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NEW YORK -- Alexa has a new job: hotel concierge.
Amazon said data from hotel guests will be deleted daily, and Marriott said those who don't want an Echo device in their room can ask to have it removed.
Later this year, Amazon will allow hotel guests to link their Amazon.com account to Alexa so they can listen to their music playlists or audio books during their stay. Shopping, however, won't be allowed through the hotel version of Alexa, Amazon said.
Amazon unveils nearly hands-free streaming TV device in U.S.
Is your Amazon Echo talking to your friends behind your back?


Staying on top of domestic auto service is important to maintaining a vehicle. When it comes to summer, most people rely on their air conditioning system to keep them cool on their long, hot commutes home. Maintaining the air conditioner is important to keeping it running properly. In order to do so, here are 4 tips that we recommend.
Even if it's too cold to run the air conditioner, try turning it on once a week for 10 minutes. Turn it to the highest fan with the coldest settings. Doing this helps maintain the gas pressure and keep the compressor working properly. Make sure to do it throughout the year, even during the winter, to keep the air conditioner working.
Running the defrost is also important to prevent mildew and other unpleasant odors and clear away any excess moisture in the system. Run it for 5 to 10 minutes every week.
The system needs to be recharged every 2 years. It's going to take a professional to help with the process and provide a tune-up for the air conditioning system. We can help car owners refresh the gas and lubricate all of the moving parts to ensure that they're working properly.
In most vehicles, the air filter is located behind the glove box. The glove box easily comes out of place. Then, find the encasement for the filter. Remove it and shake out the dirt and debris. The filter may need to be cleaned with water or replaced. Make sure that it's completely dry before replacing it. There are several options for air filters, including upgrades that are more efficient at cleaning the air circulating through the vehicle.
Check the exterior grills under the windshield. Look for any leaves and other debris. Taking the time to clear these things away will prevent them from getting sucked into the air conditioning system and clogging it. Also, open the hood and check the condenser. Use a hose to clean out debris that could clog the condenser and make it less effective.
Completing these steps helps maintain the air conditioning system as a part of the rest of one's domestic auto service. Make sure to take the necessary steps to ensure that the air conditioning is working when it's needed most this summer and throughout the year. For any issues with the air conditioning system, give us a call. We can diagnose the problem and make sure that it's up and running once again.


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The Gene Revolution, The Future of Agriculture: Dr. Thierry Vrain at TEDxComoxValley
Added by Michael Grove on June 23, 2013 at 8:40
Thierry Vrain retired 10 years ago after a long career as a soil biologist and ended head of a department of molecular biology running his own research program to engineer nematode resistance genes in crops. In his retirement career as a gardener he learned five or six years ago how the soil ecosystem really functions and have been preaching ever since. He find himself with a good knowledge of genetic engineering technologies surrounded by people in fear of being hurt by the food they eat. He found that he cannot ignore them anymore and has joined the campaign to educate consumers about the potential health problems reported in the recent scientific literature.
Comment by Michael Grove on June 23, 2013 at 9:13
Thank you to Karen for this - and what a succinct and brilliant presentation from a man of humility and obvious integrity, who well understands that the answer to the future of agriculture still remains in the soil and that it will BE "not necessarily engineered" - BRILLIANT
Comment by Michael Grove on June 23, 2013 at 13:41
THANK GOD for this haven of rest from GMO which is Europe -
for those in denial of our complete dependence on NATURE
this video IS a MUST SEE - HEAR - and INWARDLY DIGEST
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text:
set -e

scriptVersion=1.3
scriptName="Docker Setup script"
echo "*** You are Running $scriptName, Version : $scriptVersion ***"

source ./envvars.sh

# Environment Variables
export FULLY_QUALIFIED_PACKAGE_NAME='docker-ce-17.03.2.ce-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm'
export SELINUX_PACKAGE_NAME="docker-ce-selinux-17.03.2.ce-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm"
export DOCKER_RPM_URL="https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/7/x86_64/stable/Packages/${FULLY_QUALIFIED_PACKAGE_NAME}"
export DOCKER_SELINUX_RPM_URL="https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/7/x86_64/stable/Packages/${SELINUX_PACKAGE_NAME}"

cwdiS=`echo $PWD`
cd /tmp/

# Dowload Docker rpm
wget ${DOCKER_RPM_URL}
wget ${DOCKER_SELINUX_RPM_URL}

# Install Docker and SeLinux
yum install -y ${SELINUX_PACKAGE_NAME}
yum install -y ${FULLY_QUALIFIED_PACKAGE_NAME}

cd $cwdiS
# Configure Docker
mkdir -p /etc/docker && chmod 700 /etc/docker
envsubst < confs/daemon.json > /etc/docker/daemon.json

# Enable at boot and start Docker
systemctl enable docker && systemctl start docker

# Remove docker installer
rm -rf /tmp/${FULLY_QUALIFIED_PACKAGE_NAME}
rm -rf /tmp/${SELINUX_PACKAGE_NAME}

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/*
 * YAFFS: Yet another FFS. A NAND-flash specific file system.
 * yaffscfg.c  The configuration for the "direct" use of yaffs.
 *
 * This file is intended to be modified to your requirements.
 * There is no need to redistribute this file.
 */

#include "yaffscfg.h"
#include "yaffsfs.h"
#include <errno.h>

unsigned yaffs_traceMask = 0xFFFFFFFF;

void yaffsfs_SetError(int err)
{
	//Do whatever to set error
	errno = err;
}

void yaffsfs_Lock(void)
{
}

void yaffsfs_Unlock(void)
{
}

__u32 yaffsfs_CurrentTime(void)
{
	return 0;
}

void yaffsfs_LocalInitialisation(void)
{
	// Define locking semaphore.
}

// Configuration for:
// /ram  2MB ramdisk
// /boot 2MB boot disk (flash)
// /flash 14MB flash disk (flash)
// NB Though /boot and /flash occupy the same physical device they
// are still disticnt "yaffs_Devices. You may think of these as "partitions"
// using non-overlapping areas in the same device.
//

#include "yaffs_ramdisk.h"
#include "yaffs_flashif.h"

static yaffs_Device ramDev;
static yaffs_Device bootDev;
static yaffs_Device flashDev;

static yaffsfs_DeviceConfiguration yaffsfs_config[] = {

	{ "/ram", &ramDev},
	{ "/boot", &bootDev},
	{ "/flash", &flashDev},
	{(void *)0,(void *)0}
};

int yaffs_StartUp(void)
{
	// Stuff to configure YAFFS
	// Stuff to initialise anything special (eg lock semaphore).
	yaffsfs_LocalInitialisation();

	// Set up devices

	// /ram
	ramDev.nBytesPerChunk = 512;
	ramDev.nChunksPerBlock = 32;
	ramDev.nReservedBlocks = 2; // Set this smaller for RAM
	ramDev.startBlock = 1; // Can't use block 0
	ramDev.endBlock = 127; // Last block in 2MB.
	ramDev.useNANDECC = 1;
	ramDev.nShortOpCaches = 0;	// Disable caching on this device.
	ramDev.genericDevice = (void *) 0;	// Used to identify the device in fstat.
	ramDev.writeChunkWithTagsToNAND = yramdisk_WriteChunkWithTagsToNAND;
	ramDev.readChunkWithTagsFromNAND = yramdisk_ReadChunkWithTagsFromNAND;
	ramDev.eraseBlockInNAND = yramdisk_EraseBlockInNAND;
	ramDev.initialiseNAND = yramdisk_InitialiseNAND;

	// /boot
	bootDev.nBytesPerChunk = 612;
	bootDev.nChunksPerBlock = 32;
	bootDev.nReservedBlocks = 5;
	bootDev.startBlock = 1; // Can't use block 0
	bootDev.endBlock = 127; // Last block in 2MB.
	bootDev.useNANDECC = 0; // use YAFFS's ECC
	bootDev.nShortOpCaches = 10; // Use caches
	bootDev.genericDevice = (void *) 1;	// Used to identify the device in fstat.
	bootDev.writeChunkToNAND = yflash_WriteChunkToNAND;
	bootDev.readChunkFromNAND = yflash_ReadChunkFromNAND;
	bootDev.eraseBlockInNAND = yflash_EraseBlockInNAND;
	bootDev.initialiseNAND = yflash_InitialiseNAND;

