When you think of the ketogenic diet, the first things that come to mind may be butter, bacon, and excessive amounts of oils. While these are all ketogenic foods, there is so much more to consider when meal planning. The ketogenic diet is restrictive, but that doesn't mean it's boring.
Think of the ketogenic diet as a chance to get creative in the kitchen. Recently, we have seen cauliflower transformed into pizza crust, rice, and even "mashed potatoes." Zucchini can turn into pasta.
One of the biggest mistakes people make on the ketogenic diet, besides not including enough fat, is neglecting vegetables. Not only do they supply us with important vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and soluble fiber, they can also spruce up a meal such as the cauliflower and zucchini examples above.
Why is fiber so important for a ketogenic diet?
In the colon, soluble fiber is fermented by gut microbes into short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), such as butyrate. This SCFA not only contributes to a healthy gut microbiota, but can actually stimulate ketone production.1 Fiber is also very important to consume with protein, especially lean proteins, because it can slow the digestion of protein, which is good for ketosis. A big spike in amino acids can cause a small release of insulin, which can halt ketogenesis (i.e. kick you out of ketosis). So eat your veggies!
For each of these dishes, include healthy oils like extra-virgin olive oil, coconut oil, medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil, butter/ghee, and avocado oil.
Utilizing herbs and spices can be a game-changer. They can transform a boring meal into something worth bragging about.
Use these herbs and spices to season meat, vegetables (roasted, steamed, sautéed), and in dips and dressings.
Frozen vegetables for a smoothie: This may seem odd, but don't knock it 'til you try it—frozen cauliflower and/or zucchini. Both of these add a creamy consistency to a smoothie, just as a frozen banana does!
Hint: Steam your cauliflower and zucchini first, lay it out on a baking sheet, stick it in the freezer overnight, and then transfer to a freezer bag or container. This way the pieces won't stick together and have you bringing out the hammer when you want to make a smoothie.
Sweeteners: Stevia, xylitol, erythritol, and monk fruit are all acceptable sweeteners on the ketogenic diet. Use these in place of any form of sweetener called for in a recipe. Try to avoid artificial sweeteners such as aspartame or sucralose.
Flours: Low-carb flour options are nut flours such as almond, pecan, or hazelnut flours. Coconut flour is also a great substitute. The conversion from all-purpose flour to nut flour is roughly 1 ½ cups of nut flour for every ¾ cup all-purpose flour. Coconut flour is much more absorbent and only requires 1/3 cup to every 1 cup of all-purpose flour, in addition to 1 extra egg and possibly extra liquid.
Mix all dry ingredients together, then add wet ingredients, combine well.
Heat in the microwave for ~2.5 minutes until cooked fully (if a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, it's ready!). Alternatively, you can bake in the oven in a small baking dish at 350° F for 15-20 minutes depending on the depth of your baking dish.
Ice cream: Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, an expert in ketogenic science, has shared his keto ice-cream recipe across multiple platforms. It calls for 1-2 cups of full-fat coconut cream or sour cream (or a combination of both), 1 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder, a pinch of cinnamon, and a pinch of stevia. He mixes this together and sticks it in the freezer until it turns into an ice-cream-like consistency.
Cavaleri F et al. Potential synergies of β-hydroxybutyrate and butyrate on the modulation of metabolism, inflammation, cognition, and general health. J Nutr Metab. 2018;2018:7195760.
This entry was posted in Body Composition, Ketogenic, Sports Nutrition and tagged Keto, Keto Recipes, Ketogenic, Kristi Storoschuk, Nutrition on September 19, 2018 by Metagenics.


Symbol for the Free League ("Indeps") faction from the Planescape setting.
Just as a thought: DA has artists like www.chrisozfulton.deviantart.com who could tattoo such allegiance symbols right today... Please make them all!!!
Will you do the other symbols as well?
Indeed. I plan to do all of them... eventually.


Patty Mills took to Twitter after audio picked up a fan referring to Mills as a "Jamaican dog."
San Antonio Spurs guard Patty Mills responded on Twitter after he was the subject of racial taunts during Sunday's game vs. the Cavaliers in Cleveland.
Audio from Sunday's broadcast picked up a fan saying, "Hey, Jamaican dog, they want their bobsledder back. Jamaica just called, they want their bobsledder back" as Mills was shooting free throws.
The Cavs are investigating the incident and trying to identify the fan in question, according to the Associated Press.
Mills' dad is a Torres Strait Islander, and his mom is an Aboriginal Australian. He has received awards in the past for promoting Indigenous culture and was even named "Person of the Year," by the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee.


Trump's speech clearly thrilled those at the convention, but will it be enough to unite a Republican party that seemed badly fractured just a night ago? VIDEO: ABC7 News political analyst Carla Marinucci calls Trump's speech "dark " ABC7 anchor Reggie Aqui and reporter Laura Anthony are reporting live from the RNC in Ohio.
He said: "O ur convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation".
That's the day that President Obama's term ends.
Trump continued his theme of violence, stating that murders in Washington, D.C. "have risen by 50 percent".
The property billionaire highlighted recent instances of civil unrest in the U.S., and the shootings of police officers, and confidently predicted that "safety would be restored" when he became president. In his prepared remarks, Trump claims that "decades of progress" involved with limiting crime has been the victim of President Obama's "rollback of criminal enforcement", However, fact-checkers show that the violent crime is actually at it's lowest rate in over 45 years, to which they cited statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "As I recall, we had a revolution to make sure we didn't have someone who said, 'I can fix it alone, '" she said.
Clinton then, perhaps inadvertently, used her campaign slogan, Stronger Together, to portray Trump as divisive.
Mr Trump also criticised the record of his rival Mrs Clinton from when she was in charge of foreign policy, and blamed her for the spread of Islamic State, the destabilisation of Libya and Egypt and the chaos in Iraq and Syria.
The real estate businessman promised to create jobs for all Americans by cutting taxes and reducing regulations on businesses.
Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion and now a dissident Russian politician, said "I've heard this sort of speech a lot in the last 15 years and trust me, it doesn't sound any better in Russian".
Regardless of the explanation, Pittenger sees Cruz as having two options: get behind Trump or go support Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
The promise was the first point the Republican presidential nominee made in his convention address. He also vowed to protect gays and lesbians from violence and oppression, a pledge that was greeted with applause from the crowd.
"We need to acknowledge and be very clear who this attack targeted - the Latino, LGBT community was the target that was most severely impacted by this awful attack", Clinton said at the event at the Holden Heights Community Center. No good. And we're going to stop it. He pledged to fight terrorism by improving intelligence gathering and working with allies in the region to battle IS.
"We are a nation of immigrants. That is the standard we should expect, from everybody", said Sen.
In a slew of emails to supporters Thursday, she spoke of a loving dad who encouraged his young daughter to succeed, of an inspirational leader and a crack negotiator destined to win.
Trump's campaign has been about being the outsider and not about being concerned over who is not at the convention or is not endorsing him.
Her second marriage, to Lajos Frederick Fenster, ended in divorce, and her third husband, Albert Block, died previous year . I wrote a little script for the hand puppets...that became the focus of the show, and then I officially got the part.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz was booed by the crowd at the Republican National Convention on July 20. Hai Do was the editor. "And they would leave his office, as people often do after being with Donald Trump, feeling that life could be great again".
Energy stocks, off 1%, suffered from a fresh drop in crude-oil prices, while technology and telecom shares advanced slightly. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index finished 0.4 percent higher at 22,218.99 but South Korea's Kospi fell 0.1 percent to 2,025.05.
Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for president, said his wife correctly predicted that Trump would pick Pence, "a longtime family friend". Amid his new breakneck schedule, Pence also took time to stop by a breakfast for IN delegates.
No stranger to ad-libbing, Silverman proceeding to make one of the night's most high-profile comments. She will address delegates on Thursday, the final night of the convention.
Juventus' forward Gonzalo Higuain from Argentina holds his jersey at the Juventus' headquarter in Turin on July 27, 2016. Juventus has won Serie A for the past five seasons and was the Champions League runner-up to Barcelona a year ago .
Saturday night. " Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " is expected to be one of the biggest-selling books of the year. Saturday, July 30, and the Midnight Release Party at Books & Books in Coral Gables starting at 10:30 p.m.
On Thursday night, the film had its world premiere in Malaysia and Singapore, followed by Dubai and some parts of the US. Kabali's India collections stand at Rs 250 crore while its overseas box office has yielded Rs 100 crore until now.
The defining image of the 2016 race will be of Froome striding out on Mont Ventoux on July 14. His third yellow jersey must rank among Britain's finest sporting achievements.
Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) has risen 6.00% since June 26, 2016 and is uptrending. The S&P/TSX Composite Index lost 103 points, or 0.7 per cent to close at 14,498.


