Look at all that cake.
Today is the last day to get two free slices of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory.
To qualify, you need to purchase a $25 gift card.
The free slices come in the form of two e-gift cards, which can be used on future visits.
Get your holiday shopping done while also treating yourself.
One of the best ways to feel joy during the holiday season is seeing the happiness you can bring to someone when you give them a gift they really want. The second greatest source of joy? Gifting your taste buds with the truly magical part of Christmas — all of those sweet holiday treats.
This year, The Cheesecake Factory is combining both of those sources of joy by giving you a little something extra when you purchase a gift card for someone else. Beginning on Black Friday, you'll get two free slices of cheesecake when you buy a $25 gift card from The Cheesecake Factory, either online or in the restaurant. The deal runs Nov. 23-26 — so add this to your Black Friday shopping list!
After you buy a gift card, your free slices will come in the form of two e-gift cards, which can be used on future visits anytime from Jan. 1- March 31, 2019. You'll only be able to use one card at a time, meaning one slice per customer, per visit, but that just means you'll have an excuse to hit up The Cheesecake Factory twice next year.
While there's no telling what seasonal flavors you'll find when you can use the cards, if you'll be heading to the restaurant to buy the gift cards in person, you'll find some pretty amazing flavors you should definitely treat yourself to right now, such as pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin pecan cheesecake. And since this deal starts after Thanksgiving, you'll also be able to order peppermint bark cheesecake— the ultimate post-Turkey day treat.
Will you be buying some Cheesecake Factory gift cards — and getting yourself some free cheesecake?


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RFE President Gedmin Awarded Honorary Doctorate By Tbilisi State University
Georgia -- Gedmin speaking at Tbilisi State University
(Tbilisi, Georgia) In remarks made at Tbilisi State University today, RFE President Jeffrey Gedmin told an audience of 200 students and faculty that "there can be no freedom without free media. A free press is critical to the evolution of democracy."
Gedmin spoke at a ceremony at the oldest institution of higher education in the Caucasus, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate.
In his acceptance remarks, Gedmin spoke about the challenges of building a vibrant democracy. He discussed the crucial role played by a free press and RFE's historic contributions to Georgian civil society.
Gedmin also highlighted RFE's newest initiative in the region, Ekho Kavkaza, a Russian-language news service to the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Recipients of the honorary doctorate from Georgia's national university have included U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, U.S. national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Estonian President Toomas Ilves, and UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
During the three day visit to Tbilisi, Gedmin discussed corruption, media freedom, and civil society with a range of senior government officials, opposition activists, and NGO leaders. He was accompanied on the trip by two members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), RFE chairman Dennis Mulhaupt and Victor Ashe.
Last year, the Czech Minister of Defense awarded Gedmin the Golden Linden Medal for his "exceptional role towards the expansion of NATO." Gedmin is a former director of the Aspen Institute Berlin and was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he led the New Atlantic Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in German Area Studies and Linguistics from Georgetown University and is an honorary professor at the University of Konstanz (Germany).
About RFE's Georgian Service
RFE's Georgian Service, known locally as Radio Tavisupleba, began in 1953 as part of Radio Liberty's broadcasts to the Soviet Union. It broadcasts live on FM and online for four hours daily and produces a weekly cultural television program on Georgia Public Television. Radio Tavisupleba is widely regarded as the only unbiased source of information in Georgia.

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Carbon County residents are used to wind. It comes with the territory. But perhaps everyone has gotten a little spoiled the last two years with rather mild wind. However, on Friday night, Nov. 2, the wind came and blustered through the county. The Bridger area had its share as well as Red Lodge.
The Lady Scouts brought home their 20th District Championship Trophy in Absarokee this past Saturday. They did it in a strong effort, in which they bested their opponents by sweeping all of the games in three. This allowed for all-of-the players to get floor time, always helpful for the younger team members to see some action.
The Fromberg Falcons lost the play-in game against Plenty Coups to end their interest in the District 4-C tournament last weekend. They went down 4-1 (16-25, 25-12, 26-24, 25-27,15-10).
Belfry entertained Park City losing 3-0 (25-9, 25-10, 25-13) and went on to face Custer Hysham who defeated the bats 3-0, 25-18, 25-20. 25-20. Stats from this game show that the team made 15 kills Katy Parker on 8; 14 assists with Alyssa Tharmahlen on 8; 39 digs with Whitney Herden on 12 and Katy Parker making 5 aces out of a team total of 12.
Paul McKay, son, brother, grandson and friend, was taken from us on October 25, 2018. He was born August 17, 2002.
He was actively involved in the Joliet music department being in jazz band, pep band, concert band and Tri-County Honor Band; football, FFA, and the Fromberg Go-Getters 4-H Club.
He enjoyed hunting, fishing, helping neighbors and anything outside. Last summer he worked for a local farmer where he took pride in his job, working hard. Paul had the ability to make friends wherever he went, young or old.
Absarokee play Bridger at 4 p.m. Friday.
A head-on crash north of Fromberg Thursday morning claimed the lives of two people. The driver of a Dodge pickup was 16-year-old Paul McKay from Fromberg, a sophomore at Joliet High School. The driver of the Ford pickup was a 56-year-old Michael Oedekoven from Billings. According to the Carbon County Sheriff's Department, both drivers died from blunt force injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.
Over Oct. 5-6, Bridger Cares held their annual clothing swap. Seven years ago Patricia Mitch began the Bridger Cares Clothing Swap. For the past few years Mary Sink and her sister Diane Lesser, have headed this worthwhile community service.
Posters are put up during September asking people to donate clothing in good condition. Then on the first Friday and Saturday of October, people are encouraged to bring and take home whatever is available free of charge.
It was a great time had by all on Friday, Oct. 12, and perhaps for the main reason, it was a chance to feed hungry families in Carbon County at the first Annual Dinner, Dance and Auction. Over $36,000 was raised at the affair held in Billings at the Columbia Hall from 6 p.m.-12 a.m. About 250 people attended.
Construction continues on the West Laurel interstate project. The last sections of gravel are being placed and the contractor is pouring the barrier rail on the new bridge. Topsoil placement and seeding are underway and will continue next week. Crews are tentatively scheduled to start paving by the end of October and traffic will be restored to normal configuration in November.
The Belfry Bats played out an enthralling encounter with Plenty Coups last week coming from 2 sets down to defeat the visitors 3-2.
The bats produced 22 aces and 28 kills to destroy Plenty Coups 25-21, 25-18, 22-25, 20-25, 16-18. Katy Parker got 6 aces and Kenzie Herden 4; with Cassidy Litten on 7 kills and Parker on 14.
The team worked hard making 66 digs, Regina Fisher and Herden both on 14, and Whitney Herden and Alyssa Thormahlen getting 20 of the 24 assists.


