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Who is Tampa-Based Real Estate Mogul M. Patrick Carroll?
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Entrepreneur and real estate mogul M. Patrick Carroll has found extraordinary success. From an early age, real estate entrepreneur Michael Patrick Carroll has been able to leverage opportunities into unparalleled business triumphs.
Today, as the Founder of the eponymous CARROLL, headquartered in Atlanta, M. Patrick Carroll has overseen a business that has grown exponentially. CARROLL has found continued evolution, even during the challenging business climate brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis.
Today, CARROLL has more than $5 billion in managed assets and owns more than 30,000 commercial and residential properties along the East Coast of the United States. Since its founding in 2004, Michael Patrick Carroll's company has acquired more than $7.6 billion in assets and sold more than $4.2 billion. It has also developed more than $200 million in properties for its institutional partners, private investors and principals.
An Early Eye for Real Estate
With drive, determination and a savvy perspective on opportunity, he has become a titan of real estate. Born in 1979 in Richmond, Virginia, M. Patrick Carroll grew up in Tampa, Florida, and after high school, moved to Atlanta. There, he bought his first property, a condo, with a 100 percent mortgage. Shortly thereafter, he flipped this inaugural purchase. Seeing initial success, Michael Patrick Carroll soon began buying and flipping properties regularly.
Eventually, Carroll began building homes. By the age of 27, M. Patrick Carroll utilized profits to develop and sell a 150-unit housing development, just as the recession struck. With the liquidity he had gained, he bought three property management companies. These included the 5,000-unit Affordable Realty Management in 2009, the 9,000-unit Hediger Enterprises (2010), and the 8,000-unit Miles Properties Management Company (also 2010). Within a year, his company was overseeing 20,000 units across the United States.
Michael Patrick Carroll's acquisitions were initially focused in Florida and Georgia, but gradually expanded throughout the Southeast to North Carolina and South Carolina. Finance was always an area of fascination, and Carroll recalls reading a Forbes magazine list of billionaires and saw the high number of those listed who worked in real estate, private equity and hedge funds. He knew he wanted to be a part of that club.
What Sets CARROLL Apart
The company he runs is privately owned, which allows for more agility and adaptability. CARROLL and M. Patrick Carroll are not beholden to Boards of Directors or shareholders. Instead, he focuses on raising private capital from some of the world's largest institutional investors.
The structure also allows CARROLL to avoid the herd mentality that has others following the industry's largest players as trends emerge. M. Patrick Carroll embraces outside-the-box thinking. Instead of following the herd, his company often looks at what opportunities those migrations mean, and then he moves swiftly to fill the void. It also drives his hiring strategy. Michael Patrick Carroll tends to hire those who are ambitious go-getters and mavericks with the right mindset to work hard.
Carroll has a strategic approach to hiring that has helped to propel CARROLL forward. He recently told a Forbes roundtable of business leaders that one of the cores to his success has been "truly reflecting our resident base when we hire employees." His multigenerational leadership team includes those in ages representing everything from Generation X to Millennials. The hiring approach helps ensure broad representation around age, gender and ethnicity. "We don't want to simply cater to demographics, we want our workforce to mirror the markets we work in," he noted.
At CARROLL, there are four pillars – focus, integrity, passion and excellence. Those beliefs have been firmly on display during the pandemic. M. Patrick Carroll noted that the company, like many others, had to quickly shift to a remote operation. However, Carroll had believed the business was headed toward that workplace modality and the health crisis only accelerated that work out of necessity.
Michael Patrick Carroll made sure that he supported the partners, employees and those living and working in CARROLL properties during the pandemic. For Carroll, the pandemic hit home when he contracted COVID-19 himself.
Battling the illness has changed his perspective on the world and his leadership style. For one, Carroll has realized the importance of remaining calm, even when he may be afraid, to be supportive and set a good example for his three children, employees and investors.
Michael Patrick Carroll's Commitment To Philanthropy
He's also made a commitment to those affected by the pandemic. Throughout Atlanta, M. Patrick Carroll has donated to at least 10 food banks and sent meals to area hospitals. He's also contributed more than $100,000 to combat hunger among Atlanta families.
His generosity also includes partnering with The Heart Fund to provide Easter meals to families across Ukraine. M. Patrick Carroll even started a social media campaign, #billionaireschallenge, to encourage others with means to support those in need.
Philanthropy is an important part of Carroll's being. He donates to more than 50 charities worldwide with a particular focus on health, wellness and early childhood development. He is a Board member for the Boys and Girls Clubs in Tampa. Michael Patrick Carroll is also active in Habitat for Humanity. He has served on the National Multifamily Housing Council and the Urban Land Institute. He provides scholarships for students at his former high school, Jesuit High School in Tampa, and regularly serves as a motivational speaker for youth, looking to inspire them by sharing his story and emphasizing the importance of wellness. He encourages his employees to give back, too.
A Post-COVID Investment Strategy
As the economy returns to some semblance of normal post-pandemic, Carroll sees opportunities for evolution. In the last recession in the mid-aughts, Carroll grew his company by buying properties and companies that were considered distressed assets.
He sees the same happening today, with single-family home prices dropping as values plummet and owners struggle to pay their mortgages. In a post-COVID nation, however, the direction of migration is likely to be different.
After the Great Recession, people moved into urban areas, drawn by convenience and amenities, Carroll noted in a recent column. The opportunity, Carroll wrote, was in what was left behind – suburban property.
This time, consumers are going to continue to flock back to the suburbs, but are likely to expect the same conveniences and perks that city living provides. Buyers will be seeking no-maintenance living, heightening the value of multifamily rental properties. If work-from-home trends persist, the properties that can deliver will continue to be popular. Amenities that are walkable and access to large outdoor spaces will be drivers for success.
The remote workplace will mean an added emphasis on larger floor plans with flexible layouts that can accommodate the need for a home office.
In addition to looking for residential real estate opportunities, M. Patrick Carroll is thinking deeply about what the pandemic will mean for the way we live. Shopping centers and movie theaters, for example, are not very good long-term investment opportunities right now. Properties that cannot adapt to a more virtual way of living and working, with less reliance on physical space, are also likely to struggle, Carroll notes.
He's also looking at non-real estate opportunities, such as apps that improve efficiency and wellness products. He is particularly bullish on wellness products and services that help with overall health, diet and exercise that allow for remote access. With a fierce drive for success and an eye on opportunity, Michael Patrick Carroll is poised to continue his remarkable path of success.
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32 Lovely Ocean-Inspired Names For Your Baby Girl
These aquatically-inspired names are so beautiful.
by Jennifer Parris
Updated: Jan. 5, 2022
Originally Published: Aug. 8, 2021
When you have a baby, it feels like every cliché has come true. Your love for your little one is as high as the sky, and as deep as the ocean. Wait... ocean. Hmm. Ocean is kind of a cool name, and it's definitely different from all the other girls' names out there. So if you're feeling aquatically inspired, these 20 ocean names for girls might make you feel like every day is a day at the beach.
On the surface, Ocean is a beautiful baby name. But when you do a deeper dive, the name Ocean holds so much significance. Your baby has lived in water (well, amniotic fluid) for nine months, so the name ocean honors their origin. The ocean holds so much mystery and life, and you're just starting out on your own journey of discovery as well, learning something about your newborn each and every day. And when you combine all of that beautiful imagery of the ocean, it makes the idea of giving your baby a water-inspired name so magical.
If you love the name Ocean (or something that symbolizes it), get ready to swim through this list of 20 ocean names for girls that are bold and beautiful.
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If you like the word ocean, there's no reason to not name your daughter exactly that. The name Ocean has both French and Latin roots and means, yes, ocean. It's not as uncommon as you might think, but you can customize it with spellings like "Oshun" or even Oceana.
A gender-neutral name, Morgan is of Welsh and Old English origin. It means "circling sea" or "bright, white sea dweller." Either way, it has an ocean connotation. It also ranks still as one of the most popular names.
Kailani
Kailani is a beautiful girl's name that means "sea and sky." It's of Hawaiian origin and has a slew of spellings, such as Kaylani, Kaylanee, etc. And as a nickname, you can't get cuter than Kai.
Mira is a baby girl's name that has a few different meanings, one of which being "ocean." It can also mean "admirable," "peace," or even "female ruler," all of which might work well with the ocean theme. The name, which can also be written Mirra or Meera, is of Latin origin.
Come on, who wouldn't want to name their daughter after a brave and courageous Disney princess? Moana is a popular name in Polynesian countries like Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, etc. It's actually a gender-neutral name and means, "ocean," "sea," or "wide expanse of water." Who knows how far your girl will go with this great name? (Ha.)
Guinevere
While the name might conjure up images of the queen of Camelot, Guinevere is a proper Welsh girl's name. It means "white shadow" or "white wave," and has a lot of potential nicknames, like Gwyn.
Morwenna
If you're looking for an ocean-inspired name that's uncommon, Morwenna might be it. It means "waves of the sea" and is Welsh in origin. It's starting to see a comeback in Wales, where it originates, and is slowly making its way stateside.
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Your baby is the star of your life. That's what makes Maren, which means "star of the sea" so fitting. It derives from the Latin name for Mary, which can also be its nickname, as well as Ren.
Marina is a girl's name of Latin origin. It means "from the sea," and can be spelled Marinna, Maryna, Marynna, and so on. It's pronounced "mah-reen-ah," instead of "mar-ih-na."
If Guinevere seems too stuffy, you can always opt for Jennifer. Popular back in the late 70s to early 80s, Jennifer means "white wave" as well as "fair one." It's the Cornish version of Guinevere, which dates back to the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar. Alternatives are Jenna, Jenny, or Jennie.
It might not mean ocean, but the sweet-sounding Marley means "from the lake meadow." It can also mean "pleasant wood," and is a gender-neutral name. It was originally a surname in Old English, and then gained in popularity as a girls' name.
Onda is a girl's name which means "wave." It's from the Spanish word "onda" which is pronounced "on-dah," with the accent on the first syllable.
If you're a sushi fan, then you definitely know nori as edible seaweed. And while you wouldn't want to particularly name your child after marine plants and algae, the sweet-sounding Nori might be more palatable as a girl's name that represents the ocean.
Doris is an old-fashioned name (think Doris Day) that you might want to consider if you want an ocean-esque name. It means "gift of the ocean", and is of Green origin. And in Greek mythology, Doris is the daughter of Oceanus, god of the sea.
If you're looking for an Irish girl's baby name that means "ocean," look no further than Muriel, which is of Irish and Gaelic origin. It means "sparkling or shining sea."
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Of Greek origin, Nerissa is a girl's name and means "from the sea." It's not as common as its similarly-sounding sisters Melissa or Marisa, but it still has the same meaning.
A name meaning "of the sea," Maris is a girl's name. It is of Latin origin, and can be short for Marissa. It's pronounced "mar-is," with the stress on the first syllable.
Meaning "daughter of the sea," Cordelia is a lovely baby girl's name. It is of Latin and Celtic origin, and has seen a resurgence lately. And with its lovely nickname, Cora, you can't go wrong with Cordelia.
You don't have to do a deep dive to figure out what Blue means. Meaning the color blue, Blue is a gender-neutral name that is of English origin. While some celebs have used it as a middle name, it wasn't until The Carters (Beyonce and Jay-Z, that is), named their baby girl Blue Ivy that it really took off.
Where there's an ocean there's sure to be sand. So opt for this name that can be a nickname for Sandra. You can have fun with the spelling, like Sandee, Sandi, or Sandie.
So technically a sea is a smaller version of an ocean and is found where the ocean and the land meet, according to the National Ocean Service. Still, you can "see" why Sea would be a sweet name for your little sweetie. While you could simply call your baby Sea like the body of water that it is, you can accentuate that "a" and pronounce it like See-ah.
Sure, having a name that is as big as the ocean is impressive, but what about an ocean-inspired name that showcases the power of the water? Enter Cari, a girl's name of Turkish origin. It means "flows like water", which could also be cute for astrological water signs, like Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
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The baby name Kendra has multiple meanings, ranging from "magical" and "knowing". But the one that you might want to give to your water baby is literally just that — "water baby."
If you consider the Greek and Persian origins of the name Daria, then you might think that the baby girl's name means "maintains possessions well". (Heck, it might be a sign that your kiddo will keep their room clean in the future.) But it can also come from the word "darya", which means "sea."
Hailey is a pretty common baby girl's name, but if you remove some letters and switch around that "I," then you get Hali. Of Greek origin, it means "sea," and might inspire some serious Santorini vibes.
Samudra
It might not be a common girl's name, but Samudra should be on your list if you're looking for ocean-inspired baby names. It's a Sanskrit term that means "the gathering together of waters", and refers to the ocean or sea.
When you're thinking of an ocean name, you might not consider the actual movement of the water itself. The name, of Hebrew origin, means "to flow down", or "one who descends", both quite appropriate when you think of labor and delivery.
A gender-neutral name, Kairi is of Japanese origin. It means "sea", and is pronounced Kaa-iy-ree. Kairi entered the Top 1000 for baby names back in 2010, but hasn't washed back onto U.S. shores since then.
Maya is a baby girl's name that, depending upon its origin, has many potential meanings. In Greek, it's "good mother," and in Sanskrit, it means "illusion." But it's the Hebrew version that makes it a potential oceanic name for your little baby, because Maya is a derivative of Mayim, which means "water."
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As far as baby names that signify the ocean, Shui is a shoe-in. It means "coming from water" and is of Chinese origin. It's pronounced "shoo-ee", which is so cute to say.
Looking to give your little lady a name that shows that your love is as big as the ocean? Well, then consider Yara. It means "water lady" and is of Brazilian and Arabic descent.
The "mana" is strong with the name Kaimana. It's comprised of two powerful parts: Kai which means "sea" and mana, which means "power." Put 'em together, and you get Kaimana, which equates to "powerful sea."
If you're looking for baby girl names that are ocean-inspired, these names can make a big splash!


