-named ... courtesy the agonized taxpayer, and plunder the public assets under the worst ever instability experienced in the post independent Sri Lanka.
PMD dispels false reports on President's official CHOGM delegation
Colombo Page
Apr 22, Colombo: President's Media Division (PMD) issuing a statement said false information is being reported regarding the official delegation accompanying the President Maithripala Sirisena to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The President was accompanied by the ...
Interpol gives notice for Sri Lanka's ex-bank head
Interpol has issued a red notice for Sri Lanka's former Central Bank Governor, who is wanted in connection with a controversial bond auction. ... as the 'bond scam', dented the government's image and is said to have contributed to the ruling alliance's poor showing in the local government polls in February.
Sri Lanka condemns Kabul terror attack
Sri Lankan Government today condemned the terror attack at a voter registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. In a statement, Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed its condolence to the kith and kin of the terror victims. "Sri Lanka strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack today at a voter registration ...
Facebook rumors incite hatred, leading to deadly end in Sri Lanka
A reconstruction of Sri Lanka's descent into violence found that Facebook's newsfeed played a central role in nearly every step from rumor to killing. ... Time and again, communal hatreds overrun the newsfeed unchecked as local media are displaced by Facebook and governments find themselves with little ...
Sri Lanka: From My Eyes and Experiences
The government's key policy on tourism promotion and strategies that have adopted to sell the country's tourism destinations has pushed potential tourists to choose Sri Lanka. My interaction with Sri Lankan diaspora, the idea to set up a tourism department at the embassy began in 2008, and it was so ...
A new agreement to continue Sri Lanka's national government ...
Apr 22, Colombo: The General Secretary of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Minister Mahinda Amaraweera says that a new agreement will be prepared to continue the coalition government with the United National Party (UNP). Minister Amaraweera said that before President Maithripala ...
US rights report notes Sri Lanka's slowness in transitional justice
Torture remained endemic throughout Sri Lanka in 2017, the US has said, highlighting limited progress made by the government in establishing additional transitional justice mechanisms. The US State Department, in a report, mentioned arbitrary or unlawful killings by government or its agents. "Torture ...
Facebook Accused of Ignoring Government Warnings Before Mob ...
And despite efforts by governments and nonprofits to alert them to the mounting risk, Facebook is accused of doing next to nothing to remove clear ... "The germs are ours," as one Sri Lankan official told the Times, referring to the sectarian devisions in Sri Lanka, "but Facebook is the wind, you know?" ...
Sri Lanka to hold 15% ownership in proposed LNG import terminal
The Sri Lankan government and Sri Lanka Gas Terminal Ltd will hold a 15 percent shareholding in the country's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, a cabinet spokesperson said. ... Sri Lanka has plans to build a 300 MW gas-fired power plant in Kerawalapitiya adjoining an existing power plant.
India wasn't interested in SL's development projects: MR
Former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that India was not interested in building ports and highway projects in Sri Lanka when it was first offered, the Hindu said. In response to a question on increasing interest from China in Sri Lankan projects, Mr. Rajapaksa has told reporters in Bengaluru ...
The low down of the low-and-odour government
Law and Order. This seems to be the one thing that the yahapalana government has cottoned onto in the aftermath of the election rout. And I don't mean that in a good way. The United National Party in particular has climbed down and fast from grand pronouncements of victory (no less!). Party bigwigs ...
Thousands rally over mounting debt in northern Sri Lanka
Months after Sri Lanka's Central Bank vowed action on mounting household debt in the war-affected north, thousands gathered in Jaffna on Tuesday, protesting against the government's inaction. 'Our home and country are indebted, what is the solution?; 'Stop loans, give employment' and 'Strengthen ...
Tamil asylum seeker deported by Australia 'harassed by Sri Lankan ...
He fled Sri Lanka fearing repercussions from government security forces for his involvement with the LTTE, a separatist army that fought a brutal, and ultimately unsuccessful, 26-year war for independence until 2009, when it was defeated. His claim for refugee status was rejected by the Australian ...
Exclusive: Evidence of ongoing torture of Sri Lankan Tamils
It's more than three years since President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka. He took over from a government which was accused of human rights abuses during the war against Tamil separatists. Sirisena had promised a less authoritarian style of leadership. But Al Jazeera has seen ...
Sri Lanka government in crisis after comeback of ex-leader
Rajapaksa's campaign targeted the government's middling economic record, and its attempt to impose higher taxes, promising Sri Lankans a return to more confident, outward facing rule. Rajapaksa's supporters also criticized Sri lankan President Maithripala Sirisena for selling off national assets, including ...
Hambantota port not being used as military base: Sri Lankan army ...
Admiral Wijegunaratne stated that the Sri Lankan government clearly said that it would not enter into any military alliance with any country. "Our political leadership led by President (Maithripala) Sirisena and Prime Minister (Ranil Wickremesinghe) clearly stated that the government will not enter into military ...
Sri Lanka's political crisis: Can people's verdict be reversed?
The Local Government elections held on February 10, 2018 was to elect 8,293 members to 341 local authorities (24 municipalities, 41 urban councils and 276 divisional councils – Pradeshiya Sabas). This is the largest election held so far in Sri Lanka in one day where 15.8 million voters were eligible to ...
Peace Corps to re-establish Sri Lanka program
St. Paul Asian American Press
"The return of Peace Corps to Sri Lanka is an opportunity to deepen the enduring friendship that has grown between our two countries over the past 70 years," said Acting Peace Corps Director Sheila Crowley. "We are grateful to the Government and people of Sri Lanka for their invitation to, once again, ...
Sri Lankan rupee ends steady; dollar conversions by exporters offset ...
Kitco News
COLOMBO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended steady on Tuesday as dollar selling by exporters and banks offset importer demand for the ... The government must repay an estimated 1.97 trillion rupees ($12.68 billion) in 2018 - a record high - including $2.9 billion of foreign loans and a total of ...
