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Halloween Candy Buyback
Video posted October 31, 2013 in Centre County Report by Centre County Report
Some dentists make a killing on Halloween, at one dentistry practice in Port Matilda it's the patients who can make the money.
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Alex Eliasof
Alex is a senior broadcast journalism major from Verona, New Jersey.
Here at Penn State he is a news director at ComRadio and is a part of the Centre County Report staff. In addition to being a news director, on ComRadio he also works on the sports staff. Alex has called play-by-play for baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball (ranging from high school, to Penn State athletics to minor league baseball). Alex co-hosts "Shooting the Breeze," an hour-long show that brings the latest in news, entertainment and sports at Penn State and across the world.
Prior to Centre County Report, Alex also worked on the PSNtv staff. For PSNtv he was a news anchor for PSN News Live. He was also a reporter and panelist for "Penn State Sports Night," the station's biweekly sports show.
Alex has worked with a variety of stations and teams. During Summer 2013 he was an internet broadcaster for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. In Spring 2013 he completed an internship with the sports branch of WPSU, a PBS affiliate station in State College. In Summer 2012 he was a media intern for the Newark Bears minor league baseball team.
Outside of the College of Comm, Alex also partakes in THON.
Twitter: @alexeliasof
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Q: invalid byte sequence utf-8 error in rails 2.3 and ruby 1.9 I've migrated my app from Rails 2.3.8 / Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.3.14 / Ruby 1.9.2 - it hasn't been easy, but basically works. An issue I keep having is that in the occasional Haml template I'll get the following error:
ActionView::TemplateError (invalid byte sequence in UTF-8) on line #....

This is an encoding issue, and I've seen some suggestions on how to deal with it (using Iconv.conv), but the things I tried didn't seem to work. How do I resolve this on the application level (not having to patch every template)? Thanks.
EDIT: Some stack trace
ActionView::TemplateError (invalid byte sequence in UTF-8) on line #28 of app/views/users/_user.haml:
27:     - if user.valid?
28:       - image_onclick = remote_function( :url => { :action => :toggle_image, :id => user.id } )

    vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb:68:in `=~'
    vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb:68:in `!~'
    vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb:68:in `blank?'
    vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:478:in `block (2 levels) in validates_each'
    vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:476:in `each'
    vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:476:in `block in validates_each'
    ... etc

The database tables' CHARSET is encoded in UTF-8. I didn't assign any specific encoding to my templates, although I set
Encoding.default_internal = 'utf-8'
Encoding.default_external = 'utf-8'

in environment.rb

A: This seems to be an issue with the MySQL adapter I've been using - the old ruby-mysql gem. I've upgraded to mysql2 and that seemed to have solved the issue.

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If it ain't the banks, it's the government!
The elderly and other vulnerable homeowners are losing their homes because they owe as little as a few hundred dollars in back taxes, according to a report from a consumer group.
Outdated state laws allow big banks and other investors to reap windfall profits by buying the houses for a pittance and reselling them, the National Consumer Law Center said in a report being released Tuesday.


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Grateful Mom Donates 120 Dresses To High School For Senior Ball
By CE on July 10, 2019
A grateful mother in New Zealand has donated 120 dresses to her son's high school to show her appreciation for the students and staff.
Credit: Catherine Groenestein / Stuff
Helen Burley, her husband, and son, Dan, move to Taranaki from Auckland three years ago. Dan had been struggling at school in Auckland but everything changed when he started attending Opunake High School in Taranaki.
"My son had been at a decile 10 school up there with 3500 boys and the teachers didn't even know his name," she said.
"He was constantly bullied and made to feel like a real failure. I was really worried."
But Dan had blossomed since joining Opunake High School, she said, discovering a passion for engineering and math. He's been accepted into three different universities.
Helen wanted to find a way to show her appreciation, and the school's ball coming up in August gave her an idea.
The dresses, all brand new, came from when she owned a dress shop in Auckland.
"I thought, I could give them to the girls in Year 13. But then I couldn't just give them dresses, they need to have their hair and makeup done too," Helen told Stuff.
So, she also arranged for hairdressers and make-up artists to spend all of Saturday on August 10 preparing the seniors for the ball.
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package io.trino.plugin.iceberg.catalog.hms;