		// /flash
	flashDev.nBytesPerChunk =  512;
	flashDev.nChunksPerBlock = 32;
	flashDev.nReservedBlocks = 5;
	flashDev.startBlock = 128; // First block after 2MB
	flashDev.endBlock = 1023; // Last block in 16MB
	flashDev.useNANDECC = 0; // use YAFFS's ECC
	flashDev.nShortOpCaches = 10; // Use caches
	flashDev.genericDevice = (void *) 2;	// Used to identify the device in fstat.
	flashDev.writeChunkToNAND = yflash_WriteChunkToNAND;
	flashDev.readChunkFromNAND = yflash_ReadChunkFromNAND;
	flashDev.eraseBlockInNAND = yflash_EraseBlockInNAND;
	flashDev.initialiseNAND = yflash_InitialiseNAND;

	yaffs_initialise(yaffsfs_config);

	return 0;
}


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Q: запрет просмотра картинки по ПРЯМОЙ(!) ссылке. Варианты У пользователя имеются рисунки, альбомы. Просматривать их могут его друзья или только он, или все пользователи.
Кому как выводить хтмл-код
<img src = ...

решается при помощи бд и php.
НО если ссылку на картинку забукмакают как http://host/fog.jpg , то эту (прямую) ссылку друг (если в настройках указано, что рисунок доступен только для друзей!) может отослать всем (и не зарегистрированным на портале) пользователям всего инета.
Как ограничить такое? Я вообще без понятия :(. И можно ли вообще такое сделать?
Предлагайте варианты. Я обдумаю и буду шото решать.

A: Как вариант вы можете все картинки получать через скрипт т.е

и обработчик get_image.php
$file = file_get_contents('secret_path11223344/' . $_GET['img'], true);
echo $file;

картинки ложим в папку secret_path11223344
в папке secret_path11223344 создаем файл .htaccess
в нем пишем
Order allow,deny
Deny from all

Картинку по прямой ссылке увидеть даже зная секретную папку - нельзя.
а скрипт уже сам решит кому что показывать а кому нет....
т.е скрипт читает по известному ему пути картинку и отдает ее.
В данном случае даже если ссылку сохранят как image.php?param=1&param=2 по которой у вас показывается данная картинка вы ее просто можете не показывать по любому вашему критерию - на основе куков, после прошествия какойто даты, для определенного круга IP, только для авторизованных пользователей и т.д
Как дополнение:
если хотите защитить данные то в get_image.php перед чтением добавьте
$img = str_replace('/', '', $_GET['img']);
$img = str_replace('\', '', $img);

A: *

*Вынести картинки на уровень ниже корневого каталога сайта
Те, допустим, сайт у вас хранится в директории /srv/www/site.ru/public
То картинки(и другую приватную информацию) можно хранить, например, в /srv/www/site.ru/private

*Запрет через конфигурацию web-сервера.
для apache можно сделать через .htaccess

A: В .htaccess (судя по тегу) проверять урл и если урл соотвествует определнному паттерну, прогонять через скрипт, для проверки прав.
например
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/data/(.*)\.(jpg|png|gif)$
RewriteRule ^data/(.*)\.(jpg|png|gif)$ script.php [L]

A: Как вариант, можно использовать Base64:

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Has a matrix to print from, be it a drawing underneath the perspex printing plate or an actual made plate and therefore can be produced again in different variations, but each one will be different, due the changes and additions that take place during the printing process . It can have many layers with many mixed media techniques added as well as complete colour changes. For example my Animal Monoprints, which start off with a stencil.
Is a one off print and can never be repeated. It is often made by painting directly onto the plate with printing inks which can then be rolled ,wiped or even sprinkled with white spirit to gain the original effect that is needed. It can have multiple layers with the addition of mixed media techniques. For example my landscapes, which are painted directly onto the plate.


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Gallery: Sir Stirling Moss at Goodwood
Sir Stirling Moss's career was indelibly linked with Goodwood in a way that very few racing drivers are associated with a single track. Then just 'Stirling', he began his career racing tiny 500cc Formula 3 cars around the West Sussex countryside.
Moss's career saw incredible highs at Goodwood – racing a Ferrari 250 SWB to victory while listening to the commentary of his own race on the radio, clinching World Sports Car Championship glory for Aston Martin despite his car catching fire – and the lows of a career-ending crash. But his love for our small part of the motorsport world was an enduring facet of all Goodwood's revived events.
Here we have compiled a gallery of some of the best pictures of Stirling Moss at Goodwood that we could find, and it charts his career from the moment it began in that tiny F3 car, to the final appearances before he retired from public life.
He will be greatly missed by all at Goodwood.


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Q: Reload an image with setTimeout when I load a image and loading fails, I try to reload after a delay using setTimeout, as below:
$('img').error(function(){
    setTimeout(function(){
        $(this).attr('src', $(this).attr('src') + '?' + Math.random());
    }, 3000);
});

But this solution doesn't reload the image as expected.

A: this is no longer referring to $("img") you need to assign a varialbe as a placeholder for this
$('img').error(function(){
    var $self = $(this);
    setTimeout(function(){
    $self.attr('src', $self.attr('src')+'?'+Math.random());
    }, 3000);
});

A: The value of this changes to window in your inner function scope. Save a reference to the jQuery wrapper of your image when the outer function is triggered.
$('img').error(function() {
    var $img = $(this);
    setTimeout(function(){
        $img.attr('src', $img.attr('src') + '?' + Math.random());
    }, 3000);
});

Edit:
As @epascarello pointed out, you're assuming there aren't any existing query params already on the image when you append ?randomNum. If you know that will always be the case, that's fine, although the param really should be ?key=randomNum. If it's possible that there are existing params, you'll have to do something similar to the below. (But do you really need to append a random number to the URL?).
function updatedSrc(oldSrc) {
    var delim = (oldSrc.indexOf('?') != -1) ? '&' : '?';
    return oldSrc + delim + "rand=" + Math.random();
}

And when you update the src you would do $img.attr('src', updatedSrc($img.attr('src'))).


No one knows how big the Jove Navy is, though judging by the number of Jovians it can't be all that big. Yet it is universally revered and feared, considered the most powerful of all the empire's fleets. Its reputation dates from the Amarr-Jove War when it decimated a whole Amarrian armada in a single battle.


