I'm having a little mini-celebration in my chair this morning because Instagram is getting an update and I'm here to tell you all about it.
For six years now Instagram has been all about the curated photograph and how those first 9 photo's represent your brand and tell your story.
Finally, Instagram is launching it's own form of live video, but with a twist.
Today, the Facebook-owned app announced it's begun rolling out live video for Instagram Stories. However, unlike on other platforms like Facebook and Periscope, once a livestream ends, the video disappears forever.
The feature which begins rolling out today and will become available globally over the next few weeks—will let users share live video for up to an hour. Users can also notify friends that they're going live while also opting to turn comments on or off.
Purpose: The live video helps you connect with your friends in real time as your story is happening. The video does auto delete right after your done, but this "Go Live" feature will certainly improve engagement on the app and your followers will be notified when you have something fun to share.
Brands will be able to answer questions in real time and show behind the scenes video like never before. It's real and it's in the moment.
How: To "Go Live" you can swipe right from your feed to open the camera before tapping the "Start Live Video" button. Users will also be able to see who else is live streaming at any given time in the Explore section of the app by tapping the "Top Live" button.
Along with adding live video, Instagram is also adding disappearing photo and video messages on the platform with direct messages to friends and groups.
In yet another steal from Snapchat, the app says the update will help users share in a "spontaneous, pressure-free way." Since it updated its direct message feature last year, Instagram said the number of people using them each month has grown from 80 million to 300 million.
Disappearing photos and videos begin rolling out today.
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Fiesole, Piazza Mino: 20 minutes from Florence center by bus number 7!
From Florence center to go to Fiesole and reach FiesoleBike rental point/bike tour start point in Piazza Mino with public transportation it's easy, cheap, ecologically-friendly, for certain itineraries it is even mandatory and therefore all itineraries are scheduled according to public transport timetables. The bus #7 (price €1.50) leaves Florence center (the terminal bus is less than 10 minutes walking from the Duomo) every 20 minutes, journey times 20 minutes.
This is a solution to keep prices low and to remain consistent with the idea of sustainable travel. If we have the chance to avoid pollution, why not taking it?


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The Shah of Blah
On February 25, 2017 April 30, 2017 By Amitabh DubeyIn Economy, Fact check7 Comments
In case you're wondering where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promised "Acche Din" went, the answer is getting clearer. As part of the Uttar Pradesh campaign, BJP-affiliated social media has been spreading clips of a 16 Sep TV appearance by party president Amit Shah, where he directly answers this question.
So let's examine the six claims that Shah, the most influential BJP leader after Modi, made to show how much better our lives are now.
Superb reply by @AmitShah to those who keep asking what is Acche Din#UPकीपुकार_BJPइसबार #भाजपा_को_वोट_दें pic.twitter.com/pXgUmLeNUr
— Archie (@Archu243) February 19, 2017
A poor mother burning a wood-fired stove had to inhale the equivalent of 400 cigarettes a day. Now she gets cooking gas from the Ujjwal Yojana, that's called Acche Din.
Shah seems to have a point here. The Rs 8,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Ujjwal Yojana (PMUY) – that offers "below poverty line" (BPL) households a subsidy to offset the cost of getting a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connection – had a strong start since May 2016. In merely nine months, 1.7 crore BPL housholds have received LPG connections, of a target of 5 crore by 2019. The annual growth in LPG connections has ticked up from an average 10-11% in recent years to 15% in the current fiscal year.
But, as the cliche goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. In response to studies that found that urban and middle-class Indians gains disproportionately from LPG subsidies, in 2009 the UPA launched the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin LPG Vitaran Yojana (RGGLVY) to expand the network of rural LPG dealers. It also decided to subsidise the cost of an LPG connection to BPL households using the corporate social responsibility funds of India's petroleum PSUs. These efforts bore fruit: the share of rural LPG distributorships rose from 14% in 2009-10 to more than 40% now, and some 70 lakh BPL households received LPG connections via RGGLVY. Around 17 state governments also had separate programmes to do the same, including Andhra Pradesh's "Deepam" scheme that started in 1999.
The PMUY is essentially a supercharged version of RGGLVY, and the Modi government deserves full credit for stepping up the funding and delivery targets. The risk is what we saw with the Jan Dhan Yojana: such a target-driven push could produce a huge number of LPG connections that aren't actually used. This isn't hypothetical: government numbers show that 47% of households had LPG connections in 2011, but the census that year found that only 29% of households actually used LPG as their primary cooking fuel. Things have certainly improved in recent years, with the weeding out of duplicate accounts and so on, but it's something to keep an eye on.
That said, the PMUY is a clear step forward from the past.
Verdict: Amit Shah scores on this point
All over north India, farmers used to had to demand their supply of urea, which was in short supply. For the last two years they have received all the urea that they asked for, that is called Acche Din.
Now that's pretty cheeky. Urea is not a fertiliser generally in short supply in India, as long as imports occur in a timely manner and states lift their quotas. But the most vivid shortage in recent times occurred under the Modi government's watch in late 2014, when delays in urea imports caused major shortages, sparking unrest and anxious questions in parliament. The 2014 general election did play a role: the outgoing UPA didn't tender for imports in Apr-May 2014, and the new government's Jun 2014 tender failed to attract bids. Urea imports in Jun-Oct 2014 fell to less than half of what they had been the previous year. By the time urea imports had picked up, farmers had already planted wheat, mustard and gram and were feeling the pinch.
So when Shah claims that Acche Din have returned for urea consumers, he's really comparing today with the terrible first six months of the Modi government.
Verdict: Fail
For 68 years, 15,000 villages didn't get electricity, that's called Bure Din. When 9,700 of those villages get electricity, that's called Acche Din.
Moving words indeed. It's certainly true that the Modi government has stepped up the pace of rural electrification, seeking to connect the last 18,450 Indian villages without an electricity connection. But the NDA's effort pales before what the UPA did between 2005 and 2014, when it electrified more than 1,07,600 villages.
This doesn't take away from the Modi government's achievement: many of the remaining villages are in remote locations and are harder to bring electricity to. But for Amitbhai to claim that electrifying 15,000-odd villages in three years heralds the arrival of Acche Din is just cute.
Verdict: Fail again
For the first time in 37 years, in the case of DAP and fertiliser, a ₹150-350 reduction in the price per bag is called Acche Din.
Libertarians will love this one (not). Since decontrol in April 2010, the prices of diammonium phosphate (DAP) and other non-nitrogen fertilisers have moved freely, with a fixed government subsidy given to producers to help keep retail prices down. A fall in global DAP prices would in any case have brought the domestic price down from ₹1,394 (per 50kg bag) in Apr 2016 to ₹1,216 in Jan 2017. But in late summer 2016 (as attested by a 5 Aug Rajya Sabha answer) the fertiliser industry caved in to government pressure (on unproven grounds of "undue profiteering") and reduced the prices of DAP by ₹125/bag, muriate of potash by ₹250/bag and complex fertilizers by ₹50/bag. What is scandalous is that the government could have achieved the same outcome by increasing the subsidy by an equivalent amount, but chose instead to bully companies into lowering prices.
If coercing fertiliser companies to cut prices is your idea of good market practice, this one's a winner. If not,
Verdict: Fail worse
To evaluate the quality of farmers' land by giving them soil health cards, that's called Acche Din.
A blatant fib, one that Modi himself has often himself repeated. Soil health cards have been in use since 2003, and the UPA issued 2.8 crore cards in its final three years, bringing the total in circulation to around 6.8 crore (source here). Modi relaunched the scheme on 19 Feb 2015, promising to issue 14 crore cards over the next three years, but progress has been slower than expected. Some 5.3 crore cards have been distributed in the scheme's first two years.
The new scheme involves some compromises. Farms were earlier individually tested, but soil samples are now being taken from 10-hectare (in rain-fed areas) or 2.5-hectare (in irrigated areas) zones, effectively clubbing several farms together. This has speeded up the process of issuing soil health cards, but has made the results potentially less relevant to individual farmers.
To sum up, a good programme, but by no means can it be described as a new contribution.
Verdict: Another Fail
60 crore people are without bank accounts, of whom 15 crore people are given bank accounts, that's called Acche Din.
This is Modi's favourite scheme to hog credit for. There's little doubt that the Jan Dhan Yojana has accelerated the spread of basic savings bank deposit accounts (BSBDA) to low-income populations, and increased the accounts' usefulness by adding life and accident insurance. But the entire architecture of financial inclusion (BSBDAs, Aadhaar, electronic payments, RuPay cards) was created and implemented long before Modi took office.
In the two years before Modi, the UPA opened 4.4 and 6.1 crore BSBDAs respectively, which under Modi jumped to 14.7 crore in 2014-15, 6.7 crore in 2015-16 and 5 crore so far in 2016-17. Assuming conservatively that another government would have opened 6.1 crore BSBDAs per year (as the UPA did in 2013-14), the Modi effect looks something like this:
It turns out that more than 24 crore unbanked individuals were brought into the financial system before Amitbhai's government took office. A good performance by the current government? No doubt. But an unprecedented break from so-called Bure Din? Nah.
Verdict: Jumla
It's quite telling that five out of six instances of Acche Din cited by Amit Shah are misleading. It's hard to live up to promises as inflated as the BJP's 2014 claims, both about the UPA's dark ages and their own development genius. But clearly, playing fast and loose with facts to a willing audience has not hurt either Modi or Shah. Maybe that's what they mean by Acche Din.
India's economic freedom plunge
On February 19, 2017 April 17, 2017 By Amitabh DubeyIn Economy1 Comment
For a government so devoted to rankings and ratings, India dropping 20 places to 143 in the 2017 Index of Economic Freedom must have been a bummer. If Prime Minister Narendra Modi felt it worthwhile to approvingly cite India's 19-place improvement in the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index, surely such a dramatic fall in economic freedom should send alarm bells ringing?
Compiled by the conservative Washington DC-based Heritage Foundation, the Index of Economic Freedom has an unambiguous free-market tilt. It ranks countries based on 12 factors:
And on the face of it, India seems to have taken quite a hit:
But the jittery libertarians can relax. India's dip in the index is the result of a methodological change, not a big deterioration in economic freedom. Low scores in two new variables – "judicial effectiveness" and "fiscal health" – pushed India's 2017 ranking down the list. If we compare 2017 with previous years on a like-for-like basis, India stands at 121, pretty much the same. The bad news? India has shown no improvement either, so Acche Din are as distant as ever.
Now you might say that these indices are arbitrary, opaque or irrelevant, and you would have a point. Heritage doesn't tell us how individual scores are calculated, and only five of the 12 variables are drawn from concrete data, as opposed to more subjective surveys by the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, Transparency International etc. The way the index is calculated, modest changes in one or two variables can send a country up or down five to 10 places.
Since many of these appear to be subjective measures (e.g. "property rights", "judicial effectiveness", "government integrity"), small rank changes could simply reflect random measurement error. Furthermore, it's debatable whether saying that India ranks three spots higher than Brazil under "property rights" is truly meaningful.
There are conceptual issues too. If you give Sudan, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo top billing under "government spending" and code the welfare states of Finland, France and Denmark as low in this case, are you not implausibly suggesting that weak government capacity produces prosperity?
More broadly, a 2012 paper by economists Aleksander Kešeljević and Rok Spruk finds that country rankings can change once you account for endogeneity – the fact that richer countries will already tend to be freer economically – as well as for how various components of the index affect prosperity differently (e.g. fiscal and monetary variables have a bigger impact than rule-of-law variables).
The point is, there's no need to get hung up on such indices. They can be a periodic reminder of how far there is to go to liberalise the Indian economy, but they are also constrained by a specific ideological perspective. No one in India seriously disputes that it's desirable to make it easier for firms to do business, but reasonable people can disgree whether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act enhances or limits economic freedom.
And think about demonetisation. If it were to reduce corruption in a sustainable way (count me as a sceptic), it would certainly contribute to economic freedom. But it has also imposed a tax on all holders of currency (i.e. everyone), devastated India's informal sector and facilitated Raid Raj by all-powerful income tax authorities. The irony is that India may be holding its position as far as the Heritage Foundation is concerned, but its economic freedom is moving in reverse gear.