If you were arrested for a crime and not charged or charged, but the charges were dropped, then you are eligible to have the police report and other records either sealed or destroyed.
The time to file a Petitioner to Seal and Destroy Records is within 2 years after the statute of limitations on the crime has run. This generally means after 1 and before 3 years for a misdemeanor and after 3, but before 5 years for most felonies (check for your specific felony). If the crime can be charged as either a felony or misdemeanor, the felony statute applies.
There is a two-step process to seal and destroy your criminal record.
First, you must file a request with the police agency that arrested you if no charges were filed. Here is the form. My experience is the cops rarely grant these. After you receive a denial or if you receive no response in 60 days, you can move on to step two.
Second, you must then file a Petition to Seal and Destroy your criminal record with the courts. You need to serve the prosecutor. The court will then set the case for a hearing.
At the hearing, the defendant has the burden to show that he is factually innocent. The factual innocent standard is a very high standard to meet. You need to prove to the judge that NO reasonable person would believe that you were guilty of committing the crime for which you were arrested.
At the hearing DA can use hearsay – writings and out of court statements like the complaining witnesses statements to police – to fight against sealing and destroying your records.
If you are victorious, then you an order will be sent to the cops who arrested you and the California Department of Justice ordering them to seal and destroy the files associated with your arrest.
I have had significant experience in filing Petitions for Sealing and Destroying and conducting hearings. Give me a call and let me help you get your criminal record sealed or destroyed.


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Q: In Endgame, aren't the Avengers just changing their OWN timelines? What I take away from the whole "Back To The Future is a bunch of bullshit"-conversation, is that the Avengers can't ever "truly" undo the Snap. "When you travel to the past, that past becomes your future" and all that. Sure, they can create a new timeline for themselves by traveling to the past, and then in this new timeline only they can fix everything and bring people back. But by doing so, aren't they just "abandoning" all the people in their original timeline? Basically like rats leaving the sinking ship, the Avengers move to a new happy timeline while people in the original one continue their sad, split-in-half lifes, now additionally having lost their heroes to protect them from possible further threats?
Or am I missing anything?

A: The way time travel in the MCU works is that the past is unalterable. However, time travel creates a duplicate timeline which branches off. This means paradoxes are impossible. Travel between branches is allowed.  A universe needs the infinity stones to work properly, so it is extremely rude and destructive to steal them, unless you put them back right away.  The events of Endgame not only reversed the snap by wishing everyone back - it unexpectedly created an alternate timeline without a snap ever happening, because the Thanos from an alternate past was defeated in the original timeline, leaving his timeline free of his destruction. Double win!
Note, Hulk's comments about time travel don't mention the stones being what causes a branch to form.

Hulk : And secondly, time doesn't work that way. Changing the past doesn't change the future.
Hulk : I don't know why everyone believes that, but that isn't true. Think about it. If you go into the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future!

(note regarding the below - the time travel with new events creates a split - the removing of the stone is a big event - but the split already happens from the time travel and just being in the duplicate past.  The Ancient One is concerned about her reality being messed up by the stones leaving)

ANCIENT ONE
"If I give up the Time Stone to help your reality I'm dooming my own."
HULK
"With all due respect, alright, I - I'm not sure the science really supports that."
ANCIENT ONE
"The Infinity Stones create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one of the stones and that flow splits. Now this may benefit your reality, but my new one, not so much. In this new branch of reality, without our chief weapon against the forces of darkness, our world would be overrun, millions will suffer. So tell me doctor, can your science prevent all that?"
HULK
"No... we can erase it. Because once we're done with the stones, we can return each one to its own timeline at the moment it was taken, so chronologically, in that reality, it never left."

Edit: Adding more dialog from the exchange - there is no indication that this alternate timeline will cease to exist when the stone is returned.  It is being returned because it would damage an entire alternate universe if not returned - which strikes me as rude.  The Ancient Clearly understands that this Hulk is from a future (that is original) timeline and yet she remains concerned about maintaining the branch the discussion is taking place in.  Again MCU time travel does not allow the past to be changed.  Even just visiting and not doing anything major is a change.

ANCIENT ONE
"But you are leaving out the most important part. In order to return the stones, you have to survive."

HULK
"We will, I will. I promise."

ANCIENT ONE
"I can't risk this reality on a promise. It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the time stone."

A: Yes, you are missing the point, that they do NOT change the past significantly to get to another present... they take something from the past (and later put it back to NOT create other timelines there) to change their own future, that has not happened yet.
That is why they can not "undo" the snap in the past and continue 5 years ago as if it never happened. They can just bring back the snapped people five years later to mitigate the results .The world is still one where half of all living forms were missing for five years...

A: If you travel back into your own past, that destination becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future. Meaning they just went to an alternate timeline just like the normal one we so in all the films, so when they changed stuff it didn't affect them, it affected them from the other timeline.

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Inside the training regimen of one of the top triathletes in the world, Andy Potts.
The Andy Potts work week is a little different than the average folks'. On a recent weekday, Potts spent some time chatting with SI.com from his home in Colorado Springs before embarking on his day's agenda: a three-hour-and-20-minute bike ride followed immediately by 90 minutes of interval work on a track with his coach. Potts would follow those two intense activities by going home and lifting weights for an hour, stretching for 15 minutes and then indulging in a three-minute shower—yes, he times out his showers—before eating lunch in the car on his way to swim practice. There, he had two hours lined up, with "movement required" for eight full hours of training. Of work.
Sure, it was a big day. But all of Potts' days are big, as befits one of the leading triathletes in the country, no matter the distance.
"I don't quite reach 40 hours of work a week, but I get pretty close," Potts says. "We are getting after it. I don't have a lot of fluff involved." So that's about 38 hours a week of intense training.
Potts also takes a step back, looking at his career as an evolution, both personally and athletically, using his mistakes to apply new principles in his training. That perspective has helped him focus on the journey, instead of dreading the pain.
But even as Potts puts a focus on the Ironman-style length, he still mixes in races as short as two hours for the variety. The mixing of distances helps him "lift the whole game" and keeps him mentally sharp.
"Each distance presents a different hurdle," he says. The Ironman, for example, offers a high mental hurdle, forcing athletes to persevere and stay focused for eight-plus hours. But for Potts, he enjoys the mental hurdle.
"For me, for some reason, the mental hurdle has been a small hurdle, I've been able to focus and stay driven and I guess I thank my parents for the skill and my coaches for cultivating and nurturing it," he says.
In an Ironman-length race, putting a focus on a single cone, instead of the hundreds he'll ride past, allows Potts to stay mentally in tune. Part of that in-race optimism comes, though, through that week of intense training.
He does take a few liberties, though, working about 60 percent of his time on a bike and another 20 percent each for running and swimming. He drops the running and ups the swim to lessen the "punch back" the pavement hits him with and enjoy the non-impact benefits of swimming.
Through swimming, Potts says that by having his blood flow from his fingertips to toes with a high heart rate helps draw oxygen to all his muscles and allow the recuperative powers that blood brings to heal micro tears throughout his entire body.
While Potts deals with the mental and physical hurdles of his extreme work, another hurdle he's always dealt with is nutrition. Off the course he packs in the calories, starting with the biggest meal of the day at breakfast and then working his way lighter throughout the day, mixing in lean proteins, a variety of greens and a healthy combination of carbohydrates that include pastas, bread, quinoa, couscous and farro.
Finding his optimal nutritional balance has been a 13-year experiment and one that can change on a daily basis, he says. On a race day, for example, Potts does what some may consider the unthinkable, opting for "gut bomb" muffins because "they fit well in my tummy." The experienced racer still gets nervous on race day, and he's found that muffins work for him, sitting well. During the race, he eats old-school PowerBar performance bars and other PowerBar products in his hydration. All this on his quest to parlay his training into performance.
Everything about a typical Andy Potts training session or race has an increased intensity and duration. But through over a decade of trial and error, he has built it that way. He's cut away the fluff. And it has paid off.


