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Every year since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, Pride has been marked in June and is frequently accompanied by parades, marches and celebrations. The theme for this year's World Pride is "#YouAreIncluded", a statement that Pride is for everyone who wants to be part of it.
At QinetiQ, we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone is included and can openly be their authentic self. We celebrate the differences alongside the similarities of our people because inclusion generates more discussions and more innovation, so individually and collectively we thrive.
Our LGBTQ+ employee network, JustLike-Q, exists to support this, as do our growing network of allies.
To mark Pride Month this year, we invited Charlie Martin (she/her) to be our speaker at our Pride Month Event. Charlie is a British racing driver who is on her way to becoming the first transgender driver to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, (an endurance race).
Charlie said "Everyone here today has amazing opportunity to make a difference in QinetiQ, by helping create a culture of equality that unlocks human potential…where everyone feels able to advance and thrive in their career - people feel free to be truly authentic - pretty inspiring thought!"
Attendees from the session said it was "brilliant, just brilliant"; "inspirational" and "enthralling" as Charlie eloquently described her experiences and gave us her top tips to be good allies, including:
Share what you learn
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Our JustLike-Q executive sponsor, Amanda Nelson, will feature on the panel of the Virtual Pride Event "LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Defence and STEM: Understanding and overcoming barriers" on 29th June. This internal event was organised and will be hosted by BMT and Prism on behalf of Pride in Defence (the LGBTQ+ network of networks from across the defence industry and the Armed Forces, which evolved from the celebration event that QinetiQ hosted in 2020).
As we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and adjust to new ways of working, we believe that building connections is important now more than ever across the whole of the QinetiQ. During Pride month, we are taking the opportunity to show support for the LGBTQ+ community by attending events, promoting our allies framework, adding pronouns to email signatures and using our Just Like Q backdrops for virtual meetings.
Happy Pride Month everyone!

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"""Starter script for Nova Cert."""

import sys

from oslo.config import cfg

from nova import config
from nova.openstack.common import log as logging
from nova import service
from nova import utils

CONF = cfg.CONF
CONF.import_opt('cert_topic', 'nova.cert.rpcapi')

def main():
    config.parse_args(sys.argv)
    logging.setup("nova")
    utils.monkey_patch()
    server = service.Service.create(binary='nova-cert', topic=CONF.cert_topic)
    service.serve(server)
    service.wait()

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Q: How can I calibrate a joystick on a Mac? A joystick on my controller is off-center, and I don't want to go through the pain of fixing it (it has proprietary screws, plus I don't know what to do with it once I'm inside). How do I go about fixing this?
FYI: I have tried YsJoystickCalibrator to no avail. I am also trying to use Enjoy2, which has no calibration tool AFAIK.

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| name = Coregoninae
| image = Unsere Süßwasserfische (Tafel 21) (6103145410).jpg
| image_caption = Corégono maraena (Coregonus maraena)
| domain = Eukaryota
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| subphylum = Vertebrata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| subclassis = Neopterygii
| infraclassis = Teleostei
| superordo = Protacanthopterygii
| ordo = Salmoniformes
| familia = Salmonidae
| subfamilia = Coregoninae
| subfamilia_authority = Bonaparte, 1845
| subdivision_ranks = genus
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La subfamilia Coregoninae es una de las tres subfamilias de peces que forman la familia salmónidos. Se distribuyen por ríos de agua fría situados al norte de los continentes del hemisferio norte.

Géneros
Los peces de esta subfamilia se agrupan en los siguientes tres géneros:
 Género Coregonus Linnaeus, 1758: el más numeroso con más de 70 especies, distribuidos por ríos de Eurasia y América del Norte cercanos a la zona polar, algunas especies también pasan fases de su vida viviendo en el mar.
 Género Prosopium Jordan, 1878: salmónidos del norte de América del Norte y este de Rusia.
 Género Stenodus Richardson, 1836: salmónidos de ríos rusos tributarios del mar Caspio y del océano Ártico.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Coregoninae. En "World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)".

Salmonidae

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Taught by Olivier Messiaen and others, and influenced by Béla Bartók, Leeuw was a teacher at the University of Amsterdam and, later, a professor of composition and electronic music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam from 1959 to 1986. He studied ethnomusicology and had a lifelong interest in "transculturation".


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Closing schools has a negative impact on students and communities. "There is something wrong with a system that blames children," says expert.
By: John Rosales
Closing public schools not only has a negative impact on student performance but also creates hardship for communities already struggling with disinvestment, according to Linda Darling-Hammond, who moderated one of two panels for a Congressional forum held on Dec. 10 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
"If your only recourse for school challenges is closing schools then you are not figuring out strategies and building on what succeeds," said Darling-Hammond, a faculty director at the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. "School closures seem to be the primary remedy for any sign of failure in a school."
At the forum, "Closed for Learning: The Impact of School Closures on Students and Communities," Darling-Hammond said mass closures reflect shortsighted policies rooted in punitive reform models such as the recently rewritten federal K-12 education law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
"NCLB has contributed to widespread school closings across the country because it required schools to be ranked by test scores," Darling-Hammond said. "We need a new approach to accountability that uses assessment for improvements to build professionalism and capacity."
Federal and state policy decisions increasingly emphasize closings as an accountability measure for schools where standardized test results are low.
But public schools are much more than that, panelists said.
Aside from an academic setting, school buildings are hosts to a variety of education, social, business, and civic activities. Shutting them down has a ripple effect that can lead to a systematic disinvestment of other community institutions such as public housing units, recreational facilities, and small businesses.
"When they close schools, they are closing hospitals, grocery stores, and police stations," said Jitu Brown, national director of the Journey for Justice Alliance (J4JL), an organization of community, youth and parent-led groups based in more than 20 cities. "There is something wrong with a system that blames children."
Brown said that an inordinately high (90 percent in some areas) percentage of school closings impact predominately African-American and low-income communities.
"This is a human rights issue," he said. "It's about equity."
The worsening inequality across the nation indicates that access to academically sound schools is often dependent on a student's ZIP code. Policies that promote residential mobility while also reinvesting in racially segregated and high-poverty neighborhoods are critical to reducing inequality, Brown added.
Julian Vasquez Heilig discusses the impact of school closures on students and communities at a recent Capitol Hill forum.
"A society that doesn't take care of its children is a morally bankrupt society," said Judith Browne-Dianis, co-director of Advancement Project (AP), a civil rights organization. "School closings are not isolated incidents but rather a movement toward privatization."
Analyses by J4JL and AP reveal that since about 2000, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has closed, phased-out, or consolidated about 160 schools and adopted policies that have promoted a proliferation of charter and contract schools in the West and South Sides of the city. In May of 2013 alone, CPS closed 49 elementary schools and one high school. Improving student achievement by relocating students to what is perceived to be higher-ranked, more efficient schools has not materialized, according to the recent studies.
"Closing schools has had little impact on student performance," said Julian Vasquez Heilig, a researcher and professor at California State University at Sacramento. "Student achievement didn't go up … didn't go down."
Instead, Heilig said mass school closures in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and other cities has created a multi-tier system where academically strong schools at the top are located in higher-income neighborhoods and not readily available to all students.
"Only certain students with various types of capital can gain access to good schools," he said. On the lower tiers are the low-performing schools that are "under-served and under-resourced," he added.
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, a state law (Louisiana Act 35) allowed the state-run Recovery School District (RSD) to take over 107 "below average" New Orleans public schools. As RSD began to close schools, it became clear that privatization was the actual purpose, according to the J4JL/AP report.
Instead of closing or privatizing schools, panelists discussed the community school model as a promising guide to address barriers to learning while promoting the well-being of students, neighborhoods and communities. This model features extended time schedules, family and community engagement programs, and other wraparound services, including health, dental and mental health care, adult literacy classes, job training and after-school activities.
"Community schools can turn down the recent decade of top-down reform," Heilig said. "But the conversation has to be bi-directional."
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"It takes a lot of effort to open and shut things down," Darling-Hammond said. "Those resources could be used for improvements. We do know about strategies that work."
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How to import Jainam share Tradelog file from Client's Backoffice in MProfit ?
2. Go to Trades, select Trade logs ans click on Yearly.
3. Select all details and click on Search.
4. Click on Excel to Export the file.
5. File will be downloaded in excel format. You need to open the excel file and save as "CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv)" Format.
6. From MProfit Software use "Jainam Share Trade Log - Excel (v2)" Template to import it.
7. Here is the image of the Sample Back-office file from Jainam Share.
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Category: Horror
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Horror flick Scream is reviewed by our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. A new Ghostface assassin arises twenty-five years after the initial Woodsboro murders, enticing Sidney Prescott back to learn the truth.
Scream returns and a new murderer appears twenty-five years after the initial series of killings in Woodsboro, and Sidney Prescott must return to find the truth. Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox star in this horror film, which will be released in theatres on January 14th, 2022.
Here's the trailer for a new South Korean horror movie landing on Netflix (January 28th 2022), All of Us Are Dead. A high school is turned into the epicentre of a zombie virus epidemic. Students who have been trapped must battle their way out – or risk becoming one of the rabid infected. School's out […]
Anne Rice tribute: audio interview.
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Horror author Anne Rice who sadly passed recently from a stroke (1941-2021), discusses her life, works, and career. Anne discusses how her best-selling novel Interview with a Vampire grew from a short tale, as well as her obsession with vampires—monsters that are also human, capable of experiencing human emotions yet magical entities who exist outside […]
Ghosts, the BBC's spooky horror comedy, back for a season four (TV news).
Ghosts, the BBC's horror comedic sitcom, will now return for a fourth season. The comedy, from the writers and actors of Yonderland and Bill, as well as the original stars of Horrible Histories, will begin shooting in the new year of 2022 and will be shown on BBC One and BBC iPlayer once again. When […]
Terror Tales Of The Scottish Lowlands edited by Paul Finch (book review).
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Each book in the 'Terror Tales' series focuses on an area of Britain and features short fiction accompanied by articles about 'real-life' weird phenomena. The appeal to local readers must guarantee a few sales but there's plenty to like for any UK horror fan and even Johnny Foreigner might derive some pleasure there from. Here's […]
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a horror film review by Mark Kermode.
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Horror film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is reviewed by our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. A virus outbreak at the Spencer Mansion in 1998 causes devastation in Raccoon City.
Look Where You Are Going Not Where You Have Been (The Harvester series book 9) by Steven J Dynes (book review).
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'Hell's Bounty' is a book with a chequered history! The copy I received from the SFCrowsnest review stockpile was the original Subterranean Press paperback edition, which is now long out of print. Since then, Short Scary Tales Publications in the UK, picked it up, but again it went out of print. Now it has yet […]
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Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, gives his opinion on Afterlife, a sequel to the original Ghostbusters movie. When a single woman and her children relocate to a tiny village, they learn about their grandfather's secrets and heritage. Hey, what could go wrong, apart from the gates of hell breaking open.


