WASHINGTON: In our previous article, we discussed Friday's great news on the employment / unemployment front. Perhaps that's why ex-Obama officials and the media alike, are sniffing at April's impressive, nearly record-setting U-3 unemployment numbers. Instead, hard left sites like Slate urge gullible readers to move along from the unemployment issue, while offsetting Trump's economic achievements with fresh, fake unemployment news.
Nothing to see here, folks, move along. Ignore those impressive Trump unemployment achievements. As we all know, any positive economic news we're getting right was put into motion by Barack Obama, the 21st century's already legendary Lightworker.
Remember the Instapundit link we offered in our previous article. The referenced Slate article, by reliably hard-left "journalist" Jordan Weissmann, prefers to denigrate Trump's ongoing achievements on the unemployment front by decrying the alleged paltry wage increases in the American workforce under Trump.
In other words, anything good that's generated by Trump's economic policies is no longer news.
This false flag operation is doubly deceptive for two reasons.
Wage increases throughout the entire 8-year administration of Barack Obama were essentially nonexistent.
Either via retirement or via American industry's illegal but always-ignored habit of booting out senior employees at the peak of their earning power, so-called current "wage stagnation" is actually due to the widespread exit of Baby Boomers from the workforce. They are promptly replaced by less-experienced millennial workers, who, like young Boomers in the 1970s, generally enter the workforce at much-lower entry level wages.
This massive generational replacement exercises a deceptive "downward pressure" on wages that naysayers like Weissmann point to as a "failure" by the current administration to deliver on its promises. The very fact that millennials – unemployed and desperate under Obama – are finding work now is, in fact, a cause for celebration, as the American workforce is once again finding equilibrium, which will lead to further prosperity.
One Slate commenter rained on Weissmann's fake unemployment news parade rather succinctly.
By way of contrast, this commenter referenced another deceptive – and ultimately wrong – opinion piece published in Slate as "news" on February 3, 2017, not quite two weeks after Trump's inauguration. In it, a snide, self-assured Weissmann already declared Trump's economic policies an abject failure when compared to the heartbreaking genius of Obama's economic wizardry.
This is how Weissmann began.
The headline was your first clue that this was not news, but straightforward, uninformed opinion. After that first mushy sentence confirms your suspicions, the article goes rapidely downhill from there.
"The government would have gathered its data before the inauguration, so in a sense Friday morning's figures are really the last snapshot of the Obama economy. You could argue that Donald Trump's election was already having some sort of an effect—small business optimism went up a bunch after the election, markets were trading on his tweets, his agenda was shaping up—but it's not as if our Dorito in chief was making policy yet.
In other words, Trump could never hope to equal the brilliant economic achievements of Barack Obama. After the Lightworker's 8-year reign, what president could ever equal the wage and job stagnation championed by St. Barry the Great.
However, not long after this snide Slate fake unemployment news article, the U.S. unemployment rate experienced its final spike. That setback reflected the tail end of failed Obama administration economic policies. As always, they worked to tamp down and ultimately eliminate the middle-class.
Thereafter, both employment and unemployment numbers dramatically improved, and have been doing so consistently ever since. So much for "ruining" Obama's already dubious economic brilliance.
Nothing deters Obama's hard left promoters and acolytes from dumping on Trump with fake unemployment news. Obama supporters claim that Obama's 8 years of willful economic repression boosted the economy. That is an outright lie. As we've noted many times before in our columns, Obama's ultimate aim was to squeeze the middle class – Marx's petit bourgeoisie – out of existence. That's something he nearly accomplished before Trump took over the Oval Office.
Grabien, a news aggregation site, posts a CNN video of an interview with Obama's chief policy guide and Oval Office bouncer, Valerie Jarrett. On message as always, Jarrett, too, parrots the unwavering fake unemployment news meme. She immediately seeks to divert the topic back to the halcyon days of Obamanation. Like Slate, she claims that any improvement in U.S. job numbers reflects the good work done during the Lightworker's administration. Here's an excerpt.
The president that I had the pleasure of serving, President Obama, there was just nothing more important to him than his credibility, his honesty, his directness and his transparency with you in the press and of course the American people and his own team. He spent a lot of time and energy and focus on you and not on himself and thinking about what could we do to make our country strong, vibrant, grow our economy, make sure everybody gets a fair shot.
You've got to guffaw at Jarrett's over-the-top fake wrap-up of St. Barry the Great. It's certainly a lot funnier than any of the smutty "comedy" we heard at the most recent (and perhaps last) White House Correspondent's Dinner.
How do we counter the current barrage of fake unemployment news and pro-Obama propaganda from Slate and everywhere else?
With regard to American workforce news, the public must seek the truth in the obscure quadrants of the internet. Or the truth that almost accidentally appears in workmanlike government reports and statistics, like U-6. It's such real news that neither the swamp nor the MSM ever bother to cite. In fact, such real news is often blocked out and / or demoted in gamed, left-wing tainted search results.
As the saying goes, "The truth will make you free." It certainly will. But first, we have to dig beneath the fake unemployment news and fake employment statistics. Finding the actual truth requires considerable work to search out the truth on this issue and many others.
Your first step: Ignore the propaganda trumpeted by 24/7 fake news sites like Slate. And ignore the windy lies promoted by windy Obama acolytes like Valerie Jarrett.