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"I Am Going On Pretty Well At The Moment"
On the 12th May 1915, just four days after the 1st battalion's ferocious battle on the Frezenberg Ridge, Lance Corporal Ernest Chisnell was in hospital in Lincoln recovering from wounds he received at Frezenberg.
"I am going on pretty well" read his letter to his mother on the 12th May, "I have a wound or two - one in my right thigh and left foot and a small on in my left hand. I am rather lucky to get home so quickly as I was only hit on Wednesday near Ypres, and was home on Friday night and comfortable in hospital on Saturday morning"
Chisnell's withdrawal from the battlefield was a testament to the efficiency of the British casualty clearing methods of the day. Lessons learned in South Africa during the Boer War, of getting men away quickly had been put to good use in France and Flanders. Chisnell would recover from these wounds and rejoin the Suffolk Regiment later in 1915. He would not however rejoin his old Battalion for by then, they were proceeding overseas...

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…that Europe is now the "reservoir" of the old-world species, and the only continent where species are recovering – due to adequate know-how, considerable conservation investment and effective legal protection and management of carcasses?
There are 23 species of vultures worldwide (see map), of which 16 in the old-world (Europe-Africa-Asia). Asian vultures declined abruptly to near-extinction due to vet diclofenac, while African vultures have been undergoing massive declines due to widespread poisoning – Europe, not known for being a vulture region, is now probably the best continent in the world where to see hundreds of vultures gathering at fallen carcasses in the wider countryside.


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Q: Python 3 and Pocket Sphinx I am attempting to create a simple music player for my grandfather who has trouble with buttons by programming an audio-controlled music player. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 with Python 3 and Pocket Sphinx. Because Pocket Sphinx does not require the Internet, I will use it because my grandfather does not have access to the Internet.
My question is how to take a value that was "said", for example: "Play Button" and have it play the wave file "Button"?
Here is what I have to build the basic program:
import speech_recognition as sr
import pygame
from pygame import mixer
mixer.init()

r = sr.Recognizer()
m = sr.Microphone()

Button = pygame.mixer.Sound('/home/pi/Downloads/button8.wav')

try:
    print("A moment of silence, please...")
    with m as source: r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
    print("Set minimum energy threshold to {}".format(r.energy_threshold))
    while True:
        print("Say something!")
        with m as source: audio = r.listen(source)
        print("Got it! Now to recognize it...")
        try:
            # recognize speech using Sphinx
            value = r.recognize_sphinx(audio)
            print("You said {}".format(value)) #uses unicode for strings and this is where I am stuck
            pygame.mixer.Sound.play(Button)
            pygame.mixer.music.stop()
        except sr.UnknownValueError:
            print("Oops! Didn't catch that")
        except sr.RequestError as e:
            print("Uh oh! Couldn't request results; {0}".format(e))
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

Thank you so much for any help you can provide. Please be kind, as I am a beginner.

A: Try comparing it to 'play button':
# recognize speech using Sphinx
value = r.recognize_sphinx(audio)
print("You said {}".format(value))

if value.lower() == 'play button':
    pygame.mixer.Sound.play(Button)
    pygame.mixer.music.stop()


Other big cats are related to tigers including the common house cat, leopard, cheetah, lion, puma, and the mountain lion.
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Волго-Донское ПМЭС (Волго-Донское предприятие магистральных электрических сетей) — крупное предприятие, входящее в состав филиала ПАО « Россети ФСК ЕЭС» — МЭС Юга, и осуществляющее эксплуатацию линий электропередачи (ЛЭП) и подстанций (ПС) сверхвысокого напряжения в Волгоградской и Астраханской областях, республике Калмыкия Российской Федерации.

О предприятии
Магистральные электрические сети 500 кВ Волго-Донского ПМЭС являются важным связующим звеном между Объединённой энергосистемой Средней Волги, южной частью ОЭС Центра и ОЭС Юга.
История Волго-Донского ПМЭС напрямую связана со строительством двухцепной линии электропередачи 500 кВ Сталинградская ГЭС — Москва. Со вводом в конце 1959 года первой цепи линии началась передача электроэнергии, вырабатываемой Сталинградской ГЭС (ныне Волжская ГЭС). В составе этой электропередачи была построена подстанция 500/110 кВ «Балашовская».

Рост электропотребления в города Волгограда и дефицит мощности на Северном Кавказе потребовали в 80-е годы привлечения мощности строящейся Балаковской АЭС. Для этого была построена ВЛ 500 кВ Балаковская АЭС — Трубная с ПС 500 кВ «Трубная», а в дальнейшем ВЛ 500 кВ Ростовская АЭС — ПС «Южная». Эти линии значительно усилили межсистемные связи южной части энергосистемы Центра с энергосистемами Средней Волги и Юга. Вокруг города Волгограда, как центра электропотребления, возникло кольцо опорных подстанций 500/220 кВ «Волга», «Трубная», «Южная».

Производственные показатели
Волго-Донское ПМЭС осуществляет эксплуатацию более 5,5 тыс. км. линий электропередачи и 45 подстанций, номинальным напряжением 35—500 кВ и общей суммарной мощностью более 12,6 тыс. МВА. Общая численность персонала составляет 770 человек.

Ссылки
 Электропередачи сверхвысокого напряжения ЕЭС России — М.: Энергоатомиздат, 2001, 384 с. ISBN 5-283-02565-9
 Волгоградская область войдет в число инвестпрограмм ОАО «ФСК ЕЭС». Коммерсантъ (Волгоград) № 79 (4134) от 05.05.2009
 Официальный сайт МЭС Центра
 Официальный сайт ОАО «ФСК ЕЭС»

Примечания

ФСК ЕЭС

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import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.impl.thrift.ThriftTableOperationException;

/**
 * Thrown when the table specified already exists, and it was expected that it didn't
 */
public class TableExistsException extends Exception {
  /**
   * Exception to throw if an operation is attempted on a table that already exists.
   *
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  /**
   * @param tableId
   *          the internal id of the table that exists
   * @param tableName
   *          the visible name of the table that exists
   * @param description
   *          the specific reason why it failed
   */
  public TableExistsException(String tableId, String tableName, String description) {
    super("Table" + (tableName != null && !tableName.isEmpty() ? " " + tableName : "") + (tableId != null && !tableId.isEmpty() ? " (Id=" + tableId + ")" : "")
        + " exists" + (description != null && !description.isEmpty() ? " (" + description + ")" : ""));
  }

  /**
   * @param tableId
   *          the internal id of the table that exists
   * @param tableName
   *          the visible name of the table that exists
   * @param description
   *          the specific reason why it failed
   * @param cause
   *          the exception that caused this failure
   */
  public TableExistsException(String tableId, String tableName, String description, Throwable cause) {
    this(tableId, tableName, description);
    super.initCause(cause);
  }