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.. _update-prerequisites-9-2:

**Caution**

    Carefully read the whole `update to 9.2`_ section
    to understand the update scenario.

    We strongly recommend contacting Mirantis Support if you plan
    to update your Mirantis OpenStack environment.

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Prerequisites
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Before you update Mirantis OpenStack from version 9.0 or 9.1 to 9.2,
verify that you have completed the following tasks:

#. Read the Limitations_ section.

#. Test the update instructions in a lab environment before applying
   the updates to production.
#. Plan a maintenance window before applying the updates to production, as
   some update steps result in a downtime for existing workloads.
#. Verify that you have Internet access on the Fuel Master node to
   download the updated repository.
#. Verify that you have about 2.5 GB of free space in the ``/var/www/nailgun``
   folder if you want to store the updates repository locally and obtain it
   with the ``fuel-mirror`` tool.
#. Log in to the Fuel Master node CLI as root.
#. Add the ``mos92-updates`` repository:

   .. code-block:: console

    yum install -y http://mirror.fuel-infra.org/mos-repos/centos/mos9.0-centos7/9.2-updates/x86_64/Packages/mos-release-9.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

#. Clean the YUM cache:

   .. code-block:: console

    yum clean all

#. Install the ``mos-playbooks`` package:

   .. code-block:: console

    yum install -y mos-playbooks

After completing these tasks, proceed to `Update Fuel Master node`_.

.. _`update to 9.2`: ../update-product.rst
.. _Limitations: update-limitations-9-2.rst
.. _`Fuel User Guide`: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/fuel-docs/mitaka/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/maintain-environment/backup-fuel.html
.. _`Update Fuel Master node`: update-master-9-2.rst


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On the south-facing wall of the YANMAR FLYING-Y BUILDING, we have built a 52 meter high, 23.7 meter wide vertical green space, covering an area of 1,230 m². It contributes to the re-absorption of air pollutants, helps in the recovery of the local environment, and improves amenities for the building's users. The vegetation is bound in a non-woven fabric with a minimal amount of artificial soil and incorporated into the external louvers where it is fed with an automated irrigation system.


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Q: In your opinion, what are the major challenges and opportunities in the private capital markets?
A: There are two related challenges that immediately come to mind. First is the perception that the private markets are largely high-risk, under-regulated and beset by the non-compliance of participants. The second is the regulatory environment that is evolving in response to these perceptions.
The challenging reputation issue for the exempt markets is, I believe, largely the result of a handful of attention-grabbing headlines that really don't reflect the reality of the industry as a whole. However, undoubtedly, the headlines resonate, especially with retail investors who are still stinging from recent years of losses in the public markets. Retail investors represent a significant source of available capital for alternative investments in the private market and improving the reputation of the industry is necessary to attract those investors and a larger share of that available capital. The regulators continue to be highly protective of retail investors. While the CSA repeatedly emphasize the need for a balanced approach that provides appropriate protection to retail investors without stifling investment and innovation in the market, policy continues to favour conservative approaches to retail investors. We see our clients' policies and procedures with respect to the retail investor clients being increasingly scrutinized by the securities commissions, both in annual compliance examinations and on applications for registration.
I think the rationale for this retail client scrutiny is well understood. I was, however, hoping to see some refinement of the policy approach to this investor subset in the recently announced amendments to the prospectus exemptions under National Instrument 45-106 which come into effect May 5, 2015. One challenge is how the retail investor is currently defined. Generally, it is a vast and diverse group encompassing anyone who doesn't meet the largely financial test of 'accredited investor', including otherwise sophisticated, educated and financially capable people able to make an informed investment decision. Financial resources and ability to withstand financial loss are obviously critical factors for determining suitability, but if you put a disclosure document in front of this subset of retail investors they may well make a better investment decision than certain 'accredited investors'.
With the elimination of the $150,000 minimum amount prospectus exemption for individuals, accessing retail investor capital in the exempt market will now be possible only through an offering memorandum. For opportunities, crowd-funding immediately comes to mind.
I am also curious to see how Canada's new private market trading platforms, Aequitas' EVO Connect (launching in 2015) and the recently launched TMX Group's TSX Private Markets platforms will develop. Both promise increased liquidity and greater transparency for investors. We recently assisted an oil and gas fund launch on the TSX PM platform. The concept of the platform is to connect dealers (both IIROC member dealers and EMDs), issuers (both publicly traded and private) and investors over a dealer-to-dealer voice-brokered service. Issuers seeking to raise capital in the exempt market or to facilitate secondary trading in their securities will post their disclosure on the platform's website. Access to the platform is limited to pre-approved participants (in the case of TSX PM, being IIROC member dealers, EMDs, portfolio managers, fund managers and institutional permitted clients).
Q: What are the benefits of being a member of the Private Capital Markets Association of Canada?
A: The key benefits I have experienced from joining the PCMA lie in the educational and networking opportunities that the association provides.
PCMA's programming is focused on helping members understand and navigate regulatory responsibilities, and the association does a good job of providing tailored educational events to its members. Last year I took their program aimed at Chief Compliance Officers, which I found to be practical and informative.
I work with many clients in the private capital markets space, including exempt market dealers, and find that my membership with PCMA provides me with another opportunity to maintain and enhance these relationships while also meeting new people in this area.
I also believe that PCMA plays an important role in increasing awareness of the exempt market, both in terms of communicating to those within the industry as well as outlining the significant role of Canada's private capital markets to the wider public. I believe that developing positive relationships with the regulators is an important part of advising my clients, and the PCMA plays and important role as an industry liaison with the regulators. Together we all have an important role in facilitating the development of good relationships within our private markets industry and to the broader capital markets.