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There's not much Cajun food in the Mile High City, a lack that Johanna Cooke started lamenting after her husband, a native of Louisiana native, first made gumbo for her back when they were dating. Since then, Cooke, who has worked in the food industry since she was fifteen -- most recently at the now-defunct Novo Coffee by the Denver Art Museum -- has been perfecting Cajun recipes and dreaming of someday showcasing them at her own restaurant.
An opportunity for a partnership arose when Parker Wiley, a bartender and groomsman in her wedding, had his own plans to open a bar fall through. Cooke and Wiley teamed up and began drawing up plans for The 1812, a restaurant and bar that would pay homage to the South. "It'll be half-and-half restaurant and bar," Cooke explains. "In the bar, we'll have a pool table and dart boards. But we'll also have a huge dining area, and I'll be cooking a menu of spicy Cajun food."
After the dinner hour, the space will convert into a dance floor and stage, where the partners will host live acts on a regular basis. "We want to support local bands," Cooke explains. "The music scene in Denver is amazing."
Their plan in hand, the partners began looking for a space, exploring real estate in Five Points, their preferred neighborhood. But after falling in love with a couple of properties, they hit a snag.
"We'd been trying to build a little momentum and get our name out there, so we were trolling angel-investor sites and working contacts," she explains. "But restaurants are a high-risk investment, and in this economy, we weren't finding the funding." But they didn't give up: Economic obstacles aside, Denver's s proven itself a good place to open a restaurant and attract customers, especially if you're doing something different -- like Cajun food.
So Cooke and Wiley decided to get creative, skipping the traditional funding routes and turning to Kickstarter, a crowd-funding site that helps entrepreneurs raise money by removing the burden of finding one big investor. "My brother used it to fund a band tour," Cooke says, "So we asked, 'Why not use it for a restaurant?'"
Kickstarter allows a group to put its project up on the site, explaining exactly how much money is needed and what it's needed for. Then friends, family and even perfect strangers can make contributions, which range from five bucks to hundreds of dollars, to help the entrepreneur reach the goal amount. (On Kickstarter, if the entrepreneur doesn't reach that goal, the money is returned to contributor.) Entrepreneurs often reward contributors with goods or services -- a dozen cupcakes, if they're trying to set up a bakery, or a piece of art, if they're trying to fund a gallery exhibition.
Many projects on Kickstarter and other sites like it, such as IndieGoGo, are smaller than what Cooke and Wiley have planned, so they came up with the idea of using crowd-funding in stages to generate enough money to launch The 1812.
"The first round of Kickstarter will be for marketing swag," says Cooke, explaining that they'll try to sell that to generate more revenue. "If that works out, we'll use it again to raise money for a lawyer." That lawyer will then review details of their plan, lease arrangements and liquor licensing. And from there, they'll try another round of funding to garner the money to back an actual bank loan.
"We're trying to reach critical mass," Cooke says of that final step. "We need to have a certain amount of money in the bank to show that this is a serious project."
Whatever the outcome of the individual campaigns, Cooke is optimistic that Kickstarter will give the pair enough exposure to ultimately make the project work. "We're using Kickstarter as a marketing campaign," she says. "Hopefully, someone will see it and want to jump on board."
Cooke doesn't have a set timeline for when The 1812 will open in Denver, but she hopes to ink a deal on a space in the coming months. You can follow the restaurant's progress on its Facebook page, which is also where Cooke will link to the Kickstarter campaign once it's live.


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Trainz Discussion Forums > Mainline - Development > Trainz Dev > Who Is Building or Updating Traincars to TANE Standards?
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I've now been directly involved in updating or building five different traincar assets (three of my own and a couple where I've advised other users) to the sort of standard that N3V are expecting for TANE and I've formed my own views of the advantages and drawbacks of the process, given the available tools.
It would be very useful to know how other authors are finding the process (if you don't have write access to TrainzDev feel free to comment by PM) Please keep your comments general if possible, specific issues are already getting enough attention in this forum.
Its clear that N3V tend to take more notice of complaints (and of compliments) when there is a certain weight of numbers behind them and if any clear patterns emerge from this enquiry it will be easier to press for improvements.
I am trying but as there are no TANE standards to go by and some bugs yet to be fixed it's kind of hard.
Perhaps we should define 'TANE standards' as meaning 'error-free in trainz-build 4.2'.
As mentioned elsewhere, I'm trying to build my current steam loco project to TANE standards including the efficiency criteria within the Preview Asset tool. That's on hold while I'm on holiday. Once I finish this loco I intend to redo my other locos. There are two of those with variants of one. Those may get a different kuid as the build structure is likely to be very different.
I don't think I yet have a guide, for want of a better term, for all the aspects of traincar building in TANE. I do have some ideas but I need to get them down on paper.
I have 3 RDCs (in my signature picture below) and a diesel electric locomotive and my created and yet to be upgraded Ghan and Indian Pacific coaches waiting to make TANE V 4.2 compliant, again, not TS12 but specific but for TANE V4.2 on compliant. I have yet to see what is all required for TANE to make these to work error free and others I indent to create. Please don't ask "what errors" as anyone else who created TS12 content and trying to make this V4.2 specific knows what errors one encounters in TANE. As said, I also reported these in the past but as it seems no notice is taken of reporting, why do it then?
Where are all the new tags, new features needed to make these working correctly, best to be found in one place (TANE specific)? Plus as said, not everything is fixed that was working faultless in TS12 but not in TANE, for me it is some nightmode, some autonumbering, some animation, specifically on simple 30 frames/sec fans on top of locomotives which go back and forth and do not rotate as they do so well in TS12.
Another issue I have is with normal mapping and specular being used on my TS12 created locomotives, where this looks exceptional well in TS12, yet in TANE you would think, what the hell is happening here and looking grotesque in TANE to say the least (somewhere posted here with pics by me in the forum a few months ago, as the search here is so lousy, I did not find the relevant pages). I had advise given to me to adjust the lighting in TANE to have my created locomotives looking reasonable, well hello, a user starting up a vanilla version of TANE and installing content is not likely to adjust lighting etc. just to give some assets a better look, as then other assets might/will look out of place.
I have TANE patched up to 76536, I am sick and tired to install patch after patch and not seeing my issues addressed at all, despite reporting these several times and have something broke, which was working before. No wonder one is losing interest as a CC, I guess, like some/many other CCs., it is really not very good saying by N3V, continue creating in TS12 and all will be well for TANE. Will it ever?
Now I usually only look in the developers forums, seeing hardly anything new posted and 10 minutes after I log out again. A sad state of affairs where we have now a "Trainz Content Creation Forum", a "Trainz Dev" forum and the always having been the all important "Content Creation Support" forum splitting our voices even more to be heard.
1. Getting traincars, and probably assets in general, working in 4.2 as they were in TS12. The latest build (78871) appears to address some of those issues. I rather think that would be a priority.
2. The guidance required to improve asset efficiency using the new tools. We, the TrainzDev community, should be able to provide that but it will take some time while we work it out for ourselves.
3. There are "odd" issues like the changes to materials that, while not actually an error, will annoy creators because they "don't look right" and mean new settings have to be determined. I've run into this problem.
So how do make a CDP if CM gives you an Error?