  /**
   * @param e
   *          constructs an exception from a thrift exception
   */
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    this(e.getTableId(), e.getTableName(), e.getDescription(), e);
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Railroad Machine Shops, Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa, Revisited Again
We were able to get closer to the massive railroad machine shops that I examined back in July of 2021. I had first observed them from a distance back in the fall of 2018 (ninth photo down). They're massive, impressive buildings, but what is even more massive, and you can see that in the fire…
Former Bridge, Beach & Co., Revisited
I've looked at the massive Bridge, Beach & Co. factory on North Union Boulevard twice before, once in August of 2014 and then again in November of 2018. It seems to stretch onto blocks on both sides of Brown Avenue and terminates on the west side of Geraldine Avenue. The Sanborn Map from 1920 shows…
Richard Pryor and Peoria
I had known for awhile that Richard Pryor was from Peoria, but I had always assumed it was one of those situations where he was born there and had moved away when he was a small child. That is far…
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The wealth platform provider has posted a 108 per cent increase in total funds under administration to $16.1 billion over the year to 30 June.
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Praemium's Australian platform experienced a 24 per cent increase in FUA to $6.9 billion from net inflows of $1 billion. Australian revenue increased 14 per cent over financial year 2019 to $31.4 million. Australian EBITDA increased 21 per cent to $15.2 million, compared to $12.4 million for FY18. EBITDA margins were 48 per cent of revenue, up from the prior year's 45 per cent.
Praemium's International platform recorded gross inflows of $850 million, up 62 per cent in the prior comparable period, while FUA closed at $2.6 billion as at 30 June 2019, up 29 per cent for the year.
However, the group's international revenue based on its business units in the UK and Asia declined by 12 per cent for the year to $13.7 million.
"The UK business was impacted by declines in global equity markets and outflows in the Smartfund range of managed funds," the company said in a statement. "This was offset by growth in Asia for WealthCraft's CRM and planning software, with revenue increasing 19 per cent to $0.8 million from a 33 per cent uplift in users over the past 12 months.
In the 12 months to 30 June Praemium accelerated its development of a range of products and technology solutions and capitalised $4.7 million during the year to expand its platform offering.
In February the ASX-listed group released its next-generation integrated managed accounts platform to the market.
In Australia, the VMA administration service (VMAAS), which was launched in the previous financial year, attracted over 4,000 portfolios representing $6.6 billion in funds under administration. In addition to the $9.5 billion on the custodial platform, Praemium can now report overall FUA of $16.1 billion, an increase of 108 per cent over the previous year.
"The past year was a transformative one for Praemium. We believe February's upgrade to a full-service integrated managed accounts platform represents the fifth generation in platform technology," Praemium CEO Michael Ohanessian said.
"An important consequence of this upgrade is a significant increase in the size of Praemium's addressable market. In Australia alone, our market has expanded from the $21 billion SMA platform segment (as at end 2018) to the $858 billion overall platform market. Although it is early days, we are very encouraged by the strong client interest in Australia and internationally for our new IMA capability.
"I'm delighted to say that our international business is now growing strongly and is on target to become profitable next year."
Praemium delivered a record $521 million of inflows in the second half versus $328 million in the first.
"Comparing this year to the previous year, gross inflows were up 62 per cent and I'm pleased to say that momentum has continued into the current financial year," Mr Ohanessian said.
"While our new integrated managed accounts platform is a great achievement, there remain many things for us to do. Our next major program will be to fully integrate the platform and our WealthCraft CRM and financial planning system. With the combined global reach of our platform and WealthCraft, we believe our unique position will deliver us a competitive advantage that will also help support adviser firms in their efforts to deliver excellence in their management of client wealth."
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Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow explain why they're not leaving the traditional fashion calendar behind after all.
Following their exit from DKNY, Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow of Public School have announced their plan to reclaim their New York Fashion Week time-slot, despite an earlier announcement they were leaving the calendar altogether. Traditionally, the pair would show their collection on 12 February at 11:00 in the morning. However, in April this year they announced Public School would move to something closer to the see-now-buy-now model. Their DKNY collections would continue abiding by the traditional fashion week calendar.
Having both collections show in New York within days of each-other, they rationalised, blurred the divide between the projects. It was also hugely emotionally taxing: "One of the reasons we moved Public School off calendar is because at the end of a show it's emotional," Osbourne explained to Vogue. "You put a lot of effort into it, and to do it again within a couple of days and be emotional again, it's a lot."
So, why the change of heart, and the return to fashion week? Now they're not at DKNY, the problem of overcrowding is solved. "The last show we did we had decided to move Public School off calendar so we could focus on doing one show during Fashion Week. The hardest thing was being in one place and having to think about the other place," Chow said. "I remember being backstage at a Public School show and one of our head designers from DKNY was there shooting backstage, and I was like, 'where are we right now?'"
The pair called the February morning presentation, "a slot we've always loved," so we are very happy to welcome them home.


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Two Online Nursing Degrees for Joy Smoot
Joy Smoot, who is originally from Rhode Island, did not have an especially large cheering section at her graduation ceremony at the University of Texas at Arlington, but her loved ones in attendance weren't the only ones watching and beaming with pride.
"It's just me, my husband [Matt] and his family here in Texas, but much of my family in Rhode Island was able to watch graduation since it was live-streaming," Smoot said. "My sisters, my parents and my uncle all watched it live. They were so excited to be able to do that. It was a really great experience."
In December 2015, Texans and Rhode Islanders alike witnessed Smoot graduate with an MSN in Nursing Administration, which she earned online. She also completed UTA's RN to BSN online program two years earlier.
"It was a long-term goal I had," Smoot said. "I always knew that I wanted to go to graduate school. At the time, I had been working as a charge nurse, and I started to really get interested in leadership. I always thought I would go a clinical route like nurse practitioner or something like that, but I started to get more interested in leadership.
"I participated in a few projects at my facility, like lean management projects and things like that. I also became interested in practice improvement, which ultimately led me to choose the MSN in Nursing Administration."
Smoot is a clinical nurse manager on a 22-bed cardiovascular unit at The Heart Hospital Baylor Denton in Texas. Prior to that, she worked at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, also in Texas, for five-and-a-half years.
"I knew that I wanted to do something in leadership but not something specific," she said. "I've always been interested in different areas, like quality and process improvement. I became a clinical supervisor right before I started the MSN program. I was a supervisor on a unit that started my track toward becoming a manager."
Smoot knew at an early age she was interested in the healthcare profession.
"I wanted to do something meaningful, and I had a lot of family and friends who were nurses," she said. "I got my nursing assistant certification and started working at a hospital and saw what the nurses did. I just really fell in love with patient care and felt like it was my calling."
Smoot earned a diploma in nursing from St. Joseph School of Nursing in Rhode Island in 2009. She moved to Texas after meeting her husband, Matt, who is a commercial real estate broker from Dallas. Smoot learned of the UTA nursing program through her hospital.
"It was very easy to apply, we got tuition reimbursement and it was affordable," she said. "I worked with a lot of people who had been through the program."
Smoot said the online format was also ideal for her busy schedule.
"It worked really well," she said. "It was still definitely demanding. I had to learn how to manage my time. At the time, I was fortunate enough as a supervisor to have one day off during the week. I did four 10-hour shifts, so I would do a lot of my work on that day and on the weekends. Occasionally, I would have to work on stuff in the evenings. It was challenging but still very manageable."
Smoot said one of the most valuable components of the master's program was the understanding it provided of the scope of nursing.
"It really gave me a lot of perspective and a more global view of nursing as a profession, like things that maybe, as a staff nurse, I wouldn't have been aware of," she said. "You're just thinking about coming in and taking care of your patients and doing the best job you can do for them. Going through the master's program really gives you more of an idea of healthcare globally, population health and how it all ties together.
"In the leadership classes, you learn a lot of different types of processes and even doing case studies where you're talking about different ways to engage things. I learned a lot of management and leadership skills."
One of Smoot's favorite courses was Nursing and Healthcare Policy [NURS 5382].
"It was probably the hardest class in the MSN program," she said. "It was just very involved and required a lot of work, but it was an interesting class in which I learned a lot. It was hard and just constant work, but I got to do some really neat things."
Among those things was the opportunity to interview a nurse lawyer who was one of her professors in the RN to BSN online program.
"It was neat to actually meet her in person and learn about her career and her path," Smoot said. "It kind of forced me to get out and meet some of the nurse leaders in the community and learn about them. And, of course, to learn all of the legal aspects of healthcare and government, like how a bill is passed. I found it to be really interesting."
Smoot said the support she received from her friends and family, both near and far, was an important key to finishing the MSN program.
"They were very supportive," she said. "I think it was different for me because I don't have kids, so it's just me and my husband. It might have been a little bit easier for me to manage. I know it's harder when you have a family."
Smoot said she has recommended her chosen UT Arlington nursing programs — both the RN to BSN and the Master of Science in Nursing — to several of her colleagues.
"I have some staff that I work with now who are going through the RN to BSN program and the Nurse Practitioner program," she said. "We compare notes and talk about our experiences. I would say it's challenging, but you won't regret it when you're done. You'll be glad you did it. It does open up doors and also helps you grow in your career."
Learn more about the UTA online nursing degree programs.