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The chameleonic actor looks back on what she went through to get to this point, with standout roles in The Whale and She Said and even a pop album on the way.
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Is there anything Samantha Morton can't do? She's played a Scottish raver, a medieval queen, a mute laundress, a child-murderer, a crime-fighting psychic, and the leader of a postapocalyptic gang of survivors. She's even about to have a stab at the unlikely role of pop star—fronting a synthpop duo with Richard Russell, the boss of Adele's label, XL Recordings. "I hope it's not a midlife crisis!" she says, letting out a husky laugh. "But it's been just like a dream come true to just get to make some music."
Earlier this year Morton starred as the cunning 16th-century queen Catherine de Medici in the Starz series The Serpent Queen. But she also crafted gem-like supporting roles in two much-talked about current movies. In Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, she has just one riveting scene as the ex-wife devastated by the deterioration of her ex-husband. In She Said, Maria Schrader's adaptation of the Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey investigation into Harvey Weinstein, Morton plays Zelda Perkins, a former Miramax employee who accused Weinstein of exposing himself to her and trying to rape her coworker, before signing, and then breaking, an NDA. Weinstein has denied all allegations.
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She Said represented something deeply personal for Morton, both because she'd crossed paths with the real Perkins and because she's wrangled with plenty of industry abuse and misogyny in her own career. "I've been in situations that hopefully would never happen again today," Morton tells me by video from London, where she's shooting the upcoming Paramount+ series The Burning Girls. Her hair is scraped back from her face rather severely, but her appearance is softened by an irrepressible smile and a frilly white blouse that could be a leftover from one of her many costume dramas.
"I haven't gone on the record talking about those instances and I think the fact that Zelda did…" She shakes her head as she tries to find the right words to talk about Perkins and other whistleblowers. "The reality of living through that for those women must be painful and vulnerable and frightening. You're going to risk everything to speak your truth, and to protect others, to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. Not everybody deep deep down has that conviction or those morals they might think they do."
Morton has publicly discussed some of her Hollywood disappointments, like losing out on a leading role in the 2005 Miramax movie The Brothers Grimm, despite the wishes of director Terry Gilliam***.*** "Harvey had said, apparently, that I was unfuckable, so I wasn't going to be cast," she says with a shrug. She believes that Weinstein's disdain for her has a nasty backstory, however.
"We have to go back to when Harvey saw me in a [1997] movie called Under the Skin," Morton says, recalling that he offered her a part in a Miramax movie that she found misogynistic. She turned it down. "I was told, 'You don't say no to Harvey…he will never employ you again. And he will make your life a misery if you don't do this film.'" After that, she says, "Every movie that I was in that the Weinstein Company or Miramax picked up distributed, or I was potentially going to be involved in, if a director wanted to cast me, I would then end up with a letter from said director saying, 'I'm so sorry, I'm not able to cast you.'" Or if she was cast, she says, Weinstein would have her face and name obscured in the marketing materials. "It's interesting when you look at the actors that have taken the roles that I've turned down—where their careers are at, and where mine is at, and who did the cover of Vanity Fair," she says quietly.
"I was bullied by many, many producers, not just Harvey Weinstein. I have been fired because I wouldn't get my breasts out. I've been fired because I wouldn't sleep with my leading man." A smile creeps over her face as she remembers a questionnaire she recently filled out for the Screen Actors Guild about abusive experiences in the industry. "It was like: Has this ever happened to you? Yes, yes, yes, yes." She mimics checking box after box.
"I've had to come to terms with a lot of my treatment, but what do we do about it now?" she asks, her grin morphing into a grimace. If she comes forward with specifics, she says, it will hang over her husband and children, not to mention the perpetrators' families. But she's glad she can even contemplate it. "It's interesting that we're even having this conversation. It's amazing that we're having this conversation."
Morton's chaotic childhood—she grew up in and out of children's homes and foster families in the UK—gives her a broader context for all this, along with a skepticism about quick fixes. "Having grown up in care, the social services and the police were in cahoots, knowing that there was abuse happening and just protecting each other. It keeps happening," she says. "So we have to call it out and do our best to protect people and, and hope that change within these systems can happen, you know?" As a troubled teen, she found an outlet in a local youth acting workshop. By 16, she had moved to London, where she was cast in a string of British TV series such as Cracker and Band of Gold, playing pregnant teens and young prostitutes. Within a few years Morton had become a rising star in the booming independent-film world of the 1990s, working with the likes of Lynne Ramsay (as despairing wild child Morvern Callar), Jim Sheridan (as In America's radiantly hopeful immigrant mother) and Woody Allen (a mute old soul in Sweet and Lowdown), and nabbing two Oscar nominations along the way.
She moved to New York in the late '90s, when Aronofsky was first forging his uncompromising reputation with Pi. "It was on my bucket list that I'd love to work for him," she says. When the script for The Whale came along, she was offered the chance to audition either for Mary (the ex-wife of Charlie, Brendan Fraser's schoolteacher character) or Liz (the caregiver, ultimately played by Hong Chau). The latter was a much bigger part, but she opted for Mary. Now a single mom, Mary stews in sadness and resentment at her ex-husband, who left her for a male student many years before. "I had never played someone who had issues with alcohol, so that was a new role," she says. "And I've worked in theater, but had not been in a film that's based on a play. So that was interesting to me—the concept of the [confined] space that we had to work in." Finally, it was the prospect of working with Fraser that cemented her interest in the movie. "He has integrity, and he was a very, very earnest person. Very safe and kind. And all those ingredients made it a no-brainer. Like: Yes, please!"
I ask her what it was like to film the surprising moment of physical connection between Mary and Charlie. "The entire experience was very moving and very kind of in the moment," she says. "When you're playing someone that hasn't seen someone they love for a very long time, because of pain, anger, heartache, rejection, hurt—the whole thing was very sad. She loved him very, very much, and he left her, and her pride was hurt that he left her for a young man." She says her performance was "anchored in alcoholism—she was drinking heavily due to the pain of everything, not really managing her life very well."
At 45, Morton finds herself gravitating toward creating her own projects. Along with the album she's finishing, Morton is working on sequels to The Unloved, the semi-autobiographical 2009 movie she directed about a young girl abused within Britain's child-welfare system. She'd intended it to be the first of a trilogy, but even after it won UK's BAFTA award, she has struggled to get the ball rolling with the second installment, which is called Starlings. "It is about when you leave the care system when you're just thrown out to fend for yourself at age 16––and in my case, put in a homeless hostel."
The final film in the trilogy would focus on the mother's perspective: "how it was being a woman in the '70s and the '80s, not having any rights when you divorce your husband who's abusive. Losing your home. Losing your children because you don't have a home. Having a breakdown. How incredibly tough it is to be a woman and how judgmental society is towards women." She's also written an expanded version of her mother's story, which she hopes to transform into a TV show. "Long-form television can really go into the characters and look at the systems that are broken. Because hey, they're still broken, and they're worse. So let's just wave a flag and go, Hello, this is happening!"
Morton quips about how, as a society, we love to make shows about royals instead of seeing ordinary people as the heroes of their own stories. But she also thinks it's worth remembering that the royals are actually ordinary people, despite the palaces and pageantry, who deserve privacy. "I have a problem with The Crown, because I think: Those people are real people, and they didn't give you the right!" she says indignantly. "If somebody decided, I want to make a film about Samantha Morton and her family—not that they would, you know! But you'd think that I'd be able to say, in a court, Please don't make it." She shakes her head. "I just won't watch it. It's no disrespect to Peter Morgan or those actors. I just go, Why? These are real people." Morton has played a few royals herself, including her current gig as Catherine de Medici, but the difference for her is that The Serpent Queen is, she says, "a window into the past. If we can learn from the past, maybe we can change the future."
At the end of our conversation, I ask Morton if she ever feels like an outsider in Hollywood. "Am I an outsider?" she asks, sounding slightly on edge. "Do you think I'm an outsider?" I alter my question slightly, wondering instead how she feels about the culture of Hollywood after all her complicated industry experiences. "I love it!" she says earnestly. "For all its flaws, for all its fuckups, it is glorious, because we all get to make-pretend. We're like kids, but we make sense of it." She says she still cries every time she goes on It's a Small World at Disneyland. "Hey, maybe I'm just a walking contradiction, but you have to have that innocence, don't you?"
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At first, it may be difficult to determine if a loved one is the victim of nursing home neglect and abuse. However, as you dig around, you could come to find that this is exactly what is happening.
After speaking with the staff, focus on finding a new nursing facility for your loved one. You don't want to leave them where they are, hoping that the staff changes their way.
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Автор ідеї: Дарія ДейніченкоШоуранер проєкту: Дарія ДейніченкоКерівник проєкту: Анна ПоповаКреативний продюсер проєкту: Анастасія ГолтвенкоРежисери проєкту: Віктор Сухобрус, Андрій Хархаліс, Андрій Мозговий, Ярослав Ластовецький, Євген Чернишов, Ліза Хоменко та іншіОператори проєкту: Олександр Гребенніков, Олександр Коновалов, Дмитро ЧереваньСценаристи: Олена Сухобрус, Олександр Куколенко, Світлана Клюка, Світлана Козирєва, Ольга Мурашко, Олександр Штефан та іншіВиконавчий продюсер проєкту: Анастасія Красикова

