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Doublejump Reviews Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble
Zack Goutzoulas·4 min read
Advanced warfare, unfortunately held back
At its core, TINY METAL: FULL METAL RUMBLE (herein referred to as Tiny Metal) is a throwback to the real-time strategy genre's golden years. AREA 35's military strategy game sees players managing an army of infantry and vehicular units to complete specific tasks and challenges, from defeating all of their enemies to capturing the enemy headquarters. It does have some pacing issues, which is a major drawback considering the genre, but anyone who enjoyed such franchises as Advance Wars and Command & Conquer is sure to get a nice nostalgia fix from Tiny Metal.
Tiny Metal offers two single-player modes: a Campaign that follows three different military commanders, and a Skirmish mode that puts your skills to the test in a series of challenging missions. There's more than 100 maps and challenges to play through, although Skirmish levels must be unlocked first, either by using currency that you earn after each battle or simply by finding them on the Campaign map. There's also an online multiplayer mode that puts you into a free-for-all battle against other players from around the world.
Each mission across both game modes offers a set of optional bonus objectives that offer some extra gold, extra replayability as you try to complete them all, and a greater challenge than simply completing the map. The challenges range from completing the mission without losing a single unit, to doing so having only used a specific type of unit, and everything in between. Although I didn't find them to be all that compelling or necessary, it's easy to see where those seeking a greater challenge – or just some different ways to complete the same missions – would enjoy them.
Tiny Metal isn't all that difficult, especially since the large variety of units on offer makes it easy to tailor your strategies to the situation at hand. Resource management is crucial, though – there were numerous occasions where I failed to plan for my units' limited ammunition and fuel and, although I never felt like I was in danger of losing a battle because of it, it did make missions take much longer to complete than if I'd planned for them properly. The bonus objectives also require a far more intricate strategy, but they still weren't difficult enough to hold up my progress for too long.
As far as presentation is concerned, Tiny Metal is pleasant enough to look at – if a little simple. The terrain, the units on top of it, and the world map all have a very clean, almost-untextured feel to them with a focus on vibrant colours, which makes it very easy to distinguish between your units and your enemy's but also leaves everything looking somewhat similar. It's quite clear that AREA 35 borrowed some cues from the much-loved Wars series when it comes to Tiny Metal's visual feel, and that's a very welcome influence, but it can also look somewhat muddied and unpolished at times considering the game's more modern style.
The character portraits that appear during dialogue are very nicely drawn, as well, conveying each character's unique personality very effectively. It would, however, have been nice if they emoted more as the dialogue played out; aside from basic lip flaps and ever-so-slight changes to their facial expressions, the portraits don't change at all, which can leave the dialogue feeling stiff and repetitious – especially given just how much of it there is. A little more animation and expression in these portraits would go a long way towards alleviating the dialogue's repetitive, sometimes boring nature.
The biggest concern that I had with Tiny Metal is that it can become unnecessarily tedious at times. The loading screens can take up to 30 seconds – on a rather new Nintendo Switch, no less – while the cutscenes are somewhat stilted, the world map feels out of place, and the dialogue can drag on. None of these things have a massive impact on the game alone, but all together they serve to significantly slow the pace of a game that should be quick and reactive.
The abundance of dialogue is the most egregious offence; not only are the character portraits rather stiff, but the dialogue is quite often far too long, not to mention poorly translated into English, which left me skipping over huge chunks of dialogue so that I could get to the missions more quickly. Additionally, rather than teaching players how specific units or gameplay elements work through the gameplay itself, the game just presents a wall of text, explaining how the game works. That can become quite exhausting, particularly in chapters that introduced multiple new things.
Despite these pacing issues, Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble's very solid gameplay, the multitude of ways in which you can complete the same mission, and the satisfaction of seeing everything fall into place after you've coordinated your army to take down an enemy make it a great game for those looking for some old-school RTS action.
Tiny Metal is a throwback to some of the great real-time strategy titles of the past, and it's very much worth the low price of admission if you can get past its slight pacing issues.
Zack reviewed TINY METAL: FULL METAL RUMBLE using a Nintendo Switch code provided by AREA 35.
Zack Goutzoulas
Zack is an arts student who pursued games journalism as a way of combining his dream job with his favourite hobby. He loves all things fantasy, from classic swords and sorcery to more modern urban fantasy. Zack's hobbies outside of video games include reading, watching movies, and hunting for free food at university.


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"I Have Offers From Other African Countries" – Sunday Oliseh
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He revealed this while speaking at a session at the Social Media Week in Lagos.
"I must state that within three months of coaching the Super Eagles, I got an offer from a top African nation to become the coach of their national team, but I turned it down," Oliseh said via Skype from his Belgium home.
The under-fire coach also gave himself a pass mark on the national team job thus far, claiming that there have been improvements in their style of play and results since he took charge.
"We have lost just one competitive match in 14. That is an improvement. The team has improved in areas of movement and passing of the ball, so analysts must give fans the correct information because the team has improved in a very short time considering that there are new players in the team too," he added.
However, he didn't miss the opportunity to take a little swipe at the NFF over logistical support ahead of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualification double header against Egypt.
"I asked the technical committee for videos and analysis of Egypt since July. Since then I haven't got it. I am not blaming NFF for anything. We all know the situation in the country right now. However, I must state that there are challenges we are facing,"he disclosed.
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Stanisław Skupień (* 26. April 1907 in Zakopane; † 11. Juli 1983 ebenda) war ein polnischer Skilangläufer.

Skupień, der für den SN PTT Zakopane startete, belegte bei seiner einzigen Teilnahme an Olympischen Winterspielen im Februar 1932 in Lake Placid den 31. Platz über 18 km. Zudem nahm er dort am 50-km-Lauf teil, den er aber vorzeitig beendete. Bei den Nordischen Skiweltmeisterschaften 1933 in Innsbruck errang er den 98. Platz über 18 km und den siebten Rang mit der Staffel und bei den Nordischen Skiweltmeisterschaften 1939 in Zakopane den 62. Platz über 18 km. Bei polnischen Meisterschaften siegte er fünfmal mit der Staffel (1930–1933, 1936).

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True History of the Kelly Gang
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'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'
To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.
Publication date 03 Feb 2011
Publisher Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Edition Statement Main - Re-issue
Bestsellers rank 22,339
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"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false."
In True History of the Kelly Gang," the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist."
"A spectacular feat of imagination."-"The Boston Globe
""Vastly entertaining.... Triumphantly eclectic, as if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James."-"The New York Times
"The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high."-John Updike, "The New Yorker
""Carey succeeds in creating an account that not only feels authentic but also passes as a serious novel and solid, old-fashioned 'entertainment.' A big, meaty novel, blending Dickens and Cormac McCarthy with a distinctly
Australian strain of melancholy."-"San Francisco Chronicle
"Abravura performance.... Rewards the persistent reader with a powerful emotional experience."-"The Wall Street Journal
""Carey's pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva."-"Los Angeles Times
"The power and charm of [this book] arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly...."-"Time
"So adroit that you never doubt it's Kelly's own words you're reading in the headlong, action-packed story."-"Newsweek
"This novel is worth our best attention."-"The" "Washington Post Book World
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"Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos . . . contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel." -"TheNew York Times Book Review"
"The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high." -John Updike, "The New Yorker
"Carey's pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva." -"Los Angeles Times
About Peter Carey
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years.
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Q: Работа с json google maps Есть вот такой ответ json https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=59.926353,30.316785&language=ru
Так как на разные координаты приходят разные ответы,(поменяны местами,на какую то локацию больше информации на какую то меньше) необходимо обращаться к типу
            {
               "long_name" : "13",
               "short_name" : "13",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            }

В данной ситуации все просто
for(i=0;i<=countjson;i++)
          {
              if(data.results[0].address_components[i].types=='street_number')
                  {alert(data.results[0].address_components[i].long_name) }
          }

Но как быть в такой ситуации
{
               "long_name" : "Санкт-Петербург",
               "short_name" : "СПБ",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            }

мне нужно только к 1 типу обратиться,к locality например.
А так же как лучше поступить мне нужно получить страну,город,район,улицу , но ответы всегда разные приходят,как быть? На одни координаты нужное мне  в первом результате во втором  в 0

A: Делал нечто подобное. Там все просто. Разберешься.
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На сколько я помню в каждом приходящем json есть именно тот ответ, который и нужно использовать при парсинге.

