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Apple draws ire from Aussie startup for HealthKit name grab
An Australian startup has been left 'shocked and disappointed' after discovering that Apple has used its company name for a new feature on iOS 8.
Claire Reilly
June 5, 2014 6:31 p.m. PT
Apple announced a new HealthKit feature for iOS 8 at WWDC. Tim Stevens/CNET
An Australian startup called HealthKit is fighting Apple for taking its name (including the same spelling and stylised capitals) to brand a new feature on iOS 8. Apple's HealthKit was announced at WWDC 2014 this week, and will allow iOS 8 users to view all their health data from Apple-connected wearables on one central app hub.
Despite registering the HealthKit name more than two years ago, the startup's managing director Alison Hardacre said she wasn't alerted to the news until 4:30 a.m. Australian time, after the conference announcement had taken place.
"We've been really disappointed about what's happened," Hardacre said in a video message on HealthKit's Twitter feed (which she begrudgingly admitted was filmed on an iPhone).
"We were so shocked when we got up in the morning and discovered Apple executives standing on stage, with an icon behind them with our name on it. But what's more disappointing is that they didn't contact us before and they haven't contacted us since.
"We first launched HealthKit.com two years ago, just after we'd bought the domain," she added. "We've grown really big in Australia and now we're building in other countries around the world including Canada, UK and the US. This has thrown everything up in the air.
"I'd like to think that [Apple] forgot to spend five seconds and type www.healthkit.com into their browser. But other people have said that possibly they did, and thought that we were just a startup and they could really just squash us."
Hardacre has called on Apple to contact to the Australian HealthKit team, and has also called on the company's Twitter followers to "tell Apple's CEO [Tim Cook] exactly how you feel" via Twitter.
Apple has been contacted for comment.
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As many head to their childhood homes for the Christmas holiday, there's a good chance you may stumble on some forgotten yet classic home accessory treasures in your parents' basement just begging to be rescued.
If you're a child of the '80s or '90s, there's a distinct possibility that one of these magical findings may be a beaten and battered set of wooden bowls, a holdover from the '60s and '70s.
These bowls were so popular in the '60s and '70s and have that classic retro look to them. Can't you just picture them sitting on the table with a pot of bubbling fondue nearby? Many swore by the use of wooden bowls to enhance the flavor of salad, and after use, abuse, and outright neglect, they were often tossed in a pile with other misfit dish ware, never to be seen or eaten off of again. But the thing about these bowls of a bygone era is that they just need a little bit of love to be revived. When a free set of wooden bowls in need of a little TLC presented themselves, Wendy could not pass up the opportunity. Wendy, as the fan of all things free, classic, and old that she is, wanted to give these worn bowls a good home.
They were dry, scratched, gouged in a few places, and clearly a little worse for the wear. But this was primarily on the exterior, while the interior of the bowls looked pretty good.
Knowing that wood has the ability to rebound even when much further gone than these bowls, I decided to give wooden bowl rehab a shot. Let me just tell you, I had no real expectations for the outcome, and figured a little improvement would be very much appreciated, but I'm pretty blown away by the end results. Let's quickly go over the effort.
I started by sanding the exterior of the large bowl with 220 grit paper. I used my random orbit sander on a slow setting to take out as many of the major blemishes and marks as possible on the larger bowl.
For the smaller bowls I just went ahead and hand sanded using the same 220 grit paper to give us a nice and smooth surface free of the rough patches that had covered the prior surface.
After wiping away the dust from the surface of of the bowl with a small cloth, I grabbed our favorite Howard Butcher Block Conditioner . It's a combination of mineral oil and beeswax and does an amazing job of rehydrating dry and thirsty wood.
The mineral oil works into the pores while the beeswax works to provide a sort of natural filler. We've used it for years on our butcher block counters, and have loved how it works.
A little goes a long way, and we have an application rag we keep that's already saturated, so application is quick and easy.
Just look at this jaw dropping side by side of the original bowl, sanded bowl, and bowl with oil/wax applied. It's amazing what this natural and food safe rejuvenating product can do for dry wood.
After application I just let the oil and wax sit for several hours to soak into the bowl and slowly dry. Once it's had a good couple of hours to really saturate the wood, come back with a dry cloth and wipe away excess while also buffing the remaining wax into the pores of the wood.
When we were done the end result is a beautiful and rich set of wooden bowls that were not only brought back from the brink, but will also be enjoyed for many more years to come. Just look at how warm and wonderful this looks after the oil has been allowed to breathe new life into the large serving bowl. Makes me want to turn on some Disco!
While these bowls may have had their first go-round in the 1960s and '70s, the warm tones and retro style will once again serve us for years to come.
And it's also a good reminder that a little bit of maintenance can go a long way when it comes to reviving an unexpected treasure. So if you're going to be home this weekend and into next week, or even if you find yourself picking through an antique shop, just remember to look beyond the distressed nature of what you might find, because everything that's old can often be new again.
We hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend of family, food, fun, and treasure hunting!
I'm looking for bowls like this to turn into yarn bowls! It's amazing how forgiving wood is! It's one of the reasons I love it so much.
Thanks for this post. I have an old set from B.Altman that I cherish. They're rosewood but could use some conditioning.
Good revival, what a way to bring back the luster. My Mom had a 12=piece set, plates, large salad bowl, and individual bowls. She always used it during her bbq parties, which meant I had to hand wash all the wooden items. It is still a beautiful set, my sister now has it cause I didn't want to wash them anymore!!
Nice save there. That wood conditioner looks amazing.
I have a wooden salad set I bought in the early '80s (wood stuff was big then, too, as I recall). Will need to check out that wood conditioner!
Whitney, check thrift stores for random wood bowls. That's where I got the ones I've turned into yarn bowls.


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US government bans Kaspersky software citing fears about Russian intelligence
Three months after the General Services Administration removed Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved federal vendors, Homeland Security is banning the Russian security software maker outright. In a statement on Wednesday, DHS Acting Secretary Elaine Duke directed all Executive Branch agencies and departments to identify over the next 30 days any Kaspersky products being used, make a plan in the next 60 days to eliminate their use and begin that discontinuation within 90 days.
"The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks," DHS said in its directive.
"The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security."
At the end of its full statement on the issue, available here, DHS states that it will allow Kaspersky and "any other entity that claims its commercial interests will be directly impacted" to submit a written argument along with any evidence or data that could offset the U.S. government's concerns.
Kaspersky fired back at the decision with its own statement, available in full below:
Given that Kaspersky Lab doesn't have inappropriate ties with any government, the company is disappointed with the decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but also is grateful for the opportunity to provide additional information to the agency in order to confirm that these allegations are completely unfounded.
No credible evidence has been presented publicly by anyone or any organization as the accusations are based on false allegations and inaccurate assumptions, including claims about the impact of Russian regulations and policies on the company. Kaspersky Lab has always acknowledged that it provides appropriate products and services to governments around the world to protect those organizations from cyberthreats, but it does not have unethical ties or affiliations with any government, including Russia.
In addition, more than 85 percent of its revenue comes from outside of Russia, which further demonstrates that working inappropriately with any government would be detrimental to the company's bottom line. These ongoing accusations also ignore the fact that Kaspersky Lab has a 20-year history in the IT security industry of always abiding by the highest ethical business practices and trustworthy technology development.
Regarding the Russian polices and laws being misinterpreted, the laws and tools in question are applicable to telecom companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and contrary to the inaccurate reports, Kaspersky Lab is not subject to these laws or other government tools, including Russia's System of Operative-Investigative Measures (SORM), since the company doesn't provide communication services. Also, it's important to note that the information received by the company, as well as traffic, is protected in accordance with legal requirements and stringent industry standards, including encryption, digital certificates and more.
Kaspersky Lab has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage or offensive cyber efforts, and it's disconcerting that a private company can be considered guilty until proven innocent, due to geopolitical issues. The company looks forward to working with DHS, as Kaspersky Lab ardently believes a deeper examination of the company will substantiate that these allegations are without merit.
While the new steps from DHS are a strong statement on its suspicions, the truth is murkier. Given the controversy over Kaspersky's rumored but never clearly substantiated closeness with Russian intelligence, the move might just be erring on the side of caution. Still, to purge Kaspersky products altogether in such a public way sends a strong message, but who the message is to or what if anything it's actually rooted in remains far from clear.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/kaspersky-executive-branch-ban-dhs-homeland-security/
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Niki Lauda - The Biography - signed (bookplate) by Maurice Hamilton
'Thoroughly gripping...a fitting tribute' Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times
Niki Lauda was one of the greatest stars in motor racing – a superb driver on the track and a much-loved personality off it. From his famous rivalry with James Hunt in 1976, as depicted in the film Rush, to working with Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, his career helped define modern Formula One.
Six weeks after the 1976 crash at the notorious Nürburgring that left him burned and receiving the last rites while obituaries were written, Niki Lauda stepped back into his Ferrari at Monza to defend his first World Champion title. Jackie Stewart called it 'the most courageous thing I have ever witnessed in sport'. Lauda and Hunt were playing cat-and-mouse for the championship. At the final race of the season in Japan, the weather was appalling and conditions treacherous. Lauda had a narrow lead and an agonising decision to make – high-speed drama at its best.
Following his extraordinary recovery from the accident, Lauda won the title in 1977 and again, following a return from retirement, in 1984 with McLaren. When he eventually hung up his helmet for good, he started his own airline and had to deal with the horrendous aftermath when one of his aircraft crashed, killing all 223 on board. He later returned to the sport in various management roles and successfully persuaded Lewis Hamilton to join Mercedes.
Maurice Hamilton first came across Lauda in 1971 and in this definitive biography tells his remarkable story. Based on interviews with friends, family, rival drivers and colleagues, it is a superb tribute to a brave, supremely talented and much-missed star of Formula One.
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from keras.models import Sequential, Model
from keras.layers.embeddings import Embedding
from keras.layers import Input, Activation, Dense, Permute, Dropout, add, dot, concatenate
from keras.layers import LSTM, TimeDistributed
from keras.layers import Conv1D, MaxPool1D
from keras.layers.wrappers import Bidirectional