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The Abandons Season 1: Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer And Everything You Want To Know!
Crossing Swords Season 2: Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, And Other Latest Updates!
By Sophia Wadke
Will Squire Patrick be there to protect the Kingdom in season 2? Never be worried! Hulu released a confirmation that Crossing Swords is being renewed for season 2! And as if that is not exciting enough, Hulu also confirmed that there will be a season 3! The news came in less than a week after the premiere of the first season! Just like most streaming channels, Hulu did not reveal the numbers in show's viewership. But fans can be certain that the series definitely hit a high note! The question is, who returns in season 2? When will the second season premiere? Is there a trailer? What happens in season 2?
Crossing Swords Season 2 Release Date: When will it out?
Following the onset of the pandemic, filming and production had to be halted. We do not have a release date set for Crossing Swords Season 2 yet. Many series and shows have not been able to implement the quarantine restrictions. Fans will have to wait a bit longer for producers to adapt to the restrictions. According to the show's producer, it is not easy to work from home since there is not enough technology for that. With the prevalence of these obstacles, we might have to wait until 2022 for the second season of Crossing Swords or even later. However, fans should not fear since the producers are doing their best to ensure the show is back on the air!
Crossing Swords Season 2 Cast: Who will be in?
There is no official announcement of the cast for season 2 so far. However, where would Crossing Swords be without the protagonist, Patrick, played by Nicholas Hoult? We should also expect to see Luke Evans (The Alienist season 3 star) return as the voice of King Merriman. We should, of course, expect the return of the royal family. Alanna Ubach, who voices Queen Tulip (King Merriman's wife), and Maya Erskine, who voices Princess Blossom (the daughter of King Merriman and Queen Tulip) are expected to return. Jameela Jamil, who plays Diane Sloane, is also expected to make a return.
Crossing Swords Season 1 Recap:
Patrick lands a much-coveted position at the castle. We witness how Patrick goes through hell, trying to protect the Kingdom. He also realizes that the Kingdom is full of crooks. To make matters worse, his criminal siblings return to make life a hell for him. We also see Diane's mother (the rightful heir to the throne) being locked up in the castle. Diane returns to seek vengeance on the king on behalf of her mother. Of course, Patrick foils her plans, but not before she blew up the castle and flees.
Crossing Swords Season 2 Plot: What will happen?
We are likely to witness another attempt by Diane to assassinate the royal family and dethrone King Merriman. But once again, will Patrick spoil the party? Will the Kingdom fall or rebuild? Patrick's guilt of Danielle's deceit might also his sense of responsibility towards the Kingdom. We'll just have to wait and see!
Crossing Swords Season 2 Trailer: When will it watch?
Currently, there no official trailer of season 2. However, you can have a glimpse of what season one has! Watch Patrick defending the Kingdom! A square never drops his sword, and Patrick will always hold his sword high!
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Q: Remove the large spacing between before and after discrete x-axis values in ggplot2 in r I have the following data:
L <- c(215,200,186,237,220,206,257,240,226,276,260,243,297,280,263,318,300,283)
UG <- c(rep("UG-84",3),rep("UG-92",3),rep("UG-100",3),rep("UG-108",3),rep("UG-116",3),rep("UG-124",3))
S <- c(rep(c(9,12,15),3))
figure2 <- data.frame(S=S,UG=UG,L=L)

When I try to plot it, I get a large spacing before and after the factor x-axis values (I want to show these exact numbers on the x-axis which is why i did not go with continuous)
ggplot(figure2) +
aes(x = as.factor(S), y = L, colour = UG, group = UG) + geom_line(size = 1L) +
geom_point() + geom_text(aes(label = L), hjust = 0.5,  vjust = -1) +
scale_color_hue() + theme_classic() +
labs(x = "Girder Spacing (ft)", y = "Max Span Length (ft)",
  title = "Ultra-Girder Estimated Maximum Span Lengths",
  subtitle = "Designed with 22 ksi UHPC",
  caption = "Designed Based on AASHTO LRFD Specifications and The Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concretes—Interim Recommendations",
  color = element_blank()) + theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, margin = margin(40,0,5,0),
      face = "bold", size = 18),
      plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5, margin = margin(5,0,45,0), size = 10),
      axis.title.y = element_text(margin = margin(0,20,0,0)),
      axis.title.x = element_text(margin = margin(20,0,40,0)),
      legend.title.align = 0.5, legend.position = "right5",
      legend.box.background = element_rect(colour = "black", size = 0.5),
      legend.box.margin = margin(5,10,0,5))

A: Try with expand inside scale_x_discrete() option:
library(ggplot2)
#Data
L <- c(215,200,186,237,220,206,257,240,226,276,260,243,297,280,263,318,300,283)
UG <- c(rep("UG-84",3),rep("UG-92",3),rep("UG-100",3),rep("UG-108",3),rep("UG-116",3),rep("UG-124",3))
S <- c(rep(c(9,12,15),3))
figure2 <- data.frame(S=S,UG=UG,L=L)
#Plot
ggplot(figure2) +
  aes(x = as.factor(S), y = L, colour = UG, group = UG) + geom_line(size = 1L) +
  scale_x_discrete(expand = c(0.01,0))+
  scale_color_hue() + theme_classic() +
  labs(x = "Girder Spacing (ft)", y = "Max Span Length (ft)",
       title = "Ultra-Girder Estimated Maximum Span Lengths",
       subtitle = "Designed with 22 ksi UHPC",
       caption = "Designed Based on AASHTO LRFD Specifications and The Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concretes—Interim Recommendations",
       color = element_blank()) + theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, margin = margin(40,0,5,0),
                                                                  face = "bold", size = 18),
                                        plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5, margin = margin(5,0,45,0), size = 10),
                                        axis.title.y = element_text(margin = margin(0,20,0,0)),
                                        axis.title.x = element_text(margin = margin(20,0,40,0)),
                                        legend.title.align = 0.5, legend.position = "right5",
                                        legend.box.background = element_rect(colour = "black", size = 0.5),
                                        legend.box.margin = margin(5,10,0,5))

Output:

A: You should use a continuous scale and specify the axis breaks that you want:
ggplot(figure2) +
 ## remove the factor() around S
 aes(x = S, y = L, colour = UG, group = UG) + geom_line(size = 1L) +
 ## specify breaks
 ## you could also use `breaks = unique(figure2$S)` if you want it based directly on the data
 scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(9, 12, 15)) +
 scale_color_hue() +
 theme_classic() + ...
 ### ... all the same labs and theme as in your question

You could remove the padding from the discrete scale with scale_x_discrete(expand = expansion(0, 0)) (or completely remove the padding from the continuous scale by giving expand = expansion(0, 0) as an argument to scale_x_continuous)), but it's a bad habit to use discrete scales on continuous data. If your data point didn't happen to be evenly spaced, you'd end up distorting the data by using a discrete scale.

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Business news viewers are often greeted by a strange sight. Seasoned veterans watching twenty-something aspiring entrepreneurs confidently, "pitching" business plans and asking for investments. On offer is a minority stake in the proposed business.
Even more surprising still is these veterans actually bid for how low a stake they are willing to settle for. The seasoned businessman, the investor, the capital provider, actually works hard to justify that these young entrepreneurs ought to take their money.
Will this endure? An example from the past ought to answer that question. When Nasscom first put out the estimate of $100 billion as export revenues from software, people laughed. They thought it impossible the industry can become 6-8% of GDP.
So, will Indian e-commerce get big? Yes. Will there be busts and booms along the way? Yes. But for now, let us celebrate the energy. And celebrate that instead of having to go to Nasdaq for a listing, global capital providers are right here. And if Indian Very High Net Worth Individual (VHNWI) capital wants to participate, they need to come in at these "crazy" valuations. That's not going to change.
The financing of this is itself a revolution of sorts. Because shorn of all jargon, the financing of new ideas is a negotiation between the capital provider and the entrepreneurial team. Who has the upper hand is determined by options available to both parties. The more the competition between people willing to back the entrepreneurial team, the lesser they have to give out as equity. Until very recently, it was always the guys with capital that had the upper hand. Today, qualified people with a plan have options and can negotiate from a position of strength.
For those of us who been in the equity markets, this transformation has been a long time coming. We have looked wistfully at the US and its Venture Capital industry since the dot com days and wondered when such a market for ideas will emerge in India. It seems to have arrived.
While it came in as an imported phenomenon with global capital seeking returns in India, local capital has jumped in as well. On offer are incubators and accelerators to funds that provide successful senior executives the support they need to replicate their earlier successes.
This phenomenon is driven by demand for rapidly scalable businesses to fund or mentor. Global investors looking for the next Amazon, the next Alibaba, the next Infosys, the next everything. Large companies world wide are looking for the next big thing in their industry. We are importing the hoopla - along with what some would call crazy valuations - from beyond our shores!
This import takes many forms. At one level, seasoned businessmen and investors are willing to back people they think can create the next Flipkart. Why? Because otherwise they lose the deal. Good on all the entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs. And good for all the start-ups incubators and accelerators.
Another form this takes is that it creates a group of wealthy individuals who want to see if they can hop on for the ride again and "guide" some other start up and do it all over again. Why? Again, because the market at the top end exists and it can be done. Take away that market and the capital will again either seek safer investments in areas like real estate or a higher stake in the new business at a lower valuation.
As global companies realise that if they hope to get an inside track into new ideas and innovations in their industry, they need to set up shop as investors themselves. This trend has been given a new moniker - Corporate Venturing. Two things are particularly heartening in this context. First, that a large number of marquee global companies have set up an India arm. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Intel, for instance. Second, all leading Indian software companies are in the process of setting up Corporate Venture arms.
People insist that this is a sliver of India's economy that will not impact anything else. By way of evidence, they point to how shallow our traditional businesses are. Sure, a lot still needs to be done. But let me just say that even for a traditional industry like automobiles, General Motors Ventures, Ford Motor Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Daimler Ventures, Honda Ventures, Bosch Ventures all exist and are very active. Again GE Ventures and Siemens Ventures also exist and are active. It is a matter of time before the dynamic of enterprise versus capital shifts in favour of enterprise even in those sectors.
So yes I concede that there is a long way to go.
But for now, I insist, let us celebrate.