Lip service of a polythene ban
According to the Environmental Foundation Limited (EFL), 15 million plastic shopping bags alone are added to the environment daily in Sri Lanka and thus, ... The moment the ban on polythene is brought into forefront today, it attracts public stigma against the impotency of the current government to ...
Sri Lanka at 70: Looking back and forward
As I wrote in a previous blog, it is encouraging to see that the trade-related efforts led by Sri Lanka Customs are conducted in consultation with both the Government and the private sector. In fact, many of the government's trade and investment-related reforms are being developed in consultation with key ...
Sri Lanka: Floods and landslide Revised Emergency appeal ...
The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) declared 'state of natural disaster situation' and appealed for international to support towards response and rehabilitation efforts. The following activities were conducted in the initial relief phase; first aid services, medical camps, well cleaning, hygiene promotion, house ...
Sri Lanka shops, mosque damaged in Buddhist-Muslim clash
The government ended a full-blown 26-year civil war by defeating mostly Hindu Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009, with claims of atrocities on both sides. ... The United Nations and rights activists have accused the Sri Lankan military of killing thousands of civilians, mostly Tamils, in the last weeks of the war.
Sri Lankan government leaders continue fragile coalition
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
After more than a week of political wrangling, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe decided to continue the national unity government, in which Sirisena's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and Wickremesinghe's United National Party (UNP) are partners.
How to be in power and keep Rajapaksas at bay, top economist tells ...
The Sri Lankan government is ready to implement a short-term reform process which will generate short-term gains and help the government increase its ... Speaking at a UNP Young Professionals' Organization seminar in Colombo, he added that Sri Lanka needs to appeal to the optimistic spirit of foreign ...
Local Government Elections: Why all is not lost
With the Local Government elections done and dusted, many still continue to give their own interpretation of the result, most, based on their political affiliations and in extension of their own ... A blind faith to the party and its leaders has been the bane of politics in Sri Lanka since we won universal franchise.
EU urges Sri Lankan government to honor commitments to OMP and ...
Feb 21, Colombo: The European Union (EU) says the Sri Lankan Government must honor their commitments on the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) and ... the office of the Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka and Maldives said Sri Lankans ill not be able to reconcile without knowing about the ...
Sri Lanka's Unity government's second Cabinet reshuffle is expected ...
Feb 21, Colombo: The second Cabinet reshuffle of the unity government will take place on Thursday, February 22, state media reports. The reshuffle is to take place according to an agreement entered into between the two parties in the unity government- the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka ...
Tamil Tiger due to be deported says he will face torture in Sri Lanka
ABC Online
A Sri Lankan asylum seeker who claims he once built warships for the Tamil Tigers says he will be tortured and possibly killed in his home country if he is deported by the Australian Government on Thursday. Santharupan Thangalingam, 46, said he was a senior leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...
Sri Lankan government honours Doha Bank CEO
The Peninsula Qatar
DOHA: Sri Lankan Embassy in Qatar in association with Sri Lanka Coordinating Committee organised a Cultural Programme on February 16 to mark Sri Lanka's 70th Anniversary of Independence. At this event, on behalf of the Sri Lankan Government, ASP Liyanage, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar ...
With Sri Lanka and Maldives under Chinese influence, India is fast ...
ThePrint
The local election results in Sri Lanka show President Sirisena's diminishing stock. But China will continue to have its way in the indebted island nation. India is fast losing its strategic advantage in Sri Lanka to the Chinese. With the Maithripala Sirisena regime in Colombo increasingly doing China's bidding, ...
Sri Lanka unity government to continue until 2020 with a cabinet ...
Feb 15, Colombo: Sri Lanka's coalition government will continue its term until the next elections in 2020 with a reshuffle in the cabinet of ministers Co-Cabinet Spokesman, Minister of Health, Nutrition, and Indigenous Medicine, Dr Rajitha Senaratne said today. At the weekly cabinet news briefing held at the ...
UNF decides to continue with unity government
The United National Front (UNF) parliamentary group today decided to continue the unity government with some changes of portfolios and strategies, UNP General Secretary Kabir Hashim said today. He told media personnel that the unity government would continue but focus on a new set of goals and ...
In Sri Lanka, local elections have rattled the government
Some commentators have described it as the biggest electoral upset in Sri Lankan history. Mr Rajapaksa swiftly declared that the current national government had lost its legitimacy and should resign. That is unlikely. The coalition headed by the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, may be ineffectual and ...
Sri Lanka: The New Regime And The Revolution
For a closer examination of the developments underway in Sri Lanka, a study of the 'Silent Revolution' of 2015 against the monumental French Revolution provides illuminating points ... Today, the Sri Lankan government is experiencing what Tocqueville wrote in 1856, in his book on the French Revolution.
Special committee appointed to decide on future of Sri Lanka's unity ...
COLOMBO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government said on Wednesday that it had appointed a special committee to decide on the future of the unity government after the ruling parties faced a defeat in recently concluded local elections. Housing Minister Sajith Premadasa said the ruling United ...
Lanka's overseas missions celebrate Independence Day
In her address, High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara stressed the need to live together as one family to create a new Sri Lanka. ... Addressing the gathering, High Commissioner Nimal Weeraratne said the steadfast efforts of the Government have fostered an atmosphere for all Sri Lankans to ...
Most peaceful election in history of Sri Lanka - election monitors