class ConfigurableNetwork:
    defaultfile = 'default.cfg'
    def __init__(self, modelname):
        self._modelname = modelname

        # Set up the environment. load config file if it is there, if not, then create it form default
        # Load the weights

        # existential question: should this contain all of the handling for fitting and callbacks?
        # yeah I think that makes sense. One stop shop for configs, weights, and logging.

    def setup(self):
        pass

    @property
    def modelname(self): return self._modelname

class QueryableNet:
    def __init__(self, vocab_size=22, story_maxlen=68, query_maxlen=4):
        self.model = None
        self.vocab_size = vocab_size
        self.query_maxlen = query_maxlen
        self.story_maxlen = story_maxlen

    def query(self, storyvec, queryvec):
        storyvec = storyvec.reshape((-1, self.story_maxlen))
        queryvec = queryvec.reshape((-1, self.query_maxlen))
        ans = self.model.predict([storyvec, queryvec])
        return ans

class DeepMemNet(QueryableNet):
    """
    DeepMemNet for the Facebook bAbI context task.

    Model notes:
    Single context task:
      Regular LSTM (accuracy/val_acc):
        Run 1
            47/50% @ 7 epochs
            72/70% @ 49 epochs
            86/80% @ 61 epochs
            95/90% @ 88 epochs
        Run 2

      Bidirectional LSTM:
        Run 1
            50%/50% @ 6
            81%/80% @ 34
            87%/86% @ 48 (peak valacc)
            90%/86% @ 60 epochs - minor overfitting

        I think parameters were not configured right, these might be Single LSTM! need to rerun everything >_<
        Run 2
            73/71% @ 44
            83/80% @ 53
            94/90% @ 75
        Run 3
            71/70% @ 41
            83/80% @ 50
            94/90% @ 76

      Bidirectional + extra forward LSTM:
        55%/??% @ 80 (stalls)

      TDDense + Bidirectional:
        Run 1:
            76/73% @ 37
            80/80% @ 41
            91/90% @ 54 - new record!!

    Double Context task:
      Regular:
        50%/??% @ 35 epochs
        67%/??% @ 80 epochs
        70%/??% @ 100
        80%/??% @ 192
        84.7%/??% @ 260

      Bidirectional:
        50%/??% @ 26 epochs
        70%/??% @ 48 epochs - improvement!
        80%/??% @ 68 epochs - super improvement!
        90%/??% @ 110 epochs - smokin'!
        95%/??% @ 148 epochs - starting to level off
        97%/??% @ 200 epochs - i think it's starting to overfit
    """
    # todo: add performance logging
    def __init__(self, vocab_size=22, story_maxlen=68, query_maxlen=4, n_lstm=32, bidirect=True, tdd=True,
                 batch_size=None, matchconv=False, permute=False):
        """
        DeepMemNet

        Param note - changing parameters will require new model file (duh) - this isn't automatic yet
        :param vocab_size:
        :param story_maxlen:
        :param query_maxlen:
        :param n_lstm:
        :param bidirect:
        """

        # todo: config file for model hyperparams with logging link

        # self.vocab_size = vocab_size
        # self.story_maxlen = story_maxlen
        # self.query_maxlen = query_maxlen
        super().__init__(vocab_size=vocab_size, story_maxlen=story_maxlen, query_maxlen=query_maxlen)
        # placeholders
        input_sequence = Input((story_maxlen,), name='InputSeq')
        question = Input((query_maxlen,), name='Question')

        # Encoders - initial encoders are pretty much just projecting the input into a useful space
        # not much need to optimize here really
        input_encoder_m = Sequential(name='InputEncoderM')
        input_encoder_m.add(Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                                      output_dim=64, name='InEncM_Embed'))
        input_encoder_m.add(Dropout(0.3))
        # output: (samples, story_maxlen, embedding_dim)

        # embed the input into a sequence of vectors of size query_maxlen
        input_encoder_c = Sequential(name='InputEncoderC')
        input_encoder_c.add(Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                                      output_dim=query_maxlen, name='InEncC_Embed'))
        input_encoder_c.add(Dropout(0.3))
        # output: (samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)

        # embed the question into a sequence of vectors
        question_encoder = Sequential(name='QuestionEncoder')
        question_encoder.add(Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                                       output_dim=64,
                                       input_length=query_maxlen, name='QuesEnc_Embed'))
        question_encoder.add(Dropout(0.3))
        # output: (samples, query_maxlen, embedding_dim)

        # encode input sequence and questions (which are indices)
        # to sequences of dense vectors
        input_encoded_m = input_encoder_m(input_sequence)
        input_encoded_c = input_encoder_c(input_sequence)
        question_encoded = question_encoder(question)

        # compute a 'match' between the first input vector sequence
        # and the question vector sequence
        # shape: `(samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)`
        match = dot([input_encoded_m, question_encoded], axes=(2, 2), name='Match')
        match = Activation('softmax')(match)

        if matchconv:
            match = Conv1D(query_maxlen, 4, padding='same')(match)

        # add the match matrix with the second input vector sequence
        response = add([match, input_encoded_c], name='ResponseAdd')  # (samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)
        response = Permute((2, 1), name='ResponsePermute')(response)  # (samples, query_maxlen, story_maxlen)

        # concatenate the match matrix with the question vector sequence
        answer = concatenate([response, question_encoded], name='AnswerConcat')

        # Trying to feed in the long axis as the timestep causes the GPU to get very angry.
        # It would appear it causes it to start thrashing memory
        if permute:
            answer = Permute((2, 1), name='AnswerPermute')(answer)  # (samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)

        # Let's try with a time distributed dense before the RNN
        if tdd:
            answer = TimeDistributed(Dense(n_lstm, name='Answer_TDD'))(answer)

        # Bidirectional LSTM for better context recognition, plus an additional one for flavor
        lstm_rev = Bidirectional(LSTM(n_lstm, return_sequences=True, name='Ans_LSTM_reverse'))
        lstm_for = Bidirectional(LSTM(n_lstm, return_sequences=False, name='Ans_LSTM_forward'))
        if bidirect:
            answer = lstm_rev(answer)  # "reverse" pass goes first
        answer = lstm_for(answer)
        # answer = LSTM(n_lstm, name='Ans_LSTM_3)(answer) # Extra LSTM completely runs out of steam at 55% acc! Bidirectional seems to help

        # one regularization layer -- more would probably be needed.
        answer = Dropout(0.3, name='Answer_Drop')(answer)
        answer = Dense(vocab_size, name='Answer_Dense')(answer)  # (samples, vocab_size)
        # we output a probability distribution over the vocabulary
        answer = Activation('softmax')(answer)

        # build the final model
        model = Model([input_sequence, question], answer)
        model.compile(optimizer='rmsprop', loss='categorical_crossentropy',
                      metrics=['accuracy'])

        self.model = model

    # def query(self, storyvec, queryvec):
    #     storyvec = storyvec.reshape((-1, self.story_maxlen))
    #     queryvec = queryvec.reshape((-1, self.query_maxlen))
    #     ans = self.model.predict([storyvec, queryvec])
    #     return ans

class ConvoLSTM(QueryableNet):
    def __init__(self, vocab_size=22, story_maxlen=68, query_maxlen=4, n_lstm=32, bidirect=True, tdd=True,
                 batch_size=None, matchconv=False, permute=False):
        super().__init__(vocab_size=vocab_size, story_maxlen=story_maxlen, query_maxlen=query_maxlen)

        dropout_rate = 0.2
        embed_vector_len = 64
        n_filter = 120
        filter_length = 5

        input_sequence = Input((story_maxlen,), name='InputSeq')
        question = Input((query_maxlen,), name='Question')
        #         input_sequence = Activation('linear')(input_sequence)
        #         question = Activation('linear')(question)