'17, is a excerpt of evening length work REBELLION, which premiered in the summer of 2017. This duet, performed by Miryam Johnson and Shanice Rollins, explores the continued fight for equality of the Black Community today. With many of the same struggles and concerns as the rebellions of 50 plus years ago, the work asks "How far have we come?" while simultaneously thanking elder generations for all they've endured.


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reclusive blogauthor makes public appearance one night only
Ok. So I've said lots about what I did this weekend. What about what I didn't do? I was supposed to WORK ON BOOK WORK ON BOOK WORK ON BOOK YOU FUCKER! But that's neither here nor there. And write a letter of reference, will take care of that tomorrow when stationary is at hand. And finish reading Crash, but I'll do that tonight.
But also, I was supposed to write a talk on a certain very famous Irish author for a lecture I'm giving at a charity bookshop Monday evening. They asked, and what was I supposed to say – world hunger is at stake! I will scrabble something up tomorrow. But if you're very bored and at the same time utterly fascinated by the author of this blog (and, really, how could you not be! I mean, look at this stuff! and I am cute in person!) I hereby formally invite you to my charity bookshop lecture. Um, you'll have to write me for the details, for reasons of pseudonymity, but I'd love to a) see some friendly faces and b) not lecture to a single bored person who was otherwise sifting the LPs and c) this won't happen again, probably, as it's a unique combination of no-ID required lecturing, not a pay-in-advance conference and stealth enough for me to let you know on here without giving the game away.
It's out in West London somewhere. No, not the Harrods branch of Oxfam. Further west. The event is free, except you'll have to buy one of the sixteen copies of Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown that they have in stock if you come. In return, I will supervise your PhD (if applicable – paying punters only, please!)
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The bookstore was clouded with cigar smoke and whisky fumes. Unidentifiable faces mumbled incoherently to each other, half-whispered sentences drifting through the gloom. "Who's speaking this time?" "Nobody knows, it's a mystery." "There were rumours about a connection to a Badiouian cabal." "I heard it's a talk about the connection between Finnegans Wake and the Iranian protests." "It's not Alain de Botton is it?"
Hahahahahaha! A BadiouVian cabal indeed! Yes, there will be no reference to Iran. And I am so much less bald than AdB it's not funny!
If for whatever reason you don't turn up I wonder if the audience will stage an impromptu rendition of Godot using copies from the shelves.
It's probable I will turn up, so there will be no Godot. Plus I am not quite as ineffable as Godot. A little ineffable, but not quite like that.
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2010 Spirit of Marco Island Awards
By Coastal Breeze News Staff | on April 08, 2010
Shown left to right: Donna and Stan Niemczyk recipients, Jim Stine, Noontime Club President, with club members Kathy and Ian Small.
The five recipients of the prestigious "Spirit of Marco Island" awards have been announced by the Marco Island Noontime Rotary Club:
Stan and Donna Niemczyk
They were surprised by the announcement made at a recent Kiwanis meeting. Donna Niemczyk works for the Marco Island Area Chamber of Commerce and is the current President of the Kiwanis Club. Stan Niemczyk, a realtor with Keller Williams Realty, is the past President of the Sunrise Rotary Club. They were selected for their numerous contributions to the community including efforts which raised over $100,000 for their respective clubs in the past two years. They are the driving force behind the Marco Island Seafood Festival.
Alan and Linda Sandlin
They're long-time residents, well known for their success as realtors with RE/MAX Results Realty. Alan is Chairman and Master of Ceremonies for the 2010 Easter Sunrise Service; serves on the board of directors for the Marco Island Area Association of Realtors, is active with the Marco Presbyterian Church Outreach and Long Term Planning Committees. Linda serves on the board of directors for the Marco Island Rotary Club and is chairwoman for the
Fire Chief Mike Murphy, recipient Steve Stefanides, Vice-President of the Noontime Rotary Club Cindy Love with Ian Small.
International Projects committee. The Sandlins have contributed immensely to the Marco Island Historical Society with countless volunteer hours and substantial financial contributions.
Joe Granda
Joe is a member of the Knights of Columbus, currently serving his second term as Grand Knight, he serves on the Police Foundation and heads the Neighborhood Watch and Traffic Control committee. His past service to Marco Island includes being chairman of the Code Enforcement board, as a member of the Marco Island Utilities committee and as a member of the City Charter Review committee, MICA Beach Advisory committee, board member of Habitat for Humanity, former teacher to new Habitat residents, and as member of the San Marco Catholic Church Out Reach Committee.
Steve Stefanides
Steve has made substantial contributions to Marco Island and the island's community spirit not only as a member of the Sunrise Rotary Club, but as chairman of Christmas Island Style for the past five years. Steve helps organize the St. Patrick's Day parade. He's a member of the Marco Island Fire/Rescue Foundation and is co-chair of the Marco Island Seafood Festival and has served on the Veterans Park committee
Hideaway Beach Members at their presentation.
and the 'Trees R Cool' tree donation program.
Hideaway Beach Association Members
These members raised $93,000.00 for the American Cancer Society this year. They support the GAP program, which provides mentoring of high school students and a college scholarship program. Each year the members host a "Buddy Day" for children from Immokalee, with a day of fun, educational activities, and lunch on the beach. Each year members host a Christmas gift tree providing gifts for needy students of Manatee Elementary School. They also participate in the Adopt-a-Road program.
Recipients are nominated by members of the community. The Marco Island Noontime Rotary Club director's make the final selection from the nominees presented. The recipient is then "surprised" by a team of club members presenting a certificate in honor of their efforts. This is followed by a formal award presentation at a gala dinner to be held at the San Marco Catholic Church Hall at 6:00 p.m. on April 30th. Tickets are $45.00 each including dinner. Interested in attending? Contact Al Diaz at 239/438-5285 or at royalmarcoway@marcocable.com.


