Ah, your birthday. The one day a year that it's all about you. It should be a stress-free occasion but when there are hundreds, if not thousands, of venues to choose from where do you start? From brunch to afternoon tea, cocktails to live music, here is your new go-to guide for birthday celebrations in London – they're no stranger to group bookings either so this year, you can really nail it.
Want to go out out on your birthday? But want something more hedonistic, wilder than your average club? Then you need Cirque Le Soir. The extravagant club hosts unadulterated edgy parties with performances from contortionists, drag queens, hula hoopers, show girls and fire breathers. It's pretty exclusive, you're likely to be rubbing shoulders with celebs and notable faces when you're there, so exclusive in fact you have to give them your Instagram handle when booking, so get working on that grid now.
So how does this sound as far as birthdays go (if you're vegetarian and/or don't drink you might not give the answer we're looking for)? A private dining room, for you and your friends to feast on steaks, fries and the finest Malbec and then when you're done, having the table transformed into a pool table and playing pool whilst sipping on whisky. Sounds like a great birthday to us.
For all night party vibes, you can't do much better than The Piano Works. Non-stop live music will keep you on your feet until the wee hours so gather your friends and head over to Farringdon. Packages area available for groups, like the Bottomless Prosecco package and 90-minute cocktail masterclasses. Want a day time event? Their weekend brunch kicks off with live music from midday.
You only get one day a year that's all about you, so need to go all out (and preferably get someone else to pay for it) and if there is one place to go all out, is Galvin at Windows. Not only has it held is Michelin star for the past nine years, but it also has incredible views out over Hyde Park and London, get a table by the window to take in our city from 28 floors up.
For a brunch destination that is no stranger to large groups and special occasions, Bourne & Hollingsworth is the one. The conservatory room is like something straight out of an interior design magazine, whilst the private dining room can keep you away from the crowds. Load up on bottomless Bloody Marys and Bellinis and tuck into eggs, crumpets and pancakes.
If there was ever a time to do karaoke, then it would be after a few drinks on your birthday and at Lucky Voice you can keep the drinks flowing with their iconic 'thirsty' button which will see cocktails brought over to keep you hydrated as you work your way through the 9000 strong playlist. With 9 private rooms which each accommodate up to twelve friends, now is the time to get your dream band sorted.
Tucked away beneath the City, By Appointment Only at Victorian Bath House is a hidden drinking den that will help you escape from the crowds. As the name suggests, the place started out as a Turkish bath house way back in 1895, but these days you'll find private booths, oriental tiling and luxurious red drapes. The bar can host parties for 2-50 people, showcasing their fine wines, craft beers, expertly made cocktails and in-house spirit infusions. Email to arrange your visit.
Puttshack is mini golf but better. They've brought in the tech and they use something called Trackaball ™ which means that the ball knows how many times it's been hit, how far it has moved, how well it previously did, who it belongs to and most importantly if you're winning – which of course your friends should be letting you, if it's your birthday. And if you're lucky enough to have 100 friends then Puttshack can accommodate them all and you can all drink lots of rum too because rum is their thing…alongside the golf.
Reaching a big milestone? You'll want a suitably grand venue. One with sweeping city views? Great cocktails? Sea Containers is the answer. The event spaces boasts al fresco roof terraces and private dining rooms – we like the Cucumber room for its cool bar vibes and the fact it can host up to 200 standing. The roof terrace has panoramic views across London and the iconic 'Sea Containers' letters make for a great envy-induing photo backdrop.
Of all of London's super sized buildings, the Shard is still the pinnacle and if you visit any for your birthday then we recommend Aqua Shard. Whether you head for drinks at the atrium bar or book a table, it's got that je nais se quois about it.
An impressively moody space to host a large group, German Gymnasium is your one-stop shop in King's Cross. Choose from the impressive Grand Cafe, the more intimate mezzanine restaurant or an intimate private dining room for a larger group. You can even request their external caterers do the food if sausages, schnitzels and burgers aren't what you're after.
Want your own private space in Chelsea with a seasonal menu and no frills? The first floor at Tom's Kitchen Chelsea could be just what you're looking for, offering two areas available for private hire. Snug in Chelsea, Tom's Kitchen can accommodate an array of events, from corporate dinners to whimsical wedding receptions – there's something for all. The spaces accommodate for 40 guests seated and 60 standing, alongside the ability to enjoy a sharing-style menu that will see constant evolution, featuring the tasty likes of Cumbrian beef tartare with black garlic aioli, new season turnips and puffed rice and charred celeriac.
If there was ever a time to drink bowls full of tropical punch, it would be your birthday. You need straws, colourful umbrellas and a flower garland round your neck – birthdays are, after all, about being the centre of attention. As well as serving the original classic Mai Tai, Trader Vic's does big punches to share with your friends – like the Rum Keg made from pineapple, light and dark rums, apricots and passion fruits. Share or don't share it'-s your birthday after all (we say share, otherwise you'll have an almighty hangover).
Is your idea of a good birthday just having lots of wine? Vinoteca know a thing or two about this subject so pick from their locations across the city and get stuck in. We recommend Vinoteca Marylebone for their amazing private dining room which offers its own kitchen, personal chef and dedicated waiting staff – what more could you want? Gaze at the wall of bottles and let the experts help you choose from the 200 bottles available before enjoying your food or a bespoke wine tasting.
If you want a more refined birthday (it's not all about shots and rolling in at 4am) or are planning a birthday for someone else, then The Capital Hotel has three private suites that can be booked from 8 guests up to 24 guests. All the food is prepared by the Michelin-starred team, because if there is ever a time for Michelin – starred food then it's your birthday.
Birthdays can be expensive, you book a table at a restaurant, invite everyone and then not everyone wants to split the bill, some people order more wine than others and suddenly your birthday isn't quite so fun. So head to Big Easy, because their boozy brunch is a steal at £29.50, you get unlimited BBQ food and either a bottle of prosecco blend or house wine,a large jug of ice cold of Big Easy Brew or frozen mojito slushie per person (you can also order lobster). Everyone can eat and drink as much or as little as they like and Big Easy has a cracking atmosphere too.


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Platt College is a private, for-profit college in Aurora, Colorado. Platt College currently offers only one degree program, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in 3 years. Platt College graduates are awarded a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Following successful completion of the BSN curriculum, graduates apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN®) through the State Board of Nursing. Upon successful completion of the NCLEX-RN, a graduate of Platt College is then qualified to seek employment as a Registered Nurse (RN).

History

Platt College Colorado was founded by Jerald B. Sirbu in 1986 as a private, for profit, post-secondary school specializing in office practices. In 1988 and 1989, Graphic Design and Computer Graphics programs were added to Platt's offerings. To further expand its appeal, Platt sought and was approved for Associate Degrees in both Graphics and Business programs. By the year 2000, Platt had been approved for Bachelorette degrees in Graphics, Business, plus its new program, Information Technology. The Business offerings were dropped soon after an increasing drop in enrollments to those programs.

In 2005, management made the decision to formally drop the struggling Information Technology program and to pursue a transformation into nursing education while training out the remaining students in the graphics programs. The program was conceived of by Patricia Simpson, former Director of Education. Simpson was instrumental in forming a team to write and present a curriculum for approval by the Colorado Board of Nursing who approved Platt for a Bachelorette in Science, Nursing. The program was subsequently approved for national accreditation by The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).

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Its been so long since I've been active on SP (about a month). In that time, Ive been studying for finals, doing projects and writing papers. I've been so busy with school, I haven't even had any ME time. But the good news...I'VE GRADUATED! I graduated on Sunday May 15th with my B.S. in Accounting. Now it's off to law school in the fall! I'm so happy that undergrad is over. I'm really looking forward to law school.
Now that I've graduated and school is over for the time being, I can get back to focusing on my weight loss goals. I'M BACK AND IN FULL EFFECT! lol But my goal, starting today, is to go a whole month without processed junk food. I know i can do it. No snacks, no cookies, chips, soda, poptarts (my weakness), etc. But I will allow myself one cheat meal a week. As far as fitness, I plan on working out 5-6x a week for about 60mins. Wish me luck! I'll keep you all updated!