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The cob_navigation stack provides different navigation packages for Care-O-bot.
Which launch file for which purpose?
The cob_navigation stack provides configuration and launch files for running the navigation stack on a Care-O-bot in a number of common configurations. For example, the cob_navigation_local package holds files that configure the move_base node to operate in an odometric frame, and the cob_mapping_slam package holds files that configure the robot for SLAM. These configuration files are intended for use as building blocks for applications that wish to use autonomous navigation as a component.
Applications: These are launch files that are meant to run as standalone applications. They start all necessary components that are needed to run autonomous navigation. Applications have the extension *.launch.
Building Blocks: These are launch files that are intended for inclusion in applications. They can be mixed and matched in order to make applications with similar components that perform different functions. Building Blocks launch files have the extension *.xml.
Configuration Files: These are YAML files that hold common configuration options for the navigation stack on the Care-O-bot. They can be included in launch files for applications.
Configuration files (except for the package specific ones) can be found in cob_navigation_config.
The source code of the simple linear navigation is in cob_linear_nav.
There are a lot of different launch files in the different packages in the cob_navigation stack. Which package and which launch file should be used for which purpose?
If you want to create a map by driving around with the robot using tele-operation, you should use 2dslam.launch in cob_mapping_slam. To save a map, use the map_saver command-line utility provided by map_server.
If you want to create a map and simultaneously use autonomous navigation choose one of the launch files in cob_navigation_slam. To save a map, use the map_saver command-line utility provided by map_server.
If you already have a map use the launch files in cob_navigation_global.
If you only want to navigate in the local (odometric) frame of the robot use cob_navigation_local.
There also exist different navigation algorithms (or modes) in the cob_navigation_* packages, from which you can choose. It also depends on the application you are targeting, which of those modes is suited the best.
2dnav_ros_tr.launch is best suited for environments that are highly dynamic, meaning there are e.g. a lot of people walking around. It uses a differential drive like mode, meaning that it turns the robot's front in driving direction. This is helpful for avoiding obstacles and providing safety functions as e.g. the emergency stop using the front Sick Laser Scanner. However, for doing fast repositioning to the side this mode is not well suited, because it does not fully utilise the omnidirectional capability of the robot. You send the goals via rviz on the move_base_simple/goal topic.
2dnav_ros_dwa.launch is suited for almost all environments (being dynamic or static). It uses a full omnidirectional mode which allows for fast and accurate repositioning. Its drawback is the decrease in safety functionality in highly dynamic environments. You send the goals via rviz on the move_base_simple/goal topic.
2dnav_linear.launch is well suited for obstacle free, static environments and quick'n'dirty repositioning. It does not have any obstacle avoidance, so other nodes have to do this (as is done with the cob_collision_velocity_filter, which is started by default for all Care-O-bots and rob@works). It is not suited for dynamic environments or environments where no straight path to the goal is available. You send the goals via rviz on the move_base_linear_simple/goal topic.
2dnav_ipa.launch and 2dnav_ipa_extloc.launch each provide a differential like and a full omnidirectional navigation mode as well. The respective topics for rviz are move_base_diff_simple/goal and move_base_simple/goal.