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How California Could Force the Rest of the US to Label GMO Foods
Tom Philpott
A sign at a pro-labeling rally in San Francisco in February.Rainforest Action Network/Flickr
In November, California voters will decide on a ballot initiative that would require labeling of all foods containing ingredients from genetically modified crops. The initiative made it to the ballot after almost 1 million Californians signed a petition in favor of it—nearly double the 504,760 signatures needed under the state's proposition rules. The campaign that organized the push to get the measure on the ballot focused on possible health effects of GMO foods.
This news will not likely be applauded by my friends over at Croplife America, the main trade group of the GM seed/agrichemical industry. The big GMO crops—corn, soy, sugar beets, and cotton—are processed into sweeteners, fats, and additives used widely by the food industry. Everything from high fructose corn syrup-sweetened Coke to soybean oil-containing Hellman's mayo would have to bear a label reading something like "Contains GMO ingredients."
That would send a shockwave through the food industry—one that could ultimately be felt on the industrial-scale US farms that have been devoting their land to GMO crops for years, and the companies that profit from selling them patented seeds and matching herbicides. The reason isn't just that California represents an imposing chunk of the US food market. It's also that a food-labeling law that starts in California is unlikely to stay in California.
To see why, look at the case of another practice beloved of US agribusiness: that of stuffing egg-laying hens into cages so tight that they can't turn around.
Back in 2008, California voters mulled a ballot initiative to ban that production method by 2015. The egg industry fought the proposal bitterly—but Proposition Two (as it was known) won anyway, by a margin of nearly two-to-one. Two years later, the California legislature passed a law applying the new rules to all eggs sold in the state—foiling the industry's threat to close shop in California and send in eggs from hens caged in other states.
But the initiative was never really just about California. Its main champion, the Humane Society of the United States, was clear about that from the start. As HSUS's Paul Shapiro told Grist weeks before the 2008 vote, "Nobody can ignore the fact that California is the largest agricultural state in the country and it's often a trend-setting state. We envision national reforms coming from passage of Prop. 2."
Shapiro's words proved prescient. In July 2011, less than three years after the California initiative's passage, executives from the egg industry's main trade group joined forces with their peers from HSUS to propose national legislation that would essentially make the California rules the law of the land. The legislation hasn't gone anywhere yet, but with the industry vowing to support and not crush it in Congress, the days of stuffing hens in tiny cages seem numbered.
Why did the egg industry crack? Did these hard-boiled execs experience a sudden pang of conscience over the plight of the millions of hens confined in their egg factories? More likely, they were acting in deference to a basic law of capitalism: differentiation costs money. Nearly 38 million people live in California—12 percent of the entire US population, and 17 percent of the US egg market, according to the USDA. It's costly and cumbersome to apply one set of production rules to eggs for California's vast horde of consumers, and another to everyone else.
So the egg industry wants a set of standards that applies nationwide.
Similarly, if massive food processors like Kraft and Unilever are forced to label essentially all of their products just for the California market, it likely won't be long before they're pushing for national labeling—or simply just labeling everything for the national market.
It's hard to say how consumers would react to national GMO labeling, but there's evidence that a substantial portion of them might reject GMOs and demand alternatives. A recent national poll by the Mellman Group found that 91 percent of respondents favored GMO labeling, a result that was roughly consistent among Democrats, Republicans, and independents. The fact that they want that information suggests that they may be willing to act on it.
If they do, they'll initially find that the only way to avoid GMOs is to buy certified-organic products, which by USDA code can't contain GMOs. As of last year, genetically modified seeds accounted for 94 percent of US soy and three-quarters of corn and cotton (which makes it into the food supply in the form of cottonseed oil, a popular fat for the food industry). A move to labeling would likely create a robust market in non-GMO, conventional versions of those crops, giving large-scale farmers incentive to transition away from GMOs and cutting into the profits of giants like Monsanto, Syngenta, and DuPont. If a substantial percentage of them did, that would be a hard blow to the profit plans of the big agrichemical companies, whose business models are based on constant growth, not shrinkage.
As I've written before, herbicide-tolerant GMO technologies have pushed US farmers to apply ever greater doses of ever-more toxic herbicides. New-generation GM seeds from Monsanto and Dow promise to accelerate that trend. So far, regulatory agencies like USDA and EPA have proven utterly unable to check this slow-motion, GMO-generated gusher of agrichemicals onto our prime farmland and ultimately into the water of millions of people.
Where regulators have failed, California's voters might ultimately make a difference.
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And before you can pick up the other shells i pick one up, and let the pea fall on the stand like it had been under that shell all the time.
So haggerty had his failures; there are geniuses on both sides of the law; and the pariah-dog is always just a bit quicker mentally than the thoroughbred hound who hunts him; indeed, to save his hide he has to be.
The two pieces are thus got so close together that they are like one piece, as you will see when i pare the joined edges.