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Shide Boss – Sauce arrived in my inbox a short while ago and, while I was intrigued to hear his 2017 sound, I had tracks coming out of my ears for review.
However, on a rainy Monday I pressed play and automatically had chills sprinting down my musical spine as a rush of nostalgia took over. Sauce, a remix of DJ Khaled's Wild Thoughts, automatically kicks off with Itaal Shur's Room 17 sample, better known today as Smooth, a collaboration between Santana and Matchbox Twenty vocalist Rob Thomas.
Shide Boss, who has 3 top ten fusion hits on the ITunes International Charts, produces vocals that are just as smooth as the 1999 collaboration when compared to DJ Khaled's Wild Thoughts ft. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. Shide Boss sizzles as he hits all the notes in style without resorting to the cheese grater effect featured in everything Rihanna is involved with. Shide's Sauce is definitely music for the soul and has the right amount of vocal moments that will have you listening to it over and over again. This is where vocally Shide is better suited, whether or not it's just a cheeky dabble.
Sauce is an effortless display of how to make a remix right and a do a homage justice! Sauce gives you double cream and strawberries and it's as sweet as cheery pie!
Sauce (Wild Thoughts / Did You See) is available to download from iTunes now.
My previous review of Shide Boss was lukewarm, and had it not been for Mutya it wouldn't have cut the crust!
Sauce (Wild Thoughts / Did You See)
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Review Revised / Published 20 August 2018 @ 14:00 PM
Playboy, released on June 3, is about a playboy, as the title suggests, who continues to enjoy attention from the same woman, despite various breakups and make-ups. As Us Weekly points out, Tyga's song is probably about Kylie Jenner.
"Shide Boss sizzles as he hits all the notes in style without resorting to the cheese grater effect featured in everything Rihanna is involved with."
Drake is back, but did he ever truly go away? Scorpion, his fifth studio album, is a monster, but was it really worth the studio time?


People naturally look to others with either the same background or with whom they have some shared experience to help in times of uncertainty and women usually expect support and help from other women. However, even though the culture of male-dominated organizations and the attitudes of male managers have been the most frequent obstacles that women managers have had to overcome, it seems that other women do not usually play a larger part than men in helping female managers build their self-confidence and in encouraging them to progress within their chosen line of work. While there is much talk about the need for women role models there seem to be precious few examples of them.
One of the recurrent themes in discussion with women managers is the lack of high-profile, senior, successful women who offer encouragement to others or provide evidence of what can be achieved. The handful, whose names immediately spring to mind, are inundated with requests for interviews, lectures and so on and, quite reasonably, feel rather overwhelmed by the attention and sometimes resentful of the time it takes to fulfil these engagements. They would surely welcome the appearance of more women on the scene to spread the burden and the gospel?
The encouraging news is that, at last, there are more women around who are prepared to talk about how they have reached and maintained high office and who are happy to discuss the reasons for their success. There is a feeling that those older women - who made their way to the top fighting and scratching and weren't willing to assist others - are a disappearing breed and that the new generation is more amenable to lending a helping hand.
Even if they haven't been seen to help directly, women managers often do so indirectly, just by being there, by listening, perhaps by providing the instant camaraderie of being another woman in a predominantly male meeting.