When Waterdeep the greatest city on the Sword Coast is threatened on all sides by powerful forces Laeral Silverhand summons heroes from across the world to fight in the deadliest locations and defeat the enemy before they reach the city gates.
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The reason for this Post is to give the reader a sense of the Observer-Observed and their point of reference in which this Paradigm was created up to 2010. Notice, the Observer—Observed—Frame of Reference is a continually changing Holon. Likewise, the contents of the Paradigm are also in a continually changing State.
THE OBSERVED: This posting contains the direction of Wing Pon's Maturity and his Observations, represent the contents of the Observed in writing this Paradigm, which Wing Pon's intellect has taken him for the last 55 years.
THE OBSERVER: The Observer is written in the Biography page and in the posting, What is Wing Pon's Being Experience.
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Writings that represent Wing Pon's earliest thinking that leads to the present Paradigm.
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Evans Karani: Kiambu Man Recounts Killing Girlfriend, Attempting Suicide
By Richard Kamau / Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 06:49AM / Leave a Comment / Tags: Catherine Nyokabi, Evans Karani
A Kiambu businessman arrested in connection with the death of his ex-girlfriend allegedly confessed to the murder, revealing that he also tried to take his own life.
According to police, Evans Karani, 38, said he killed Catherine Nyokabi, 24, on Wednesday last week and dumped her body near a forest hoping it would be eaten by wild animals.
Karani reportedly told detectives that early last week he had unsuccessfully tried to convince Ms Nyokabi to delete a photo of her alleged new lover from her phone because it was hurting him.
When she declined, Karani started hatching a plan to kill her. He initially wanted to murder his married love rival but later changed his mind.
On the material day, the suspect phoned Nyokabi and asked her to meet him so that they could settle their differences.
Nyokabi, a mother of a six-year-old boy, agreed and even asked for money for a hairdresser.
They would later meet in Ndarugo area of Kiambu County. They hopped inside his Nissan Wingroad, registration number KCE 920V, where Karani had bottles of her favourite wine.
When he realised Nyokabi was inebriated, Karani told police that he strangled her with his belt. He then reclined her seat and used a rope to finish the mission.
Karani then drove to Tola Estate in Witeithie, Juja constituency to dump the body but his car got stuck in mud near Bob Harris area.
In a bid to get rid of the evidence, Karani mutilated the body using a knife and tried to cover it with mud.
The following day, Karani said he tried to commit suicide by ingesting poison but this did not work. When the pain became unbearable, he drank a packet of milk to induce vomiting.
He would later confide to a close friend that he had killed Nyokabi and that the act was haunting him. The friend called the police who traced the suspect to his hideout in Githurai Kimbo.
Investigators told Nation they made a breakthrough in the case after the suspect led them to where he disposed of the murder weapons.
Karani on Monday appeared before Thika Law Courts virtually from Juja Police Station, and asked Magistrate Oscar Wanyaga to speed up his sentence.
He will remain in lawful custody for another 14 days until police complete their investigations.
The matter will come up for mention on May 3.
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It's now officially Sunday, and I should probably at least try and sleep soon.
HOWEVER...Since I am incredibly noisy I would be interested to hear where you all live, and what the best thing about that place is.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I might use the responses to help plan future holidays.
I think I've mentioned a few times that I'm in Paris. For me, the best thing about Paris is the cafe/restaurant culture. Not the food, but the fact that the vast vast majority of places will have seating outside, sometimes simply on the pavement. Even a large number of cheap places will have a small awning with heaters, and it's very common to have people eating and drinking outside even in the dead of winter (especially since you can't smoke inside). There's something very lovely about sitting at your (tiny) table with your (tiny) chairs, drinking your wine or eating whilst in your coats. It's definitely not something that isn't very common in London.
What do you like most about where you are?
EDIT: Added benefit: you get neighbours repeatedly making noises exactly like a donkey at 0500. Why? Well why not.


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Last year was a tipping point for cloud business applications. The cloud-centric IT landscape unleashed major forces for change in legacy systems, business models, and IT infrastructure management. The cloud market will continue to grow at a sweltering pace in 2017 as organizations shift cloud efforts into high gear for both core business systems as well as their customer-facing applications.
Cloud business applications have changed the playing field of technology deployment. IDC forecasts that 40 percent of IT spend will be for cloud-oriented technologies by the end of 2018, and 45-50 percent of all spend will be for cloud delivered models by 2020.
Hyper-convergence is a type of infrastructure that integrates computing, storage, networking and virtualization resources with other technologies supported by a single vendor. Industry pundits are validating what cloud service providers have been experiencing for some time now – only hyper-converged cloud platforms can ultimately keep up with fast-paced growth that we will see in the future. Gradually, cloud service providers' next-generation cloud ecosystems will be built on a hyper-converged architecture that will be able to remarkably speed up scalability and shave off maintenance costs. The pre-integrated, consolidated computation and storage resources of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions help cloud solutions run faster and scale further. It is well suited for new workloads that demand rapid and automated scale-up and scale-out.
Enterprises are paying more attention to the new trend of using containers with virtual machines. Container technology is an approach to software development that standardizes and packages pieces of code to they can quickly plugged into different programs. As microservices and containerized workloads go mainstream, new categories such as container management, security, logging, monitoring are driving conversations about public cloud deployments. Containers-as-a-service is well positioned to emerge as the fastest growing delivery model in the public cloud. We will likely see container-driven software code management rise along with Linux containers that may soon become available in most of the public and private cloud platforms in 2017.
As hybrid clouds become more popular, many organizations would benefit from the freedom to painlessly migrate from one cloud to another. With new lift-and-shift tools, cloud migration will become easier in 2017. These tools help organizations implement and transition more smoothly from public to private clouds, or vice versa. Lift-and-shift migration tools will accelerate the rate of cloud migration in 2017. For instance, instead of just dumping existing apps onto public cloud, organizations will be able to use lift-and-shift migration solutions to re-calibrate apps to take advantage of cloud's elasticity.
Today's average company manages at least six versions of cloud, with three in a production environment and the rest in development or test areas. As organizations continue to deploy a number of clouds across various providers to meet particularly unique requirements or for risk mitigation, IT teams are beginning to develop the cloud management headache called "cloud sprawl." That's why in 2017, enterprises will increasingly rely on new cloud management platforms and services to manage various cloud instances across providers, audit cloud functions, and monitor and control the platforms. Along with this trend, organizations will also see the rise of a new role: cloud service broker, a service provider that will help define and determine the optimum approach to cloud management and security.
Several enterprises moved to the cloud to gain advantage over their competitors and now need to use cloud business applications. The sheer flexibility, scalability and cost-friendly nature of cloud business applications has started to attract consumers from a wide range of industries, including aviation, healthcare, and automobile. With the largest commercial organizations gradually tapping into cloud services, cloud adoption is expected to increase to a greater extent in 2017.