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Blog Tour: The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland: A Book Review
The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland
Viking Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA/Historical Fiction
Source: This book was given to me by Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.
Synopsis: For Napoleon's stepdaughter, nothing is simple — especially love.
Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother's dashing fellow officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming mother Josephine has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by Hortense as a coarse, unworthy successor to her elegant father, who was guillotined during the Terror.
Where will Hortense's future lie?
Inspired by Hortense's real-life autobiography with charming glimpses of teen life long ago, this is the story of a girl chosen by fate to play a role she didn't choose.
My Review: The Game of Hope focuses on the teen years of Napoleon's step-daughter, Hortense. While Napoleon and her mother are away, Hortense attends a boarding school whose mistress once served Marie Antoinette. Hortense has to deal with friendship, rumors about her mother's love affair, accepting her father's death, and accepting Napoleon as her step-father. Most of all, Hortense wonders what her future will be and what role she will play in the emerging of the Napoleonic era.
I really thought this book was a cute, charming, young adult novel. I really like how the author made Hortense into a real teen. While it is set in the early Napoleonic era, there are many issues that will resonate with the teenagers of today. Hortense has to deal with school, friendships, family, and boys. Thus, Hortense was a very identifiable and realistic character. I also liked how Hortense had her flaws. She can be judgmental, stubborn, and selfish at times. However, she is a determined and independent woman. She wants to follow her dream, which is to compose. Hortense also finds encouragement and support in unlikely places. Thus, Hortense learns to rely on and trust others.
Overall, this is a coming-of-age story that deals with self-identify, acceptance, and loss. I thought all of the historical figures were well-rounded, especially Napoleon. He is portrayed as a man that loves and supports his step-daughter. The novel was written with meticulous historical detail. There were a few paranormal elements in The Game of Hope that I thought were unnecessary. Still, there was never a dull moment, and it left me wanting more. I wish that the author would write one more sequel because I did not want this novel to end. Hortense was such a fascinating character, and I hope that she will be a subject in future works! The Game of Hope is a feast for fans of Michelle Moran, Carolyn Meyer, and Katherine Longshore!
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Praise for The Game of Hope
"Gulland, who's clearly done her research, includes plenty of documented moments and people from Hortense's life, which cultivates a rich sense of atmosphere . . . Teen fans of historical fiction fascinated by the period will find plenty to appreciate here." — Booklist
"Gulland has built a career writing historical fiction for adults … . Her pitch-perfect balance of lush period details and character-driven narrative shines again in The Game of Hope. — Quill & Quire
"[The Game of Hope] captures the essence of the period. It is not just a story about a girl; it is about the time; it is about the people whose lives she touched and about the changes spurned from the revolution. That is what makes it so grand and captivating." — Cyn's Workshop Review
"Sandra Gulland's writing is enchanting and beautiful." — Krimsuun Pages
Sandra Gulland is an American-born Canadian novelist specializing in historical fiction. She is the author of the internationally bestselling trilogy of adult books based on the life of Josephine de Beauharnais Bonaparte, as well as two novels set at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Her books have been published in sixteen countries, translated into thirteen languages, and sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Sandra Gulland's novels include The Josephine B. Trilogy, The Shadow Queen, Mistress of the Sun, and The Game of Hope.
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Blog Tour: Guest Post by D. K. Marley: The Real Lady Macbeth
This guest post by author D.K. Marley is extremely fascinating! She is the author of The Fire of Winter, which examines the life of the historical "Lady Macbeth". I have always been fascinated by this woman and wanted to know more about who she really was, and Mrs. Marley has been gracious enough to share her story with my readers! I am honored to have her as a guest post author. Thank you, D.K. Marley!
The Real Lady Macbeth
When I first embarked on writing the novel about the real Lady Macbeth and her infamous husband, I must say that my knowledge of the two of them was entirely relegated to what I knew of them from Shakespeare's play. Macbeth, the play, is one of my favourites of his tragedies, so I knew right off after finishing "Prince of Sorrows", the historical adaptation of Hamlet, that this would be next on my list.
My repertoire of research links and hours spent on this dangerous couple is immense, spanning countless articles of their life and genealog…
The Sekhmet Bed (The She-King Saga #1) by Libbie Hawker: A Book Review
The Sekhmet Bed (The She-King #1)
Author: Libbie Hawker
Publisher: Running Rabbit Press
Source: My Personal Collection
Synopsis: Is Ahmose's divine gift a blessing or a curse?
The second daughter of the Pharaoh, Ahmose has always dreamed of a quiet life as a priestess, serving Egypt's gods, ministering to the people of the Two Lands. But when the Pharaoh dies without an heir, she is given instead as Great Royal Wife to the new king – a soldier of common birth. For Ahmose is god-chosen, gifted with the ability to read dreams, and it is her connection to the gods which ensures the new Pharaoh his right to rule.
Ahmose's elder sister Mutnofret has been raised to expect the privileged station of Great Royal Wife; her rage at being displaced cannot be soothed. As Ahmose fights the currents of Egypt's politics and Mutnofret's vengeful anger, her youth and inexperience carry her beyond her depth and into the realm…
Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton: A Book Review
Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Author: Stephanie Thornton
Publisher: Berkley
Synopsis: Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh's pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile's marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut's games forces her to confront her guilt...and sets her on a profoundly changed course.
Hatshepsut enters a loveless marriage with her half brother, Thut, to secure his claim to the Isis Throne and produce a male heir. But it is another of Thut's wives, the commoner Aset, who bears him a son, while Hatshepsut develops a searing attraction for his brilliant adviser Senenmut. And when Thut suddenly dies, Hatshepsut becomes de facto ruler, as regent to her two-year-old nephew.
Once, Hatshepsut anticipated bein…
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It's a witty fast-paced fairy tale! A book that readers of all ages will enjoy!
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Praise for Clovers and Fire:
"From fantasy author Lauralee Jacks, Clovers and Fire is a witty, fast-paced fairytale geared toward the eight-to-fourteen age range. The tale boasts all the aspects of a fine adventure story: fearsome monsters, sword fights, true love, and chivalry... the story contains the thread of a magnificent theme–timid yet proud, raw yet polished–flowing through the tale's tapestry. It is the ageless truth that love sees no outward status and that a real friend is not so much the one who helps you admire the clovers, but the one who stands by you in the fire." ---Victoria Buck, author of The Ocean's Accomplice
"A fairy tale never loses its charm. Clovers and Fire is no exception. This story has all the components you've come to love and expect in a fairytale: knights, princes, adventure, magic lands, and even a dragon. Told with a bit of humor, I found this book charming, and great as a family read-out-loud. The short chapters, humor, and vivid action make this a families and children will enjoy." ---Kirstin Pulioff, author of The Escape for Princess Madeline
"This story wouldn't be complete without our two heroes, King Stefan and Prince Chauncey, a ferocious ravenhog, young maidens, an ugly troll, and a sea fairing quest to Dreamland. The quest, to see who will win the beautiful Princess Cassandra's hand in marriage. I don't want to spoil the ending, but will say this is not an easy feat. How would you stand up to a fire breathing dragon and a friend that betrays you? This story wraps up forgiveness, bravery, and just pure excitement.
I'm a firm believer that if a child doesn't like to read, they haven't found the right book. This book will make readers through its flowing writing style and engaging story.
On a side note: I downloaded the book at midnight and couldn't stop until it was over. Highly recommended..."--- Caroline Robinson, author of Pixie and the Green Book Mystery
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We are proud to not only enter another year, but our 100th year! After 100 years in business, we have nobody to thank but our supporting trade partners, hard-working team members and, most importantly you, our loyal customers. This milestone could not have been possible without you and we thank you for all of your support. Let's look back and reminisce on some of our favorite moments in 2018.
One of our top moments in 2018 was announcing our Countdown to 100 Giveaway! At the beginning of each month, we would announce our special giveaway prize. Over the year, we've given out a 55 inch LG television, patio heater, beverage cooler, a Weber grill and many other cool prizes! We have had twelve very happy winners. In 2019 to celebrate our 100th anniversary, we're continuing our celebration with monthly prizes and a yearlong grand prize being a tiny HOUSE. Get Smart, Go Tiny. Make sure to follow us on Facebook to stay updated on our latest announcements!
Other top moments of 2018, were all the events Plesser's hosted. Our 2nd Annual Charity Golfing Outing was a huge success. We raised $40,000 for the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition. You can read more about it here. Some other great events we hosted in 2018 were our Wine and Cheese Trade Partner Appreciation Night where we had a wonderful evening with our trade partners and our Oktoberfest at our Babylon Showroom. Take a peek here to see pictures from these events. We cannot wait for more events in 2019.
Many of our events will be held in our newly renovated Babylon Showroom, which will be finalized in early 2019. We have spent 2018 renovating our showroom to create a more modern and open floor plan. We have completely finished the front of our showroom. Here is what our storefront has looked like over the past 100 years.
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"They didn't bat an eye lid"
A Westcountry racehorse trainer has gone to extreme lengths to ensure his horses are thoroughly prepared for their festive engagements, by wrapping one of his practice fences in brightly coloured Christmas paper.
Jeremy Scott, who trains at Holworthy Farm in Brompton Regis, Exmoor, was helping to promote this year's upcoming Boxing Day fixture at Wincanton Racecourse.
Geldings Native Robin and Garrane, ridden by Nick Scholfield and Emily Jones respectively, flew over the reindeer patterned obstacles in preparation for their next racecourse appearances, while jockey silks were ditched for Christmas jumpers and festive hat covers.
The novel workout follows recent research by the University of Exeter which found that other colours besides orange, which is currently used on hurdle frames and fence take-off boards and guard rails, could maximise visibility, therefore enhancing the welfare and safety of the horses and their jockeys by reducing the risk of falls and injuries.
As a result of the research, a recommendation has been approved by the sport's Racecourse Committee that a phased trial should be carried out using fluorescent yellow for all hurdles and guard-rails and fluorescent white for take-off boards at fences.
Professor Martin Stevens, chair in Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology for the University of Exeter, said at the time: "Understanding how animals see the world, and using cutting edge tools to investigate this, has a valuable role to play in guiding the safety and welfare of animals and humans in a variety of contexts.
Seven races make up the card at Wincanton's Boxing Day meeting, which include the long-standing The Jockey Club Lord Stalbridge Memorial Chase with several much loved staying chasers likely to be in the line-up.
Gates open at 10.30am on the day, with the first race off at 12.20pm. Advanced tickets are available from £18 with children aged 17 and under racing free.
All tickets booked in advance for Wincanton's Boxing Day meeting will be entered into a draw to win two tickets to the 2019 Cheltenham Festival, presented by Magners.