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Hunger is a worldwide problem, Hundreds die every hour from starvation, and the problem will not fade away anytime soon. In this video, we count down the top five Countries with the highest percentage of underweight children.
Bangladesh's population is large in 2015 the population was at a grand 161 million, and 36.8% of the child population were underweight and 16.7% where undernourished. Bangladesh still cannot provide its people with a fair amount of nutritious foods, says a global report on hunger. Bangladesh has slipped further to 90th position in the hunger index out of 118 countries, showing a 17-notch fall from the previous year's 73rd place. The country ranked 57 the year before (2014).
Niger is a vast desert country and one of the poorest on earth. Millions of people, a third of the population, face food shortages. 51.2% of children in Niger are underweight, Starving or malnourished. Aid agencies estimate that tens of thousands of children are in the advanced stages of starvation. Children are dying daily in the few feeding centres there are, where their place in the queue could make the difference between life and death.
17 million Yemenis are hungry That's 2/3 of the country's population. It is one of the largest food crisis in the world in this country Almost half the population is on the edge of famine. … It's a huge crisis. The situation? 43.1% Children are underweight and 25.7% malnourished.
Yemen grows little of its own food, and must import 90 percent of all its goods, but the war has severely limited imports. A naval blockade by Saudi Arabia, with US support, slows maritime traffic and imposes time-consuming inspections. Damage to the country's largest deep-water port, has further slowed World Food Program deliveries.
India with a population of over 1.2 billion, has seen tremendous growth in the past two decades. Gross Domestic Product has increased 4.5 times and per capita consumption has increased 3 times. Similarly, food grain production has increased almost 2 times. However, despite phenomenal industrial and economic growth and while India produces sufficient food to feed its population, it is unable to provide access to food to a large number of people, especially women and children. 194 million people are undernourished in India. By this measure India is home to a quarter of the undernourished population in the world. Also 48% of women between 15 and 49 years of age are anaemic and 44% of children under 5 are underweight.
Somalia is ranked number 1 on our list as 45.3% are underweight and 38% are malnourished. 6 million people in Somalia are considered 'food insecure'. 360,000 Children in Somalia are malnourished. Without Water there can be no crops, no crops = no food and the severe water issue in Somalia is rising, Somalis try to gather water any way they can. Communities drill deep bores 200 to 400 metres underground to access groundwater. Shallow wells are dug in the mountains and dams are built to collect surface water. Trucking in water is also common, where water trucks come periodically to refill water reservoirs called berkads. But these methods do not always provide safe and reliable sources for drinking water.


We wife and I are getting ready to finally pull the trigger on buying a home and are planning on using a USDA loan or an FHA if needed. Our lowest mortgage FICO (mine) is 637 and I'm hoping to bump it past 640 prior to pulling the trigger on pre approval but I'm not sure which accounts to pay first.
My wife has no outstanding debts other then 1 cc with less then 9% on the card, 2 others at 0%.
Our gross for 2018 was 90k, our gross for 2019 will be 102k, and our gross for 2020 will be 112k. I'm not sure how this years or next years raise will impact our loan, if at all. We pay 15,000 annually for childcare which currently puts our adjusted income below the 95k threshold for a USDA loan. We have 25k in reserves for either down payment/closing.
I have 8k this month to pay down accounts but I'm not sure which accounts to pay. My original plan was to pay off one credit card, my student loans, and my automobile loan but I heard that paying off installment loans may lower my scores. My thought is to pay off my two lowest balance cards and then chip away at the others until we think we can reasonably get an approval. I'm not sure if my recent 30 days late will cause our application to be denied, but if it won't then we would like to apply for preapproval in the next 2-3 months. Does anyone think that is possible?
I also had a collections account that was a result of improper medical billing back in 2014 that has shown as paid but has just been removed from my account. Will I see any appreciable increase in score from that removal alone?
Any comments or ideas on what to do or how to approach this debt would be great. My hopes are that paying off two of the cards + having the collections account removed will bring my score up past the 640 threshold but I'm also not sure if there's something I'm missing that will cause issues.
Thanks all in advanced. I've learned a lot since coming to this forum.
I would either apply 2k to each of the cards or pay off the 7k balance card first since the payment is $260 per month.
Then you can add the $260 to the $140 payment on CC#3 and have that paid off in 9 months.
I think you'll see a bigger increase in your scores right away by paying down each of the cards by 2K.
Do not pay off the installment accounts because that could hurt your scores.
I would ask for a one time courtesy delete for the late payment on your auto loan. This will help your scores & improve your chances of getting an approval through the USDA Automated Underwriting System.
Sounds good. Unfortunately my credit union will not remove the late payment. Would it make more sense to wait until that payment is past 12 months old before applying for the loan? Unfortunately im due for a pay increase in 2020 that will take me over the maximum income amount so i dont want to wait too long.
Not necessarily. Once the credit cards are paid down & your scores come up, it's possible that the late payment won't matter.
Good to know. One last question: If I received a raise at the start of the year and it's reflected in my pay stubs, will that be the income used for DTI or will it be the previous years income?
We will use the income reflected on your pay stubs for qualifying.
Get that student loan paid off and you might very well see that score boost well over 640 quickly.
If you can focus on paying down/and eventually off those credit cards then you'll also be in a position where you'll see your scores rise as well, but the previous advice regarding that was good.
Some lenders have a credit simulator that shows precisely how much to pay toward these cards for maximum score increase. I do this quite often and it's usually not by paying down all multiple cards a little. It would usually be - by attacking the two $3,500 balances you mentioned. Especially the $3,500 balance with $4k limit. Paying that one down to a balance of $1k alone can give you an impressive score increase. You might get away with spending 4k to instead of 8k to achieve your goal if you care about keeping some of those funds. Theres no worry in hitting the 640 score because you'll do that easily... The goal is getting your score so high that It helps offset those late payments so the lenders automated approval works in your favor.
My bigger concern is whether or not your income is too high to qualify for USDA. I hope you have a lot of children since USDA income restrictions allows you to make more $. Have you gone to the USDA site to see if you income qualify?
Good to know, thank you! Yes I've gone through the website and thanks to our 15k/year childcare costs we are still eligible.


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From 'boards to mtn. bikes to coaching
SportsOutdoors
Gene Hamilton mountain bike racer
By Special to The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: August 27, 2007 at 5:43 pm | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 6:41 pm
Fifteen years ago, Gene Hamilton decided to add mountain-bike racing as a summer complement to his pro snowboarding career, turning pro as a downhill racer only two seasons later. His greatest success as a competitor came in 2002, when he won a silver medal as a downhiller at the UCI World Masters Championships to go along with a bronze in 1999 and another in 2006. Although still competitive among masters downhillers today, Hamilton, 41, is better known for his coaching skills. A former head snowboard coach at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club who is now living in Fruita, he's a licensed USA Cycling expert-level coach, teaching beginners to pros through his Better Ride coaching camps (www.betterride.net).
What is your best training technique?
Practicing the core skills of riding in a non-threatening environment (such as a parking lot), then applying these skills on trail.
Most frightening moment?
Having my bike snap in half on one of the fastest sections of the Angel Fire downhill track in 2003.
How do you push through mental fatigue?
I use a performance cue (a saying and finger gesture linked to a certain physiological state) that in an instant puts me in a peak mental and physical state. Second, I focus on my goal and how hard I have worked to achieve it.
What is the sickest thing you have ever seen?
Steve Wentz pinning it off the big rock drop on the Durango National downhill track and flying over my head and about 40 feet down the trail.
Who do you admire most?
My grandfather Gene Mun- ger Jr., a quietly confident, modest, gracious person who you would never know was a B-29 bomber captain in WWII.
What music revs you up for competition?
Hank III, Motorhead, Fugazi, Ramones, Ministry, AC/DC, Supersuckers and The Gourds.
Best advice you've ever received?
No matter what your job/task is, if you do it to the best of your ability, you will be satisfied.
What do you know now that you didn't know then?
That there is a correct way to do all aspects of riding (cornering, jumping, vision, etc.), and learning those core skills earlier in my career would have led to much greater success.
What is your most essential tool for success in your sport?
Confidence in my riding ability and mental toughness, being able to perform at my best despite all competitive circumstances. The confidence comes from knowing the core skills of the sport and the mental toughness from years of practice.
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Tim Tebow marries former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
The former Broncos quarterback married fiancée and Miss Universe 2017 Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters in a ceremony at La Paris Estate in Cape Town, South Africa, according to People magazine.
Kiszla vs. Chambers: How much is Avalanche's home ice hurt by transplants rooting for visiting teams?
But did all these fine transplants have to bring their old hockey allegiances with them from the dreary Midwest?