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module Authorize
  module ActionController
    def self.included(recipient)
      if recipient.respond_to?(:rescue_responses)
        recipient.rescue_responses['Authorize::AuthorizationError'] = :forbidden
      end
      recipient.extend(ClassMethods)
      recipient.class_eval do
        include InstanceMethods
        helper_method :permit?
        helper_method :permit
        helper_method :handle_authorization_failure
      end
    end

    module ClassMethods
      # Allow action-level authorization check with an appended before_filter.
      def permit(authorization_expression, options = {})
        auth_options = options.slice!(:only, :except)
        append_before_filter(options) do |controller|
          controller.permit(authorization_expression, auth_options)
        end
      end
    end

    module InstanceMethods
      # Simple predicate for authorization.
      def permit?(authorization_hash, options = {})
        authorization_hash.any? do |(modes, resource)|
          request_mask = Authorize::Permission::Mask[modes]
          roles = options[:roles] || self.roles
          Authorize::Permission.over(resource).as(roles).permit?(request_mask).tap do |authorized|
            Rails.logger.debug("Authorization check: #{authorized ? '✔' : '✖'} #{request_mask}")
          end
        end
      end

      # Allow method-level authorization checks.
      # permit (without a trailing question mark) invokes the callback "handle_authorization_failure" by default.
      # Specify :callback => false to turn off callbacks.
      def permit(authorization_hash, options = {})
        options = {:callback => :handle_authorization_failure}.merge(options)
        callback = options.delete(:callback)
        if permit?(authorization_hash, options)
          yield if block_given?
        else
          __send__(callback) if callback
        end
      end

      private
      # Handle authorization failure within permit.  Override this callback in your ApplicationController
      # for custom behavior.  This method typically returns the value for the around_filter
      def handle_authorization_failure
        raise Authorize::AuthorizationError, 'You are not authorized for the requested operation.'
      end
    end
  end
end

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PHILADELPHIA, August 28, 2006 – Graham Partners completed its fifth platform investment in just over a year, Friday, recapitalizing TransAxle LLC of Cinnaminson, New Jersey (www.TransAxle.com). TransAxle is one of the largest East Coast remanufacturers of transmissions, differentials, hydraulic pumps and other specialized components for medium and heavy-duty trucks, as well as off-highway equipment. The Company focuses on the "out-of-warranty" segment of the market through its captive branch network consisting of 16 locations across the Eastern Seaboard. TransAxle stands to benefit from the shift of the heavy-duty truck market from manual to automatic transmissions. The Company has also been taking share from independent rebuilders, which generally have limited product offerings, longer lead times and inexperience when it comes to repairing more complicated transmissions.
TransAxle represents Graham's fifteenth platform company investment and its fifth investment for Graham II, which closed at $465 million in April 2005. Graham's strategy is to acquire industrial businesses, such as TransAxle, that are benefiting from raw materials and technology conversion trends in their industries, where Graham can utilize its extensive operating resources and industrial network to add value during its holding period.
Broadly speaking, TransAxle participates in two segments of the $14 billion truck aftermarket: (i) the $6 billion power transmission and undercarriage segment and (ii) the $4 billion 'specialist' segment. In its geography, TransAxle's direct addressable market, specifically the market for transmission and differential aftermarket parts for medium and heavy-duty trucks, is roughly $860 million. Growth in the truck aftermarket is expected to continue due to an increase in the number of trucks in operation and the overall longer useful lives of trucks in service. According to MacKay & Company, the total number of miles traveled by trucks increased 109% between 1980 and 2004, driving growth in the replacement parts and service markets. Additionally, the specialist segment is expected to outpace growth in the overall truck aftermarket as specialists, such as TransAxle, continue to take share from single location independent operators.
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The Titans player who was voted the club's best by fans in the 2020 season
Fri 9 Oct 2020, 01:12 PM
A Gold Coast Bulletin's poll, running across the 2020 season has revealed what Titans player has been declared the best of their 2020 NRL season.
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TWO Titans have tied for the fan-voted player of the season award.
AJ Brimson and Moeaki Fotuaika finished the season with four man of the match performances, as voted by the fans, each.
A partnership between the Titans and Bulletin allowed you to have your say on the player of the round, with an official fan-voted player of the season award on offer at the end of the club's 2020 NRL campaign.
Fotuaika got the jump on his teammates early, polling all four of his votes in the first six rounds while all of Brimson's came in the last eight.
See how each of the player's who received votes stacked up below:
TOTAL PLAYER VOTES
AJ Brimson: 4
Fotuaika: 4
Jamal Fogarty: 3
Corey Thompson: 2
Brian Kelly: 2
Sami: 1
Young Tonumaipea: 1
Ash Taylor: 1
Beau Fermor: 1
Jarrod Wallace: 1

