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Q: LVM root 100% usage I've been going round in circles trying to find a fix to this issue, without having to use liveCD and shutting down the server (Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS). I can no longer update Ubuntu due to a lack of space on the root partition. For some reason on install, 3 years ago, the boot partition was set at 500MB on a 500GB drive, which apart from that partition is empty. But df -h gives...
df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                         3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                        799M   94M  705M  12% /run
/dev/mapper/SERVER--vg-root  450G  428G     0 100% /
tmpfs                        3.9G  208K  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                        3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1                    472M  117M  332M  26% /boot
tmpfs                        799M   52K  799M   1% /run/user/1000

Indicating that the root drive is full. Size of folders in root are...
du -h --max-depth=1 -x /
18M     /sbin
743M    /home
12K     /mnt
620K    /samba
4.0K    /lib64
20K     /media
4.0K    /srv
8.0K    /snap
112K    /tmp
713M    /lib
16M     /bin
16K     /lost+found
6.3G    /usr
4.0K    /opt
64K     /repository
456K    /root
16M     /etc
873M    /var
8.6G    /

I'm not sure what's taking up all of the space on the sdb5 partition, could be the swap file but lvs gives...
sudo lvs
  LV     VG        Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Syn                                  c Convert
  root   SERVER-vg -wi-ao---- 457.28g
  swap_1 SERVER-vg -wi-ao----   8.00g

Indicating that the swap file is only 8GB. Any help with the best way to tackle this issue would be much appreciated.
$ lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
fd0                     2:0    1     4K  0 disk
sda                     8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk
└─sda1                  8:1    0   1.8T  0 part /mnt/MB
sdb                     8:16   0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sdb1                  8:17   0   487M  0 part /boot
└─sdb5                  8:21   0 465.3G  0 part
  ├─SERVER--vg-root   252:0    0 457.3G  0 lvm  /
  └─SERVER--vg-swap_1 252:1    0     8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sdc                     8:32   0 931.5G  0 disk
└─sdc1                  8:33   0 931.5G  0 part /mnt/ADMIN
sdd                     8:48   0   1.8T  0 disk
└─sdd1                  8:49   0   1.8T  0 part /mnt/BACKUP I
sr0                    11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

 sudo du -aBM -d 1 . | sort -nr | head -20
du: cannot access './proc/21524/task/21524/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './proc/21524/task/21524/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './proc/21524/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './proc/21524/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
2751763M        .
2742812M        ./mnt
6363M   ./usr
873M    ./var
743M    ./home
713M    ./lib
114M    ./boot
96M     ./run
18M     ./sbin
16M     ./etc
16M     ./bin
1M      ./tmp
1M      ./srv
1M      ./snap
1M      ./samba
1M      ./root
1M      ./repository
1M      ./opt
1M      ./media
1M      ./lost+found

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Q: Cassandra cql3 PHP support I know that there is no official driver to use Cassandra cql3 with PHP yet. I learned about the map, list and set features in cql3 and would really love to use it on my application. Is there anyway to make cql3 queries work in PHP (for example running cql3 queries in Java/C# and return the result to PHP or run the query as shell command using exec() in PHP)?

A: php-cassandra-binary uses Cassandra's binary protocol instead of the deprecated thrift protocol. It supports all of Cassandra's types.

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Q: Load custom list class for a custom class I have one class which holds a question, and another that is a list of the question class. My goal is to be able to call the constructor of the question list class and pass in a file path to a CSV holding the information for 55 questions. The call should then take this information and generate the list of question objects relative to the data.
I have the information held in a string array however am unsure on how to assign this data to new question objects so I am then able to reference an individual question from the class instance of the question list.
Does anybody have any idea how to proceed?
Here is my code so far:
class QuestionBank : List<Question>
{
    public QuestionBank()
    {

    }

    public static QuestionBank GetQuestions(string path)
    {
        using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(path))
        {
            byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
            UTF8Encoding temp = new UTF8Encoding(true);
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            while (fs.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length) > 0)
                sb.Append(temp.GetString(bytes));

            MessageBox.Show(sb.ToString());

            string[] splitText = sb.ToString().Split(',');
        }

        QuestionBank bank = new QuestionBank()
        {

        };
        return bank;
    }
}

A: I think you are looking for something like this:
public class QuestionBank
{
    private string filePath = "test.csv";
    public List<Question> Questions = new List<Question>();

    public void GetAllQuestions()
    {
        foreach (var line in File.ReadAllLines(filePath))
        {
            Questions.Add(new Question
            {
                Value = line
            });
        }
    }
}

public class Question
{
    public string Value { get; set; }
}


My best friend from college and I try and visit each other once a year. Sometimes by ourselves, sometimes with our husbands and kids. We have so much fun and gab away and laugh until we're crying and our stomachs hurt. There is usually quite a bit of wine at our annual get-togethers. Beth and her husband are such great hosts and cooks. Many years ago, I was visiting and she made a coffee cake for breakfast that was out of this world.
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UPDATE: Just made this for Easter morning breakfast and updated the photos, everyone loved it!
Sour cream, buttery coffee cake with pecan/brown sugar crumble filling and topping.
In a small bowl, combine chopped pecans, brown sugar and cinnamon and toss to mix.
In a large bowl, combine melted butter, white sugar, eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Mix well.
Stir in the flour, wheat bran, salt and baking powder and mix until just combined. Do not over mix.
Spoon/spread half the batter into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle on half of the nut mixture. Cover with the remaining batter and sprinkle the rest of the nut mixture on top.
Bake until golden on top and firm, about 40 - 50 minutes. Cool on a rack for at least 10 minutes. Serve warm.
I find it takes longer to bake, about 1 hour. If it is jiggly, it's not ready. A toothpick inserted in the middle should have moist crumbs on it.
Also, I have used less butter than the recipe calls for, like a stick and a half or even less. It turns out fine but I think it's better with two full sticks.
Another baking recipe from Beth you might also like are her Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins, which can easily be made vegan, if you desire. They are really good.