        #         model = Model()
        layer = concatenate([input_sequence, question], name='AnswerConcat')
        layer = Embedding(vocab_size, embed_vector_len)(layer)
        layer = Conv1D(filters=n_filter, kernel_size=filter_length, padding='valid', activation='relu')(layer)
        layer = MaxPool1D(pool_size=2)(layer)
        layer = Dropout(dropout_rate)(layer)
        #         model = LSTM(n_lstm)(model)

        # Let's try with a time distributed dense before the RNN
        if tdd:
            layer = TimeDistributed(Dense(n_lstm, name='Answer_TDD'))(layer)

        # Bidirectional LSTM for better context recognition, plus an additional one for flavor
        lstm_rev = Bidirectional(LSTM(n_lstm, return_sequences=True, name='Ans_LSTM_reverse'))
        lstm_for = Bidirectional(LSTM(n_lstm, return_sequences=False, name='Ans_LSTM_forward'))
        if bidirect:
            layer = lstm_rev(layer)  # "reverse" pass goes first
        layer = lstm_for(layer)
        #         model = LSTM(n_lstm)(model)
        layer = Dropout(dropout_rate)(layer)
        output = Dense(vocab_size, activation='sigmoid')(layer)
        model = Model([input_sequence, question], output)
        model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])
        self.model = model

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Reliance Securities says that Infosys is a good bet for retail investors at this juncture given the buyback price of Rs 1,150 is around 32 per cent higher than Monday's closing price of Rs 873.50.
Infosys shares have corrected nearly 15% in last two trading sessions.
Infosys has announced buy back of around 11.30 crore shares at Rs 1,150 per share. As per market regulator Sebi's rules, 15 per cent of buyback is reserved for retail investors (having shareholding up to Rs 2 lakh), said Reliance Securities. This implies that around 1.70 crore shares in the buyback will be reserved for retail investors. Assuming that all of the retail shareholders tender their shares, the acceptance ratio will be 59 per cent (against total retail holding of 2.87 crore shares), the brokerage said.
"As acceptance ratio increases, individual/retail investors who tender their shares will earn more profit, ranging from Rs 16,000-22,000 (19-25%), assuming the buying price is the CMP (Rs 873.50) and investors sell their remaining shares at the CMP," Reliance Securities said in a statement.
As on record date (which will be announced later) if you will have Infosys shares worth less than Rs 2 lakh, then you will qualify as retail investors and can tender shares to the tune of Rs 1,18,000 (59 per cent of Rs 2 lakh). If less number of retail shareholders tender their shares in the buyback, then the acceptance ratio will increase and the retail investor's profit will also increase, according to Reliance Securities.
Infosys shares closed 0.41 per cent higher at Rs 877.15 compared to Monday's closing price of Rs 873.50 on Bombay Stock Exchange.


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Q: Update: USER ERROR - TYPO !! grunt-contrib-coffee error finding file & writing to destination In my Gruntfile.js I have the coffee task configured as so and one file script.coffee exists in the src/ directory:
coffee: {
    dist: {
        files: [{
            /* FIX: exapand: true, */
            expand: true,
            cwd: 'src/',
            src: '**/*.coffee',
            dest: 'lib/',
            ext: '.js'
        }]
    }
}

When running grunt coffee I get the following error:
Running "coffee:dist" (coffee) task
>> Source file "script.coffee" not found.
>> Destination (lib/) not written because compiled files were empty.

The content of the script.coffee is just some code to test the coffeescript configuration and compiles perfectly when I run coffee -c script.coffee from the command line.
script.coffee for the record:
# A bubble sort implementation, sorting the given array in-place.
bubble_sort = (list) ->
  for i in [0...list.length]
    for j in [0...list.length - i] when list[j] > list[j + 1]
      [list[j], list[j+1]] = [list[j + 1], list[j]]
  list

# Test the function.
console.log bubble_sort([3, 2, 1]).join(' ') is '1 2 3'
console.log bubble_sort([9, 2, 7, 0, 1]).join(' ') is '0 1 2 7 9'

I have other projects elsewhere using this same configuration... I just can;t figure out the issue...
Anyone have any insight?

A: You have a typo in files: [{ exapand: true ... }], it should be expand: true.

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Dunkin' teams up with Beyond Meats to offer veggie-based breakfast sandwich
Dunkin' and Beyond Meat launch breakfast sandwich
By Elizabeth Milano | July 25, 2019 at 2:36 PM EDT - Updated July 25 at 4:09 PM
(Gray News) - Dunkin' and Beyond Meats joined forces to roll out a brand-new plant-based menu item: The Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich.
Dunkin' is the first U.S. restaurant to serve Beyond Breakfast Sausage.
The on-the-go breakfast sandwich is made with a sausage patty containing 100% plant-based ingredients and a mix of spices specifically made for Dunkin', served on an English muffin with egg and American cheese.
Tower of Plant-Based Power 🌱 🙌 Try the new Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich, made with @beyondmeat's plant-based protein patty, available now only in Manhattan! #DNKNxBYND
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"Dunkin' has always stood apart for offering new and exciting choices to meet the needs of our on-the-go guests, and we are proud to collaborate with this industry leader to become the first U.S. restaurant chain to serve a Beyond Breakfast Sausage option," said David Hoffman, Dunkin' President and CEO.
Complimentary samples of the Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich were introduced at a Dunkin' in New York on Wednesday.
This is the latest in the plant-based meat trend popping up in popular fast food restaurants. Burger King is rolling out the "Impossible Whopper," and KFC is launching a vegan chicken sandwich called "The Imposter."
Dunkin' has not announced when the new sandwich will be rolled out nationwide.
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Q: Error while merging and converting two markdown files to pdf using pandoc I'm using to pandoc to create pdf via following command:

pandoc -s -o analysis.pdf latex_header.md Analysis.md

The following error is shown :

Error producing PDF.
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l.129 ...uence of real number is a function,(f:\N

Content of latex_header.md

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\newcommand{\com}{\mathbb{C}}
\newcommand{\N}{\mathbb{N}}
\newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}}
\newcommand{\e}{\varepsilon}
\newcommand{\sequence}[1]{(#1_n){n=1}^{\infty}}
\newcommand{\braces}[1]{\left{#1\right}}
\newcommand{\ra}{\rightarrow}
\newcommand{\pdiff}[2]{\frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2}}
\newcommand{\diff}[3]{\frac{d^{#3}#1}{d#2^{#3}}}
\newcommand{\summ}[2]{\sum{#1}^{#2}}
\newcommand{\fbraks}[1]{\left(#1\right)}
\newcommand{\tbraks}[1]{\left[#1\right]}
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I also used the pandoc to get the intermediate tex. I can see the problem in line 61 and 75 of the tex file \[...\]. I don't know how to fix it.
Thanks in advance!

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The error arises from your \braces command: use \left\lbrace and \right\rbrace as delimiters.
In addition, still in the latex_header.md, the $$ are useless.