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Doctors outnumber nurses 2:1
The number of nurses is much lower than the demand, according to the estimations of the Order of Nurses. There are 7,000 nurses who provide direct care to patients out of 11,500.
The order's estimations show that there are at least 17,000 doctors. "This means that for every nurse there are more than two doctors. The standard is that for each doctor there should be four nurses," said Nuhad Dumit, Chief of the order.
There are over 12,000 hospital beds distributed across all regions. "These beds need 24,000 nurses, which means we need an additional 14,000 nurses," she said. Each bed requires care by two nurses. Currently, one nurse looks after at least ten patients. "This is an unacceptable rate, because nurses are not being able to fulfill all the needs of patients, which would jeopardize their condition," she said.
According to Dumit, one of the challenges facing the industry is some doctors and hospital administrations who are not giving enough authority to specialized nurses to practice what they have studied in universities and vocational schools. "If they were to do so, there is a chance that the risk of mortality would be reduced," she said.
Better patient care means patients will not go back to the hospital, which would reduce hospital costs. "Some hospitals consider that the nurse is a cost instead of a saving," she said.
Another challenge is the low number of graduates and competition from other specializations. Last year, 400 nurses graduated from universities and almost 1,000 from vocational institutions. The number will rise to 550 this year from universities. Dumit said: "Sadly, the number of nurses is not growing as fast as the growth in the number of hospital beds." The number of graduates from vocational schools is much higher than from universities. There are 19 college programs and over 100 vocational institutions that teach nursing.
"The Lebanese University has been asked to add more branches in the north because they are not enough," she said. Most of the nurses work in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, according to the order's estimations. "The farther away you go from cities, the fewer the number of nurses becomes," she said.
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End the collective punishment of Kashmiris
The Muslim Council of Britain is deeply concerned about the worsening political and humanitarian situation in the valley of Kashmir. In the last few weeks there have been unprecedented peaceful public demonstrations in which millions have participated and demanded freedom and the withdrawal of Indian forces from the valley. The Indian government has responded by imposing an indefinite curfew and by imprisoning popular leaders without charge. There is currently one Indian army soldier for every ten citizens in Kashmir.
The valley has also been subjected to an economic blockade by a small group of fundamentalists and the government is taking no action to prevent the blockade or to punish these acts of criminality.
The imposition of an indefinite curfew and the economic blockade of the valley has led Kashmir to the brink of humanitarian disaster. Access to hospitals is impossible. There are severe shortages of medicines and food. Schools and colleges remain shut. The media remains suspended. Any civil activity is prohibited. A shoot-on-sight policy is operated by the Indian forces. Scores of people have been killed in the last few days. A reign of terror is being let loose on people.
Dr Mohammad Abdul Bari, the Secretary General said, "The Muslim Council of Britain expresses grave concern about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and political situation in Kashmir. The MCB urges the government of India to immediately lift the curfew and the economic blockade, withdraw its troops from all civilian areas forthwith and allow the people of Kashmir to exercise their democratic rights to assembly and free speech.
We call upon the government of India to recognize, respect and implement the wishes of the people of Kashmir."