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Four other historical merchants are still at the foot of the canyon
Jan 5, 2023 Canyon, foot, Historical, merchants
Edward Soley (75 years old) could add two decades lying down, exercising his well-deserved retirement, but he has the Boqueria in his blood and he can't resist the temptation to visit the fruit and vegetable stall that his ancestors forged in 1864 every day. , a meeting point", he pointed out to this newspaper. Although he has already handed over the helm to his son Jaume, sixth generation Soley, he keeps his passion alive for this Barcelona souk, where he grew up under the counter when his mother was serving. He comes to be another Juanito from the Pinotxo bar, recently retired at 88 years old, who only health has brought down from hyperactivity.
The seasoned merchant is one of the –dwindling– examples of characters with a long history in the market who officially retire or not continue to wage war on a daily basis between the bustle of buyers and the avalanche of international visitors. In his case there is as much genetics (paternal branch of Boqueria vendors, and also maternal of 'farmers') as vocation. With the essential ingredient for the survival of a evolution towards new products and needs, without having to surrender to the tourist toll.
Thus, under Jaume's hand, for years they have been expanding their showcases with sauces, condiments, drinks, sweets and preserves, until they reach 2,500 references, specializing in food products from Argentina, Africa, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Chile and other tropical countries. They have hit a target in a city with more and more "mixed-race couples" and a kitchen that reflects the multiculturalism place, reflect. Spicy is now one of his strong points. And also hard-to-find products, from the 'nap' from La Cerdanya to Jerusalem artichokes or calabachó, the African limestone.
Soley jokes when summarizing that he began by "arriving every day by car at the Boqueria" until almost going "in a rocket", after so many stages that he has lived in the venue. But despite her age, she does not look back at the nostalgia, convinced that the evolution of markets throughout Europe (which he has actively visited) is the same, with 50 or 60% fresh product, as was tradition, compared to the rest processed. And he is one of those who believe that the Barcelona player "cannot be stopped or limited, you have to let it flowbecause it is society that makes it grow". "It has a life of its own thanks to tourism," he defends, arguing that the decline in local buyers is not due to the foreign presence but to the fact that "everyone has a supermarket or a greengrocer next door from home", and even quality markets in the neighbourhoods.
a few meters away, Carmen Goma has spent 59 of its 78 years dedicated to cod. She has reduced her hours but she resists full retirement, not only because the trade is in her blood and good health allows it. Also because she is critical of the current pension system and the distribution of aid, and she perceives a society with too many "lazy people and no work culture." In her position cod, which she bought when she was young with her husband, after having been a shop assistant for 12 years in the competition, the days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. have been common, she says. Her husband was a linotypist and also worked at the stop, to which she has dedicated her life.
A changing counter
That period has made him live on the front line major and rapid changes. In the last twenty years it has gone from four marble sinks overflowing with soaked cod, and many others hanging around the perimeter -as some photos display on the walls-, to just one. The rest of the space is now full of oils, salts, preserves and other products that can also be sold to tourism. "This part – the one with the cod, the croquettes and the fritters – is almost as I have assembled it this morning," she says, lamenting the poor sale traditional. "People now think more about traveling and eating out," she reasons. They prefer to have it prepared in a restaurant, even if it is frozen, and take the opportunity to point out that "critics of tourism" play that role "as soon as they go on vacation" and seek the same experiences.
The markets of Santa Caterina and Sant Antoni are too close for the current demand to supply the two salty fishing stalls of La Boqueria, which used to be six, he recalls. However, the establishment is already in charge of his son, guaranteeing continuity and the umbilical cord that links it to the market.
A few steps separate the sea from the meat in this universe of flavors. Perhaps the offal be the business that leaves less indifferent, between love and rejection of those viscera that are now living a golden moment. When the economy is not good, Menuts Rosa does especially well, as a super nutritious and affordable food, confesses Rosa Gabaldà, daughter of Francesca Gabaldà. The matriarch is quite an institution, in charge of an activity that her ancestors forged in 1900 in the courtyard of the 'payesas', until they moved to the interior.
Francesca, who at 75 has written her working life between La Boqueria, the Torrent del Gornal market and again the first, where she returned 25 years ago, has not had an easy life. After losing her parents, two children, and divorcing her in a short time, she was able to take flight with Rosa with a business turned into benchmark for many restaurants from Barcelona (even with a star) to which they supply.
Women have lived through the ups and downs of consumption: from the drop in sales due to the temporary discredit of offal, to the boom due to its success among a large migrant population that had it more integrated into their gastronomy, going through the mad cow crisis and the resurgence of the local cookbook with menus. It is enough to see the rhythm of orders of tripe and 'cap i pota' from the Pinotxo bar, which it supplies.
To cook or to heat
The interaction of both has been key over the years, because although tripe, liver, kidney or heart in all its rawness lead sales and the display case, the daughter -trained at Hofmann- supplies half of the display case with kidneys with onions and pine nuts, cheeks with plums and dried apricots, cap i pota with sanfaina, roasted cua and other vacuum-packed dishes, ready to be licked at home after a few minutes in the microwave. For this reason, she retired a decade ago but continues to look at her position as administrator of the company.
You have to cross the street to find another local referent, Carolina Palles, in this case wrapped in tulips, lilies, roses and fragrant Christmas eucalyptus. His is the most traditional flower stall on the Rambla, as the press clippings that adorn the interior attest, although its current design is a prototype from 1992. It can be called the 5th generation if you count the first Carolina that sold on a street basis. Then his great-grandmother took root in the most visited street in Barcelona, which would be followed by his grandmother, who even after being widowed fought alone for a business that did not stop even during the civil war, and poses with determination from the newspapers of the time with the doctors Fleming or Barraquer.
The five carolinas They can boast of having witnessed the intense cultural and media life of the Rambla. Both generations smile together with mayors and artists, from the immortalized past. It is not surprising that from a very young age the last Carolina (she has no descendants), and with a flower-growing father from Maresme, also flourished next to La Boqueria and made the leap to her counter. She now shares it with her sister Mercè de ella. "I am more of an artist and she also keeps the accounts," she sums up.
It is the only florist in the axis where everything is vegetable, without the souvenirs for the masses appearing. He attributes it to a "vocational" path that keeps loyal customers, who buy him a bouquet (now the small flower and the vintage style are triumphant, local whenever possible) who order the ornamentation for your weddings or parties. If the sisters could handle the pandemic and its drought, they can handle everything. "You must like this, because you are in the middle of the street, but I would not change it for anything". And he announces that when the clock strikes his retirement, he will ignore the alarm and continue flanking the Boqueria. Like Juanita did.
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They found that, for a cubic meter of pure water, the amount of time it will take for a nucleus to form is about one-millionth of a second. The study, conducted by Amir Haji-Akbari, a postdoctoral research associate, and Pablo Debenedetti, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, was published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cubic ice is made of double-diamond cages, each of which contains 14 water molecules arranged into seven interconnected six-member rings.
Hexagonal ice is made of hexagonal cages, each of which contains 12 water molecules arranged into two six-membered rings that sit on top of each other.
Using a computer model to explore how water molecules connect and nucleate into ice crystals, the researchers found that two types of ice compete for dominance during nucleation: cubic ice (blue) which is less stable, and hexagonal ice (red), which is stable and forms the majority of ice on Earth. Nucleation occurs when water molecules come together to form blobs (pictured above), which grow over time (left to right). Eventually hexagonal ice wins out (not shown). The researchers found that adding new cubic features onto an existing crystalline blob gives rise to nuclei that are more spherical, and hence more stable. In contrast, adding hexagonal features tends to give rise to chains of hexagonal cages that make the nucleus less spherical, and hence less stable.
Read the abstract: Haji-Akbari, Amir and Pablo G. Debenedetti. 2015. Direct calculation of ice homogenous nucleation rate for a molecular model of water. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition. Published online August 3, 2015.
Images courtesy of Amir Haji-Akbari, Princeton University.