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Barcelona's financial struggles over the past 12 months are well documented, but a report in Spain has claimed that La Blaugrana are in debt to the tune of a whopping €900m (£804m).
The Catalan side have made no secret of just how much the COVID-19 outbreak has hurt them financially, with the lack of income from ticket sales leaving Barcelona unable to balance out their unfathomable outgoings.
Barcelona have struggled with the lack of fans | Soccrates Images/Getty Images
Club officials spent the best part of 2020 negotiating with the players to try and convince them to agree to defer their wages to help soften the blow, and after some messy legal disputes, an agreement was finally reached in November.
Barcelona were clearly desperate to find a solution, and if a report from La Vanguardia is to be believed, it's not hard to see why. The club's reckless spending over the past few years has left them in €900m worth of debt, with €420m of that needing to be repaid 'in the short term'.
Sources close to the situation are said to have confirmed that Barcelona are already planning to renegotiate with creditors after accepting that there is no way they can repay that kind of money in the near future.
Josep Maria Bartomeu oversaw unsustainable spending | Quality Sport Images/Getty Images
It will be left up to the new president, who will be elected on 24 January, to figure out a way to help the club manage such ridiculous debts, and it is expected that the players' wage bill will be targeted.
The first team at Camp Nou earn a combined €170m per season, and the club have already agreed to clauses which will see that wage budget rise by €45m per year until 2025 – an unmanageable rate of growth during the current situation.
Financial issues are nothing new to Barcelona, who have been accused of making decisions without considering the long-term impact. An example given is the €39m loyalty bonus promised to Lionel Messi in 2017 which was been deferred time and time again and only paid last summer, after Messi had voiced his desire to leave the club.
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The high wages and promises, coupled with expensive signings like Philippe Coutinho, Ousmane Dembele and Antoine Griezmann, have seen Barcelona's financial situation spiral out of control, and now urgent decisions need to be made over how €420m can be found in the next 12 months.
One potential solution under consideration is to stomach another €800m loan to held fund Espai Barca – the renovation project at Camp Nou – and then use the income generated from that to pay off the debts. Definitely a smart move.
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The sign, standing at the far end of the gravel drive leading to the entrance, is known to the staff drivers as: Dr. Mengele's Thumb.
To the right of the sign: the wards, and to the left: the mortuary.
The large oak doors leading in to the building are glistening and drenched with heavy rain. They are dressed with heavy brass handles polished smooth as silk from turning by many hands . They epitomise the character of this Victorian pile; imposing, and as strong as the British empire once was.
Inside, the corridor invites a long walk. The walls, of green and white glazed brick, rise high to support the ceiling that, though once white, now display a weak yellow. These, together with the black and white diamond shaped ceramic mosaic floor, echo the visitors footsteps. The echoes give unease to the visitor of the possibility that this may not be a solitary walk. Is there a sense of a 'presence'? Was that a mischievous giggle heard from someone, somewhere, in the shadowed recesses along the passage ahead, or the harmless rustling crackle of the wearers raincoat? Or, did a forlorn and melancholy Florence Nightingale figure, adorned in regulation bonnet and hooped hospital dress, whisper to the visitor, in passing, "Don't forget to say goodbye".
The doors to the ward are not original, and are out of place and time here. They are of plastic and wear a wide band of black rubber, strategically placed to afford protection from the impact of trolleys, beds on wheels, meals on wheels (which always smell of boiled cabbage, even when it is not cabbage day), and wheel chairs. Life here is so much easier here since the invention of the wheel, and diamorphine.
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Exhibit Opens in Siegen on German-Americans in US Congress
October 31, 2013 By Germanna
The German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA and the U.S. Capitol Historical Society organized a series of exhibits on the contributions of German-Americans to the history of the United States Congress.
This 14-panel exhibit tells the story of two of the first three German Americans in the First Congress—Frederick and Peter Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania—along with information about the the German-American Caucus, the Congressional Study Group on Germany, and members of Congress with German ancestry – including Congressman Russ Carnahan (D-MO), a descendant of the Germanna Carpenter, Finks, Aylor, Crigler, Kerker, Christler, Garr and Blankenbaker families.
The English-language version of this exhibit was displayed in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the German-American Heritage Museum in Washington, DC.
The German-language version of this exhibition opened in Berlin to great fanfare and will travel throughout Germany.
The exhibition will be opened in Siegen on October 30, 2013 by good friends of the Germanna Foundation: Burgermeister Steffen Mues, Bundestag Member Volkmar Klein, and Ruediger Lentz, former executive director of the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA (the Germanna Foundation is a member) and now Executive Director of the Aspen Institute / Germany.
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Coming back from the holiday weekend, we had the opportunity to catch up with one of our sponsored athletes, Balázs Csőke. Rested and relaxed, he shared some great insight on 2013 Ironman Texas, what's ahead this season and how he ended up as professional multisport athlete!
A: I personally believe it is important to have a wide variety when it comes to nutrition. I try to avoid junk food and eat as organic as possible. Yes, I do keep a low fat percentage-body weight ratio. With my training, it is hard to keep weight on.
PART 2: Balazs Csoke, Klean Athlete Sponsored Athlete and friend, gives us a few pointers on how he's preparing for the upcoming Ironman Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Leave your questions in the comments and Balazs will respond in another blog post soon!
Q: Looking ahead, what are you next steps to prepare for the championships?
A: I am going to try and focus on what is going to determine if I will have a good race or a bad race. Meaning, the first 15 min of the swim, the first hour on the bike and mile 15-23 on the run. The big part of my training sessions are going to focus on building up strength for these parts of the race. I believe I have a good general fitness and endurance but to be successful at Kona you need to be in outstanding shape and know how to handle critical race situations very well. And that's not even mentioning being mentally tough and staying very focused every single second throughout the race.
Klean Athlete Sponsored Athlete, Balazs Csoke, took a few minutes out of his busy training schedule to reflect on his last Ironman in Lake Placid. His fourth and final race, which qualified him for the championships in Kona, Hawaii.
Q: With your last race being a few months ago, how were you feeling for IM Lake Placid?
A: I went into the race very confident about my general endurance. However, I wasn't sure if I was fit enough to race well. I knew my main goal was to secure my spot for Hawaii, and to do this I had to race very smart. I needed to stay calm throughout the day and try not to leave too much on the course. Ironman is 50%, so self confidence and focusing on the race is critical.
I am a Klean Athlete.
I am not an elite athlete. I am not the fastest athlete. I am an Ironman.
I decided to become a runner over 15 years ago and it actually took me a year to purchase my first real pair or sneakers back then. I was signed up for the Quebec City 10k and it was going to be EPIC. Little did I know that years later I was going to compete in the 'Super Bowl' of endurance events by finally pressing the Register Now button. The Ironman race in Arizona was my "Turning 40-44" gift to myself. Funny how my age has become an age-group over the years now.
While there is ongoing debate about how much electrolyte support athletes need there is NO DEBATE that electrolyte balance is a key factor in sustaining athletic performance and maintaining proper fluid levels within the body. I find most athletes I work with don't really want to worry about electrolytes. They (electrolytes) are like the pesky little details of training and exercise that most of us would like to ignore. The problem is that electrolytes are the cement that holds the bricks together in the training wall. If this electrolyte mortar is not present the wall quickly breaks down or becomes unstable.
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Following Ironman Texas 2012, my friends and I, for a period of weeks, recapped "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the race experience. There were many who were describing the various trips to the "porta potties" along the run course. Many blamed the warm lake water and its' prolific bacterial flora for their frequent stops. One friend even described visiting all of the potties at least once on the run course. As I listened to the stories, I felt sheepish, as I had not needed to make a "visit" even once for gastrointestinal distress during the race.
I started to ask this question in my head, "If we all swam in the same water, why didn't we all have GI distress on the run?" I am not a scientist but my thought immediately turned to what the condition of my "GI distressed" friends' gut flora and immune system were prior to the race.
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The foundation of exceptional athletic performance is not what you drink or eat just prior to, during or after your workout or competition. Yes you heard me right! You are probably thinking that I have already lost my nutritional marbles. I can only make this statement after working with numerous elite professional, amateur, college, high school and competitive age group athletes in my practice for the past 15 years. The statement can be made because I have experienced the demand of my nutritional supplementation needs, training for three full Ironman, two half ironman, numerous shorter triathlons, as well as, three open marathons and 4 half marathons over the past two and a half years.
Today's post is a little different then what you may be used to from Klean Athlete. We had the chance to talk with professional triathlete, Balázs Csőke on his 2013 race season and the up-coming IM New Zealand. Check out what he has to say about training, this weekend's race and his go-to meals!
Q: How are you feeling about your training and fitness at the start of your race season?
A: I feel great, thank you. I was able to train a nice 8 weeks in Texas without any traveling or interruption. I did a Half Ironman 4 weeks ago in Panama, where I had some mechanical issues on the bike, but I saw and ran very well, so it showed my fitness is right at the point where I want it. I had to travel back to Europe a bit after that due to some via issues but I did all the training I planned before even. It was not always easy while I was dealing with jet lag.
The travel was long but smooth to New Zealand. Now the last couple of days are just about relaxing. The work's done, now its showtime!