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Descurainia millefolia (Jacq.) Webb & Berthel., es una especie de planta perteneciente a la familia de las brasicáceas.

Distribución geográfica
D.millefolia es un endemismo de las Islas Canarias.

Características
Dentro del género se diferencia por sus flores, que poseen sépalos de 3–4 mm, siendo la garra mucho más corta que los pétalos. Las hojas inferiores son pecioladas y normalmente tripinnatisectas.

Taxonomía
Descurainia millefolia fue descrito por (Jacq.) Webb & Berthel. y publicado en Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries 1: 73. 1836.
Etimología
Descurainia: nombre genérico dedicado a François Descuraine (1658-1740), farmacéutico francés.

millefolia: epíteto que deriva del latín mille, que significa "mil" y folius, que significa "follaje", aludiendo a las múltiples divisiones de las hojas.
Sinonimia
 Hesperis millefolia (Jacq.) Kuntze
 Sinapis millefolia Jacq.
 Sisymbrium millefolium (Jacq.) Aiton

Nombre común
Se conoce como "pajonera canaria".

Enlaces externos

http://www.floradecanarias.com/descurainia_millefolia.html

millefolia
Flora de Canarias
Flora endémica de Canarias


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Cedars to the East: A Study of Modern Lebanon
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Should we continue to isolate patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococci in hospitals?
Surendra Karki, Karin Leder and Allen C Cheng
The routine use of contact precautions for patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococci cannot be justified once colonisation with this multidrug-resistant bacterium becomes endemic
Infections with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), which have become more common in Australian hospitals since the late 1990s, are associated with poor patient outcomes. Patients with gastrointestinal colonisation of VRE are at greater risk of infection, and patients infected with VRE are at higher risk of all-cause mortality.1
During outbreaks, VRE is assumed to spread between patients mainly via the hands of health care workers or in the hospital environment. Widely recommended strategies for minimising the risk of VRE transmission include screening to identify colonised patients, and subsequent contact precautions to minimise cross-transmission. Many hospitals use contact precautions for patients colonised or infected with VRE on current and each subsequent hospital admission, assuming VRE colonisation is lifelong. These recommendations for contact precautions are based on observational studies conducted primarily during outbreaks, inductive reasoning based on the known transmission potential, and expert opinion. However, dissent has been expressed against the routine use of contact precautions, particularly in hospitals where VRE is endemic.2
VRE is endemic in many Australian hospitals.3 We have recently changed our policy requiring the routine use of contact precautions for patients found to be colonised with VRE, to a risk-based policy applied to all patients at Alfred Health. By outlining the rationale for this change, we hope that it will inform VRE control policies at other Australian hospitals.
By comparing routine passive surveillance with a point prevalence survey, we found that a strategy of screening of close contacts of patients with VRE did not identify the majority of VRE carriers in hospital.4 This may be due to exposure to antibiotics having a major role in VRE acquisition in the endemic hospital setting. Consistent with other studies, we have recently shown that antibiotic exposure, particularly to meropenem, is an important risk factor for VRE colonisation among patients.4 Although the magnitude of the effect of re-exposure to antibiotics on detectability and transmissibility of VRE has not been definitively established, we note that no patients who had colonisation detected more than 4 years prior were found to have VRE, despite 40% being exposed to antibiotics within the previous 3 months.5
In an earlier study where VRE transmission through contacts was documented, exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics was an important risk factor among incident cases.6 Therefore, these studies suggest that during cross-transmission of VRE in hospital, antibiotics are the major facilitator and predictor of new VRE acquisition. Similarly, a recent study based on phylogenetic analysis and mapping of the vanB gene suggested that about half of hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium had recently acquired a transposon coding for vancomycin resistance.7 This sequence was the same as a Tn1549 sequence present in anaerobic bacteria, but was inserted in different sites in the E. faecium genome, suggesting that a substantial proportion of new VRE may have emerged through de-novo generation due to antibiotic selection pressure rather than cross-transmission.7
Studies also suggest that most patients clear detectable levels of VRE carriage in a relatively short period.5,8 Hospitals have varying policies by which patients are defined as cleared, based on screening of rectal swabs or faecal culture. Although a negative culture may not necessarily prove clearance, as intermittent shedding has been described, it is likely that a VRE-negative culture from a faecal specimen indicates either complete clearance or at least a very low density of VRE, which may have only marginal clinical significance. Recently, we studied the long-term carriage of VRE in a retrospective cohort study, and observed that only 12.6% of patients were positive for VRE if the initial detection was between 1 and 4 years before follow-up sampling, and none were positive if the initial detection was more than 4 years before follow-up.5 In addition, molecular typing suggested that at least half of the patients who remained VRE-positive at the time of the study were recolonised with new strains.5
Although contact precautions have been shown to minimise the risk of cross-transmission of VRE during outbreaks, there is accumulating evidence that they adversely affect the care of patients and impair patient flow. Studies, mostly conducted in hospitals in the United States, have found contact precautions are associated with adverse impacts on psychological outcomes, poorer satisfaction with care and perception of quality of care, less timely patient management, and fewer visits by health care workers.9 In studies conducted at our hospital, we have also found increased rates of non-pressure-related injuries and medication errors, and delayed access to radiological investigations among patients colonised with VRE.10,11 While these impacts may be justified and mitigated where there are few colonised patients or in an acute outbreak setting, they are less justified in an ongoing endemic setting. This is particularly true for VRE, where subsequent clinically significant bloodstream infection is uncommon among colonised patients.12
What are the alternatives to contact precautions? Recent studies have shown that interventions that are universally applied (termed "horizontal" interventions) are more effective than those that are targeted to specific pathogens ("vertical" interventions, including contact isolation of patients colonised with VRE) in controlling multidrug-resistant organisms.13 In a systematic review, we found that the universal daily topical application of 2% chlorhexidine gluconate using impregnated washcloths was associated with a reduction in new VRE colonisation, and also reduced methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and central line-associated bloodstream infections.14 Thus, the use of chlorhexidine washcloths provides an example of a universal intervention not directed towards a specific pathogen, but rather having an impact on a wider range of important multidrug-resistant organisms.
Similarly, effective antimicrobial stewardship programs should be another area of focus, as antibiotic selection pressure appears to be a significant factor associated with both emergence and spread of VRE in hospitals. In addition, elements of standard care such as adherence to hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfection after room separation and during room occupancy, hospital design elements including provision of sufficient toilets and bathrooms, and cleanable furnishings should be improved to reduce the risk of potential transmission of any multidrug-resistant organism in hospital. Furthermore, continued surveillance and review of hospital infection rates in high-risk areas are required to monitor for changes in epidemiology.
In conclusion, emerging evidence suggests that a significant proportion of VRE colonisation is attributable to exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics; however, the clearance of carriage appears to be the rule, rather than the exception. Both these factors imply that only broad-based, continuous surveillance can identify patients with VRE.
If patients with VRE cannot easily be identified with faecal screening, then universal interventions, such as daily topical application of 2% chlorhexidine gluconate using washcloths, are likely to be more effective in preventing transmission in high-risk settings, such as intensive care units. Although the evidence supporting its use outside of intensive care units is weaker, we have found it to be feasible to provide washcloths to patients to self-apply after routine bathing in other high-risk settings such as haematology–oncology units.15 However, supervision and adherence may be a problem outside intensive care settings. Topical application of chlorhexidine gluconate using washcloths is also likely to reduce other significant infections, such as central line-associated bloodstream infections. A focus on horizontal rather than vertical interventions also avoids the adverse consequences associated with contact precautions. Limited facilities for isolating patients might then be better allocated to other hospital threats, such as norovirus or other multidrug-resistant pathogens.
Provenance: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Surendra Karki1,2
Karin Leder1,3
Allen C Cheng1
1 Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.
2 University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (current affiliation).
3 Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
Correspondence: allen.cheng@monash.edu
We thank the staff of the Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit at Alfred Health for their support and input.
No relevant disclosures.
1. Matar MJ, Tarrand J, Raad I, Rolston KV. Colonization and infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus among patients with cancer. Am J Infect Control 2006; 34: 534-536.
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3. Coombs GW, Pearson JC, Daley DA, et al. Molecular epidemiology of enterococcal bacteremia in Australia. J Clin Microbiol 2014; 52: 897-905.
4. Karki S, Houston L, Land G, et al. Prevalence and risk factors for VRE colonisation in a tertiary hospital in Melbourne, Australia: a cross sectional study. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2012; 1: 31.
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Great house tile & laminate floors throughout house. Lists as a 2 bedroom due to removing a closet to make a larger room. You can easily add a closet back to make 3 bedrooms. 2 very nice, roomy bathrooms, large open kitchen to the living room. Lots of counter space & cabinets. Huge laundry room connects to the oversized garage w/workshop area. Nice shades, new HVAC & hot water heater within the last year. Very nice sunroom overlooking the fenced in backyard. Huge corner lot with sprinklers & landscaping.