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Electric Ireland Announce Second Price Rise In Three Months
Electric Ireland customers are to see another rise in their gas and electricity prices. The supplier...
3:13 PM - 1 Jul 2022
Electric Ireland customers are to see another rise in their gas and electricity prices.
The supplier is increasing the unit price of its electricity by 11.35% and gas by 31.9% from August 1st.
It announced earlier this year that from May 1st, average electricity bills will go up by 23.4%, while gas bills will increase by 24.8%.
The price increase will impact around 1.1 million electricity customers and 145,000 gas customers.
It comes on the same day that Eurostat says inflation in Ireland is estimated to be at 9.6%.
Price comparison site bonkers.ie says this will add around €165 a year to the average customer's electricity bill, and €312 to a gas bill.
Electric Ireland last increased its prices in May, in a move that added around €298 a year to the average customer's electricity bill and €220 to their gas bill.
Daragh Cassidy is head of communications at bonkers.ie
"Today's news was expected unfortunately - and given Electric Ireland's size, it will be felt badly by many households nationwide.
"We're heading into next winter with gas and electricity prices at absolutely astronomical levels. And it might even get worse."
He believes more price hikes from all other suppliers are likely to follow - while further increases from Electric Ireland can't be ruled out.
"Since October 2020, when prices began to rise, some suppliers have more than doubled their energy prices. We're in a crisis.
"Despite these increases, Electric Ireland's prices are still among the most competitive - if you could even use that word.
"Despite the rising prices, there is still competition among energy suppliers in Ireland for new customers right now and many are offering big discounts of over 40% for a year to those who switch."
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This is the conversation I just had with my three-year-old, M, while I was putting her to bed.
Daddy: Give me a hug before you fall asleep.
A big hug is dispensed.
Daddy: You're my sweet girl.
M: You're my sweet girl, too, Daddy.
I'm headed to You Lost Me Live this morning. There's still room if you'd like to join us. It's only ten bucks and it's at the Imago Dei campus.
The Sword of Six Worlds print edition will be arriving shortly, just in time for Christmas! So for those of you without the ability to buy e-books, hang in there! Your time is coming!
Also, there have been two reviews recently about the book, one from J.R. Forasteros and another from Star the Bibliophile, both really great reviewers who loved the book.
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Funny 2012 Election bumper stickers. These are equal opportunity offenders, people.
You may find it interesting to read up on the history of women's suffrage in the United States!
Here's an update on the Halloween service at Liverpool Cathedral. Looks like it was really cool! I think we should all go next year. Who's in?
I'm preaching at Village this weekend in the chapel service on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. I'll be teaching out of the text in Jeremiah 12.
If you're in the Portland area and would like to come, we'd love to see you!
For those who don't know the text, it's about "running with horses." If you've grown tired running with men, how will you race against horses?
I know it's your day off and everything, but please try to be responsible and don't hike on the mastadon.
This video is from my dear friends Page CXVI and is full of many friends and people I love. Enjoy!
I'm working on a new novel, which I'd like to get mostly finished this month. I can't share much about it yet, other than to say I'm targeting about 65,000 words, but that's ballpark. I've got a big chunk done already, but largely because I worked on it a while back and am picking up where I left off.
17621 / 65000 words. 27% done!
Okay, back to work on the book! I'm in the middle of a particularly enjoyable scene, where some stuff happens to some people and there is tension over a thing.
This is the jack o'lantern I made for Halloween.
Okay, if you missed it yesterday, I shared a little post over at Out of Ur, the Leadership Journal blog. The post is about how we should react to "controversial" books in the Christian community, the most recent example being Rachel Held Evans's book, "The Year of Biblical Womanhood."
Here are the TOP! FIVE! POSTS! here at BHR this last month.
Number one is this post about Vampire in the Church Choir, the free short story to celebrate the anniversary of Night of the Living Dead Christian!
Second was this post about my new Snow Machine.
Coming in at number three is this beautiful moment when Romney and Obama sang "Hot and Cold" together. It made me cry to see them setting aside politics to sing together.
Personality tests! Everyone loves them. Especially when it's a personality test that tells you what kind of monster you are.
Fifth was my sweet daughter and what she said to me about how God and the Power Rangers are watching over us.


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Hundreds of Riviera Beach demonstrators march in solidarity
"I can't breathe."
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WAKISHA: THIS IS A VIGIL. NOT A PROTEST. >> TODAY IS ABOUT REVERENCE. IT'S ABOUT INTENTIONALITY. IT'S ABOUT HAVING A CONVERSATION. WAKISHA: LADI MARCH-GOLDWIRE HELPED TO ORGANIZE TODAY'S MARCH THAT STARTED AT RIVIERA BEACH CITY HALL. THERE WAS ONE COMMON EMOTION AMONGST THE DEMONSTRATOR >> WE ARE EXHAUSTED WITH ASKING FOR PERMISSION TO EXIST. >> I'M TIRED. AND AT SOME POINT, SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE. WAKISHA: HUNDREDS OF RESIDENTS, MOSTLY FROM THE WEST SIDE OF RIVIERA BEACH, CLOSED DOWN BLUE HERON BOULEVARD CHANTING. >> ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WAKISHA: THE GROUP WALKED MORE THAN TWO MILES, THEN UP THE BRIDGE AND OVER INTO SINGER ISLAND, AS SYMBOL TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST SIDE OF RIVIERA BEACH. FRONT AND CENTER, A RIVIERA BEACH POLICE OFFICER LOCKED ARMS WITH DEMONSTRATORS AS THEY CONTINUED ON IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEAR >> THE ONLY THING THAT HAS MOVED AMERICA TO MAKE CHANGE IS PROTES WHEN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN, WOMEN, BOYS, CHILDREN, REMAIN THE HASHTAG OF THE WEEK, SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABO
Hundreds of Riviera Beach residents marched from city hall to Singer Island on Sunday afternoon in protest against police brutality. Ladi Mi March-Goldwire helped to organize the peaceful demonstration."We want to look at our black boys when we send them outside and have them understand and have some confidence that they can go out and not be afraid that they are not to be isolated and at the center of any unfair treatment," March-Goldwire said. The group walked more than two miles down Blue Heron Boulevard, then over the bridge into Singer Island. March-Goldwire said she wants to bridge the gap between the east and west side of Riviera Beach. Front and center of the march was a police officer who locked arms with demonstrators as they continued on in an effort to make their voices heard.
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. —
Hundreds of Riviera Beach residents marched from city hall to Singer Island on Sunday afternoon in protest against police brutality.
Ladi Mi March-Goldwire helped to organize the peaceful demonstration.
"We want to look at our black boys when we send them outside and have them understand and have some confidence that they can go out and not be afraid that they are not to be isolated and at the center of any unfair treatment," March-Goldwire said.
The group walked more than two miles down Blue Heron Boulevard, then over the bridge into Singer Island. March-Goldwire said she wants to bridge the gap between the east and west side of Riviera Beach.
Front and center of the march was a police officer who locked arms with demonstrators as they continued on in an effort to make their voices heard.