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GERMANY: Michael Mauer to leave Saab
Michael Mauer, Executive Director, Saab Design and GME Advance Design, is leaving Saab after four years of overseeing all design direction for the Swedish premium car maker, and more recently, all of GME's advanced design studies.
Mauer will replace Harm Lagaay as Head of Design at Dr. Ing. H.c.F. Porsche AG, and will be based at Porsche's Research and Development Centre in Weissach, Southern Germany.
Saab's Head of Advanced Design, Anthony Lo, is named acting Director Saab Design until a successor can be announced.
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Q: Reducing size of vectorized contourplot I would like to include a filled contour plot to a pdf document (for example a TeX document).
Currently I am using pyplots contourf, and saving to pdf with pyplots savefig. The problem with this is that the size of the plots becomes rather big as compared to a high resolution png.
One way to reduce the size is of course to reduce the number of levels in the plot, but too few levels gives a poor plot. I'm searching for a simple way to for example let the colors of the plot be saved as a png, with the axes, ticks etc. to be saved vectorized.

A: You can do this using the Axes option set_rasterization_zorder.
Anything with a zorder less than what you set that to be will be saved as rasterized graphics, even when saving to a vector format like pdf.
For example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

data = np.random.rand(500,500)

# fig1 will save the contourf as a vector
fig1,ax1 = plt.subplots(1)
ax1.contourf(data)
fig1.savefig('vector.pdf')

# fig2 will save the contourf as a raster
fig2,ax2 = plt.subplots(1)
ax2.contourf(data,zorder=-20)
ax2.set_rasterization_zorder(-10)
fig2.savefig('raster.pdf')

# Show the difference in file size. "os.stat().st_size" gives the file size in bytes.
print os.stat('vector.pdf').st_size
# 15998481
print os.stat('raster.pdf').st_size
# 1186334

You can see this matplotlib example for more background info.

As pointed out by @tcaswell, to rasterise just one artist without having to affect its zorder, you can use .set_rasterized. However, this doesn't appear to be an option with contourf, so you would need to loop over the PathCollections created by contourf and set_rasterized on each of them. Something like this:
contours = ax.contourf(data)
for pathcoll in contours.collections:
    pathcoll.set_rasterized(True)


