Construction at the site of a new interchange at Boychuk Drive and Highway 16 has been underway since April of 2017. The interchange was made possible by the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan who are each contributing up to $10,960,885 through the Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component – National and Regional Projects. The Boychuk Drive and Highway 16 interchange is scheduled to open in the summer of 2019.
Please remember the speed limit is 60km/h through the construction zone until the new interchange is complete. Drivers may also want to consider alternate routes to access surrounding neighbourhoods.
On Thursday, May 26, 2016, the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Jim Reiter, Minister of Government Relations for Saskatchewan, were joined by Mayor Don Atchison to announce funding for the new interchange. The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan are each contributing up to $10,960,885 to the Boychuk Drive and Highway 16 interchange through the Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component – National and Regional Projects.


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Official: FC Dallas acquire center back Jose Antonio Martinez from SD Eibar
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TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signing
FC Dallas have acquired center back Jose Antonio Martinez from Spanish club SD Eibar, the club announced Monday. Martinez is under contract through 2023 with team options through 2025.
Martinez, 27, joined Eibar in 2018 but never made a first-team appearance for the club, making 56 appearances on loan over that time with Granada, which he helped earn a promotion from the second division to La Liga in 2019.
He spent 2016-18 with Barcelona B.
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FC Dallas has acquired defender José Antonio Martinez from SD Eibar on a permanent transfer.
— FC Dallas (@FCDallas) December 21, 2020
Martinez is the latest addition of Dallas' busy offseason. The club have already re-signed defender Bressan and re-acquired goalkeeper Phelipe. The club are also rumored to be signing Colombian midfielder Jader Obrian.