Midtown Plaza became an expert on all things fashion, in much the same way as a fashion magazine, or blogger —helping customers to understand and interpret trends, to keep in step with seasonal colours, silhouettes and even, to shop.
The brand had become stagnated and it wasn't correctly positioned for a mall with a retail mix focused primarily on fashion. As a result of this 'small-town' marketing there was very little interest from big fashion brands to set up shop.
CBF re-positioned Midtown Plaza from their role as a point of purchase for fashion – to a personal fashion advisor.
We executed this in various exciting ways that met shoppers at every customer touchpoint. We drew inspiration from the 6 Pantone colours for the season, and produced 6 spring looks.The 6 colours, printed in larger than life billboards and in-centre collateral, created a rainbow effect in the city and drew a record number of new visitors to the mall. We partnered with Saskatoon Fashion & Design Festival and hosted the first "In Fashion" fashion advisory show.
Working alongside the management team of Midtown Plaza, we produced a strategic and beautiful leasing package aimed at high-end retailers to set up shop in Saskatoon. We focused on drawing in retailers like Michael Kors, Aritzia, Victoria Secret and Ann Taylor.
Daisy Lieu // Formed Marketing Director, Midtown Plaza.
CBF | Branding & Advertising has a team of professionals experienced in corporate branding and advertising in Saskatoon, SK.
You've probably heard about "branding" or "building your brand" referenced by an advertising agency. You may have steps in place for marketing your brand online, on social media platforms, and the overall look and feel of your physical offices. There are several agencies in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan that can assist with creative branding techniques, but Create by Faith is the company to choose if you want an advertising agency that will provide creative storytelling for your brand. You may see celebrities in the news creating individual brands. Many savvy business professionals may be a little lost when it comes to creating a brand identity. What makes a strong brand identity, and why is it important for you, the small business owner, to cultivate and represent your brand? Let's examine the importance of a small business branding themselves uniquely.
Good branding is memorable – think of the Golden Arches, a white apple with a bite out of it, or a polar bear holding a glass cola bottle. Can you name the brands? If so, that's due to the hard work of an advertising agency in marketing memorable logos and associations for McDonald's, Apple, and Coca-Cola. Creative branding sets your small business apart from others in the Saskatoon area.
Good branding promotes trust: it should make people feel at ease and be confident that your brand is the right choice. Know your audience and understand what would make them feel most comfortable in trusting you.
Finally, good branding is flexible – it can change with the times, yet still, retain the identifiable character.
What is your Brand Essence?
Brand essence is the style or unique voice of your brand respective to the product or service you are selling. For example, is it masculine or feminine? Natural or man-made? Trendy or traditional?
As a small business owner, you may find that a lot of your own personality is imbued with the character of your business. Building your brand around your own personal style and perspective gives an authenticity to your small business and the way that it is branded and represented across all your marketing strategies. A good advertising agency will be able to help you incorporate your own style and values into your brand presentation.
Even the way you communicate as a representative of your small business brand should be consistent. Using the same colors, fonts, and language across emails, physical signs, and other verbiage will help cement the brand in the mind of your Saskatchewan customers. Ensure that your social media pages all showcase the same logo as the profile picture so that your brand is easily recognizable and you are presenting a unified look.
Having a discernable presence on social media is important. Engage your friends, fans, and followers with vibrant social media postings that align with your brand's personality and values. Branding online is more important than ever, as individuals associate themselves with brands as part of their own online persona. Relax and have a little fun with your marketing on social media, which is one of the best ways to personalize your brand. But, always be sure that your posts and topics are centered on your clients.
Branding your small business doesn't have to be difficult. With the creative advertising agency Create by Faith located here in Saskatoon, you can ensure that your small business stands out from the rest with personality and excitement.


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Capture your business plan
Past entrants say the entry process made them critically evaluate their business and consider their future plans. Past entries have become working business plans that are still referred to today.
Exposure for your business
All businesses who enter the Awards gain valuable exposure, including coverage in the Chamber's Commerce Comment magazine. Entrants also benefit from media coverage in the lead up to the Awards evening, and a profile in the Awards programme on the night. It's also a great way of recognising your team's achievements.
Award winner benefits
Winners will receive a trophy and prize for their category, as well as coverage in the Chamber's communication channels and follow up media. Previous award winners regularly talk about how entering the Awards helped boost their profile.
Feedback from judges
Every entrant will receive feedback from the judges on their entry. Winner or not, entering the Awards provides a great opportunity to gain valuable feedback on how your business is performing.
"Getting down on paper what's been in our minds for the business has provided real clarity for our business goals, and we would encourage anyone thinking about entering to do it. Just make the time early and it will be a worthwhile exercise."
Eva Maureau, Abel Tasman Canyons, Supreme Business Winner 2017
"Highly recommend entering the Chamber Business Awards. A great chance to take a deep look at your business. The team are so friendly and helpful and put on a stunning Awards night. Winning the Datcom Innovation Award 2017 is very exciting for me at Heke Homemade Herbals. Thank you!!!"
Emma Heke, Heke Homemade Herbals, Datacom Innovation Award winner 2017
"Thanks to you and your team for a great event – everyone was a winner! I hope I managed to encourage a few more entrants next year, particularly amongst the established businesses. I personally think it beneficial to enter each decade as businesses have evolved and new staff are on-board. Things flowed very well, crisp organisation and the venue size was a major part of that success."
Darryl Wilson, Wilsons Abel Tasman, NZKS Large Business Winner 2017
"The benefits to winning the supreme award have been ongoing for MyTax. It has given us increased credibility around the country, particularly when establishing new business relationships. The best thing to come out of the awards was the acknowledgement our staff received – even today our team is still proud that all their hard work was recognised in such an amazing way."
2016 Supreme and Large Business Award Winner Lester Binns, CEO MyTax
"There's no doubt the recognition we received from our industry peers and the local business community was immensely valuable, but the exercise of building and compiling our award entry in a collaborative process with our staff had the most enduring value for the continuing improvement of our business."
Former Supreme Award Winner Justin Hall of Redwood Cellars
"Entering the Chamber of Commerce business awards as a start-up business really helped us solidify our vision and reassess our goals. It was a huge process that has given us a resource that we still use today. The icing on the cake was taking away the award – which was such a boost after just one year in business."
2016 Start Up Award winner Kymberly Widley, Director Cod & Lobster Brasserie
"The award entry itself ended up becoming an important tool in our business. Not only has it helped us plan for the future but it's used to show new staff where MyTax has come from and what we are about."
Former Supreme and Large Business Award winner Lester Binns, CEO MyTax.