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RCMP surveillance, searches breached anti-fracking protesters' rights, watchdog says
The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission found that some of the RCMP's surveillance practices and physical searches were "inconsistent with protesters' charter rights to be free from unreasonable search and seizure."
Posted by Riley Peterson on November 13, 2020
Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The RCMP watchdog has uncovered shortcomings with the national force's crowd-control measures, physical searches and collection of social media information while policing anti-fracking protests in New Brunswick.
In a long-awaited report issued today, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP chastises the Mounties for their reluctance to take action on some of the findings and recommendations.
The commission received 21 public complaints related to the RCMP's management of protests in 2013 over shale-gas exploration by SWN Resources Canada near the town of Rexton and the Elsipogtog First Nation reserve in Kent County, as well as in various other parts of the province.
The report notes that a primary motivation for Indigenous protesters opposing the actions of SWN was their dedication to protecting land and water they considered their own, unceded to the Crown through treaty or other agreement.
A court-issued injunction limited protest activity and despite some progress through negotiations between the RCMP and demonstrators, the Mounties cleared an encampment in a tactical operation on Oct. 17, 2013, sparking a melee and numerous arrests.
After reviewing the complaints and materials disclosed by the RCMP, the commission then initiated its own complaint and public-interest investigation in December 2014 to examine the issues more broadly.
The commission found considerable evidence that RCMP members "understood and applied a measured approach" in planning their operations and while interacting with protesters.
However, it also found some distressing problems.
"Several incidents or practices interfered to varying degrees with the protesters' rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly," the commission concluded.
It stressed that police may only establish "buffer zones" in accordance with parameters set by the courts. "As such, decisions to restrict access to public roadways or sites must be specific, reasonable and limited to minimize the impact on people's rights."
The commission also found that some of the RCMP's surveillance practices and physical searches were "inconsistent with protesters' charter rights to be free from unreasonable search and seizure."
For example, in conducting "stop checks," RCMP members randomly stopped vehicles for a purpose other than those set out in provincial highway traffic legislation, the report says.
"Likewise, while unconfirmed reports about the presence of weapons raised a legitimate public safety concern, searching persons entering the protesters' campsite was inconsistent with the individuals' charter rights."
The commission found that RCMP policy did not provide clear guidance as to the collection, use, and retention of personal information obtained from social media or other open sources, particularly in situations where no criminal activity was involved.
The watchdog recommended that RCMP policy describe what personal information from social media sites can be gathered, how it can be used, what steps should be taken to verify its reliability and limits on how long it can be kept.
It urges the RCMP to destroy such material once it is clear there is no criminal or national-security dimension.
Among the commission's other findings:
— The RCMP's interactions with SWN Resources were reasonable under the circumstances, and enforcing the law and injunctions did not amount to acting as private security for the company, as some had claimed;
— RCMP members did not differentiate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous protesters when making arrests, nor did they demonstrate bias against Indigenous protesters generally;
— Officers had reasonable grounds to arrest people for offences including mischief and obstruction, and the force used was generally necessary and proportional;
— The Mounties had legal authority to clear the campsite and it was a "reasonable exercise of their discretion" to do so, though it would have been prudent to allow more time for negotiations;
— The decision to leave members of the crisis negotiation team out of the loop about operational planning led to the "unfortunate and regrettable situation" of the tactical operation occurring shortly after RCMP negotiators offered tobacco to campsite protest leaders;
— At the time the policing efforts began, with some notable exceptions, assigned members did not have sufficient training in Indigenous cultural matters.
"Canada's ongoing reconciliation with Indigenous people includes protecting the rights of those whose voices have been diminished by systemic sources of racism in our society," commission chairwoman Michelaine Lahaie said in a statement accompanying the report.
In her response to the report, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki acknowledged some of the commission's findings. She agreed to implement recommendations on sensitivity and awareness training related to Indigenous culture and sacred items, better information-sharing with crisis negotiators and refreshers for RCMP members on law and policy for search and seizure.
But while the RCMP indicated support for eight of the commission's 12 recommendations, it believed three needed no further action.
"This concerns the commission, as these included recommendations concerning roadblocks, exclusion zones and limits to police powers," the report says.
"In stating that she believed the RCMP's practices are already in line with the recommendations, the RCMP commissioner provided no information indicating that practices have been adjusted since the Kent County events, or that the commission's concerns have been recognized."
Lucki also strongly rejected recommendations limiting collection and retention of open-source information, saying the RCMP must have ready access to data about protesters, even if they have no criminal history.
The RCMP's right to refuse to implement findings or recommendations, and its statutory obligation to explain itself when it does so, is not meant to provide an opportunity for the police force to act as an appeal body with regard to the commission's findings, the report says.
"Such a process would amount to giving the RCMP carte blanche to come to its own conclusions about its members' actions."


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Sir William WALTON (1902-1983)
The Wise Virgins
Alison Crum (viola da gamba)*
English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones
Recorded 11-12 July 2001, The Great Hall, University of Leeds
NAXOS 8.555868 (62.59)
The Walton centenary has done much to raise the composer's standard, as it rightly should, and this enterprising Naxos issue is a useful addition to the catalogue.
The largest of the three pieces is much the least known. The ballet The Quest was composed during the Second World War, based on Spenser's allegorical poem The Faerie Queene, and intended to follow in the footsteps of the Henry V film music in boosting morale. This version by the English Northern Philharmonia is the first recording to use the composer's original orchestration, rather than the revised score which Walton hoped would bring the music a wider currency in the concert hall. It never did, however.
The music itself is therefore worthy of comment. The tone is set immediately, with a really arresting opening, with some telling harmonic astringency giving the music plenty of attack. David Lloyd-Jones and his orchestra clearly relish their task, and their performance has a wide-ranging yet cogent intensity. The recording, although not of demonstration quality, is clear enough. Climaxes can sound a little boxy but the playing is very good indeed. At the bargain Naxos price collectors need not hesitate, for the music is well worth getting to know.
Walton is an interesting composer, in that there is plenty to discover beyond the well known pieces which dominate our awareness of his achievement. Two further examples serve as companion pieces on the programme here. The performance of Siesta is delightfully characterised. It is an early work, composed in 1926 not long after Portsmouth Point had shown Walton's debt to Stravinsky's rhythmic angularity. In that context Siesta might be regarded as an antidote, having been inspired by the composer's already potent love of southern Italy. The title lulls the listener into a false sense of security, however. For there is no lack of challenge, with sudden shifts of dynamic and other unexpected turns. Not the most peaceful of siestas, in other words.
In The Wise Virgins, Walton joined the long list of composers who had been inspired by the music of Bach. This was another wartime commission, from Frederick Ashton and the Vic-Wells Ballet, for a score to accompany a choreographed version of the story of the wise and foolish virgins. Walton's sources were cantatas and a chorale prelude, revealing a deep knowledge of Bach (or perhaps piano arrangements of Bach). His orchestrations and arrangements have a sure and imaginative touch, in any case. The orchestra used is not large, but it is always imaginatively treated.
Lloyd-Jones conducts a well paced performance, but the phrasing might have been more keenly articulated. To some extent this may be the fault of the recording acoustic, which somehow undermines the music's impact. Like the performance, the accompanying note tends to undersell the music a little. For this is an interesting, though not an outstanding, compilation of music by one of the great composers of the 20th century.
Terry Barfoot