Feb 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka's election monitoring groups say the local government elections ended at 4 pm on Saturday was the most peaceful election held in the island's history. The head of the Center for Monitoring Election Violation (CMEV), Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, made this statement at the ...
Lazard, world's top investment bank, explores Sri Lanka; works with ...
The global financial advisory firm, in conjunction with MTI Consulting, was due to meet officials of the Sri Lankan Government and discuss how Lazard could work with the government in its attempt to divest and attract foreign investments for its large non-strategic assets like hotels. A media release from MTI ...
Tamil Nadu: Three of four freed Indian fishermen arrive in Mandapam
Daily News & Analysis
The Sri Lankan Government had on Friday recommended the release of 113 Indian fishermen arrested over a period of time by the island nation's Navy for allegedly fishing in their waters, a fishermen association leader had said. Quoting information received by fisheries officials in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu ...
Voting underway in Sri Lanka local government elections
Pakistan Today
COLOMBO: Voting was underway on Saturday in the Sri Lankan Local Government (LG) elections, seen as an unofficial referendum on the performance of the unity Government so far. It was the first election to be held since the current Sri Lankan Government came to power in 2015 is being held under ...
Sri Lanka Central Bank issues clarification on media reports over ...
Lanka Business Online
Feb 09, 2018 (LBO) – The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) in reply to media reports on debt says it compiles and publishes central Government debt based on its database on issuance of domestic debt and international commercial borrowings on behalf of the Government and also the information it ...
SL says Udayanga was released, prevented leaving UAE
"The Sri Lankan Embassy in Abu Dhabi has also retained Lawyers in the UAE specializing in immigration matters to advice the Government of Sri Lanka on this matter. Moreover, a delegation of Sri Lankan officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Attorney General's Department and the FCID are ...
Don't lose what you achieved in 2015-PM
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who wound up the UNP campaign for the local government election in Maradana last evening urged the people not to lose what they achieved in January 2015. He also told the UNPers to get ready to form a government in 2020. "If you want us to form the government ...
Putting nation on track to economic independence
Sri Lanka, like its other Asian counterparts, was conquered by invaders, mainly due to geographical importance, which even today we have not been able to properly harness. Political independence, which the nation could gain, then means the Sri Lankan government can make its own decisions on ...
Fitch maintains 'B+' rating on Sri Lanka; outlook 'Stable'
Further, nearly half of Sri Lanka's government debt is denominated in foreign currency, which increases the risk to debt dynamics in the event of a further depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee. Fitch also said Sri Lanka's external balance sheet remains a weakness for the rating, with high net external debt, ...
When media ride on a political wave!
It was under the leadership of this Prime Minister that the offence of Criminal Defamation, a dreaded weapon against the media in the armoury of a Government was removed from the Sri Lankan statute Book (2002). He has also played a pivotal role in ensuring the media freedom that prevails in Sri Lanka ...
Can't form Govt. with the corrupt: President
Addressing the last SLFP rally for the forthcoming local government elections held today (7) in Polonnaruwa President Maithripala Sirisena said he does not wish to form a government with corrupt politicians from any party. While stating that he left the Rajapaksa Government in 2014 due to fraud and ...
Asian Tribune
E-Lankanews.com
KeralaNext
Peace Journalism
People's Daily Online
Sunday Observer
eTaiwan News
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The Long Year of Revolution
By Mary Beth Norton
Category: Colonial/Revolutionary Period
Category: Colonial/Revolutionary Period | Audiobooks
Feb 11, 2020 | 1080 Minutes
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 President of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical, "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
In this original and important book, Mary Beth Norton's first in more than fifteen years, she looks at the sixteen months during which the traditional loyalists to King George III began their discordant 'discussions' that led to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire and to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April, 1775.
Drawing extensively on pamphlets, newspapers, and personal correspondence, Norton reconstructs colonial political discourse as it happened, showing the vigorous campaign mounted by conservatives criticizing congressional actions. But by then it was too late. In early 1775, governors throughout the colonies informed colonial officials in London that they were unable to thwart the increasing power of the committees and their allied provincial congresses. Although the Declaration of Independence would not be formally adopted until July 1776, Americans, even before the outbreak of war in April 1775, had in effect "declared independence" by obeying the decrees of their new provincial governments rather than colonial officials.
Also by Mary Beth Norton
See all books by Mary Beth Norton
About Mary Beth Norton
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger, a professor of American history at Cornell University. She is the author of The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774–1789 (1972); Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 (1980); Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power… More about Mary Beth Norton
Published by Knopf
Feb 11, 2020 | 528 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385353366
Feb 11, 2020 | 1080 Minutes | ISBN 9780593169995
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Joseph D'Agnese and Denise Kiernan
Our Lost Declaration
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Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
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Q: UIGestureRecognizer in master/detail for diagonal movement interfering with sub view I have a master detail template application with a specific view that needs to have gestures disabled (specifically right swipe since that fires up the table view under the UISplitViewController). I have added the following code snippet to my view's ViewDidLoad and it appears to handle the swipe fine for up/down/right/left.  Problem is that a diagonal movement either bottom/left to top/right or top/left to bottom/right fires for some type of gesture and occasionally brings up the table view. If movement is slow it doesn't, but if a fast diagonal movement it interrupts my view drawing action.
- (void)viewDidLoad {