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The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) – Trailer 2
The LEGO Batman Movie in theatres February 10th, 2017!
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made "The LEGO® Movie" a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker's hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
Will Arnett reprises his starring role from "The LEGO Movie" as the voice of LEGO Batman, aka Bruce Wayne. Zach Galifianakis ("Muppets Most Wanted," the "Hangover" films) stars as The Joker; Michael Cera (TV's "Arrested Development") as the orphan Dick Grayson; Rosario Dawson (TV's "Daredevil") as Barbara Gordon; and Ralph Fiennes (the "Harry Potter" films) as Alfred.
"The LEGO® Batman Movie" will be directed by Chris McKay, and produced by Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Roy Lee, who worked together on "The LEGO Movie." It is written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers, with additional screenplay material by Jared Stern & John Whittington, based on LEGO Construction Toys. Jill Wilfert, Matthew Ashton and Will Allegra serve as executive producers.
From Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Animation Group, in association with LEGO System A/S, a Lin Pictures / Lord Miller / Vertigo Entertainment production, "The LEGO Batman Movie" will open in theaters worldwide beginning February 10, 2017. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Director: Chris McKay
Writers: Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna
Starring: Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes
Genre: Family, Comedy
Published By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Site: legobatman.com
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This very brief interview by Democracy Now of the preeminent, highest integrity, highest scholarly, legendary authority in the field of political science in the quest for honesty and justice for the sake of peace and democracy, of the all times, the namely Noam Chomsky, who exposes the sordid, relentless, dishonest hate and fear mongering by neocons and neolibs against the most stable, rational, and democratic republic of Iran when asked why said republic is falsely characterized as a "threat to world peace" and/or a "an existential threat to Israel" when close to 100 thousands Jews choose to live in Iran in whose capital, Tehran, they are free to frequent some 12 synagogues and where they own their own vineyards.
Well, without further editorial comment, the ARGENTUM POST presents infra the relevant clip to said Democracy Now interview, which is more that "food for thought", it is the actual historical reality which Trump, Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, and many many others corrupted politicians and undue influence lobbyists, with the cooperation of a partially corrupted, partially inept, mainstream media cover up, and thereby violate the American people's right to be honestly informed and educated by.
Here therefore is the link to said video clip.
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Fringe! Gay Film Fest, April 12-15
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Fringe! Gay Film Fest
The film festival Fringe! returns to the East End of London, and runs from April 12 -15. It's a bold, cutting-edge selection of films and events that offers a real alternative to the LGBT cinema mainstream.
The opening film is the first feature from Travis Mathews, I Want Your Love, and it builds on the experience of making his ground-breaking In Their Room series of shorts. Andrew Haigh, the director of Weekend, said of the film, "Intimate, sexy and unflinchingly honest, I Want Your Love is a bold film with rare insight into the uncensored lives of a generation of gay men". The screening is followed by a Q&A with Travis Mathews, hosted by Ben Walters.
The festival also features the UK premieres of Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984- 1992 (Dir. Dr Dagmar Schultz, Germany, 2012); (A)sexual (Dir. Angela Tucker, USA, 2011) and Private Romeo (Dir. Alan Brown, USA, 2011).
As well as new films, there is also a series of "revamped classics". The London Rollergirls present the Brooklyn "attitude and motorbike epic" Gang Girls Trilogy; and there is a New Queer Cinema retrospective, featuring High Art, Young Soul Rebels and Swoon. And how could you resist a late-night screening of In Bed with Madonna hosted by "East End Tranny with a Fanny, Holestar"? The night will also witness the premiere of In Bed with Holestar, showcasing some of East London's finest, and you can dress up as Madonna throughout the ages to be in with a chance to win prizes.
There is also art, with Facing You, a photo-exhibition exploring the notion of queer; artifacts and filmic memories in After Louie; aerobics meets performance art in Dragercise; as well as Tweet the Dawn, a 4am interactive twitter performance event.
Fringe! truly lives up to its title, and now in its second year is proving to be the new kid on the block to watch.
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Homeschooling on the Rise Amid Covid
By Marziya Hasan
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Homeschoolers study in a Different Directions classroom. (Photo by Erynn Albert)
By Marziya Hasan | Dec. 16, 2021
When Laurie Block Spigel decided to take her oldest son out of school in the middle of the school year, she never imagined the positive impact it would have on her family.
"Within two weeks… I realized it was probably the best decision of our lives," she said. "I didn't realize till we started homeschooling that school was the elephant in the room."
For many like Spigel's son, the traditional schooling system failed to provide them with the education they needed. With the start of COVID-19, the demand for a different method of learning grew immensely. According to the United States Census Bureau, the number of families that had reported homeschooling their kids increased 5.7% in the fall of 2020.
Before the pandemic, families turned to homeschooling for a variety of reasons.
Joanna Allen Lodin, parent to three alumni homeschoolers and founder of Fearless Homeschooling, which provides resources for homeschooling parents, found that the decision typically depends on the individual.
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"I have worked with parents who were pregnant for the first time who just loved the idea of it and are exploring it and just wanna talk about what it can be like." she said. "I've worked with families who have a senior in high school who is dealing with trauma of some kind… who have to pull their child out and don't know where to turn."
Jennifer Snyder, president of LEAH, a Christian support and advocacy group for homeschoolers in New York state, shared that the start of COVID-19 created an alarming atmosphere for parents who wanted to start homeschooling.
"We were getting phone calls from panicked parents, emails from panicked parents," she said. "We were getting referrals from people who were already part of the organization."
Once the pandemic began, reasons for homeschooling started to branch out from simply wanting to provide their child with a different education to understanding why the current education system was problematic.
Jacqueline Gittens, a parent volunteer at LEAH, shared an instance of her child's experience at school that led to her considering homeschooling.
"One glaring example was when my oldest was in Pre-K," she said. "She had a substitute teacher that for some reason thought it was a great idea to teach the class that children that look like my daughter have been slaves in this country. This is a kindergarten class."
Gittens immediately found more pros for homeschooling than cons. This experience was shared by other parents who realized through COVID how beneficial homeschooling could be for their child.
Lodin, who has experience consulting new homeschoolers, shared that a parent who took her child out of school due to fears of COVID got emotional seeing how well their child adapted to homeschooling.
"Not only did they love being home together but she said they were learning so much more." she said. "Her children were experiencing learning in a completely natural and self- directed way. She said it was a beautiful thing."
The Census report also found a specific increase in Black and Hispanic families homeschooling in the fall of 2020. This was observed by educators such as Spigel and Erynn Albert, founder of Different Directions, a non-profit resource center.
Albert found that the pandemic, along with the Black Lives Matter movement, sparked a collective sense of confusion and frustration in the community.
"[The BLM Movement] was like, 'What are they actually teaching them'?" she said. "What history are they learning here that is benefitting or even relevant to my family?"
Spigel, who created the website HomeschoolNYC to share resources with other homeschoolers and is an educator herself, believes there's no requirement for a parent to be able to homeschool.
The DOE did not respond to Dollars& Sense's request for comment.
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DACA to resume after court blocks Trump administration
Jan 14, 2018 5:27 PM EDT
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The Department of Homeland Security on Saturday said it would resume accepting renewals for DACA, the Obama-era program that protects young immigrants from deportation. This follows last week's decision by a federal court blocking the Trump administration's plan to end the program. Josh Gerstein, a POLITICO reporter who has been following the story, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
HARI SREENIVASAN:
Politico reporter Josh Gerstein has been following the DACA story. He joins me now from Washington D.C. So what is the status of DACA application today?
JOSH GERSTEIN:
Well, people that want to renew their expiring DACA permits, which are basically work permits, allow them to work legally in the United States, are basically getting another chance to do that – either if they missed the earlier deadline or if they're among those people whose permits are set to expire after March 5th, which was really when the bulk of the shutdown of this program was going to begin to kick in as ordered by President Trump. Those people now can go ahead, send in a check for $ 495 and renew their DACA status, which could get them another two years of protection from deportation as well as the right to work legally in the U.S.
I'm assuming, that the administration is unhappy with this particular court's findings and that they will challenge it. So is there a possibility that this process could be frozen again?
Yeah, it definitely could be halted again. The administration has said they're going to continue to fight the litigation which led to this court order restoring the DACA program but curiously so far we haven't yet seen an appeal or request to stay the order. It sounds like at least for the foreseeable next few days or few weeks they're going to begin offering these renewals again while the Justice Department decides on a legal strategy to keep fighting this.
Put this in context of the conversations that are happening on Capitol Hill between members of Congress and trying to hammer out something? And of course where the president stands?
Well you know not all immigration advocates were really excited about this decision from the judge restoring the DACA program. In part because they felt that it might undercut the impetus, the momentum on Capitol Hill, towards cutting a deal. You had business leaders weighing in over the course of the past week saying it was essential to resolve this DACA issue. And so kind of it was a mixed bag of reaction when the judge's order came out. Of course, there's a third possibility and that is that we sort of roll into this March 5th deadline that the administration had set and the president has suggested that he might take some further executive action to to protect DAKA recipients. So all those options seem to be on the table right now.
And at the same time there seems to be pressure on the left and from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party to say, take this as a clean deal on its own. Don't bundle up DACA and Dreamers and their fate with border protection and temporary protection status and the wall?
Yeah I've heard a lot of liberals including some of the people behind the litigation which led to the court order. The attorney general of California, Xavier Becerra, come out and say yeah, don't take a bad deal Democrats – you know we should just do a clean renewal of DACA, maybe something could be done on border security but we shouldn't be doing a wall. And I think even more controversial is what the Trump administration wants to pull into this in terms of addressing the chain migration or family reunification policies. If you get into that area you're really talking about a pretty dramatic revision to laws that have been in place for 50 years here in the United States governing immigration. And you know Dianne Feinstein, senator from California and others have said to try to open that up on the very tight timeline of trying to do a DACA deal could be very difficult but that is the administration's official position.
Finally, how unusual is it that the judge lays out this order on a Tuesday and then on Friday, he sort of takes a look at the possible motivations and says that perhaps President Trump's, you know what he says, racist views or race based views on these things could have played a role in this.
It was really interesting to see the judge come in with his second order particularly because Trump's racial views had been back in the news at the very top of the national agenda again as a result of his comments about countries overseas. Certainly a very interesting injection of the racial issue into the national debate.
All right Josh Gerstein, senior White House correspondent and reporter for Politico, thanks so much.
Thank you. Anytime.
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World War Z's super-dark, pre-Lindelof ending finally revealed
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Despite all odds, Brad Pitt's zombie epic World War Z had a very respectable opening this weekend and is garnering some solid reviews from fans and critics alike. A big part of that buzz comes from the final act, which is a taut bit of filmmaking that had to be rewritten and reshot after the studio figured out the original ending was a trainwreck.
So how the heck was this flick supposed to end the first time around, before Damon Lindelof was brought in to completely rejigger the ending into something resembling a finale? The folks at Movies.com have the answer, and it's pretty obvious why the studio pulled the plug and opted for such a massive reshoot.
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As we've already heard, the new ending kicks in when Brad Pitt's character boards that plane toward the late-middle of the film. But in the original version, things went a whole lot differently from there. In the original cut, Pitt's character is captured by the Russians and forced to join the zombie-fighting military for a very long time.
While he's gone, it's implied that his wife has to start trading her body to keep herself and their children safe, which eventually sets Pitt's character on a globetrotting trip back to find his family. It's (really, really) dark, and sounds like a scattered, narrative mess.
Check out an excerpt from the breakdown below, and click here to read the whole thing:
"The plane Gerry and Segen board is bound for Moscow. Upon safely landing, everyone on board is rounded up by the military. The elderly and the sick are executed and the healthy people, including a very shaken Gerry, are immediately drafted into armed service, though not before one particularly nasty Russian soldier takes Gerry's cell phone. The story then jumps forward an unknown amount of time and we catch up with Gerry, who now has a full beard and has been a part of Russia's zombie-clearing squad at least long enough for it to have changed to winter. He looks almost dead inside, but the reality is that over this time he's become an experienced and ruthless zombie killer, and he's the leader of his own equally capable unit...
Gerry reaches Karin. He explains to her that the cold is the way they'll win battles, which does her no good because it just so happens she and the kids are in a refugee camp in the sweltering heat of the Everglades. They're in the type of camp where you have to have something to trade to survive, and it just so happens the one thing Karin had to trade was herself. She doesn't explicitly tell Gerry this, but after she hastily hangs up the phone we see that she's in some kind of reluctantly consensual relationship with the soldier who rescued them from the rooftop at the beginning of the movie."
Quite a bit of this story was actually filmed before the studio starting reworking the film, though it's doubtful the studio will actually ever release it. Here's hoping at least some of those scenes will show up on the Blu-ray.
Did you prefer the final, rewritten ending or this insane original?
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Seeking a motivated and energetic Database Architect to join our superb team of IT professionals. We want a dedicated individual who wants to excel and guide our database team to success.
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? Analyzes and determines information needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities.
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The home innovative roof is designed as one continuous line that inclines up the mountainside. House in Chihuahua has a self-regulating climate control that naturally accommodates the drastic 20-degree drop from day to night. From the outside, the house is a curious sight, with shards of glass framed in a white facade enclosed by grass and earth.