Despite a supposed truce, Monday pro-Russia troops launched an intensive attack, including the use of tanks and rockets, in what looks like an effort to take the town of Starohnativka. The town lies strategically in the land route that Russia wants to Crimea, which Putin engineered the annexation of in September 2014.
Since the agreement was signed, some 200 Ukrainian solders have been killed and 2,000 wounded, which basically means that there is no truce. Further, Ukraine has captured Russian soldiers, which exposes Russia's lies that only "pro-Russian separatists" are involved in the conflict.
Making the land route to Crimea important to Russia is that Sevastopol, which is now part of Crimea because of the annexation, is the base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Sevastopol is vitally important to the Russians because it is their only warm port.
The renewed fighting increases the likelihood of western nations involvement. Britain's defense secretary, on visiting Ukraine recently, promised to double up to 2,000 troops that train Ukrainian forces. Congress is debating giving "defensive" weapons to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the European Leadership Network, an NGO made up of formerly powerful military figures, politicians and policy makers, is saying that Russia and NATO are training for a full-blown conflict with each other, that each side is "preparing for the worst." ELN points to this year's NATO Allied Shield exercises and Russia's "snap" military drills. "Each side is clearly training with the other side's capabilities and war plans in mind," an ELN report says.
Compounding the problem is that oil is involved.
Fighting in Ukraine is a Black Swan that deserves watching. Gold and silver prices most certainly will see upside movement if fighting heats up there–and especially if it looks like the West will get more involved.


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Q: Is $ \frac{d\left(\tfrac{1}{2}x^2y^2\right)}{dx} = -xy^2 $ considered to be a differential equation, and if so does the type have a name? I have a constraint in the form of a differential equation:
$$ \frac{d\left(\tfrac{1}{2}x^2y^2\right)}{dx} = -xy^2 \qquad (1) $$
To avoid possible misunderstanding: the differentiation is specificallly not partial differentiation.
The equation is satisfied if there is the following relation between x and y:
$ y^2=\tfrac{C}{x^4}$
(Where C is a constant that needs to be determined)
Substituting that relation into the differential equation:
$$ \frac{d\left(\tfrac{1}{2} \tfrac{C}{x^2}\right)}{dx} = -\frac{C}{x^3} \qquad (2) $$
So the differential equation (1) implies this relation between x and y:
$$ y^2 x^4 = C  \qquad (3)  $$
(And I can examine to see if it is safe to simplify that to $ y x^2 = C $)

To provide some context: it's a case where it is known beforehand that a relation between x and y exists, and the objective is to provide a derivation of it.
The differential equation is used to express a constraint. Does this way of using a differential equation with two variables have a name?
(If this usage of differential equations does have a name I can look up information about it.)