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Collecting Postage Due Stamps
by Bob MacLachlan | Mar 30, 2017 | General
Postage Due Stamps came about as a response to mail sent with insufficient postage. The extra postage due is indicated by a stamp added to an underpaid piece of mail indicating the amount of extra postage due.
The first Postage Due Stamp was issued by France in 1859. Many other nations followed, including the United States Post Office in 1879. Postal regulations called for the postal clerk to affix a postage due stamp to an envelope in order to indicate insufficient postage and how much money the addressee had to pay to receive the mail. Thus came into being the first series of Postage Due Stamps with denominations from 1-cent to 50-cents in 7 denominations.
Since postage due stamps are almost always used only within a single country, they are usually quite simple in design, mostly consisting of a large numeral, and an inscription saying "postage due", "porto", etc.; often there is no country name. As is the case with regular issue stamps, a variety of values may be needed to make up specific amounts.
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) addressed the problem of underpaid foreign mail. The UPU decided that unpaid or insufficiently paid international letters should be marked with a "T" standing for the French word "Taxe," and from April 1, 1879 the amount missing in centimes should also be indicated in black.
Some argue that postage due stamps are actually a label, as they have no value of their own. Labels have often been used to collect money for other purposes, such as magazine subscriptions. However, in the case of Postage Due Stamps, they are a Post Office issue and are related to the cost of sending letters and parcels through the mails. This certainly qualifies them as an item of interest to stamp collectors.
Actually there is no reason for mint postage dues to reach private hands as they have no use beyond the postal clerks assessing postage for mail received, and are of no value to postal patrons in paying the appropriate postage, but sold to collectors they were. In the case of a special printing of U.S. Postage Dues on soft porous paper, the combined catalog value for these 7 stamps is $86,000, and there are no catalog notes to indicate that they were ever used.
The number of special printing postage dues actually sold into the philatelic inventory is shrouded in mystery. In an article by William E. Mooz, on the 1c appearing in the Philatelic Chronicle No. 170, May 1996, Mr. Mooz offers evidence to support his theory that the actual number of true Special Printings sold was significantly lower than the reported figures. For example, the 1c (J9), Mr. Mooz estimates 500 sold, but suggest that as many as 400 purchased by G. B. Calman were destroyed to reduce the supply and increase the value of his remaining stock. Confusing the matter, it is widely accepted that nearly 9,000 1c stamps sold by the post office as Special Printings were actually regular issues (J1-J7).Printed by the American Bank Note Company, today the stamps have a catalog value of over $3000 in mint condition. Collected used the stamps value $340.00
The postage due stamp is not always affixed to individual letters. In instances of business mail, the total due might be summed, and the appropriate stamps added to the top letter in a bundle, or to a bundle's wrapper. But most were affixed to individual letters and yet postal covers bearing valid postal-used postage due stamps tied together by a dated cancellation or other postal markings with a postage stamp on cover are somewhat rare and very few have survived on a wrapper.
Collecting postage due stamps of the United States is relatively simple and quit affordable (outside of J8-J14 as discussed above). The only tools needed are a perforation gauge and watermark fluid. Postage due issues have 5 basic designs as noted by the Scott catalog, with color, perforation and watermark characteristics to add variety, for a total of 104 issues and maybe 30 minor varieties denoting color shade differences.
Postage due stamps were used for just over 100 years. The last postage due stamps went to press in November 1985. Two changes brought about the demise of postage due stamps. The USPS required prepayment of postage in full. Thus, most mail was returned to sender for proper postage. And when mail was forwarded to the recipient, they moved to using rubber stamps and other auxiliary markings to track the postage due.
A second section of U.S. Postage Due Issues is the Parcel Post Postage Due Stamps of 1912. The parcel-post law authorized the Postmaster General, with the consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission, to issue special stamps for postage on Parcel Post Mail. Accompanying Parcel Post Postage Due Stamps were a logical accompaniment. What seemed like a good idea was not and in 1913 an ICC order allowed for regular postage to be used for parcels and the Parcel Post stamps were discontinued after the existing stock of stamps was exhausted.
For further exploration of the subject, following is an interesting reference:
A PDF article that includes a section of the Parcel Post Postage Dues https://postalmuseum.si.edu/symposium2011/papers/charles-postage_due.pdf
The problem of insufficient postage on letters not paying the correct fee had existed since the creation of regular postal systems, it was greatly heightened by the advent of postage stamps, that allowed customers to make their own decisions about the correct amount to pay, without the assistance of a knowledgeable postal clerk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due
How postage due stamps can spice up a worldwide collection: Stamp Collecting Basics http://www.linns.com/news/world-stamps-postal-history/2016/november/stamp-collecting-basics-postage-due-stamps-worldwide-collection.html#
Early Rural Free Delivery Mail Service Covers
by Bob MacLachlan | Jan 10, 2016 | General
SHOP EARLY RURAL FREE DELIVERY MAIL SERVICE COVERS
R.F.D. – Rural Free Delivery was, in its day, one of the great social equalizers bringing to rural America something that had been enjoyed by urban America for years, delivery of the mail. John Wanamaker, of the Philadelphia Department Store fame, who served as Postmaster General from 1889 to 1893 had the very logical idea that it made more sense for one person to deliver mail than for 50 people to ride into town to collect their mail. He cited business logic and social philosophy as reasons to give rural dwellers free delivery
Of equal significance was the political pressure of the National Grange, National Farmers' Congress, and State Farmers' Alliance advocating for the farmers and rural America. The actual implementation of Rural Free Delivery came about under the administration of William L. Wilson, Postmaster from 1895 to 1897. On October 1, 1896, rural free delivery (RFD) service began in Charles Town, Halltown, and Uvilla in West Virginia, Postmaster General Wilson's home state.
Since the RFD carriers simply delivered mail and picked it up to take to the post office in town, these early letters do not carry postal markings to identify them as RFD mail.
However, in August 1900 carriers began marking the mail picked up on their routes with pencil cancels. Within a few years carriers were outfitted with rubber stamps bearing R.F.D. the post office town name and the date plus a bar cancel and a number (known as a Doane Cancel). Use of these cancelling devices was discontinued by June of 1903.
Postal bureaucracy was simpler in those days, but just as important, as the charge to be responsible for the mail was to be taken seriously. Here is a page from the Form 1977 of June, 1913 entitled INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS FOR THE RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION. Included is a listing of the possible reasons for not being considered to be admitted to the exam, including a person not a citizen or not owing allegiance to the United States, handicapped persons including insanity, epilepsy, and TB, or one addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess.
Those persons chosen to take the examination and passing signed a CERTIFICATE OF THE OATH OF MAIL CONTRACTOR AND CARRIERS required by Act of Congress of March 5, 1874
Tendering ones resignation from the post of rural letter carrier was done with the Post Office Department form 2520-P which was mailed as official Business bearing penalty mail postage exemption.
Finally, here is a photocopy of a letter from the Postmaster General in 1897 to a Wm.B. Gaitree designating Mr. Gaitree a special agent for the experiment of rural free delivery. Payment is to be $5.00 per day plus up to $4.00 per day for expenses. Employment will cease with the expiration of the special appropriation intended to fund the experiments in rural free delivery.
History is littered with postal and other enterprises that foundered on the rocks of an administration change caused by a different party taking office, RFD survived and expanded beyond humble beginning in West Virginia until in 2012, nearly 41 million homes and businesses were served by the Postal Service's rural letter carriers.
The USPS Souvenir Page Program
by Bob MacLachlan | May 1, 2015 | General
Collectors of USPS Souvenir Pages combine into one collection the stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office, together with a First Day of Issue Cancellation, and information about the stamp issue. This third factor, the reasoning for the stamp issue, or the historical or social significance of the stamp, is just as important now that stamps feature more than just dead presidents and founding fathers, as important as they are to any stamp collection.
The Postal Service began the USPS Souvenir Page Program with the Family Planning Stamp in March 1972. This Souvenir Page (#72-0) was only available at the ASDA Stamp Show in Madison Square Garden, New York City and at the Main New York City Post office on 8th Avenue across from The Garden.
The next month, the USPS initiated a subscription service, beginning with the National Park Series. The Postal Service had observed collecting interest in Stamp Posters with First Day Cancels produced by enterprising collectors and dealers who began affixing stamps to the Post Office produced announcement posters and having them first day cancelled. The decision was made by the USPS to begin a program of their own and, as they say, the rest is history.
Production began with about 2,000 of the Family Planning Souvenir Page sold and 10,000 of the first four subscription pages (#72-1, 72-2, 72-3, and 72-4). Today the Family Planning Page is 'rare' and the first Subscription four are 'scarce' Since the initial introduction of USPS Souvenir Pages there are now over 1,000 types, which is enough to provide years of collecting activity.
A challenging element of the segment of the hobby is to include 'Unofficals' or 'Poster Bulletins', the forerunners of Souvenir Pages
The USPS produced announcement posters for every US postal issue, including stamped envelopes, postal cards and aerogrammes. Intended for display on Post Office bulletin boards from 1959 (49-Star Flag) through 1981 (Rachel Carson), the bulletins were also made available to collectors. They are 8 x 10-1/2 inches, and were printed on lesser quality paper without watermarks. At first the posters were printed in gray but soon the USPS began to print them in a single color similar to the color of the stamp. Posters include an image of the stamp(s) along with information about the stamp and it's subject.
Since stamp collectors affixed their own stamps to these early posters, many possibilities exist including plate blocks, zip blocks, tab singles, coil line pairs, and combinations with other stamps. Unofficial Souvenir Pages were created for most US postal issues, including stamped envelopes, postal cards and aerogrammes. They were created on both folded and unfolded posters and as with Stamp Posters , unfolded examples command a premium.
There are more than 1,800 souvenir pages listed in the Scott Specialized Catalog of United States Stamps & Covers. In the 2001 Scott U.S. Specialized Catalog, the Hemingway souvenir page is listed as Scott SP857 with a value of $1.60, one of the lowest values of all the pages. The 2015 catalog value has increased to $4.75, so clearly there is increasing interest in the items. The 1972 8¢ Family Planning page (SP208), had a 2001 value of $500 and in the 2014 catalog the value has risen to $675.00.
Collectors interested in starting a Souvenir pages collection can enroll in the USPS subscription program through USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services, Box 219424, Kansas City, MO 64121-9424. Details also are available by calling toll-free 800-782-6724.
Washington Press, the publishers of the White Ace Album and ArtCraft First Day Cover Cachets, produces an album for collecting Souvenir Pages. The White Ace USPS Souvenir Pages Album is the best custom designed album for collecting these popular post office issues.
White Ace USPS Souvenir Page Album
The iHobb.com listing of Souvenir Pages for sale
Chicago Century of Progress Exposition's Stamp Collecting Legacy
by Bob MacLachlan | Jan 2, 2015 | General
No singular even in America during the 20th Century had more philatelic content than the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. Originally intended to commemorate Chicago's past, the Century of Progress Exposition came to symbolize hope for Chicago's and America's future in the midst of the Great Depression.
This was Chicago's second world's fair and as Chicago had done with its 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the Century of Progress Exposition responded to an atmosphere of economic, political, and social crisis, shaped this time by the economic recession that followed America's victory in World War I, the ensuing Red Scare, Chicago's 1919 Race Riots, and Chicago's notorious gangster violence.
Chicago held the Century of Progress Exposition to celebrate the 100thanniversary of its founding, in 1833. To mark the occasion, the United States Post Office released two commemorative stamps, a 1-cent stamp (Scott #728) depicting Fort Dearborn an early outpost that was used to protect the area's first settlers and a 3-cent stamp (Scott #729) depicting the Federal Building, symbolizing Chicago's place in the future.
Each stamp was issued in the traditional sheet of 100 perforated stamps. An additional souvenir sheet was issued for each stamp (Scott #730 and #731), consisting of a sheet of 25 stamps imperforate. the second stamp being the purple three cent Chicago Century of Progress: Federal Building stamp. The exposition highlighted the progress that Chicago and the United States had made in technology and other fields over the preceding 100 years. The design of the stamp features the Federal Building, one of the iconic structures featured at the Exposition.
A third issue for the Century of Progress Exposition was the airmail issue known today as the 'baby zeph' Scott #C18, this new stamp had the same dimensions and printing characteristics as the previous three zeppelin stamps issued in 1930. The new 50 Cent stamp depicted the Graf Zeppelin over the ocean, with the Federal Building, in Chicago, on the left, and its hangar, in Friedrichshaven on the right. The inscription reads A CENTURY OF PROGRESS FLIGHT.
The new issue became part of a most notable event of interest to stamp collectors, the visit of the Graf Zeppelin German airship on October 26, 1933. After circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander Hugo Eckener landed the 776-foot airship at the nearby Curtiss-Wright Airport in Glenview. After only 25 minutes on the ground the airship departed for Akron, Ohio ahead of an approaching weather.
For some Chicagoans, however, the appearance of the Graf Zeppelin over their fair city was not a welcome sight, as the airship had become a prominent reminder of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler to power earlier that same year. This triggered dissension in the days following its visit, particularly within the city's large German-American population.
Another interesting event of note for stamp collectors was a new system for the concept of snagging mailbags on the fly, without having to land. Promoted by inventor Lytle Adams and Braniff Airways the system reduced by four-fifths the time necessary for picking up mail from small towns. An exhibition of this improvement in the speed and efficiency of the air mail system was given at the Exposition Lagoon, October 4, 1934. Apparently the idea worked, given the right combination of equipment and pilot.
Another European Aviation visit to the fair that generated a lasting legacy in the stamp collecting world was the visit of the Italian Aviators, led by Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo, to the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition.
One of the highlights of the fair occurred when Italian aviator Italo Balbo led a squadron of 24 Savoia-Marchetti SM.55X flying boats in a historic transatlantic flight from Rome to Chicago, landing on Lake Michigan near the fairgrounds.
In honor of his journey to the Century of Progress, Chicago renamed 7th Street Balbo Drive. However, the street name is not the only lingering reminder of Balbo's visit. In an additional gesture of generosity, Mussolini plundered a Roman column, dating from the second century A.D., from a portico near the Porta Marina of Ostica Antica, the ancient port city of Rome. The column was shipped to Chicago and erected in front of the Italian pavilion of the Century of Progress fair in 1934, after Balbo's flight.
Today the Balbo Monument, as it is known, is one of, perhaps even the only structures remaining from the Century of Progress. It can be found in lonely isolation in Burnham Park, near the lakefront bike trail just east of Soldier Field. The 2,000 year-old column from Ostica Antica stands on a travertine marble base with a fading inscription in both Italian and English that reads, "This column, twenty centuries old, was erected on the beach of Ostia, the port of Imperial Rome, to watch over the fortunes and victories of the Roman triremes. Fascist Italy, with the sponsorship of Benito Mussolini, presents to Chicago a symbol and memorial in honor of the Atlantic Squadron led by Balbo, which with Roman daring, flew across the ocean in the 11th year of the Fascist era."
Balbo's armada of 24 Savoia Marchetti S. 55X hydroplanes flew from Italy to Montreal, Canada. On July 14, 1933 the armada departed Montréal for their final destination, the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. This Canadian visit is commemorated on an overprint of the Newfoundland Air Post issue, Scott #C18
Overshadowed in history by the visit of the Zeppelin German airship on October 26, 1933, a previous visit by an airship, the United States Airship Macon occurred in the Spring of 1933. Just one more event showing the link between aviation, progress and stamp collecting.
Another even at the Exposition that is commemorated for philatelists is the high altitude ascent of the Stratosphere balloon 'Century of Progress'. Introduced to the public on August 5, 1933 in the skies over the Exposition, on November 20,1933 the 'Century of progress' reached a height of 61,000 feet (18,592 meters). The balloon carried two instruments to measure how gas conducted cosmic rays, a cosmic ray telescope, a polariscope for study of the polarization of light at high altitudes, fruit flies to study genetic mutations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and an infrared camera to study the ozone layer.
All totaled, the Chicago Century of Progress was an overwhelming success, with 40 million visitors and a range of philatelic items that touch nearly every stamp collection today from the novice to the specialists, and particularly in the area of flight covers.
Bob MacLachlan
iHobb.com
Internet Hobby Supply
(NOTE: Some of the scans in this blog are from our stock and some were copied from sources on the internet)
The History of Fancy Cancels on U.S. Postage Stamps
by Bob MacLachlan | Aug 25, 2014 | General
The era of fancy cancels ranged from the first U.S. Stamps issued in 1847 through the 1890's, when the Post Office Department standardized cancellations and ended the practice of allowing individual local postmasters to express some personal artistry in meeting the requirement to deface stamps to prevent their reuse.
The modern era has produced some interesting cancels, and now the USPS has introduced some very elaborate First Day of Issue Cancels, artistically pleasing on First Day Covers and Souvenir Pages. But the focus of Fancy Cancel Collectors is on the traditional early covers, primarily the cork cancels and the 19th Century.
The earliest cancellations were often 'pen cancels' where the postmaster literally defaced the stamp using a fountain pen. While of lesser value to collectors, the upside of these cancels is they generally do not obliterate the stamps the way some heavy cancels do.
Another popular cancellation is the use of a 'PAID' handstamp, often left over from the pre-stamp era when the handstamp were applied to the 'stampless' covers to indicate the postage has been paid at the post office of origin.
The first cork cancels are mostly tragic obliterations as the cork bottle stoppers dipped in ink were used making the stamp nearly indiscernible. This practice created its own problem, as the obliteration often defaced the stamp to the extent that the denomination paid could not be seen. In response, postal clerks began to carve a groove across the middle of the cork, creating two semi-circles.
From this point the wheels of creativity began to spin, as four and then eight segment cork cancels appear, and soon designs began to appear ranging from stars and crosses, to geometrical shapes, animals, plants, birds, and even devils with pitchforks.
The developing art of fancy cancels found their high point in Waterbury, Connecticut where new cancels were created for every holiday and special occasions. The "Waterbury Running Chicken" cancel, which was probably actually a turkey since it appeared close to Thanksgiving of 1869, was in use for only a few days and is now the most prized of all 19th century cancels, with covers fetching very high prices.
The Fancy Cancels that we list on our iHobb.com website include some of the artistic high points of stars, cogwheels, crosses, pies, grills, concentric and bull's-eyes, plus some early, plainer cork cancels and a few pen cancels. These later examples are outside the range of what a purest would call a fancy cancel, but are of the era and we include them, priced accordingly.
Of course, the treasures are the fancy cancels that are intact on the full cover as originally mailed. We are very pleased with the iHobb.com selection of these cancels, but maintaining a fresh stock is difficult as they are in strong demand and not readily available except in the occasion auction. Collect cancels for the sake of cancels, or seek out stamps with interesting cancels when filling spaces in your album and the result is an interesting collection with personality.
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The Canadian Domestogramme
by Bob MacLachlan | Feb 3, 2014 | General
Canada's diverse postal history includes a usage of the popular Aerogramme format for postale use within Canada; the Domestogramme. The Domestogramme was a new application of an old idea; an example of the idea that if you wait long enough the old will return again, in a new form, of course.
In the era before the introduction of postage stamps, mailed letters did not include an envelope. Postal markings and franking was applied direct to the folded letter. This same concept was later deployed with Aerogrammes.
An Aerogram, Aérogramme or Air Letter is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. The intent of the Aerogramme was to carry a letter on the one page, without any enclosures.
The aerogram was largely popularized by its use during the Second World War (1939–45). Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Evans, Royal Engineers, Assistant Director Army Postal Service Middle East Force (MEF), proposed the lightweight self-sealing letter card that weighed only 1/10 oz for airmail purposes. Evans first saw the air letter form in Iraq, while touring the Commands after his arrival in the Middle East theatre. It had been introduced into the Iraqi postal service in 1933.
The use of the term aerogramme was officially endorsed at the 1952 Universal Postal Union Postal Union Congress in Brussels.
In 1973 Canada issued a set of 12 Postal Stationery very beautifully depicting flowers of the Provinces and Territories. The set included 6 Aerogrammes, but also 6 of the new concept that they called Domestogrammes
The Domestogramme was a totally new concept. Not intended for sending reduced weight mail over oceans via air post, the Domestogramme was for mail use within the issuing country; Canada. More expansive than any European Country and broader than many oceans, the concept was perfect for the vast territory of Canada.
Unfortunately, like so many 'good ideas', the Domestogramme was not very popular. Probably the only people who bought them were collectors
Depicted here are First Day Cancellations on the first, error, printing of the set. The 's' was omitted from Postages/Poste(s). There was a second printing that corrected the omission.
Stampless covers, Aerogrammes, Domestogrammes ; postal concepts over time.
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My Cat2 40-49 mountain bike race video from the 2016 Hill Country Mountain Bike Challenge held at Flat Rock Ranch near Comfort, Texas.
The 3rd race of the Texas state 2016 series.
After flatting out at Flat Creek Crossing, I was a little dejected on racing. I kept my head up and kept prepping for the Flat Rock Ranch race.
At any rate, Comfort is often a surprisingly decent race for me and I had hopes of finishing well. My strategy for this one was to get in with the leaders and ride as long as I could.
Up the first climb, I was surprised to find I was able to hang in there decently well. I fully expected Rolando to really fly up the initial climb and leave me with a lot of reeling in to do.
He and I battled it out for the rest of the lap, where he again got ahead of me and started putting some time on me heading up the next big climb of the race. After I had again reeled him in about halfway up the climb, I knew that I had a shot. I just had to keep him within eye shot by the time we hit the top as I fully expected I could catch and pass him on the descent.
This played out perfectly, with him having about 20 seconds on me at the top. At that point, the course was in my favor with fast, technical downhill to finish. I caught up with Rolando with a bit more to go to finish. I tailed him until my opening, which I jumped on and shredded it the rest of the way to finish, crossing the line in 2nd place!
I was stoked to be able to get a 2nd place finish. Marc still finished 90 seconds ahead of me, so I still have some work to do to try to close that gap.
The final showdown, and opportunity for a (dare I say it?) win will be in 2 weeks at Pace Bend. That will be the last course that favors me, and will also be the last possible chance for me in Cat2. Once I move up to Cat1, I will be relegated to mid pack obscurity, ha!