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Our mission is to enhance the experience of Lee University students, employees, and visitors by providing the highest level of maintenance and service to the campus grounds, buildings, and events. We accomplish this by maintaining a positive attitude and a clear vision of our purpose to serve, always remembering our actions and service influences and affects others.
Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for Him is a waste of time or effort.
The Physical Plant Team insures the cleanliness and functionality of all campus buildings, maintains the campus grounds, works on energy conservation and recycling, and provides setups for special events. Please contact us via the email link below for requests or questions.
Work Order Entry
Below is a step by step process to get set up on Physical Plant's Work Order System.
Students, please contact your RD in order to get the account number and password. Faculty and Staff, please contact Physical Plant at pplant@leeuniversity.edu to get account number and password.
1. To begin go to Physical Plant's Work Order System
2. Once you load that website you will see the page pictured below.
3. Once you have clicked the link you will see this section below populate on the screen. Follow the instructions pictured below precisely.
4. You have created your account, however it will not save to the system until you have submitted your first work order. Please do not take this time to attempt a "Test" work order. Initiate this process when you are ready to submit your first work order for best results.
5. Please take the time to memorize your password. The submittal password, not to be confused with your personal password, should be obtained through your Residential Director if you are a student or through Physical Plant, if you are faculty or staff.
Waste Stream Analysis
The Lee University Art Department has converted to oil-based paints to inhibit the use of mineral spirits and other harsh chemicals. The clay and glaze material used in ceramics are recycled and do not have an adverse effect on the environment.
The McKenzie Athletic Training Facility uses Stericycle, a local company licensed for the safe removal of bio hazard waste, to maintain all sharps and biohazard material containers.
Lee Dining Services
Sodexo understands the importance of a sustainable environment. As a result, we have put together a Sustainability Committee, that has created policies and programs that highlight our ongoing commitment to a sustainable environment. Sodexo has designed innovative kitchen and dining hall management systems to reduce the amount of energy and water used in food storage and preparation, and to minimize waste. We provide programs to recycle and compost waste from food service operations, reduce the use of chemicals in dishwashing and cleaning, and work with our suppliers to minimize packaging. We also offer incentives for our customers to use reusable products and offer disposable products that have less environmental impact than their conventional counterparts, such as those manufactured using less petroleum or that are biodegradable. Sodexo also supports the communities in which we do business, as well as providing fresher products through the purchase of locally grown foods. Our commitment means working with 6,000 businesses and a network of more than 600 farmers across the country. In most of the kitchens we operate across North America, more than half of the produce we serve in-season is locally grown.
In addition to using fresh, seasonal, and locally grown foods, Sodexo also uses ethical and responsible sourcing practices that support community development and help move the food sector onto a sustainable path. These include purchasing foods that are:
Organically grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers
Humanely raised in ways that protect the health and well-being of livestock and minimize the use of antibiotics and other chemicals
Sustainably caught from properly managed wild fisheries and aquaculture facilities operated to protect natural fish populations and the surrounding environment
Fairly traded and contribute to an improved quality of life in agricultural regions
Sustainably grown using agricultural practices that protect natural habitat, conserve energy, restore soil health, and protect water quality
We also partner with vendors such as Griffin Industries which manages our restaurant grease recycling program, reclaiming our used oil into a host of value-added product streams.
Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The procedures for handling chemical and biological waste may vary, depending on the nature of the experiment. Any chemical waste considered hazardous or toxic does not enter the drainage system, but instead is logged and stored for removal by our chemical waste removal company, MKC Enterprises, Inc. Bio hazardous materials are first autoclaved for sterilization and then stored until removed by Stericycle, Inc.
Printers, monitors, peripheral pieces, computers, laptops, and hard drives are destroyed or recycled in strict accordance with local, state, and federal legislation. Hard drives that pass the DOD (Department of Defense) wipe of the data are put back to factory specifications and considered refurbished. Most drives, however, do not meet this standard, and are physically destroyed. The company we use is Scott Computer & Recycling, who operates as a Zero Landfill Facility.
Cleveland, TN 37320-3450
Email: pplant@leeuniversity.edu Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
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MEGAN WIMPELBERG
Elementary Education Major
Senior Megan Wimpelberg is an elementary education major from Nashville, Tennessee. She was introduced to Lee University when the school's acapella group, Voices of Lee, performed at her home church. She was drawn to Lee for its "incredible education program, copious musical outlets, and positive Christian atmosphere."
"When I finally toured Lee, I had an overwhelming peace about my decision to go here," said Megan.
Megan has been a member of Voices of Lee since her freshman year and recently returned from Germany, where Voices was invited to perform at two different locations for employees and administrators of the Wacker Corporation.
Lee has been a home away from home for Megan, who called her Lee community, "a family that supports me when I'm down and encourages me when I'm overwhelmed." She looks forward to maintaining those relationships long after graduation.
After graduating, Megan plans to teach at a Title I school while pursuing her master's degree.


Tremors are shaking the ground around Iceland's unstable Bardarbunga spring of gushing lava, yet specialists say there's a consummately sensible clarification for this: The spring of gushing lava is likely refilling its tank with magma and planning, though gradually, for its next ejection.
Bardarbunga is one of Iceland's most dynamic well of lava frameworks. It last emitted from September 2014 to February 2015, retching magma and discharging gasses, for example, sulfur dioxide.
After the well of lava's half year long emission finished, the region experienced no seismic tremors, Barsotti said. Be that as it may, tremors started shaking the locale again in December 2015, albeit most were very little, with an extent of around 3.0 or less, she said.
From that point forward, extra little tremors have shaken the district, in some cases a few times each day, Barsotti said. Nonetheless, four seismic tremors of higher sizes — 3.9; 3.2; 4.7 and 4.7 — cocked eyebrows when they shook the well of lava in late October.
These bigger thunderings likely imply that the spring of gushing lava is recharging its magma supply, which burst out amid Bardarbunga's last ejection.
"This is a piece of its life," Barsotti disclosed to Live Science. "After an ejection, it begins to get crisp magma," to a great extent due to expanded weight somewhere down in its framework, she said.
It's conceivable that the tremors are getting more grounded on the grounds that the fountain of liquid magma's overwhelming, bowl-like caldera floor fallen to some degree amid the last emission, Barsotti said. Presently, the magma might drive the caldera move down, driving, to a limited extent, to these bigger seismic tremors, she said.
Be that as it may, it's hard to state without a doubt. "It's difficult to recognize what a profound volcanic framework is doing, as the greater part of our estimations are recently done to finish everything, at the surface," Barsotti said.
The Bardarbunga volcanic framework is around 120 miles (190 kilometers) in length and 15 miles (25 km) wide. The framework has ejected no less than 26 times in the course of recent years. Before the 2014-2015 emission, the framework had last emitted in 1910, as per the Iceland Monitor.
The Vatnajokull icy mass covers some portion of this framework. On the off chance that the magma put away under the icy mass were to emit, it could quickly soften the ice there and cause a calamitous surge that would barrel toward individuals living in the swamps underneath the spring of gushing lava, Barsotti said.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office screens the framework for seismic action 24 hours every day, except it's impossible to say when Bardarbunga will emit next, Barsotti said.
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Launched in 2007, CrunchBase has quickly become a fantastic resource for the startup community. Even though the database has always been accessible through the CrunchBase API, CrunchBase released in April 2013 an Excel spreadsheet containing a significant portion of the dataset, so that more people would be able to help improve the accuracy of the data.
The CrunchBase team has also launched in May the CrunchBase Venture Programme to gain support from US VC investors in building out a more open, timely, and accurate dataset.
Sadly, the focus of these initiatives has only been in the US so far (the downloadable Excel spreadsheet, for instance, does not include data from European countries), and yet CrunchBase' European data would really benefit from the initiative: I estimate that the dataset is less than 15% accurate in Europe versus c.80% in the US.
These charts show a clear improvement of the CrunchBase' US dataset over time, from below 10% accuracy prior to 2004 to above 70% after 2011.
I repeated the same analysis for CrunchBase' French VC deals/start-ups and found that the accuracy was below 50% for 2002-2009 data (based on an extraction of the Crunchbase dataset in July 2010). I have only repeated the analysis for France (I could not easily find historical investment data for other European countries) but I suspect that the CrunchBase dataset is weak in many European countries. This would not be surprising: webstatdomain.net shows that Techcrunch.com only gets limited traffic from European countries: the UK (3.7%) and the Netherlands (1.4%) are the only two countries appearing in the Top 10 by share of visitors.
Improving the CrunchBase dataset would greatly benefit Europe's start-up community: a public, free and comprehensive directory of investors, start-ups and key employees is the first step towards enhanced transfers of skills, experience and investment across European countries.
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Covid-19: Bulawayo records 273 new cases and 3 deaths
vantunews 17th July, 2020
Three more people from Bulawayo have succumbed to Covid-19, pushing the death toll in Zimbabwe to 23.
Two died at home before they were tested for the virus, and a third died in hospital, the ministry said without providing further information.
The month of July – with 16 deaths so far – has become the deadliest month since the respiratory illness landed in the country on March 20.
The ministry reported 273 new cases, 260 of them local transmissions. It said 231 of the cases were from Bulawayo, but covered a period of seven days.
The test lab at Mpilo Central Hospital went for days without vital testing consumables, causing a build-up of specimens.
"Due to a backlog of sample processing at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTBRL), Bulawayo Province has reported 231 cases today which were collected over the last seven days but were not processed. The cases will be distributed in the epi-curve according to dates the samples were collected," the ministry said in a statement.
Thirty new recoveries were reported, taking the number of recovered patients to 425.
For many months, health officials in Zimbabwe blamed a spike in new cases on returning residents, but local transmissions are increasing rapidly.
Official figures show that local transmissions now account for 606 cases, compared with 756 for returning residents.
Zimbabwe imposed a lockdown on March 30 to slow the spread of the virus, but the measures were eased owing to economic pressures.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday said they were considering re-imposing tougher restrictions on movement, which are likely to target the major cities of Harare and Bulawayo.
Nurses and doctors are on strike in Zimbabwe's public hospitals, and the spike in new cases could cause a major health crisis.
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CLEVELAND — An internal medicine resident at the Cleveland Clinic was among those refused entry to the United States under an executive order by President Donald Trump that prompted protests and criticism from Ohio elected officials Sunday.
The 26-year-old doctor from Cleveland Heights, Suha Abushamma, has been employed at the hospital since July on a work visa. She was detained in New York Saturday, while trying to return from a trip to Saudi Arabia, and put back on a plane to the Middle East, she said in an interview with Cleveland.com.
Abushamma is Muslim and a citizen of Sudan, one of the seven Muslim-majority countries affected by Trump's temporary ban on entering the United States. A federal judge issued an emergency stay Saturday night on enforcement of Trump's edict as confusion and protests broke out at airports across the country.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the order was "an extreme vetting proposal that didn't get the vetting it should have had" and that Abushamma should have been allowed to return.
"In my view, we ought to all take a deep breath and come up with something that makes sense for our national security," he said.
Protesters also descended on John Glenn International Airport in Columbus and a smaller group reportedly picketed at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport, Mason and Hebron.
Abushamma told Cleveland.com she had planned to be in the Middle East for three weeks but cut the trip short after hearing Trump was proposing the order. She said after being put back on a outbound plane that she would finish out her planned visit to family while awaiting further information.