Today I have an author AND character interview plus giveaway for you! :) Read on below for my interview with author Wendy Vella and Lord Coulter (Patrick) from The Reluctant Countess!
Wendy Vella: Firstly thanks so much for asking me to visit your wonderful site!
My parents are English so I'm a first generation Kiwi, born and raised in the North Island of New Zealand. My husband Blake and I have been married for 28 yrs and he's one of those special males that is comfortable with who he is, even when he's hanging my knickers on the line. We have two children Soph 25yrs and Nate 22yrs and they have morphed from hideous teenagers into pretty exceptional adults which is a total surprise to their father and I. Our house is usually full with extras, at the moment we have an Irishman who came to visit three years ago and is still in residence. I'm a fairly positive person for the most and if something gets me down the lure of chocolate will snap me out of it pretty quickly. I tend to spend any spare moment with my head in a book or typing so the friends and family still hanging around are keepers in my opinion as they put up with my unsociable habits. I've recently lost quite a bit of weight and am enjoying the ability to walk into a shop and purchase of the rack, however bypassing the donut store still doesn't sit well with me. I have two wonderful dogs called Billy and Molly who have worked out when my husband says know that I will say yes.
Wendy Vella: I read a lot, and when I'm not reading I'm usually out on the road cycling. My husband and I have been doing this crazy sport for a few years now and love it. We also follow rugby when we can and are often found on the sideline of our son's games. I spend a great deal of time with my family too, so my time is pretty well occupied 24/7.
Wendy Vella: I usually just write when the idea comes to me. I have tried plotting a couple of books but I'm an impatient person so if I have something that needs to be put on paper I usually just start at the beginning and finish with the end. I make a lot of notes during the writing though and they get dealt with in the second draft. I have tried a few different techniques but this one seems to work best for me.
Wendy Vella: The reason I write regency historical novels is because of Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades was the book my sister gave me many years ago and I was entranced from the first page, so I would say she had the greatest influence on my choice of genre. Since then there have been many authors who have influenced me, Eloisa James, Lisa Kleypas, Catherine Coulter, Julia Quinn and many more.
Wendy Vella: Entering competitions and getting feedback is important. The first competition I entered I got some fairly harsh criticisms but it made me stronger and more determined. It's sometimes hard to put your work out there for someone to critique but after a while you get used to it and more importantly you'll begin to have the confidence you need to submit it. Joining a writing organization is also worthwhile; I really didn't start to move forward with my own writing until I joined Romance Writers of New Zealand. These groups are filled with knowledgeable like minded people who are usually more than happy to help.
adventure in this book, and of course there is a very happy ending.
Wendy Vella: The plot came first in 'The Reluctant Countess.' I found a competition that I had thought to enter and you were given a scenario of a ballroom, a handsome Lord and pretty Countess and you had to write the story from there. Unfortunately I never got around to entering the competition but the book worked out alright in the end!
Wendy Vella: I'm reading Eloisa James – The Duke Is Mine and loving every word.
Wendy Vella: I think there are always parts of yourself and the people you know in your characters. Sometimes when I'm struggling to see a character I think about the people around me and try to pick out the traits that would best suit them. I once turned a person who I was not very fond of into an evil crime lord who met a really nasty end.
Wendy Vella: I love history and most especially the regency era. I always believe you're only limited by your imagination when you write about an era you have never lived in. From the moment I picked up my first historical novel I was hooked. So many wonderful authors have created wonderful stories and with each one my desire to write about this time grew. I also spent a few years in London soaking up first hand experiences of the buildings and places I now write about.
Wendy Vella: I think it's really important to write what you love and not what you believe will sell. Writing has to be emotive and if you're not really involved in what you're doing it will show.
The other thing I would say is finish the book! It took me years to write my first book because I keep going back and changing things. A wise person told me to make notes as I go in the margins but just keep writing until the end and that is how I've written since.
Wendy Vella: Firstly can I say how wonderful it is to have readers! I hope they love 'The Reluctant Countess' as much as I did when I was writing it. If I can get them to laugh, cry and enjoy the journey to happy ever after with my hero Patrick and my heroine Sophie then I believe that I have completed the job I set out to do.
Holly: Tell me a bit about yourself Patrick, if I may call you Patrick?
Patrick: Patrick will do as we are well acquainted, but for the most part I would prefer to be called Lord Coulter or my Lord. I am the head of my family which has a long line of illustrious if not always scrupulous ancestors. I don't suffer fools except for Stephen Lord Sumner as he was foisted on me from childhood. I manage my estates and family members with a firm hand and have interests in many successful business ventures.
Holly: You attended a ball tonight Patrick and I believe you danced with many beautiful woman was there any one that stood out amongst the others?
Patrick: Have you been talking to Lord Sumner? Because my interest in the Countess is strictly confined to my belief that she is charlatan and nothing more. Yes she is beautiful-stunning in fact, there is no one her equal in society, yet I will tell you what I told him, she is a fraud and I will unearth her secrets and expose her to society.
Patrick: It's important for a man in my position to fulfill his responsibilities with honor and integrity and that is something I never lose sight of, but I don't think that could be termed a goal. Perhaps there is one thing I want above all others, something that in this world filled with fakes and frauds and woman who care only how deep your pockets are I do not expect to achieve. Could there possibly be someone in my world that is real, someone I can share my life with? I imagine not.
Patrick: That one day I will stop caring and become like them. My parents were all that was cold and unfeeling and believed anyone of inferior birth was beneath their consideration. The world I live in is filled with people like them yet I cannot allow myself to follow that path. I must hold my values close, and my determination to change the lives of those less fortunate than myself, closer.
Patrick: I live a life filled with the trappings of wealth. I should be happy because appearances suggest I have everything I could ever want. My table is always full and my clothes are cut from the finest cloth and I have more money than I will ever be able to spend. Sometimes however the loneliness is a burden almost too heavy to bear. I am invited to the most prestigious events in society and sort after by every single woman of marriageable age, and their mothers, but to go home alone each evening sometimes sees me walking the floors until dawn. To summarize I live a life many envy yet few achieve, and for that I should be excessively grateful.
Holly: Are you presently in love Patrick or developing any tender feelings for a lady?
Patrick: I'm not good with expressing my feelings, good or bad, however I will say that tonight I experienced something that I have never experienced before. I was hiding from a particularly persistent woman on a small balcony and found Sophie Countess of Monmouth perched on a narrow window ledge above me. I felt a pain in my chest that she had placed herself in danger, if I had to define the emotion I would say that panic gripped me and it did not ease until I had her down and in my arms .
Patrick: Well I would have once called it ordered yet it has taken a drastic turn of late. It's her of course; she seems to be constantly in my life now. Last night she appeared on my doorstep dressed in her nightgown. She was shaken, terrified and carrying a long iron bar of all things. I realized then that although I had been fighting it, my life would never again be the same, because I no longer considered myself the only person in it. Everything has changed and my sole determination is now to protect her from the danger that would take her from me. I have found my mate, the partner I only dreamed of finding and I will do everything in my power to ensure we grow old together.
Holly: Do you have any words of wisdom you think everyone should live by?
Patrick: Arrogance has its place yet treat people fairly and life will present you with less challenges.
Patrick: Regrets never achieve anything but what I would say is never let your parents define you or the path you take, unless it is the right path for you.