Help required in writing a CL program which will monitor QSYSOPR msgq for specific h/w failure msg ID's and shoot email ?
First, QSYSOPR shouldn't be monitored for critical messages such as hardware failures. Those messages shouldn't be sent to QSYSOPR; they should be sent to QSYSMSG. In order to enable QSYSMSG, all you need to do is create a message queue named QSYSMSG in library QSYS, and the OS will automatically use it for critical system messages.
Second, are you sure the program will be able to run after a hardware failure?
Fourth, we don't know how your system sends e-mail, so you'll have to do that part on your own. If you run into a problem, you can post your code and describe the problem. We can help when we know what some problem is.
Fifth, using Management Central is probably better than writing programming for this. Why write a program if the system will do it for you? You can find an example in Scenario: Message monitor. That example is about QSYSOPR and *INQUIRY messages, but a different name can be used and different messages can be listed.
I don't even get proper solution also from IBM from past 6 months.
I don't quite understand. Have you been trying for 6 months with Management Central (MgtC)? This question thread is only 11 days old.
You have the STRWCH command, so you are at least at V5R4, i.e., on a supported release. There are at least three elements needed to handle failed monitors properly on any current release.
First, there are PTFs. If you've been working with IBM, they should have verified that you have the appropriate ones installed.
Second, the MgtC Properties need the 'Automatically restart monitors on failed systems' option checked.
When a failure occurs, it has no problem starting back up automatically. In my current setup, I'm running MgtC on V5R3 as the Central system, with V5R3 and 6.1 as Endpoint systems. If you have V5R4, it should work better (with any needed PTFs).
For STRWCH, I don't yet have good useful info on failures. I don't any history on failed watches yet, so there's not much I can say.
However, you need to understand that various failures are at least just as likely if you create your own function. And if you create your own, elements such as object (message queue) locks can cause problems.
Do you know anything about the causes of 'Failed' status? Are you running a single system or is it a network of AS/400s? If you have multiple AS/400s, what are the oldest releases you have?


Amazon's one-million-square-foot distribution center in Baltimore is a massive fulfillment machine. Stand at one end of the warehouse, and its titanium-white scaffolding and seemingly endless conveyor belts disappear at a vanishing point that is, somehow, within the building.
The machine is a dazzling combination of chutes, ladders, rollers and 11 miles' worth of conveyor belts. Customers' orders move from shelving into bins and from bins into boxes as they travel via the machine straight into delivery vans, passing by stationary workers at various points along the way.
Humans are rarely required to move around here. It's much faster, and cheaper, to have stuff brought to them.
Each fulfillment center can process up to a million customer orders every 24 hours, with scarcely a human in sight. Artificial Intelligence (AI) informs a Kiva robot where the product is located and the robot, resembling oversize Roombas, scoots to that location, slides under a stack of shelving containing the customer's product, and moves it to a human worker. The picker then retrieves the product, places it in a bin which is then carried on a belt to another human who packages the item, seals the box, and sends it off to shipping.
This saves each human picker about 10 miles of walking every day, and the company millions of dollars. It's estimated that those "fulfillment" costs have been reduced by 20 percent, putting enormous pressure on its competitors, some of whom are disappearing (think Sears) or have already disappeared (think Borders).
The AI-informed robots can't do the picking, placing, or packing, so humans must do that part. But Kiva, now called Amazon Robotics, is working on that.
At present Amazon employs 575,000 people, up from 340,000 just a year ago. As it savages its competition, it will continue to add new people just as fast as they can build new fulfillment centers. Rather like Walmart, Amazon seeks to place its centers near high population density centers to meet the demands of its growing customer base.
Ocado, the British only-online grocery supermarket, isn't so proprietary about its technology: In May this year it happily signed an agreement with Kroger (the country's largest supermarket chain and its second largest retailer behind Walmart) to use its automated delivery technology to build up to 20 of its own fulfillment centers.
Ocado's system takes a fundamentally human and Byzantine process — receiving shipments from food manufacturers, stocking and restocking a warehouse, assembling customers' orders and placing them into baskets, scanning them and packing them into bags — and automates it to an unprecedented degree.
It took 18 years and many iterations to create this system, which has enabled Ocado to quickly deliver groceries to a customer's front door for about the same price as they would cost at the store.
Both companies are experimenting with the next logical progression: delivery "pods" that take the customer's order from the center to their home or office. Dallas has just approved a pilot program for pods, 26 inches wide and 48 inches high, which operate at a maximum speed of 5 mph. The Dallas Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure and Sustainability Committee was persuaded that, if successful, a complete rollout would reduce the number of manned delivery vehicles on the roads, cutting both congestion and pollution. A pod would arrive at its destination, a code to open it would be sent to the customer who would open it and retrieve his order. The pod would then return to the fulfillment center.
The next step in that technology is to let the customer order up an empty pod, much like a passenger would order an Uber pickup, place in it the package he wants shipped elsewhere — all paid for and managed online.
A fully-automated warehouse is just the beginning. Amazon and Walmart have patented blimplike warehouses that will float 1,000 feet in the air, armed with drones ready to deliver toothpaste and toilet paper to your doorstep, as if they were files.
Welcome to the physical cloud.
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Just bask in that simplicity. The constant is the speed of light, which is a rather large number. In fact, light takes just over a second to travel to Earth from the moon, while the Apollo missions took three days. The fastest we've ever sent anything toward the moon was the New Horizons mission to Pluto, and it passed the moon after a little over eight-and-a-half hours. So, light is pretty fast, and therefore c2 is a gigantic number. The E and m in this equation are energy and mass, respectively. If we ignore the c2, which acts as a conversion rate, E=mc2 says that energy and mass are equivalent, and that things with mass have energy as a result of that mass, regardless of what they're doing or where they are in the universe. This equation is at the heart of radioactive decay, matter/antimatter annihilation, and the processes occurring at the center of the sun. Now, that all may sound foreign, but it's at work constantly, and we take advantage of it. For instance, positron emission tomography scans, or PET scans, are used to image the inside of the body using a radioactive substance that emits positrons (the antimatter counterpart to the electron). These positrons annihilate with the electrons in your body and release light, which is then detected by a special camera. This information is then used to reconstruct an image of your insides.
which relates the three sides of a triangle whose largest angle is 90°.
(I've called the longest side h instead of c to avoid confusion with the speed of light.) In our example, the total energy E is the longest side, and the "legs" are the rest energy (mc2) and the energy contribution due to momentum, written as pc.
where tmov is the time elapsed according to a moving clock, trest is the time read by a clock at rest, and s is the distance that the moving clock has covered over the elapsed time. How can two clocks read different times? I'll save that question for another day.


Braintree climbed into the top five in the Conference Premier with a convincing home victory over Alfreton.
With all the goals coming in the second half, it was Charlie Strutton's well-struck volley that gave the hosts the advantage.
Sean Marks' 84th-minute header and Daniel Sparkes' tap in three minutes later wrapped up the points for high-flying Braintree.
Bradley Wood netted late consolation for the visitors.
"We've had to grind it out, they are very tough side to play against. Very direct, big, strong and I thought we stood up well to it.
"We knew that later on in the game it would open up and we would get a few chances, Charlie [Strutton] took his goal well and then we was never in danger.
"I'm absolutely delighted, the boys deserve a lot of credit, I'm so proud of them.
"The week we've had is absolutely fantastic."