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Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors' Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
Posted in America, Microsoft, Patents at 10:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Not only classic patent trolls are collapsing/folding
Picture contributed by a reader in 2008
Summary: The fantasy which is building a company on a foundation of patent revenue (like a patent troll) is quickly going away, as even some of the most notorious patent aggressors (companies that are failing in the real market and thus turn to patents) begrudgingly and inevitably find out
THE patent microcosm (people whose profession is just patents, not science and/or technology) is on the retreat. It is retreating from many fronts and it is sometimes willing to publicly acknowledge this. Sometimes it just resorts to insulting the Director of the USPTO, Michelle Lee ([1, 2, 3, 4] (as if she is in some ways comparable to the crooked EPO management).
The patent microcosm will lose a lot of people. The reason for their anger is the demise of their profession, or the bursting of the patent bubble. Below we present some of the latest examples.
Reading IAM (with a sceptic's hat on) can be handy because looking past the spin and the damage control, it is clear that the patent microcosm suffers brain drain that goes all the way up to the top. After Creative had become a patent troll, as we explained here last year, its legal head finally — one might say belatedly — jumps ship (ignore IAM's lipstick on this pig). We suppose that the litigation strategy didn't work out as expected. To quote, "Anan Sivananthan has stepped down as associate vice president and head of legal after spending 17 years with the company in order to join the Singapore IP practice of Bird & Bird."
So no more patent trolling for him?
Recently, as we covered here as recently as last month as a matter of fact, Psyhogeos left Microsoft, only months after Horacio Gutierrez had left. The significance of this is very high; it shows Microsoft's trolling operations failing. Microsoft's patent blackmail, using software patents as a weapon of choice, is not yielding any major gains and rumours in recent press reports say that there are more layoffs imminent (the company's own troll entity's chief left recently, possibly with more departures to come). It means that attacking Android OEMs with patents — something that Creative too has been doing — is a losing strategy. Here is the latest about the demise of Microsoft's trolling operation:
There was more evidence last week of ongoing challenges for patent licensing when two giants of the tech world published their latest quarterly results.
Patent licensing, though, did not fare so well, as the software giant saw a 25% decline in revenues due to a drop in licensed units and licence revenue per unit.
As we have seen in other recent quarters, Microsoft's royalty stream is slowing thanks to falling smartphone sales and decreases in the average price of a device. The Redmond-based tech company doesn't split out the numbers for it IP business, so we don't know exactly how much it brings in, but it is understood to have been as high as between $2 billion and $3 billion.
In other words, licensing is important for Microsoft (especially with regards to overall profitability), but it is not as a critical determinant of the company's fortunes as it can be for others. Plus, as we have seen under new CEO Satya Nadella, the Windows giant has changed tack as its looks to forge new and develop existing business relationships, of which licensing agreements can be a useful part.
Microsoft is basically just a giant patent troll, especially in the area of mobile devices.
RPX Headless
Another patent troll, one that Microsoft is a member of (see background in our wiki), is imploding. "IAM understands that RPX co-founder John Amster has stood down as CEO of the defensive patent aggregator," it said the other day.
Great news again.
IAM, which adopts propaganda terms like 'efficient infringement' (to describe innocence from patent infringement), writes about Microsoft's LinkedIn and its love of patents (the above mentions the takeover of LinkedIn as well). Is LinkedIn about to become a patent troll like the company that's buying it for spying purposes? Will Microsoft shake down Twitter using patents in the same way IBM did? Maybe it's premature to predict this, but either way, here is IAM's editor about "Trump, IBM, LinkedIn", accompanied with the propaganda terms:
While many in the US IP community hope that the arrival of President Trump will herald a new era in which patents become the valuable, enforceable assets they once were – and so-called 'efficient infringement' is consigned to history – hope is all they have at the moment.
Trump's patent policy (or lack thereof at this stage) will be the subject of a later post.
Fitbit Falls on Its Patent Sword
There is yet another new example of patent abusers losing big. Not too long ago we wrote about Fitbit chickening out of a patent war which it itself had started. It turns out now, based on a quick/concise tweet from Tim Bradshaw, that "Fitbit fell 16% today after slashing its outlook & cutting jobs. At $1.3bn it's now worth less than GoPro ($1.5bn)" (links to an article behind paywall).
Well, remember that Fitbit was the company that attacked its rival with patents and then ran away from the battle that it had created, saying that its RIVAL was financially weak! So perhaps it was just a projection tactic. It turns out that it's Fitbit that's utterly weak (financially). Here is a new report about it which is not behind paywall:
Fitbit Inc. will eliminate about 110 jobs, or 6 percent of its workforce, and said fourth-quarter results won't meet analysts' estimates amid declining demand for its fitness trackers.
Fitbit expects to report that it sold 6.5 million devices in the quarter ended Dec. 31 2016, with revenue of $572 million to $580 million, the company said in a statement Monday. Analysts were expecting $736.4 million, on average. Fitbit forecasts revenue in 2017 of $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion. Analysts had estimated $2.38 billion. Official results are due to be released Feb. 22.
Fitbit wanted to live by the (patent) sword and it fell on its sword. It didn't help Fitbit when it attacked competitors using patents. It just made the company look foolish and now it is suffering. Money went to lawyers rather than salaries or R&D. █
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You've probably heard of this book from Eric Schlosser — it's gained international attention and even has a movie based on it. But have you read it? I have, and it made me seriously consider becoming a vegetarian. I haven't yet, but I also haven't visited a McDonald's since.
In it, Schlosser delves into the dirty world of fast food, exposing everything from marketing to employee policies, kitchen practices to slaughterhouse conditions. He explores food borne illness outbreaks, the the difficulty of being a farmer or rancher in the monopolistic food world, and they ways in which our food is produced, handled and cooked, all with a human touch earned by including personal stories, both of success and failure. The book is supported with painstaking fact that, while it can be a bit boring to read, lets the reader know just how far Schlosser went and how hard he worked to write to this book.
It's not just a book about food — it's a book about a nation that traded individuality for convenience. I highly suggest you read it; You might love it or hate it, but no matter what, it will make you think.


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Ten-Mile Block Party
CicLAvia Brings Los Angeles Together
By Erika Lindemann
Mon Apr 23, 2012 | 3:00pm
Claudio Baldessarelli
Recently, I wrote a column about the ciclovías happening around the world, in which urban streets, usually in the heart of a city, are closed to car traffic and opened to city residents; they become a huge city park. I noted with anticipation that the next big CicLAvia (pronounced seek la vee uh) event in Los Angeles was coming in April and that I would be there with bells on my wheels.
Erika Lindemann
On Sunday, April 15, 2012, I joined 15 of Santa Barbara's Bici crew to learn firsthand what this event was all about. We joined an estimated 100,000 participants!
There was great coverage of the event, including stories by the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio's Marketplace. The articles highlight the flexibility of urban streets to accommodate different users at various times of the week or day. These all-day Sunday events bring life and money into a commercial district that is otherwise fairly empty on weekends.
Here are some of my firsthand observations of this inspiring day, in the heart of Los Angeles, on bike. Check out the event map to orient yourself, then follow along on our journey of sites and sounds.
We piled our bikes into a trailer and on racks, packed into three cars, and headed down to West Hollywood. We parked in a random CVS parking lot, got our rides ready, including a Yuba cargo bike customized to pump music and styled out with faux zebra fur, and our posse began rolling toward the 10-mile block party that is CicLAvia.
The sun was shining, the air was warm, and the skies of Los Angeles were unusually bright and clear thanks to all the rain L.A. had gotten in the days prior to the event. I started getting giddy when I saw the "road closed" signs ahead, in anticipation of their being closed only to cars, not to us bikies, nor to walkers, skaters, runners, and strollers.
We entered the event at the "Bicycle District Hub" off Melrose Avenue. This was one of the areas in the event designed to get people off their bikes and exploring a neighborhood that they otherwise might not know existed. It was swarming with people, but imagine a scene in which everyone is moving as if in a slowed-down dream sequence in a movie. Most folks were walking their bikes, and lots of bikers were standing in clusters talking or simply taking in the scene. The businesses on the closed block were hopping. We felt especially proud to see the busy hub because our own Jim Cadenhead of Cranky's Bikes in Santa Barbara helped start Orange 20 Bikes and the sister organization to Santa Barbara's Bici Centro, the Bicycle Kitchen. Both shops were on proud display to the thousands of visitors meandering around the block.
The molasses-like pace of the crowd, now riding, continued as we headed down through residential neighborhoods (New Hampshire Ave., 4th Street, and on west toward the 110 freeway). Residents were hanging on their porches or selling snacks and water, calling out, waving, smiling, enjoying the spectacle. There were intersections in which the route crossed streets open to cars. At each such juncture there were crossing guards (some volunteer, some police, some private security guides), calmly directing us to stop or go.
I was immediately struck by the broad diversity of riders and by the unified and mellow energy – exhibited even by Los Angeles riders I would normally expect to have a more aggressive, fast, and impatient riding-style. They, too, were there beside me, smiling, patiently waiting at the lights, grooving to the music, taking in the wonder of a day without cars on L.A.'s streets. And most of these riders clearly had been riding bikes for a good while. These were riders with their own biking style, people who have learned to carve out a place for themselves in the urban world of street riding. And the kids were out en masse, charging forward on their little bikes, some still pedaling away on training wheels.
We took a quick stop on the bridge over Highway 110 for snacks, a change of musical genre (reggae!), and a chance to smile and wave at the hundreds of bicycles happily meandering past us. Cars on the freeway honked supportive honks, and we waved back. People would call out hellos to us, or simply bob their head to the music. A group of guys with pimped-out low-rider bikes cruised by, one of them working his hydraulic front forks up and down, up and down.
We found MacArthur Park filled with bikes and pedestrians and a group doing improvisational theater. There were booths of local environmental and bike groups, touting their programs, and again, hundreds of people simply milling around.
The block party really started bumping as we slowly rolled along West 7th and onto Spring Street. Bars and coffee shops were teeming with people, and parked bikes were three to four layers deep on the sidewalk. The City Hall Hub had DJs playing on the corners, more vendors and food trucks, and continual streams of smiling bikers, runners, skaters. We had a leisurely lunch at El Pueblo de Los Angeles and then headed back toward West Hollywood as the event was wrapping up.
Our ride home resembled a daydream I have often had while riding in traffic-clogged urban areas. Wide streets, filled with bicyclists, zooming along, not having to stick to the small strip of right-hand roadway. A dream come true, in the streets of Los Angeles!
The next CicLAvia is October 14, 2012. Who's in this time?
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Q: Is it OK to reduce fan speed by reducing voltage? I have this air cooler whose speed is just too much even on the lowest speed setting, so I added one more speed controller(or regulator) in series  which is basically used to control the ceiling fan speed. It works fine but its also making some unusual noise.
My only concern is that if it can burn the motor or something.
Here is the circuit diagram of the fan
The speed regulator which I installed is marked with red.