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Lagom has support for Cassandra as data store, both for the write-side entities and the read-side queries. It is a very scalable distributed database, and also flexible enough to support most of the use cases that reactive services may have.
We need to transform the events generated by the Persistent Entities into database tables that can be queried as illustrated in the previous section. For that we will use the CassandraReadSideProcessor. It will Consume events produced by persistent entities and update one or more tables in Cassandra that are optimized for queries.
To make the events available for read-side processing the events must implement the aggregateTag method of the AggregateEvent interface to define which events belong together. Typically you define this aggregateTag on the top level event type of a PersistentEntity class.
In the service implementation you need to inject the CassandraReadSide and at startup (in the constructor) register the class that implements the CassandraReadSideProcessor. This will make sure that one instance of the processor is always running on one of the nodes in the cluster of the service.
Define the AggregateEventTag in the method aggregateTag of the processor. The tag defines which events to process. You should return the same constant value as in the events.
You must tell where in the event stream the processing should start. This is the primary purpose of the prepare method. Each event is associated with a unique offset, a time based UUID. The offset is a parameter to the event handler for each event and it should typically be stored so that it can be retrieved with a select statement in the prepare method. Use the CassandraSession to get the stored offset.
Return noOffset() if you want to processes all events, e.g. when starting the first time or if the number of events are known to be small enough to processes all events.
Typically prepare is also used to create prepared statements that are later used when processing the events. Use CassandraSession.prepare to create the prepared statements.
The events are processed by event handlers that are defined in the method defineEventHandlers. One handler for each event class.
A handler is a BiFunction that takes the event and the offset as parameters and returns zero or more bound statements that will be executed before processing next event.
In this example we add one row to the blogsummary table and update the current offset in the blogevent_offset table for each PostAdded event. Other event types are ignored.
Note how the prepared statements that were initialized in the prepare method are used here.
You can keep state in variables of the enclosing class and update that state safely from the event handlers. The events are processed sequentially, one at a time. An example of such state could be values for calculating a moving average.
If there is a failure when executing the statements the processor will be restarted after a backoff delay. This delay is increased exponentially in case of repeated failures.
There is another tool that can be used if you want to do something else with the events than updating tables in Cassandra. You can get a stream of the persistent events with the eventStream method of the PersistentEntityRegistry.
Each such stream of events will continuously generate queries to Cassandra to fetch new events and therefore this tool should be used carefully. Do not run too many such streams. It should typically not be used for service calls invoked by unknown number of clients, but it can be useful for a limited number of background processing jobs.
# cluster-id as the service name.
# from configuration instead of using the ServiceLocator.
# and Config parameter. The config parameter is the enclosing config section.
# replication strategy to use when creating keyspace.
# Replication factor to use when creating keyspace.
# Is only used when replication-strategy is SimpleStrategy.
# Replication factor list for data centers, e.g. ["dc1:3", "dc2:2"].
# Is only used when replication-strategy is NetworkTopologyStrategy.
# To limit the Cassandra hosts that it connects to a specific datacenter.
# The id for the local datacenter of the Cassandra hosts it should connect to.
# By default, this property is not set resulting in Datastax's standard round robin policy being used.
# To connect to the Cassandra hosts with credentials.
# Authentication is disabled if username is not configured.
# SSL can be configured with the following properties.
# SSL is disabled if the truststore is not configured.
# Set the protocol version explicitly, should only be used for compatibility testing.
Each CassandraReadSideProcessor instance is executed by an Actor that is managed by Akka Cluster Singleton. The processor consumes a stream of persistent events delivered by the eventsByTag Persistence Query implemented by akka-persistence-cassandra. The tag corresponds to the tag defined by the AggregateEventTag.


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Geraniums and Pests
By: Michelle Wishhart
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Small in size and big in color, geraniums (Pelargonium spp.) are cheery flowers that are generally low-maintenance and trouble-free. Like other garden plants, geraniums sometimes fall prey to insect pests that mar their beauty and lead to a decline in overall health. Telltale symptoms of insect damage include holes in leaves, flowers and buds, failure to flower, distorted leaves or a sticky black residue. Although insects may feast on them, deer usually leave geraniums alone.
Geraniums are sometimes plagued by the larvae of moths, sometimes called worms or caterpillars. Tobacco budworms, also known as geranium budworms, feed on geranium buds, preventing them from blooming. Budworms may also eat flower petals. Other foliage-feeding larvae include cabbage loopers, variegated cutworms, beet armyworms, obliquebanded leafrollers and omnivorous leaftiers. Other garden pests that may feed on geraniums include whiteflies, small flying white or green insects; aphids, crawling, sap sucking insects; mealybugs, downy, cottony insects; weevils, dark-colored bugs; spider mites, tiny, reddish, spiderlike insects; thrips, thin, winged insects; and cottony cushion scale, soft, lumpy masses.
Organic Solutions
Pick off larger insects, such as weevils and caterpillars, by hand and squish them or drown them in a bucket of soapy water. The most effective way to combat tobacco budworms is to hand pick them, advises Colorado State University Extension. Tobacco budworms are easiest to find at dusk, when they are the most active. Look for yellowish green, pinkish or maroon caterpillars speckled with tiny black spines. If you're overwintering geraniums indoors, repot in spring with new potting soil, as the larvae can overwinter in the soil. Remove nearby weeds, which can harbor caterpillars and thrips. A direct stream of water may help dislodge colonies of sap-sucking pests, including mealybugs and aphids.
Geraniums are sometimes plagued by the larvae of moths, sometimes called worms or caterpillars.
Pick off larger insects, such as weevils and caterpillars, by hand and squish them or drown them in a bucket of soapy water.
Chemical Controls
An insecticide containing spinosad may help control caterpillars and thrips, though because it's toxic to bees and other beneficial insects, use it only on geraniums that are not flowering. Thoroughly mix 16 ounces of spinosad in 1 pint of water, pour the solution into a garden sprayer and spray the plant evenly on both sides of the leaves until the mixture runs off the leaves. Store any leftover insecticide in a secure spot away from children and pets. Spinosad is combustible: do not store it near heat or open flame. Do not pour the mixture down the drain, as this product is toxic to aquatic invertebrates. For sap-sucking pests, such as spider mites, scale insects, whiteflies and aphids, thoroughly mix 2 to 4 tablespoons of neem oil in 1 gallon of water, pour it into a garden sprayer and spray the entire geranium until the plant is wet. Spray every seven to 14 days, until pest infestations have disappeared. Do not apply while bees are actively visiting the plant. Wear eye protection, gloves and long sleeves when using neem oil. For any insecticide, always follow the safety instructions on the label.
An insecticide containing spinosad may help control caterpillars and thrips, though because it's toxic to bees and other beneficial insects, use it only on geraniums that are not flowering.
Preventing Pest Problems
Healthy, stress-free plants planted in the right conditions are less likely to succumb to pest infestations. Plant your geraniums in a bright, sunny spot with well-draining soil. Spider mites tend to attack dry, water-stressed plants, so water regularly to keep the soil moist, but not waterlogged or flooded. Avoid using insecticides in your garden, as it kills the insect predators that otherwise naturally take care of scale insects and other pest infestations. Fertilize weekly with 2 teaspoons of a 20-20-20 water-soluble fertilizer mixed in 1 gallon of water. Geraniums grow outdoors year-round in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11, but are usually treated as annuals.
The Vernon Nursery: Geranium Pests, Diseases and Other Problems
Washington State University Spokane County Extension: Geraniums
Floridata: Pelargonium x Hortorum
UC Statewide IPM Online: Geranium
University of Florida Entomology and Nematology Department: Featured Creatures: Tobacco Budworm
Michelle Wishhart is a writer based in Portland, Ore. She has been writing professionally since 2005, starting with her position as a staff arts writer for City on a Hill Press, an alternative weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz, Calif. An avid gardener, Wishhart worked as a Wholesale Nursery Grower at Encinal Nursery for two years. Wishhart holds a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts and English literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.