[super viewDidLoad];

UISwipeGestureRecognizer * recognizerR = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(swipeRight:)];
recognizerR.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionRight;

recognizerR.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
recognizerR.delegate = self;

 [self.view addGestureRecognizer:recognizerR];
}

I'm a bit new to IOS/Obj C programming so bear with me.

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Q: TypeError: Cannot read property 'emoji' of undefined I am trying to make emoji reaction for my discord bot , everything is okay until I click "❌" emoji but when i click "❌" emoji i am getting this error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'emoji' of undefined
and the error shows this line : if (reaction.emoji.name === '❌')
const Discord = require("discord.js");
const ayarlar = require("../ayarlar.json");

module.exports.run = async (bot, message, args) => {

    let gonderenKisi = message.author;
    let mesaj = args.slice(0).join(" ");
    if(!mesaj) return message.reply("**➤ Mesaj Atabilmek İçin Bir Mesaj Yazmalısın!**").then(message => {
        message.delete({ timeout: 5000 });
    });

  const filter = (reaction, user) => {
            return ['❌'].includes(reaction.emoji.name) && user.id === message.author.id;
        };

    const sEmbed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
        .setDescription(`➤ ` + mesaj)
        .setAuthor(`➤ Yeni Bir Fotoğraf Paylaşıldı !`)
        .setThumbnail(message.guild.iconURL())
        .setColor('RANDOM')
        .setFooter(`➤ Fotoğraf Atan: ${message.author.username}`, message.author.displayAvatarURL())
        .setTimestamp(message.createdAt)
    message.delete();
    message.channel.send(sEmbed).then(e =>
      e.react("❤")).then(e =>
      e.message.react("❌")).catch(e => {

        console.error('Emojiler De Sorun Var.');
    });

message.awaitReactions(filter, { max: 1 })
    .then(collected => {

     const reaction = collected.first();

     if (reaction.emoji.name === '❌') {

            collected.on('collect', () => {

                message.delete();

                var s2Embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()

                .setTitle(`${message.author.username} Mesajın Silindi.`)

                .setColor('RANDOM')

                .setDescription(`Mesajı Silen : ${message.author.username}`, message.author.displayAvatarURL())

                message.channel.send(s2Embed)
            });
        }

   }).catch(e => {
  console.error(e)
})
};

module.exports.config = {
    name: 'instagram',
    aliases: ['i']
}

A: The actual cause of the error is this line:
const reaction = collected.first();

Here the value of reaction is undefined so you are getting the error.You are trying to read the emoji property of an undefined value.You can change the condition to:
if (reaction && reaction.emoji && reaction.emoji.name){
////logic
}

Also I can see there is some issue in the discord version probably which is giving you an undefined value. Check this thread it may help you.

https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/issues/3868


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All Quotes with the tag - Guts
" All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content. "
Winston Graham
" A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city. "
" A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. "
Charles Peguy
" Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. "
Dan Gable
" His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. "
" I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered. "
" I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. "
Gary Cherone
" I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. "
" If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. "
" I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem. "
" I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts. "
Greg Gutfeld
" I had a great year and left my guts out on the field. "
" I hate flying, flat out hate its guts. "
" I like guts in my leaders. "
" In politics, guts is all. "
Barbara Castle
" It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions. "
" It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance. "
Piper Perabo
" It takes guts to get out of the ruts. "
" It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts. "
Richard Virenque
" I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts. "
" I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts. "
" I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers. "
" Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. "
John Millington Synge
" My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts. "
Louis MacNeice
" R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. "
" Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special. "
Robert Goulet
" Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. "
" The 9/11 truthers hate my guts. "
" The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. "
" The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food. "
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package cn.xdean.jex.lang.collection;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class IntListTest {
  IntList list = IntList.create();