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The Legislature of India enacted the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 on 29th December 1999, to consolidate and amend the law relating to foreign exchange with the objective of facilitating external trade and payments and for promoting the orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in India.
The act is associated with the Ministry of Finance – Department of Economic Affairs.
All important central acts are published in both English and Hindi language versions. The official PDFs can be downloaded from the website of the Legislative Department of the Ministry of Law and Justice. The acts are arranged as per the year of their enactment.
You can browse all the sections online or download the latest official bare act PDF file of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 free of cost, from the India Code website at the link given below in this article. The link will also contain Subordinate Data like Rules, Regulations, Notifications, Orders, Circulars, Ordinances and Statutes pertaining to the act.
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As with most other Indian laws, the Foreign Exchange Management Act would have undergone changes and amendments over the years since it's enactment. Ensure that you are always referring to the latest updated version of the act.
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This smoothly robust blend highlights the apricot, yellow peach, pear and honeysuckle notes of Viognier, underscoring them with the acidity and minerality and crisp apple, lime and stone fruit from Riesling, wrapping it all with the pineapple, mango and papaya aromas of Chardonnay. Fresh and balanced yet lush, it's complemented by hints of vanilla and a lingering finish of stone fruits.
Rich enough to verge on red wine pairings, this wine works well with heavy cream and mushroom sauces, rich seafood such as lobster or crab, or soft ripened cheeses like Brie.
Heavy cream and mushroom sauces, rich seafood such as lobster or crab, or soft ripened cheeses like Brie.
Very disappointing,this kit taste watered down ,very light, I can get a taste for any grape ,would not recommend.
I was pleasantly surprised by this clean refreshing wine. Everyone who has tried it has been impressed by the aroma, flavor and clarity. It's the perfect combination acidity, sweetness and tang.
I am getting ready to purchase this kit for the third time in a little over a year. Everyone loves it. If you love a dry red wine this is the one that might turn you into a white win drinker.
Haven't started it, yet. It will be awhile. Will advise at a later date.
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BEST ANSWER: I would not describe the Argentine Trio as a dry wine. The blend has a great flavor combing the best of each of the grapes. It is nowhere as sweet as a Riesling and retains some of the minerality of the Viognier. It's a favorite with family and friends.
This is an excellent medium wine. I just bottled and sampled so opinion is as is but prelim indication is not a dry wine.
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The Board will meet four times each year to provide advice to the Director on directions and priorities, and on strategies for enhancing community engagement.
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Grumpy cats and friendly dogs? Sure, but what about brazen woodlice?
Scientests claim to have discovered a test to individually assess the personality of woodlice, suggesting a world of bold and shy creepy crawlies
By Agency 02 August 2015 • 18:08 pm
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Dogs can be friendly or hostile, cats aloof or affectionate, and horses moody - but woodlice? They are individual characters too, scientists claim.
Tests on the way the creatures respond to being prodded, squeezed and dropped show that some are bold and others timid.
Even taking account of influences such as body size, they display behaviours that meet the definition of "personality", said the researchers.
The Czech team observed how the common rough woodlouse, Porcellio scaber, did what woodlice often do when threatened - feign death by curling up their armoured segmented bodies and tucking away legs and antennae.
Different individuals were more or less willing to adopt the "tonic immobility" (TI) strategy, some curling up for longer than others.
The way they differed was consistent across the range of tests, and when the experiment was repeated five times over a three week period.
Writing in the journal ZooKeys, the scientists led by Dr Ivan Hadrian Tuf, from Palacky University, Czech Republic, said: "There were some consistently more 'bold' woodlice (short TI) and some more 'shy' woodlice (long TI).
"Besides finding differences in endurance of TI between body size groups, we also identified personal behavioural patterns in all tested individuals, as well as variation within these body size groups."
Illustration of the process used by scientists at from Palacky University to determine if woodlice have personality (PA)
They concluded: "Porcellio scaber is one of the first species of terrestrial isopods with documented personality traits."
Personality in animals has been defined as individual behavioural characteristics that are consistent over time in response to different situations.
Woodlice may look like insects but are actually isopod crustaceans related to crabs and lobsters.
There are thought to be about 3,500 species of woodlouse in the world, 35 to 40 of which can be found in the UK.
Dr Tuf's team captured several hundred woodlice from gardens and parks in the medieval Czech city of Kutna Hora.
Placed in plastic boxes, the creatures' responses were observed when they were gently nudged or grabbed with forceps, or dropped from a height of 10 centimetres.
Curling up is not the only defensive strategy employed by woodlice. In the tests, 77% of the animals tried to run away or deployed their secret chemical weapon, a bad-smelling liquid that deters spiders.
The scientists were not able to determine whether woodlouse personality changed over time.
They wrote: "These findings are not able to resolve if personality is changing during individual development or not .. Investigation of long-time stability of behavioural traits in terrestrial isopods should be a possible goal of future studies."
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Keith C. Barton is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Adjunct Professor of History, at Indiana University, where he prepares social science teachers and educational researchers. His scholarship focuses on history, human rights, and the social sciences as preparation for civic participation, and he has conducted research on teaching and learning in the United States, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, and Singapore. He has been a visiting professor at the National Institute of Education (Singapore); Victoria University (New Zealand); the University of Ulster; and Uppsala University. His work, which has been translated into seven languages, has appeared in American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Theory and Research in Social Education, Teachers College Record, and numerous other journals and publications.
He is co-author, with Li-Ching Ho, of Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education, which draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, as well as contemporary theory and research, to present a vision of education with relevance across international and cultural boundaries. He also is co-author, with Linda Levstik, of Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools; Teaching History for the Common Good; and Researching History Education. He has co-authored, with Patricia Avery, the review of social studies research in the Handbook of Research on Teaching of the American Educational Research Association.
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The MEdIES Secretariat responded positively to the invitation of the Municipality of Megara, to host the MARLISCO exhibition for 3 weeks in the Municipal Cultural Centre and organize therein school visits.
The aim is to sensitise the students on the issue of marine litter and give them incentives to undertake a project about it, at home, on the nearby beaches and at their schools.
A training seminar was also organised on Friday 13/05/2016 to prepare the teachers who were about to bring their classes to the exhibition and was attended by about 25 teachers of primary and secondary level. The participating teachers worked in groups to discover the contents of the posters of the exhibition, as well as the educational material "Know Feel Act! To Stop Marine Litter" and discussed on possible pedagogic approaches for the issue of litter.
During the 3 week stay of the exhibition in Megara it is expected to receive hundreds of visitors, including students but also families and civilians attending other activities of the Cultural Centre.
The Municipality of Megara kindly offered the transfer of the exhibition and its hosting.
MEdIES officers Iro Alampei and Vicky Malotidi organised the training seminar in collaboration with the EE/ESD officer of the region Ms Alexandra Tsiggou and Ms Eleni Riga from the Municipality.