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Toronto Sets Docs, Wavelengths, Midnight Madness; Adds Two New Awards
Peter Knegt
The Toronto International Film Festival – running September 10-19 – has unveiled another slew of titles for its 34th edition, including 17 documentaries, its genre-focused Midnight Madness program, and avant-garde Wavelengths program. The announced docs and the Midnight Madness films will both get a chance to benefit from another piece of TIFF-issued news. The festival announced two new awards – the Cadillac People's Choice Award for Documentary, and Cadillac People's Choice Award – Midnight Madness. The new prizes will recognize the most popular documentary film and the most popular film of the Midnight Madness programme, as chosen by audiences throughout the festival. The new awards will be announced and given out at TIFF's awards reception on Saturday, September 19. The new categories join the festival's main Cadillac People's Choice Award, which last year went to Danny Boyle's Oscar mammoth "Slumdog Millionaire."
Check out the complete list of the TIFF '09 announced titles – with full descriptions provided by the festival – at the below links.
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REVIEW BY: Benjamin Ray
The moribund Survival, Grand Funk's weakest album up to that point, was an end of the road of sorts for the original Grand Funk Railroad. The Michigan trio had worked with manager and producer Terry Knight since before they were a band – touring as Terry Knight & The Pack at the time – but after an acrimonious split with Knight they were left somewhat rudderless. Although they had several hits and were quite popular at the time and they were selling out stadiums, it didn't help that Survival and E Pluribus Funk were not really great albums. The plodding GFR formula was starting to sound stale.
So, the trio picked up the pieces and started making some changes. First, they hired Craig Frost on keyboards, adding a necessary dimension to the sound (he is credited here as a sideman, but he quickly became the fourth member). Second, "Railroad" was dropped from the band name. Third, the songwriting became a little leaner and nimbler, with slightly more emphasis on texture than on crude rhythms that translated far better in concert.
The end result was an album that, while still far from the band's best, was an important step in their evolution. Going from Survival to We're An American Band seems like listening to a different band, but with this stepping stone inserted, the transition makes more sense. Problem is, transitional albums are rarely career highlights. While Phoenix is of interest to fans, there's little to keep the listener coming back for more.
The decision to self-produce means the disc is still somewhat waterlogged in sound, and remastering doesn't help the issue. But the bigger issue is the lack of great songs or ambitious epics. Instead, we get songs that spin their wheels (the repetitive "Rain Keeps Fallin'," the mediocre "Someone,") and songs that seem content to rewrite standard GFR but Now With Keyboard! ("I Just Gotta Know," "Trying To Get Away," "She Got To Move Me"). And while Mark Farner had not shied away from social concerns on previous discs, he goes all-out here on his favorite theme of overpopulation, even stating on the schizophrenic and embarrassing "So You Won't Have To Die" that Jesus told him how much of a problem overpopulation was. Yes, Jesus used to talk to rock stars from Flint, okay? Just go with it. Oh, and there's "Freedom Is For Children," six minutes of Farner nonsense that makes "Loneliness" look like the picture of subtlety. Skip both of these songs, please.
Opening instrumental "Flight Of The Phoenix" is more compelling, eschewing Farner's wailing vocals and showing that this now-quartet could be nimble but still rock. The song fades out just as the "woo-hoo" vocals from "Footstompin' Music" come in, making one wonder if "Flight" was written as a warmup for that latter track and discarded for time reasons. Regardless, when the first thing you hear on a Grand Funk album is a keyboard, you know something's up.
The final two songs are the best on the disc: "Gotta Find Me A Better Day" and the minor hit single "Rock And Roll Soul," which dispenses with the bullshit and just boogies. More than any other, it's the one that paves the way for We're An American Band, and it's the only track most people remember from this disc. Not that this is entirely unfounded – there are some interesting passages scattered around – but Phoenix ultimately is more interesting for what is signified and what it attempted than in what it actually is. And while that makes it of interest to fans, it's nowhere near one of the band's better albums.
Rating: C-
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El Festivalino
El Festivalino used to boast to be the smallest festival in the world but this label is increasingly outdated. Every April, the town of Pescueza organizes an event that combines music, culture and environmental activism, and which, thanks to the quality of artist and the programmed activities, has made itself a name in the festival Spanish scene.
MUSIC, CULTURE AND ECOLOGY IN PESCUEZA
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Concerts in the many squares of Pescueza, theatre, workshops on local traditions, activities for children, lectures, crafts market, batucada, environmental awareness-raising activities, such as tree planting, and free camping area are the main attractions of a festival that has celebrated and championed the rural world since 2008.
Every year, El Festivalino attracts some 15,000 visitors to Pescueza. Some of the artists and groups that have performed in this tiny village (of fewer than 200 residents) in the Alagón Valley include La Oreja de Van Gogh, Revólver, Celtas Cortos, Los Niños de los Ojos Rojos, Los Secretos, Soraya Arnelas, Acetre, Huecco, Sínkope, Manuel Carrasco and Rozalén.
One of its trademarks is the focus on the preservation of nature. Musicians, locals and festival-goers alike participate in planting native trees and bushes in an estate next to the village, among other ecological activities.
Event subject:
Cathedral Museum
A perfect place to learn about the history of Christianity and the city's culture in depth
Royal Prison Museum
Just like in a bee-hive, the cells of this prison hold the essence of the main historic moments of the city of Coria
Relax in the shade of the trees that shelter the spot or enjoy a dip in the waters of this riverside park.
Coria Cathedral
This cathedral houses one of the most treasured relics from the time of Christ: the tablecloth from the Last Supper.
Coria Castle
Coria Castle, declared a site of cultural interest, is located in the Cáceres city of the same name and you can make out part of the Alagón River plains from its high tower.
Marmionda Castle
The Marmionda Castle is located in the province of Cáceres. Its remains are a reflection of its defensive past, its name holds the secret to the legend of a beautiful Moorish maiden.
Hermitage of the Virgin of Argeme
The beautiful hermitage of the Virgin of Argeme celebrating the patron saint of Coria is a Baroque style building which the visitor will find both unique and beautiful.
Fuente Conceja
This fountain in Zarza la Mayor preserves vestiges of the past that marked this region on the border with Portugal.
Parish Church of San Andrés Apóstol
Architectural monument classified as a Cultural Heritage Site. The simple but attractive exterior and the richness of the interior make this an obligatory visit.
Walled enclosure of Coria
The town of Coria in the province of Cáceres is still protected by a solid Roman wall which has kept it safe from all kinds of attacks for centuries.