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While attending Gamescom 2017, Ubisoft gave a preview to Elitegamer of the latest installment of their Anno franchise; Anno 1800. Even though it wasn't a live gameplay demo, we certainly got a feel for their vision of the game.
This game will highlight the age of Discovery, Diplomacy, and Trade.
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Q: Issue getting and storing memory address in array So, I'm having a bit of pointer issues.
I'm writing a function that stores memory addresses in a[].
These memory addresses point to actual data values in b[].
I'm having trouble getting the memory address from b to store in a.
// Assume these are initialized to 0 outside of this snippet
char a[100];
char b[100];
b[0] = 42;  // Some value for us to use

int* a_ptr = (int*)&a[0];    // Store the address of a[0] in a_ptr
int* b_ptr = (int*)&b[0];    // Store the address of b[0] in b_ptr

*a_ptr = (int)&b_ptr;   // PROBLEM LINE.  The first four bytes of a[]
                        // should contain the memory address of b[0].
                        // However, it does not.  Here are the debugger values:
                        // a_ptr = 0x00429148
                        // b_ptr = 0x00429151
                        // a[0] SHOULD be 0x00429151, but it is instead 0x0012fe4c.

Is there some trick I need to do to get 0x00429151 to be stored at a[0..3]?

A: *a_ptr = (int) b_ptr;

updated per comments

A: Nevermind...it's obviously too late.
To solve, change
 *a_ptr = (int)&b_ptr;

to
*a_ptr = (int)b_ptr;

A: Yikes - what a mess.  If a and b are arrays of char, then you don't want to create ints to them... an int is a bigger memory area than a char, and when you read you'll pick up other values beside the char and end up with an effectively random value.  If you try to store to the int, you'll clobber the char's value (possibly with an unintended value), while clobbering several values around it.
It's a very good idea not to use C-style casts (e.g. "(int*)") while learning C++.  If you use static_cast<> the compiler can tell you when you've made a big mistake.
So, what you want is:

  char* p_a = &a[0];
  char* p_b = &b[0];
  *p_a = *p_b;  // copy

A: Though there are better ways to do this, this probably is the closest to your approach
   int main(){
    char *a[100];        // not char but char *
    char b[100];
    b[0] = 42;          // Some value for us to use

    char** a_ptr = (char **)&a[0];    // Store the address of a[0] in a_ptr
    char* b_ptr = (char*)&b[0];       // Store the address of b[0] in b_ptr

    *a_ptr = b_ptr;
    }

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Its a good idea to refurbish an old laptop if you're still using it for your work. Laptops have a long life, and if starts to look dull doesn't means its no longer usable.
With just 10 minutes of effort, a laptop can gain the brightness of sun. Get a dishwashing liquid, which we use to clean dishes, glasses and window panes. They are best for cleaning laptop's outer body.
Take a few drops of liquid on a cotton cloth and rub the entire body of your laptop. You should start seeing the glow after one or two swipes. Carefully clean laptop's LCD, keys and lower part. Make sure you aren't using more liquid as it might seep into the inner parts of laptop which could be dangerous. Be careful while cleaning part over the battery, RAM and hard disk.
This would clean all dust that's accumulated over the laptop.
To give it more shine, you can use grease. Take minute drops of it over the laptop and swipe with a fresh cotton cloth. Initially, it'll look a bit darker but as you keep on rubbing cloth hard over the laptop it'll gain a shine that even a new laptop can't match. Don't do this on the laptop's screen as its delicate and can be easily damaged.
Cleaning an old laptop includes work on its keyboard as well. Keys can be cleaned using dishwashing liquid but problem comes when keyboard vents(space between keys) are dusted badly.
To make it clean, take out the keys carefully. Laptop keys can be easily plucked using screwdriver or compass. Its very easy, just follow the video tutorial below if you're a bit uneasy about it.
Once all keys are taken out, clean it with cotton cloth. If its very dusty then you can use dishwashing liquid too. Plug back the keys only when its completely clean and dry. And similar to the first case, you can use grease to give shine.
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Your laptop wouldn't give the feel till its working like a new laptop. So, if your laptop is working not that fine, give it a format. Before formatting, get a backup of all your data. This will help you restore back the data after a fresh windows is installed. For a fresh installation, you can go for Windows 7, rather than Windows Vsita. You can also wait for Windows 8 to come in the market.
These are probably the three most important things to revamp an older laptop to look like new one.
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Pidżama Porno (Porno Pyjamas) is a Polish punk rock / reggae / ska band.