import io.trino.plugin.hive.metastore.MetastoreUtil;
import io.trino.plugin.hive.metastore.PrincipalPrivileges;
import io.trino.plugin.hive.metastore.Table;
import io.trino.plugin.hive.metastore.cache.CachingHiveMetastore;
import io.trino.plugin.iceberg.UnknownTableTypeException;
import io.trino.plugin.iceberg.catalog.AbstractIcebergTableOperations;
import io.trino.spi.TrinoException;
import io.trino.spi.connector.ConnectorSession;
import io.trino.spi.connector.TableNotFoundException;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TableType;
import org.apache.iceberg.TableMetadata;
import org.apache.iceberg.io.FileIO;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.NotThreadSafe;

import java.util.Optional;

import static io.trino.plugin.hive.HiveMetadata.TABLE_COMMENT;
import static io.trino.plugin.hive.ViewReaderUtil.isHiveOrPrestoView;
import static io.trino.plugin.hive.ViewReaderUtil.isPrestoView;
import static io.trino.plugin.hive.metastore.PrincipalPrivileges.NO_PRIVILEGES;
import static io.trino.plugin.iceberg.IcebergErrorCode.ICEBERG_INVALID_METADATA;
import static io.trino.plugin.iceberg.IcebergUtil.isIcebergTable;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
import static org.apache.iceberg.BaseMetastoreTableOperations.ICEBERG_TABLE_TYPE_VALUE;
import static org.apache.iceberg.BaseMetastoreTableOperations.METADATA_LOCATION_PROP;
import static org.apache.iceberg.BaseMetastoreTableOperations.TABLE_TYPE_PROP;

@NotThreadSafe
public abstract class AbstractMetastoreTableOperations
        extends AbstractIcebergTableOperations
{
    protected final CachingHiveMetastore metastore;

    protected AbstractMetastoreTableOperations(
            FileIO fileIo,
            CachingHiveMetastore metastore,
            ConnectorSession session,
            String database,
            String table,
            Optional<String> owner,
            Optional<String> location)
    {
        super(fileIo, session, database, table, owner, location);
        this.metastore = requireNonNull(metastore, "metastore is null");
    }

    @Override
    protected final String getRefreshedLocation(boolean invalidateCaches)
    {
        if (invalidateCaches) {
            metastore.invalidateTable(database, tableName);
        }
        Table table = getTable();

        if (isPrestoView(table) && isHiveOrPrestoView(table)) {
            // this is a Hive view, hence not a table
            throw new TableNotFoundException(getSchemaTableName());
        }
        if (!isIcebergTable(table)) {
            throw new UnknownTableTypeException(getSchemaTableName());
        }

        String metadataLocation = table.getParameters().get(METADATA_LOCATION_PROP);
        if (metadataLocation == null) {
            throw new TrinoException(ICEBERG_INVALID_METADATA, format("Table is missing [%s] property: %s", METADATA_LOCATION_PROP, getSchemaTableName()));
        }

        return metadataLocation;
    }

    @Override
    protected final void commitNewTable(TableMetadata metadata)
    {
        String newMetadataLocation = writeNewMetadata(metadata, version + 1);

        Table.Builder builder = Table.builder()
                .setDatabaseName(database)
                .setTableName(tableName)
                .setOwner(owner)
                // Table needs to be EXTERNAL, otherwise table rename in HMS would rename table directory and break table contents.
                .setTableType(TableType.EXTERNAL_TABLE.name())
                .setDataColumns(toHiveColumns(metadata.schema().columns()))
                .withStorage(storage -> storage.setLocation(metadata.location()))
                .withStorage(storage -> storage.setStorageFormat(STORAGE_FORMAT))
                // This is a must-have property for the EXTERNAL_TABLE table type
                .setParameter("EXTERNAL", "TRUE")
                .setParameter(TABLE_TYPE_PROP, ICEBERG_TABLE_TYPE_VALUE)
                .setParameter(METADATA_LOCATION_PROP, newMetadataLocation);
        String tableComment = metadata.properties().get(TABLE_COMMENT);
        if (tableComment != null) {
            builder.setParameter(TABLE_COMMENT, tableComment);
        }
        Table table = builder.build();