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RALEIGH - Motorists traveling on Catfish Lake Road in Craven and Jones counties need to watch their speed. Weather permitting, speed limit signs will be placed along the approximately 15 miles of roadway on Tuesday, March 18, officially reducing the speed limit from 55 miles per hour to 35 mph.
The secondary road is in the Croatan National Forest and often used as a shortcut between Havelock in Craven County and Maysville in Jones County. It connects U.S. 70 and U.S. 58.
From 2009 through 2013, Catfish Lake Road has made the headlines several times for severe and fatal crashes. Over that 5-year period, there have been 90crashes with 7 fatalities and 48 injuries.
"Safety is our top priority at NCDOT," said John Rouse, N.C. Department of Transportation Division 2 engineer. "Reducing the speed limit along this road will help protect motorists."
Law enforcement officers will patrol the area, and motorists who do not comply with the new speed limit may be cited. In addition, NCDOT encourages drivers to stay alert and pay attention while traveling through the area.


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supporting study
study well documented, meets generally accepted scientific principles, acceptable for assessment
Toxicity and hazard of diisobutyl ketone vapors
Carpenter CP, Pozzani UC, Weil CS
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Arch Ind Hyg Occup Med 8: 377-381
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other: sensory response of humans
The sensory response of humans to diisobutyl ketone vapors was investigated.
Ethical approval:
Exposure assessment:
Based on the results of this study it was estimated that a workroom atmosphere containing 50 ppm of diisobutyl ketone would be "satisfactory" if not ideal.
The sensory response of humans to diisobutyl ketone vapors was investigated by Silverman et al. They estimated that 25 ppm of the ketone vapors was the highest concentration that man would consider "satisfactory" for an eight-hour exposure. An attempt to confirm Silverman's work was made by means of two male subjects, 25 and 32 years of age, who inhaled 50 ppm of diisobutyl ketone vapors for three hours.
The exposure chamber consisted of a 6.5 ft. (198 cm) cube through which the vapor-laden air was drawn under slight negative pressure at 900 liters per minute. The vapor concentration was checked every 5 minutes for the first one-half hour and every 15 minutes for the remaining two and one-half hours by means of an interferometer.
The subjects employed themselves during exposure in routine writing chores and in recording pulse rate and subjective symptoms. A transitory slight irritation of the eyes and nose was noticed by both subjects at the beginning of exposure. However, the vapor could be smelled and tased throughout the exposure. Both subjects noted no change in the taste of cigarettes smoked at the end of the experiment. There was no significant change in the pulse rate and the blood pressure of the subjects, and tests for urine sugar and albumin performed 1 hour and 24 hours after exposure were negative. In view of the absence of any appreciable discomfort and the negative results of the physiological tests, the two subjects estimated that a workroom atmosphere containing 50 ppm of diisobutyl ketone vapors would be "satisfactory" if not ideal.
Ten days later, the same two men and an additional male subject, 43 years of age, inhaled 100 ppm of diisobutyl ketone vapors for three hours. The experimental procedure as outlined above was followed, with the addition of a simple coordination test. Each of the three subjects drew six circles and six squares at the beginning, middle and end of the exposure period.
A slight irritation of the eyes and nose was noticed initially by all three subjects, but the sensation decreased somewhat during the exposure. The ketone could be "tasted" by two subjects in one hour, and a slight throat irritation was noticed by one subject in one and one-half hours. Slight lacrimation occurred in one subject, and a slight headache was noticed by the other two subjects in two hours. Two subjects experienced a slight dizziness upon entering a fresh-air atmosphere after a three-hour exposure. The two subjects who smoked cigarettes after the exposure complained of an unpleasant taste. Pulse rates and blodd pressures were normal, and urinanalyses gave negative results. The performance of the subjects in the coordination tests was not influenced by the exposure. The subjects estimated that a working atmosphere of 100 ppm of diisobutyl ketone vapors would be "unsatisfactory".


Bank in the morning.Mrs Brown is going to buy some food.Their daughter Ann is going to finish her homework.Ann's brother Tom is going to play computer games.And then,thery're going to visit Ann and Tom's grandparents in the afternoon.They're going to go bu subway bucause the Brown's house is far from theirs.
1. Is everyone busy on the weekend?
2. What's Mr Brown going to do?
3. Do Mr and Mrs Brown have two children?
4. Does Tom have a sister?
5. Are the children going to play in the morning?
6. How are they going to visit Ann's grandparents?
2.在博物馆那里向右拐,然后直走. At the museum,then .
( )1.Sarah:How do you go to school?
A.I go to school by bus. B.I can go by the No.13 bus.
( )2.Tom:How can I get to the bookstore?
A. You go to school by bike.
B. You go to school on foot.
C. You can go by the No.17 bus.
D. You go to work by train.
( )3.Liu:Excuse me.Where is the library?
A. There is a hospital in the middle.
D. It's in front of the school.
( )4.Chen:Is your home far from your school?
A. It's the post office.
D. It's on the left.
( )5.Tom:What are you going to do this afternoon?
A. I'm going to the park this afternoon.
C. I'm going to buy a book this afternoon.
D. I go to school by bike.
B.Walk east for three minutes.
C.Find the white building on the left.
D.Start from the bus stop in front of our school.
E.Get off at the post office.


She has a ability that instantly kills any Scarlet mob at this area, so all you need to do is hit the mob and wait until she kills him (you get 100% Exp for that kill). I was able to get from 6-13 as a warrior in 10 minutes. If there are more than 3 mobs near Lilian, she instantly kill them all and you do not get experience.
Quest is part of the chain. If necessary you can abandon the quest and start it over again.


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RedbackTV – Episode 18
Episode 18 of RedbackTV provides a recap the Trimester 2 season. Watch this episode to see which seven teams were premiers, which two sports where Champion Sports and how OC faired in the Trimester 2 Champion School race. ...
Finals Recap
Throughout the Trimester 2 season, the Redbacks seemed to be travelling really well. It felt like each week there was some type of best performance or clean sweep reported. In fact, the Boys Tennis program enjoyed four undefeated rounds, including St Paul's who finished second in the Champion Boys Tennis School standings! Form would have indicated that the round against St Columban's would have been the fifth undefeated round before rained cancelled games. OC were crowned the Champion Boys Tennis School....
Spectacular end to season for Boys Tennis
The OC Boys Tennis Teams went into battle on the weekend hosting four finals, playing a total of five finals and also a third v fourth playoff. It was going to be a hotly contested day with many close matches during the regular season and the Boys Tennis Aggregate title still on the line. ...
Great determination and effort in Hockey
It was a simple equation, five wins (or four draws and a win) and the 'Redsticks' would come home with five Bronze medals. Job done, season over. What transpired was the tightest round of hockey for the season ending in two draws and three losses...
Excellent sportsmanship in Netball
The OC Netball girls played their last game of the season last weekend, with two teams coming away with Premierships. OC came out on top in seven out of 11 games played. ...
OC Rugby claims Champion School Status
The TAS Rugby Finals had finally arrived and the excitement and buzz was palpable. Ormiston's teams had qualified for three Grand Finals and three 3 vs 4 playoffs, a feat not matched by any other school. This consistency had Ormiston in pole position to claim the #1 ranking across all TAS Rugby programs, but first some finals scores needed to be settled. ...
OC Touch Girls Sizzle in Preseason Competition
The OC Touch preseason program is well and truly up and running in time for the Term 3 TAS season, but for nine hard-working players they have been at work for a lot longer. As has been the case for the last couple of years a 'Firsts Touch Development Squad' have been playing down at Redlands Touch Association at the Cleveland Showgrounds. ...
What an amazing season of Junior TAS Rugby and Netball we have had. It is one of the most rewarding parts of coaching a sporting team – to see the improvement your players make over a season. Some of the amazing statistics and results can be seen below, but it is the way in which our students have listened to their coaches and applied the lessons learnt at training that has been the most impressive part of Term 2...
Recent Results Trimester Fixtures Overview TAS Website TAS Venues