will no longer result in B being blacklisted with it.
base anyway, so it shouldn't matter.
including a reason why a module hasn't been loaded.
modalias to prevent all matching modules from being loaded.
This should make rc.conf blacklisting way more intuitive.
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Tina Gordon Chism Talks Taking Big Risks, Controlling Your Narrative and Crafting Multidimensional Characters
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Tina Gordon Chism, director and screenwriter of the comedy Little, always had a passion for the arts.
Her journey began at the Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and her dream was to become an actress. Once she began going on auditions, she noticed a consistent pattern. Most of the casting directors and people in positions of power in the room had no idea about her world and lacked the cultural acuity for casting talent like her. Gordon discerned early on that if she wanted to see multidimensional characters that reflected a reality she could relate to, she would have to play an active part in writing and creating the reality that she wanted to see.
While a college freshman majoring in English at the University of Virginia, Chism mailed a television script to NBC Studios inspired by The Cosby Show. In a stroke of fate, they called her—to tell her the proper protocol in submitting scripts. By the end of that phone conversation, they invited Chism to come to a taping of the show in New York. Ultimately, she ended up with an internship there.
Take Big Risks, and Don't Be Afraid to Ask for What You Want
Of her inspiration to write for The Cosby Show, Chism states, "I was a teenager and show was probably in its last year. And I said, 'This seems like a great show—the kind of voice that I would want to write for. I'm just going to write it. I'm going to write a TV show, and I'm going to send it to them, and they're going to love it.' They were so curious about why this teenager had sent in this bad script—which I'm positive was bad—and they said, 'Well, if you want to come up here and visit during your spring break, you can.'"
In her naivety, Chism was bold and unafraid to take the risk, and it has paid off. Chism has gone on to produce and write screenplays for movies such as: Drumline (2002), ATL (2006), What Men Want (2019), and Peeples, which she wrote as well as directed. Had she not taken that initial risk, she may have missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime. Her advice? "For young people, I say take big swings. Take obnoxiously big swings, because you have nothing to lose."
Control Your Narrative
Chism explains that there is real power in writing and that having a strong cultural and historical awareness makes a profound impact on how stories are depicted. Her experience working on The Cosby Show had a profound positive effect on her.
"The hidden messages of the show were very deliberate," she says now. "What I learned from that experience was that even all the art on the wall told a story about the culture and history of the people. All the art, the clothes on their backs, the fashion that included the HBCU shirts and hoodies, the black designers, the black musicians—all of that was a part of a strategy and was deliberate. I learned all of that. To this day, I apply these lessons. In Little, which I directed, the items on the wall will tell a story. What they're wearing on their backs is going to tell a story. It's all about using the setting, props, and costume design to tell another story within a story."
Chism asserts that all of these elements are vital in giving the full picture of our histories. "When you're a writer," she says, "you are studying human nature and human psychology and how it sparks and functions in relationships, whether it's for comedic purposes or dramatic exploration." All of it has to work together.
On Creating Multidimensional Female Characters
Chism has a penchant for creating nuanced, multidimensional female characters, and her work attests to this reputation. She states, "It's very important for me to show characters and life based on reality." As it pertains to creating female characters, she says, "It's important to depict how [the men in our lives] shape our emotional interior just as much as the women. Our fathers shape our emotional life just as much as our mothers. And so I'm proud of that. I feel like as women, we have to hold it together and look outward so much to keep our home life together, our work life together, and our relationships together. One of the luxuries of any relationship is to have someone emotionally inquisitive about you."
Creating characters that make you want to know more about their story is important to Chism. As a director and screenwriter, her aim is to create characters that are layered and to tell stories that are culturally, socially, and historically relevant.
Little premiered nationwide on April 12, 2019.
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To stay on top, or to get there, businesses need to keep up with new and sometimes challenging trends, like mobile marketing. There is so much to learn both on the marketing side and the technical side. Here are some excellent tips for successful mobile marketing techniques.
Keep a close eye on the competitions promotions and ideas, especially successful ones. It is a wonderful way to find out what works and what does not. You must be unique from your competitors.
Before starting any new mobile marketing campaign, be sure your first campaign is successful. When measuring the success of a campaign, be patient. In mobile marketing, longevity can mean more than sales. To get a successful campaign, you should follow this formula and be able to build new ones.
As a user of mobile marketing campaigns, you need to understand how mobile devices show advertisements so that you can properly configure and design your sites and advertisements. Try out as many mobile devices as you can so that you understand the user's experience.
Aim high in your advertisements and seek out that hook that will catch the "viral" wave. They may pass it along and increase the reach of your mobile marketing.
Take advantage of dedicated short code. It may cost more up-front, but the additional protection it gives your brand can be priceless. Doing this will also protect you legally.
You should be able to give feedback on your ads and find a connection with a customer. You may find people telling you to go away or telling you they want more, but either way customer input is too valuable not to garner it at every opportunity!
If your company is going to develop a mobile app, create one that's easy to use and relevant to your business. Without a usable function for existing or prospective customers, no one is likely to use it.
As you can see, mobile marketing is extremely important to your business, for now and for the future; it is essential that you understanding its different aspects. This will make it easy for you to know which mobile marketing strategies suit your business needs. Use the pointers presented here as a starting point.


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Linux has made rapid progress in the server market, where it continues to grow despite the dot-com crash. A recent study estimated that Linux now runs 30 percent of Web servers, and companies buying Linux say that it has now conquered many of its early shortcomings, such as lack of applications and its restriction to lower-end machines.
This success has helped some Linux companies to prosper-Red Hat, which sells a distribution of Linux and which went public at the height of the dot-com frenzy, recently announced its first profitable quarter, even as competitors such as Turbolinux and VA Linux have run into difficulties. VA Linux, one of the earliest Linux companies, has said it will stop selling Linux-based hardware to focus on software and services.
Microsoft, never a friend of open source, has gone on the attack in the past few months, with executives including Bill Gates branding open source as an enemy of intellectual property and free enterprise. But there are some signs that the strategy has backfired: It has given fractious Linux leaders a cause to unite against, and has attracted criticism from legal experts, some of whom have called Microsoft's statements on open source and the GNU Public License misleading.