Last weekend, in preparation for Emmie's first gymnastics meet, I read the instruction booklet for our "Canon Elura 60 Digital Camcorder", figured out how to charge its battery pack, and plugged it in. I was glad to see the indicator light flashing, just as the instructions said it would. Embarassingly, I hadn't remembered how to work that camera without looking at the book, since it was one of only a few times I'd picked up the thing over the last few years. Me, who had once counted Chief Family Videographer among my many duties. Just how many years had it been?
I decided to get out the shoeboxes of tiny, labeled camcorder tapes we keep on a shelf, and do some sleuthing (Nancy Drew, eat your heart out). As I glanced over the labels, I noticed an interesting pattern to the videotaping that seemed to repeat with each child (and our girls are almost exactly four years apart): 1. The baby arrives and a flurry of videotaping would begin– so many "firsts" to record! Each tape became full after only a few months of taping, sometimes after just one event, like the "1st birthday party". 2. The frequent taping continued on into their second year, and then tapered off, until an entire year's worth of taping fit on one tape.
Wow. It's been that long since I've taken video of my kids? Upon looking at the labels closer, I realized my predicament was worse—since Andy had been the cameraman for most of the more "current" stuff (and that covers only a few events), I haven't played a serious role in family videography since about 2005. Almost FIVE years? What's wrong with me? Am I a bad parent because I don't hog the aisles recording every moment of my kids' every school program and recital? Am I so busy that I can no longer take the time to capture even a few precious moments on tape for posterity?
Well, "No" to answer the bad parent question, because I still take lots of photographs— at least when the lighting is good. Scrapbooking has long been one of my favorite hobbies, so there's definitely not a lack of photos in this house. Also, as the kids get older, they take more and more of their own photos with their own cameras, and keep their own scrapbooks, sometimes even picking up the camcorder now and then—even though their Kodak Moments have often included out-of-focus shots of the dog, "butts", and people with their heads "cut off".
I'd answer "maybe" to the question of, "Am I too busy to take video on my own?" There's definitely not a lack of "busy-ness" around here.
But video is important, in my opinion, not just for the pictures, but for the audio. It's important for your kids to see and hear how they grow and change, it's important for loved ones who aren't able to witness your kids' special moments in person, and it's important to capture friends and family in ways your brain might never remember. I know I would love to have a video record from my own childhood, but all I have are silent, 8mm family films my dad transferred to VHS tapes years ago.
I honestly think the main reason I haven't gone near the family camcorder very much lately can be traced back to one simple act: the day near Christmas 2004 when my husband, Andy, came home and put a box on my desk and said, "Here's a new digital video camera I just bought." I remember I was surprised—and not exactly jumping for joy. I was comfortable with our old, non-digital, twice-as-big "Sony Handycam ". I knew how to use it. I didn't have to read instructions. And I'd recently mastered special editing software and had made an AWESOME family reunion video out of footage I'd taken on that 10-year-old Handycam, complete with music tracks, graphics, and credits. Yes, I knew that camera was having problems, but I'd planned to take it to a specialty battery store where, I'd been told by a reliable source, they could help me… Andy said it would probably cost more to fix it than to buy another camera, so he opted for the new camera (Don't guys always use that line in order to buy new stuff?). And, he told me, since he knew I liked editing and adding stuff, I could really do some fine work with this one. Which was thoughtful, except, this new camera had a lot more features than our "vintage" model. And who is a major techno-phobe? Me. There, I said it. And as painful as it is to admit it, I will say it again– I am a major techno-phobe. And no one should know that better than my husband. I mean, when we first started dating in 1989, my large collection of music was entirely on …cassettes (Hey, at least they weren't 8-tracks!) (But definitely a true test of his love, considering he works in Audio Visual Presentation). Once we were married and he wanted to bring home a Mac in the mid-nineties, I balked at the idea because…I was happy with my Magnavox Videowriter, basically a glorified typewriter with a screen and a dot-matrix printer attached, for which I'd saved my money to buy when I was single. I didn't want a bigger TV, either, and I didn't think I needed a cell phone– until he got me one. Yes, it always takes me awhile to get onboard with new technology, and I think our "new" 5-year-old camcorder has been no exception, especially when combined with our busy life.
Luckily, Emmie's gymnastics meets are pushing me to finally "get with the program". According to seasoned gymnastics parents, it's important to videotape all of your daughter's performances so she can watch and see what she needs to improve upon. And Andy can't make it to every meet. So, it looks like I'll be pulling out this camcorder fairly often in the next few months, proudly joining the ranks of the other cameras raised in the air– happily knowing how to turn on the power button and get the tape set to just the right starting point, effortlessly flipping out the LCD screen on the side… My first time doing that is going to have to wait, however. 'Cause just before we left for the first meet last weekend, I unplugged the camera from the charging cord, and… it wasn't fully charged yet.
Guess it's only fitting that I should start a new era of family photography with baby steps.
I recently caught a snippet of a TV interview with Leanne Tuohy, the real-life mom portrayed by Sandra Bullock in the movie, "The Blind Side". I was impressed and moved by this movie, which tells the true story of a well-to-do family from Memphis who adopts a teen (Michael Oher) from the projects. Among the many things they do for him, they help him feel loved and needed, and help him improve his grades so that he can play football. He eventually goes on to be a star college football player at Ole Miss and is now in the NFL. In the interview I watched, Leanne mentions that Michael thinks he would have made it to the NFL even if she and her family hadn't come into his life. Ouch. I know she was elaborating on his drive and determination but… would he really have become a star athlete without them? (or more precisely, without her?) Are parents or other concerned adults not a key factor in influencing kids' lives? Is our destination really up to our genes?
Several years ago, a book by Judy Rich Harris entitled "The Nurture Assumption" made headlines with its claims that parents influence their kids' destinies very little, and that instead it's all about friends. Peers influence kids' lives and their "future mental health" the most, it said. Huh?
I think "blind" is a good word to use in a movie about Michael Oher because not only is it used in a football term, that guy must be blind to the world around him. As is Harris. Because everything I see, all the time, points to the strong influence of parents, or any adult who cares about a kid enough to notice their strengths, offer advice, encouragement, look for opportunities to develop their talents– basically help steer their lives in a good direction.
And I think of my own life, and how my parents, siblings, teachers and job supervisors all steered me on the path I'm on today. Yes, I must have had some inborn ability with words, but I don't think I ever would have realized it or received satisfaction from it or wanted to pursue a career in it had adults not said to me, "This is good. Keep it up," and given me opportunities to go further.
Yes, there are stories of people who have achieved a career, a life, success, happiness, whatever, in the face of horrible odds, and it appears they did it all on their own, but usually if you dig around you find that someone in their life believed in them, gave them the break or opportunity they needed to make things happen.
Just like good parents do for their children, and just like the Tuohys did for Michael Oher.
-In July I blogged about my kids' picky eating habits and my quest to get them to eat more vegetables and try new things. I still haven't tried anything from Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook, where you hide pureed vegetables in things like chocolate brownies. At present, I'm still in the "I'm cooking what I want to eat" mode that I got into in December and the kids are on their own if they don't like it. I'm really enjoying that. I can actually cut out healthy and exotic (i.e. more than three ingredients) recipes from the food section of the newspaper now instead of saying to myself, "I'll be able to cook that in about ten years…" Usually there's something in the week's menus they like and if not, we still have plenty of chicken nuggets and mac 'n cheese on hand that they make themselves. Surely they're going to get sick of that soon?
-In August, I wrote about the ups and downs of living in Texas in a post entitled It's A Different World and mentioned that Emmie's Scout troop was invited to participate in a flag ceremony at a Kay Bailey Hutchison for Governor rally. They did participate, and it was a lot of fun for them (not to mention good bar-b-que). They made it on every local news broadcast that night—here's a link to one of them. (Emmie is the one with her mouth hanging open as Sen. Hutchison walks on stage :0) The news is still using that footage occasionally as the governor's race heats up… and no, I don't think I heard that dreaded Toby Keith song while I was at the rally, but I was having too much fun people-watching to really notice.
-In November, in a post entitled, Maybe We Should Just Buy A Rooster, the focus was on waking up a sleepy teenager. Well, Allison just received, as a Christmas present, yet another "creative device" to help in this area—an Ipod docking station with an alarm that plays the Ipod and has a "mattress shaker" on an attached cord that's supposed to be hidden under the mattress. I'm not sure it's going to help. She's already told me she's not going to use the mattress shaker, since she's placing the whole thing on a table that's "too far from the bed". But hey, having this cool new device inspired her to re-arrange her room and clean it up—and if she starts doing that on a regular basis, it will be worth every penny spent on it, even if it doesn't wake her up!
eative ways to ask the guys (and I thought that over-the-top stuff was just for Homecoming!). (I think this is all a crutch to avoid face-to-face confrontation, you know, real human interaction where you actually look at someone and ask, "Will you go to the dance with me?). Emmie's first gymnastics meet is in 10 days (yep, I greatly underestimated her determination at staying on the team). Andy and I are running the technical/backstage side of the elementary school talent show in a couple months (he'd love to have a gong and act like his hero Chuck Barris, but that's not going to happen…). Allison recently found out she made it on the high school drill team (Argh! More cowboy, er, I mean cowgirl hats! And boots!). My 30th High School Reunion is this summer (hey, remember the 80's?), and now that Luke the Dog just learned how to shake hands, he is destined for far greater feats of intelligence. (Okay, that last line so closely resembles a corny holiday letter, I'd better close fast.) I'm still totally uncool in the eyes of my kids, still driving that bad (or should I say, rad) minivan, and still trying to keep a smile on my face (amidst clenched teeth) when the roller coaster goes down, knowing that it always goes up again. Happy New Year, and stay tuned!
Even though my earliest blog posts date to September 2008, UncoolMom.com was officially "launched" on January 5, 2009, so New Year's Day 2010 is just about as good a time as any for me to start assessing its first year. How should I measure the first year of this blog?
One way to measure it is in "hits", or "visits" to the blog. GoDaddy.com, the company who hosts UncoolMom.com, provides me with all sorts of daily, weekly, and monthly statistics so I can measure this. For most of the year, total visits increased every month, and that was a good sign. Some days I had hundreds of visitors. But then in late October, things took a big dip (was it something I said?) (was it because I took a week off?). I've been told by other bloggers that that's normal as the holidays approach. So I'm hanging in there and hoping the numbers come back up this month. Oh, for those stat lovers out there, the most "hit upon" post this past year was "Our Easter Bunny Was A Dust Bunny".
Another anniversary question to ask about a blog is, "Has it been a financial success?" Luckily this measurement has not been important to me, at least for the first year. For those of you who don't know (and a lot have told me they don't), bloggers make money every time someone clicks on one of their ads. The revenue generated depends on the ratio of how many people visit the site that day vs. how many clicks are made. And for 2009, I guess people enjoyed the writing so much they didn't have time to check out many of the ads! But hopefully that will change. I have definitely spent more time on this "side project" than I'd expected (I can't help it—I'm a perfectionist and have not been able to do "15-minute blog posts") so getting a little bit of moolah for that time would be nice…I do receive free stuff once in awhile that people or companies want me to review, and plans are underway to add a "Product Reviews" tab to the blog and have Giveaways as well.
My preferred way to measure this blog is in fun. Do I enjoy doing this? Yes. This has been so much fun and such a creative outlet, I think some of my best writing ever has come out of this (some of my favorite posts so far are Uncool Hands, Little Miss Sunshine is Alive and Well, A Schoolbus Education, The Roller Coaster of Parenting, and When Mom Dresses Like A Teen). It was fun to win the Nickelodeon Award, fun to win a prize in the Lakewood 4th of July Parade, and fun to get encouragement, support and a few shout-outs from the editors at the Dallas Morning News' NeighborsGo section.


To make truly authentic gelato at home, you can use De'Longhi's home gelato maker, which has a built-in compressor that chills the mixture without using a pre-frozen bowl. Read the review of the De'Longhi Gelato Maker .
On the other hand, gelato (which literally means "frozen" in Italian) is made with more milk and sugar than ice cream. As you might've already guessed, gelato has less cream than ice cream. Of course, you'd expect a product called ice cream to have more cream, right? As for egg yolks, most gelato mixtures don't contain them.
Italian Gelato is loved worldwide. It is sweet, creamy and tasty, characteristics that make it desirable for each season of the year and each moment of the day, not only as a summer dessert. Italians invented the Gelato and introduced it all over the world: today Italy is the first producer of ice cream in Europe, with a large variety of gelato products.
If you make ice cream at home, you may be wondering about your ice cream machine: does it churn at ice cream speed or gelato speed? The truth is, most of the consumer models on the market churn at about the same speed, none of which are as fast as the commercial machines used to make American-style ice cream.
Gelato: dense and intense gelato is the Italian word for ice cream. It starts out with a similar custard base as ice cream, but has a higher proportion of milk and a lower proportion of cream and eggs (or no eggs at all).


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Q: How to check if a parameter is null I'm trying to test for null parameters but you cannot compare an object to null.
The following is dead code:
    } else if(x == null){
        throw new NullPointerException("Parameter is null");
    }

How do I rewrite it to gain the desired effect?