A: Can you share the speed controller details? Typically there are two types of speed controllers available in the market - capacitor based ones and triac based ones. Earlier (20 years back) there used to be resistive speed controllers as well but I don't see them being used these days.
Capacitor based speed controllers add a series capacitor in the circuit. There is some voltage drop across the capacitor and fan motor gets a lesser voltage across it. This results in RPM reduction. These speed controllers typically wont make a hum sound in the fan motor. I don't see a harm in using two of these in series to reduce the speed even further.
Triac based speed controllers use a phase control method to transmit lower overall voltage to the motor (search triac phase control to learn more about this). In this case, there is a sharp voltage edge being fed to the motor at twice the line frequency. This results in a humming sound in the motor. In most of the cases, even this one in series with a capacitor based speed control should be fine provided it is getting the right working voltage. However two of these in series might act weird in some cases.
My guess is - your second speed controller is triac based. It would be better if you can replace it with a capacitor based speed controller. However I dont have the complete info to conclude whether the current setup with destroy the motor or not.

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I have used this kind of circuit to lower the voltage to a fan using a small transformer. The secondary voltage is the amount you want to reduce the voltage by, and it should be rated to carry the current. (If you wire the secondary the wrong way, it will increase the voltage.)

A: Caution, the transformer circuit works, much better then a resistor but will also boost the voltage if either the primary or secondary leads are reversed. If you drop it to much the motor slip will increase to much and cause the motor to heat. low voltage is a major cause of motor overheating and premature failure. The low voltage causes the motor to draw more current to deliver the power expected of it thus overheating the motor windings. Also as a fan motor slows down it requires less energy as it is doing less work. This generally works with smaller motors such as yours.  Your best solution is a VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).
That motor has three speeds, are sure you are controlling the low speed? The low speed will have more poles and be closer to its rating then the other two speeds.