Just near the Alps, in a wonderful natural scenery and rich vegetation, Lake Maggiore is the reference point for exciting tours. A charming discovery of majestic landscapes, a journey around pleasures, curiosities, uncontaminated environment, to relish unknown oases, cultural itineraries, archaeology, parks and natural reserves rich in flora and fauna, botanical gardens, castles, medieval villages, historical abodes…traditions, ecoturism and amusement, sports, tastes and traditional cuisine…a hospitable land, rich in history and culture where everything is still wrapped in silence, far from crowd, rich in emotions. A delightful place, to break free and dream…an unforgettable holiday! Come and discover all the magic Lake Maggiore can offer. Lake Maggiore, repository of the wealth and cultural patrimony left by the Borromeo family, is still testimony to their prestige and refinement which can be seen in their magnificent palaces with their impressive Italian gardens, and the imposing Fortress of Angera. The lake should be seen from the lake, and from the lake time seems to have stood still. The Monastery of Santa Caterina clinging to the rocky cliff; Stresa and the Borromeo Islands, small in size but rich in history, and the Castles of Cannero, island outpost of the Mazzarditi Brothers, infamous pirates of the Verbano, are just a few of the timeless examples awaiting the visitor. We are a few kilometres far from Valgrande Natural Park and just one kilometre far from Lagoni Park in Mercurago, with inside interesting routes for bikes or walking through horse-farms. Days as climbers on Monte Rosa Glaciers or days walking in relax through Alpe Veglia and the green Val Vigezzo (the Painters Valley) and Val Formazza with its evocative Toce Falls.
This is a charming full day excursion: first of all by boat from Stresa to Locarno, then with the narrow-panoramic train across the "Centovalli" and the Vigezzo Valley. From the terminus in Domodossola we will follow the river "Toce" back to Lake Maggiore.


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This is part 0 of the multipart code design and architecture series based off my game Trap Labs.
I wrote an extensive article on effective unit testing in Unity which implicitly covered this topic. I recommend you give that a read especially if you want to see some code as the entire project files and tests are provided unlicensed.
What I'm describing are two problems.
Firstly, the use of any framework immediately puts restrictions on the architecture of your code. Regardless the efforts you put into decoupling from the framework it will still put implicit restrictions the code's architecture, as you'll about to see. This means that if the framework changes your game changes. If one day the folks at Unity decides you to screw you over then guess what there's nothing you can do about it.
This is usually a non-issue because the nice framework developers know that in order keep us happy they have to keep their public interfaces more or less the same. And if they need to overhaul a component they'll provide us with a temporary wrapper or adapter and warn us that, "Hey this function has since been deprecated. Please try and use this new interface going forward. Thanks man!" @!&@^#&!!!!
The second problem is the one worth noting and much more severe. The consequence of coupling your code to frameworks makes your software extremely difficult to test.
I'm not talking about asking your friends to play the level that you made over and over until he/she finds a game breaking bug and you pull your hair out trying to fix the issue. I'm talking about automated unit tests, you know the one you probably didn't write?
Remember how I said my articles will be test heavy? If practices like TDD is new to you, I would recommend checking out my code to get an idea what test-first is about. There are also a ton of great tutorials on the Internet that covers unit testing. In simple terms, unit tests allow you automate testing of all logic in your code in matter of seconds. Every time you make a change to your code you run the tests to verify correctness and catch regressions immediately.
Just to give you some perspective, the entire Trap Labs project has over 400 units tests, and counting. The core engine has about 130 test that runs under a second every time I compile. As a result, I don't spend a lot of time debugging due to the high degree of correctness, and I focus on design and developing features. Writing unit tests and test-first keeps code defects low and development velocity high. To do that with a video game you first need to decouple from the framework/game engine.
So what is coupling? Coupling is the amount of dependency one piece of code has on another. Any form of dependency is a form of coupling such as reference, inheritance, polymorphism, generics etc. The more dependencies you have the tighter the coupling.
If there is anything in software design and architecture you should take away, it is that you should always aim for lossely coupled class/modules. Loosely coupled modules implies that there is a clear separation of responsibilities between the modules. Furthermore, it signficantly reduces the ability of breaking a module to do a change from a another module. Tight coupling is a common problem among amateur developers. Have you experienced a bug where you made a change and it broke something completely unrelated? This is most likely the cause.
Regardless of what effort you put into decoupling your modules, you will always end up with some form of coupling because your modules need to communicate with each other somehow. For good architectures you want to ensure your couplings are very lean and clean. This usually means you need to clearly establish boundaries of the modules upfront and define where coupling should exist. I would recommend doing so at the planning stage of your classes. Common boundaries are things like databases, UI, controls, OS and other hardware devices. For video games for example you might want to separate score keeping and gameplay such that the scoring module observes the gameplay and applys scoring without the gameplay affecting the scoring logic. Clearly esablishing boundaries within your game will help separate responsibilities and keep modules cohesive.
Decoupling from the framework not only makes your code much easier to test, it makes your software somewhat framework agnostic. You can design your game such that if you decided to switch engines, you can do so in a short time, and not breaking anything. However, I need to stress that it's generally not pragmatic to completely decouple from the framework. If you really decide to switch frameworks in the middle of a project it's going to require some man/woman power to do the switch properly. The amount of coupling you should aim for is what is sufficient to effectively test your game.
The annoying part of decoupling video game framework is that they are multi-domain. For example, decoupling a database is easy because database is data query. You can decouple your business logic from the database such that switching between a SQL database or a file with minimal effort. Video game engines however touch multiple domains such audio, video, physics, networking, file IO, and more. Sure they are convenient features, but super restrictive on the game's architecture. If you tightly couple to Unity you are pretty much stuck with Unity forever. 50% of marriages end in divorces, so coupling long term is generally a bad idea. My jokes are awesome.
Allow me to reiterate something I said in the introduction of this series. Decoupling framework does somewhat defeats the purpose of using a framework, as you'll see some modules needs to be abstracted or need custom implementation that are already provided by the framework. Developers that are making small games will probably not see the benefits. But I assure you that the benefits will become clear for projects that have any scale.
Oh you're still here? Good I like your style. Let's continue.
Let's say you are making a shoot'em up game like space invaders, with very simple physics (fixed step in x direction based on key pressed). How much do you think the code can be written with without touching the game engine? The correct answer is: almost all of it. OMG What are you mad? How do I verify the plane is flying correctly? You do that through unit tests.
Just think about it for a moment. Do the visuals affect how spaceship moves?
"Of course! If I press the left arrow key the cannon will move 10 pixels to the left," you said.
"So how are you going to verify that the cannon moved 10 pixels to the left?" I asked.
"No that's what slaves are for," I replied.
I only included the definition because the implementation should be trivial. Compile this as a separate library and link against Catch (or your favorite test framework) and run. And voila you just verified correctness of your movement logic.
"Oh that's cool, but this is useless I can't play a library!" you said.
Notice the dependency on Cannon is now broken from Cocos through Cannon2D. Cannon is now unit testable and the dependency is inverted. Aside from the construction fluff required from inheriting Cocos' Sprite class, the update and key handler functions are now trivial. You can eyeball the code to verify correctness without the need to run the game.
This is fundamentally how you would write a game logic completely decoupled from the framework/game engine. You want to keep the logic testable in its own component, and the part coupled to the framework class as tiny as possible. You have to design your modules such that framework now is more heavily depend on your library, rather than the other way around.
"Great questions young grasshopper. To test logic that is tightly coupled to the framework, you need to go a bit further to create an interface to help you…" I said.
Before I move on to the next section I would also argue that specifically in this case the switch statements are simple enough to verify by inspection, and writing a test would be overkill. But I want to show you that EVERYTHING can be decoupled if you want them to be testable. How aggressively you want to verify correctness is for you to decide for your project.
Video game engines often provide a single accessor object to access all of its features. In Unity its GameObject, in Cocos2d-x its cocos2d::Node (and it's derivatives).
In Cocos it's a complete mess. Almost every feature from visual to physics and controls are all accessible from this node. Some see this as convenience, I see this as disaster waiting to happen. Unity does this better as it uses a generic to separate components into their own classes, but it does not eliminate the dependency from MonoBehavior. Thus the key to effective decoupling from the framework is to decouple from the engine's accessor functions.
This is another reminder that I wrote an extensive article on decoupling Unity. For this section I'll continue to use Cocos2d-x and you'll see that it's a bit different from Unity.
It wasn't pragmatic break the Node class into components like what I did with Unity. The reason is because once I subclass a Node or Sprite I immediately inherit the interface anyways, so it doesn't help with the dependency problem.
The mediator pattern is a class that help two different classes communicate with each other without the two classes knowing anything about each other.
I'll talk about VisualMediator in more detail in Part 4 of the series as I go over Trap Labs' game engine. For now, NodeMediator will be sufficient to get my point across.
NodeMediator is a protocol class, or more commonly referred to as an interface in C# or Java's terminology. It's purely virtual. You'll also notice that there are two data structures TLFPoint and TLFSize, and an enum TLKeyCode. They are custom implementations of Point and Size classes created for the sake of testability. This is one if the pitfalls of decoupling from a game engine. Sometimes you need to recreate certain data structures from the framework in order to test your game because these data structures are locked in the game engine's namespace. If the engine you are using comes with header only includes or linkable libraries that contain these classes then you don't need to rewrite them. In my case they were simple enough to recreate.
Notice how the dependency is still pointing towards MyGame module, yet the key presses are now testable. What you end up getting is a subclass where each utility method is one-line long. They're all tested externally and it's very difficult to have a bug in this code that is closely coupled to Cocos. In my opinion testing key controls like this a bit aggressive if the ship only moves in one direction. As I explained earlier the switch statement from the old Cannon2D is sufficient without a test. But if you have more mechanism built on top of key presses, such as a secondary weapon, then it's definitely worth doing something like this to ensure testability.
"See Johnny? This is how you work with frameworks and flip the bird the other way at the same time! Since most video game engine have similar interfaces such as update() and keypress() if one day you decide to switch engines, you just have to rewrite the mediator implementation and nothing about your game would change! If you don't touch it, you won't break it!" I exclaimed.
"My name is not Johnny," you said.
This is fundamentally how you would decouple your game from the game engine. Implementations may vary depending on the engine or the framework, but I hope you get the idea. With this out of the way, we can now explore the amazing world of Trap Labs' architecture in Part 1.