        PrincipalPrivileges privileges = owner.map(MetastoreUtil::buildInitialPrivilegeSet).orElse(NO_PRIVILEGES);
        metastore.createTable(table, privileges);
    }

    protected Table getTable()
    {
        return metastore.getTable(database, tableName)
                .orElseThrow(() -> new TableNotFoundException(getSchemaTableName()));
    }
}

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It's not very often that I feel like I'm in quite a routine with my makeup – other than the basics I tend to hop a lot between different products, but at the moment I've found that for the most part my makeup has stayed the same day in day out for the past 3 weeks or so, and I've been really loving my makeup daily!
Underneath everything I've been wearing this peach tint from my little beauty which helps even out skintone, especially good now in winter with the cold biting my cheeks and creating a rosey glow – this helps just keep everything subdued. My Instablur has been added back to my normal routine again now, I tend to opt for my ARK primer if I'm not bothered about my makeup lasting all day – but this is the best at keeping everything in place until I'm ready to remove it, as well as keeping skin looking matte for as long as possible. The Make Up For Ever HD foundation is a welcome readdition to my routine, it had become a bit too dark for me, but since coming back from holiday and my tan 'settling' on a shade it matches me perfectly again this is sadly almost at it's end – i'll be surprised if it's not in my empties in a few days! Lastly is this Korres Wild Rose Powder, this is easily not my favourite powder, I tend to opt for translucent powders and this is quite dark – I'm using this up while I have the opportunity to and it matches my skin, I've significantly hit pan so hopefully within a week or two it will be gone.
Ahh the beautiful limited edition Estee Lauder blush in Peach Nuance, I really should put this away for the winter and use blushes which I only pull out at this time of year, but I can't put this down. It's my absolute favourite, despite being a bit more difficult to use now the gradient is kind of splitting into two! The next are two relative newbies from the Balm, Bahama Mama which is a matt bronzer and the well loved Mary Lou Manizer highlighter – respectively each are my all time favourite highlighter and bronzers respectively. I'm planning on reviewing both of these separately within the next few weeks so keep your eye out for that if you're interested in them.
All of these products are Maybelline, so hats of for them! If you saw my Maybelline Makeup Bag Makeover you would have seen me talk about 3 of these before,\. Maybelline's gel eyeliner is hands down the best, pigmented, long wearing and easy to apply – this glides on with no effort at all and stays in place all day with out so much as a tiny smudge. It's testament to see just how much that I've been loving the Eraser eye concealer – look how much I've used in the month, this is perfect for concealing and brightening under the eyes, it seems to be a marmite product – I don't love the applicator, but given I'm going through this quite rapidly – it won't hopefully get too nasty before I will have finished it. The Nudes pallete and Lash Sensational are products which are getting their own reviews, neither of which I am 100% sold on – so are more in my routine because I'm still making up my mind. Stay tuned for these hopefully this week! The palette is letting me create different looks because it has such a diverse range of colours, one day I go with basically nothing, other days I can go for a day time smoky look.
Two products which should have been included are TheBalm's put a lid on it eyeshadow primer and Maybelline Brow Satin, who knows why I forgot to include these but both are important in my routine!
Both of these products have been reviewed relatively recently, I've been wearing these a lot as they've been the two which have been in my handbag. I adore the Written in the Stars Lipgloss from Fleur De Force's line – and need all the other colours immediately. 100% Pure in Velveteen I reviewed at the start of the week and as it's been the only lipstick in my purse it's been getting the most wear, but if you saw that post you'll know I had some reservations about the brand, whilst I do like it. I wear either of these by themselves, or if I'm feeling particularly snazzy I'll apply the lipstick and then finish with the lipgloss.
Do you change up your routine regularly, or do you stick to the same products?
Lovely look, love your eyes!
I do find that I seem to go through the Maybelline Eraser concealer really quickly at first, and I feel like I will run out but then about 3/4 through, it take a LONG time finish the rest – so odd!