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We're All Dead Enders Now
April 21, 2013 by Paul Carlsen @pbcarlsen
This memorial isn't a tourist stop. The landscape is all about abandoned homes, high weeds, liquor stores, crime, and makeshift churches run by the ghetto's whiskey priests. I had to pass a tiny one room "Hope Center" to get here. That place didn't look so filled with hope. It looked abandoned. There weren't any windows on it and the only door had protective bars and the house next to it had a wanted sign on its front door. Everything here is makeshift, including the hope. The guys walking the streets did it with the usual hopeless slouch. Their winter coats were unzipped. Around here, spring clothing is just the winter clothing unzipped. If there's a zip code for this country's dead enders, here it is on the north side of Flint. The Buick City Complex that used to be here is now gone, swept clean as a computer chip. But this makeshift memorial continues to grow. A prisoner of war memorial is across the street. The dead ender architect of this memorial keeps adding and expanding. The man's a dead ender for hope.
"…a decade in america already, I want out"
Cultural alienation is now being blamed for the Tsarnaev brothers' violent acts in Boston. The younger brother's tweets and older brother's YouTube account display some of their hostility, including the younger one's whine about wanting out. The older brother, the boxer, got in trouble for hitting his girlfriend and the father explained you "can't touch a woman" in America. The dead ender memorial is a few miles from the gym where Claressa Shields , a girl who hits back, trained for her Olympic Gold in boxing. She trained against the boys and "hit the heavy bag until it split." Take that, Mr. Jihad.
Boston is famous for its crime writers, being the land of Eddie Coyle and Friends. I believe very much in the criminal mind and criminal seed. The isms and religion are just articles of clothing, team uniforms. I also believe everything starts with footwork. I noticed the older brother was wearing Arabic sandals in the photos of him at the Boston Marathon. Interesting footwear for a spectator at a marathon. I thought the older one's sunglasses could have meant that he was in some intelligence agency's file and wanted to hide his face. Not bad. Two guys with sunglasses might have drawn too much attention. Eh, perhaps. Their body language, attire, looks, reminded me of the Mossad agents who assassinated the Hamas leader in Dubai. Whoever trained them was in the ring with the Mossad, an enemy of the Mossad, and learned to fight with similar tactics. Maybe a stretch, maybe not. Choice of the Boston Marathon was odd. Had to be someone familiar with it. Right on. A college educated mentally ill runner, a Unabomber in Asics- nope. Militias don't give a crap about the Boston Marathon but Patriots Day… Must not forget the war raging in the shadows with Iran. Saudi Arabia arrested 30 spies from Iran, and there's a restaurant in Washington that could have gone boom! The land of the dead ender has one of its own imprisoned and on death row in Iran for being a spy. The Iranian-American Marine from Flint left the military to work for a company that produces reality based war games. The company signed a contract with the Pentagon for language training. One of its reality based games is "Assault on Iran" which wasn't interpreted with benevolence when he visited family in Iran.
The land of the dead ender can be more cruel than the land of Eddie Coyle and Friends. Almost like Chechnya and the Middle East. I doubt that authorities would lock down this area to hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers. In this area, you don't throw a punch to miss or shoot to miss. Grandma has a gun underneath her pillow for the intruder and it's one and done, either way. The Arab store owners have guns. The cops aren't coming to the rescue. They've been laid off. Wolf Blitzer isn't on the front lawn. Miranda has skipped town with everyone else. You're on your own, a certified dead ender. While in Boston, it's a frenzy. Thousands of law enforcement, robots, SWAT, ATF, FBI, flash bangs, hundreds of rounds fired, and the 19 year old pot head comes out from the boat under his own strength. His worst wound is self inflicted. The commentators from England and Israel, veterans of terrorism, bite their lips. The dead enders for hope add another flag to their memorial.
The man in Flint wrote on the memorial for love and prayers to go out to the world. We're all dead enders now.
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Discerning between trustworthy health-related information and misguided, un-researched information can be a laboring and even terrifying task for any patient. Most of us have surely fallen victim to something called "Cyberchondria," the online counterpart of hypochondria, where we create a fear within ourselves that we have some outrageous disease after doing online health searches. With the rise of the health care costs nationally, it makes sense that an increased number of patients will look for cheaper alternatives online to help cope with their large medical bills.


A strain refers to a type of injury that occurs in the muscle or tendon of soft tissue. Our body is comprised of many types of tissues. One of the more dynamic tissues are the muscles that are present throughout. These muscles allow for our active movements. Without muscles and their contractile ability we would be of limited usefulness as these tissues contract and relax to bend and straighten our limbs, joints, neck and back. This nice mobility also comes with its risk for injury. A strain is when you overstretch a muscle and its fibers or the tendon that attaches it to the bone. A strain can also occur when too much force is applied such as; swinging hard with a hammer or tennis racquet, or taking a long down hill hike or falling off of a surface. There are many possibilities that exist in our day to day routine that can result in a muscle strain. The bodies response is inflammation in attempt protect the injury as well as to help to initiate the healing process. There is a natural course of events that occur to promote healing of injured tissues, and how quickly we do heal is related to many factors. Healthy nutrition is paramount.
Physical Therapists are also a profession that can interject and help to promote healing as well as to initiate some mobilization that may help to limit or prevent the development of adhesions, areas of stiffness, that often result from strain injuries. Therapists also utilize modalities to help promote healing, reduce pain and reduce inflammation. After the acute phase of injury and rest rehabilitation is often necessary to regain full return of function and strength in the injured tissue.


Patricia Bath is the FIRST person to invent and demonstrate laserphaco cataract surgery. "Sometimes even now when I'm told I was a "first," it comes as a surprise, because it's only through history that you understand that kind of thing."
What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber women, but where the altitude is awesome. Our goal with Firsts is for every woman and girl to find someone whose presence in the highest reaches of success says to her that it is safe to climb, come on up, the view is spectacular.


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The Gori Law Firm Sponsors Area Organizations and Events with Commitments totally nearly $50,000
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., Feb. 9, 2015 - Keeping in step with its commitment to community service, The Gori Law Firm started off 2015 with major commitments totally $49,000 to various organizations throughout the region. The organizations receiving support from The Gori Law Firm include the Edwardsville YMCA, the Boy Scouts of America (Edwardsville Troop # 1301), American Cancer Society's -Mardi Gras Ball, Edwardsville Neighbors in Need and Caritas Family Solutions of Belleville.
The Edwardsville-based law firm is contributing $25,000 to the Edwardsville YMCA. This donation will help enrich Edwardsville and surrounding communities through new and improved programs and services to help promote a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Boy Scouts of America (Edwardsville Troop # 1301) will received $10,000 from the firm to help a new generation of scouts achieve goals they couldn't accomplish alone, emphasizing the unity of the scout movement and making it easier to live out the Boy Scouts mission and vision statements.
The Gori Law Firm is also sponsoring several area events. The American Cancer Society's Mardi Gras Ball being held Feb. 17 in Collinsville will benefit from a $10,000 donation from the law firm. Additionally, $2,000 was given to both Edwardsville Neighbors in Need for its Taste of Edwardsville Event on March 7 and to Caritas Family Solutions for its Heart & Soul Gala and Second Annual Growing Hope Breakfast to benefit the more than 4,400 children and adults who receive services from Caritas Family Solutions.
The Gori Law Firm gives their time and resources to a myriad of organizations both locally and nationally. The firm's partners and staff raise funds each year for Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation through various events spearheaded by the firm, such as a local Pub Crawl for Meso, Paint Main Street Blue and Cycling for Meso events.
"We feel a firm of our size should give back to the community and should support causes that matter to us, our many attorneys, our clients and those who have helped our firm in its success as one of the largest asbestos and pharmaceutical litigation firms in the Midwest," added Gori.