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namespace AppBundle\Admin;

use Sonata\AdminBundle\Admin\Admin;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Datagrid\ListMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Datagrid\DatagridMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Form\FormMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Show\ShowMapper;

class PokemonAdmin extends Admin
{
    /**
     * Fields to be shown on create/edit forms
     *
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
    {
        $formMapper
            ->add('name')
            ->add('hp')
            ->add('level')
            ->add('attack')
            ->add('defense')
            ->add('description')
            ->add('types')
            ->add('trainer')
        ;
    }

    /**
     * Fields to be shown on filter forms
     *
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function configureDatagridFilters(DatagridMapper $datagridMapper)
    {
        $datagridMapper
            ->add('name')
            ->add('level')
            ->add('types')
            ->add('trainer')
        ;
    }

    /**
     * Fields to be shown on lists
     *
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function configureListFields(ListMapper $listMapper)
    {
        $listMapper
            ->addIdentifier('id')
            ->add('name')
            ->add('hp')
            ->add('level')
            ->add('attack')
            ->add('defense')
            ->add('types')
            ->add('trainer')
        ;
    }

    /**
     * Fields to be shown on show action
     *
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function configureShowFields(ShowMapper $showMapper)
    {
        $showMapper
            ->add('id')
            ->add('name')
            ->add('hp')
            ->add('level')
            ->add('attack')
            ->add('defense')
            ->add('description')
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We're two Australian globetrotters sharing our foreign adventures.
Find out a little more about The Drifting Duo and what inspires us to keep travelling the world.
Looking for some travel inspiration? Explore our blog posts for tips on our favourite locations.


Google and Rackspace cooperate over creating a new server configuration based on IBM Power9 processors. The design is expected to be shared as part of the Open Compute Project. The hardware set will include 48V Open Compute racks by Google and Facebook collaborative development.
IBM POWER architecture is targeted on the customers whose operational requirements include high performance with huge amounts of data (AI developers, scientists, government). Power9 CPUs are due to arrive in 2017.
Rackspace's plans regarding a new system codenamed Barreleye (their first server using OpenPower technologies – the Open Compute Project and OpenStack) will also be justified.
Also, IBM promises to add Open Compute Project-compliant systems to their Linux-based Power equipment to cover cloud-based cognitive and analytical software.
Finally, Big Blue will introduce a 2nd-generation OpenPower server for HPC workloads (Nvidia and Wistron involved) with Power8 CPUs and Tesla100 GPUs connected via NVLink.


Continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) uses a machine to help a person who has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) breathe more easily during sleep. A CPAP machine increases air pressure in your throat so that your airway doesn't collapse when you breathe in. When you use CPAP, your bed partner may sleep better too.
A mask that covers your nose only—called nasal continuous positive airway pressure, or NCPAP (this type of mask is most common).
Prongs that fit into your nose.
It may take time for you to become comfortable with using CPAP. If you can't get used to it, talk to your doctor. You might be able to try another type of mask or make other adjustments.
CPAP is the most effective nonsurgical treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. It is the first treatment choice for adults and the most widely used.
Excessive dreaming during early use.
Leaks around the mask because it doesn't fit properly.
You can expect mild discomfort in the morning when you first start using CPAP. Talk with your doctor if you don't feel comfortable after a few days.
If your nose is runny or congested, talk with your doctor about using decongestants or corticosteroid nasal spray medicines.
Be sure the mask or nasal prongs fit you properly. Air shouldn't leak around the mask.
You may want to talk to your doctor about trying other types of CPAP machines.
One type of machine will start with a low air pressure and slowly increase the air pressure as you fall asleep. This kind of machine can help reduce discomfort caused by too much constant pressure in your nose.
A bilevel positive airway pressure machine (BiPAP) uses a different air pressure when you breathe in than when you breathe out. You may find BiPAP more comfortable than CPAP because you can breathe out against a lower air pressure. As a result, you may be more likely to continue the treatment. You will have to spend the night at a sleep laboratory to find the air pressure levels that work best for you.
When you are using CPAP, you need to see your doctor or sleep specialist regularly. You may also need more sleep studies to adjust the CPAP machine and check whether the treatment is working.
For best results, keep the machine clean. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning the equipment.
The machines are expensive. You may be able to rent a CPAP machine before you buy it. In some cases, you may be able to rent-to-own a CPAP machine. BiPAP and APAP machines are usually more expensive than CPAP machines.
The most common problem with CPAP is that people don't use the machine every night. Or they take off the mask during the night because it becomes uncomfortable. Even one night of not using the machine can make you sleepy the next day. If you feel like you want to stop using CPAP for any reason, talk to your doctor. There may be other treatment options for you.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved some brands of portable CPAP machines. You may be able to take a smaller CPAP machine on vacations or other types of trips.
Lam B, et al. (2007). Randomised study of three non-surgical treatments in mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea. Thorax, 62(4): 354–359.
Bouloukaki I, et al. (2014). Intensive versus standard follow-up to improve continuous positive airway pressure compliance. European Respiratory Journal, 44(5): 1262–1274. DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00021314. Accessed February 5, 2015.
Milleron O, et al. (2004). Benefits of obstructive sleep apnoea treatment in coronary artery disease: A long-term follow-up study. European Heart Journal, 25(9): 728–734.
Barbe F, et al. (2010). Long-term effect of continuous positive airway pressure in hypertensive patients with sleep apnea. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 181(7): 718–726.
Lam B, et al. (2007). Randomised study of three non-surgical treatments in mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea. Thorax, 62(4): 354-359.
Bouloukaki I, et al. (2014). Intensive versus standard follow-up to improve continuous positive airway pressure compliance. European Respiratory Journal, 44(5): 1262-1274. DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00021314. Accessed February 5, 2015.
Milleron O, et al. (2004). Benefits of obstructive sleep apnoea treatment in coronary artery disease: A long-term follow-up study. European Heart Journal, 25(9): 728-734.
Barbe F, et al. (2010). Long-term effect of continuous positive airway pressure in hypertensive patients with sleep apnea. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 181(7): 718-726.