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Indian Culture Center Scandinavia
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Welcome to The Indian Culture Center in Stockholm
Indian Cultural Centre in Stockholm (ICCS) is the representation and initiative of Indian expatriate community for the purpose of advancement of social and cultural activities of the Indian community in The Nordics / Scandinavia.
ICCS is also the platform to serve the interest of thousands of Indians residing in The Nordic countries, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden . The proclaimed objective of ICCS includes promoting the rich Indian culture among Nordic nationals and expatriates of all other nationalities living in The Nordics. Further, ICCS is commited to strengthen the deep-rooted Indo-Nordic friendship and cultural relationship..
Ms. Preeti Singh, Director ICCS
Prima Singh – Assistant Director ICCS
Bergalidan 17,
Contact: 073 947 05 01
Epost: culturedpreeti@gmail.com
Color Radio Sweden
Indian Culture centres Own Bollywood Radio! We play what you like and nothing else...Better Variety, More Music. The music we all love - 24 x 7!
© 2016 Indian Culture Center Scandinavia


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Here I am, taking on a November writing project again. If you haven't seen me do this before, here's what I do. I don't have a novel in me right now, so for NaNoWriMo I just do as many short stories as I can. I use the social momentum and recognition of NaNoWriMo to push myself to spend a lot of time writing and to explain to others what I'm doing. As with the novels people produce during NaNo, I try to be very forgiving towards myself and my work; it is okay to just drop an idea when I get stuck and move on to the next story. It's been working out very well so far: here's the first one for this year.
Rynher crouched, then jumped up, catching her mother's dress in little hands and huffing as she began to climb. Myrtle casually reached around with one hand, nudging her cub upwards.
Arabella laughed quietly, her martini glass clinking as she set it down on the sun-warmed glass tabletop amid a few bottles, a large carafe of juice, and a half-shrinkwrapped cluster of juice boxes.
Rynher hauled herself up to Myrtle's shoulder, leaning over it, her chest on the lioness' wide shoulder, one paw on her collarbone, the other waving towards Myrtle's martini. Myrtle reached up with her free hand, rubbing Rynher's head and giving her a few fond licks.
"Whyyyyyyy are they difficult?" Rynher asked, her toeclaws digging into the back of Myrtle's dress as she headbutted her mother's jaw.
Rynher wiggled for a moment, dark-tipped tail flicking.
Myrtle put her own glass down as the explanation proceeded, keeping one hand on Rynher's back to steady her. She extracted a juice box from the clump, speared its straw in, and lifted it for Rynher, who squealed happily, putting both paws forward for it.
Rynher took the juice box in both hands and sucked on its straw happily. Myrtle made eye contact with Arabella, pointing briefly up at her cub, then away. Arabella nodded, stood, and came around behind her: she gently put both hands on Rynher, picked her up, extracted her toeclaws, and put her down on the patio. She scampered away, both adults grinning after her.
Arabella rolled her eyes and shook her head. Myrtle raised her eyebrows curiously, then turned away, craning her neck to get a look at the four kittens as Rynher rejoined the other three, splashing around in the swimming pool across the yard.
Arabella leaned over and kissed the side of her muzzle.
They laughed together, then picked up their glasses and sipped in unison. At the sound of a sliding door, they turned, then grinned widely.
The leopard stepped through the door gingerly, Campbell ushering her out. In a sling against her chest she held a little bundle, a tiny paw reaching out of it and batting slowly at her bosom. Arabella and Myrtle rose together, smiling widely, coming to meet her.
"How've you been, babe?" She made a resigned smile as she carefully hugged them.
"And to get introduced to the itty-bitty one, of course." Lilwen pulled a grin out, standing up straighter, ears perking.
Diminutive paws waved at her fingers eagerly, accompanied by high, squeaky mews.
Arabella straightened up, beckoning to Lilwen with a wave over her shoulder as she returned to the table. She picked up a tall shopping bag, turned around, then chuckled and smiled patiently as she saw Lilwen and Myrtle sharing a slow kiss, Myrtle leaning over the leopardess' shoulder while kneading her shoulders firmly. When they finished, Arabella stepped forward, eyebrows raised expectantly. Lilwen shrugged at her, rocking her cub demonstratively.
"No problem." Myrtle stepped forward, taking the bag and holding it open for the tigress, who reached into it. She withdrew a dark blue dress with a flourish, shaking it out to unfold it, holding it by the collar as she gestured to the its palm-wide grey stripes that fell from shoulders to hips to knees.
"No wonder you learned to make these yourself. It's so nice!" Lilwen reached out with one hand, rubbing the thick cloth between forefinger and thumb.
"And little Sinavena's gonna have strong claws to dig into it soon, isn't she?" Myrtle leaned over as she raised the question, presenting her own fingers for Sinavena's inquisitive paws. The kitten grabbed eagerly at her, then chewed on the presented fingers with stubby little milk-fangs. An indulgent smile met the chewing.
They laughed together, returning to the table.
"Go for it." Lilwen shifted her sling, coaxing the kitten towards her breast, hand gently holding the back of her grey-furred head.
Myrtle snort-laughed indelicately, splashing some of her martini on her face, then holding her hand over her muzzle as she snickered. Lilwen chuckled, her ears flicking, guiding the kitten's paws towards herself with one finger.
"Worth it," Arabella opined, jabbing her forefinger emphatically.
Arabella swore, lunging up, her chair clattering over backwards, glass falling onto the table. She dashed towards the pool, hands pulling her dress open. Myrtle grabbed Lilwen's shoulder hard as she soothed Sinavena's upset at the noises.
She rose and briskly jogged after the tigress, turning aside to come through the gate in the low fence that Arabella had simply vaulted directly over, leaving her heavy dress behind. There was a brief splash as she dove into the pool headlong, submerging as she moved towards the splashing, thrashing kitten on the other side. Myrtle forced herself to move slowly on the wet concrete around the pool, approaching Rynher, Terandil, and Gadayra as they huddled worriedly in a knot. She fell to a crouch and her hands shot out, grabbing the two smallest ones by their scruffs, her head dipping to pick up the remaining cub by her teeth.
She heard a wet splat and wheezy coughs as she turned around. Arabella had dove under the kitten in the pool and lifted him out by rising directly under him, her head and one hand shoving him up out of the water. He curled up on his side, shaking as he coughed. The tigress rose from the pool, dripping all over, panting. She nodded wearily as the kitten cried, sitting down cross-legged and holding him against her chest.
He clung to her as Myrtle ushered the other three away, herding two of them and carrying the third in one arm. When she returned to the table, Campbell was there with Lilwen, frowning in concern.
Myrtle coaxed the trio onto a bench together and chuffed encouragingly at them as she distributed juice boxes and thin, soft strips of jerky.
"Ruru fell in," Terandil volunteered.
Campbell stood on his tiptoes to get a look at the pool, then visibly relaxed, nodding and prompting the kittens to continue with a wave. They looked back and forth among themselves, recounting it slowly.
"And I was telling people not to fall in more," Gadayra piped up.
He stepped forward to kiss the top of Gadayra's head.
"You can't help someone out if you fall in," they chorused, nodding.
Arabella returned, holding Teruleth with both hands, curled up with his arms around her neck. She wrapped Teruleth in a dry towel, then sat down.
Campbell draped a towel over her shoulders in turn, leaning down for fretful licks and cheek-rubs. She leaned up to kiss him briefly.
The kittens nodded and trotted off, Campbell following them after a nod from Arabella. Myrtle sat down beside her, stroking her back up and down.
The small tiger nodded, still curled up against her. She gave him a warm squeeze.
He trotted off with increasing steadiness, and Arabella slumped in her chair, putting her hands over her face.
"You keep breathing too, babe," Myrtle said, coming around behind her and rubbing her shoulders.
"Yeah, that looked like three quarters of a heart attack," Lilwen concurred.
Myrtle leaned forward over Arabella's shoulder.
"I am completely okay with this plan," she laughed.
Campbell returned, and they cleared space on the table for the tray he carried, called the kittens for lunch, and all sat down together.