"When C.S. Lewis first read William Wordsworth as a teenager, he violently disliked him" Mary Ritter begins her chapter on Lewis's #5 pick on his list of ten books which Lewis felt had "shaped his vocational attitude and philosophy of life."[i] Themes of Nature, of Reason and Imagination, and perhaps above all, Joy, are what Ritter cites as the most profound influences of Wordsworth on Lewis. The theme of Joy, found in the opening lines of Wordsworth's poem Surprised by Joy, plays a central role in Lewis's own conversion and approach to apologetics (argument for the existence of God); hence, the (same) title of Lewis's autobiography, Surprised by Joy (with Wordsworth's opening line given on the title page).
C.S. Lewis declared, more than a bit ironically, when accepting the newly created Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Cambridge University in 1954, which he would hold until his death in 1963. Instead, there is a legacy from the Ancients through the Christian Medievals that was not broken, Lewis claimed, until the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets, around 1800. For instance, art and poetry began to reflect primarily one's own emotions (subjectivism) rather than the glory of creation.


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Q: Can't send email in production I am developing online shop and everything worked fine on local machine.Client add item to cart, enter his credentials click 'Make Order' and than order confirmation should be sent to his email. And it was working fine, even with redis + celery, but since when I've deployed project to server (linode.com), order confirmation doesn't work. Worker took tasks but never execute this. I thought it was due to celery, and I've made decision to make sending email without task manager and queue. But it didn't help.
I use UFW firewall in the server:
To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
22/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
80/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
Anywhere                   ALLOW       96.126.119.66
443                        ALLOW       Anywhere
22/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
80/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
443 (v6)                   ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)

I get error like this:

[Errno 110] Connection timed out

Hope you will help me to understand the issue
Traceback:
Environment:

Request Method: POST
Request URL: https://bauerdress.ru/orders/create/

Django Version: 3.1
Python Version: 3.8.5
Installed Applications:
['django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.sites',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'shop.apps.ShopConfig',
 'cart.apps.CartConfig',
 'orders.apps.OrdersConfig',
 'wishlist.apps.WishlistConfig',
 'widget_tweaks',
 'crispy_forms',
 'information.apps.InformationConfig',
 'promotion.apps.PromotionConfig',
 'django_filters',
 'email_sub.apps.EmailSubConfig',
 'django_simple_coupons',
 'ckeditor',
 'flower',
 'allauth',
 'allauth.account',
 'allauth.socialaccount']
Installed Middleware:
['django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware']

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kirill/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 47, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/home/kirill/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 179, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/home/kirill/bauer_dress/orders/views.py", line 46, in order_create
    order_created(order.id)
  File "/home/kirill/bauer_dress/orders/tasks.py", line 22, in order_created
    mail_sent = send_mail(subject, None, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, [order.email, settings.MAIL], html_message=html)
  File "/home/kirill/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 61, in send_mail
    return mail.send()
  File "/home/kirill/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 284, in send
    return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
  File "/home/kirill/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 102, in send_messages
    new_conn_created = self.open()
  File "/home/kirill/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 62, in open
    self.connection = self.connection_class(self.host, self.port, **connection_params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 253, in __init__
    (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 339, in connect
    self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 308, in _get_socket
    return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 808, in create_connection
    raise err
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 796, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)

Exception Type: TimeoutError at /orders/create/
Exception Value: [Errno 110] Connection timed out

views.py
from django.conf import settings
from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
from django.http import HttpResponse
from cart.cart import Cart
from .models import OrderItem, Order
from .forms import OrderCreateForm
from shop.models import Product
from django.contrib.admin.views.decorators import staff_member_required
from django_simple_coupons.forms import CouponApplyForm
import weasyprint
from django.template import loader
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from email_sub.models import Subscription
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
from .tasks import order_created

 def order_create(request):
    cart = Cart(request)
    coupon_apply_form = CouponApplyForm()
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = OrderCreateForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            order = form.save(commit=False)
            if cart.coupon:
                order.coupon = cart.coupon
                order.discount = cart.coupon.discount.value
            order.save()
            for item in cart:
                OrderItem.objects.create(
                    order=order,
                    product=item['product'],
                    product_set=item['product_set'],
                    price=item['product_set'].price,
                    quantity=item['quantity'],
                    size = item['product_set'].size_set,
                    color = item['color']
                )
            try:
                Subscription.objects.get(email=order.email)
            except ObjectDoesNotExist:
                Subscription.objects.create(name=order.first_name, surname=order.last_name, email=order.email)

            order_created(order.id) # <--- order confirmation email
            cart.clear()
            if cart.coupon:
                cart.clear_coupon()
            return render(request, 'orders/order/created.html', {'order': order})
    else:
        form = OrderCreateForm()
    return render(request, 'orders/order/create_v2.html', {
        'cart': cart,
        'form': form,
        'coupon_apply_form': coupon_apply_form})

tasks.py
def order_created(order_id):
    """
    Task for sending mail if order created
    """
    order = Order.objects.get(id=order_id)
    subject = 'Заказ #{}'.format(order.id)
    html = loader.render_to_string('orders/order/mail2.html', context={'order': order})
    send_mail = send_mail(subject, None, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, [order.email, settings.MAIL], html_message=html)
    return send_mail

settings.py (part of smtp settings)
#smtp
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myuser@gmail.com' #real data used in production
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '1234'
EMAIL_PORT = 587

A: The problem was that I use Linode and linode blocks ports, found out it accidentally
As I've read GoDaddy does the same thing

Need to send mail from your Linode? New Linode accounts have ports 25,
465, and 587 blocked by default. To have these restrictions removed,
please review this guide, then open a Support Ticket after creating
your Linode.
In an effort to fight spam, Linode restricts outbound connections on
ports 25, 465, and 587 on all Linodes for new accounts created after
November 5th, 2019.

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Grew up in Tamworth on a record collection of storytelling.
Pushed my way onto the stage at the local pub between bands when I was 11.
Have worked since then on being a musician.
Played in few bands. Had some wins and losses.
So now I have dropped my band, gone back to storytelling, and looking for my own clarity.


Franciscan Sisters of CC Charism series - "Love for the Church"
Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity invite you to view part 4 in our Charism Series. We appreciate your interest in our charism and Franciscan Life fully lived. If you'd like to learn more about how and where and why we serve in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Mississippi and Missouri, please visit us at https://fscc-calledtobe.org The World Needs You. God Calls You. We Invite You.


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Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of SoCal ska-punk bands to edge into the mainstream following the mid-'90s success of No Doubt and Sublime. Distinguished by their hyperkinetic stage shows, juvenile humor, ironic covers of new wave pop songs, and metallic shards of ska, the group cultivated an underground following that broke into the mainstream when their single "Sell Out" became a modern rock radio and MTV favorite.
Perennial Warped Tour favorites, the band continues to tour relentlessly (over 250 shows per year!), both in the US and across the globe. Still fronted by original lead singer and song writer Aaron Barrett, the band is back with their new album, LIFE SUCKS…LET'S DANCE! The disc, the first studio release since 2012, features 14 brand new tracks.
Check out Reel Big Fish in the ska documentary "Pick It Up! Ska in the '90s" »
Aaron Barrett: vocals and guitar, John Christianson: trumpet, Matt Appleton: saxophone and vocal harmonies, Derek Gibbs: bass, Ed Smokey Beach: drums
© 2023 Reel Big Fish | Website by: Jess Leggett & Ben Sumali


Houghton College is in western New York, about 70 miles southwest of Rochester. The Library project included a 14,000 square foot third story addition to the existing Library, and strengthening of the lower support columns to support the new addition. A new main entrance addition, including an elevator and stair tower, was added to the front of the building. The project also included a new pedestrian bridge, spanning eighty feet and connecting the new third floor Library addition to the existing Academic Building.


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No. 316 - A NATIONAL "CRY" FOR CHARACTER
A NATIONAL "CRY" FOR CHARACTER
The famous American lawyer and statesman Henry Clay once said, "Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Unless you have been under a rock for the past 30 to 40 years you know that as a nation, we have suffered greatly because of the lack of character on the part of far too many of our citizens. You can not think of any area in our society, including the economy, all levels of
government, the church, the home and our most prized institutions of learning, and not find glaring examples of where more and more human beings are failing the character test. This has become so widespread and pervasive that it has almost become a national crisis.
As many of our leaders have recognized this need, the United States Department Of Education has provided over $25 million dollars in Federal Character Education grants to establish programs to provide Character Education programs for students in every state in the nation. I might add there is considerable debate as to whether this money is being spent in the right way. Many schools develop the programs at the elementary level when Dary Matera, a former reporter for the Miami News who has written ten books on this subject, says it should be focused at the high school level.
He points to Columbine and other high schools where tragedies have occurred as the basis for his thinking. Sometimes the need is seen by students themselves and they take matters into their own hands to do something about it. Such was the case at Mundelein High in Illinois. After a gross scene at an annual Homecoming football game and the crowning of the queen dissolved into a raucous cat fight, involving gallons of chocolate pudding, members of the junior class decided it was time to do something about the lack of character by other students in the school. And do something about it, they did!! They now have a far reaching story about a return to the concept of young people wanting to exhibit traits of dignity, class and personal character.
In my case, I don't have to look far to find a wonderful example of where a whole county of people are involved in developing character in the lives of their young people. One of the best places to live in our state is the progressive, fast growing, city of Monticello, Arkansas located in the Southeast part of the state. I went to college there a couple of years, back in the mid-fifties, so I will have to give you a disclaimer on the front end. But I can tell you this for sure, these people have it together.
Several years ago when the combined schools of Monticello and Drew Central decided to implement a character education program they decided to involve the whole community. It began with a first year kick-off at the town square with bands, students, parents, school officials, business people and a liaison from the governor's office in attendance. Later, every school campus did activities. For the first three years they instituted a "Word Of The Week" and the local newspaper provided space for people in the county to write an article about this word. The radio station taped spots, local businesses placed the word on their marquees and churches put it in their bulletins. Here are just a few of the words which will give you the idea, Responsibility, Cooperation, Politeness, Kindness, Generosity and Joy.
Two years ago they decided they wanted Character Education to become the culture of their schools and the community rather than just an event each week. Assistant Superintendent Barbara Brown spearheaded this effort and with the help of an advisory board they chose nine Character Education Guiding Principles that school personnel, parents, business people and community leaders agreed to live by. Character is caring. (Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and syndicated columnist. You may contact him at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, AR 72034.)