In his novella "The Library of Babel", the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) conjures up a vast storehouse of the world's learning, an allegorical library to which everyone holds a card. In its labyrinthine depths, seekers wander endlessly, forever in search of the particular book that will explain the enigma of existence.
Inspired by Borges's description of the library as "an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries," the French printmaker Erik Desmazières has done a suite of 11 etchings and aquatints to illustrate an edition of the Borges book.
Rendered in black and white, with cues from Piranesi and M.C. Escher, the prints are wonderful to behold. The multilevel library exterior, a profusion of portals and buttresses, is an improbable meld of medieval cathedral and the Tower of Babel. Views of its tiered and arched interiors, swarming with seekers, include the noble "Room of the Planets", a grandiose chamber dominated by a surreal sphere; the "Hexagonal Room", whose intricately constructed sides culminate in a hexagonal oculus, and a "Plunging View" that takes the eye a dizzying way down an infinitely tiered hexagonal shaft.
The entire project is a tour de force (or tower de force?) of drawing that sensitively captures the mystical spirit of Borges's text.


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Purchase secure and easy online by referring to internet base store , DQ shop , and selecting what you need.Read the information about the the goods paitintly , and then buy them.
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The site was formed with the participation of some animal husbandry experts and engineer afrabandpei yaser in 1388 . engineer afrabanpei got his associate degree from Tehran jahad keshavarzi university and his bachelors degree in poultry from university of educational complex of jahad keshavarzi of mazandran province. The group entered into this business intending to improve birds, industry in iran and other neighboring countries , and because of interest and being expert in the field of pultry production , we shipped out our products with the latest method targeting destination market.
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The site was formed with the participation of some animal husbandry experts and engineer afrabandpei yaser in 1388 . engineer afrabanpei got his associate degree from Tehran jahad keshavarzi university and his bachelors degree in poultry from university of educational complex of jahad keshavarzi of mazandran province.


December 2018 - Westcoast selects QuickStart Billing for Azure.
PRD have been awarded the data processing and billing contract for the Westcoast Group. PRD have delivered phase one with an initial billing requirement of circa £70 million pa for Azure Services, CSP and Nfon telephony.
A Custom version of QuickStart Billing will now be further enhanced for other Westcoast business processes, including integration into Microsoft's Partner Centre API and delivering QuickStart Billing as a BOBO (Billing-On-Behalf-Of) to enable Westcoast to offer white-labelled billing services to their reseller base.
Billing Analyst to join our busy expanding support team.
We are looking to expand our customer support team due to continued customer growth. The role will include dealing with general customer support queries, completing monthly bill runs, helping to resolve any billing issues and ensuring our customers can exploit the full functionality and potential of our QuickStart Billing platforms.
From time-to-time, the scope will include assisting with new customer on-boarding processes with setting up new customers, liaising with the technical & development team on customer specific enhancements and developments, as well as new customer training as and when required. This is usually performed in-house or web-based.
Anyone with telecoms billing or related background will be preferred, but not essential as overall personality and willingness to learn is equally important. Experience of the QuickStart Billing platform is not essential as training will be given.
Please feel free to come over and have a friendly chat with us.
Our new web-site is now live. The response has been very positive. We welcome your feedback. Thank you.
More to follow. We have just rolled out a US compliant version of QuickStart to a large UK telecoms expanding into North America. Their options included sourcing a US based billing vendor to cover their US requirements. Instead we developed the required functionality within QuickStart. This can be deployed as additional functionality within an existing customer system, or as a separate QuickStart US system.
We already have US based customers and experience of North America going back to the late 1990s with Verizon Wireless and other communication corporations. Our systems support European and Euro billing (including language translations), however US tax legislation is extremely complex, requiring a new level of compliance capabilities within QuickStart.
This highlights the customisable nature of our underlying technology and how we work with our customers, meeting their expanding requirements within QuickStart. Our customers are satisfied, while for us our technical capabilities and functionality are constantly evolving.
New web-site coming soon. With continued growth, constant product enhancements and development of our web-based services, we are up dating our web-site. Should be available in late Autumn 2016. This will include social media activities and analysis. We will be employing social media specialists to take care of all our media roles. So expect to hear more from us.
In addition to supporting local charities and community events, PRD Technologies Ltd are proud new sponsors of Farnham Town Under 11s for the North Hampshire League 2016-2017 season. Divisional Champions and cup winners last season, we wish the team all the best for another great season. Good luck.
We will be exhibiting at Convergence Summit South on 27th and 28th September 2016. We look forward to meeting you then. Please come and say hello.
A quick thank you to everyone who came to visit us at Convergence Summit in Harrogate. It was a pleasure as always meeting our customers, talking with new prospects and chatting away with other exhibitors and organisers.
On behalf of everyone here at PRD, we would like to wish our customers a happy Christmas and all the very best for 2016. Remember we are here to help and support every single one of you, to guide you every step of the way. A very special welcome to all our new customers during 2015 and look forward to working and growing together in 2016.
As part of the continued development of our QuickStart Billing platform, this now includes APIs into SAGE One. This is standard functionality added to our QuickStart suite of billing products. As a reminder, our "Pro" products can be customised to meet virtual any application and functionality, bespoke and unique to you only, unlimited in scalability. Our product suites are web-based, hosted from one of our Data Centres. QS Pro version includes the option for hosting from your own data centre if preferred.
Comms Business Magazine talks to Sachin Vaish, Managing Director of Manchester based network services company Vaioni, to find out what the opportunities and challenges are for his company in the coming year.
Comms Business Magazine talks to Bart Delgado, Managing Director of Akixi, about billing services and how, from the early company days of preparing bills on spread sheets Akixi has progressed to a solution that works for him as his own products work for his own customers – in a SaaS model.
According to Simon Adams, Managing Director at PRD Technologies Ltd, a billing solution is the lifeblood of a business; it is mission critical to that business and has to be right for that business, but for most resellers billing should simply be a few clicks.
PRD have been awarded three new contracts for QuickStart Go during the first quarter of 2013. We have also received confirmation of contract renewal from a significant US based telecoms operators to continue with our billing and mediation services and toolset solutions.
In addition, New York University have also renewed QuickStart billing for another 12 months. These events round off an excellent first quarter for us.
PRD are delighted to welcome Louise Annette to the QuickStart Billing team. Louise will further strengthen the QuickStart support team, and will take responsibilities for new account relationships. The role comes about due to continued customer growth of our QuickStart Billing platform.
Louise joins us with considerable customer support experience and we all look forward to Louise establishing herself within the team.
Louise is about to complete her NVQ in business studies. We wish her well for her finals in spring this year.
To visit the section on PRD as published in the Channel Profiles 2013, the Comms Business guide to the UK's convergence channel.
NTTE have awarded PRD a contract for QuickStart Billing. PRD have customised a bespoke system for NTTE to meet their customer reporting requirements under a fully managed web-based service agreement.
NTT Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, which is the international arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group (NTT Group) - the largest telecommunications company in the world.
NTT Europe is headquartered in London and offers a wide range of customised enterprise solutions with expertise in private, public and hybrid cloud networks, global Tier-1 Internet backbone and related ICT solutions to enterprises worldwide.
PRD are delighted to have delivered a bespoke billing solution for Inclarity Limited. Following four months of intense development and testing to tight deadlines, the system went fully live for November 2012. The solution replaced three aging legacy systems previously used by Inclarity.
The solution is a fully managed and hosted version based on our QuickStart Billing platform. It also includes development of a new Call Reporting system, allowing Inclarity's users and partners to create their own call management reports.
Inclarity are a leading UK telecoms provider, having been supplying Hosted VoIP services since 2003. We are proud to be working together, as we are with all our customers.
PRD are delighted to announce the launch of QS Go, near off-the-shelf cloud based billing solution suitable for most core resellers. It is designed to complement our more complex and feature rich QuickStart Pro system, more suitable for telecoms and CP's with bespoke requirements in mind.
Comms Business Magazine talks to Kevin Harrison of TXI to see how he has added new income streams to his business and found the right billing solution.
30th September 2010 - PRD Technologies are delighted to announce five new clients for its Quickstart Billing suite in a successful second fiscal quarter of 2010.
Four are established UK SME telecoms resellers with requirements ranging from near off-the-shelf versions of Quickstart billing requiring minimal customisation for hosted and fully managed (bureau) services. Another is for a leading provider in South Africa. This later opportunity includes real-time collection systems interacting directly with the switch, together with other IT and software business related solutions over a phased delivery period. Processing volumes near 10 plus million per month (20 million minutes) and growing.
These new customers further underline the flexibility of our Quickstart Billing solutions and other product suites in supporting an extremely diverse range of telecom related activities, both in the UK and overseas.
We look forward working together with these new customers. Well done to everyone concerned.
Following an independent assessment in June 2009, PRD was awarded ISO 9001 accreditation at the first attempt. This award is recognised globally and achieved by only a handful of UK business every year. The award was successfully renewed in June 2010 and a reflection of the quality of service we provide our customers and standards in which we conduct our business.
Good news everybody! PRD have acquired Face Value Ltd.
Face Value provides bureau-billing services to mostly UK based telecom resellers, and has been doing so for 15 years.
PRD have retained key Face Value staff, which will enable PRD to continue to provide Face Value customers with the same service they previously enjoyed.
Using the existing point-of-contact structure, the transfer of the overall management has been a smooth transition so far. PRD are now able to offer the FaceValue customers access to our advanced billing system technology and other services if they wish, including customer care and support. All Face Value customers will be offered the opportunity to migrate across to the QuickStart Billing system on the same terms as their existing contracts…..at no extra cost.
For Face Value customers and staff, this acquisition offers improvements and opportunities for the future. We look forward to working together with our new customers and colleagues, and thank everyone in anticipation of their kind support.