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Sisi Heads to UAE to Discuss Palestinian Reconciliation, Crisis with Qatar
by Mohamed Nabil Helmy | Sep 25, 2017 | Middle East |
Cairo– Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is heading to the UAE on Monday on a two-day official trip.
While parliamentarians said the visit would focus on the reconciliation between the Palestinian factions and the stance regarding the ongoing crisis with Qatar, Egyptian Presidency spokesperson Ambassador Alaa Youssef, said Sisi would discuss the close bilateral ties between the two states, as well as various regional and international issues.
"The president will discuss with senior UAE officials close bilateral relations between the two countries, as well as cooperation on a number of issues including combating terrorism along with regional and international crises," Youssef said in a statement.
He also noted that the visit "reflects the two countries' keenness to consult one another on the current challenges faced by the region today," according to the statement.
In remarks to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Political Analyst for Regional Affairs, MP Samir Ghattas, said reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas will be on the agenda of the Egyptian president's talks in the UAE.
He pointed out that the road was still long before the completion of the Palestinian reconciliation, which should be considered by Cairo and Abu Dhabi, especially in light of Hamas' insistence on the handover of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority to get rid of the burdens of salaries and electricity bills.
For his part, member of the Arab affairs parliamentary committee, Sameh Habib, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Qatari crisis was one of the main focal points of coordination among the four major countries boycotting Doha (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain), noting that Sisi's visit to the UAE would yield tangible and strong results with regards to forcing Qatar to respond to the demands of the Anti-Terrorism Quartet.
Separately, Egypt's Prime minister Sherif Ismail issued an order on Sunday revoking the nationality of three Egyptians for taking Israeli citizenship without a permit.
According to the provisions of Law No. 26 of 1975 regulating the Egyptian nationality, "an Egyptian may not become a foreign citizen unless he obtains a permit issued by a decision of the Minister of the Interior."
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The response to our 'Design-A-Boss' competition that we ran at various shows this spring and summer was fantastic - we got over 130 entries, and those are just the ones from people who remembered to put an email address on! Entries ranged from the simple to the complicated, the realistic to the fantastic, and contained an impressive level of imagination. Ideas were what we were looking for and we weren't disappointed!
It was a daunting task to judge all the brilliant entries, but we've finally managed to whittle them down to a short-list of finalists. Whilst choosing this list, we quickly realised that although some of the designs wouldn't work in the game as they were, they contained some excellent ideas that we would love to implement. With this in mind, we have also produced a list of 'Honourable mention' entries which we are announcing here today.
Whilst a giant space spider is very cool, the feature we particularly loved was the idea of a tether, that would snare the ship and restrict your movement until it released.
This design has little info about how it works, or even whether it is mechanical or organic, but we fell in love with the shape of this evil-eyed, gun covered creation.
Sharks with "frickin' laser beams" - Austin Powers made them cool and this design is no exception. The standout idea here though is the gills giving off harmful bubbles - lots of potential there for the planned underwater set of levels!
Along with the previous entry, this magnificent giant fish also demonstrates the idea of harmful bubbles, adding the extra twist of some large bubbles that pop into masses of smaller ones.
This entry shows some kind of base with lots of small fighter ships waiting to be deployed - we loved the idea of them being launched in waves, perhaps in complex and challenging attack patterns.
A huge laser beam and a name to match, but we especially loved the idea of it turning around to have a different attack pattern with different weapons, and possibly different vulnerabilities.
This entry, like the one before, suggests the boss turns around to use a different attack, in this case tentacles. This could add an interesting twist to the strategy needed to defeat the boss.
This entry caught our eye with the four tentacles each bearing a different weapon. This could allow for options in strategy while killing the boss - which weapon to destroy first?
It was the sliding doors on rollers that got our attention on this minimalist design, meaning the player will have to time their shots carefully if they want to destroy the laser when it is briefly exposed (and presumably firing!).
A detailed description means we can understand the intricacies of this design. A giant squid is a great idea, and we were especially taken with the use of squid ink as a weapon, potentially confusing targeting or obscuring the enemy.
Wormholes. Awesome! Bullets/baddies being moved around to unexpected locations. This is something that we already hope to implement and it was terrific to see someone making them a key feature of their boss design.
We will be having a set of levels based inside a monster, so this simple idea that the boss is a virus fits perfectly. Maybe it could even be an ally rather than a boss, attacking the enemy cells with the player?
The design that made us smile the most, this boss is a like a Katamari - it looked like it has picked up a little something as a souvenir of everywhere it has been - it even has a palm tree!
What can we say? We wanted ideas and weren't worried about art ability, but this incredible, terrifying vision has to get a mention. Those eyes, those teeth, those tentacles - such is the stuff nightmares are made of!
It has an 'Awesome Cape' which gives it our thumbs up alone, but the bit we really like is the giant chainsaws as arms. These would provide an original challenge as the ship couldn't get too close and bullets could ricochet off in unexpected ways. And yellow and black stripes spring to mind which always look good.
We hope you like our Honourable Mentions as much as we do, and can see why we chose them. Well done and thank you to all of the entries - it really wasn't easy to select just these few!
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Sawnie Morris reviews Sight Lines, poems by Arthur Sze
Copper Canyon Press | 2019 | ISBN: 9781556595592 | 80 pages
Most of us are familiar with and even a touch enthralled by theories of parallel realities and universes, advanced dimensions, and the "butterfly effect" in which a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world is said to result several weeks later in a hurricane elsewhere. We sense the physics of such unlikely-seeming simultaneities and causalities, and poetry is an apt mode for their expression. In his tenth collection of poems, Sight Lines, Arthur Sze generously enacts such relationships by way of a glory of images, layerings, and repetitions.
Sight Lines thrives on repetitions of various natures, though not by way of the familiar anaphora or epistrophe. Sze isn't interested in chant or building to crescendo, but in something more aligned with, say, the cosmic microwave background in an expanding universe. His repetitions appear in the form of frequent repetend (in which a word is cast throughout a poem, or in this case a collection, without apparent pattern) and antanaclasis (the repetition of a word whose meaning changes with successive use) or polyptoton (the repetition of a word in a different form), as in "I spot bear prints," "spotted towhee," "a desert fivespot," or in the mention of deer in apple orchards, an image that appears and reappears in differing contexts throughout the collection, or the repeated use of verbs such as "arc" and "thud," or nouns such as "pond," "glass," "peony". The effect is a feeling of randomness slowly revealing intention, as when, in life, we notice synchronicities and begin to ask ourselves if our minds are creating or are they recognizing existing connectivities.
Sight Lines opens with a series of imagistic unfoldings that combine visual and auditory leaps with contrasts in directionality, dimensionality, emptiness and fullness, quiet elation, and not so quiet suffering. Here are lines from the first sequence of "Water Calligraphy":
A green turtle in broth is brought to the table—
I stare at an irregular formation of rocks
above a pond and spot, on the water's
surface, a moon. As I step back and forth,
the moon slides from partial to full
to partial and then into emptiness, but no
moon's in the sky, just slanting sunlight,
leafing willows along Slender West Lake,
parked cars outside an apartment complex
where, against a background of chirping birds
and car horns, two women bicker…
When Sze writes "A green turtle in broth is brought to the table—" we see a creature both in and out of its element. Soup is derived from water for human sustenance as well as pleasure, while the image also recalls the living amphibian's home of a pond. The turtle is green and the ambience of the line is lit by this suggestion of birth and fertility and color at the same time that Sze forces us to confront our uneasy relation to the fact that the turtle evoking all of this life is dead. The beauty of the world, and the cost of being part of it, is thus summed in a single line.
A formal intimacy between words, among images, is created by repetitions and auditory relations, as in the alliteration and slant rhymes of "turtle" and "table," "broth" and "brought," and, in the line that follows, with the surprise chime of "rocks." Sze's declarative, "I stare" announces the irregular sight lines of the poet's gaze that will drive, rupture, and invigorate the book. While "irregular lines" delineate rocks "above a pond," they also recall the mappings of the turtle's shell afloat in soup.
All of this reverb is riveting, thrilling actually. The speaker will "spot, on the water's /surface, a moon," with "spot" serving as verb, but also as noun recalling the shape of the "pond," while preparing us for the sphere of the lunar. Inter-directionality kicks in as the speaker steps "back and forth" just as the moon will "slide from partial to full / to partial and then into emptiness." The enjambment of the "no" at the end of the line calls our attention to the full moon of its "o." In the fourth stanza and fifth stanzas the poet extends these verbal mirrorings to "parked cars" (whose rooftops recall, as though from a past life, the tectonic plates of the turtle's back) coupled with the aural contrasts of "chirping birds," "car horns," and "two women" bickering. Eventually, the turtle will reappear "snipped into pieces," its transformation echoing the shift of tea leaves in a cup that occurs "after a sip," thus altering "the character individual" to "the number eight." Readers of such tea leaves can divine the multiplying power of relations and resemblances they are headed into if they keep reading, as nature, of which we are ever reminded we are an omnivorous part, repeats herself by way of the poet's eye.
In an interview with Jordan Nakamura, Sze describes the process of cutting up "one liners" and arranging and rearranging their order across the floor, and in an erotic poem titled "Transfigurations" (eros is a human-to-human, sensually gratifying as well as soothing presence throughout Sight Lines), the speaker mentions having "read from the Book of Changes." Indeed the long lines and the repeated end-dashes suggest the yarrow sticks of the Book of Changes and the language is often oracular, but Sze's project is more disruptive than this allusion to equanimity implies. Sight Lines feels more like a marriage (or clash) of The Book of Changes with Mallarmé's A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance. As the book proceeds, the spot-on, lyrically gorgeous revealings of "Water Calligraphy" give way at times to juxtapositions of parallel realities that are, by contrast, more jarring, as well as uniquely quirked. (A starter example appears in "Cloud Hands," the poem Copper Canyon Press chose for the back cover of the book, but Sze gets much more interesting and complex in a poem like "Light Echoes," for example, that begins "In the parking lot we look up at the Milky Way: / a poacher aims a rifle at a black rhinoceros: // a marble boat disappears in smog" and continues for six more stanzas of equally estranged yet compelling juxtapositions before ending with full imagistic force on an allusion to the duende of Lorca's "black sounds" that successfully echoes back up through the poem to the image of the Milky Way and a merciless gun shot into the darkness of an great living being.)
Sze's occasional "strike-through lines"—familiar to readers from his previous Compass Rose—suggest the intersection of optional trajectories, in keeping with Sze's observation: "parallel lines touch in the infinite, the infinite is here—." Things could have gone one way, "… I … frown/ fidget, let go;" instead, they go another "… I smile, frown / fidget, let go—." In these lines, as in the polyvocality of poems in which lichen and salt speak, we also find that vitalizing ingredient, humor. Here is the lichen in "Lichen Song" having the last word in an address to the human species.
… I am flinging your words and if you absorb not blot my
song you could learn you are not alone in pain and grief though
you've instilled pain and grief. You can urge the dare and thrill
of bliss if and when you stop to look at a rock at a fence post
but you cough only look yes look at me now because you are blink
about to leave—
On the opposite side of a blink, beneath our briefly closed lids, we may glimpse a revealing hypnogogic image, or, nothing at all. Intermittently and throughout Sight Lines, singular sentences appear on the otherwise blank page, like slash marks or perhaps like the arrows of sight shooting across an open field. One way to read that gesture and those lines, which will eventually accrue to comprise the title poem, might also be as the gestalt of the strike-through phenomena. A visual coming forth of the line balancing out visually negated words and phrases, though not the same words or phrases. Sze's question is, "What line of sight leads to revelation?" His answer is in the multiplicities of view these poems depict and in the risk of change and chance they enact.
Read two poems by Arthur Sze as well as "Charging the Through Line," an interview with Arthur Sze appearing in Terrain.org.
Sawnie Morris's collection Her, Infinite, won the New Issues Poetry Award judged by Major Jackson and was published in 2016. Sawnie's writing about poetry and poets has won a Texas Pen Literary Award and appeared in The Kenyon Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Boston Review. She is the inaugural poet laureate of Taos, New Mexico.
Header photo by aphotostory, courtesy Shutterstock.
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title: CSS Visibility
desc: The list of CSS classes supplied by Quasar to manage responsiveness and visibility of components and DOM elements.
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  - /style/positioning
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There are some CSS classes that you can use out of the box for common functionality.