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Bringing music to life through the recording arts is my specialty - That's why I founded Darkroot Studios.
I'm passionate about serving the music and capturing it in a way that speaks true to its nature through the recording process.Wether you're looking for live demos or full album production, I'm committed to bringing your vision to life.
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Please read my booking policies before booking a recording session.
Every production is different, contact me with details about your project for a quote. Project rates are available for full production.
A 50% deposit is required for all bookings.
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Hello My Lovelies, its a very exited Elysa Here today as tomorrow night is the beginning of IMATS London. As some of you will know IMATS is hosted in 6 city's every year and this weekend there in London. I will be there at the pro only hours on Friday and also at the public hours on the Sunday. so if your there one of those days and you see me make sure to come and say hi as i would love to meet you. So todays post is my IMATS wishlist, my haul will be coming up on Tuesday most likely.
So my wishlist is not to big but it is quite expensive.
2. Crown brushes. ss005, ss006, ss012, ss020, c323, lb119... These are the brushes I want the most but depending on deals and things I might end up getting a few more.
3. occ liptars in Feathered, RX, Traffic and Vintage. Feathered is a white which I really need for a shoot coming up next month, RX is a blue which I also need for a shoot coming up, Traffic is a yellow which will be fun to have and Vintage is a more darker vintage red which I need for a shoot next month.
5. Meyron Paradice paints in teal, white, light green, black and pink. might not get all those colours but im really getting in to body painting now but hate using snazaroo.
7. the temptu airbrush system is another airbrush on my list.
Are you going to imats this weekend? if so what do you plan on buying?


View List of New Permits Issued here.
The Building Division provides a list of issued permits online.
Customers can view a variety of issued building permits.
The Local Agency Management Program (LAMP) is the culmination of the actions required by Assembly Bill 885 (AB 885). This legislation directed the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to develop regulations or standards for Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (OWTS) to be implemented by qualified local agencies. This LAMP has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the SWRCB'S OWTS Policy. The OWTS Policy allows local agencies to approve an OWTS, based on a local ordinance.
The purpose of the LAMP is to allow the continue use of OWTS within the jurisdiction of the City of Glendora,as well as permit and regulate alternative OWTS while protecting water quality and public health. The LAMP is designed to protect groundwater sources and surface water bodies from contamination through the proper design, placement, installation, maintenance, and assessment of individual OWTS. This plan develops minimum standards for the treatment and ultimate disposal of sewage through the use of an OWTS in the City.
Per the State of California guidelines, permitting for small scale renewable energy (less than 10kW) has been streamlined.
Each of these steps is described below.
In an effort to prevent the introduction of fats, oils, and grease (FOG) into the County's sanitary sewer system and prevent sewer blockages that can result in sewage spills, the City has developed a FOG program.
The FOG program is intended to increase the awareness of operators of local food service establishments, and their employees, about measures that they can take to limit or prevent the introduction of fats, oils and grease into the drain and the sanitary sewer system.
Beginning November 5, 2010 the City of Glendora Building Inspectors will be visiting all food establishments to perform the inspections based on the City's F)G Restaurant Inspection Checklist. The fee for this annual inspection is $180.00 and will be billed to you after the inspection has been completed.
Prior to the inspection, please insure that your business meets all of the Best Management Practices listed on the checklist so that a re-inspection is not requried. If a re-inspection is necessary, an additional $100.00 re-inspection fee will be billed per the City of Glendora Resolution No. 09-44.
If you should have any questions regarding this program, please contact the Building Division at (626) 914-8222 or email Judi Hardy at jhardy@ci.glendora.ca.us.
Click the Building Green link for tips on how to save the environment and your wallet from the effects of global warming.


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Home Article The New Republic's Latest Charmer
The New Republic's Latest Charmer
By Kathy G.Ah, New Republic! You never really do let me down, do you?I admit to having had a second thought or two about writing this post. Was it, oh, perhaps a teensy weensy bit over the top? A tad intemperate? Might it be said to be lacking the attribute of scrupulous, Olympian fairness and evenhandedness? After all, in that paragraph about what's good about the New Republic, I left out a few names. Noam Scheiber, for example -- now he's a smartie! And Jonathan Cohn -- how could I forget Jonathan Cohn? As someone else put it, Cohn is "the best health care writer not named Ezra Klein."But then I saw this, and every one of my self-doubts melted away in an instant. In the post, titled "Another Psychotic Creep Writing at The New Republic," Brad DeLong notes the latest charming addition to the New Republic stable, an academic named Philip Jenkins who's now writing for TNR's Open University.On that blog, Jenkins has been gracing us with his pensees regarding Muslim history. There's this, for example:
[T]he Arabs actually borrowed their much-cited "Muslim science" (the astrolabe and so on) from the Nestorians and other Eastern Christians...
[I]t is rather rich to complain that after the Reconquista, "In an act of utter domination, the Christian king orders the great [Córdoba] mosque consecrated as a Catholic church." Actually, that mosque (like most major Spanish mosques) was itself built on the site of an earlier church.... [T]he purveyors of public broadcasting history have learned something; but they are still offering apologetics, not reality.
But wait, wait -- it gets better! Philip Jenkins, I thought: now where have I heard that name before?


This is a series of sketches done for the Pan's Labyrinth Sketchbook Contest. We had to submit up to 10 sketches based on the movie Pan's Labyrinth. The images would then be posted online for viewing and comments. And, after the allotted time period, the artwork would then be viewed by Guillermo Del Toro who would choose the winners.
I managed to be chosen as a winner, and received a signed poster!