History
The band was founded in December 1987 in Poznań, by Krzysztof "Grabaż" Grabowski and Andrzej "Kozak" Kozakiewicz, students of Adam Mickiewicz University, who originally come from the town of Piła. Two years later they recorded their first material, named Ulice jak stygmaty (Streets Like Stigmata). The band played at the Jarocin Festival and in 1990 went on a tour to Czechoslovakia as the first underground group from Poland.

In 1990 Pidżama Porno recorded their second album Futurista. Although, it was released in 1996, the demo was copied on MC's and shared through the fans.  To this day it remains very popular among Polish listeners. Soon afterward the group disbanded, to return in 1995. Their first material recorded after the break, Zamiast burzy (Instead of Storm) was very popular and made the band famous. Pidżama Porno started playing numerous concerts across Poland as well as Europe. Their songs were played frequently by various radio stations and subsequent albums confirmed the band's popularity. Also, Grabowski's intelligent lyrics greatly helped establish the group's position.

In 1996 Pidżama Porno signed a contract with S.P. Records, publisher of Kult (band) and Kazik. Their first achievement was Złodzieje zapalniczek (Thieves of Lighters) published in 1997. In 1998 Pidżama Porno released their next album called Styropian. This album included a song called "Antifa", which has become an anti-racist anthem amongst Polish youth.

Pidżama Porno re-released Ulice jak stygmaty, titled Ulice jak stygmaty - absolutne rarytasy in 1999. In the meantime they had more time to polish their new material, which was published in 2001. The name of their new album was Marchef w butonierce. Many young fans know this band only from the song "Twoja Generacja" ("Your Generation") released as the first single from this album. This is why Grabaż didn't like to play this song. The following two albums Koncertówka part 1 and Koncertówka 2. Drugi szczyt were bootlegs from Pidżama Porno's birthday concerts. In the meantime Grabaz formed a group called Strachy na Lachy. As the time went on, as Strachy na Lachy became popular in the media. Their last studio album was Bulgarskie Centrum (Bulgariam Centre) released in August 2004. In the opinion of fans this was Pidżama Porno's worst album, very similar to Grabaz's newer projects. At that time the band started to consider breaking up, which was announced on 13 July 2007. The band bid goodbye to their fans on their 20th birthday tour and by releasing a concert DVD titled Finalista. Their very last concert song was "Droga na Brześć" ("Road to Brest") from the "Bulgarian Centre", ending with "...Droga na Brześć, 666, trzymaj się, cześć!" ("...Road to Brest, 666, fare well, bye!").

The band reunited for the 30th anniversary of the Jarocin Festival and played one more concert on 17 July 2010.

The band consists of:
 Krzysztof "Grabaż" Grabowski – vocals
 Andrzej "Kozak" Kozakiewicz – guitar
 Slawek "Dziadek" Mizerkiewicz – guitar
 Julian "Julo" Piotrowiak – bass guitar
 Rafal "Kuzyn" Piotrowiak – drums

Discography

Studio albums

References

External links
 Official webpage
 Do Nieba Wzieci video
 Live performance
 Ezoteryczny Poznań video
 Twoja Generacja video
 Antifa (live at Przystanek Woodstock)
 "Droga na Brzesc" and the final goodbye with the fans, Poznan, 8.12.2007

Musical groups established in 1987
Polish rock music groups

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I remember those first modems which we all got with our first DSL lines, they were small, had no or just a few features, and were not that pretty to the eyes. Usually you only use the ones which you get with your service providers, as did I back then, but soon after I upgraded to a Dwl-2100ap. It was a minor upgrade, the Dwl-2100ap doesn't offer much, but it had a good wireless antenna, a neat setup wizard and was pretty easy to use. Everything was nicely explained inside the D-link Dwl-2100ap Manual.
Not only that, it was smallish and I could set it up where ever I wanted, which in this case was below my desk. But, as many other modems this one had a few flaws here and there, for which I needed a manual. In that case I had some hard time in finding the proper one since I threw away the one which I got with the device. If you are in a similar situation don't worry, I got you covered with a PDF version of it. So if you are looking for the D-Link DWL-2100AP manual pdf, just visit this link, you can thank me later.