Simply insert USB-N13 into your computer's USB port and press the WPS button on both the router and USB-N13. Within two steps, a secure and protected wireless connection setting done!
The USB-N13 supports you multiple OS driver to easily go freedom wireless on most aboveground OS.


Ok so getting last Monday's goal post out in the wee hours of Friday morning is probably not the best of plans but sometimes life is just like that. Nothing this week has gone to plan and I think I have reached the point where I will just stop planning.
Today, actually I mean yesterday, being the first of the month meant that it was time to check back in with TME to see how our monthly goals went. Needless to say that mine have not gone to well.
My first goal of successfully writing 50 000 words for NaNoWriMo did not even come close to being achieved. Which stands it in good stead with my second goal of writing 20 blog posts this month. I got to 19. Though I do have one scheduled for later today that was written in November, so I guess technically I did reach this goal. (yay me) My final goal was to remain conscious about the housework. As always this has been hit and miss. There were some really awesome days when I would have given Martha Stewart a run for her money but then there were also days I should probably have been locked away for my lack of effort.
One thing I did learn this past month though is that I need to maintain a weekly round up of my goals. I just don't have the focus to let it go to monthly. At least not yet, and aside from that I need all the blog post ideas I can get my hands on so for the time being a weekly post about my ineptitude towards goal setting and achieving will stay on the cards. Who knows I may actually get something done.
With that in mind last week I wrote about my return to weekly goals (which much like I assume this will be remained largely unread) On the upside though I feel rather successful in terms of the goals that I set. Mt Washmore is not at it's peak and is in fact almost under control. Given some of the wet weather and the need to change sheets around three times due to sick children that is all pretty admirable.
Not only that but I actually managed to pump out four posts instead of the anticipated three and on most days I was consciously active, including to runs to the shop, so I am currently feeling like a real winner.
Having said that though it was not all roses and sunshine.
The dish free sink area was a massive failure. There were a few days were the tower of dirty dishes at the kitchen sink gave Mt Washmore a run for its money in the race to reach the ceiling first. Even as I speak the drainer is plagued by dirty dishes. In my defense though I don't feel I should have to cook and then clean every single night. Surely there are other people in the household capable of assisting. Something I will certainly be looking into.
My final goal for last week was to consciously model the behaviours I wish to see in the kidlets. This is a tough one. I know that my yelling has decreased but I have still been a bit of a grumbler which is not exactly something that I want the kids to be. I did model good housekeeping skills for a while but no one else joined in and I got disheartened. Maybe I need to try for longer than a day?
By 4pm Saturday afternoon my house will be spotless and sparkling so Grandma can relax and enjoy spending time with the girls while hubs and I go to his work Christmas party.
Best I stop now before I get too carried away. I am thinking I might call this little series the Weekly Wrap Up. What do you think? Sounds a bit more enticing than Weekly Goals don't you think?
Oh and not that this is a goal but I would love to see how many votes I can get in the Mom's Circles Aussie Mum's Blog List. Go here to vote once every 24 hours till Dec 8th.