Here, the program would try the first prime, two. That works, so it would divide 48 by 2 and get 12. It would start over with 12 and see if two goes into 12. It does, and it would try again on 6. That works, too, and it would try again to divide 2 into 3. That doesn't go evenly, so it would go to the next prime. The next prime is 3, which does go into 3 evenly. 3 divided by 3 is 1, so the program would know that it was done. This kind of drawing is called a tree (it's upside down, don't worry about it, but 48 is the root and all the primes are leaves). I've colored the primes green to highlight how they're not being divided, and because they're the leaves.
Last night the Badb had to find the prime factorization of a number. Thrill moment! This is exactly the problem I once wrote a computer program to solve and wound up entering that program in the school science fair. That was pretty cool.
Back when I had to solve this problem, my computer had a pretty severe limitation within its BASIC interpreter: the highest integer value it could deal with was 65,535. The clock speed on the CPU was pretty darned slow, as well. These meant that any program I wrote had to be pretty efficient if I wanted to be able to interact with it — I could feel myself aging while I waited for the computer to count to 100 — and I didn't have to worry about really huge data structures. When the biggest array was guaranteed to hold fewer than 100,000 items, FOR..NEXT loops were not very scary.
Okay, enough reminiscing. Here's the assignment: write a BASIC program that will accept a user's input of a positive integer greater than 1 and less than 65,536. The program will output the prime factors of the number. The program must guard against empty, non-numeric, and out-of-range values. If the user inputs a value that does not meet the acceptance criteria then the program must print out an error message and prompt once again for input. After writing out the prime factorization of the number, the program should ask the user whether to factor another number or to exit, and then behave appropriately.
Any factor of a number that is greater than the square root of that number is, by necessity, part of a pair of factors — and the other half of that pair is less than the square root of the number.
The modulus operator (mod) might be helpful.
Try using pencil and paper to draw a flowchart for how to solve the problem. Start with boxes that represent big steps ("get user input", "compute prime numbers", etc.) and then explode the boxes until each box represents a line of actual code. This can seem kind of extreme, but it totally works and it keeps you from having to remember everything at once.
I'm gonna make some time to try to write this program myself, but it'd be super cool if any of the three of you people reading this could beat me to it. I'd be really proud!
Highway 85 is, unless you're a carpool, unusable during commute hours. I've been trying different ways to get to NASA for the past week and so far the best I've been able to come up with is 70 minutes. Without freeways, there are basically two routes: mountains north and a short run east across Palo Alto / Mountain View, or mountains northeast to Los Gatos and then surface streets to Mountain View. The second option seems to run about 70 minutes both ways, while the first is about 75 (there are three schools on Page Mill and traffic is a bit slower). Five minutes is pretty much a wash. The valley route, though, has a little bit less mountain twistiness and I can get slightly better mileage on the flats even in slow commute traffic. I can drive less aggressively and be all calm and stuff, but there's just no way around gravity when you're going uphill.
Now I'll start keeping track of what stores I'm passing to see if I can combine any errands with my commute.


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Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan
By Tracy - June 25, 2021
Release Date - June 29, 2021 Lady Sunshine moves seamlessly between the 1970s and the 1990s in order to tell Jackie Pierce's story. She, her father, and her stepmother don't get along. When they decide to take a trip without her, Jackie is sent to stay with her uncle for the summer. She doesn't know too much about her mom's brother other than he's a talented musician, but she's overjoyed to have some freedom from them. Her uncle owns a sprawling estate on the Californian coast. The Sandcastle is a retreat of sorts for musicians, artists, and their families. There, Jackie finds freedom and friendship with her cousin. But, before the summer is over, tragic events will change their relationship for good and lead to Willa's disappearance. In the 1990s, Jackie inherits The Sandcastle following her aunt's death. She returns with the plans to sell it, but before that happens, she learns her aunt asked a musician to record a tribute album. She agrees to let


Here are some of the superhumans with their unique superpowers.
She is a russian woman born in 1987 in Saransk Mordovia,Russia. She claims to be able to see into people's body. According to natasha and her parents, she discovered her unique abilities at the age of 10. Her eyes can see just like an X-ray machine inside an individual's body, detect problems thereover and diagnose them. With this unique power she became popular in 2003-2004.
"I was at home with my mother and suddenly I had a vision. I could see inside my mother's body and I started telling her about the organs I could see. Now, I have to switch from my regular vision to what I call medical vision. For a fraction of a second, I see a colorful picture inside the person and then I start to analyze it." says Demkina.
He was born in 2005 and he is living with his adopted parents Dana and Neil Hoekstra in Michigan. He was born with a special superpower or we can say it as a rare genetic myostatin related condition called Muscle hypertrophy. A Condition in which body builds muscle fat inhibiting the body fat.
When he was of 5 months, he did an expert gymnast move called iron cross. He was also known as "The world's strongest toddler".
She was born in West Germany in 1951. Also She was brought up like a normal child. She came into the attention of public in 1972 of having unusual optical abilities. They found that a normal eye can barely see detail from 20 feet away but veronica can see the same at a distance of 1.6 km.
She has also set a world record of seeing small objects without using any technology. She is able to distinguish people from a mile away. Now pursuing her professional dream, she is a dentist.
He was born on August 23,1962.Everything came into a turn when he was turning 30 years old. He in a bar and made the decision that enough was enough. Also He ran 30 miles to celebrate his 30th birthday . He is famous for running 50 marathons over 50 days, in all 50 states of US.
When he was tested on Stan Lees superhumans they got very unusual result. They found that his body was able to clear lactate from his blood and convert it into energy. That's why Dean doesn't experience muscle cramps, even when his runs have exceeded 100 miles.
She is a Lebanese girl who baffled medical experts by producing crystals from her eyes. Coming at a rate of seven day, the crystals are razor shape, but do not harm her eyes. The girl stopped producing crystals few months after the story started circulating. The Saudi Arabian officials tested those crystals from the girl's eyes as she cried and found those to be real. The officials tried to keep the girls' father quiet, as this was creating lot of fuss, and also offered him $50,000.