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COVERING DESTRUCTION: A BOSTON WRITER REFLECTS ON FATEFUL ASSIGNMENT 15 YEARS LATER
Written by DAVE WEDGE Posted September 11, 2016 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS
After graduating Boston College in the mid-'90s, I spent the better part of 20 years covering crime, including 14 years at the Boston Herald. Serial killers, gangland slayings, horrible domestic bloodbaths, catastrophic fires, workplace massacres, rapists, cults, houses of horrors—I reported on it all. So much so that I shifted to politics in the mid-2000s to get away from the so-called "blood and guts" beat—a term most used by jaded journos to describe covering nonstop violence. Even after I switched my focus to politics though, I often returned to breaking news and crime when major stories broke.
I did so for the last time on April 15, 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers bombed the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 250. I was there in Watertown when they shot it out with an army of cops after they gunned down MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. And I was there in Watertown when they caught Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in Dave Henneberry's boat.
The marathon was the end for me with daily news. I still love journalism, but the daily grind of death and destruction and the parade of the dead takes its toll. So I left the Herald in November 2013 and wrote a book about the bombings called "Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy," the inspiration for which actually came from a New York City cop who took me into Ground Zero the day after the Twin Towers fell. The same officer texted me after the bombs went off on Boylston Street and told me: "Take good notes. You're going to write a book about this someday."
I thought nothing of it, but did what he said, and those meticulous notes I took during that April 2013 week became invaluable as I wrote the book with my co-author Casey Sherman.
The seeds for the book and my post-newspaper career were planted on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. I was 31 years old and had been at the Herald for two years. My daughter, who just started her senior year of high school last week, was just two. My mother had recently been diagnosed with cancer and was at our family home in Brockton, slowly dying.
I had just finished an investigative series for the Herald on the controversial Twelve Tribes cult, which ironically enough was back in the news recently because of racism allegations, and was getting ready to go to Plymouth to interview the group's elusive leader, Eugene Spriggs. As I was packing up my stuff, I got a call from my editor who said, "Turn on the TV. I need you to go to New York."
I flipped it on and saw one of the World Trade Center towers smoking from a plane that crashed into it.
"For what? It looks like a small plane hit a building in New York. Why are you sending me?" I asked.
"Well, the plane came out of Logan we think," was his response.
Just as the words came out of his mouth, the second plane hit and my life, like all of our lives, changed forever. We both realized we were under attack.
"Get going. Now. Get in your car and drive to New York," he told me.
"On my way."
The Boston Herald (late edition) September 11, 2001
As I drove toward Manhattan on I-95, I fielded a flurry of calls from my mom, my sisters, my dad, friends. They all wanted to know why I was going down. My mother called and told me that a plane had also hit the Pentagon. Another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
"David, please. Please don't go," she pleaded with me.
"Mom, I'll be fine. It's my job and I have to go. I'll be OK."
I told her that if things got worse, to go pick up my daughter and my sister and drive to Vermont, where my other sister lived. My mom was crying. I lost her a year later.
Listening to the news on terrestrial radio—there was no real mobile internet, Sirius, Twitter, Facebook, etc. back then—I learned they were closing all roads in and out of New York. There was little traffic headed south on 95, save for ambulances, construction trucks, and emergency vehicles, but traffic was pretty heavy coming north.
I made it to Connecticut and pulled off an exit near the water. I asked around at a marina for someone to take me into the city. One salty ship owner told me the Coast Guard had all the waterways sealed off too. So I called one of my photographers who was from New York City and asked him how to get into the city. He directed me to an obscure parkway—I believe it was the Saw Mill—and said that would get me into the Bronx. From there, I would be on my own.
I made it into the Bronx, dumped my car in a fenced-in pay lot around 200th street, grabbed a couple notebooks and pens, my keys and the clothes on my back and started walking toward the war zone. I walked for several dozen blocks, watching a parade of ambulances and police cars whiz by me. I saw a cop getting in his cruiser on a corner, showed him my press pass and asked him to give me a ride downtown.
"Hop on the subway," he said, pointing to a station behind me.
"The trains are running?" I asked, incredulous.
"Yeah," he said casually.
I took his advice and hopped on some train that took me down to Church Street, where I exited. I later thought about how crazy it was to get onto a subway during a terror attack, but at the time, it never crossed my mind. I just needed to get to Ground Zero.
As I emerged from the train station, the streets were quiet and groups of people slowly sauntered toward me looking dazed, some covered in dust. A doctor came toward me with a few blood spots on his scrubs. I told him I was from the Boston Herald and asked if I could talk to him about what was going on.
"There's no one down there to save," he said, his voice cracking. He had a vacant look on his face. "There's no one."
I walked by Pace University, where hordes of volunteers were hammering together makeshift stretchers out of plywood and two-by-fours—none of which would ever be used as there was no one to rescue. I made my way down to Tribeca and into Ground Zero, walking through piles of dust and debris. There were no police barricades and no streets were blocked off. It was a war zone. I passed a fire engine that was crushed and was about as tall as me. I saw cars squashed like toys.
A thick, grayish smog hung in the air, haunting the scene as though created by special effects guys for a bad disaster movie. There was a smell too. It wasn't quite smoke or burning, but it was distinct and there are times I can still smell it today. My footsteps occasionally puffed up that gray dust that we have all seen in so many videos and news clips. It covered my skin and hair. I wandered aimlessly, watching half-burned documents rain from the sky. I grabbed a few—one was from the First National Bank of China. The edges were charred. I still have it today.
I stumbled into a burned-out McDonald's and found a group of firefighters, exhausted, smoking cigarettes and resting. Some were practically catatonic. The floor was completely flooded. No one was talking. I walked in, looked around, said nothing, and walked out.
I ran into an old friend from college who lived in the neighborhood. We walked to his apartment near Church Street, went on the roof and surveyed the carnage and chaos. At some point, I walked back uptown to the Paramount Hotel, where I had a room booked. I sent a bunch of color and quotes from witnesses back to another reporter who wrote up our story of the horror that was unfolding in New York.
I later met up with some fellow Herald reporters for dinner, including a photographer and a reporter who happened to be in town covering Fashion Week but shifted over to breaking news after the planes hit. Both looked pale and somber, like ghosts. The photographer told me he watched people jumping from the burning buildings. He had some of them in his sights as he snapped pictures of the building, but he told me he just couldn't bring himself to take pictures of the people plunging to their deaths, even though he knew it was his job.
He no longer works in news.
I spent about 10 days in lower Manhattan covering the attacks and their aftermath. On Sept. 12, I met a cop from the First Precinct who took me and a photographer into Ground Zero. We were there when they pulled remains from the pile and when President Bush stood atop the wreckage with his bullhorn, vowing revenge. This cop became a great friend and I'll always appreciate how he helped me through that hell in New York and guided me when terror hit Boston a decade later.
When I returned here from New York, I never looked at my job, the news, or life the same again. So many of the routine crime, court, and corruption stories that I covered after that seemed mundane. A grizzled old veteran photo editor told me upon my return: "You're not a kid anymore."
As I reflect 15 years after 9/11, I really don't know how I feel. Part of me simply feels the march of time, but part of me feels anger and sadness at a world that hasn't learned many lessons from that horrible tragedy. Really, the only lesson we've all learned is that terrorism is a harsh reality of life as we know it. Us Gen Xers knew nothing of war until Desert Storm in 1991, and were completely shocked that something like 9/11 could ever happen on American soil. But those born in the mid-90s or later only know a world where war is constant and deadly terrorism at home is not only a possibility, but a likelihood. It makes me sad that my children only know this world, and not the one before it all changed when jetliners became missiles in New York and Washington, D.C.
Sometimes I reflect on the way people helped each other in New York after the attacks. I saw that same spirit in Boston after the bombings and continue to see it in the resilience of the survivors and in the generosity of those who have helped those impacted by the Boston bombings.
It's amazing to think about how back on 9/11, 15 years ago, my daughter was in diapers and was watching Dora the Explorer and Spongebob. A couple weeks ago, she bought her first car and she just started her senior year of high school. As she goes off to college next year, I can only hope that she and her entire generation, as well as those behind her, can embrace that spirit of communal kindness and help make this world a better place, so we have less of these tragic anniversaries to celebrate in the future.
DAVE WEDGE
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Arrivals & Departures Seminyak's new farm-to-table restaurant has a rooftop cocktail bar
By Gemma Nisbet
Travel Photojournalist
The "fresh and sustainable bistro" and rooftop bar are the latest ventures for English-born chef Ryan Clift, previously head chef at Melbourne's Vue de Monde.
These days no trip to Seminyak is complete with a very good meal or two (or three), with the bustling Balinese precinct having become well known for its broad range of sophisticated, quality restaurants and bars.
One of the newer additions to that scene comes with a farm-to-table concept, a renowned chef and one of the area's few rooftop bars.
GROW restaurant is a collaboration between the 29-suite L Hotel Seminyak and English-born chef Ryan Clift, who was previously head chef at Melbourne's Vue de Monde and currently heads up the award-winning Tippling Club in Singapore.
Billed as a "product-centric, fresh and sustainable bistro", GROW serves the likes of chocolate quinoa porridge and red beet crepes for breakfast, along with all-day dining dishes such as Lombok oysters with pickled cucumber and parsley, strozzapreti pasta with 48-hour braised oxtail ragout and pork belly with pumpkin puree and masala juice.
Desserts include carrot sponge cake with infused carrots, cream cheese and carrot crisp, and roast mango with coconut sorbet and coriander.
Seminyak's GROW restaurant. Supplied
Produce is sourced from a farm in Kintamani in north-east Bali, while meat and seafood are 100 per cent locally sourced and the pasta is handmade from local semolina. In addition, most members of Clift's culinary team are from Bali and elsewhere in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, rooftop bar GROW UP has an open-air terrace and sheltered bar area, and serves small share plates alongside cocktails such as the rum-based Fla-Min-Grow, with lime, pineapple juice, beetroot and coconut cream, and the Clift, which combines vodka, lychee, rosemary, lemon and raspberry.
GROW is currently offering a two-course lunch menu for 150,000 rupiah ($14) and three-course lunch menu for 180,000 rupiah ($17), with dishes including fresh burrata, roasted grouper and cinnamon thyme panna cotta.
Rooftop bar GROW UP, in Seminyak. Supplied
GROW restaurant is open seven days from 7am to midnight.
GROW UP rooftop bar is open seven days from 5.30pm to midnight.
For more information, go to growbali.com.