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"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirits."
Solomon, in Proverbs 16:2
"But to me, it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human judgment; indeed, I do not even judge myself. For I am conscious of nothing against myself ; however, I am not justified by that, for he who judges me is the Lord."
Paul, in 1Corinthians 4:3-4
When young Saul of Tarsus helped kill Stephen for preaching the gospel (Acts 7), and when he cruelly persecuted God's children (Acts 9), he believed he was right in doing so. But he was wrong. And when Jesus met the young zealot on the road to Damascus and revealed to him that he was wrong, Saul learned a critical lesson: man does not know how to judge right and wrong. Afterward, Saul became Paul the apostle, and he wrote to the saints in Corinth that, even though he knew nothing he was doing wrong, he had learned to let the Lord judge him and not to make any judgments about himself. Even if he felt that he had a clear conscience, he had learned not to trust that.
"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes", wrote Solomon (Prov. 21:2a). Even the worst of sinners can be found justifying his sin and continuing in it. "But the Lord ponders the hearts" (Prov. 21:2b). Man has found a way to justify every evil that he has ever done, including forming religions that have nothing to do with God. In the ancient world, he built idols and then praised them; in the modern world, in the Middle East, he murders innocent people in God's name, while in this culture, he vomits moral filth out of his perverse heart and then rejoices in his "freedom of speech". Every way of a man is right in his own eyes.
What man must come to recognize is that no one's judgment is right except God's. That is why Paul cautioned the Corinthian saints to "judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will expose the intentions of hearts; and then will each man have praise from God" (1Cor. 4:5).
It is important to keep your conscience clear, but it is more important that even then, you do not pronounce your own judgment but that you wait for the Lord to either justify you or reveal to you some secret fault. When Jesus said, "Judge not", he not only meant to refrain from condemning others but also to refrain from justifying yourself. He was saying, in effect, "Wait for me to reveal to you what is right about others and yourself."
My father used to tell me that if two people were quarreling, he did not need to listen to each one of them to explain his position to him because he already knew who was right: both of them – in their own eyes. Are you still right in your own eyes? Or have you been delivered from your own righteousness by the mercy of God?


Research your new brand mark before you launch it.
Don't bamboozle your customers (or they'll feel they are being cheated).
Net neutrality and why it's important.
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Spotify Technology S.A. er en international udbyder af medietjenester. Det har juridisk hovedkontor i Luxembourg og har driftshovedkontor i Stockholm, Sverige.

Virksomheden er grundlagt i 2006 og er en primært en musikstreaming-tjeneste, der leverer DRM-begrænset musik men tilbyder også videoer og podcasts fra pladeselskaber og mediefirmaer. Grundlæggende er Spotify gratis at bruge med reklamer, mens yderligere funktioner, såsom offline-lytning og reklamefri lytning, tilbydes via betalte abonnementer.

Spotify-platformen blev lanceret den 7. oktober 2008 og giver adgang til over 50 millioner numre.  Brugere kan søge efter kunstner, album eller genre og kan oprette, redigere og dele afspilningslister. Spotify er tilgængelig i det meste af Europa og Amerika, Australien, New Zealand og dele af Afrika og Asien og på de fleste moderne enheder, herunder Windows-, macOS- og Linux-computere, iOS- og Android-smartphones og -tablets. Fra februar 2020 havde virksomheden 271 millioner månedlige aktive brugere, herunder 124 millioner betalende abonnenter.

I modsætning til fysisk salg eller download, hvor kunstnere betaler en fast pris pr. solgt sang eller album, betaler Spotify royalties baseret på antallet af gange en artist er blevet streamet, sammenlagt med antal sang-streams. De distribuerer cirka 70% af sin samlede indtægt  til rettighedsindehavere, der derefter betaler kunstnere på grundlag af deres individuelle aftaler. Spotify har været udsat for kritik fra kunstnere og producenter, herunder Taylor Swift og Thom Yorke, der har hævdet, at det ikke kompenserer musikere retfærdigt. Som en del af sin indsats for at genforhandle licensaftaler i 2017 annoncerede Spotify, at kunstnere ville være i stand til at gøre albums midlertidigt eksklusive for betalte abonnenter, hvis albummerne er en del af Universal Music Group eller Merlin Network.

Spotifys internationale hovedkvarter er i Stockholm, Sverige, men hver region har sit eget hovedkvarter. Siden februar 2018 er det noteret på New York Stock Exchange, og i september 2018 flyttede virksomheden sine New York City-kontorer til 4 World Trade Center.