Jul 1, 1999 - Lexmark International, Inc.
A system identifies faulty ink jet nozzles among a plurality of ink jet nozzles in an ink jet print head based on evaluation of a test pattern printed by the print head. The printed test pattern consists of test images, where each of the test images is printed by a corresponding one of the plurality of ink jet nozzles. The test images occupy locations within the test pattern indicated by location coordinates. The test pattern is visually inspected to identify empty locations within the test pattern, where an empty location is a location in the test pattern not occupied by a test image. The empty locations are designated according to the location coordinates of the empty locations. The location coordinates of the empty locations are then correlated to ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed test images at the empty locations. The ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed test images at the empty locations are designated as faulty. The system generates a faulty nozzle record indicating which nozzles are designated as faulty among the plurality of nozzles. Based on the nozzles that are designated as faulty, the system generates print data to be sent to the print head. Based on the print data, only those nozzles which are not designated as faulty are activated in printing a desired image.
The present invention is generally directed to detecting malfunctioning nozzles in an ink jet printer. More particularly, the invention is directed to a system for printing and evaluating a test pattern to determine whether a nozzle has malfunctioned.
Ink jet printers form images on paper by ejecting ink droplets from an array of nozzles on a print head. During the operational lifetime of an ink jet print head, the nozzles can become clogged, thus blocking the ejection of ink from the nozzles. Although most current ink jet printers include mechanisms for clearing clogged nozzles, these mechanisms are not always successful, and nozzles remained clogged.
Generally, when printer driver software generates print data to be sent to the print head, the software typically assumes that all of the nozzles of the print head are functioning properly. Thus, the print data may address nozzles that are malfunctioning. If this is the case, pixels that should be printed by the malfunctioning nozzles will remain blank on the paper. The typical result is an unwanted horizontal strip of white space in a printed image. As more and more nozzles malfunction during a print head's lifetime, this situation becomes more and more noticeable in printed output.
Therefore, a system is needed for identifying malfunctioning ink jet nozzles and providing this information to a printer driver so that the printer driver can compensate for the malfunctioning nozzles when generating print data.
The foregoing and other needs are met by a system that identifies faulty ink jet nozzles among a plurality of ink jet nozzles in an ink jet print head based on evaluation of a test pattern printed by the print head. The printed test pattern consists of test images, where each of the test images is printed by a corresponding one of the plurality of ink jet nozzles. The test images occupy locations within the test pattern indicated by location coordinates. The test pattern is visually inspected to identify empty locations within the test pattern, where an empty location is a location in the test pattern not occupied by a test image. The empty locations are designated according to the location coordinates of the empty locations. The location coordinates of the empty locations are then correlated to ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed test images at the empty locations. The ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed test images at the empty locations are designated as faulty.
Preferred embodiments of the invention generate a faulty nozzle record indicating which nozzles are designated as faulty among the plurality of nozzles. The faulty nozzle record is accessed to determine which of the plurality of nozzles are designated as faulty. Based on the nozzles that are designated as faulty, the system generates print data to be sent to the print head. Based on the print data, only those nozzles which are not designated as faulty are activated in printing a desired image.
Thus, the present invention maintains the quality of print produced by an ink jet print head, even when nozzles on the print head have become clogged or have otherwise malfunctioned. Image pixels that would have been left blank due to the faulty nozzles are instead printed by other functioning nozzles. In this way, the invention compensates for the failed nozzles and prolongs the useable lifetime of the print head. When implemented with a print head cartridge containing a fixed amount of ink, the invention allows continued use of the print head until all of the ink is exhausted. When implemented with a print head supplied by a replenishable ink module, the invention allows use of the print head with no loss of print quality for substantially longer than was previously practical.