  @Test
  public void test() throws Exception {
    assertEquals("IntList: []", list.toString());
    assertEquals(0, list.size());
    list.add(1);
    list.add(0, 2);
    assertEquals(2, list.get(0));
    list.addAll(new int[] { 3, 4 });
    list.addAll(0, new int[] { 5, 6 });
    list.remove(1);
    list.removeIndex(2);
    list.removeAll(new int[] { 3, 5 });
    assertArrayEquals(new int[] { 6, 4 }, list.toArray());
    list.addAll(new int[] { 3, 4, 5 });
    list.set(0, 1);
    list.set(1, 2);
    assertArrayEquals(new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }, list.toArray());
    assertTrue(list.contains(3));
    assertFalse(list.contains(6));
    assertTrue(list.containsAll(new int[] { 1, 2, 5 }));
    list.retainAll(new int[] { 1, 3, 5 });
    assertArrayEquals(new int[] { 1, 3, 5 }, list.toArray());
    list.add(1);
    assertEquals(0, list.indexOf(1));
    assertEquals(3, list.lastIndexOf(1));
    assertEquals("IntList: [1, 3, 5, 1]", list.toString());
    list.sort();
    AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger();
    list.forEach(i -> count.addAndGet(i));
    assertEquals(10, count.get());
    assertArrayEquals(new int[] { 1, 1, 3, 5 }, list.toArray());
    list.clear();
    assertTrue(list.isEmpty());
  }

  @Test
  public void testSerialize() throws Exception {
    list.addAll(new int[] { 1, 2, 3 });
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
    oos.writeObject(list);
    ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
    ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais);
    Object read = ois.readObject();
    assertEquals(list, read);
  }

  @Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
  public void testOverflow() throws Exception {
    list.set(1, 1);
  }

  @Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
  public void testOverflow2() throws Exception {
    list.removeIndex(1);
  }

  @Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
  public void testOverflow3() throws Exception {
    list.add(1, 1);
  }
}