In the first installment of The Flying Dodo Airfield - a collection of articles written by SA cycling history doyen Ron Thompson, we "Detour" into the past to explore the history of South African bicycle charity programme Qhubeka and the origins of bicycle mobility movement in South Africa.
As I sit down to write this piece in July 2018, the 105th Tour de France has just begun.
Most South African cyclists are aware that a team of professional cyclists with African connections rides the 2018 Le Tour. Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka is Africa's first ever UCI World Tour team! The team not only focuses on helping African talents to the world stage of cycling, but they also raise funds and gather international support for South African bicycle charity organization Qhubeka through the #BicyclesChangeLives campaign.
Qhubeka has been instrumental in bringing bicycle mobility to communities who have limited access to transport and have to walk long distances to reach jobs, education, healthcare and community services. Here the bicycle is used a tool of change, to uplift communities and change lives.
Having an African pro cycling team racing in Europe has done a great deal to spread the Qhubeka message. In the end the result is that both the sport and the transport aspect come more into the spotlight – a win win situation. To see how this relationship between sport and transport came about, we need to look back at the origins of Qhubeka and the bicycle mobility movement in South Africa.
As a collector of old steel bicycles and regarded as knowledgeable re fixing and refurbishing such machines, I was invited to be part of a project to bring discarded bikes from overseas to South Africa to provide transport for "Previously Disadvantaged People".
This project became Afribike. It soon became apparent that parts for these obsolete machines were near impossible to obtain. In addition, the cost of parts, labour, time and the sourcing of needed bits and pieces was counter-productive. We became a depository for discarded bicycle junk from the rest of the world. Someone described the operation as a Waste Management exercise!
If experience is also a process of learning from mistakes, boy did we become experienced.
After some hard thinking a solution was devised and we formulated an Action Plan to take to Government: by having a single design and size bike, economies of scale should mean that Quantity would ensure Quality at the lowest price possible.
We had no trouble in persuading the government under President Mbeki of the economic, ecological, and energy saving merit of the bicycle as the human powered Mobility Machine for the majority of people in this country. This healthy and cost saving alternative to fossil fuel powered transport would be a saving rather than a cost to the country.
On the basis that appeals to raise funds for children and animals are the most likely to meet with success, we focused on an estimated 12 million children in rural areas who walked long distances to school each day ( with some of them spending up to fours hours a day walking to school and back). The fact that there was very little or no road infrastructure in these areas for motorised school transport anyway, was advantageous as cycling was made safer. In addition, our bicycles were designed to ride across the veld, utilising footpaths.
Bicycles are the most effective and economical method of quickly addressing this problem – saving time and energy, bringing fresher kids to classes thus better able to absorb the lessons necessary to gain a better education. Better Education = Better Jobs. In essence then the bicycle is a means to an end. It is the Path out of Poverty.
Our project was the Shova Kalula* – Million Bike Project. The idea was to distribute 1 million bikes at the rate of 1000 bikes per region to 1000 regions per year over a ten year period. * [pedal easy] Only a government would be able to fund an undertaking of this size. However, after Mr Zuma instigated the exit of Mr Mbeki at Polokwane, the wheels came off this government project, although it will undoubtedly be revived before the next election in terms of propaganda to garner votes!
At this time I went off looking for a private sponsor to get the wheels turning again and found Anthony Fitzhenry, then owner of the computer supply company Axiz, which needed a CSI project to earn needed BEE points and at the same time be of benefit to others. Thus was born the motive power movement out of which came Qhubeka ["to progress", "to move forward"].
Founded in 2005, Qhubeka uses bicycles to connect families to schools, clinics and jobs. That's why Qhubeka's name is an Nguni word that means "to progress", "to move forward" – because bicycles help people to travel faster and further, be fitter and access more options, including healthcare and educational facilities and job opportunities. People earn bicycles through various programmes, like their Learn-to-earn Programme, where schoolchildren earn Qhubeka Bicycles by committing to improve their school attendance. Qhubeka also supplies bicycles to health workers, to help them visit more patients, and to communities to help them access clinics more easily.
Today Qhubeka has supplied over 80 000 of their robust, steel utility bicycles through these programmes to communities across South Africa.
The cycle-sport link came about when Douglas Ryder approached MTN to sponsor his cycle team and was turned down. He then met Anthony Fitzhenry, and realised that MTN would undoubtedly see an advantage in sponsoring the scheme to help provide bicycles/transportation for rural schoolchildren and thereby helping them get an education. Hence the MTN-Qhubeka cycle team which was founded in 2007. In 2015 this team (now named Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka) made history as the first African registered team to take part in the renowned Tour de France!
This is the situation at present, except for this addendum: For a long time, Qhubeka imported bicycle components from abroad, but this year through the establishment of Real Bicycle Company, the charity-owned bicycle manufacturing entity – Qhubeka all steel bikes are now designed and built locally! Through the Real Bicycle Company, Qhubeka is creating new jobs and boosting skills development, while sparking the revival of South Africa's bicycle manufacturing industry. An industry that during its heyday in the 1970s and 80's, once produced around 400 000 bicycles a year.
Over the past year, Qhubeka has combined forces with Pedal Power Association (PPA) and the Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) to work on joint initiatives in the Western Cape – with a shared goal to promote bicycle use and empower communities. Collaboration between these organisations has been beneficial to all, increasing their impact and reach, and bringing bicycle mobility to more people across South Africa.
Find out how you can support Qhubeka and help them to move people and communities forward.
In the first installment of The Flying Dodo Airfield – a collection of articles written by SA cycling history doyen Ron Thompson, we "Detour" into the past to explore the history of South African bicycle charity programme Qhubeka and the origins of bicycle mobility movement in South Africa.


When I was about 5 years old, we went on a family vacation. We stayed in a 2-story condo that had a large balcony where people could sit and visit in the evening. I was on that balcony, but decided I wanted to go down to the ground. I climbed through the rails that were there to protect people from falling. My plan was to grab onto one of the square columns that held up the balcony and slide down it. A family friend who was watching us told me to stop but I didn't listen. I had a plan! As you have guessed, I fell from the balcony and hit the ground. My memory of that event is fuzzy, but I believe I broke a tooth on the curb that bordered the driveway below. I had intended to go down to the driveway. There was nothing wrong with my intent, but the results were not what I expected and I got hurt. Where did I go wrong?
Some time after that, my brother and I were outside. He was up the tree but he was ready to come down. I was on the ground but I wanted to get up in the tree. We had plan! We got a rope and draped it over a big branch. He held onto one end and I held onto the other. The idea was simple. He would jump out of the tree and on his way down, he would pull me up. We did not consider the fact that he was twice my size and there was no way I was strong enough to hold on to that rope with our combined weight. He fell from that tree and hit the ground. When he passed out, I thought I had killed him! We had intended to get my brother out of the tree and to get me in it. There was nothing wrong with our intent, but again the results were not what we expected and someone got hurt. Where did we go wrong?
When I was third grade, we were playing kickball at school. The play was over and I had the ball somewhere close to home plate. My teacher, Mrs. Fulton, told me to throw the ball to the pitcher. I had a plan! Instead of throwing the ball, I decided to kick it to the pitcher. After all, this was a game of kickball, not throwball! So I dropped the ball and punted it as hard as I could. Instead of sailing out to the pitcher's mound as expected, the ball went straight for Mrs. Fulton and hit her in the face causing her glasses to cut her nose. When I saw her bleeding, I immediately felt awful for hurting her and then I was terrified about what the school might do to a kid who actually made his teacher bleed! I had intended to get the ball back to the pitcher. There was nothing wrong with my intent, but again the results were not what I expected and someone got hurt. Where did I go wrong?
I could go on telling story after story of good intentions gone wrong. I have suffered, and caused others to suffer many times when the results of a plan did not match the good intentions that hatched that plan. When I start with good intentions, but the results are not what I expected and people get hurt, I have to ask, "What went wrong?" After many years of asking that question, I think I have discovered an answer.
When your intentions are good, but the results are not, it could be because you chose the wrong methods to accomplish your goal. There was nothing wrong with me wanting to go down to the ground when I was 5, but I should have taken the stairs. There was nothing wrong with me wanting to be in the tree at the same time my brother wanted out of it, but he should climbed down and I should have climbed up. There was nothing wrong with getting the ball to the pitcher, but I should have thrown it like I was told. In every case (and so many others since then), good intentions led to bad results because of my methods!
For example, feeling strongly about a cause does not automatically justify any actions I choose to take for that cause. If my cause is just, but I use unfair methods to support it, I will most likely end up hurting people and having results that I did not expect. Simply put, when the end results don't match my original good intentions, I have to admit that it was most likely my methods that caused the problem. This is one of those life-lessons that I have to keep learning. How about you? Do you have to keep learning this one too, or do you have it down by now?
young man. I enjoy what you have to say……and I understand and believe it.
Thanks so much Woody. I really appreciate your encouragement! God bless you buddy.