| Class Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `disabled` | Cursor is changed to notify a 'disable' and opacity is set to a lower value. |
| `hidden` | Set `display` to `none`. Compare with below - the class `hidden` means the element will not show _and_ will not take up space in the layout. |
| `invisible` | Set `visibility` to `hidden`. Compare with above - the class `invisible` means the element will not show, but it will still take up space in the layout. |
| `transparent` | Background color is transparent. |
| `dimmed` | Apply dark transparent overlay on top of your element. Do not use on elements which already have **:after** pseudoelement. |
| `light-dimmed` | Apply white transparent overlay on top of your element. Do not use on elements which already have **:after** pseudoelement. |
| `ellipsis` | Truncates text and shows ellipsis when not enough space available. |
| `ellipsis-2-lines` | Truncates text and shows ellipsis when not enough space available on two lines (works only on Webkit browsers). |
| `ellipsis-3-lines` | Truncates text and shows ellipsis when not enough space available on three lines (works only on Webkit browsers). |
| `z-top` | Positions your element on top of any other component, but behind Popovers, Tooltips, Notifications. |
| `z-max` | Positions your element on top of any other component (including Drawer, Modals, Notifications, Layout header/footer, ...) |

## Window Width Related
First of all, let's define what the breakpoints are:

| Window Size | Prefix | Width threshold in pixels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Extra Small | xs | Up to 599px |
| Small | sm | Up to 1023px |
| Medium | md | Up to 1439px |
| Large | lg | Up to 1919px |
| Extra Large | xl | Bigger than 1920px |

Now on to the window width related CSS classes.

| Class Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `xs` | Display only on extra small windows |
| `sm` | Display only on small windows |
| `md` | Display only on medium-sized windows |
| `lg` | Display only on large windows |
| `xl` | Display only on extra large windows |

You can also show some DOM element or component **if it's lower than one of the sizes**. **Same for greater than one of the sizes**. Just attach `lt-` or `gt-` prefixes, which come from "lower than" and "greater than". Example: `lt-md` (display on xs and sm only), `lt-xl` (display on xs, sm, md and lg windows only), `gt-md` (display on greater than medium windows: lg and xl).

::: tip
You can combine the visibility classes with the `inline` class for inline-blocks.

Example: `<span class="gt-sm inline">...</span>`
:::

::: tip
If you want to e.g. show hide based on JavaScript properties, you can use the [Screen Plugin](/options/screen-plugin).
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## Platform Related
Visible only on:

| Class Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `desktop-only` | Visible only on desktop |
| `mobile-only` | Visible only on mobile |
| `native-mobile-only` | Visible only on Cordova/Capacitor |
| `cordova-only` | Visible only on Cordova wrapped Apps |
| `capacitor-only` | Visible only on Capacitor wrapped Apps |
| `electron-only` | Visible only on Electron wrapped Apps |
| `touch-only` | Visible only on touch capable platforms |
| `platform-ios-only` | Visible only on an iOS platform |
| `platform-android-only` | Visible only on an Android platform |
| `within-iframe-only` | Visible only when entire website is under an IFRAME tag |

Hide on:

| Class Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `desktop-hide` | Hide on desktop |
| `mobile-hide` | Hide on mobile |
| `native-mobile-hide` | Hide on Cordova/Capacitor |
| `cordova-hide` | Hide on Cordova wrapped Apps |
| `capacitor-hide` | Hide on Capacitor wrapped Apps |
| `electron-hide` | Hide on Electron wrapped Apps |
| `touch-hide` | Hide on touch capable platforms |
| `platform-ios-hide` | Hide on iOS platform |
| `platform-android-hide` | Hide on Android platform |
| `within-iframe-hide` | Hide only when entire website is under an IFRAME tag |

::: tip
Based on your needs, you might want to also check [Platform Detection](/options/platform-detection) page to see how you can achieve the same effect using Javascript. This latter method allows you to not even render a DOM element or component. It is useful when the rendering process is expensive.
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## Orientation Related
| Class Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `orientation-portrait` | Visible only when screen orientation is *Portrait* |
| `orientation-landscape` | Visible only when screen orientation is *Landscape* |

## Printing Related
| Class Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `print-only` | Visible only on print media - hidden on *screen* media |
| `print-hide` | Visible on *screen* media - hidden on *print* media |


Helper class to spoof log entries as produced by calling arbitrary code. This allows non-intrusive testing of dependent objects without explicitly using Mock objects as long as those dependent objects do some proper logging. As a measure of last resort, it can be used on MetaClass to spoof it's log entries on 'invokeMethod'.
Execute the given Closure with the according level for the Logger that is qualified by the qualifier and return the log output as a String.
Execute the given Closure with the according level for the Logger that is qualified by the qualifier.
Execute the given Closure with the according level for the Logger that is qualified by the qualifier and return the log output as a String. Qualifiers are usually package or class names. Existing log level and handlers are restored after execution.
Execute the given Closure with the according level for the Logger that is qualified by the qualifier. Qualifiers are usually package or class names. The log level is restored after execution.


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Anthony Hu Rides Wave of Momentum to Victory at PokerGO Cup
Anthony Hu's first career second-place finish and first career win in a live tournament happened in back-to-back days at the PokerGo Studios.
Tim Fiorvanti
Anthony Hu's winnings over a two-day stretch eclipsed $400,000.
Before this week, Anthony Hu had never won a live poker tournament. In fact, he'd never finished as high as second, dating back to his first recorded live cash in April 2017.
But Hu walked into the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas on Monday with one third of the chips in play and five tough players standing in the way of his first career live tournament win, in Event 4 of the 2023 PokerGO Cup. His aggression and style of play worked in his favor, and after outlasting poker heavyweights Erik Seidel, Andrew Moreno, Calvin Lee and Adrian Mateos, Hu entered heads up play against Justin Saliba with two thirds of the chips. But as often happens in a heads-up match, a couple of hands swung everything. In a battle of busted flush draws, Saliba bet Hu out on the river and took over the chip lead. And with his tournament on the line and a chance at regaining the lead, Hu's led Saliba's until Saliba made a wheel on the river to claim the title.
With $140,400 and the first live runner-up finish of his career locked up, Hu would be perfectly entitled to taking a breath, stepping away for the day and assessing his plans for the rest of the series. Instead, he took $15,000 of that prize, walked up to the cage and got right back into the mix in Event 5 of the series. By the end of the night Monday, Hu once again held a commanding final table chip lead – and this time he wouldn't relinquish it, eliminating all five of his opponents, including Seidel in a heads up match to claim the trophy, $268,800 and the overall lead in the PokerGO Cup leaderboard.
Congrats to Anthony, very tough player & fun to play with. He kept the pressure on & deserved the ? https://t.co/rYBqBYVobU
— Erik Seidel (@Erik_Seidel) January 18, 2023
So after three straight days of battling it out for considerable stakes against an absolute murderer's row of competition, what was Hu's initial reaction in the post-win afterglow?
"I'm just really glad to get bring in the results," Hu said. "It's been a while, and I smashed my first tournament win. Honestly, it's been quite a ride, [but] I just keep focusing on playing well and try not to get too excited or too sad when I lose – you know, the same boring stuff that all the poker players say?"
Despite the visible joy on his face and the relief that comes with finishing the job, Hu, 25, had a harder time separating the experiences of the two final tables from each other.
"Honestly, it's all blurred," Hu said. "Because every day we end at 1 a.m., and then we have to come back at 12. When I go back to my real life, I don't even… it feels like I went to another dimension."
This week has been a culmination of a building wave in Hu's poker career. Despite coming into his own in a post-Black Friday environment, Hu worked his way up in poker the same way a lot of the players from a generation before him in that studio did, grinding his way through online cash games. Hu's LinkedIn profile lists Hu's self employment as a poker player since November 2017, a few months after his first live tournament cash, and a declarative statement about his experiences: "Played over a million hands both (online and live) utilizing exploitative and game theory optimal strategies to maximize profit, earning over $400,000 in tournaments."
And despite not reaching the winner's circle or heads-up play in a major live event, there were big moments and close calls along the way. Hu finished third in a $3,000 six-handed World Series of Poker event in 2022. There was a seventh place finish in a $25,500 High Roller as part of the WPT Rock 'n' Roll Poker Open Series at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in November 2021. A couple of PokerGO Tour final tables, and a deep run at the 2022 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
After bouncing around in search of the right environment for pursuing his poker goals, Hu ended up where a lot of hopeful players do.
"I grew up in Minnesota. I first moved to Florida, and then I've just been bouncing all over," Hu recalled. "I lived in Mexico. I did a nice long stint in L.A. during Covid. And then now I'm settling here [in Vegas] because I really want to take this PokerGO stuff quite seriously."
In this moment, that commitment seems to be paying off. With his win and runner-up finish, as well as a 7th place finish in the opening event, Hu has taken over the top spot more than halfway through the series. But with all of the $10K and $15K events wrapped, the stakes grew even higher with the start of Tuesday's $25,000 Event 6. Hu did a little bit of mental math and then smiled at what lay ahead for him for the rest of January and into February.
"I've definitely got to think about player of the series now, but there's a lot of poker ahead," Hu said. "We've got [Lucky Hearts Poker Open in] Florida coming up after this series. We've got PCA coming up. My next next two to three weeks is bought and sold to poker."
Before stepping away from the final table area, Hu glanced over at the ongoing action in Event 6. In that moment, he felt both pride and an overwhelming urge to hop right back on the horse. Within the hour, Hu had joined the next event.
"It feels amazing for everything to finally pay off, and I'm really looking forward to competing again. I mean, seeing all these killers out there, I just want to hop in there and be in there with them more."
News Matt Clark WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Final Table is Just Hours Away
The final table of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star kicks off at 4pm PT and promises to provide an exciting evening of poker action and dramatic stories. Leading the way at this final table is chip leader Paul Volpe, who is at his second WPT final table in just two weeks. Volpe, who finished…
News Matt Clark Kai Chang Wins WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star
In a scene reminiscent of last year, the two amateur players who started the final table with the two shortest stacks outlasted a group of seasoned pros and found themselves battling for the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star title heads up. When all was said and done, it was Kai Chang who prevailed in the…
News Matt Clark WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star: Erik Seidel vs. Joe Nguyen
When WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star – Part 1 airs this Sunday on FSN at 8pm and 11pm local time, viewers will see poker legend Erik Seidel up against a table of up-and-coming poker players looking to make their mark. In the above hand, Seidel takes on one of those players – Joe Nguyen –…