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Organic light emitting diode device - Arolltech Co., Ltd.
An OLED device includes: a first insulator sheet; a light-emitting stack stacked with the first insulator sheet and including a transparent anode layer, a cathode layer, and a functional layer; a metallic mesh stacked with the anode layer in a vertical direction, the metallic mesh contacting the anode layer and being covered by the anode layer; a second insulator sheet stacked with the cathode layer in the vertical direction; a plurality of cathode-connecting vias extending through the second insulator sheet; and a cathode-connecting metallic layer stacked with the second insulator sheet in the vertical direction and connected electrically to the cathode layer through the cathode-connecting vias.
1. An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device comprising: a first insulator sheet; a light-emitting stack stacked with said first insulator sheet and including a transparent anode layer, a cathode layer, and a functional layer stacked between said anode layer and said cathode layer in a vertical direction and made from an organic electroluminescent material; a metallic mesh stacked with said anode layer in the vertical direction and including a plurality of first metallic nano-wires and a plurality of second metallic nano-wires intersecting said first metallic nano-wires, said metallic mesh contacting said anode layer and being covered by said anode layer; a second insulator sheet stacked with said cathode layer in the vertical direction and having first and second surfaces that are opposite to each other in the vertical direction, said light-emitting stack and said metallic mesh being stacked between said first and second insulator sheets; a plurality of cathode-connecting vias extending through said first and second surfaces of said second insulator sheet; and a cathode-connecting metallic layer stacked with said second insulator sheet in the vertical direction and connected electrically to said cathode layer through said cathode-connecting vias.
2. The OLED device of claim 1, further comprising an anode-connecting metallic layer and a plurality of conductive anode-connecting vias, said first insulator sheet having first and second surfaces that are opposite to each other in the vertical direction, said anode-connecting metallic layer being formed on said first surface of said first insulator sheet, said anode-connecting vias extending through said first and second surfaces of said first insulator sheet to contact said anode-connecting metallic layer and said metallic mesh.
3. The OLED device of claim 2, wherein said anode-connecting metallic layer includes a plurality of anode-connecting lines that are spaced apart from one another, each of said anode-connecting lines contacting respective ones of said anode-connecting vias.
4. The OLED device of claim 3, wherein said cathode-connecting metallic layer includes a plurality of cathode-connecting lines that are formed on said second surface of said second insulator sheet and that are spaced apart from one another, each of said cathode-connecting lines contacting respective ones of said cathode-connecting vias.
5. The OLED device of claim 2, wherein said first insulator sheet is flexible and transparent.
6. The OLED device of claim 2, further comprising a transparent substrate, said anode-connecting lines being sandwiched between said transparent substrate and said first insulator sheet.
7. The OLED device of claim 6, further comprising a touch panel that is attached to said transparent substrate.
8. The OLED device of claim 7, further comprising a light diffuser plate that is attached to said touch panel.
This invention relates to an organic light emitting diode device, more particularly to an organic light emitting diode device including an anode layer and a metallic mesh stacked with the anode layer.
Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are useful for lighting. A conventional OLED device normally includes a transparent substrate, a transparent anode layer of indium tin oxide (ITO) formed on the transparent substrate, an active (or functional) layer of a conductive polymer formed on the anode layer, and a cathode layer formed on the active layer. The conventional OLED device is electrically activated by injecting an electric current to a peripheral side of the anode layer through a metallic busbar which is connected to an external power source. Since ITO has a much higher resistivity compared to a metallic material, the anode layer may suffer from a poor current distribution over the entire area thereof when the electric current is injected to the peripheral side of the anode layer, which results in a non-uniform illumination throughout the entire area of the active layer. In addition, since ITO is brittle, the OLED device is susceptible to deterioration due to bending or deformation thereof.
Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide an OLED device that can overcome the aforesaid drawbacks associated with the prior art.
According to this invention, there is provided an OLED device that comprises: a first insulator sheet; a light-emitting stack stacked with the first insulator sheet and including a transparent anode layer, a cathode layer, and a functional layer stacked between the anode layer and the cathode layer in a vertical direction and made from an organic electroluminescent material; a metallic mesh stacked with the anode layer in the vertical direction and including a plurality of first metallic nano-wires and a plurality of second metallic nano-wires intersecting the first metallic nano-wires, the metallic mesh contacting the anode layer and being covered by the anode layer; a second insulator sheet stacked with the cathode layer in the vertical direction and having first and second surfaces that are opposite to each other in the vertical direction, the light-emitting stack and the metallic mesh being stacked between the first and second insulator sheets; a plurality of cathode-connecting vias extending through the first and second surfaces of the second insulator sheet; and a cathode-connecting metallic layer stacked with the second insulator sheet in the vertical direction and connected electrically to the cathode layer through the cathode-connecting vias.
FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the third preferred embodiment of the OLED device according to the present invention.
FIGS. 1 to 4 illustrate the first preferred embodiment of an OLED device according to this invention. The OLED device includes: a first insulator sheet 21; a light-emitting stack 3 stacked with the first insulator sheet 21 and including a transparent anode layer 31, a cathode layer 32, and a functional layer 33 stacked between the anode layer 31 and the cathode layer 32 in a vertical direction (Z) and made from an organic electroluminescent material; a metallic mesh 22 stacked with the anode layer 31 in the vertical direction (Z) and including a plurality of spaced apart first metallic nano-wires 221 and a plurality of spaced apart second metallic nano-wires 222 intersecting the first metallic nano-wires 221 (see FIG. 4), the metallic mesh 22 contacting the anode layer 31 and being covered by the anode layer 31; a second insulator sheet 23 stacked with the cathode layer 32 in the vertical direction (Z) and having first and second surfaces 231, 232 that are opposite to each other in the vertical direction (Z), the light-emitting stack 3 and the metallic mesh 22 being stacked between the first and second insulator sheets 21, 23; a plurality of cathode-connecting vias 41 extending in the vertical direction (Z) through the first and second surfaces 231, 232 of the second insulator sheet 23; and a cathode-connecting metallic layer 24 stacked with the second insulator sheet 23 in the vertical direction (Z) and connected electrically to the cathode layer 32 through the cathode-connecting vias 41. The first and second metallic nano-wires 221, 222 have a diameter ranging from 10 nm to 10000 nm.
In this embodiment, the cathode-connecting metallic layer 24 includes a plurality of conductive cathode-connecting lines 241 that extend in a longitudinal direction (X) transverse to the vertical direction (Z) and that are made from a metal, such as copper, nickel, silver, or gold. The cathode-connecting vias 41 are preferably made from a conductive paste, such as a silver paste. The first and second insulator sheets 21, 23 are preferably made from a material, such as poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) or glass. The metallic mesh 22 is preferably made from a metal, such as silver or copper, and may be formed on the first insulator sheet 21 through printing techniques. The cathode-connecting metallic layer 24 is adapted to be connected to a cathode of an external power source (not shown) through an integrated circuit controller (not shown).
In this embodiment, the first insulator sheet 21 is flexible and transparent.
FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate the second preferred embodiment of the OLED device according to the present invention. The second preferred embodiment differs from the previous embodiment in that the OLED device further includes an anode-connecting metallic layer 25 and a plurality of conductive anode-connecting vias 42. The first insulator sheet 21 has first and second surfaces 211, 212 that are opposite to each other in the vertical direction (Z). The anode-connecting metallic layer 25 is formed on the first surface 211 of the first insulator sheet 21. The anode-connecting vias 42 extend in the vertical direction (Z) through the first and second surfaces 211, 212 of the first insulator sheet 21 to contact the anode-connecting metallic layer 25 and the metallic mesh 22.
In this embodiment, the anode-connecting metallic layer 25 includes a plurality of anode-connecting lines 251 that are spaced apart from one another and that extend in the longitudinal direction (X). Alternatively, the anode-connecting lines 251 may extend in a transverse direction (not shown) transverse to the vertical direction (Z) and the longitudinal direction (X). Each of the anode-connecting lines 251 contacts respective ones of the anode-connecting vias 42.
The OLED device of the second preferred embodiment can be cut into a desired shape and size according to actual requirements. As illustrated in FIG. 7, the OLED device of the second preferred embodiment can be easily cut into a circular OLED device using a tool 6 without damaging the OLED device thus formed. In addition, the OLED device of the present invention may be produced by a roll-to-roll process for mass production.
FIG. 8 illustrates the third preferred embodiment of the OLED device according to the present invention. The third preferred embodiment differs from the second preferred embodiment in that the third preferred embodiment further includes a transparent substrate 81, a touch panel 82 and a light diffuser plate 83. The touch panel 82 is stacked between the transparent substrate 81 and the light diffuser plate 83 along the vertical direction (Z), and may be a capacitive type touch panel or a resistive type touch panel. The transparent substrate 81 is stacked between the touch panel 82 and the anode-connecting metallic layer 25 along the vertical direction (Z), and is preferably made from a material, such as glass or PET.
With the inclusion of the metallic mesh 22 and the cathode-connecting vias 41 in the OLED device of the present invention, the aforesaid drawbacks associated with the prior art can be overcome. In addition, with further inclusion of the anode-connecting vias 42 and the anode-connecting metallic layer 25 in the OLED device of the present invention, the OLED device can be cut into a desired shape and size according to the actual requirements.