Would You Like To Get A Girl Back?
Although many couples are breaking up, many of them still like to get back together again.
Although many couples are breaking up, many of them still like to get back together again. Whatever the reasons are for your break-up, you may want to get a girl back. There are a number of ways that you can apply in your efforts to get your girl back. However, you need to bear some things in mind before you embark on any method.
You should first of all consider why exactly you want to win an ex girlfriend back. Are you driven by genuine love? Are you overwhelmed by your loneliness? Could this be your way of trying to get even? Do you think she is still interested in you?
If you are convinced that she is really the person you would like to spend the rest of your life with, then you should take appropriate measures that will help you to get a girl back. Making any wrong moves can greatly jeopardize your chances of success. Here are some important steps that will help you to make your dream come true.
One of the common mistakes that guys tend to do when they want to get a girl back is to keep trying to get in touch with their ex. You should do the opposite, however.
The break-up meant that your girlfriend did not want to keep in touch with you. You should therefore respect her wishes by letting her have the space she needs.
You will just drive your ex girl away when you keep bothering her. Yes, that is how she will view your constant contact. She may even sue you.
During the time when you are apart, you should take a serious look at your broken relationship. People do not get into relationships just so as to break up at some point. There must have been some serious problems somewhere to result in your break-up. You should therefore take the time to determine the real causes of your break-up. Do not mistake symptoms for the real problems, which is very easy. You should therefore dig deeper to find out what caused the problem.
In many cases, problems start from expectations that have not been met.
Once you have determined the mistakes that you committed, which contributed towards the break-up, you should accept full responsibility. This means that you should not try to excuse yourself by giving any sort of justification.


Using the Guesthouse as a home base there are several things you can see and do. The environment is very beautiful and the people are friendly, so you can always go for a walk. On this page you will find some tips of places worth seeing and doing. Of course we are willing to arrange a guide or help you with the preparations.