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Horror · Reviews
The Horror of Origins: In Ron Honthaner's The House on Skull Mountain
Michael Betancourt
"This emergent form — the death's head — is not a part of the scene, but rather a reflection upon it, potentially a visualization of the character's thoughts — evoked by the voodoo drums — graphically on screen in a way that is both inherently a part of the action (emergent from the composition itself) and a presentation of what is not (cannot be) shown on screen: Lorena's thoughts — her fear, signified by the voodoo drums, becoming manifest as the superimposed skull."
In the 1974 low-budget horror film The House on Skull Mountain, there is a singular shot (right) that stands out from the rest of the film enough that reviewers have noted it seems out of place.1 This film was directed by Ron Honthaner, who otherwise worked on television shows such as Gunsmoke as an associate producer and writer; The House on Skull Mountain was the only time he directed, either on film or television.2 The shot itself begins as a medium shot of a woman ("Lorena Christophe," played by Janee Michelle) looking off screen to the left, her hand at her mouth; the framing hides the double image it contains. As the shot pulls back, it gradually reveals she is sitting at a dressing stand, and the composition makes its duplicity apparent — the scene has been carefully arranged to create a double image where the curve of the mirror is the top of a skull and the woman's dark hair providing the eye sockets becomes progressively more obvious, until once the camera move ends, a white skull shape appears superimposed over this composition, asserting the optical illusion's priority. This shot is a quotation of nineteenth century illustrator C. Allen Gilbert's metamorphic illusion All is Vanity (published by House of Art, 1892) (below). The shot and illustration are "reflections" of each other. The 1974 version is a transposition of Gilbert's composition as if seen in a mirror, even though the arrangement of elements remains constant: the burning candle, the bottles/teeth arrayed before the circle of the mirror, the woman's slightly raised hand, touching her face. However, there are a number of differences between the source of this illusion and its execution in House on Skull Mountain: in the original image, the woman directly addresses the picture's audience, seemingly meeting their gaze, while in the restaging, she looks away, apparently unaware of the camera filming. Gilbert's woman looks like a classic "Gibson girl" — a stereotypical image of wealthy, white American "aristocracy" — common to illustrations of the 1890s, while in the film she is a contemporary "office girl" — someone who works for a living; she is also black. They are different, yet the images remain recognizably constant; this transformation is not an accident, but part of a systematic series of reversals and doublings running throughout the film that present a fantasy of the death of racism, summarized by the metonymic relationship of film quotation to original illustration. The plot is set in motion by events surrounding a rich, black, "Haitian" family attending the reading of the matriarch's will at the family mansion outside Atlanta, Georgia. But this fantasy is belied by the plot itself, where a visibly white man who is supposed to be a "mixed-race" cousin ("Dr. Andrew Cunningham," played by Victor French) must save his black cousin ("Lorena Christophe," played by Janee Michelle, who appears in this shot) from the horrors of voodoo and the superstitious magic that is part of their Haitian heritage: she must be liberated from her origins — her black past.
The embedded racial subtext of The House on Skull Mountain depends on the specific pattern of reiteration and reversal apparent in the differences between illustration and shot. In 1892, the black woman, were she present to Gilbert's image, is (literally) invisible: her role would have been as a servant, doing the bidding of her white mistress whose presentation has a slightly moralizing tone in Gilbert's optical illusion: it is a classic vanitas rendered simultaneously as memento mori. The title All is Vanity is thus redundant with the other iconography contained in/as the image itself: the burning candle alludes to time passing (beauty is fleeting) coupled with the intensity of her gaze outwards at the audience, engaging, challenging the viewer to acknowledge that she is beautiful — a beauty that is artificially created by the bottles arrayed before her, an illusion.
Simultaneously, her beauty on display assumes the form of a skull: the circle of her mirror is also its curved edge; her flowing, sensuous dark hair, the black pits of eye sockets that leer vacantly, the perfumes and potions of her bottles, the distended roots of teeth without gums. Within her beauty lies the unmistakable image of death. It is this containment of death-within-beauty that is specific to the vanitas and finds specific demonstration in this metamorphic image. The traditional conjunction of skull (Death) with youth and beauty lies within the inherent structure of both vanitas and memento mori as iconographic systems. The dimensions of memento mori are superseded by the organization of Gilbert's vanitas. Crafting the double image in this fashion invokes a morality play, where the instantaneous transformation into a leering skull critiques both her vanity and her unwavering gaze (the woman's direct address of the viewer) — her reflection meets the gaze of her audience, iconographically a standard element in the vanitas picture. Gilbert's metamorphic image invokes an uncomfortable shifting of positions around her gaze outwards to the audience. It is this woman's self-possession (apparent in the even gaze she directs at the viewer) which comes under assault in Gilbert's painting — the illusion of youth, the beauty she presents, is simultaneously an act that hides death: "beauty inevitably fades" is the moralizing message delivered against her self-assured presentation to onlooker via mirror.
The contrast in The House on Skull Mountain to Gilbert's original could not be stronger. The development of this shot is significant. In place of the self-assured, self-conscious woman who has already composed herself and addresses the viewer, is an uncertain, perhaps even frightened woman who gazes vacantly at a space insistently outside the audience's view. She first appears in close-up, and while it is obvious she is thinking about something (reflecting), it is not immediately apparent that she is literally shown in reflection — that what the audience sees is her visage reflected by a dressing stand mirror. This fact emerges as the shot pulls back, away from her, in the process "discovering" the double image (emergent skull) whose presence is emphasized by a synchronized musical cue and superimposed white skull shape. While the same classic elements of the vanitas are present — the woman's reflection in the mirror, the burning candle, that appear in Gilbert's painting — this is not a vanitas, but rather only a memento mori, one that invokes the vanitas even as it denies the role of vanity in this invocation of death. Where Gilbert's image is a moralizing statement about fading beauty and the self-imposed illusions employed to hide it, the double image in The House on Skull Mountain reveals a lurking death, an omnipresent yet invisible threat inherent to this scene rendered via the soundtrack as pounding voodoo drums and atonal screech as the superimposed skull form appears; the death thus invoked is not her vanity, but her race, that of her blackness. The reversal of relationships between All is Vanity and The House on Skull Mountain — the transformations of vanitas/memento mori, reversed composition, and race — are reflective of the larger social transformations and inversions that run throughout the film; these transfers are all indicators of the superstitious magic that assails this woman because of her Haitian heritage.