So I have been having issues in trying to get my 1,1 updated to the 2,1 firmware. I currently have MP11.88Z.005C. B08 on mine, which I thought was the "easy and straight forward" version to upgrade. I ran the tool on it's own from Lion, rebooted, held the button till the flashing power light, it got the upgrade tone, but no progress bar and then instantly restarts. after restarting I checked the Profiler and it is still showing MP11.88Z.005C. B08 as the firmware. I have also done as others have done and held the power button all the way through the light and the tone and I have the same thing happen - instant reboot and reboots to show the original firmware. I have also mounted and copied the 2,1 firmware package to my desktop to see if the installer will pull it from there in the same way the 4,1 to 5,1 firmware updater works (which I have done successfully). I unplugged everything but the drive Lion is booting off of, have the original nVidia 7300GT installed and I have the same results even after reinstalling Lion with a brand new clean install.
Am I doing anything wrong or missing something in the process??
Guidance and suggestions would be appreciated. Especially since the firmware upgrade on my 4,1 went so smoothly.
I was able to successfully get it to flash correctly. I did a fresh install of Lion then booted into Safe mode. Ran the tool, did a shut down and held the power button till the power light flashed and went through the process. I knew I had a successful flash when the DVD drive ejected.
Hmm. I haas you, and that version. But the Safe mode bit didn't do the trick for me. However it's not a fresh install or anything. I'd prefer not to have to roll back that far; also I'm debating whether or not to get the 5365 anyhow. If the only problem is that it shows up as "unknown processor"... well, I could be ok with that. I got the mac pro for free, so I'm trying to make sure it doesn't turn into a money pit.
Did I really write "haas you"? weird.
I don't even have a 3,1 or 4,1; this thread is about the 1,1->2,1 isn't it?
So I don't know why mine won't take the firmware update. Maybe I'll pull out my other drive(s) before doing it, maybe try Safe Mode Boot again.
I don't plan on doing Sierra on this machine-- I have other machines it'll work on. But quite a few apps that I like on my existing macs require os > 10.7, so I'd like to run 10.9 or 10.11 even perhaps. Then my workflow between my various machines would be similar.
Note also that I'm not doing serious moneymaking work on this box; I'm not a video editor nor a photographer or music producer.
cross-posted from a similar thread on ArsTechnica, which also points to this thread, confusingly enough. I thought it was significant enough to make a note of and share my experiences here.
then the startup screen had a little grey progress bar ; the dvd drive ejected and then sucked back in again.
and then it had worked!
download it and ran it on my "MacPro1,1 Dual-Core 3.0Ghz Intel Xeon and it worked straight away.
Now reporting MacPro 2,1 and Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B06.
Hi, a few years ago I updated the firmware correctly, now, I'm going to re-install the mountain lion osx from cero.
My problem is that appear s prohibited symbol on screen and I cant nothing. If i reboot and press the alt button for select my usb installer with mountain lion and click enter for go to install the system, appear the prohibited symbol.
The question is...... how affect the update firmware 2006 to 2007, If I updated the firmware is neccesary downgrade to 2006 mac pro for re-install the osx?
Problem isn't in firmware, Mountain Lion is is first OS X that didn't support MP1,1/2,1.
You'll have to use boot.efi that Tiamo made for Mavericks (works with ML too).
Hey, I am having issue running the utility. im getting this error log when I try and run it. I am running OSX 10.5.8. Id like to get this to be a couple versions higher once I can get it to 2,1 and new graphics and cpu's.
Just wanted to thanks macefirom, Mr.Cobalt and grammataki for the awesome effort put into this thread , i have the B00 firmware problem, just kept reading and now problem is solved, I think the "modified" version of the firmware update for B00 firmw users should be sticked to the first post so new ppl looking for 2.1 with problems can easily solve it.
Writed from my Mac pro 2.1 /w 5355 Xeons running OS X El Capitan.
sorry for my ignorance but i have a mac pro 1,1 3 ghz with 64 gb ram, what will i gain by upgrading the firmware to 2,1 ?
I downloaded the tool but when I launch it jumping in my dock and done nothing.
I must install before my new CPU or after?
You need to install before your new CPU and it's not working because you need to download the firmware from apple and open it but don't install. Then you have to run the tool on this post.
Open it up but don't install it.


Plain and simple – successful investing involves buying low and selling high all of us probably know this single most important rule. If you happen to be real contrarian like me, buy a company that's in this sector as no one likes oil. Oil has fallen more than 60% and threatening at irregular intervals to keep declining, without doubt there's blood on the streets – with investors fleeing the sector and capex budgets at oil companies being slashed.
Although its peak season for oil buying, Morgan Stanley's Adam Longson writes on his blog, that there are lots of tankers full of oil – deskbound in the Atlantic Basin still waiting to be vended. He writes that the future of the oil prices is bleak if there is this many challenged cargoes, in this high demand setup – this is indeed worrying.
It's not at all pretty with the sector, I must say that the fuse on this oil bonanza is burning down as I write this – fortunes could be made in such a scenario. One of the strongest uptrends in the sector seems to be gaining ground, and its imminent – is certainly not a question of how – it's only about when thus making some investors lots of money.
Supplies are bought only after floating for three months in storage, in spite of all the bearish news, there are still plenty of profitable gems in the oil sector. As you know, a market setback gives prudent investors time to buy. If you're following my blog, you could be one of the many, and if you happen to be waiting on the sidelines, don't wait any longer look out for these three stocks as a market rebound is presently on the cards.
My first favorite is a transporter of oil Enbridge Energy Partners LP (NYSE: EEP) it transports from western Canada and the Bakken formation. It's a MLP that accounts for 17% of total U.S. oil imports. The stock is quite consistent, has rebounded 32% in the last year while its peers have fallen. And its most appealing factor is its dividend which is quite characteristic of an MLP for those of you who are interested to know more about MLP's here's the link.
The second favorite is Royal Dutch Shell Plc. A Netherlands based multinational oil company that produces about 3 million barrels a day, one of the largest companies by revenue. Have operations in all three segments of the production process, offers an impressive 6.12% yield it's a solid dividend play for the imminent rebound that is on the cards.
And the third favorite stock is the Bankers Petroleum BNKJF on the pink sheets a company with huge fields in Albania consistently climbing revenues and earnings what could go wrong of course except the prevalent oil prices scenario that is not going to last for a few months. Although it's hard to base on the glorious past – Bankers Petroleum made fortunes for the investors in the later part of year 2000 as they discovered some huge oil fields in Albania. BNKJF is still a gem of an investment.
Disclosure I don't have any positions in any stocks mentioned herein and no plans to initiate any in the next three days.
Top 4 3D printing stocks, to consider investing in.


When you write a letter to your child, it can be magical. It communicates love, pride, and commitment beyond the power of everyday spoken words. It's a fun idea to make writing letters to your kids an annual event, either on their birthdays or around the holidays.