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The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is a conservative think tank founded in 1989 by James R. Leininger. It is a member of the right-wing State Policy Network (SPN) and is based in Austin, Texas. It has ties to Texas Governor and former presidential candidate Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and many other powerful politicians.
According to the TPPF's website, its mission "is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach."
Doug Domenech, the director of the Fueling Freedom Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is leading President-elect Trump's Interior Department Transition team. As Think Progress reported, "The project's goals include explaining "the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels" and ending the EPA's regulation of carbon dioxide. (The EPA has the authority — and, indeed, must — regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Not only is carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas that fuels climate change, it also contributes to ocean acidification. Significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions is likely the only way humanity can avoid triggering catastrophic climate disruption.)" Since the Department of Interior's mission is to protect and manage the nation's environmental and cultural resources, Trump's choice of Domenech to lead the transition team suggests that the President-elect may have a different vision for the Department of Interior.
Domenech thinks so as he wrote in Real Clear Energy, "Much has been said about what's next for energy and climate policy under the new Trump Administration. Elections have consequences and, in this case, Americans just rejected the "keep it in the ground" extremism espoused by those whose only operating focus is their view that CO2 is a pollutant and climate change is real."
The Center for Media and Democracy found in obtained Peabody Energy bankruptcy filings that the Texas Public Policy Foundation was a creditor to the world's largest private-sector coal company. Although the documents filed so far do not show the scale or precise dates of funding—they only list current creditors—they demonstrate for the first time that Peabody Energy has financial ties to a very large proportion of the network of groups promoting disinformation around climate change.
The Progress Texas and CMD report also notes that TPPF "claimed in 2008 that it spent nothing on lobbying," however, "it told the IRS that it spent $981,869 on lobbying between 2009 and 2010." While federal tax reports for 2012 are not yet available, "forms filed with the state of Texas indicate that between 2011 and 2013, TPPF has spent at least $100,000 on lobbying the Texas Legislature – largely on gifts, food, drinks, and transportation to Texas legislators and state offices." In 2011, TPPF's tax records also indicate the organization "paid its executive corporate-level salaries that dwarf the rates paid for most other public interest groups in Austin..." (specifically, $1.391 million of the $5.7 million budget was used to pay executive salaries).
Limiting Government Spending TPPF recommends state and local spending increases only by the sum of population growth plus inflation, the growth in gross state product or the growth personal income, whichever is less. TPPF [also] recommends requiring a supermajority vote in the state legislature to override Texas's constitutional limits on government spending. ALEC's "Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act" would amend the state constitution to set revenue and spending limits, by capping total expenditures by inflating the current year's expenditures to account only for population growth and inflation.
ALEC's "Super-Majority Act" would amend the state constitution to require all tax and "license fee" increases or impositions be approved by two-thirds of all member s of each house of the legislature, except when there is insufficient revenue to pay interest on the state's debt.
Opposing Health Care Reform TPPF calls for allowing Texans to buy health insurance across state lines, offered by insurance companies in other states. TPPF recommends eliminating all state-level insurance mandates. ALEC's "Resolution Opposing Employer-Paid Health Care Mandates" opposes efforts by state legislatures to mandate that private employers purchase health insurance for workers.
ALEC's "Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act" would prohibit the legislature from requiring individuals to purchase health insurance, even though states like Texas require drivers to purchase auto insurance under the state's financial responsibility law.
ALEC's "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" would prevent the EPA from overruling state permits for coal mining and dirty coal products if all the company's coal operations are conducted within the borders of a single state (although air pollution crosses state lines).
ALEC's "Resolution in Opposition of Carbon Dioxide Emission Standards" opposes environmental protections on carbon dioxide emissions.
Denying Climate Change TPPF questions the science of climate change, and urges federal lawmakers to implement a "rigorous" review of scientific facts dealing with climate change, along with calling for the suspension of all state programs that regulate greenhouse gases and federal mandates to reduce carbon dioxide. ALEC's "State Withdrawal from Regional Climate Initiatives" removes states from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or the Western Climate Initiative, cap-and-trade programs to cut greenhouse gases and carbon-dioxide emissions. It uses language denying that climate changes exist and are manmade.
Attacking Renewable Energy TPPF calls for the elimination of the Renewable Portfolio Standard. ALEC's "Electricity Freedom Act" repeals renewable energy mandates and constitutes an attack on states with plans requiring companies to get a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.
Advocating for the 10th Amendment In the section entitled "10th Amendment" in TPPF's 2013-2014 agenda, TPPF calls interstate compacts an "effective way" to regulate areas of mutual concern of two or more states. It further states that Texas should "examine the benefits" of using constitutional amendments aimed at limiting government spending, including calling for a constitutional convention. ALEC's "Article V Repeal Amendment Resolution" calls for a constitutional convention in order propose an amendment permitting the repeal of any federal law by the vote of two-thirds of state legislatures.
ALEC's "Resolution Reaffirming Tenth Amendment Rights" asserts that federal mandates violates the Tenth Amendment, but fails to acknowledge the many express powers granted to Congress, including powers over interstate commerce. ALEC's "Resolution Calling for the Congress of the United States to Call a Constitutional Convention Pursuant to Article V of the United States" urges Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law or regulation by two-thirds of the state legislatures, which is dubbed the Madison Amendment (another ALEC model).
Deforming Public Pensions TPPF calls for new state workers to be moved into a risky defined-contribution pension plan. ALEC's "Public Employees' Portable Retirement Option (PRO) Act" is a move towards eliminating defined benefit pension plans for public employees, which better protects retirees.
Pushing Parent Trigger TPPF calls for changes to in the Texas Education Code to make it easier to force a "parent trigger" scenario. ALEC's "Parent Trigger Act" would allow a small group of parents to close public school for current and future students, and turn the school into a charter school or require the state to use taxpayer dollars for vouchers to subsidize private tuition.
Privatizing Public Education TPPF calls for Texas to "increase competition in the Texas education system" by implementing education scholarships, tax credits, and expanding charter schools and vouchers. ALEC's "Family Education Tax Credit Program" creates a tax paying corporations and individuals that give money to be used as "scholarships" to pay tuition and fees at private schools, reducing tax revenue for public schools and other public services.
ALEC's "Parent Choice Scholarship Program Act-Universal Eligibility" creates a voucher program to use taxpayer funds that would have been spent on public schools to subsidize private for-profit, religious, or other primary and secondary schools.
ALEC's "Parental Choice Scholarship Accountability Act" enables taxpayer money to subsidize for-profit, religious, or other private schools.
ALEC's "Charter Schools Act" would allow the state to grant charters to create and operate schools outside of traditional public schools, while also exempting these charter schools from state laws that apply to public schools.
ALEC's "Resolution Supporting Private Scholarship Tax Credits" urges tax cuts for corporations and others to subsidize non-public corporate schools through funding "scholarships."
Attacking Teachers TPPF calls for radical attacks on teachers in Texas, including lowering the barriers for teacher certification, eliminating the minimum salary a teacher must be paid based on experience, discouraging school districts from paying teachers with a master's degree more money, and eliminating tenure rights. ALEC's "Great Teachers and Leaders Act" changes seniority rules that reward education and experience of teachers and allows tenure to be revoked based on limited measures of success without regard to underlying conditions in the schools or environment.
ALEC's "Alternative Certification Act" attempts to allow students to be taught by people who have no training in how to teach children and the different ways kids learn at various ages and based on different learning styles. This paves the way for for-profit schools to pay "teachers" less than educators who are actually trained in teaching.
ALEC's "Career Ladder Opportunities Act" and "Teacher Quality and Recognition Demonstration Act" undermines post-secondary education and tenure rights of teachers, placing more emphasis on tests (regardless of the underlying conditions in the schools or the socio-economic environment of the school district) than other established measures.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation has been very active in the American Legislative Exchange Council. TPPF was a member of the now defunct Public Safety and Elections Task Force, and has been an ardent defender of ALEC activities. In May 2012, Wendy Lee Gramm, the Foundation's chairman of the board, and Brooke Rollins, its president and chief executive officer, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, entitled "Why the Left Wants to Blacklist ALEC," in defense of the organization.
TPPF was a "Chair" level sponsor of the ALEC Annual Conference in 2016, which equated to $50,000 in 2010.
Talmadge Heflin, director of TPPF's Center for Fiscal Policy, was a member of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force in 2011.
SPN, of which TPPF is a prominent member, has deep ties to ALEC. Please see SPN Ties to ALEC for more.
Through 2016 the Texas Public Policy Foundation received $315,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
As of January 2017, TPPF is listed as a "partner organization" in the Charles Koch Institute's Liberty@Work program.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation has hosted writers from the ALEC-connected Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, which screens potential reporters on their "free market" views as part of the job application process. The Franklin Center funds reporters in over 40 states. Despite their non-partisan description, many of the websites funded by the Franklin Center have received criticism for their conservative bias. On its website, the Franklin Center claims it "provides 10 percent of all daily reporting from state capitals nationwide."