The shift in gaze from direct address (illustration) to insistent disconnection (film) — not just a reflection of cinematic convention where the actor pretends the camera is not present — also serves to interiorize the woman at the mirror because she is clearly looking at something, but that is unknown as it lies outside the frame, invisible within this shot and physically never revealed by the context within the film. This unknown "object" is clearly troubling her, consuming her thoughts, and its absence from the audience's view forces a consideration that the what could easily be the skull that emerges from the composition's duplicity. The superimposition thus assumes a rhetorical role, present for the audience as an assertion of the double image, but one that is invisible to Lorena, who is so essential to its appearance. This emergent form — the death's head — is not a part of the scene, but rather a reflection upon it, potentially a visualization of the character's thoughts — evoked by the voodoo drums — graphically on screen in a way that is both inherently a part of the action (emergent from the composition itself) and a presentation of what is not (cannot be) shown on screen: Lorena's thoughts — her fear, signified by the voodoo drums, becoming manifest as the superimposed skull. By combining the metamorphic image with the secondary assertion of memento mori via superimposition, the only conclusion possible is that she is thinking about death — about how fleeting life is, that beauty always fades, that there is never enough time. But the "death" in this film is also linked to the superstitious magic of voodoo, fundamentally connected to the "blackness" of the family. The only character not subject to this specific appeal is the white man (the hero, Dr. Andrew Cunningham) who must rescue the black woman (the heroine, Lorena Christophe) from the destructive death-magic of Haitian voodoo.
This specific collection of linkages and transfers organizes the development of this double image, apparent through both superimposed skull and accompanying soundtrack. The differences with Gilbert's image are therefore of great significance — the shift in race and deflection of the gaze — indicating the most apparent difference, her race, may also be the reason the death motif is not just an optical construction (the metamorphic nature of the image), but is also asserted through the superimposed white form. The linkage of white form to death, invoked by the voodoo drums, is an acknowledgment of the subtext to the whole film: an imaginary death to racism. Specific details from the story are organized around this fantasy: the house is an antebellum plantation manor, located in the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, a state notorious for its opposition to racial integration in the 1950s and '60s. That the family is Haitian, rather than American, descendants of a former French colony that also achieved freedom from European rule following a bloody revolutionary war — this choice is not accidental given the similarities between both countries origins — nevertheless has a specific difference: in Haiti, the revolutionaries were black slaves from Africa, rather than white, Euro-descended slave owners.
The death phantom that appears at the end of this shot being specifically white is thus significant: not just because skulls are white, but also because the question of race ("whiteness/blackness") haunts the film as a whole. The reversal of relationships from Gilbert's All is Vanity to The House on Skull Mountain is not simply a transposition accommodating the film's black actress, but a simultaneous (doubled) implication that ascending in social status requires the rejection of her Haitian origins (her "blackness").
The doubling of "doctors" in the film repeats the same doublings of white-black that appear in this shot: the threat posed by voodoo is embodied in the "witch doctor" who is the black villain, defeated by the white doctor. The linkage of (white) skull with (black) voodoo drums further dramatizes the conflict between superstition (black, Haitian heritage) and the rationality embodied in the white protagonist that ultimately prevails: the superstition is simultaneously a figure of death (the skull) and will (symbolically) die by being made white — the white form, in asserting itself as a symbol of death also obscures the black woman — transforming her into the skull, eliminating her with its whiteness — as the doubled image becomes visually dominant.
The figure of death that appears within Gilbert's image — the metonymy between arrangement and skull — is absent from the reversed composition, yet informs and structures these reversals: while both are examples of memento mori, the remembrance of death has a different signification in both pictures, a difference that emerges precisely through the shift in gaze. In The House on Skull Mountain Lorena gazes away, off screen, at something other than the viewer. The subject of her gaze, a fearful contemplation, can only be the threat posed by the racial subtext of the film itself: her Haitian heritage (blackness) that is appearing, insistently, throughout the film and which can literally be heard on the soundtrack (even though this musical cue is conventionally understood by the audience to be non-diegetic, unheard by the characters on screen). Pounding in the background is a dark, irrational, superstitious force that is inseparable from American pop cultural ideas of Haiti: not simply black but foreign, other. This connection of the death-figure to her heritage belies the surface level of the film's premise, that of a rich black Haitian family whose matriarch has died and whose heirs have gathered to hear the will, instead transforming that surface into the horror itself: the horror of the black other, rendered visible in this singular shot whose transformations and reiterations of Gilbert's picture bring these themes into focus. The danger posed by voodoo is not the supernatural threat common to horror films — it is instead the horror posed by the discovery of blackness represented by voodoo as the sweaty, rhythmic, superstitious primitive: beneath the superficial fantasy of a dissolution and banishment of racism lies, instead, a fundamentally racist conception of both white and black, one where the "Haitian" serves to represent the dangerous, threatening, and irrational other to American (white) rationality.
For example, see the online review, "The House on Skull Mountain (1974)," February 4, 2010, http://campblood.org/Newblog/archives/1777, retrieved 2 April 2013. [↩]
"Ron Honthaner" entry, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393415/, accessed 2 April 2013. [↩]
— Michael Betancourt
Michael Betancourt is an artist, historian, theorist, and curator concerned with the convergence of digital technology and capitalist ideology. His essays have been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish. He currently is a Professor of Motion Media Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. His most recent book, The History of Motion Graphics: From Avant-Garde to Industry in the United States, was published in 2013.
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel...the tunnel i refer to is the dismal state of latin music over the last ten years or so...with this cd, George Delgado brings musicians back to the forefront...this is one of the best!!!...no filler material, just some striaght-up, dance your a** off music that will last for some time...vaya!!!
This album is one of my favorite salsa albums of recent years. I own the CD and it pretty much lives in my CD player! George Delgado is one of the busiest congueros around today and for an obvious reason: this album swings from top to bottom. Dancers will love this album, and there is a wealth of education in here for musicians. From a bass player's perspective, I can say that Mr. Delgado has chosen to use several different bass players for this release - a virtual who's who of top salsa bass players. For anyone out there looking to understand how a salsa rhythm section should function, then look no further! It is difficult to pick a favorite track, they are all truly superbly done.
Other similar albums that I would highly, highly recommend in addition to this one (which are also other fine examples of Delgado's work) include Spanish Harlem Orchestra's "United We Swing", and Jimmy Bosch's "Salsa Dura". Enjoy!
This Band is Hot. The Tracks on This CD are Good for Dancing and Listening. It's Worth IT!