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Hope Taoiseach says no-deal Brexit would be 'very damaging' as crunch talks continue
"Where the dialogue continues that that gives me hope"
Ireland's Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Micheal Martin speaks as he arrives to attend a face-to-face EU summit amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Brussels, Belgium December 10, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS
Senan Molony
It's vital that Britain and Europe don't have an acrimonious break-up, because that would be "very damaging all round," Taoiseach Micheál Martin warned today.
"I think it would be an appalling failure of statecraft if we were not in a position to get a deal over the line," the Taoiseach said.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show in an interview from Cork, Mr Martin said he fervently hopes talks can continue even after today's deadline.
"The fact that they negotiated through the night is an important sign in itself. Where the dialogue continues that that gives me hope," he said.
"Even at the 11th hour, in a very difficult negotiation around level playing field and fisheries, the capacity in my view still exists for the United Kingdom Government and the European Union negotiating teams to conclude a deal that is in all our interests for the long term," the Taoiseach told British viewers.
Ursula von der Leyen is due to have a phone call with Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, at lunchtime. Talks all night in Brussels were said to have produced "no progress."
Mr Martin was asked if it was fair that Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron had refused a request from Boris Johnson for last-minute meetings in a bid to break the logjam, and had even turned down phone calls.
The Prime Minister is expected to be in decisive talks with EU officials on Sunday (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Brexit trade talks deadline arrives as UK teeters on brink of no-deal
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"Europe has 27 EU member states — we work through the Commission," he said. "There is great respect and faith in Michel Barnier and his team, and the view from the outset has been that this is the negotiating channel, and the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, would engage with British Prime Minister, in terms of resolving any sort of major issues or to unblock any blockages.
"I absolutely understand that. And of course they are talking later on today."
Mr Martin, who has reportedly been texting Mr Johnson on the negotiations to urge him to think of the effects of a break-up on working people across these islands and Europe, said the pair "have an open channel" in the context of of the British Irish relationship.
"But I think in terms of the substance of the negotiations is between the European Union negotiating team of Michel Barnier and the British Government."
Mr Martin said he appreciated the work that was done by the British negotiating team on the Northern Ireland protocol, and in relation to the withdrawal treaty, which last week led to the withdrawal of contentious clauses in the UK Internal Market Bill.
"I think that demonstrates what can happen when there's when people knuckle down and get involved in a constructive process."
He added: "It is absolutely imperative that both sides continue to engage and both sides continue to work in negotiate to avoid a no-deal, because I firmly believe and have consistently said that no deal would be very bad news for all of us.
"We are interdependent. The UK economy and the European economy is very integrated. And that has built up over a long time. It was the United Kingdom, that was one of the creators of the Single Market going back to the time of Margaret Thatcher, who led the way on that.
"So in my view it's extremely important that the future relationship between the United Kingdom, and Europe is a solid one, not just in terms of tariff-free trade but also in terms of politics, judicial and security co-operation, aviation, transport and energy.
"It's important that we have a good future relationship deal between Europe and the United Kingdom given, given the geopolitical challenges we are facing, but also because we represent people, workers, employers who need certainty, and because no deal would be so damaging to workers in the UK in Ireland and across Europe.
"That is why I say, with any bit of energy we have left, we must continue to focus on negotiating our way to a deal."


The Operation Transformation Series on RTE1 is now in its 12th year and it has been a fantastic success, widely regarded as the best health and fitness show in Ireland. The show is not only about the 5 lucky Leaders selected each year, but for the thousands of people who follow their progress over the 8 weeks and beyond. Along with the various communities who get involved in the process highlighting positive lifestyle changes to fitness and health amongst their community.


This is one of those shows that reminds me why I am single. But cheers to all the working moms in the world – cause let's face it, you are doing twice the work and haven't been thanked for it since mother's day of last year, right? Though Lee Sun Gyun is adorable and has a gorgeous voice (his new drama My Mister is incredible, also someone please force him to read audiobooks), I pretty much found him impossible to love in this show. I kept thinking, "Let's see how well you do with your kid for a week without your wife around, ya jerk." And then, when we finally get that scene, he can't even handle it for one day. He pawns his kid off onto his coworkers and friends, who seem to instinctively understand joint parenting more than the married, child rearing couples on this show. Not that it is all the husband's fault. I hated Song Ji Hyo's character just as much. The bland, lowered eyed, push over wife – desperately trying to be perfect, always smiling, always agreeable. Use your words, people. If you act like a doormat, you can't be surprised when people walk all over you.
Though there was a lot to dislike about this show, I did find most of it enjoyable. The shenanigans of the unfaithful lawyer. The online community marriage counseling. The side romance of the two television producers was delightfully awkward and unusual. And I liked the ending, though I wanted more. The exploration into the nature of affairs, the motivations, the suspicions, and the consequences were interesting but also only waded into, not fully explored. I watched the whole show – after jumping ship on several shows recently, it was nice to find something that actually drew me enough to finish it. So… I give it a "Meh." A nice middle grade. Not bad, not good, but definitely not just right.
Overall Rating – 6.5/10. Tuna Mayo Gets Her Happy Ending Via a Shotgun & a Hot French Dude.


← WTF? How Do You Explain These Lab Values?
OK, now that I've presented a little of my personal background, I can get on to the "meat" of this blog.
I have to start with Bill Lands. I consider him to be one of the (if not THE) most important figures on the diet-health landscape. To be sure, there are others, but they are more well known , and besides, Lands was the first island of sanity I discovered back when I was drowning in the sea of dietary confusion.
On the left, still going strong at 81!!
William E.M. Lands (born July 22, 1930) is an American nutritional biochemist who is among the world's foremost authorities on essential fatty acids. … Lands is credited for discovering the beneficial effects of balancing the effects of excess omega-6 fatty acids with dietary omega-3 fatty acids.
I'd read Barry Sears' Omega-Rz Zone Diet  book back in 2002 when it first came out. Sears was clearly influenced by Lands' work, but in oversimplifying the message, Sears got it all wrong. More helpful than nothing at all, to be sure, but still not enough to turn around the rampant disease generated by the Western lifestyle. I can only imagine Lands' frustration at how little of his full message has actually made its way into mainstream thought and how long it's taken for even this superficial understanding to have taken place.
Why am I so impressed with Lands' work?
He's got the full package: epidemogy, biochemical pathways, plus predictive equations that relate the known biochemistry to the observed mortality and morbidity. The work explains observations across multiple disciplines and renders previously puzzling paradoxes understandable. He's put forth a unifying theory of western disease that is more than just conjecture; it's backed up by 100 years of biochemical study and thousands of medical journal papers. His story hasn't changed over the years; it's the same now as it was 10 years ago; only difference is more supporting evidence has been accumulated.
In addition to all that, he will turn 82 this year and is still going strong. He is passionate about this work; I'm sure he practices what he preaches. I for sure wouldn't mind being in his shape in 14 years when I hit 82!
So what is his message?
We give lip service to the notion that association is not causation, yet continue to chase biomarkers of disease instead of achieving actual disease prevention.
When we eat more at a single sitting than the body needs to satisfy immediate (one to two hour) demands, excess food energy translates into reversible biochemical imbalances which may over time become irreversible.
These "transient postprandial oxidative insults" (the problems caused by simply eating, never mind even the overload caused by overeating) as well as injury from foreign invaders and heritable genetic weaknesses, while bad enough in and of themselves, are translated into disease and death under conditions of excessive dietary omega-6 consumption.
What is "TOO MUCH" omega-6 and why do we have too much of it?
This is a big topic and will be the subject of part 2. Meanwhile, you can watch any of the videos below (37 minutes) [1-4] to get ahead of my story or even less time, watch the two (shorter) NIH PowerPoint presentations [7-8] that give you so much information so fast, it will leave your head spinning. The Powerpoint slides do have narration; be sure to click "View Show" on the "Slide Show" menu.
Lands, Nutritional Armor for the Warfighter: Can Omega-3 Fatty Acids Enhance Stress Resilience, Wellness, and Military Performance? (Day 2) – This is the original video of his 2009 NIH lecture, starting at 12:45 into the video.
Learn Why Omega-6 Fats Matter to Your Health – Here you can download the entire Nutritional Armor lecture video (free), although you will have to register and become an iAmplify member first.
Dr. Bill Lands on Cardiovascular Disease: Omega-6 displaces Omega-3, 1 of 4 – The same video on YouTube, much easier to watch than the version on the NIH site, and you don't have to register. But it's divided nto 4 parts.
Lands, The Story (5 minutes) – Links the metabolism of foods to eicosanoid formation and disease severity.
Lands, The History (5 minutes) – Puts the information into its historical perspective.
Retired software engineer wading through the obfuscation, confusion and contradiction that corporate and political funding of medical research along with ego over science has created.
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The German software manufacturer introduces new features like automated retouching of eyes in images, VDP (Variable Data Printing) and full support of PDF 2.0.
The trade journal for large printing shows in a new article how to implement software solutions for automated overnight-printing.
It's often said that 'time flies' when you are having fun and enjoying yourself. Well since joining OneVision way back in February 2002, that has mostly been the case, where did those 15½ years go to?
Robert Lugg appointed as new General Manager of OneVision Software UK Ltd.