A: In Java you can compare to the value null.  The standard way to do this is as follows:
String s = null;
if(s == null)
{
    //handle null
}

Typically throwing an NPE is a poor practice in the real world.

A: To use handle in the Java literal sense of the word
Foo foo = bar.couldReturnNull();
try {
   foo.doSomething();
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
   System.out.println("bar.couldReturnNull() returned null");
   throw new NullPointerException();
}

A: You don't say explicitly, but this looks like Java because of the NullPointerException. Yes, you can compare an object reference to null, and so this code is fine. You might be mixing it up with SQL, where nothing compares equal to null.


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Archibald Buchanan may refer to:

 Archibald Buchanan (RAF officer) (1892–?), American World War I flying ace
 Archibald Berdmore Buchanan (1823–1883), politician in Queensland, Australia
 Archibald C. Buchanan (1890–1979), Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

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Irish Landmark officially launched Tullymurry House on Thursday, 25 October, 2012. Over 75 people attended the launch, includng representatives of the local tourist office, the NIEA, UAHS, Hearth and local neighbours and friends of the McMinn family. It was a very successful event. Most of those who attended were surprised to find a wellness area at the rear of the house, which will be available to all guests of Irish Landmark who book a holiday at this remarkable house.


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Asenate "Nancy" Manoa (* 23. Mai 1992) ist eine tuvaluische Leichtathletin und Gewichtheberin, die bei den Olympischen Spielen 2008, bei den Leichtathletikmeisterschaften 2009 und Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2011, sowie bei den Olympischen Sommerspielen 2012 für Tuvalu antrat. Manoa errang im Kraftdreikampf bei den Pazifikspielen 2015 die Bronzemedaille in der Gewichtsklasse bis 72 kg bei den Frauen.

Manoa wurde auf der Insel Kioa in Fidschi geboren. Die Insel war zwischen 1947 und 1983 von Siedlern aus Tuvalu aufgekauft worden.

Wettbewerbe
Olympische Spiele Beijing 2008

Asenate Manoa trat 2008 als erste Frau für Tuvalu bei den Olympischen Spielen an. Sie lief im Wettbewerb über 100 Meter, als sie erst 16 Jahre alt war. Ihr Grund-Training hatte sie auf der Landebahn des Funafuti International Airport absolviert, dann trainierte sie in Suva, Fidschi, zur Vorbereitung auf die Spiele. Sie wurde von Mitgliedern des Laufteams von Fidschi unterstützt und arbeitete im Büro der regionalen Olympia-Administration, ONOC. Sie hatte vor der Ankunft in Beijing niemals Startblöcke verwendet oder auf einer synthetischen Bahn trainiert. Sie ist sehr klein und wog nur 46 kg.

Bei den olympischen Spielen 2008 schied sie mit ihrer Zeit von 14,05 s auf 100 m schon in den Vorläufen aus, aber stellte damit den nationale Rekord für Tuvalu auf.

The Guardian schrieb: "Sie ist unmöglich klein für eine internationale Sprinterin" (impossibly tiny for an international sprinter). Im Nationalstadion Peking, lief sie "vor einem Publikum das 10mal so groß ist, wie die Bevölkerung ihres Landes" (running in front of an audience 10 times the size of her country's population).

Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften

Bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2009 lief sie 13,75 s auf 100 m in den Vorläufen.

Bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2011 erreichte sie 13,92 s.

Olympische Sommerspiele 2012

Für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012 trainierte sie in Brisbane, Australien und konnte ihren nationalen Rekord auf 13,48 s steigern.

Pazifikspiele 2015

Für die Pazifikspielen 2015 begann Manoa Gewichtheben zu trainieren.  Dabei errang sie in ihrer Klasse bis 72 kg Female die Bronzemedaille.

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Weblinks
 "Tuvalu Olympic Athletes Finish Competition Proudly", Tuvalu News, 16. August 2008.

Leichtathlet (Tuvalu)
Gewichtheber (Tuvalu)
Olympiateilnehmer (Tuvalu)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2008
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Diffuse Vasospasm after Pretruncal Nonaneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Wouter I. Schievink, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks and Robert F. Spetzler
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2000, 21 (3) 521-523;
Wouter I. Schievink
aFrom the Cedars-Sinai Neurosurgical Institute (W.I.S.), Los Angeles, CA; the Department of Neurological Surgery (W.I.S.), University of California, Irvine, CA; the Division of Neurology (E.F.M.W.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; and the Department of Neurological Surgery (RFS), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ.
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
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Images of patient 1, a 40-year-old woman who experienced an acute severe headache while bending over in the shower.
A, CT scan of a hemorrhage in the prepontine cistern (arrow).
B, Sagittal T1-weighted MR image of the cervical spine shows a linear hematoma in the prepontine cistern (arrow).
C, Anteroposterior-view angiograms of the right carotid (left), left carotid (middle), and right vertebral (right) arteries show severe vasospasm of the internal carotid, anterior cerebral, middle cerebral, basilar, and posterior cerebral arteries (arrows).
Images of patient 2, a 67-year-old woman who suffered a severe headache that developed over several minutes.
A, CT scan shows a hemorrhage in the interpeduncular cistern (arrow).
B, Anteroposterior-view angiograms of the right (left) and left (right) carotid arteries show to severe vasospasm of the internal carotid, anterior cerebral, and middle cerebral arteries (arrows).
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Березник — деревня в Пермском районе Пермского края. Входит в состав Гамовского сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена на реке Боровая (правый приток реки Пыж), примерно в 4 км к юго-востоку от административного центра поселения, села Гамово.

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By the end of the night, when Terry Lahey and his family had gathered at the front, all two dozen of them, at the annual dinner of the Cold Spring Area Chamber of Commerce, the message from Lahey was clear: Civic involvement matters. Volunteering matters. Community matters.


Golf in Fife is synonymous first and foremost with St Andrews and its historic links land.
Even more recently St Andrews has made the headlines with the naming of the seventh course, The Castle Course, which sits above the town simply adding to the attraction - Old, New, Jubilee, Eden, Strathtyrum. Even the names sound magical.
But for those who have been to Fife there is so much more than St Andrews, The Old Course and its prestigious partners; that's not to understate their importance nor their attractiveness but don't ignore everything else around them.
As soon as you enter Fife from north, south or west you are met with a golfing gateway.
Cross the River Tay from Dundee and you'll come across the wonderful layout at Scotscraig; from the south and the Forth Road Bridge you're a short pitch to picturesque Aberdour, from the west how about the two courses at Kinross for starters.
Whatever level of golf and whatever your budget Fife does genuinely have it all.
First in Fife Golf is a group of golf courses who have goit together to offer budget golf for three and five days on a selection of parkland courses in south and west Fife. The pass is easy to book online and offers exceptional value for money.
The Crusoe brings together the delights of four of Fife's most historic and ancient clubs - Crail, Ladybank, Lundin Links and the aforementioned Scotscraig.
Golfing developments in the past decade have brought new links masterpieces to complement the ancient links in St Andrews. Kingsbarns is perhaps the brightest jewel in the cluster of courses to the south of the town but that does not mean you should disregard either The Torrance or The Devlin at The Fairmont St Andrews (previously St Andrews Bay) nor the refurbished Dukes Course.
So whether its Championship links courses, historic Open Qualifying Courses or excellent parkland challenges, The Kingdom of Fife remains the Home of Golf.
For golf fans it doesn't come any bigger and better than the RYDER CUP. For the first time since 1973 Scotland plays host to the greatest tournament in match play golf with the world's greatest golfers at Gleneagles in Perthshire.