Pretty much every other message I receive, whether it be on Facebook, Instagram or Google+, is "I love your photos, what camera do you use?". I do like to believe that my photos are good but it doesn't have all to do with the equipment I use.
In fact a lot of the shots in my portfolio are taken with an entry level Canon 450D which I loved with all my heart. It served me well on my backpacking trip through South America and proved that a camera is just a tool in the hands of a photographer. I mean, you wouldn't compliment a chef on the meal, because of the pots he used to cook it, right?
I also can't stress enough that the camera body you use is neither here nor there and it's all about lenses. If you're thinking about getting serious about photography spend your money on lenses because bodies come and go but, treated correctly, a good lens will last a lifetime.
So what Gear do I use now, When I take photos profesSionally?
It was a tough choice between the 5D mark III and the 6D but I went for the 6D mainly because it suits the type of photography I take. I didn't need the extra focus points, even if they are cross type, because 99% of the time I'm shooting landscapes. I simply don't need the extra speed that the Mark III offers. I do a lot of trekking so the weight was a big factor in deciding and I am very happy with the choice I made. Plus it saved me quite a few bucks that I could spend on lenses. Another win for me!
Hear about those new knives made out of laser bonded titanium carbide surfaces that only have to be sharpened every 25 years? Well this lens is so sharp it makes them seem blunt in comparison. I haven't read a single review that doesn't say that this is Canon's sharpest ultra wide angle. If your serious about landscape photography you need a serious wide angle and this is it.
This is my everyday walk about lens. On a full frame body 24mm is easily wide enough for landscapes and I like the quality throughout the entire focal range. It's relatively light and compact and is super sharp, the only thing I'd like is a barrel lock because I find sometimes (when I have my ND filters on) that the barrel slips forward.
I pretty much only use this lens for astrophotography. I could use it with more landscapes but because of the convex front I can't attach filters to it. For astro its absolutely fantastic but that's about as far as it goes for me. It's fully manual, which means no autofocus, no auto aperture, but that doesn't matter as there is no use for it in astrophotography anyway! Did I mention it's cheap and sharp? You seriously can't go wrong with this lens!
I don't use this lens as often as I should. It's extremely sharp (as with all L series Canon lenses) the cheapest in its kind and super fun to use. Trying to get landscapes shots with this lens adds a different perspective and really makes for some astonishing results.
Fantastic portrait lens and such a handy lens to have. My to go lens for any portrait photography and when I use it I'm always taken a back with how great the photos come out. It's small, light and compact but packs a huge punch and it's great value for money.
As a long term traveller and avid hiker I really value the weight of my backpack. This tripod is both relatively light, but very strong. This is the third Sirui tripod I've owned (the first one was aluminium which I then upgraded to carbon fibre and lost in an accident) I've only had one small issue so far with the first Sirui tripod I've had. One of the elements came loose, which was quickly fixed by their customer service and sent back to me.
The current tripod I own is waterproof and dust-proof, features that come in really handy in the rough environments I often shoot in. For someone who is shorter than me (I am 5'9"/177cm tall) I would recommend going with the smaller and lighter version of this tripod.
If you are looking for great quality that won't leave w huge hole in your wallet Sirui tripods and ballheads are the way to go. After using my GX10 ballhead for quiet some time I upgraded to K30x, however I quickly realized that it was a bit too big for my needs. K20x is the perfect size and weight for the type of photography I do and holds my camera and lenses with no problem. There are 3 adjustable knobs: 1 for tightening the plate, one for the ballhead movement and one for panning, The larger knob also has a little screw for adjusting the friction of the ball. Everything works smoothly and is easy to operate.
Without a doubt the best money I've spent on photography gear. The filters really make it easy to capture the moment, that you want to capture . They made such a huge difference to every one of my landscape shots (especially the 1.2/4 stop ND soft grad filter) by letting me to have more control on how much light is getting through to my sensor. Also their customer service is second to none. I highly recommend investing into their firecrest edition, though more expensive the built quality and colour neutrality is second to none!
So small but comes in so handy in many different situations. If you are serious about photography you have to invest in one of these. What's the point of carrying that heavy tripod around all the time if you don't have the shutter release? This little remote will help you create sharp photographs eliminating the camera shake which you create when pressing the shutter button. It's also essential for astro or long-exposure photography as it will allow you to keep the shutter open for longer than the maximum of 30 second that your dslr camera will allow.
This is one piece of equipment that I have been longing for a really long time. When I bought my former laptop, the macbook with retina display was just released onto the market and it wasn't affordable to me. I've waited for a couple of years and finally decided to turn to the dark side....or in this case bright side! It's fast, the screen is beautiful and it's a must have for a photographer. Their resell value is also fantastic if you ever decide to upgrade. I am telling you once you go Mac you never go back!
I'm not going to lie, I did try pirated versions of these programs, but I could never upgrade them, they would always crash or had other problems, I couldn't use plugins and generally they didn't work as they are supposed to. With the original versions I get to do everything and since Adobe created the pay monthly thing it hardly costs anything and finally became affordable. I pay 10AUD (ca. 8 Euros) a month, which is pretty much nothing considering I probably use them for a few hours each day. Having original versions put my mind at ease and for 10 Aussie bucks a month who was I to say no.
A very recent addition to my equipment and something that I had my eye on for a very long time. After being fed up with editing my photos on a touchpad and delivering chronic pain to my wrist I finally invested into graphics tablet. I've read so many positive reviews and articles saying why I should get it that I finally decided to buy one for myself. Editing photos became so much more enjoyable now. The pen that comes with it gives me incredible control over the cursor and speeds up my workflow. A must have for any photographer or graphic designer!
If you follow me on instagram you can spot me wearing this backpack quite often. This bag is awesome. It's big enough to fit all my photography gear, my laptop and enough clothes for a few days but small enough to be classed as hand luggage. The internal compartment unit (ICU), that is sold separately is well thought out and the build quality is second to none. In fact the build quality is that good that Fstop guarantees their bags FOR LIFE!!!!! With that said don't order your bag directly from their website! It will take forever to arrive. Rather search for their distributors!
If you shoot as much as I do, your internal hard drive is going to fill up fast and slow your computer down dramatically. In fact now when I made the transition to Macbook I promised myself to keep it as clean as possible at all times and store everything on my external hardrives. I have 2 because I usually make second copy of my photos. I would hate it when one harddrive broke down and all my content would be gone.
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Bivin may refer to:

Bivin (surname)
Bivin of Gorze (810–863), Frankish lay abbot
USS Bivin (DE-536), a US Navy destroyer escort named after Vernard Eugene Bivin

See also
Bivins

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Completed on May 4, 2009, Serenity Funeral Home offers a spacious, comfortable environment in which to hold visitation and funeral services. Materials, products, skills, and services needed to construct this building are in abundance in the area and were proudly utilized in completing the facility.
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