TIERRA VERDE — Judson Kidd and James Donovan are a gay couple with an adopted black son. From the day they moved into their waterfront house last summer, they never felt welcomed in the conservative, overwhelmingly white community of Tierra Verde.
Neighbors never waved or introduced themselves, they said. One mother yanked her daughter away when she started to play with 2-year-old Van. Then came Halloween, and the disturbing decorations at the big house up the street.
The yard had been transformed into a graveyard. "CNN,'' was written on one white cross, with a gruesome gray skull at its base. Other crosses bore the names of Democrats Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. A firepit contained a jumble of bones and a cross marked "George Soros,'' the Jewish billionaire who supports liberal causes.
All had been critics of President Donald J. Trump.
Kidd was so appalled that he took to Nextdoor, the social media site on which residents of a neighborhood can post messages, whether offering items for sale or reporting suspicious behavior. Kidd's message was more pointed.
"This is pathetic," he said of the graveyard display. "Can't we take the politics out of Halloween?"
That elicited a quick response: "You're disgusting. If you don't like it why don't you move."
Since then, a long string of comments has reflected the nation's deep divides leading up to Tuesday's elections. Some posts supported Kidd. Others strongly defended the graveyard.
That made Kidd and Donovan wonder: Is this a neighborhood where we want to raise our black son? Could he be the object of racist taunts or worse as attitudes become even more hardened and polarized?
"People hear things from the president and think, 'If the leader of the free world says it, it's OK,'" Kidd said. "Even my rhetoric has amped up, not that I'm proud of it. But this is the world we live in today."
Now in their early 40s, Donovan and Kidd have been together for 15 years.
Donovan came out just after the Sept. 11 attacks. Then working on Wall Street, he was getting his shoes shined near the World Trade Center when the first plane hit. He saw people jumping from 100 stories up and realized: Life is short. It was time to acknowledge he was gay.
Soon afterward, Donovan's employer transferred him to Texas. He met Kidd, who had just graduated from Southern Methodist University, in a gay bar in Dallas. Over the following years they moved frequently as they married and advanced in their careers — Donovan as a media executive who once worked for CNN's parent company; Kidd in banking, then as a Realtor.
Four years ago, they settled in the Tampa Bay area. They had a vacation cottage on Anna Maria Island — "Everybody there loved having gay friends," Kidd says — and a waterfront house in northeast St. Petersburg, known as one of the nation's most gay-friendly cities. When the couple adopted Van, neighbors cooed at the baby and brought over gifts.
This year, Kidd found an attractive deal on a larger house in Tierra Verde with a prized view of Boca Ciega Bay. As they were moving in last July, two children, no older than 7 or 8, appeared with signs sporting Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.
No one stopped by to say hello.
"This is the most unwelcome I've ever felt," Kidd said, "We've live in all kinds of Deep South states and in all those situations, I was surprised at how considerate people were. In Little Rock, Arkansas, it was pure Southern hospitality."
The graveyard seemed to be a message to all those who weren't straight, white Trump supporters.
Oh, dear. Whatever happened to having a sense of humor. No, Halloween isn't just for kids and God Bless the First Amendment. If a sign intimidates you, go to your safe place.
I'm guessing that it wasn't your neighbor's intent for you to feel uncomfortable and if it was, who cares. Be grateful you can afford your home. The are plenty of people who can't afford a home at all.
Just remember, you moved here and those tiki torches probably were here before you.
There were postings in support, too.
I agreed with you Mr. Kidd. Our society has become increasingly coarse and aggressive. The adults are acting like children.
Putting the name of a living person on a gravestone implies you want them dead.
The nation is split and that includes Tierra Verde. This gallows humor is an insult to other neighbors and confusing to children who we want to teach that we are all Americans with values.
The white nationalists who held their rally in Charlottesville last year used tiki torches as they marched around chanting "Jews will not replace us" and other, much worse anti-Semitic chants.
Also joining the online conversation Sharon Rhoads, the homeowner with the graveyard. She cited her charitable work and her adoption of two orphaned children from Guatemala.
My husband and I hate NO ONE, she wrote. We teach our children that we are all ALL God's people and we love them all — men, women, LGBT, black, white, Hispanic, Christian, Jew. Our graveyard was simply political satire designed to target that with which we do disagree, WHICH IS SOCIALISM.
Rhoads invited Kidd to have coffee, which he declined. That prompted more Nextdoor comments, some of which criticized him for not meeting with her.
"With that stuff in her yard, I'm not setting foot on her property," he said.
Rhoads did not respond to a call for comment. The Tierra Verde Community Association said it had no comment on the controversy over her Halloween decorations.
At first, Kidd and Donovan were so concerned about the graveyard and some of the postings on Nextdoor that they decided to sell the house and move. Then neighbors invited them to Halloween parties. Others thanked them for speaking out. Perhaps Tierra Verde was not quite as unfriendly as they thought.
They are going to stay, for the time being at least.


This article presents an image processing application for hand detection and tracking using the 4-connected skeleton of the segmentation mask. The system has been designed to be used with techniques of virtual reality to develop an interactive application for phantom limb pain reduction in therapeutic treatments.
One of the major contributions is the design of a fast and accurate skeleton extractor, that has proven to be faster than those available in the literature. The skeleton allows the system to precisely detect the position of all the interest points of the hand (namely the fingers and the hand center).
The system, composed of both the hand detector and tracker, and the virtual reality application, can work in real-time, allowing the patient to watch the virtual image of his own hand on a screen.


Definition: Your trip is delayed for six or more consecutive hours for a covered reason. Travel insurance can reimburse the unused part of your prepaid expenses, minus any refund you receive. Also, if delayed for a covered reason, you may reimburse reasonable expenses — up to the limit specified in the policy — for meals, accommodation and transportation. One final detail to note: while there may be an overlap in benefits with missed connection coverage, benefits may only be paid through one or the other.
Example: You just had them over at the terminal café while sipping your morning joe: your wallet and passport. Were they in your pocket or did you take them out? Where did they go? At first, you're slightly amused by the situation, but as the minutes pass, you begin to panic. You find a police officer and explain the situation. He fills out a report and you find a comfy spot in the terminal seating area and wait. And wait and wait. After waiting 10 hours to see if they turn up, you're just about to give up. But just then, your phone rings with some good news. A custodian found your wallet and passport right where you left them: in the café trash can. You can go retrieve them from the security office, rebook your flight for the morning, and then start looking for somewhere to stay for the night. The next day you file a claim seeking reimbursement for eligible additional costs due to the delay. And then you check to make sure your wallet is in your pocket, just to make sure.