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Vadstenabrakteaten är en C-brakteat i guld med runor från 500-talet, funnen 1774 i Vadstenatrakten. Motivet på framsidan (åtsidan) är ett människohuvud på ryggen av ett fyrfotadjur, och framför det en fågel. Bilden omges av en text som ska läsas från höger till vänster ( ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲᚷᚹ ᛬ ᚺᚾᛁᛃᛇᛒᛘᛋ ᛬ ᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛜᛟᛞ): f u þ a r k g w : h n i j e/ï p R/z s : t b e m l ŋ o (d). Före futharken är ordet t u w a t u w a skrivet. Ordets första t ansågs tidigare vara ett l, men genom studier av brakteatens frånsida och de stampidentiska exemplaren har man kunnat fastslå att det är ett t, vilket antagits ha magisk innebörd, något som Sigurd Agrell, via sin omdebatterade och idag starkt ifrågasatta uthark-teori, tog fasta på. De tre senare grupperna utgör den urnordiska runraden, vars sista runa dolts av prydnaden under öglan, men spåras på en dubblett av brakteaten, som inkom till museet 1906.

Brakteaten stals i november 1938 från Statens historiska museum och har inte återfunnits. Enligt Svenska Dagbladet, som var först med att rapportera om försvinnandet, försvann brakteaten i samband med att den var lämnad för avgjutning i museets konserveringsanstalt. Brakteaten förvarades i ett kassaskåp, dit endast tre personer hade nyckel. En stampidentisk brakteat, Mariedammbrakteaten, påträffades före 1906.

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Boris Bloch is a pianist cast in heroic mold. Few pianists of any age or nationality, even in this abnormally endowed era of piano playing, can match the scope and versatility of the mastodonic program the young Soviet emigre played in Murphy Hall of Loyola Marymount University Friday night. But where was the piano-conscious public? It is missing an exciting talent.
Bloch is also a risk-taker as well as a conventional virtuoso. He dared George Crumb's Three Pieces for Amplified Piano--in which the pianist is called on to use his arms, fists and elbows to reach into the interior of the instrument and scratch the strings, all the while singing nonsense syllables into a microphone--with the aplomb of a veteran avant-gardist. Not only that, he made sound musical sense of the operation.
Bloch can play spectacularly, but he is shrewd enough to not always consciously aim at the spectacular. To observe the Domenico Scarlatti tercentenary he chose five unfamiliar sonatas, and played them for pianistic--rather than harpsichord--values, without any sacrifice for style, charm or sensitivity.
He turned his attention to Schumann's massive third Grand Sonata, Opus 14, subtitled "Concerto Without Orchestra," which only Horowitz has braved in recent years, and discovered equal amounts of exhilarating bravura and lyrical tenderness in the vast canvas.
The five Preludes of Scriabin's Opus 74, his last compositions for piano, seethed with frenetic aspiration under unerring control. For Etudes Tableaux from Rachmaninoff's Opus 33 reveled in orchestral sonorities so bold that they could have been evoked either by Rachmaninoff himself or by Horowitz.
Busoni's Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's "Carmen" had been excised from the printed list because the pianist thought the program was too long, but came encore time and it was reinstated with breathtaking verve and extraordinary application of color.
The applause flared again, and the pianist obligingly delivered the three-movement Oboe Concerto by Marcello that no less than J.S. Bach transcribed for keyboard. "The more I play the better I like it," said the pianist. To close a lengthy, but not too long evening, came the opening Prelude to Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier," sculptured with engaging simplicity.


Snowmobiling from Medicine Lodge to the surrounding areas can be amazing. Groomed trails are within 16 rideable miles and ungroomed trails adjoin the park.
Ride from the park to surrounding areas.
No day use fee for using the park as a staging area, only camping fee for overnight use. Current Wyoming snowmobile permits are required.


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Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis
Gerard Kian Meng Goh, A. Dunker, Vladimir N. Uversky
The underlying reasons for the differences in the virulence of various types of Ebola virus (EBOV) remain unknown. Comparison of the percentage of disorder (PID) in nucleocapsid proteins VP30 and NP reveals high correlation between nucleocapsid PIDs and the case-fatality rates of EBOV. The higher disorder of these proteins is likely to be needed for more efficient multiplication of virus copies via more efficient viral RNA transcription and more promiscuous protein binding potential. This is important for the more efficient assistance of nucleocapsid in viral particle budding and of the assembly and mobility of viral proteins across the host membrane and within the cytoplasm. A more comprehensive knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of EBOV virulence would also lead to new and more effective strategies in vaccine development.
Molecular BioSystems
https://doi.org/10.1039/c5mb00240k
Ebolavirus
Nucleocapsid
Nucleocapsid Proteins
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Goh, G. K. M., Dunker, A., & Uversky, V. N. (2015). Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis. Molecular BioSystems, 11(8), 2337-2344. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5mb00240k
Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis. / Goh, Gerard Kian Meng; Dunker, A.; Uversky, Vladimir N.
In: Molecular BioSystems, Vol. 11, No. 8, 22.05.2015, p. 2337-2344.
Goh, GKM, Dunker, A & Uversky, VN 2015, 'Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis', Molecular BioSystems, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 2337-2344. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5mb00240k
Goh GKM, Dunker A, Uversky VN. Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis. Molecular BioSystems. 2015 May 22;11(8):2337-2344. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5mb00240k
Goh, Gerard Kian Meng ; Dunker, A. ; Uversky, Vladimir N. / Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis. In: Molecular BioSystems. 2015 ; Vol. 11, No. 8. pp. 2337-2344.
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Archegosaurus is een geslacht van uitgestorven temnospondyle Batrachomorpha (basale 'amfibieën'), dat voorkwam in het Vroeg-Perm. Dit dier kon tot honderdvijftig centimeter lang worden.

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Q: What are the basics of taking care for a common server? I have been instructed to administrate a linux server, running SLES out of the box. It's a Typo3 web server, and there are running some web apps in Tomcat, too, but there is no sensitive contents on that server (no personal information, no credit card numbers or that like) wich would require special protection. The server is provided by a data center, which does

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*any hardware related stuff from disk redundancy to fire protection

*run a firewall, restricted to the very most possible

*backups of the data each night with

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*MySQL dumps right before backup starts

Besides the "user application", I already set up & checked that

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*all services start up automatically after reboot

*the server does neither run in, nor reboot into runlevel 5 by exident

*measured values (memory, disk space, CPU) are being monitored

*log file rotation for applications installed manually is configured

*automatic OS updates are enabled

*the system clock does synchronize with a time server

Being left alone this way, when and why do you think this installation will leave the service (let it be an internal error or broken by hackers) because something has been overlooked by the unaware? In your experience, what is strikingly missing in my list?

A: If I was asked to "take care of a customer's server", I'd probably ask if they mean it "Al Pacino" or "Julia Andrews" way of "take care of". (sarcasm)
Everything depends on what is running on the server.  You can (and you should) monitor every important service like DB, RAM, webapp, ... (for example with Nagios).
The restrictive packet filtering is of course good idea.
You should evaluate necessity of remote logins (ssh, rdp, ...) and secure them accordingly.
You should secure services on the server by creating separate users, adjusting access rights, using selinx, whatever.
Sensitive data protection really depends on their sensitivity. But at least protection by access rights and eventually by encryption. But really depends on particular situation.
Letting the server handle (=install) updates automatically is, for me, really stupid idea. Since some updates may need restart of service or even reboot of whole machine, it can result in some funny moments when server "goes down" at 3 a.m. or (even better) when it should serve few hundreds of clients. Better approach is to turn updates off and do them manually like once a month. (In big networks this can be a painful process but I personally like servers "under my control").