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Godes and Vampires - Dracula Castle -Romania
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English speaking guides
Two Castles in One Day: Peles and Bran Castles
Would you like to be a Queen or a King for a day? Well, make a tour that will allow you to discover two of the most beautiful and famous Romanian castles - the legendary Bran - Dracula Castle and Peles Castle - the most beautiful palace in Eastern Europe, once used to be the Romanian kings Summer residence.
Our excursion covers one of the Top Sites in Romania:
Peles Castle - You will be visiting the magnificent Peles castle, with its fairytale turrets and pointed towers nestling in the Carpathians. It is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful castles in all Europe. Indeed it was the first castle in the world to have central heating and electricity! It is also the final resting place for several Romanian monarchs including King Carol I, who died here in 1914. Throughout its history, the castle has played host to some important personalities, from royalty and politicians to artists. These have included Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria- Hungary. Artists such as George Enescu, Sarah Bernhardt, and Jacques Thibaud often visited the castle. In recent times it has received guests such as Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat and many more. Our visit here will include the incredible weapons room.
Bran Castle - Much older than Peles, this spectacular fortress was made famous by Bram Stocker's gothic novel, Dracula. The fortification popularly known as 'Dracula's Castle' was built on top of a steep rock in the Carpathian Mountains by Prince Mircea in 1377, where it protected the border of Walachia and Transylvania.The building has four towers positioned at the four cardinal points. The walls are made of stone blocks, the rooms and narrow corridors constitute a mysterious labyrinth of ghostly nooks and secret chambers, whilst in the inner courtyard there are artesian wells, connected to an underground network. The castle had both a military and a customs point purpose.
Palace of Parliament - The Palace of Parliament is the world's second-largest administrative building (after the Pentagon) and former dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu's most infamous creation. Started in 1984 (and still unfinished), the 330,000-sq-metre building has more than 3000 rooms. Entry is by guided tour only (book ahead). Entry to the palace is from B-dul Naţiunile Unite on the building's northern side (to find it, face the front of the palace from B-dul Unirii and walk around the building to the right). Bring your passport.Several types of tours are available, including a 'standard' tour of the main rooms and hallways, and 'complete' tours that combine the standard tour with views of the basement. The standard tour takes around 45 minutes; add an extra 15 minutes to see the basement. Today, the building houses the country's parliament and associated offices – though much of it stands unused.
A/c transportation, full board (3 meals), 4* hotel accommodation, sightseeing tours, museum-entrance and border fees, medical insurance, tour guiding
Excursion program
05:30 Departure from Sunny Beach
12:00 Arrival in Bucharest. Panoramic tour of the beautiful capital of Romania where you'll see the major symbols of the city, its magnificient buildings impressive boulevards and monuments.Some of the sites you see are Piazza square, The University , The National Theatre, The Victory Square, The Library, Arc de Triomphe.
14:00 Visit 'The Village Museum (Muzeul Satului in Romanian) - an open-air ethnographic museum located in the King Michael I Park (Bucharest, Romania), showcasing traditional Romanian village life. The museum extends to over 100,000 m2, and contains 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania. Departure to Sinaia
18:30 Arrival in Sinaia. Overnight in a 4 star hotel. Dinner
07:30 Breakfast.
08:30 Visit the Sinaia Monastery.
10:00 Departure to Bran Castle, known as Dracula's Castle. The castle is built in the 13th century by Teuronic Knights.
13:00 Lunch in Sinaia.
14:00 Visit the Pelesh Castle - the summer residence of King Carol The First. Exceptional style, impressive interiors, carpets, painted stained glass windows, chandeliers, wood carving, unique and rich ornamentation furniture, gold and silverware.Huge collection of weapons and armor, different and valuable ivory, porcelain,tapestries. The castle has one of the largest collections of works of art in Europe. The Pelesh will enchant you with charm.
16:00 Second panoramic tour of Bucharest. Photo stop at the Parliament of Bucharest. It is the second largest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon in the U.S.
17:30 Departure to Sunny Beach.
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No Marigolds In The Promised Land
By Will Collier Jun 15, 2008 4:41 PM ET
Fair warning: The following post discusses last Friday's season finale (or mid-season finale, however you care to slice it) of Battlestar Galactica. If you plan to watch that show, consider yourself warned. Spoilers after the jump.
Another fair warning: I come not to praise BSG, but to bury it.
A lot of praise has been heaped upon BSG's mid-fourth-season finale, "Revelations" since it aired on Friday night. Uber-critic Alan Sepinwall, whose brilliant dissections of The Sopranos were absolutely required reading, was just one among many observers to declare the episode one of the best in the show's critically-acclaimed run.
As one of the very first US-based bloggers who told people to start watching this series in the first place, it gives me no pleasure to say that such praise is largely unwarranted. For all its technical wizardry and all the (mostly) exceptional performances, "Revelations" was just another slog through the morass of bad writing that's plagued BSG since early in the third season. Let me count just a few the ways:
* Once again, a plot arc that had been building for weeks was dispensed of with a few unconvincing lines of dialogue. The big confrontation in the middle of the show just evaporated for no discernible reason (what, did Lee say, "Wait, Xena, Starbuck just ran in here with a goofy deus ex machina to get us out of this mess! Don't shoot!").
* Speaking of which, Lee Obama–uh, sorry, I mean Adama–got to deliver another eye-roller of a speech, one that would have won over no sane character–except that it did, because, er, well, that's what the writers needed to happen.
* We got another heap of mystical mish-mash with no rhyme or reason, other than the writers needing to get out of a jam. It's BSG's version of the pseudo-scientific double talk that inevitably popped up in the last acts of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes–and it's just as lame. I am perfectly willing to suspend my disbelief to get through a well-written plot point–but I'm not willing to expel it to excuse a lame one.
* Baltar went back to being not funny.
You know, if there had been a wrecked Statue Of Liberty in the last shot of "Revelations," I would have had a great laugh. At least that would have been a memorable shark-jumping moment.
Having heaped on all this abuse, I will say this: at least the writers didn't take the easy and obvious route for the ending, which would have been to make the humans and Cylons arrive at Earth in prehistory and become our ancestors. Choosing to have the ragtag fleet find a post-apocalyptic cinder instead of an Eden (or worse still, a present-day civilization–been there, done that, and it was really bad) was clearly the best choice dramatically. But beyond that…
There was so much wrong with this last episode, but really, it was just more of the same that long-suffering BSG fans have been subjected to over the past season and a half. It pains me to say it, but the show is suffering from a bad case of "Twin Peaks Syndrome" (a corollary is "Lost Syndrome"). It was clear from the start of the third season that, contrary to the old show-opening copy, neither the Cylons nor the writers had a plan. Lacking foresight and needing to fill multiple hours of screen time ahead of a ridiculously-delayed finale, they've resorted to the "plot twist of the week." As Jonah Goldberg aptly noted,
I like twists and turns as much as the next guy, but they need to make sense with what came before. Swerving plotlines are awesome when they work. Plotlines that look like a bowl of spaghetti are a bore. The show's non-concern with internal consistency has given it a soap opera feel, where every new episode induces a whiplashed "huh?"
I'll keep watching out of loyalty and a desire to see the whole thing through. But it's become a real disappointment.
Plot gripes aside, the characters have been pushed through one unbelievable subplots after another, until none of them are even recognizable, much less worthy of the audience's sympathy or interest. Taking Tigh, the most flawed, human (and best) character on the show and retroactively declaring him a Cylon–a move so goofy that the writers were compelled to put fan complaints in Bill Adama's mouth during the last episode–is but one example. And for what? To generate a "wow" moment for a now-forgotten "cliffhanger?" Was that really worth it?
Like this entire season, the last episode was mostly an exercise in burning airtime until the producers could finally get around to actually advancing the overall story. And credit where it's due, the last act was exceptionally well-crafted, and might have been kind of affecting… but only if I still gave a rip about what happens to these people.
Which I don't. Not any more.