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This Day in History: December 27
Posted by Anne Leader for IASblog
Giovanni Battista Borra was Born on 27 December 1713 in the Piedmont Town of Dogliani.
By Anne Leader
Giovanni Battista Borra was born on 27 December 1713 in the Piedmont town of Dogliani about 37 miles from Turin, where he would spend much of his career. Borra worked as an architect, draftsman, and engineer, but may be best known for a series of drawings made during an archaeological expedition to Asia Minor in 1750 and 1751. While there, he made numerous sketches of the Roman-era ruins at Palmyra and Baalbek, two sites recently attacked by ISIS militants. His drawings, and the prints made thereafter and published in Robert Wood's books on these and other cities, stand as important records of this damaged cultural patrimony.
For the remainder of the 1750s Borra received a number of commissions for other English patrons, including Edward Howard's townhouse in St. James Square, London. Howard was the 9th Duke of Norfolk, and his house was built and decorated between 1748 and 1752 according to Borra's designs.
Borra spent the latter part of his career in Turin, where his chief project was to remodel Guarino Guarini's Castello dei Racconigi, including a new south facade and interior decoration, much of which was inspired by decorative motifs studied in Baalbek and Palmyra. Borra died in Turin in 1770.
Reference: O. Zoller. "Borra, Giovanni Battista." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press .
View of the Ruined City of Palmyra and the Temple at Palmyra, from northwest, engravings from The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tadmor in the desart [sic] by Robert Wood (London, 1753). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
View of the Norfolk House Music Room; Mirror and wall paneling, Norfolk House Music Room. Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Doorcase, carved by Jean Antoine Cuenot after Borra's design for the Great Drawing Room of Norfolk House, 1756, mahogany and pine, painted and gilded. Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Doorcase, carved by Jean Antoine Cuenot after Borra's design for the Great Drawing Room of Norfolk House, ca. 1755, mahogany and pine, originally painted and gilded. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
Constantinople from the Asian shore, ca. 1751, ink and watercolor on two pieces of joined laid paper. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A.
Güzel Hisar and the River Maeander, from the East, ca. 1751, ink and watercolor on laid paper. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A.
View of Arch from West with Colonnade, rubble, columns at Palmyra, engraving from The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tadmor in the desart [sic] by Robert Wood (London, 1753). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Castello di Racconigi, near Turin
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This watch had never been opened in its life. Upon close inspection I saw a thin black line on the edge of the crystal that indicated the notorious problem with these watches was indeed a reality. The gasket had melted. It is an incredibly sad thing to see such a stupid problem have such a rough impact on a piece such as this. Worse than the gooey mess that the melt leaves behind, the melted rubber is ever so slightly acidic, and so its contact with the dial can eat away at the finish and the metal. Incredibly the damage was minor given that this watch had been sitting in a box for 20 years. After carefully removing the melted rubber from the dial, the case was much easier to get to. A run through the ultrasonic cleaner and it was as good as new.
Once done with the annoying, messy, and time-consuming task of the gasket clean up, I finally got to the movement. From the second I received this watch I knew that the movement was perfect. Valjouxs are easily the most reliable mass-used vintage chronograph movement. This Caliber 7736 was no exception. A full wind and a ride on the Timegrapher (a machine, or actually a fancy microphone, to check the time-keeping accuracy) indicated that this piece was maintained with care and was in pristine, like-new condition. The gasket melt, although treacherous on the dial, must have helped to form a hermetic seal that prevented even a speck of dust from getting in to the movement.
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It very well may be exceptionally annoying to have all these in your home without you notwithstanding thinking about it. In any case, quiet down. You could discover a fix to the septic framework exhaust that trouble and damage you once you take a gander at the main driver. If you are experiencing one of these septic problems, it's best to turn to a Septic Service Near Me to take care of your septic.
Solid concrete pavers are made by pouring a blend of concrete and some sort of shading specialist into a form of some shape and permitting it to set. Solid pavers offer some advantageous highlights for your open-air flooring needs, including the simple establishment and the capacity to expel and reinstall the pavers if essential. Pavers additionally called clearing stones, are laid to make an interlocking example to your particular structure and shaping demand. Solid pavers are utilized frequently for carports, pool decks, walkways, and porches. In contrast to solid, pavers require some ordinary upkeep, including weed pulling. On the off chance that you are searching for a top of the line enhancing look without paying top of the line costs, at that point, solid pavers are for you. They are so solid and flexible that you won't have to substitute them for a long time.
Pavers are an extraordinary method to transform a flat or chaotic yard into a progressively appealing and sorted out space in which to invest your energy. Solid pavers contain sand, rock, Portland bond, and water, however their toughness and surface shift contingent upon how they're made. There are two sorts of solid pavers: interlocking and structural chunk. Interlocking pavers are made with a firm, solid blend. They are additionally thick, settling on them a decent decision for carports.
Engineering chunks don't have edge spacers as interlocking pavers do. Or maybe, they are molded from wetter cement to look like stone or block. Compositional chunks are slight and are not suggested for carports. Interlocking pavers, as a rule, accompany lifetime ensures, while structural chunks accompany progressively restricted guarantees. Talk about this with your concrete contractor which paver type is best for your task.
Low upkeep: You'll have to clean your pavers now and then with a power washer to get them where it counts soil off. The pavers ought to likewise be resealed as important. The frequency of the resealing will rely upon the traffic the floor gets, just as the climate conditions and measure of presentation to dampness. Moving pavers may likewise be reset. You may likewise need to scour off stains from oil and buildup that can happen after some time.
Cost: Simple plans cost about $6 per square foot. Increasingly convoluted plans can cost up to $20 per square foot. Some concrete contractors will give you a rebate for vast cement paver occupations.
They are made in different surfaces and styles.
Concrete Pavers are down to earth and can even be a do-it-without anyone else's help venture.
Slip opposition: Driveway pavers offer preferable footing over poured concrete, particularly on soak inclines.
Recoloring: Concrete pavers assimilate oil stains, which must be evacuated through cleaning and power washing. Make a point to utilize a sealer on your pavers to help repulse stains.
Shading changes: Over time, the first shade of the pavers will change. Continuously attempt to buy the best quality pavers and have the pavers introduced by an expert.
At the point when the climate's ideal, there's no preferred spot over a yard to appreciate a picnic, to watch the children play, or to engage companions. However, to shield mosquitoes and flies from destroying the fun, you need screened-in dividers. Like a monster screened entryway, a screened yard opens your home to natural air. Done right, a screened yard has a lot of light, charming perspectives, and great ventilation.
Social rooms—kitchens, family rooms, and feasting regions, for instance—confronting the lawn are a perfect area for screened yards. In spite of the fact that a yard with two screened sides gives some cross ventilation, three screened sides work much better. As needs be, attempt to abstain from setting the patio at within corner of an L-molded floor plan. Not exclusively completes an inside corner limit wind stream, however, it likewise can make bothers with a dubious rooftop merger.
Likewise, abstain from covering the patio with a restroom window, and don't cover a room window or room entryway except if the yard is moderately private with restricted access.
You need to attach the patio to the scene, welcoming individuals to utilize both the yard and the terrace. You can make increasingly welcoming stairs by breaking tall stair flights into shorter areas with patios or arrivals and by sprucing up these middle of the road levels with grill flame broils, radiant seating, and pruned plants.
The patio ought to be estimated in extent both to the connecting room(s) and to the general size of the house. A little patio off the great family room of a vast home looks and feels indistinguishable. In like manner, a larger than usual yard connected to a little cottage kitchen appears to be unusual compositionally. Regard the size of the house by utilizing existing eave lines and rooftop shapes. This shields the patio from overpowering the house.
You can push back and get up from a table with as meager as 24 inches between the table and a divider or other furnishings, yet 36 inches or on the other hand more is simpler on your back and shields seats from slamming the dividers. Include in any event another 24 in. on the off chance that the "hurry back" zone is likewise a mobile zone. Plan for serving and capacity, as well. You should need to keep situate pads, candles, and different things underneath a serving counter. Implicit or not, capacity and serving stations need floor space.
Screened yards diminish the measure of light going into contiguous rooms, so the more splendid and loftier you can make the patio, the better. When all is said in done, the more distant the patio broadens far from the house, the higher the roof ought to be. While a level 8-ft.- high roof for a yard just 8 ft (2.44 m). profound may be OK, that equivalent roof for a 14-ft.- the profound yard will appear to be low.
In the event that the connecting rooms have 9-ft. roofs, at that point shoot for something like a level 9-ft. roof for the yard, or vault the roof for additional airiness. Generally speaking, don't expand the roof tallness by setting the yard floor underneath that of the inside rooms. A persistent floor plane past the limit makes decent visual coherence. Likewise, intruding on that plane with a code-required landing and steps bites up significant floor space, limits portability, and welcomes mishaps. In the event that you can't get a tall roof, you can utilize a few systems to help sunlight in the screened yard.
When you pick screening, you have to adjust your longing for straightforwardness with your requirement for solidness. Standard fiberglass screen is easy, simple to introduce, and sufficiently adaptable to remain rigid when extended without imprinting or wrinkling. Aluminum screening costs more yet outwardly is progressively straightforward. Be that as it may, it is inclined to oxidation and imprints effectively—pets and children can make aluminum screening look awful in a rush. When it comes to picking the right screen for your Screened In Porch, do your research to be sure that the type of material you want.
Customarily, screen mounting is finished by extending and stapling moved screening over openings confined in the divider and after that concealing the staples with secures. Be that as it may, getting screens tight can be testing. I let a window-screen organization make custom boards fit surrounded divider openings. Sandwiching slight aluminum outlines between a fixed stop outwardly and a removable one inside makes for a completed look that is effectively replaceable whenever harmed.
Uncovering the rafters and the underside of the rooftop deck loans an easygoing, once in a while rural, feeling to space. It additionally builds the tallness of the room. Spend lavishly on tongue-and-furrow wood decking, or utilize two layers of compressed wood thick enough to conceal staples and nails. Put the alluring face descending. Raised yards require a code-endorsed hindrance for the last 3 ft (0.91 m). of the divider. Structure the hindrance into the divider/screen get together with the goal that it doesn't resemble a bit of hindsight. A fortified guardrail additionally secures the screening, something you should need to incorporate paying little respect to drop-off stature in the event that you have children or pets.
Screened yards make pleasant, protected open-air space, yet they decrease the measure of light in abutting rooms. Low roofs square lighter than vaulted roofs. In northern atmospheres, you may see lost sun-powered increase in winter too. Include bay windows in the event that you can't vault the roof, and particularly if it's lower than the roof of the bordering room. Bay windows help the measure of sunshine to the screened yard and ricochet all the more light into the house. Lighter paint hues, wood tones, and light-shaded floors likewise help to mirror extra light inside.
Include windows and entryways where you can to build the glass region, outwardly growing the inside space. They likewise take into consideration great wind stream and, set appropriately, give advantageous traffic stream.
Traffic designs are basic when arranging entryway areas and furniture format. Make an immediate course between the kitchen and the open air eating territory with the goal that individuals aren't compelled to stroll through the cook's work region. Likewise, maintain a strategic distance from traffic designs through a family room discussion gathering or before the TV. On the patio, the house entryway and the screened entryway ought to detach the traffic zone to the other side or a corner, expanding floor zone for furniture and holding the yard estimate in line.
The screened-yard entryway should open onto a serenely measured landing region. You would prefer not to waver on the top advance as you open and close the entryway.
There are a number of benefits why we should always consider doing regular septic pumping. But many people do not know exactly how long we should pump and clean up our septic tanks. It is proposed that if your septic tank is small, you need to pump it on a monthly basis. However, if it is a much large septic tank, you need to pump it once every three to four years. You may hear different recommendations from septic service providers, but they are all very similar recommendations. If you don't know what size your tank is, you can have a professional come out and take a look at your tank. That would almost be better so you know your tank size and when you need your next septic pumping. This doesn't mean you must pump your tank when the professional tells you, but I definitely wouldn't let it go or just do it whenever you feel like checking if there are any crevices. We may talk about regular pumping and give a timeline for doing that, but it is also important to understand the basic advantages of doing it.
Hygiene is very important around our houses and even for our well-being as well. With that idea in mind, just consider asking for septic tank pumping regularly, so that you can be able to achieve good hygiene within and around your house. In most of the reported cases of cholera and other illnesses, the basis of it is the fact that the septic tanks weren't maintained correctly or frequent enough and illnesses resulted. If you do a regular septic pumping and follow it with treatment as advised by septic service providers, you will always be safe from such illnesses.
Sometimes when we pump our septic tanks, we are simply disposing of wastes sparingly. On the other hand, septic maintenance calls for the need to pump when the garbage deposited is still small in terms of quantity. This is the right thing to do because sometimes pumping full septic may not be an easy thing as it will require a lot of energy and powerful machines. This could cost you a fortune especially when there are huge amounts of solid wastes disposed of it.
Sometimes, the amount of water we release into our septic tanks becomes too much to a point where solids within it may not have space. This results in needing Septic Tank Pumping or a septic problem will be expected. It is important to do septic pumping even if it means using a sieve so that solid wastes can still remain. With that idea in mind, it is very important to consider septic maintenance that removes excess water from the reservoir.
Keep your septic systems running smoothly with regular maintenance. Don't skip or miss appointments. It will reduce your maintenance cost in the long run and keep your system running smoothly while increasing the shelf life you will get from it.