On 18 December 2013, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 68/167 on the right to privacy in the digital age , sending a clear message to the international community that the right to privacy applies online as well as offline.
Recently, the Third Committee adopted a second resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age  brought to the UN by Brazil and Germany and sponsored by the countries illustrated in the map.
The resolution emphasizes that unlawful or arbitrary surveillance or interception of communications violates the right to privacy. Significantly, the resolution also formally recognises that metadata can have a privacy impact, and that even the mere collection of data can violate the right to privacy.
There is a call to member states to take measures to stop and prevent surveillance-related privacy violations, echoing the call in the 2013 resolution. The 2014 resolution also goes a step further and calls for member states to offer individuals whose privacy rights have been violated by unlawful or arbitrary surveillance with access to an effective remedy, consistent with international human rights obligations.
Now that the position of the supporting member states has been made clear in these resolutions, it is important to consider what those principles mean in practice. In this regard, the Internet Society strongly supports the significant progress that has been made in the UN on the issue of pervasive surveillance, but calls upon member states, in partnership with all stakeholders, to articulate what is (or is not) unlawful or arbitrary surveillance – to consider the practical meaning of conditions such as "necessary", "proportionate" and "not arbitrary" in that context.
For the Internet Society, the key criterion here is legitimacy. To be legitimate, a surveillance policy must not only be legal: it must also be demonstrably necessary, proportionate and fair. Since "fairness" is a subjective quality, demonstrating fairness relies on other factors which the Internet Society has consistently championed: transparency, accountability, and appropriate representation of the rights and interests of all stakeholders.
We also believe there should be open debate on how to protect Internet users from unlawful or arbitrary surveillance.


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Question: How many net carbs are in Thai tea?
How many net carbs are in tea?
How many calories are in a Thai milk tea?
Is Thai tea high in sugar?
Is black tea Keto friendly?
What drinks have no carbs?
Is Thai milk tea high in calories?
Is Thai iced tea bad for you?
Is Thai tea boba healthy?
What makes Thai tea different?
Tea is a natural option that contains a negligible number of carbs — typically less than 1 gram per cup (240 mL).
The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
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5 tsp sugar 81
0.33 cup pearl tapioca 180
1 cup black tea 2.4
2 tbsp milk 16
Thai tea is made with black tea leaves, so it may provide the same benefits as a regular cup of black tea. However, traditional Thai tea contains a lot of sugar, which could have a very negative impact on your health.
Can you drink tea and coffee on the keto diet? Yes. Plain, unsweetened coffee and tea served black are keto-friendly.
Pure alcohol products like rum, vodka, gin, tequila and whiskey all contain no carbs. In addition, light beer and wine can be relatively low in carbs.
Thai tea. Thai tea is another version of milk tea that's popular in Southeast Asia. Served either hot or cold, it mixes black tea, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk and is topped with either coconut milk or whole milk. These heavy ingredients give a single 8-ounce (240-ml) serving 160 calories ( 21 ).
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Like many forms of herbal tea, Thai tea is rich in antioxidants that can help you maintain a healthy immune system. Studies have shown that Thai tea has similar levels of antioxidants as green tea and other herbal teas popularized specifically for their anti-inflammatory benefits.
Unfortunately, boba itself provides very few health benefits, though its calories and carbohydrates can provide you with a boost in energy. In most cases, boba tea contains high levels of sugar, which is linked to long-term health conditions like diabetes and obesity.
Thai Tea is is made from strongly-brewed black tea, often spiced with ingredients such as star anise, crushed tamarind, cardamom, and occasionally others as well (often making this beverage a favorite among masala chai tea fans). This brew is then sweetened with sugar and sweetened condensed milk, and served over ice.
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Today's average wedding costs about $40,000. Between catering, entertainment and photography, costs definitely add up quickly. While you're budgeting out your spending, however, don't forget to make room for groomsmen gifts.
Your groomsmen will likely be making sacrifices for you so that they can take part in your big day. Between the bachelor party and purchasing or renting a tuxedo, your guys are spending quite a bit of money. That's why it's important to buy them a gift that's personalized and thoughtful so that they feel appreciated.
Give your groomsmen a personalized beer mug so that they can stop drinking their favorite brews straight from the bottle. When it comes to the personalizing aspect, feel free to get creative. Find a company that will paint their faces directly onto the glasses or go with an engraver who will etch the logo of each of your friends' favorite football teams onto the front.
A pocketknife is a highly useful gift that never goes out of style. A quality pocketknife will last for years to come.
Many companies will engrave each of your buddies' names directly onto each knife. Another option is to find a company that will etch their names onto the surface of the leather cases.
If your friends are the type of guys who like to go camping each year, there's no better gift than a monogrammed rucksack. Go with a company that makes high quality rucksacks that will be able to handle some weight and are resistant to water.
There are many companies out there that will monogram any type of fabric. Simply order the rucksacks from a quality manufacturer and send them off to have them monogrammed.
If your friends have a sense of humor, they'll love receiving custom-made bobblehead dolls bearing their likenesses. It's easy to find companies on the internet that make custom bobblehead dolls. All you have to do is send them a couple of photos of each of your groomsmen and they'll do the rest.
For a group of guys who love sports, customized cufflinks featuring team logos are the way to go. Find a company that creates custom cufflinks and order them to make pairs that display each of your guys' favorite sports team logos.
By selecting a thoughtful and personalized gift for each of your groomsmen, you're showing them how much you appreciate their friendship as well as the specific sacrifices that they have made for the most important day of your life. These five personalized groomsmen gifts are highly creative and incredibly useful.


Microsoft released an out-of-band patch on Monday. Out of band patch releases rarely happen and are generally because of a zero-day exploit that needs an immediate fix.
Virtual Administrator approved the patch as soon as it became available Monday afternoon.
MS13-008: (Internet Explorer) The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer.


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In-person unemployment appointments now available
Lexi Schweinert,
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Gov. Andy Beshear has announced that in person appointments for unemployment services are beginning again on April 15 and people can begin scheduling those appointments today.
During the pandemic, meetings before were only virtual. Jon Sowards, President and CEO of the South Central Kentucky Workforce Development Board wants to stress that in-person meetings must be made by an appointment.
The 30-minute in person appointments can be made between April 15 and April 30. They have about 52 slots per day during the two week period. to make an appointment you click here.
Sowards said during the pandemic, the unemployment system has been overwhelmed. He said this is a step in the right direction to helping people get back on their feet.
"The good news is the state really feels strongly about serving people in person. There's something to be said for sitting across from somebody, listening to their story, and being able to serve them. I think the governor and the labor cabinet have recognized that and really have accelerated the timeline to get back to in person service."
Once slots are full, then on April 19th, people can start making appointments for May 3rd and after in a two week window.


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Al college Ricci giocò a football alla Western Michigan University dal 2015 al 2019. Dopo non essere stato scelto nel Draft NFL 2020 firmò con i Carolina Panthers. Fu svincolato alla fine del training camp. Poco dopo rifirmò con la squadra di allenamento, dove passò tutta la sua stagione da rookie. Il 4 gennaio 2021 firmò un nuovo contratto. Nella stagione 2021 riuscì a entrare nel roster attivo dei Panthers, disputando 16 partite, di cui una come titolare, senza fare registrare alcuna ricezione. La prima fu nella settimana 2 della stagione 2022 da 16 yard su passaggio del quarterback Baker Mayfield.