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Salome Receiving John the Baptist's Head on a Platter, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir'at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
Part of a set. See all set records
Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad, Mughal period
Opaque watercolor, ink, color and gold on paper
Sheet: 26.4 x 15.7 cm (10 3/8 x 6 3/16 in.); Image: 19.8 x 11.2 cm (7 13/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.112.b
115 Manuscripts & Textiles
Column capitals in Herod's palace have angels seated on upside-down lion heads.
John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod, king of Judea, for criticizing the ruler's marriage to his sister-in-law Herodius. Knowing of her husband's respect for John, Herodius feared for her welfare. She ordered her daughter Salome to perform a dance for Herod who, enthralled by her beauty and skill, promised to give her anything she asked for. At the behest of her mother, Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist, which is depicted here being presented on a platter. Herod, dressed in European clothing, sits on a Mughal-style throne as he witnesses the consequence of his imprudent vow.
Before 1930s-2005
An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s through 2005
(Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, UK, 2005, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2005-present
Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).
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John L. Severance Fund


This week, we talk to our guest RELL BATTLE from CBS' SUPERIOR DONUTS about being friends with Mara (she didn't blow him), finally getting some shut-eye when his parents got a divorce, truth, and fairness with a divorced parent, and gettin' booty with Benadryl …but have you ever 'busted a nut' with your throat being closed due to a cat allergy?
A Washington, D.C. native, Rell Battle studied theater at the University of Maryland before moving to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up. Soon after his arrival, he was chosen to perform at Jamie Foxx's Laffapalooza festival as a "New Face" of comedy. Since then, he has performed at comedy clubs throughout the country and overseas.


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What Happened to Marcus Taggert on GENERAL HOSPITAL
By	Chris Eades	 August 20, 2020
Real Andrews
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The character of Marcus Taggert on GENERAL HOSPITAL hasn't been seen in nearly 20 years so it's understandable if newer fans of the soap aren't familiar with the character. Taggert was introduced back in December of 1996 and was played by Reál Andrews until April of 1997. For most of 1997, the role was recast with Matthew St. Patrick, but Andrews was back in February of 1998 until May of 2003. Then Andrews reprised his role in January 2020 only to be unexpectedly killed off by March! Thankfully, the actor was back by August and revealed how it came about. Here's what you need to know about the guy…
When Marcus Taggert arrived in Port Charles, he was out for revenge on Sonny Corinthos. Having also grown up in Brooklyn, Taggert was inspired by Sonny's stepfather, Deke Woods, to become a police officer and after the man was shot down in an alley, wanted to get justice on his killer, who he believed to be Sonny. Joining the PCPD, Taggert harassed Sonny at every opportunity.
The cop had a soft spot for Sonny's wife, Lilly Rivera Corinthos, and after she died from a car bomb meant for Sonny, his anger towards the mobster grew. Taggert also took Lilly's son, Juan Santiago, as his ward. Dating assistant DA Dara Jensen, Taggert feared he would lose her to Justus Ward, but in the end, he lost her to her job when she couldn't find time for both in her life.
Taking down Sonny also meant his right-hand-man, Jason!Scott Garfield/ABC
In 2000, Taggert's half-sister, Gia Campbell, showed up in Port Charles having left school and was soon joined by their mother, Florence Campbell. He moved on to a new relationship with FBI agent Hannah Scott, but grew jealous of her friendship with A.J. Quartermaine and ended things. After discovering proof that Gia had been responsible for a car accident that nearly killed Elizabeth Webber, he compromised his principles and couldn't bring himself to arrest his sister.
Although he remained determined to bring down Sonny, Taggert felt Scott Baldwin was going too far and using illegal methods to achieve the same goal. Wanting to get Taggert out of the way, DA Baldwin set him up in his campaign to get rid of dirty cops and forced Taggert to relocate to a police department in Portland, Oregon.
Taggert and Jordan have more history together than they let on!XJJohnson/jpistudios.com
In January of 2020, Sonny was surprised to run into Taggert visiting Mike at Turning Woods. And after their terse conversation, Taggert visited his old friend, Jordan Ashford, in her office at the police station. They had worked together years ago and she called him to Port Charles to help her solve the mysterious death of their old compatriot who they both didn't believe died of a drug overdose. When another former comrade also wound up dead on the docks, they feared for their lives.
Taggert's return to town at the same time a mob war was exploding with Sonny made some suspicious of the guy, including Mac Scorpio, who questioned his reasons for coming back. Then, Trina called him dad and it was revealed that she was his and Portia Robinson's daughter! But when Cyrus Renault, who was gunning for Jordan and Taggert, kidnapped Trina and Cam, Taggert was shot trying to rescue them! The cop was rushed to the hospital where he seemed to be stable, but then suddenly flatlined! Lucas reported that there he had developed a blood clot in his brain and there was nothing they could do to save his life.
However, in August, Taggert met with Jordan on the docks very much alive, and it was revealed that they had faked his death with the help of nurse Epiphany Johnson. He was supposed to stay in hiding but Taggert was worried Jordan was under Cyrus' thumb and wanted to kill the villain himself. Jordan warned him that if he committed murder, he could never see his daughter again and urged him to let her handle Cyrus.
Stay tuned to GH to see how Taggert's story continues!