I can usually gauge the completeness of an album by how and when I listen to it. Example: I have some records that I have to stay close to while listening because I know there will be a point when I will have to skip a song or switch out albums. The best test for how well I like an album is – Does it make a good house-cleaning soundtrack? I listen to all of my favorite music while cleaning (I guess it's my 7 dwarfs "Whistle While You Work" thing I got going on). In our household I have made the floors my personal responsibility. You can't ignore the dust and dirt on hardwood or tiled floors like you can with carpet. Trust.
One of my favorite, favorite records for cleaning is the criminally slept on second release by JVC FORCE. There are several recognizable samples and beats on the album that keep my head bobbing and my body moving while I attack those dust bunnies. But it's not just that. It's that 80's rap cadence that's easily understood and compliments the music that makes this album a record crate keeper.
There's a mix of styles on this album that keep it fresh (cuz it's easy to get into a musical funk when everything sounds the same…reason I can't listen to radio programming). They got the ragga style, that steppin'-to-the-90′s-style, and even a hip-house joint (which is usually on while I'm mopping the bathroom…the only "eh" track on the album). There's even a track where they sample their own classic banger, "Strong Island".
If you get a chance, check these guys out…they deserve a bigger audience. I found this nice Unkut Guide to J.V.C. FORCE, kind of an everything-you'd-like-to-know about them interview.
It's too bad these dudes never got their proper shine (unlike my floors), but if you're ever over at the house enjoying the clean hardwoods and tiles…chances are they got that Mr. Clean sparkle to the beats by J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E.
The J.V.C Force came out just before I went to the army in 1988 and found their cassette in Lawton,Ok and fell in love with them,but they are a victim of the music industry executives and fans that don't anything about TRUE Hip-Hop…etc(Black,Rock&Ron)This new stuff don't even compare to the True Old Skool believe that!