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Top 100 European Software vendors 2015
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Truffle100.com publishes a list of top 100 software companies in Europe for each year. Since 2008, they have been making lists of IT companies that have a headquarter in any European country and ordered them by a profit made in the previous year from selling software and services.
They have done it since 2008 and all those historical reports are available for viewing as well. Do you know which one is the biggest now and which one was in the past? Are you curious which countries dominated the IT market in Europe? Answers to all those questions can be found in the report.
Top software vendors
According to the ranking, the king in Europe is only one - SAP from Germany with 17 243.9 million € revenue from software and services in 2014. Did I wrote a king? That was unfair, SAP demolished the competitors. The second on the list Dassault Systemes from France made 2 078.6 million € which is a lot but only 12% of the SAP's result.
A quick look at the ranking 2008 and it clearly shows that it was not an exceptional result. SAP dominated for all those years.
As the first place has not changed, let's take a look at what has changed in the top 10 since 2008 till now.
Rank Company (ranking 2015) Company (ranking 2008)
1 SAP SAP
2 Dassault Systemes SAGE
3 Sage DASSAULT SYSTEMES
4 Hexagon SOFTWARE AG
5 Wincor Nixdorf GRUPPO ENGINEERING
6 Asseco Group MISYS PLC
7 Software AG ELSAG DATAMAT
8 DATEV VISMA ASA
9 Wolters Kluwer NORTHGATE
10 Misys UNIT4 AGRESSO NV
While the first position has not been threatened, each of the next nine has changed. New companies in the top 10 are: Hexagon (Sweden), Wincor Nixdorf (Germany), Asseco Group (Poland), DATEV (Germany), Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands).
On the countries ranking, Germany is placed on the top with 49.8% of total revenue made by all companies from the top 100 ranking. That is slightly more than 7 years earlier. In the ranking 2008 it was 48.1% (http://www.truffle100.com/2008/profitability.php).
In my opinion, this ranking shows which companies are the strongest power in the European IT and which countries host the biggest IT companies. An important observation is a fact that this list does not change much year to year, but over 7 years main players have been shuffled. Small companies, even if there are a lot of them in one country, are not visible in this ranking is a different story. But it is a ranking of companies not countries so that is fine.
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April 1942. "Hollywood, California. Used car lot." All clues point to the street address being 1541. But what's the street? Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.
Submitted by TimeAndAgainPhoto on Mon, 11/14/2016 - 5:28pm.
Below is the same view from November of 2016.
Second LaSalle
Submitted by Zcarstvnz on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 3:33am.
The car closest to the building is a 1938 LaSalle. The lower headlights help to differentiate it from the 1937 models, but it is the unique trim in 1938 that helps to conclude that it is not a Cadillac. A comparison photo is below.
Sales of LaSalles dropped dramatically because or the 1938 recession. In 1937 LaSalle had its best year selling 32,005, but in 1938 only 15,575 were sold.
Submitted by History Lover on Mon, 08/24/2015 - 9:15am.
Left to right: 1940 LaSalle, 1940 Ford, 1941 Ford, 1939 Cadillac, 1941 Olds, and a 1937 Cadillac.
[I'm leaning toward 1938 for the far Caddy. -tterrace]
Still There
Submitted by Cerrito68 on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 12:16pm.
It appears that the dealership building is still there on the SW corner of North Cahuenga and Selma Avenue. The brickwork still visible matches the original as does the three-windowed front of the building. Also, at far right in the original image, the stacked-block (lacking a better term) corner of the building across Selma still exists on the building there today.
Heavy On GM Product
Submitted by Solo on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 11:27am.
Besides the LaSalle, we have two Cadillacs ('38 at rear, '40 toward the middle) and, penultimately, a '41 Oldsmobile.
GM 4, Ford 2.
I'll just take the front row (At those prices)
Submitted by Frisco1522 on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 8:56am.
Nice stuff sitting there and brings back memories of when I used to visit these places and drool but didn't have the $150 to buy one.
Almost a Cadillac
Submitted by Mr Mel on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 8:47am.
That first car on the left appears to be a LaSalle. That GM Brand was discontinued in 1940. Alfred P Sloan, the GM leader, believed he was missing a price point between, I'm guessing, the Oldsmobile and the Cadillac. It was first produced in 1927. It was not too long ago that GM also ditched Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Hummer and Saturn in order to stay afloat from the deluge created by the U.S. Market's acceptance of foreign automotive brands. The weakened economy didn't help either.
It was all about the tires
Submitted by jsmakbkr on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 8:00am.
Soon after Pearl Harbor, one of Britain's correspondents in the States, a young Alistair Cooke, embarked on a nationwide voyage to see how the war, its shortages, and mobilization affected ordinary Americans. In Los Angeles, he needed a new car, to replace one sold earlier in the trip. "The salesman who finally sold me was in the state of high excitement for forty-eight hours after hearing that a visitor wanted to buy a car for no other reason than to drive around the country. Throughout the subsequent negotiations, he regarded me a an amiable madman. His storeroom was a funeral parlor, the cars lined up there like so many coffins. He admitted stoically that he saw no future for himself unless he went into the Army. About once a month somebody would come in on the pretense of wanting to buy a car and then sneak around prodding the tires and not even bother to look at the engine. These were pestiferous middlemen looking for cars with good rubber and making heavy profits on the immediate resale." (Cooke, "The American Home Front: 1941-1942," p. 152 (published, finally, in 2006).)
Strings of clear light bulbs
Submitted by Zoreo on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 5:11am.
I remember as a kid in the 1950s-60s car dealers in my town had strings of seemingly hundreds of those clear light bulbs hanging from wires spanning over their car lots. It must of been a big expense and a lot of maintenance keeping all those bulbs lit but boy at night they sure looked pretty reflecting off the shiny paint of the new cars beneath. And back then cars came in much more vivid colors than the monotonous pastel colors of today.
Cars from the stars and czars
Submitted by steamghost on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 4:24am.
According to the 1942 LA city directory, Monty Kingsbury's was at 1541 Cahuenga Blvd., not far from Hollywood and Vine.
Maps today read "N. Cahuenga Blvd." There is no South Cahuenga; Cahuenga East and Cahuenga West do exist.
From the City Directory
Submitted by overtech on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 2:02am.
1541 Cahuenga Boulevard


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Petit Four [] (Plural: Petits Fours) ist ein klassisches Feingebäck der französischen Küche. Es wird zwischen frischen (petits fours frais) und trockenen Petits Fours (petits fours secs) unterschieden.

Glasierte Petits Fours werden aus einem Biskuitteig ausgestochen oder geschnitten, mit Cremes und Marzipan gefüllt, danach mit Zuckerguss glasiert sowie abschließend reichhaltig und kunstvoll verziert.

Die unglasierte Variante hat auch die Bezeichnung trockene Petits Fours. Für sie werden kleine Makronen, Biskuits oder kleines Blätterteiggebäck verwendet. Sie werden in der Regel gleichfalls mit Creme gefüllt, jedoch nicht mit einem Zuckerguss garniert. Petits Fours können auch in herzhaften Varianten erstellt werden, zum Beispiel mit Oliven.

Im deutschen Sprachraum werden auch Punschkrapfen als Petits Fours bezeichnet. Petit Four wird dagegen häufig mit "kleines Stückchen" übersetzt, wörtlich heißt es jedoch "kleiner Backofen". Der Ausdruck kommt aus der Zeit der Holz- und Kohleöfen. Die Bäcker und Konditoren nutzten die Resthitze der Öfen, nachdem die Hauptproduktion abgeschlossen war, um das Kleingebäck zu backen.

Literatur
 Peter Hauptmeier: Petits Fours & Co. Matthaes Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-87515-109-1.
 Gaston Lenôtre: Faites votre patisserie. Paris 1975.
 Gaston Lenôtre: Das große Buch der Patisserie. Die besten Rezepte vom König der Feinbäcker. Econ, München 1982, ISBN 3430159156.

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