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I know, I know, long time no see. But, this had a reason. The last few months I worked very hard on the project "Bim Bim". It's a departure monitor for the local transportation company "Linz AG Linien". Now, please note that I am in no way affiliated with them, it just happens that I live here and they open-sourced their live monitoring system.
If you think of photo-editing, you probably think of Adobe Photoshop. It's the software that's probably used the widest. But sadly this doesn't mean it's the best out there. At least for the Mac there is a good alternative available: Pixelmator from the Pixelmator Team. One of the biggest disadvantages of (nearly) all Adobe Products is their custom built User Interface. I don't like it. That interface may work on windows, but it most certainly doesn't on the Mac. That's why I love Pixelmator. Pixelmator was specifically designed and developed for the Mac. But let's look into some of those features, shall we?
Lately I've realized how important my calendar is for me. And how badly Apple did screw up iCal. No offense, but iCal on the Mac is just nothing for me. I want my calendar to be always there when I need it, and to use as less space as possible. And I want the main things I do with my calendar, creating and editing of events, to be simple. This is where I came across Fantastical from Flexibits.
I'm proud to announce an update to MuteKey. After gathering some feedback from users I implemented a completely rewritten VU-meter which should work way better now. I also added some preferences. You can now choose which hotkey you want to use and also which MIDI-note to use. Find the updated version either through the built in updater or through the link after the break.
As you may know, I'm a student at a college in Austria (officially it's called HLW - Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe, but no one I know can translate that into nice english, so...). Now, Apple has recently announced that it is entering into the textbook market with iBooks 2. Personally I think this is really cool and has some really cool advantages for pupils, but I also think that this will not be used in austrian school for at least another 50 years.


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Conservation Notes - November 2021
For the second year, Audubon Washington will hold a virtual advocacy day. This December 7th Audubon members from around the state will meet virtually with their state senators and representatives to discuss Audubon's priorities for the 2022 legislative session. The session begins January 10th. There will be training in preparation for the December 7th event. To participate, register at Audubon in Washington Advocacy Day 2021 | Audubon Washington (https://act.audubon.org/a/advocacy2021?emci=49f51c2e-ff1b-ec11-981f-0050f271a1a2&emdi=5b7c5fca-ff1b-ec11-981f-0050f271a1a2&ceid=154334). You will meet with each legislator as a group with fellow constituents from your legislative district. There is also need for volunteers to be the lead for their district.
Carbon Capture Foundation
This small, family-run foundation based in Longview, Washington, is dedicated to helping landowners address the climate crisis by planting trees to sequester carbon https://www.thecarboncapturefoundation.org). The foundation contacted Skagit Audubon last month offering to provide free, bare-root trees for this purpose. With help from Washington Native Plant Society and referencing National Audubon's database of northwestern trees that provide habitat for birds, the foundation has produced a list of available tree species it will provide at no cost to landowners. If you own property where you could plant trees to hold keep carbon out of the atmosphere and would like to receive trees at no cost from the Carbon Capture Foundation, please contact Tim Manns (conservation@skagitaudubon.org). National Audubon research identifies climate change as the single greatest threat to birds, and this is a way landowners can readily help.
Skagit County Shoreline Master Program
The Planning Commission continues to wend its way through edits to the draft comprehensive update and required periodic review of Skagit County's Shoreline Master Program (SMP) based on public comments and staff input. The SMP is the plan required by Washington's Shoreline Management Plan whose update in Skagit County is years overdue. The present plan dates from 1976. The process of updating the SMP stalled in 2016 and now, having been taken up again last year, nears completion. Skagit Audubon joined other organizations and individuals in requesting that the update, among other things, address sea level rise and better protect shorelines against armoring. Although planning for the effects of sea level rise is not yet required by the Department of Ecology (DOE) under its responsibility for implementing the Shoreline Management Act, reality dictates that Skagit County can either plan for sea level rise now or wait until the crisis is upon us and deal with it then. The county's Planning Commission appears to be opting for the latter, consistent with an apparent goal of ensuring the plan has as few teeth as possible. Planning & Development Services has many projects demanding its attention, so there is perhaps a workload factor in doing more than the minimum required by DOE, but grants are available from the department to help counties plan for the sea level rise which is coming with climate change. In his "Looking Ahead to 2022" remarks at the Planning Commission's October 26 meeting, Planning Director Hal Hart mentioned that the state legislature would again address climate change in its upcoming session and that there would likely be a focus on, yes, sea level rise. Look for addressing this important issue to become a legislated requirement in Shoreline Master Program updates.
As soon as November, the Skagit County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to take public comments on the draft Shoreline Master Program. The draft must then meet the approval of the Department of Ecology, which will hold its own public comment period.
This issue which appeared in the last two monthly issues of Conservation Notes is reappearing this month because of the very serious threat FCCs pose to Skagit County and its ability to support the present variety and quantity of birdlife. The Skagit Audubon board voted to add the chapter's name to the list of organizations supporting the Right Growth Right Place campaign opposing changing the county's planning policies to allow these large housing developments at urban density in rural areas. The campaign website (https://rightgrowthrightplace.org) describes ways to help, from circulating a petition asking the County Commissioners to reject the request to allow such developments to donating to cover expenses and provide for legal representation in a possible appeal to the Growth Management Hearings Board. Even if a decision by the county commissioners to allow FCCs were successfully appealed before the Board, a loophole in the Growth Management Act could allow huge housing developments anyway. Articles by Futurewise explain this "vesting" loophole: www.futurewise.org/home. For more information about how you can help with the campaign to stop FCCs, contact conservation@skagitaudubon.org.
See the two last months' Conservation Notes for background on this issue. By filing public records requests the Skagit River Alliance, a local organization of concerned upriver residents and other Skagit County citizens, learned that Skagit County has already signed off on a key permit needed for what is being presented as a plan to mine only the loose material fallen off the cliff at the site of the Big Bear Mine. Years ago, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) indicated that a geotechnical study of the talus slope's stability needed to be done to ensure a safe operation. DNR is unable to show that any such study was ever produced. The agency has also stated that there needs to be a plan to mitigate the effects of the asbestos present in the rock at the mine site. It is not clear at this point if or when these studies will be produced, who will review and approve them, or even whether DNR or Skagit County will be the lead on the environmental review (SEPA). Several state and local officials have been intervening with DNR to further permitting of the mine, bypassing any further involvement by Skagit County. It is important that the full process be followed for examining the potential impacts of this proposed mining operation to people, wildlife, and the environment, from the mine site itself and along the route the rock would travel to the Port of Bellingham. The county-issued1976 conditional use permit for taking loose material at ground level seems to be what Skagit County is deeming sufficient to cover the present very different plan to mine large jetty stone. It would be helpful to write the Skagit County Commissioners requesting that the county, rather than DNR, take the lead in reviewing the mining plan and the potential impacts of mining and transporting the rock.
Skagit County Commissioners:
Lisa Janicki ljanicki@co.skagit.wa.us
Ron Wesen ronw@co.skagit.wa.us
Peter Browning pbrowning@co.skagit.wa.us
March Point (Whitmarsh) dump clean-up
In 2016 and again in 2020 Skagit Audubon submitted comments to the Washington Department of Ecology regarding the clean-up of the March Point toxic waste dump, also known as the Whitmarsh dump. Located between the March Point heronry and Padilla Bay, this site for years received waste from the refineries, Skagit County, and other sources. In more recent years a sawmill operated where the dumping had taken place. It's important to clean up this site but to do so in a way that does not jeopardize the largest heronry on the West Coast. If you've driven past the site on March Point Road in the last month, you probably noticed that the dump site has been cleared of vegetation. All this activity, taking place post-heron nesting, is in preparation for applying for required permits, particularly the JARPA application (Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, covering required local, state, and federal permits). Wood Construction Company is preparing the required heronry management plan, which will be reviewed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. A report from the volunteers who monitor heronry activity at March Point and elsewhere in the county will provide the USFWS with information on the areas that herons use nearby and the timing of the herons' activities.
USFWS review of the heronry plan is expected to take eighteen months. The actual clean-up of the toxic waste site will take place in 2023 or later. During November, the clean-up contractor (Wood Construction Co.) will be drilling monitoring wells and removing the buildings from the site. The company will be required to protect and enhance the wetland which lies between the site and March Point Road and the shoreline following Army Corps regulations.
Community Science – Puget Sound Shorebird Count
The Puget Sound Shorebird Count will take place November 28th. For more information: https://www.ecoinst.org/conservation-programs/waterbird-conservation/puget-sound-shorebird-count/. If you are interested and available to help out with this survey, please reach out to Sarah Belles (sbelles@ecoinst.org) at Ecostudies Institute.
One way for Audubon members to advocate for regional and national protection of birds and other wildlife and their habitat is to respond to action alerts from Washington Audubon and National Audubon. Sign up for Audubon Washington's Action Network at https://act.audubon.org/onlineactions/JGKjknsVTUKMSr4BoP2Nvw2. The National Audubon website (https://www.audubon.org) has abundant information on Audubon's current conservation campaigns. Sign up there to receive national alerts. Also see the Audubon Washington blog for information about a variety of interesting and important issues: https://wa.audubon.org/landing/audublog.
For other issues Skagit Audubon tracked during the past year, some ongoing, see earlier issues of Conservation Notes on the Skagit Audubon website: www. Skagitaudubon.org under the Conservation tab at the top of the page.