The Philippines conducted the world's first AIDS Hour last May 14, Saturday at the Liwasang Aurora of the Quezon City Memorial Circle. Starting 6 pm to 7 pm in the evening, people gathered to observe AIDS Hour as part of the 33rd International AIDS Candlelight Memorial (IACM), to remember those who have succumbed and passed on due to HIV/AIDS. The project is spearheaded by the Department of Health (DOH) in coordination with local government units.
This year, IACM was renamed to the Philippine International AIDS Candlelight Memorial (PIACM) to allude to local efforts addressing the HIV epidemic in the country. Latest data released by the Department of Health in the HIV/AIDS Registry of the Philippines (HARP) reveals a dramatic increase in the number of people infected over the same period last year and the year before. While 17 people were infected daily in 2014, the number has increased by almost 50% with 25 people being infected daily as of March 2016.
One of the highlights of the program was a pledge of commitment to end the stigma and shame associated with being infected by the virus, to increase awareness and educate the general public about the virus and the disease, and to encourage those who are living with the virus to actively seek treatment. LoveYourself volunteers were present in the venue to partake in the symbolic pledge and in other activities, including a photo booth. The Quezon Memorial was lit in various colors with slogans from the pledges to denote the diversity of organizations and people working for the cause of HIV, and unity through the all-encompassing pledge.
LoveYourself has been conducting awareness programs and free HIV screening services as part of its contributions to stave off the progress of the epidemic. Earlier this year, LoveYourself launched its NEX+ CHAP+ER program, a treatment and life coaching program for people living with HIV (PLHIV) as well as its "inaasikaso at inaalagaan" brand of service to expand the scope and improve the quality of its services. For more information about LoveYourself, please click here.


These easy skillet meatballs are moist and tender, thanks to the combination of ground beef, pork, and veal, and the addition of heavy cream. Made on the stovetop, they're ready within minutes for a quick dinner.
1. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over a medium heat. Add the onions and cook until softened and golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Tip the onions out of the pan and onto a plate to cool.
3. Add the cooled onion and the egg to the breadcrumb mixture and mix everything together well. (If you prefer a less crumbly meatball, first squeeze the soaked breadcrumbs gently and drain the excess cream.) In a separate bowl, mix the beef, veal, and pork until thoroughly combined. Add the meats to the bread mixture, season well with salt and pepper, and then mix everything together, preferably with your hands.
4. Shape the meatballs mixture into balls the size of a small walnut using a heaping tablespoon for each. You should have about 20 meatballs.
5. Melt the remaining tablespoon butter in a large skillet over a medium heat. Fry the meatballs, working in batches if necessary, and turning as necessary, until brown all over, about 15 minutes total. You may need to add more butter to the skillet. Serve plain, with a dipping sauce, atop spaghetti, or however else you please.
"Why complicate meatballs?" That's the message I read in this recipe, and I couldn't agree more. Save your fancy ingredients or cooking techniques for another dinner. Fresh bread crumbs and cream make these meatballs melt-in-your-mouth tender, and the sweet onion, salt, and white pepper give them a flavor that's down to earth.
At my home, these meatballs were enjoyed as part of a comforting weekend dinner, along with Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Crunchy Crumb Topping and zucchini, yellow summer squash, and red bell peppers sautéed in olive oil and simply seasoned with salt and pepper. I used a slightly heaping #60 scoop (about 1 tablespoon, I think) to shape the meatballs.
One thing to note: Since the meat mixture was quite moist, the meatballs didn't keep their round shape during cooking. When you first put them in the skillet, and every time you turn them, where the meatballs "sit" becomes flat, making them shaped somewhat like tiny pyramids with round corners—imperfection that is part of the charm of a home-cooked meal. To make fresh breadcrumbs, I put 2 slices of white sandwich bread (with the crust cut off) through the food processor and measured 3/4 cup.
Let me start off by saying around my house spaghetti and meatballs is an almost weekly thing. When the list of recipes to test comes out, I have my daughter pick out a few recipes that she wants us to do together. This week she immediately saw meatballs and wanted to make them. I usually just make meatballs with beef and pork, veal is a little pricey for us. But for once I wanted to give it a try. Why have I not been doing this the whole time? A+.
I would maybe try less cream next time as it just seems way too wet, although most of the meatballs held their shape during cooking, some fell apart. Other than that, they tasted great! So good I might have snacked on 1 or 2 or…okay 5. I'm thinking I'm making these for a party next week as appetizers, they are so good on their own!
I might put some fresh chopped parsley or dill in them next time. Making use of the rest of the long baguette I had used to make the crumbs, I served these as meatball sandwiches topped with chopped mushrooms that had been roasted in bacon fat. Yum. The meatballs would also be wonderful alongside buttered noodles or rice. Or mashed potatoes. Any carb-heavy side dish.
Meatballs are effortful but also fun to eat, especially for guests. The flavor was good—I liked the combination of meats and the cream added some luxe to the meatballs.
I asked the butcher to get to the amounts as close as possible. Iʻd say that it would be better to use 1/2 pound, 1/4 pound, and 1/4 pound next time because thatʻs just easier, unless youʻre grinding your own. I let the cream and bread crumbs sit for 5 minutes. It was a little chunky and needed to be broken up before adding. Thatʻs okay, though, because you have to mix everything all together, anyway.
I would have liked a suggestion for what to serve with the meatballs in terms of a sauce. Given that they are Swedish, Iʻd suspect a brown sauce. I ended up serving them as is and they were fine.
Easy Skillet Meatballs Recipe © 2015 Magnus Nilsson. Photo © 2015 Erik Olsson. All rights reserved. All recipes and photos used with permission of the publisher.


Is your youngster a budding artist looking to break free from the conventional tools of the trade? Challenge her creativity with an art project that features YouAs her collaborator. Add some pumpkin seeds and you've got an activity perfect for chilly fall afternoons.
Let your child choose a marker.
Pick out a colour different colour marker for yourself.
Give one paper to your child and keep one for yourself.
Both you and your child should doodle lines, swirls and angles across your paper.
When the timer dings, swap papers.
Each of you should choose a different colour marker.
Add on to your child's drawing while she adds onto yours until the timer dings.
Repeat this process for just two rounds—or many, many more! Stop whenever the two of you feel like it.
Have your child use the same markers she just used to colour the pumpkin seeds.
Help her glue their pumpkin seeds to the marker lines on both pieces of paper.
Display both pieces of artwork next to each other. Do they look the same? Can your child tell where her lines end and yours begin?
This isn't just great for you and your child—it also is the perfect activity for the whole family! There's no limit to how many people can participate in the collaborative art fun.
This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.


Recent reports say Amazon has stopped buying a product listing ads on Google, keeping their feud alive and well.
According to Bloomberg, US marketing firm Merkle Inc spotted the move through its analysis of Google shopping ad data it tracks for its client.
In a post, Andy Taylor, Merkle research director says, "While it's not uncommon for competitors, including Amazon, to disappear from an advertisers' Auction Insights reports for a day or two at a time as a result of the natural day-to-day fluctuations in the auctions driving traffic, the widespread vanishing act observed over the last week point to Amazon itself pausing its Shopping campaigns.
Taylor says Amazon would have spent close to US$50m a year on these ads creating a financial problem to what was a reliable piece of income for the search engine giant.
Bloomberg says this move will affect the top results on a Google page where online retailers pay to have their products show in the shopping results when consumers search for a particular item. This shopping result can be seen above.
Reports say Amazon began bidding for these product listing ads in late 2016, going up against retailers like Walmart and Best Buy who also try and get their hands on these ads for particular items.
This Shakespearean like feud has been bubbling for a while now with Amazon and Google competing over their respective smart speakers, the Echo and Google Home trying to own the market. Late last year, Google blocked YouTube from Amazon streaming platforms like Fire TV.


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Q: Chomp Game- do I have winning strategy? for those who don't know the game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomp
short review- you have choclate table n x m with 1 poisoned cubed in the bottom left corner.
The player target is to avoid eating that cube. Each player in his turn choose 1 cube and actualy eat all the cubes that are right and up to that cube.
With a given matrix n X m and a list that represent the configuration of the game;
Each index represent how many cubes are in each column. For example: [3,3,2,2]-         (the player chose to eat the second cube from the right)
P=poisoned

*

*X X

*X X X X

*P X X X

(the numbers are just for the order)
I need to recursivley return an answer wheater there is a winning strategy or not for the player that it's turn to play. I thought about this: If I can know that for the next step (player against me) there's no winning strategy- I have winning strategy. stop terms are: if 1 last cube left- return false; if 2 last cubes left- return true. Just have hard times how to return it recursivley in a way that will give me an answer for that question
I thought about calculating all the moves that the player can do, but I couldn't implement that solution... any help?

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