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This Is The Street Legal, 986-HP McLaren P1 LM And It's Glorious
by Jay Traugott Reveal / Comments
Like the P1 GTR, only you can go shopping with it.
Only 24 examples of the McLaren P1 GTR were built by McLaren Special Operations (MSO). Turns out a few of their owners had one problem with the 986 hp track-only hypercar: it was track-only. Why not find a way to convert it into a street-legal errand-runner? When you've got the dough, you've got the connections. Enter Lanzante Motorsport, who won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans with its F1 GTR. After winning that endurance race, Lanzante built five street legal versions plus a prototype.
Those P1 GTR owners got in touch with the right people, and thanks to Road and Track, here are some official pictures and details just ahead of the car's debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Here's what's known about it: the P1 LM still has 986 hp coming from the same twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 and its hybrid setup. Its engine bay features gold-plated heat shielding while the catalytic convertor pipes and exhaust headers are made of a "super-alloy" called Inconel, saving 10 pounds. All told, the P1 LM is 132 pounds lighter than the GTR due to the removal of various racing parts. The body itself is largely carried over from the GTR. However, the large rear wing has been modified in order to boost aerodynamics.
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There's also an improved front splitter that helps to improve downforce by 40 percent. The interior, not surprisingly, is smothered in exposed carbon fiber, specifically the dashboard, headliner, center console, floor mats, seat backs and instrument cowl. To keep driver's comfortable, Lanzante evens added an air conditioning system. Also ridiculously cool is the steering wheel, which is covered in Alcantara and unique to the P1 LM. It's essentially a modified version of what Lewis Hamilton used in the championship winning McLaren MP4/23. A few other accessories owners will appreciate include a full tool kit that includes a torque wrench and wheel socket plus diagnostics tablet.
There's also a unique car cover and battery charging system. Heck, owners will even get a 1:8 scale model of the car as well as a framed rendering. The price? Unannounced. But if you have to ask then surely you couldn't afford it anyway.
Source Credits: www.roadandtrack.com
Tags: #McLaren #Design #Goodwood Festival of Speed #Motorsport #Reveal #Special Editions #Supercars
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This wet food line has been specially developed for dogs that only tolerate one source of protein in their dietary physiology, are to be fed gluten-free and with a particularly high reduction in starch. In this recipe, the high starch content of potatoes was kept as low as possible. The meat content is 90%. A lot of starch leads to high blood sugar levels, which in turn is a risk factor for allergies, skin diseases and inflammations. This strain is 100% cereal and gluten-free, making it ideal for dogs with allergies and feed intolerances, but also recommended for dogs with diabetes mellitus, inflammatory pancreas and joint diseases such as arthrosis or HD and epilepsy. Of course, you can also feed it to your dog if he is not intolerant. You can alternate all menus by Meat Love regularly, so the feeding is particularly balanced. This wet food menu is a complete food for dogs. However, you can refine it at any time with the pure natural salmon oil and the high-quality herbal mixture of Meat Love (also available in our assortment).
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Included in the collection His Last Bow.
ss Cushing? We may take it that the sender of the packet is the man whom we want. But he must have some strong reason for sending Miss Cushing this packet. What reason then? It must have been to tell her that the deed was done! or to pain her, perhaps. But in that case she knows who it is. Does she know? I doubt it. If she knew, why should she call the police in? She might have buried the ears, and no one would have been the wiser. That is what she would have done if she had wished to shield the criminal. But if she does not wish to shield him she would give his name. There is a tangle here which needs straightening to." He had been talking in a high, quick voice, staring blankly up over the garden fence, but now he sprang briskly to his feet and walked towards the house.
"I have a few questions to ask Miss Cushing," said he.
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