This site was created for the sole purpose of giving an account of George Strait and the "Ace in the Hole" in the early years. The accounts, stories and information is strictly from my personal remembrance of the time and places. If I get a club name wrong or a date wrong, that is not the point. So unless it is something very important, you don;t need to correct my personal story.
There are thousands of folks out there that have many more stories, accounts and information on George Strait than I ever wish to know about. If you are one of those people and have a story or pictures of a George Strait event, you can email me at dwd@SoYouLikeGeorgeStrait.com, and I would be glad to post it on a stories page that I will put up.
Or go to the link below and registrar on our "So George Strait Forums". There you can post questions or stories and any information you may have.
Register and log on to the George Forum and get the discussion going. Ask any questions and I will try to anser them.
The "Ace in the Hole Band" got together many, many years ago around the area of San Marcos Texas. The original four members being Mike Daily, Terry Hale, Ron Cable and Tommy Foote. Most if all of the members where in the same band before that called "Stoney Ridge". You can get a schedule of thier appearances by clicking the link below.
"Ace in the Hole Band Schedule"
It has been a real long time, but seeing George Strait and the "Ace in the Hole Band" at Reliant Stadium in Houston Texas this year was a great show. Along with "Sugarland" it was a great performance. I think is one of the last shows for the year except for a few special appearances.
Nashville, Tenn. (April 13, 2010) - Billboard announced today that superstar George Strait has accomplished what no other artist in the history of Billboard charts has - 30 years of consecutive Top 10 hits. With his current single "I Gotta Get to You" jumping from No. 12 to No. 9 on Billboard's radio airplay list, Strait's number of Top 10 hits totals 82 and marks 2010 as the historic 30th year milestone.
Billboard writes, "30 years into his unparalleled career, the 'King of Country' shows no signs of abdicating the throne."
"It just continues to be one heck of a ride that I'm enjoying every minute of," responds Strait. "Time does fly when you're having fun. Thanks to all of my fans for their support. Long live country music!"
Strait landed his first Top 10 in 1981 with his first charting single, "Unwound."
With a career spanning more than 30 years, George Strait has the most number one singles of any artist in history including Elvis (57 To Date inclusive of all charts). He has sold more than 68.5 million records and with 33 different platinum or multi-platinum albums has the most RIAA platinum certifications in country music and the third in all genres, behind The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
This 1974 video clip was filmed in Memorial Park in Houston Texas by my father, Donald Daily with one of the first models of an actual video camera. The event was for a state representative by the name of Paul Kruger I believe. This camera actually had a microphone on it, but the sound in those days, just was not there. My dad, later re-dubbed the music track on top of the video. Then when I transferred it from VHS to DVD, the sound did not transfer. So I had to go back and try an remember what my dad had done and duplicate it.
The video also lost a lot of the brightness after being transferred so much. One of these days I may have to take the VHS to an expert and let them get the exact video with the original over dub on it. That would be sweet.


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Showdown in Wisconsin
By BYRON TAU
Gov. Scott Walker's early battle with the public sector unions seem to be producing a real showdown in the state capitol: So many teachers called in sick today in protest that Madison schools had shut down.
District Superintendent Dan Nerad made the announcement at 11 p.m. Tuesday after 40 percent of the 2,600 members of the teachers union had called in sick and more were expected to do so through Wednesday morning.
"At this ratio we have serious concerns about our ability to maintain safe and secure school environments," Nerad said in the announcement.
That, in turn, means a lot of angry parents and voters who don't get to skip work without consequences-- and a battle over who they'll blame in which, I suspect, Walker will have the upper hand.
UPDATE: A teacher emails to contest the last sentence: "Usually there are major consequences of school being canceled. It is not like the days will not be made up, and most likely it will be made up during the summer. It is my experience that no teacher wants their summer days taken away from them."


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package org.springframework.cloud.service;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * A generic implementation of {@link CompositeServiceInfo} that should suffice in many situations.
 *
 * @author Ramnivas Laddad
 *
 */
public class BaseCompositeServiceInfo extends BaseServiceInfo implements CompositeServiceInfo {

	private List<ServiceInfo> constituents;

	public BaseCompositeServiceInfo(String id, ServiceInfo... constituents) {
		super(id);
		this.constituents = Arrays.asList(constituents);
	}

	@Override
	public List<ServiceInfo> getServiceInfos() {
		return constituents;
	}
}

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The holidays are often a tricky time for couples whose relationships have been under pressure for some time. Together with the lengthy time spent together and the financial pressure Christmas places on families, it can spell disaster for some relationships.
Many couples wait until after Christmas and the New Year before initiating or considering a separation, leading to a glut of inquiries on the first working Monday in January. This has led to the day being dubbed 'Divorce Day' by the media.
Divorce Day falls on Monday 8th January this year and whilst we hope that Christmas was enjoyed by all, if you feel that this Christmas has placed strain on your relationship and you are considering divorce, you should seek legal advice as early as possible to ensure you are fully aware of the options available to you.
Our specialist team are well-equipped and ready to assist you should you require any advice at this difficult time. All our solicitors are members of Resolution, the national family law group committed to resolving disputes without unnecessary acrimony, and where possible we try to help our clients to resolve their disputes by agreement.


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Q: How to duplicate rows if an entry has 2 or more values in a given column? So I have this dataframe:
   A = ['qwe','rty','uio']
   B = ['asd','fgh','jkl/zxc']
   df = pd.DataFrame({'A': A,
                       'B': B})
   df

which outputs to:
    A   B
0   qwe asd
1   rty fgh
2   uio jkl/zxc

I want to be able to transform it to this:
    A   B
0   qwe asd
1   rty fgh
2   uio jkl
3   uio zxc

I'm new to python and I can't find anything to achieve this

A: use assign() + str.split() + explode():
df=df.assign(B=df['B'].str.split('/')).explode('B',ignore_index=True)

output of df:
     A      B
0   qwe     asd
1   rty     fgh
2   uio     jkl
3   uio     zxc


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