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Eagles Nest into Gaming Competitively
Coach Stephen Haberman
This fall, Eastern launched a brand new addition to our athletic offerings: Esports.
If you're wondering "What in the world is that?," this article is for you!
Why Esports?
While Esports is technically short for "electronic sports," it's much more than that. Esports is the culmination of a passion for gaming and a dedication to improving one's ability to strategize and engage in high-level team competition.
Esports is rapidly becoming a popular athletic offering in colleges across the nation in keeping up with the emerging technological age. Our athletic director Eric McNelley announced this new program by sharing, "We see esports as a great platform for growth in our University and Department – I look forward to seeing us build a winning program in this exciting and popular competition."
Eastern University's new esports teams run the gamut of video game categories including first- person controlled experiences, character combat wrestling matches, and digital athletic contests – even rocket-powered cars playing soccer. The sport is coed and allows any current, full-time student to try out.
Our teams will compete at the varsity level in the National Association of Collegiate Esports conference with other top programs from all across the country. Esports is also the only sport at Eastern where we will be able to offer scholarships to incoming players.
This summer, the old nursing lab in the Eagle Learning Center was converted into our new esports facility. This 1200-square-foot room now showcases 16 high-end PCs as well as comfortable, state-of-the-art gaming chairs.
This new facility will provide valuable skill-based training in technical support, public speaking, IT, social media management, and livestream broadcasting. Students will develop skills in team building and cooperative competition, all while presenting the school with an entirely new population of potential future Eagles.
Positives of Esports
The gaming community has long been stigmatized as an "anti-social" or "aggressive" group of individuals who release their energy on digital opposition. However, Eastern's approach to gaming capitalizes on the positive effects of esports by celebrating collaboration, promoting competition, and integrating our unique faith-based values.
Additionally, our team will also be active in "paying it forward," whether that be competing to raise money for Doctors Without Borders or participating in other gaming marathons for a specific cause. Eastern's new esports venture gives our institution a new, modern way of conveying our foundation of Faith, Reason, and Justice to a unique and untapped audience.
Experience Esports for Yourself!
It's one thing to have esports explained to you, but it's another to experience it for yourself. We invite you to join us and watch Eastern's new esports team in real time!
We are extremely excited about our first competitive season as an official EU team. As they say in gaming, GL and HF! (Good Luck and Have Fun!)
This article was originally featured in the Fall 2020 Edition of Eastern Magazine. View the full magazine here.
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