Koch Industries gave $159,834 directly to TPPF in 2012, versus $69,788.61 from the Claude R. Lambe Foundation, which is a Koch Family Foundation.
The financial revelations also provide an important case study in how SPN's member think tanks are funded, and by whom.
SPN itself gave TPPF $49,306.90, but what's more, Tracie Sharp, SPN's executive director, was the contact person for an additional $495,000. These two grants, for $300,000 and $195,000, were listed as being received from the "State Think Tank Fund" and the "Government Transparency Fund," respectively -- two funds about which virtually nothing is known.
According to a November 2013 report by Progress Texas and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), over the past few years TPPF "has received at least $3,314,591 from the billionaire Koch brothers or the organizations they support." This includes $733,333 received from the Koch family foundations and from Koch Industries, and $2,581,258 from the Donors Trust & Donors Capital Fund. TPPF also "received nearly $300,000 from the Searle Freedom Trust between 2007 to 2011."
"Melinda Hasting -- who served as the foundation's vice president from 1996 to 1998 but has since broken with the conservative movement -- says one fundraising tactic involved approaching corporations, wealthy businessmen, and corporate-funded foundations with a pitch. Hasting (formerly Melinda Wheatley) describes it: 'We think this is beneficial to your industry and would you consider providing us with a non-profit contribution. … Here's the timeline for the completion of the research; the parameters of the research are this; we expect it will result in some savings or outsourcing.'"
The TPPF's 2005 annual report states that the groups budget was $1,759,602 million, an almost 30% increase on its 2004 budget. Individual contributors accounted for just over half the contributions, unspecified corporations $259,000 or 15% with the remainder from unspecified foundations.
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An artist's guide to falling in love with Victoria: Coastal inspiration and DIY heart
Arts·I He(art) My City
Vancouver tends to steal the spotlight, but curator Michelle Jacques shows us why we should pay more attention to the B.C. capital.
Vancouver tends to steal the spotlight, but curator Michelle Jacques wants the B.C. capital to shine
Michelle Jacques · CBC Arts · Posted: Jun 26, 2018 12:15 PM ET | Last Updated: June 26, 2018
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Everyone knows about the art scenes in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver — but what about Lethbridge, Sudbury or Victoria? In CBC Arts's new series "I He(art) My City," a local artist offers an insider's guide to the city they call home. Here, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria chief curator Michelle Jacques shows you her Victoria.
Victoria, British Columbia. It is located on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen-speaking people, today known as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. The city that the British established in 1841 is known as the Garden City...and the Velvet Rut. Its inhabitants have been described as "more British than the British" and "the newlyweds and the nearly deads."
When I moved to Victoria from Toronto five and a half years ago, I didn't know what hit me — I experienced a culture shock I didn't think possible moving from one Canadian city to another. Five years ago, I could go downtown in Victoria on a weekday night and hardly run into another soul on the streets. This town has changed considerably since then — it seems to have had a population surge over the last couple of years, presumably because Vancouver's skyrocketing rents are causing people to look to the province's second-largest centre as a place to live and work.
As I have gotten to know Victoria, my affection for it has grown exponentially. Here are some of the places that have helped make that happen.
I He(art) My City
CBC Arts is your tour guide to Canada's vibrant art scenes
Garry Oak Meadows
Uplands Park. (Michelle Jacques)
Victoria is teaming with gardens, both public and private. There are options like UVic's Finnerty Gardens and Government House Gardens that can be visited at no charge. Finnerty's 1500 rhododendron and azalea plants were in full bloom last month, and the roses are just coming into bloom in the Lieutenant Governor's rose gardens. But my favourite green spaces in the city are the Garry Oak Meadows, with the twisted trees rising out of fields of local wildflowers, including camus, which was an important dietary staple for local Indigenous people. Amidst all of the cultivated gardens, the ecosystem that is natural to this part of the world is truly an experience. Take a walk in Uplands Park — you'll feel like you're in the middle of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel.
Ministry of Casual Living and Victoria Tool Library. (Michelle Jacques)
A lot of what happens in Victoria is thanks to the collective will of creative people coming together to get things done. For more than 15 years, an evolving collective of artists operating under the moniker the Ministry of Casual Living has been enlivening the Victoria cultural scene with exhibitions and events. While they have had to move from location to location over the years due to Victoria's shifting real estate landscape, today they have a site in Esquimalt that houses artists' studios and a gallery space. They share it with the Victoria Tool Library, where members can borrow the implements that they need to build endless possibilities.
Super Chance. (Michelle Jacques)
Victoria is a thrifter's paradise! There are great finds to be made at charity shops like the Sally Ann and W.I.N. (the resale shop arm of Victoria Women in Need Community Cooperative), vintage boutiques like Vintage After Death and houseware consignment shops like Good Things. This is one of the benefits of Victoria's demographics — everybody's always downsizing. One of my favourite spots is Super Chance in James Bay. It has a great range of housewares and home decor, but I would love it for its name alone.
Art Gallery of Great Victoria
Laura Gildner at an Urbanite event at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria/Instagram)
It seems a little cheeky to include the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on this list given that I work there, but it really is the first thing that I loved about Victoria. I noticed immediately that its smaller size and location amongst the houses of the Rockland neighbourhood makes it a remarkably intimate space. When we host our semi-annual Urbanite events it feels like we're having people over to our home, not mounting an institutional event. During Urbanite, we infuse our exhibition spaces with even more creative experiences; for example, above, artist Laura Gildner performs aerobics amidst Emily Carr's paintings at the most recent Urbanite in February.
Springridge Commons. (Michelle Jacques)
I like to entertain myself by walking around the city streets, people watching and taking in the energy of the urban spaces. I guess that makes me a flâneuse in a city where sometimes it feels like everyone else would rather be hiking. I too have come to appreciate the pleasures of a long walk in spaces like East Sooke and Goldstream parks, but ultimately, I prefer to explore a bit of urban nature like Springridge Commons, and then go for a nice coffee somewhere.
Coffee and baked goods
Imagine Studio Cafe. (Michelle Jacques)
And speaking of coffee...we love our coffee in Victoria. We love it so much that local coffee proprietors like Habit, Discovery and Caffe Fantastico each maintain several locations to fuel our caffeine cravings. And the bakeries! Crust! Fol Epi! Fry's! All so good. A recent discovery is Imagine Studio Cafe, located across from Fisherman's Wharf Park. They make a mean macchiato and the lemon cake is so good it's ridiculous.
Food finds
Trini to D Bone. (Nicole Stanbridge)
Victoria has a great food scene for a small city. There are natural ingredient favourites like Rebar and Nourish and fine dining options such as Brasserie l'Ecole and Olo. These are wonderful destinations, to be sure — but at the moment I am all about Caribbean food and I am totally enamoured with Trini to D Bone. I guess I miss my grandmother's cooking, and Trini to D Bone comes very close.
Cocktail culture
Clive's Classic Lounge. (Michelle Jacques)
There are lots of places to get a great cocktail in Victoria. Little Jumbo and Veneto are popular spots with spectacular drink menus, but I often default to Clive's Classic Lounge at the Chateau Victoria Hotel. Many will tell you that the city's cocktail culture started at Clive's, and even though it's just a decade old, it feels like you're surrounded by history when you're there.
Dallas Road Beach
Dallas Road Beach. (Michelle Jacques)
There are lots of oceanfront locations that aren't as busy as the Dallas Road Waterfront, but you can't beat the view across the water of the Olympic Mountains in western Washington State.
Oceanfront accommodations
Surf Motel. (Michelle Jacques)
My personal favourite is the Surf Motel, which I've only admired from the outside am sure that the view of the water and mountains — and the funky 60s vibe — make it a fantastic place to stay.
Awakening Memory at Open Space. Left: Marianne Nicolson's La'am'lawisaxw yaxaxsans'nalax (Then the deluge of our world came...), 2017. Right: lessLIE's Transformation, 2017. (Michelle Jacques)
Since 1972, Open Space has been an important site for challenging our expectations of what contemporary art is and can be. Full disclosure: I am a member of the interim board trying to help the organization through this period of re-commitment to centering its program in Indigenous practices after finding itself in the news because of criticism of its Indigenous representation. It's definitely a worthwhile effort — Open Space has done some incredible projects with Indigenous artists, like Awakening Memory, a project in which curator France Trépanier and artists Sonny Assu, lessLIE and Marianne Nicolson used a collaborative method to remember the role of art in Indigenous communities.
The Fabulous Find. (Michelle Jacques)
Victoria loves mid-century modern furniture nearly as much as it loves heritage architecture. I like to get my teak on at Charmaine's Past and Present, Easy Livin' Style, Trig Vintage and The Fabulous Find.
Check back every week as we add new guides!
Michelle Jacques
Michelle Jacques is currently the Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), where she is responsible for guiding a curatorial and education program that links contemporary practices, ideas and issues to the Gallery's historical collections and legacies. Prior to moving west, she held various roles in the Contemporary and Canadian departments of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; was the Director of Programming at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, and taught courses in writing, art history and curatorial studies at NSCAD University, University of Toronto Mississauga, and OCAD University.
An artist's guide to falling in love with Winnipeg: A ruined monastery and your dog's new fave beach
An artist's guide to falling in love with Saskatoon: Storm watching, karaoke and...thistle thickets?