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WoW Drops to 6.8m Subs, Blizzard's Nagrand Zone Preview, Heart of the Valorous Returns, Blue Tweets
Geposted 05.08.2014 um 12:02 von oliviadgrace
WoW Drops to 6.8 Million Subscribers
In today's investor call for Quarter 2 2014, which covers the months of April, May and June 2014, Blizzard revealed that WoW now has 6.8 million subscribers. This is a drop of 800,000 subscribers from the Quarter 1 2014 figure of 7.6 million.
Blizzard previews Nagrand
Blizzard has released their official preview of the Nagrand zone. If you're interested in more Nagrand information, you can check out our Nagrand zone page, and our screenshots of all Draenor zones!
Our latest zone preview takes us into the expansive hills and rocky outcroppings of Nagrand, a verdant land located west of Talador and south of Frostfire Ridge. Here, great beasts cause the ground to quake beneath their feet, and the wolf riders of the Warsong—the legendary orc clan led by Grommash Hellscream himself—are always on the prowl. But they're not the only ones who make this verdant land their home. We sat down with Senior Game Designer Eric Maloof and Associate Game Designer Kurt Sparkuhl to learn more.
(Check back later for music: Coming soon!)
Q. How is the Nagrand of Draenor different from the Nagrand people know from Outland? What's the story in this zone?
Eric Maloof: I think players will find that the Nagrand of Draenor isn't really all that different in spirit from the Nagrand of Outland. There are some obvious physical differences—for example, the floating islands aren't there anymore—but you'll easily be able to see where those floating islands came from. We very much wanted to respect what people really enjoyed about their experience in Nagrand in The Burning Crusade and capture that, while still providing a twist to what you'll experience there.
You'll be led to Nagrand by a quest you'll receive in your Garrison that involves sending new supplies to the front. The Alliance and the Horde—not working together, of course—are trying to establish a toehold in the zone in order to take on the Warsong clan. The Warsong clan has had problems with the ogres in the past, but they're really the top power here.
The Alliance will be working alongside characters such as Vindicator Yrel and Rangari D'kaan, Thaelin, and Hansel as they progress through the storyline. The Horde will be working alongside Thrall, Durotan, Draka, and Drek'thar—even Aggra will show up and surprise Thrall.
Kurt Sparkuhl: Players will also have the opportunity to return to the Throne of Elements. Without spoiling too much, the elemental balance has been disrupted, and the elementals upon the plateau have become unstable. It will be up to players to unravel the mystery behind the disturbance before it's too late.
The zone is just filled to the brim with story.
One of the things that sets Nagrand apart from any other zone is the amount of character-focused stories you'll encounter. The zone is just filled to the brim with story. There's the main story and what's going on in the Throne of Elements, but we've added in a lot of additional Easter eggs and tons of cameos and backstory on old favorites, so keep an eye out as you go through the zone. You'll also meet a new faction here.
Q. How would you describe the zone's ambience? What's it like?
Kurt Sparkuhl: It feels like old Nagrand. Out of all the zones, it's the one that's supposed to feel the most familiar. When Draenor became Outland, Nagrand was probably the area affected least by the world breaking apart. Now you'll see all these big canyons and rocky outcroppings all over the zone, implying that after the big explosion happened and Draenor turned into Outland, those floating islands were kind of what was left of those big ridges. There was a conscious effort to make it feel familiar to some extent, while still creating something new.
Eric Maloof: You'll encounter a lot of new points of interest in this version of Nagrand. There are some things that are no longer there, too—Halaa and Garadar, for example, don't exist. These were created after Outland became what it did. Highmaul takes up a large portion of the zone, and it houses a Raid instance as well. It's massive.
Q. Which locations would you say are some of your favorites, and why?
Eric Maloof: This one's tough. There are so many good places to choose from. I'm definitely partial to Lok-Rath. It's located outside the main Warsong base and is the Warsong clan's main presence in the zone. I like the story of what's happening there and the dynamic change in the questing once you get there. Plus, it's a beautiful Warsong location.
I also really like the Spirit Woods. In Outland, you had the Spirit Fields. In Warlords of Draenor, the Spirit Woods are what surround Oshu'gun. You get to learn more about the forces that dwell there and what they're doing—we explain that a bit as you're taking care of business.
...we get to see more of the backstory of the Burning Blade clan...
Kurt Sparkuhl: I think the two I like the most are Hallvalor and the Ring of Trials. Hallvalor—which became the ogre-inhabited Burning Blade Ruins in Outland—is super cool; we get to see more of the backstory of the Burning Blade clan, which we haven't gotten to show before. We get to see how their clan operates and some of their traditions. There are some familiar faces—at least one in particular— that you're going to get a lot of backstory on.
The great thing about the Ring of Trials is that players get to see it a bit earlier on in its existence and learn more about why it's there and what its purpose is. It's been built up as a sort of neutral hub, and players will be able to interact with all sorts of NPCs from all over Azeroth and Draenor—it's pretty cool, but I don't want to spoil too much.
Q. What outposts will players be able to build in Nagrand, and how do they impact the Garrison?
Eric Maloof: The Alliance and the Horde get the choice of two different buildings. You'll get access to this decision early on, though your blueprints are waylaid by the Warsong at the start, so you're going to need to recover those first. You'll be able to build either a Corral or a Tankworks for your Garrison.
For the Corral, you'll get either a Talbuk on the Alliance or Frostwolf on the Horde, which you can ride all the time while you're in Nagrand—this is where mounted combat comes into play. If you build the Tankworks, the Alliance gets a Siege Engine and the Horde gets a Demolisher.
Heart of the Valorous Returns
It's back again! Heart of the Valorous returns this weekend. For more information, including several helpful tips to maximize your Valor gains, check out our page on the buff!
Beginning Friday, August 8 at 10:00 a.m. PDT, through Monday, August 11 at 9:00 a.m. PDT, we'll be applying the Heart of the Valorous buff which will increase the rate of Valor Point gains an additional 100%. Don't wait to get in on the action!
Blue Tweets
We know it's hard to keep up with tweet traffic, especially at busy times like this, so we've put together a post sorting all the tweets since our last update into easy-to-read tabs. And of course there's the Wowhead Blue Tweet Tracker and @WowheadTweets on Twitter!
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Born in 1960 in Łódź. Between 1979-1985 studied at the Painting and Graphics Faculty of the National Art School in Łódź, between 1982 – 1985 he also studied philosophy at the Łódź University. He obtained a diploma at the Woodcutting Techniques Atelier of professor Andrzej M. Bartczak and Painting Atelier of professor Stanisław Fijałkowski. Since 2005 he supervises the Painting and Drawing Atelier in the Weaving and Clothing Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2003 he was invited to the jury of the National Painting Contest Bielska Jesień. Leder's paintings are effortful and multi-structural, sometimes they resemble earth and rocks, they display colors of a dark and not entirely known nature. The artist uses his own techniques, he also paints with natural yet colored wax, frequently processes his paintings mechanically with processes such as grinding. The artist's works are part of collections in the Museum of Art in Łódź, Galeria Bielska BWA in Bielsko-Biała, Kulczyk Foundation, Atlas of Art, Collection of Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych among others, as well as domestic and foreign private collections.


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The 2016 Team Speedway Junior European Championship was the ninth Team Speedway Junior European Championship season. It was organised by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme and was the fifth as an under 21 years of age event.

The final took place on 28 August 2016 in Stralsund, Germany. The defending champions Poland won the final once again to record their fifth consecutive title.

Results

Final
  Stralsund
 28 August 2016

See also
 2016 Team Speedway Junior World Championship
 2016 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

References

2016
European Team Junior


Fender benders happen. That's OK - as long as no one was hurt. Once the dust clears you'll want to know what to do about the damaged graphics. How do you have them repaired once your vehicle is fixed?
Here are 5 easy steps for your vehicle graphics repair to make sure your vehicle looks like new and delivers quality impressions of your brand once you are back on the road.
To be fair, this is a step you should take before you even choose your wrap company. The company you choose to wrap your vehicle should always keep a copy of your vehicle wrap design on file. In addition, they should have a reliable back up systems in the event that their computer, hard drive or server fails. Riveting Wraps keeps all our client's design files on a secure server with back up systems so our clients files wont be compromised.
Again, this one also falls into "the ask before you wrap" category, but better late than never. A quality operation maintains their wide format printers and has a color management process in place to ensure consistent color from print to print. Scheduled re-calibrations are part of a well tuned operation that prevent colors from "drifting" over time. Don't hesitate to ask your vehicle wrap company if they have systems in place to manage color and their ability to match colors from year to year.
In the same way that an insurance company will cover the costs of body work and paint on a damaged vehicle, they typically also cover the replacement costs for the pre-existing or damaged wraps and graphics. Contact your insurance agent to find out what documentation they require for coverage. Some require a quote prior to completion of work, while other ask for a photos of the finished work along with the final invoice for the repair.
Paint cure time and paint dry time are important distinctions to make when re-wrapping your vehicle.
Dry time happens pretty quickly. Paint will be dry to touch and your repair company puts you back behind the wheel once the paint is dry.
Cure time can take several weeks. This is the time required for the paint below the surface to completely dry, harden and bond to the vehicle surface.
You do not want to wrap your vehicle until the paint is cured. Doing so can lead to a couple of avoidable problems. First, while the paint is curing, it does what is called gassing out or off gassing. This act of off gassing can literally push newly installed graphics right off your vehicle. And second, the vinyl may alternatively form a stronger bond to the paint than the paint forms to the vehicle. This will result in damage to the vehicle paint when the final is eventually removed.
Down time for fleet vehicles in hard on a company's operation. But you also give up all those valuable brand impressions when you vehicle is in the shop. Once you have your vehicle repaired and wrapped get it back on the road supporting your operation and growing your business.
Vehicle wrap companies have learned that many buyers think using the right materials is the only important criteria to evaluate a quality wrap. And it certainly is an important criteria. But how the material is printed, handled and installed are equally important. Learn more about getting a high quality wrap.
Get the straight facts on vehicle wrapping, contact Riveting Wraps at (425) 368-5007 or email us at hello@rivetingwraps.com.