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Harman Acquires SVSi
[![Blake Augsburger, president of the Harman Professional Division](/content/images/2015/06/Blake-Augsburger-275x300.jpg)](/content/images/2015/06/Blake-Augsburger.jpg)Blake Augsburger, president of the Harman Professional Division
Harman International has acquired SVSi, a maker of networked AV products.
Based in Huntsville, AL, SVSi manufactures and sells an extensive portfolio of products for delivering AV over an IP network. Included among these is a full range of encoders and decoders, windowing/wall processors, an audio transceiver, video recorder, and management software. SVSi will join Harman Professional's Video and Control Strategic Business Unit (SBU) led by Rashid Skaf and marketed under the AMX by Harman brand. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"Harman was early to recognize the emergence and potential of AV over IP," comments Blake Augsburger, president of the Harman Professional Division. "For more than six years, we have been steadily introducing new products to serve growing customer demand for IP-based products. With the acquisition of SVSi, we will accelerate our development plan with the addition of extraordinary expertise from the SVSi team."
"As an independent company, SVSi has enjoyed tremendous success and acceptance of our networked AV solutions," says Andy Whitehead, SVSi president and founder. "Our products have been recognized with numerous industry awards and, more importantly, been adopted by a wide number and variety of leading organizations in the entertainment, government, education, and corporate sectors. By joining forces with HARMAN, we can deliver the benefits of our solutions to more customers, faster than we could do on our own."
SVSi products can be ordered immediately from all existing SVSi dealers or AMX dealers.
For more information, contact AMX Canada: 514-695-4883, FAX 514-695-5243, jpx@amx.ca, www.amx.ca.
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CasaTunes has annonced a new group of multi-room music systems. The CT-4+ and CT-8+ are complete multi-room systems that include a music server and audio distribution switch, while the CT-4S and CT-8S servers can be mated with pre-existing audio distribution systems. All four servers have a 1TB hard drive, analog and digital outs, and integrated streaming services like Pandora, Spotify, and SiriusXM. All four use the CasaTunes Air platform that allows for multiple AirPlay streams around the home. The new CT-4+ and CT-4S start at $1,495, and the CT-8+ and CT-8S start at $1,995.
CasaTunes has announced four new products for multi-room music with the CT-4+ System, CT-8+ System, CT-4S Streamer and CT-8S Streamer. The two CasaTunes Systems are complete multi-room audio systems, including the server, audio streams and audio distribution switch; everything is inside the one CasaTunes music system, perfect for new home construction. The CasaTunes Streamers include the server and music streams ideal for homes that want to add streaming music options to existing audio distribution systems.
All four new CasaTunes products are housed in a slick new compact chassis that is low power, super quiet and high quality. Each have analog preamp stereo outputs and one digital optical output, plus up to ten wired or wireless Apple AirPlay rooms. All outputs are lossless CD quality. All four new products include 1TB of internal storage for the homeowner's music.
The CT-4+ System has five internal streaming music players and one external input for a tuner or other external source. The CT-4+ has four analog stereo outputs and one digital output. The CT-8+ has nine internal streaming players and two external inputs, eight analog outputs and one digital output.
The CT-4S Streamer has five internal players, four analog streams and one digital stream. The CT-8S has nine internal players, eight analog streams and one digital stream.
All four products include a large selection of music services from Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark, SiriusXM and many other internet providers, as well as the ability to play music from the customer's collection of iTunes and/or Windows Media music.
Powered by CasaTunes Air, an intelligent multi-room switch for Apple Airplay, CasaTunes can seamlessly stream music from any popular music App from one or more iOS devices to any room. Listening to music is as simple as choosing your favorite music App and selecting your room, all on your iPad or iPhone. Plus, with CasaTunes Air, homeowners can easily expand their existing whole house music system by adding networked and wireless speakers as needed.
CasaTunes integration is available for Control4, RTI, OnControls and Loxone home automation systems. The new CT-4+ and CT-4S start at $1,495, and the CT-8+ and CT-8S start at $1,995. All are immediately available through CasaTunes' network of system integrator partners or direct from CasaTunes.
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How to Color Calibrate Your Monitor in Windows 10 (and Why You Might Want To)
By Corbin Telligman – Posted on Mar 23, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 in Windows
Aside from just pressing the buttons on the side of the monitor and hoping for the best, the color calibration tool built into Windows 10 will help you make sure that your monitor is displaying the proper levels of darks, colors, and everything in between. For content producers, it is important to verify that your work will appear the same or similar on all devices; therefore, accurate to industry standards. For the casual user, you will want your movies, games, and photos to look their absolute best.
Before making adjustments with the monitor's physical buttons and the color calibration tool, reset your monitor to factory color settings and turn off lights in the room to prevent glare. What "looks good" at a glance may not necessarily be accurate. The Color Calibration tool will allow for fine adjustments and proper leveling of various values.
How to Access the Color Calibration Tool
1. Start from your desktop. Right click and select the "Display Settings" option. Alternatively, use "Windows Key + I" to jump right to settings. From there, select "Display."
2. The current window will show options for using multiple monitors and adjusting the orientation of your display. To reach calibration, scroll to the bottom of the page and select the option labeled "Advanced Display Settings."
3. Now you will have the option to select either "Color management" or "Color calibration."
How to Use Color Management
Simply put, "Color management" shows pre-set color profiles for your specific monitor and for all monitors your PC supports. The Devices tab shows your PC's devices and associated profiles, while the "All profiles" tab shows any available profiles. Click through a few options to see how they appear. This form of calibration will work for some, but for truly accurate results you may wish to create your own color profile by using the color calibration tool.
How to Adjust Colors With The Color Calibration Tool
1. You will use the buttons on your monitor to adjust certain color aspects, and therefore the welcome window should be moved over to the monitor you wish to calibrate first. For those with more than one monitor, they will have to be calibrated separately, even if they are the same make and model. Click "Next" to continue.
2. Gamma must now be adjusted. As stated by the wizard, gamma controls the amount of light emitted from a specific color. "Good gamma" is has no dot – either dark or light – within each of the four circles depicted. By clicking "Next" you will be able to use a slider on the display to adjust the gamma values. After using the slider, select "Next" again.
3. Brightness and contrast will be adjusted with the physical buttons on your monitor. On some monitors there are buttons dedicated to brightness and contrast, while on others you will have to select the menu button on the monitor and then find the brightness and contrast settings. To start this process, select "Next." Use your monitor's buttons to make the brightness of the image on the next page look like the sample provided. Click "Next" to see the image.
4. Do just as before to adjust contrast. View the sample images and click "Next" to start making adjustments. Click "Next" when you are done.
5. With color balance, no color should be "leaking" into the greyscale. Click "Next" to adjust the greyscale using sliders. Once finished with this adjustment, select "Next."
6. You can now switch back and forth between the previous calibration and the current one. If you like it, click "Finish." Otherwise, select "Cancel." If you choose to cancel, it is important to reset your display to factory settings!
Further Troubleshooting and Final Thoughts
If colors are still not looking vibrant, it is likely that the PC has a faulty graphics card or that the monitor has gone bad. Attempt using the monitor with another PC. If colors and text appear the same, the monitor is at fault. If colors and text on the new PC appear to look better, then the graphics card will likely need replacing.
All-in-all, taking a moment to calibrate your display will greatly improve the quality of work for videographers, photographers, graphic designers, and for more creative professionals. And it will make your games look great, too. If you are having any issues getting things looking crispy and vibrant, leave a comment below so that we can help.
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Hello all, if you live in aberdeen and are between the ages of 14-19 (or know someone who is) then please come along or share the details of this event I am a part of tomorrow.
Take part in a mysterious adventure this Friday!
Artist Natalie Kerr and our Young People's Collective invite you to join them on an intriguing quest for treasure. Follow the clues and complete the quirky challenges to unlock your reward!
Bring your friends and take part as a team!
No booking required, just turn up on Friday afternoon.
Free, for ages 14-19 years.


A charter has been launched for social care providers which aims to tackle the health inequalities that people with learning disabilities often face.
The Health Charter for Providers Supporting People with Learning Disabilities is designed to support social care providers to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities, thus improving their quality of life generally.
To support organisations as they put the charter into practice, there is also guidance for providers and commissioners and, specifically for social care staff, a self-assessment tool.
The charter has been devised in by the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) and the Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory, in partnership with the National Development Team for Inclusion, The National Care Forum and Mencap.
The charter is in response to reports, including 2013's The Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities, which found that men die an average 13 years before and women 20 years before their non-disabled counterparts. Almost half of the deaths considered in the study were deemed premature.
•	Ensure that all staff, people with learning disabilities and their families are made aware of this charter.
In a blog, VODG general secretary, John Adams, said: "It is imperative that social care providers sign up to the charter. Organisations and their staff have a vital role to play in promoting health and wellbeing and making it easier for individuals to access services.
Visit the charter website here.