LED cold light module for the Leitz V35 enlarger where the Philips 75W HLX bulb (13139) is not available anymore.
This version is with potentiometers for Red/White light/variable contrast 00-5 and intensity.
Also available a version without the Split Grade system from Heiland. Prices are not identical. Cold LED light is also available for other type enlarger systems (price on request).


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Q: How do I fix the "sorry, you are not allowed to access this page" error I get on the "plugins > settings" links? I just upgraded to WordPress 4.6, and now when I try to click on the Settings link on some of my plugins I get this "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page." message.
I can active/deactivate the plugin fine but for some reason I can't go under the settings view.
I tried following some of the methods that other people used to fix this; like adding a new administrator and updating the "wp_capabilities" and "wp_user_level" values in the DB but it still does not work.
Does anyone know how I can further debug or resolve this issue?

A: According to me Login into PHPMyAdmin goto wp_usermeta then edit wp32_capabilities  of any user and add this a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}  It will change the user Privilege to admin. There are several reasons it will change and you will get the error.
I was getting this error on my website and I try this only once and it was resolved.

A: If you have https on WordPress and you added below code on wp-config.php,then be sure that lines must be on top of page. I found this issue. And may be it can help.
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'], 'https') !== false)
    $_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';

A: Also search wp-setting.php file for "define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS',true);" and delete it. Non of the above solutions worked for me except this one!

A: You can keep more than one WP as long the prefixes are different and do not collide, this post has the fix for the access error when changed the prefix but facing the error: https://www.mysysadmintips.com/other/web/743-wordpress-admin-sorry-you-are-not-allowed-to-access-this-page

A: I discover this message "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page" mostly occur when various WordPress sites are in the same phpMyAdmin – all bearing the same table prefix, irrespective of the database name. I can't tell how many WordPress sites are expected to be in the same phpMyAdmin with the same table prefix.

A: By default, capabilities will be assigned to "Administrative" and "Editor" role when plugin runs for the first time. You can add or remove capabilities for user by using a great plugin named Members if its not there.

A: Wordpress shows a default 403 page when any of a handful of backend events occur:

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*The user is not allowed access because their role has incorrect permissions

*The backend page is not found, which happens when a plugin or theme is no longer active and left relic data in the database, or when it is misrouting its admin page because it is misconfigured. This often happens if you use url rewrite plugins, and they do not handle the backend uris correctly or omit rewriting them. This often also leads to being locked out of the login screen.

*There is an error with the internal core routing mechanism, and it receives a result it doesn't understand, can't process, or maps to an unrecognized schema

*A critical but not fatal error occurs during the routing step for the dashboard

In your case, it is probably the 3rd possibility. Wordpress core code does not do very rigorous type checking, and it typically proceeds through its internals without really spending much time on verifying that the data it received was properly formatted or is valid for the current purpose. This results in very strange and difficult to diagnose errors frequently if you do not understand how the core internals work.
The following remedies are in order as a preliminary preflight:

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*Make sure that each site running on the same installation has its own database assigned, which has its own dedicated user that does not have permission to access any other database within your cluster. For example, when you login to PhpMyAdmin as root, you have access to the entire cluster. For any given application, it should have a dedicated database and user within your cluster, and the user should not have access to any other database in your cluster unless it is a shared resource created explicitly for data to pass between two applications. This alleviates the likelihood of your application getting confused by trying to fetch data from the wrong database, and prevents any issues with collisions between two or more wordpress installs with identical prefixes. Do not put two wordpress installs in the same database or they will both break.

*Check the network panel in your browser web inspector and check the error code for the request. If it is a 403 (it should be), then the issue is either the page doesn't actually exist, or the user lacks permissions. If it is a 500 (it should not be), then it means that the server encountered an error and fell back to the standard exit procedure. If it is a 500, you have a bad plugin, theme, or database issue to handle. If it is a 403, it is most likely one of a bad update, incorrect configuration, or legitimate access denied.

A: Change table prefix to "_" in wp-config.php and save. Then try load wp-admin/. you might see a new install message. Don't install, go back and change prefix again to "WP". This worked for me. I am not sure this will work for everyone.
before: $table_prefix  = 'wp_';
in between: $table_prefix  = '_';
after: $table_prefix  = 'WP_';


(Cheyenne) Yea going to PetSmart!
Ours is a red merle just turned 4 months old on 8/22/15. She weighs 17 lbs.
I have two female standard Aussies and one weighs 65lbs (she is a little over weight) and the other is 50lbs (she is very trim). I also have a male mini Aussie and he weighs 30lbs (he is also very trim). Hope this helps!
Where are you in KY Moved from there in 2012 - was at Dale Hollow and Natural Bridge Miss it so much, great place for Aussies cant wait to get back some day!
My mini (17 inches tall at shoulders as an adult) weighed 12.8 lbs at exactly 4 months old per her vet records. Hope this helps.
Thank you so much, yes she will be 5 months old the22nd of Sep and close to 20 lbs. now, all legs and wiggle action, she reminds me of a little fawn her face above her eyes is starting to Merrill more, and she is testing her limits, like a 2 yrs. old. Fall in love with her more everyday, Have had animals in the past, but never seen more obvious distinction in every stage, and expression.