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using CommandLine;
using Google.Ads.Gax.Examples;
using Google.Ads.GoogleAds.Lib;
using Google.Ads.GoogleAds.V12.Errors;
using Google.Ads.GoogleAds.V12.Services;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Google.Ads.GoogleAds.Examples.V12
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This code example gets all feed items of the specified feed item set by fetching all feed
    /// item set links. To create a new feed item set, run CreateFeedItemSet.cs. To link a feed item
    /// to a feed item set, run LinkFeedItemSet.cs.
    /// </summary>
    public class GetFeedItemsOfFeedItemSet : ExampleBase
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Command line options for running the <see cref="GetFeedItemsOfFeedItemSet"/> example.
        /// </summary>
        public class Options : OptionsBase
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// The Google Ads customer ID for which the call is made.
            /// </summary>
            [Option("customerId", Required = true, HelpText =
                "The Google Ads customer ID for which the call is made.")]
            public long CustomerId { get; set; }

            /// <summary>
            /// ID of the feed associated with the feed item set.
            /// </summary>
            [Option("feedId", Required = true, HelpText =
                "ID of the feed associated with the feed item set.")]
            public long FeedId { get; set; }

            /// <summary>
            /// ID of the feed item set.
            /// </summary>
            [Option("feedItemSetId", Required = true, HelpText =
                "ID of the feed item set.")]
            public long FeedItemSetId { get; set; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Main method, to run this code example as a standalone application.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="args">The command line arguments.</param>
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Options options = ExampleUtilities.ParseCommandLine<Options>(args);

            GetFeedItemsOfFeedItemSet codeExample = new GetFeedItemsOfFeedItemSet();
            Console.WriteLine(codeExample.Description);
            codeExample.Run(new GoogleAdsClient(), options.CustomerId, options.FeedId,
                options.FeedItemSetId);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a description about the code example.
        /// </summary>
        public override string Description => "This code example gets all feed items of the " +
            "specified feed item set by fetching all feed item set links. To create a new feed " +
            "item set, run CreateFeedItemSet.cs. To link a feed item to a feed item set, " +
            "run LinkFeedItemSet.cs.";

        /// <summary>
        /// Runs the code example.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client">The Google Ads API client.</param>
        /// <param name="customerId">The Google Ads customer ID for which the call is made.</param>
        /// <param name="feedId">ID of the feed associated with the feed item set.</param>
        /// <param name="feedItemSetId">ID of the feed item set.</param>
        public void Run(GoogleAdsClient client, long customerId, long feedId, long feedItemSetId)
        {
            // Get the GoogleAdsService.
            GoogleAdsServiceClient googleAdsService = client.GetService(
                Services.V12.GoogleAdsService);

            string feedItemSetResourceName = ResourceNames.FeedItemSet(
                customerId, feedId, feedItemSetId);

            // Creates a query that retrieves all feed item set links associated with the specified
            // feed item set.
            string query = $@"
                SELECT
                    feed_item_set_link.feed_item
                FROM
                    feed_item_set_link
                WHERE
                    feed_item_set_link.feed_item_set = '{feedItemSetResourceName}'";

            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("The feed items with the following resource names are linked " +
                    $"with the feed item set with ID {feedItemSetId}:");

                // Issue a search request.
                googleAdsService.SearchStream(customerId.ToString(), query,
                    delegate (SearchGoogleAdsStreamResponse resp)
                    {
                        foreach (GoogleAdsRow googleAdsRow in resp.Results)
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine(googleAdsRow.FeedItemSetLink.FeedItem);
                        }
                    }
                );
            }
            catch (GoogleAdsException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
                Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
                throw;
            }
        }
    }
}


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Alibaba's Southeast Asia arm Lazada hits 130M annual consumers
Rita Liao
16 December 2021, 10:28 pm ·1 min read
Alibaba has always aspired to bring its e-commerce service to customers outside China. Its strategy is multi-thronged. The giant's house-developed AliExpress has found success in Russia in recent years. In 2016, it bought Lazada, which came out of the Rocket Internet empire, and has helped the Southeast Asia-focused marketplace compete.
Lazada grew 80% to hit 130 million annual active consumers in the 18 months ended September, according to a presentation at Alibaba's investor day on Thursday. Its monthly active users as of September were 159 million -- larger than its AAC likely because not every user on Lazada ends up purchasing things.
Like its Chinese sister app Taobao, Lazada has introduced entertainment features like livestreaming and games that try to lock users in, making it more than a pure shopping app.
Lazada wrapped up 2021 with $21 billion in gross merchandise value, the amount of sales before expenses are deducted. And 922,000 sellers, many of whom are from China, were active monthly on the marketplace as of September, more than doubling the pool size from a year ago.
Alibaba is hardly the only Chinese tech titan wrestling for a slice of Southeast Asia's flourishing digital economy. Its nemesis Tencent is one of the main investors in Sea Group, which operates Lazada's rival platform Shopee. In 2020, Sea logged $35.4 billion in GMV.
Alibaba's other Chinese competitor, JD.com, saw its Indonesia e-commerce unit JD.ID rise up to unicorn valuation in early 2020, TechCrunch learned.
This new Southeast Asian fund has its eye on Chinese cross-border firms
Visayan Electric reaches 71.43% power restoration on Jan. 17
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From there, the trail climbs steadily up the side of the valley to Hille at 1495m & after the short climb, we reach Tikhedhunga at 1540m. This trek offers a short & relatively easy day, during journey & allows us to become used to the experience of trekking in Nepal..
Leaving Tikhedunga, we begin our journey with steep climb to Ulleri. Ulleri is a large Magar village at 2070m. Then the trail continues to ascend more gently, through fine forests of oak & rhododendron towards Banthanti at 2250m. Then we make our trek towards Nangethanti at 2860m. After an hour walk brings you to Ghorepani at 2860m..


The fishing in Colorado is better than ever, which is why Wilderness Adventures Press is releasing this completely revised edition of the Flyfisher's Guide to Colorado, complete with full-color photography and brand new, highly detailed maps!
The updated maps include all of the BLM land, National Forest, Wilderness Areas and state-owned land for all of Colorado's major fisheries, and many smaller rivers and lakes. All access points, boat launches, campgrounds and more are shown with GPS coordinates, highways and access roads. You will be able to find your way to the river, whether you're familiar with the area or not. Breaking the state into six sections, Marty Bartholomew, a Colorado native and guide, blends his personal knowledge with the experience of state biologists and regional shop owners to offer the most complete flyfishing guide ever offered on Colorado. It also includes a warm-water section.
As legendary guide Pat Dorsey puts it: "Marty is a pro's pro, an impeccable fly tier, photographer, consummate angler, and a steward of the environment. What you hold in your hands is a fishing guide that is filled with helpful information to make your next flyfishing ad-venture in Colorado successful." Find out why the Flyfisher's Guide to Colorado is one of the all-time best-selling flyfishing guidebooks produced! Or update your dog-eared copy of the original with this fantastic new edition!


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Q: Esper - Can we do pipelined fashion processing using esper? I want to do some event processing using Esper in a pipelined fashion. I need to check for multiple cases for every event.
For instance, say, i want to run my incoming data against following cases. How would I do it? What is the best way of doing it?
case 1 = "If the current level is 400% greater than the average of last 5 consecutive values then mark the event with Exception-1"
case 2 = "If the current level value is null then mark as Exception-2"
case 3 = "If case 2 and case 3 are not matched, then the data is marked as 'safe'"
Following is the rough representation of what I want to do

     if (case1) {
       mark with Exception 1
     }

     if (case2) {
       mark with Exception 2
     }

     if (none of the above cases matches) {
         mark as safe
     }

A: Something like this
on Event
insert into OutputStream select 'Exception 1' as label, * where level_detected > 400
insert into OutputStream select 'Exception 2' as label, * where level_detected = null
insert into OutputStream select 'safe' as label, *

You didn't ask how to do the detection for "If the current level is 400% greater than the average of last 5 consecutive values" so this is not part of my answer.
Esper docs for split stream


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