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Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK is ALIVE! The Tyram Lakes Hotel, Spa and Resort
News provided by Sierra Kilo PR on Monday 5th Feb 2018
Sustainable luxury, redefined.......
Since Rothgen Capital UK announced the launch of the latest funding round for The Tyram Lakes Hotel, Spa and Resort in Hatfield, near Doncaster in Yorkshire UK, Doncaster as an area has been attracting a significant amount of new attention, both domestic and internationally.
As well as Doncaster's undeniable horse racing heritage, it has a surprising amount to offer in other areas. This has recently been demonstrated by Amazon, IKEA, Tesco, Lidl, BMW, Asda et al who are all utilising the convenient geographical location for their large distribution centres, plus Doncaster's obvious proximity to significant transport and travel capabilities, including Doncaster Sheffield (formerly Robin Hood) airport. Amongst other news of note, the Yorkshire Wildlife Park has recently announced its £50M expansion which will potentially make it a top UK destination.
With so much international attention now focussing on the Doncaster area in general, can it be much wonder that property developers have started exploring possibilities in the region? With infrastructure improving weekly, and demonstrable confidence from some of the world's best known companies, the luxury property sector is finally also taking notice.
One of these sector members is Rothgen Capital's Tyram Lakes project, which uses cutting edge ecological and eco-friendly innovations as its basis, and is leading the field in this kind of development, thus of particular interest to energy focussed investors and the media alike. In the centre of the Humberside Peatlands, Hatfield Moor and the National Nature Reserve in South Yorkshire, plans are already approved for 325 luxury eco-lodges set on and around 65 acres of lakes adjacent to 100 acres of natural woodlands, plus the hotel and spa, constituting The Tyram Lakes Hotel, Spa and Resort.
There are two types of eco-lodges. About a third of the lodges (125) will be floating structures, and a further 200 will be set amid the vast woodlands. Available from two to four bedrooms versions, all lodges will blend into the landscape providing private hideaways with natural spaces all around. Lodge features include rooftop gardens fitted with solar panels, decking areas with sunken spa bath and a choice of classic or contemporary interiors.
In the centre of the resort will sit the planned boutique hotel by Den Architecture in association with Baca Architects, who are specialists in eco-friendly and amphibious projects. This unique hotel will offer 104 rooms, conference facilities, a fine dining restaurant with lakeside views, an indoor pool, leisure club, spa, gymnasium, and a picturesque wedding and party venue.
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council approved the application to build the green resort in December 2016, commencing with the first phase of 50 eco-lodges.
The scheme comprises four phases of development:
Phase1 – 50 Lakeside and floating lodges
Phase2 – 104 Bedroom Hotel, Spa, and Leisure Centre
Phase3 - 75 Lakeside and floating lodges
Phase4 - 200 Woodland retreat lodges
.... and embraces the very latest science and technology to create a resort which is designed to function through environmentally accredited solutions that are energy efficient, all of which engage and sustain the local ecosystems.
"The scale and ambitious nature of the plans will ensure the resort is one the most luxurious, fun and relaxing holiday destinations in Europe. This green development will be as sustainable as it's currently possible to build, and be exemplary case study for other developers," says Baca Associate, Andrew Scrace.
Geyser Thermal Energy (GTE) has designed from scratch the heating and hot water system for the resort without a significant negative impact on the local ecology. Using the main lake as a heat source for the lodges, coupled with various (non-chemical) water filtration processes, energy consumption and the need for chemicals is vastly reduced.
This innovative renewable heating system coupled with highly efficient and ecologically sound water solutions leads also to minimal running costs and environmental impact for the development.
Funding rounds by property developers are executed in a number of ways ranging from loans, finance and bridging through to private capital, usually with ease for potential investors in mind. In its hallmark innovative fashion, Rothgen/Tyram Lakes have engaged the Accounting Worx Group, based in Reading UK (along with international presence), who have designed and implemented specific financial instruments for the project to enable investors to participate quickly and easily. These range from bonds through to larger private capital arrangements – all being very attractive for new participants.
The investment interest attracted by Tyram Lakes is not just from the Green and Eco sectors. The inherent design and sustainability factors have led to the world famous ARMANI fashion house /brand becoming involved with the design of a selection of exclusive lodges on the site. This means that The Tyram Lakes Resort & Spa is the first holiday resort inside the UK to have Armani participating in this way.
Natural England too have partnered with Tyram, who have a sizeable park neighbouring Tyram Lakes, and who also have given complimentary access for Tyram Lakes visitors, enabling yet more acres for hiking, trails, and exploration.
With all this happening then, it's no surprise that Hoseasons, the UK's largest park operator, are on board. They believe that Tyram could become a flagship park to sit within the Hoseasons Portfolio and have provided projected rental incomes and occupancy levels to back this up showing strong returns, thus providing evidential balance sheet background for those wishing to invest.
Finishing off this latest update, Rothgen and Tyram Lakes are pleased to announce the arrival of Royal patronage in the form of Princess Alexandra Cantacuzene-Speransky who will also be delighted to welcome new participants and investors to the project.
So, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK is ALIVE, and The Tyram Lakes Resort & Hotel is inviting investors to play along......
For more information about the Tyram Lakes Resort & Spa, please visit http://www.tyramlakes.co.uk/
For information on Investor Relations, please go here > http://ty.investingwell.club/
For press information, or to arrange and interview with Tyram Lakes, please contact Sierra Kilo PR, James Harrington on skpr@sksoflondon.net , 0203 290 6001 or via http://sks-of-london.com
Reference sites:
Tyram Lakes http://www.tyramlakes.co.uk/
Baca Architects http://www.baca.uk.com/
Den Architecture https://www.den.uk.com/
Geyser Energy http://www.geyserenergy.co.uk/
Armani Roca http://www.armaniroca.com/
Armani Casa http://www.armanicasa.com/
Hoseasons http://www.hoseasons.co.uk/
Natural England https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england
Yorkshire Wildlife Park https://www.yorkshirewildlifepark.com/
Accounting Worx Group https://www.accountingworx-group.com/
Rothgen http://www.rothgen.com/
Rothgen Capital http://www.rothgencapital.com/
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Title XIX
PUBLIC BUSINESS Chapter 288
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288.1083 Manufacturing and Spaceport Investment Incentive Program.—
(1) The Manufacturing and Spaceport Investment Incentive Program is created within the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development. The purpose of the program is to encourage capital investment and job creation in manufacturing and spaceport activities in this state.
(a) "Base year purchases" means the total cost of eligible equipment purchased and placed into service in this state by an eligible entity in its tax year that began in 2008.
(b) "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
(c) "Eligible entity" means an entity that manufactures, processes, compounds, or produces items for sale of tangible personal property or engages in spaceport activities. The term also includes an entity that engages in phosphate or other solid minerals severance, mining, or processing operations. The term does not include electric utility companies, communications companies, oil or gas exploration or production operations, publishing firms that do not export at least 50 percent of their finished product out of the state, any firm subject to regulation by the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, or any firm that does not manufacture, process, compound, or produce for sale items of tangible personal property or that does not use such machinery and equipment in spaceport activities.
(d) "Eligible equipment" means tangible personal property or other property that has a depreciable life of 3 years or more and that is used as an integral part in the manufacturing, processing, compounding, or production of tangible personal property for sale or is exclusively used in spaceport activities, and that is located and placed into service in this state. A building and its structural components are not eligible equipment unless the building or structural component is so closely related to the industrial machinery and equipment that it houses or supports that the building or structural component can be expected to be replaced when the machinery and equipment are replaced. Heating and air-conditioning systems are not eligible equipment unless the sole justification for their installation is to meet the requirements of the production process, even though the system may provide incidental comfort to employees or serve, to an insubstantial degree, nonproduction activities. The term includes parts and accessories only to the extent that the exemption of such parts and accessories is consistent with the provisions of this paragraph.
(e) "Eligible equipment purchases" means the cost of eligible equipment purchased and placed into service in this state in a given state fiscal year by an eligible entity in excess of the entity's base year purchases.
(f) "Office" means the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development.
(g) "Refund" means a payment to an eligible entity for the amount of state sales and use tax actually paid on eligible equipment purchases.
(3) Beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011, and beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, sales and use tax paid in this state on eligible equipment purchases may qualify for a refund as provided in this section. The total amount of refunds that may be allocated by the office to all applicants during the period beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011, is $19 million. The total amount of tax refunds that may be allocated to all applicants during the period beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, is $24 million. An applicant may not be allocated more than $50,000 in refunds under this section for a single year. Preliminary refund allocations that are revoked or voluntarily surrendered shall be immediately available for reallocation.
(4) To receive a refund, a business entity must first apply to the office for a tax refund allocation. The entity shall provide such information in the application as reasonably required by the office. Further, the business entity shall provide such information as is required by the office to establish the cost incurred and actual sales and use tax paid to purchase eligible equipment located and placed into service in this state during its taxable year that began in 2008.
(a) Within 30 days after the office receives an application for a refund, the office shall approve or disapprove the application.
(b) Refund allocations made during the 2010-2011 fiscal year shall be awarded in the same order in which applications are received. Eligible entities may apply to the office beginning July 1, 2010, for refunds attributable to eligible equipment purchases made during the 2010-2011 fiscal year. For the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the office shall allocate the maximum amount of $50,000 per entity until the entire $19 million available for refund in state fiscal year 2010-2011 has been allocated. If the total amount available for allocation during the 2010-2011 fiscal year is allocated, the office shall continue taking applications. Each applicant shall be informed of its place in the queue and whether the applicant received an allocation of the eligible funds.
(c) Refund allocations made during the 2011-2012 fiscal year shall first be given to any applicants remaining in the queue from the prior fiscal year. The office shall allocate the maximum amount of $50,000 per entity, first to those applicants that remained in the queue from 2010-2011 for eligible purchases in 2010-2011, then to applicants for 2011-2012 in the order applications are received for eligible purchases in 2011-2012. The office shall allocate the maximum amount of $50,000 per entity until the entire $24 million available to be allocated for refund in the 2011-2012 fiscal year is allocated. If the total amount available for refund in 2011-2012 has been allocated, the office shall continue to accept applications from eligible entities in the 2011-2012 fiscal year for refunds attributable to eligible equipment purchases made during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Refund allocations made during the 2011-2012 fiscal year shall be awarded in the same order in which applications are received. Upon submitting an application, each applicant shall be informed of its place in the queue and whether the applicant has received an allocation of the eligible funds.
(5) Upon completion of eligible equipment purchases, a business entity that received a refund allocation from the office must apply to the office for certification of a refund. For eligible equipment purchases made during the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the application for certification must be made no later than September 1, 2011. For eligible equipment purchases made during the 2011-2012 fiscal year, the application for certification must be made no later than September 1, 2012. The application shall provide such documentation as is reasonably required by the office to calculate the refund amount, including documentation necessary to confirm the cost of eligible equipment purchases supporting the claim of the sales and use tax paid thereon. Further, the business entity shall provide such documentation as required by the office to establish the entity's base year purchases. If, upon reviewing the application, the office determines that eligible equipment purchases did not occur, that the amount of tax claimed to have been paid or remitted on the eligible equipment purchases is not supported by the documentation provided, or that the information provided to the office was otherwise inaccurate, the amount of the refund allocation not substantiated shall not be certified. Otherwise, the office shall determine and certify the amount of the refund to the eligible entity and to the department within 30 days after the office receives the application for certification.
(6) Upon certification of a refund for an eligible entity, the entity shall apply to the department within 30 days for payment of the certified amount as a refund on a form prescribed by the department. The department may request documentation in support of the application and adopt emergency rules to administer the refund application process.
(7) For each of the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 fiscal years, if the amount certified is less than the amount allocated, additional applicants shall be eligible to receive refund allocations in the order that applications are received for that year.
(8) An entity may receive refunds in each of the 2 years but only to the extent that the entity has eligible equipment purchases in each year. In no event may refunds for eligible equipment purchases made during 2010-11 result in more than $50,000 of refunds per entity.
(9) The office shall adopt emergency rules governing applications for, issuance of, and procedures for allocation and certification and may establish guidelines as to the requisites for demonstrating base year purchases and eligible equipment purchases.
(10) This section is repealed July 1, 2013.
History.—s. 21, ch. 2010-147.