A Saudi Arabian Navy frigate was attacked by Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen on January 30.
Initial reports claimed the damage was inflicted by an anti-ship missile fired from land, similarly to what happened in October last year when UAE Navy vessel HSV Swift was hit by a modified C802 cruise missile in the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's coast.
The attacked vessel is one of the four Al Madinah-class frigates built for the Saudi Navy in the 80's.
Saudi officials later confirmed the attack adding that Houthi fighters carried out the attack using "suicide boats", English language news site Al Arabiya reported.
Officials said that one of the boats struck into the rear of the ship causing an explosion that killed two and injured three other sailors. The other suicide boats were neutralized.
This is at least the third Houthi attack on navy vessels operating in the Bab el Mandeb strait. Coalition warships are targeted by what appear to be Chinese-built C-802 anti-ship missiles. U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason was among the attacked ships.
Missiles failed to hit USS Mason on October 9 but the U.S. retaliated by attacking Houthi positions in Yemen with Tomahawk missiles fired from USS Nitze.
Posted on January 31, 2017 with tags Al Madinah, Houthi, Royal Saudi Navy, Yemen.


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Announcement: Central Bank of Ireland accepting AIFM applications
AUTHOR(S): Michael Jackson, Tara Doyle, Dualta Counihan, Joe Beashel, Anne-Marie Bohan, Shay Lydon, Liam Collins, Philip Lovegrove, Elizabeth Grace
PRACTICE AREA GROUP: Asset Management and Investment Funds
The Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") has announced that it is accepting applications for the authorisation of alternative investment fund managers ("AIFM"). It is the first European regulator to do so and this move will enable Irish-authorised AIFMs to avail of the AIFMD passport from 22 July 2013. Formal application forms, an "AIF Rulebook" and an AIFMD questions and answers document ("Q&A") clarifying important policy issues have all been published by the Irish regulator on its website and can be accessed at the following link: Central Bank Markets Update. We have highlighted below some key points arising from these publications by way of update.
AIFMD Q&A
Key points addressed in the Q&A include:
Non-EU managers of Irish AIFs
The Central Bank will authorise AIFs which have a non-EU AIFM. Any such non-EU AIFM will not be required to fulfil the obligations imposed on AIFMs immediately but will benefit from a transitional period, as follows:
Any qualifying investor alternative investment fund ("QIAIF") authorised before 22 July 2013 with a non-EU AIFM must ensure that it has an AIFM capable of carrying out all of the tasks of an authorised AIFM by 22 July 2015. Such QIAIFs may continue to operate under the existing regime during the transitional period.
Any QIAIF authorised after 22 July 2013 with a non-EU AIFM must ensure that the non-EU AIFM is capable of carrying out the tasks of an authorised AIFM within two years of the QIAIF's date of launch. Such QIAIFs must comply with the provisions of the AIF Rulebook that apply in the case of QIAIFs with a registered AIFM. This means that the QIAIF will have to comply with the AIFMD depositary requirements, with the important exclusion of the AIFMD depositary liability provisions.
The Central Bank may extend the transitional period if the AIFMD passport is not applied to non-EU AIFM in 2015 under the provisions of the AIFMD.
A retail investor AIF ("RIAIF") must have an authorised AIFM and therefore cannot have a non-EU AIFM until such non-EU AIFMs are permitted to be authorised under the AIFMD, which will not be until 2015 at the earliest. However, managers of RIAIFs will benefit from the twelve-month transitional period (see below).
Transitional arrangements
An existing EU AIFM must submit an application for authorisation within one year. During that one-year transitional period, AIFMs are expected to comply on a best efforts basis with the AIFMD as implemented by national law. The pre-existing Irish rules will continue to apply to the AIF until the AIFM is authorised.
Existing umbrella qualifying investor funds ("QIFs") can continue to launch new sub-funds during the transitional period and such sub-funds can operate under the existing rules until the AIFM is authorised. An existing EU AIFM can establish a new AIF during the transitional period and the AIF Rulebook will apply to such AIFs, with the exception of the AIFMD depositary liability regime, which will not apply to these new AIFs during the transitional period.
An AIFM which is subject to the transitional arrangements may delegate portfolio and risk management to a third country entity notwithstanding there are no co-operation agreements in place between the Central Bank and the third country regulator.
Transitional period for registered AIFMs
AIFMs managing AIFs with assets under management under the €100 million threshold (or €500 million threshold in the case of closed-ended funds that do not employ leverage) will not be obliged to register with the Central Bank on 22 July 2013 but will be afforded time to consider whether to opt into the AIFMD. These AIFMs will have until 21 July 2014 to register with the Central Bank.
Depositaries
Depositaries of existing AIFs must comply with the national law implementing the AIFMD from the date of authorisation of the AIFM of that AIF.
Definition of "qualifying investor"
The Q&A also clarifies that an Irish investor who is currently permitted to invest in a QIF may invest in a QIAIF notwithstanding that the investor does not fall within the definition of professional investor in the AIFMD. The AIF Rulebook defines the categories of investors who may invest in QIAIFs in identical terms to the qualifying investors in a QIF, to include investors who have been deemed to have, or who self-certify that they have, the appropriate expertise, experience and knowledge to invest. The marketing passport afforded by AIFMD authorisation will only apply to marketing to professional investors; marketing to other qualifying investors will be subject to the laws of the Member State into which the QIAIF is marketed.
The AIF Rulebook
The AIF Rulebook sets out all of the rules that will apply to RIAIFs, QIAIFs, AIFMs, AIF management companies, AIF administrators and AIF depositaries under the new regime. The format of the AIF Rulebook differs to the earlier draft versions, and the intention is that the Central Bank guidance in relation to the AIF regime will be published on the Markets Update section of the Central Bank website in future.
The Central Bank has published new application forms to be completed by AIFs and AIFMs. The Central Bank will accept applications for authorisation as AIFM from now, so that Irish AIFMs will be in a position to avail of the marketing passport from the earliest possible date ie, 22 July 2013.
The publication of the AIF Rulebook, application forms and Q&A ahead of the AIFMD implementation date by the Central Bank is a welcome development. The path is now clear for authorisation of Irish AIFMs enabling them to avail of a full European passport at the earliest possible opportunity. The Central Bank has also provided much needed clarity to other AIFMs who wish to avail of the transitional period afforded by the AIFMD.
Please get in touch with your usual Asset Management and Investment Funds Group contact or any of the contacts listed in this publication should you require further information in relation to the AIF / AIFM authorisation process or the AIFMD generally.
Visit the Matheson AIFMD page.
View our video about the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group Find out about Ireland's first Funds Law Course to be taught at university level