We are having guests this weekend, and that means I'm packing away my crafty stuff and the mess it constantly causes... but I can't go without something to do, so I took out my "lightweight" summer project: an altered book for quotes and doodles that I started a few weeks ago. I am posting for the Chocolate Baroque colour challenge (pink, purple, blue and green) and the SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge (for the love of plants).
All the layouts in this book are going to be one-layer, using Micron pens, a white Sharpie and colour pencils. Some have stamping like this one, others have doodles and tangles. I haven't thinned out any pages, so even paint would be too dimensional to use here -I wan't the book to close nicely! This gorgeous quote is from a 12th century Persian poet, and I ran into it on the Our Creative Corner challenge blog. Had to jot it down for myself, and that is just what this book is for!
the background text provided by the book is quite forgiving!
After deciding to continue this page and link to the CB challenge I chose the lantern-plant and decided to keep it simple, that way both the quote and flower get the attention they deserve! I coloured the page with Derwent coloursoft pencils, mostly using a swirly doodle motion. I added white in and around the lanterns and in the text of the quote to make them pop out.
Ah Kristina, this a truly beautiful piece of altered work, love the lettering and layout, superbly executed ... Thanks for sharing it... The quote reminds me of a verse from Nahum I think it is, " When I sit in darkness the LORD shall be a Light unto me" .


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Our Mental Health Services team provide direct services to Tasmanians, carers and families affected by severe mental health problems. We work with the non-Government sector, Tasmanian communities and the broader mental health sector.
Our mental health services are provided by three Area Management Units overseeing service delivery in the South, North, and North-West regions of Tasmania. The service is coordinated by a centralised state office in the South.
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Our services for older Tasmanians consist of acute inpatient assessment and treatment services, a day centre, community services, and a Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service (part of the Commonwealth Government Dementia Program).
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YOG : India's U18 Women's team win Silver at the Youth Olympic Games
The Dragflick Newsdesk - October 15, 2018
The Indian U-18 Women's Hockey team finished their Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games campaign with the Silver Medal as they suffered a heart-breaking...
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YOG : Australia Women and Men finish Fifth and Sixth at the Youth Olympic Games
Australia's women and men have finished fifth and sixth respectively at the 2018 Youth Olympics Hockey 5s following the final matches in Buenos Aires...
YOG : India's U18 Men's team win Silver at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games
The Indian U-18 Men's Hockey Team won the Silver Medal at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games after suffering a heart-break 2-4 loss...
YOG : Australia's Men and Women to compete for the Fifth spot
Both Australian Hockey 5s teams will compete for fifth spot at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires after recording wins in the classification...
YOG : India's U18 Men's Team beat Argentina in the Semi-Final match
The Indian U-18 Men's Hockey Team produced a fine display to register their place in the Final of the Hockey 5s competition at the...
YOG : India's U18 Women's team beat Poland to secure a semi-final berth
A confident Indian U-18 Women's Hockey team on Friday defeated Poland 3-0 in their Quarter-Final match of the Hockey 5s competition of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth...
YOG : India's U18 Men's team progress to the Semi-Finals
The Indian U-18 Men's Hockey Team continued to impress at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games as they defeated Poland 4-2 in their...
YOG : India U18 Men's Hockey Team advance into the Quarter-Finals
The Indian U-18 Men's Hockey Team secured their berth in the Quarter-Finals of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games as they beat Canada 5-2...
YOG : Australia's U18 Men and Women's Hockey teams qualify for the Quarter Finals
Australia's Hockey 5s quarter-finals draw has been confirmed after the final round robin matches were completed at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires...
YOG : India's U-18 Women's Hockey Team progress to quarter-finals
The Indian U-18 Women's Hockey team on Thursday produced a decisive performance to defeat South Africa 5-2 in their fifth and final Pool A...
YOG : Australia's U18 Men's Hockey Team register their fourth consecutive victory
The Australian men's Hockey 5s team have maintained their perfect record at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires despite a scare winning 4-3...
YOG : Sudeep and Shivam score hat-tricks to keep India U18 Men's Team at the top of Pool B
A dominant performance from the Indian U-18 Men's Hockey team saw them register an emphatic 9-1 victory over Austria in their second Hockey 5s Pool...
YOG : A splendid performance by India's U18 Men's Team as they defeat Kenya's U18 Men's Team
The Indian U-18 Men's Hockey Team registered their third consecutive win of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games as they beat Kenya 7-1...
YOG : Big wins for Australia's U18 Men and Women's Hockey Teams
Australia have recorded big wins in both the women's and men's Hockey 5s tournament at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires overnight. The Aussie...
YOG : Striker Lalremsiami scores a brace to lead her team to an impressive win over Uruguay
The Dragflick Newsdesk - October 9, 2018
The Indian U-18 Women's Hockey maintained their fine start to the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games as they defeated Uruguay in their second...
🇵🇰 Pakistan Hockey : Pakistan Hockey Federation names 45 players for National training camp
🇮🇳 Hockey India : 66 players named for Junior Women's National training camp
🇮🇳 Hockey India : India Women's Hockey team leave for Oman to defend their Asia Cup title
🇪🇸 Spain Hockey : Spain Men's Hockey team to play four uncapped matches against the Netherlands and Great Britain
🇬🇧 Great Britain Hockey : Great Britain Women's Hockey team's training camp in Spain cancelled


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PHOENIX -- When the Super Bowl comes to town, a lot of famous people come with it, including athletes, former athletes and coaches. And while they're here, some of them make time to make a difference by doing some "super" things.
One of those good deeds is the "Super Baskets of Hope" program. The program provides gifts to children diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness. The baskets are delivered by volunteers who spend time meeting with the family.
New York Giants kicker Josh Brown, along with former NFL player Ryan Neill, presented the patients with presents. The athletes represented Super Baskets of Hope, an organization which delivers baskets to children who are long-term hospital patients.
Josh Hull, Chris Givens and other Rams players distribute more than 200 baskets to patients at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital as part of the Super Basket of Hope delivery event.
Linebackers Chris Chamberlain and Will Herring were joined by almost 100 volunteers on Saturday at De La Salle High School for the Super Baskets of Hope Second Annual Gift of Hope Event to help support ill children across America.
Saints Coach, Sean Payton and linebacker, Chris Chamberlain delivered over 250 Super Baskets and Hope Totes to children & their families at Ochsner Children's Health Center - New Orleans.


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Ukraine's valiant liberation struggle against the Russian Federation's aggression and illegal occupation is undoubtedly the great geopolitical struggle of our time. The consequences of this conflict will have generational impacts on States great and small across Eurasia and the Atlantic world. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, itself a victim of aggression by a neighboring country during the 1990s, we are especially aware of both the strategic necessity of Ukraine's victory and the suffering of the Ukrainian people in their efforts to achieve that success.
But as a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency, I am also keenly aware of the limits of the Atlantic community's contemporary security policies, above all in the likewise strategically vulnerable Western Balkans. In our region, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina specifically, I am concerned that Western policy has remained wedded to short-term solutions and an understanding of stability rooted in appeasing criminal-nationalist elites rather than fostering the emergence of functional representative and democratic institutions.
I see the Kremlin's malign agenda at work in this region. My cabinet has consistently alerted our Atlantic partners to the depth of Russia's machinations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and across the Western Balkans. In December 2020, for instance, despite the risk of severe retribution by the Kremlin against my country, I refused to meet with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after his government once again made clear its support for local secessionists. We were willing to risk retribution from Moscow when many in Europe were still attempting to engage Vladimir Putin.
Of course, I have been gratified by NATO's growing assistance to our armed forces, and the Alliance's recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an important theater in contesting the Kremlin's imperial agenda. And like most Bosnians, I am especially pleased that NATO and its members have been so forthcoming with military aid to Ukraine, especially considering our experiences with the unjustifiable United Nations arms embargo during the Bosnian War, which served only to exacerbate the terror inflicted upon the civilian population.
Yet in the Western Balkans, Russia rarely acts directly. Instead, it relies on a complex network of proxy actors to advance its agenda, a fact that our Western partners often fail to fully appreciate. As a recent report by the European Council on Foreign Relations' Majda Ruge correctly noted:
All the indications are that the threat to peace in Bosnia is primarily homegrown and regional, while Russia plays a spoiler role where it can do so at a low cost. Bosnia's sovereignty and territorial integrity have been under repeated attack by Bosnian Serb – and, more subtly, Bosnian Croat – nationalist politicians since 1996, when the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement began…Russia's most important instruments on the ground are these actors and the constitutional blockage mechanisms at their disposal.
The confounding and discriminatory provisions of my country's existing constitutional regime are well known. But because Bosnia and Herzegovina's constitution is embedded within the U.S.-brokered Dayton Peace Agreement, and because of the vast powers afforded to separatist elements by this document, reform has proven exceedingly difficult. The overwhelming desire of the Bosnian public to bring our country's constitutional and legal norms in line with those with the democratic standards of the Euro-Atlantic community have been stymied through both institutional and extra-institutional means, including threats of violence by hardline nationalist elements.
It is why Bosnians have for so long been forced to rely on the mediation and assistance of the United States and the European Union in resolving our country's myriad governance challenges, including threats to our sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is a necessity born out of the very nature of our American-brokered constitution.
But this is a relationship we must change. To do so, we must create the democratic institutions and processes necessary to create a sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina, capable of being a State that contributes to the EU and NATO's interests, not merely one that is dependent on them. And we must do so today, for this generation of Bosnian citizens, to also stem the tide of crippling emigration that has robbed us of our best and brightest and to create a sustainable future for those still in their homeland, and those who might be enticed to return.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's security, and with it the stability of the whole of the Western Balkans, depends on the country's democratic evolution. Unfortunately, recently renewed efforts by the international community, including interventions by the Office of the High Representative in our Oct. 2 general elections, have only served to further entrench recalcitrant sectarian interests, moving Bosnia and Herzegovina even further away from our EU and, most immediately, NATO membership aspirations.
Appeasing extremist elements only emboldens them. We know this from the Bosnian War. We know this from Russia's first and second invasions of Ukraine. And we know this from Europe's darkest moments in the early 20th century.
The assistance Bosnia and Herzegovina needs is to help bring our constitutional regime in line with the substance of the EU acquis, its collective rights and obligations that make up EU law, which emphasizes "the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law." This must not only be our immediate goal for its own sake — because it is a political and ethical imperative — but because genuine constitutional democracy is the only system that can guarantee Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty, and therefore also the stability and security of the Western Balkans.
I remain committed to using all democratic and legal means available to move Bosnia and Herzegovina toward those universal standards of freedom and equality. At minimum, this means the implementation of all outstanding decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and our own Constitutional Court. For my cabinet, it also means continuing to support any credible legal challenges to the country's existing sectarian regime and using the power of the courts to move Bosnia and Herzegovina towards full civil rights for all citizens.
I remain convinced that the result of those efforts must and will be our accession to the EU and NATO, and that this will be a historic accomplishment not only for my country but also for the Euro-Atlantic community.
Achieving these ambitions requires credible and immediate efforts towards establishing the institutional arrangements necessary for the expansion of full democratic rights and protections to all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, religion, or creed. I ask our partners in the Euro-Atlantic community only to insist on and to aid us in the creation of the same constitutional and legal norms in Bosnia and Herzegovina that are the law of the land in their own countries.
That aid cannot consist of continuing to reinvest in the failed politics of ethnic sectarianism, as sadly the Office of the High Representative has recently done. It requires our allies asserting the end of that era in Bosnia and Herzegovina's relationship with the West, and us collectively committing ourselves to solutions that will move the country toward the democratic and political standards of the EU and NATO. Above all, this approach will require recognizing and stating clearly that Dayton and the broader Dayton constitutional formula were never intended to be the ceiling for Bosnia and Herzegovina's political evolution. Dayton was meant to be the starting point. And the time has come for us to move beyond its narrow, discriminatory provisions toward a model of genuine democratic equality and free and fair political competition.
The Bosnian people do not seek exceptions, nor do they seek any accommodation from the EU or NATO. We ask only for the support needed to realize our democratic aspirations: full equality for all our citizens, and government that is accountable, transparent, and representative.
I am convinced that Ukraine's resilience in the face of Russian aggression is rooted in the country's pluralism and democracy. Bosnia and Herzegovina, too, has been defined by its pluralism throughout our history, despite frequent efforts to destroy and divide our people and their culture. That is our strength. Now, the time has come to marshal that strength to create a constitutional democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina worthy of its name – and worthy of our citizens.
IMAGE: Members of the European Union's military force (EUFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina stand at attention before an inspection during a riot simulation exercise at the camp "Butmir" near Sarajevo, on October 24, 2022. (Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images)
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There's a Marvel movie in cinemas!
As the conclusion to this original superhero trilogy, Glass feels unfinished and empty.
They call him Mr Glass. And his time has come.
Eid weekend, and a LOT of releases to keep everyone happy and busy!
Skull Island isn't impressively intelligent but it is overwhelmingly gorgeous and a kickass spectacle worthy of the big screen.
Kong is King! And some other movies.
A quieter weekend except for the return of Xanader Cage!


Valentine MenuThe restaurant at the Oddfellows has been converted from the original barn. It can seat 60 - 70 with plenty of room. Large parties of up to 50 can be accommodated with the current menu or Chef/owner will be happy to create a special menu. If staying at the Oddfellows we always reserve a table for you by default as the food has a good reputation locally and we are often fully booked, especially over the weekend.
seasonal, locally sourced where quality allows, and cooked fresh. Using our years of experience, it's all about cooking real food properly!
The restaurant is where our guests also have breakfast, which can be pre-ordered the night before or on the morning.
Christmas and New Year are always special times at the Oddfellows, and attractive accommodation rates will always be available over the festive period.


Eskom has a variety of new growth-oriented offerings for the industrial market – the focus being on new and existing electricity-driven technologies that improve plant efficiency and unlock new markets.
Use electricity to run dual-fuel boiler systems that are presently using alternative fuel sources.
Electric boilers supply high quality steam and respond quickly to production changes. Moreover, they are environmentally friendly and cheaper to maintain.
The boiler incentive is structured as a two part offering for electricity consumed above a historical baseline – a high rate incentive of 20 c/kWh and a low rate incentive of eight c/kWh.
Achieve minimum additional electricity consumption of 10 GWh per annum per plant or production facility.
Reach at least 50 percent of their year-to-date electricity consumption target per quarter.
Install an electricity meter as per Eskom's specification to integrate into Eskom's remote metering platform.
Activate boilers within three months of the start date of contracts.
Customers who are directly supplied by Eskom as well as customers supplied by municipalities are eligible. Additional electricity use to run electric boilers is monitored on a monthly basis against a historical baseline of electricity use over the most recent 12 calendar months. The incentive is paid on a quarterly basis.
The Electric Boiler Incentive Pilot Programme contracts for a two-year period – from 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2020. Applications are welcomed from 9 July to 17 August 2018, with contract negotiations scheduled from 20 August to 31 August 2018.
'Quick start up times, lower maintenance costs are two of the reasons why electric boilers are ideal technology for optimising energy use during standard and off-peak time-of-use periods,' says Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe.


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Q: Change inline script to function Still pretty new to Javascript, so sorry if this is overly basic.
I have found this script that, when run inline, returns your IP.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://l2.io/ip.js"></script>

http://l2.io/ip.js Has nothing more than a line of code that says
document.write('123.123.123.123');

(But obviously with the user's IP address)
I want to use this IP address as a return string for a function defined externally (but still on my domain).
I.e.
function getIP() {
    return (THAT SCRIPT'S OUTPUT);
}

Herein lies the issue; I can't figure out how to do this.

A: Bit of a hack but you could do something like this
<body>
  <div id="externalip">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://l2.io/ip.js"></script>
  </div>
  <script>
    var ip = $('#externalip').text();

    alert(ip);
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</body>


Create a casual and classy appeal in this Steve Madden Wool Coat. Large fold-over collar features a pearl trim. Long sleeves. Three-button front closure and dual hand pockets with pearl trim. Straight hemline. 52% polyester 29% acrylic 9% wool 5% rayon 5% cotton. Lining: 100% polyester. Dry clean. Imported. Measurements: Length: 36 in Product measurements were taken using size SM. Please note that measurements may vary by size.
Ruffle wool fashion outerwear jacket with self tie waist belt, and zip closure.
Warm single breasted confetti wool outerwear coat. Collared with button closure.


This needle felting tool is easy to use and features an ergonomic handle. It holds 7 needles for quicker and better felting effects. Use it with the Dimensions Feltworks Needle Felting Mat or a foam block (not included). Measurements: 4-1/2 inches long. Replacement needles sold separately. Imported.