In another aspect, the invention provides an apparatus for identifying faulty ink jet nozzles. The apparatus includes an ink jet print head having a plurality of ink jet nozzles disposed adjacent a print medium. The print head prints test images at test image locations on the print medium by ejecting ink droplets from each of the nozzles separately and sequentially in response to the print commands. Each one of the test images is printed by and corresponds to a different one of the plurality of nozzles. The apparatus also includes a user input device for designating an empty location within the test pattern, where the empty location is one of the test image locations in the test pattern which is void of a test image. The apparatus further includes correlation means for correlating the empty location within the test pattern with one of the ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed a test image at the empty location. The correlation means also generate faulty nozzle identification information based on the correlation of the empty location to the failed nozzle.
FIG. 3 depicts a test pattern printed according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Depicted in FIG. 1 is a system for identifying malfunctioning ink jet nozzles and compensating for the malfunctioning nozzles during generation of print data. The system components include a host computer 2, an ink jet printer 4, a display device 6, and a user input device 8. The configuration and operation of each of these components is described in more detail below. First, a broad overview of the invention is provided, followed by a more detailed description of the system operation.
As shown in FIG. 1, the host computer 2 generates print data that is sent to the printer 4. The print data includes information describing a test pattern 32 to be printed by the printer 4 on a print medium 18. Preferably, the test pattern 32 consists of multiple test images 33 printed in a rectangular grid. Each of the test images 33 is printed by a separate nozzle on a print head 20 of the printer, so that a test image 33 is printed corresponding to each nozzle. If a nozzle malfunctions, there will be no test image 33 printed corresponding to that nozzle, resulting in an empty location 35. After the pattern 32 has printed, a system user visually inspects the test pattern 32, looking for blank areas that indicate an empty location 35. The host computer 2 also generates a graphic image 42 on the display device 6. The graphic image 42 is preferably a grid representing the test pattern 32 that was printed on the printer 4. Using the input device 8, the user places a cursor 44 on the grid at the location corresponding to the empty location 35 in the test pattern 32. The user then designates the empty location 35 by clicking on the corresponding grid location using the input device 8. As described in more detail below, the host computer 2 uses this information provided by the user to modify the print data that is subsequently sent to the printer 4.
With reference to FIG. 1, the host computer 2 includes a host processor 10, such as a Pentium processor manufactured by Intel. The host processor 10, under control of printer driver software, generates the print data that is sent to the printer 4 to create printed images. The host processor 10 also generates video data that is sent to a video controller 12. The video controller 12 receives the video data and generates corresponding video signals that are sent to the display device 6. The display device 6, such as a CRT monitor or an LCD display, receives the video signals and generates the graphic image 42 based thereon. The user input device 8, such as a mouse, is connected to a communication port 14 of the host computer 2. The host computer 2 also includes a host memory device 9, such as a random access memory (RAM) and/or a magnetic disk drive.
The printer 4 includes a print medium advance mechanism 16 for advancing the print medium 18, such as paper, relative to the print head 20. Preferably, the print medium advance mechanism 16 includes a motor that mechanically drives a roller to cause the print medium 18 to move in the direction indicated by the arrow 22. Hereinafter, the direction indicated by the arrow 22 is referred to as a first or vertical direction. The print head 20 includes an array of nozzles 21, such as shown in FIG. 2, for ejecting droplets of ink onto the print medium 18, where each droplet of ink forms a dot on the medium 18. The printer 4 also includes a carriage 24 that is mechanically connected to the print head 20 for moving the print head 20 adjacent to the print medium 18. Preferably, the carriage 24 rides along a rail in the direction indicated by the arrow 26. Hereinafter, the direction indicated by the arrow 26 is referred to as a second or horizontal direction. A carriage drive mechanism 28 is mechanically coupled to the carriage 24 for driving the carriage 24 in the horizontal direction.
As shown in FIG. 1, the printer 4 includes a printer controller 30. The printer controller 30 is preferably a digital microcontroller that receives the print data from the host processor 10 and generates printer drive signals based on the print data. As described in more detail hereinafter, the printer drive signals control the carriage drive mechanism 28, the print medium advance mechanism 16, and the print head 20 to produce the test pattern 32 on the print medium 18.
Preferably, the host processor 10 carries out the functions described herein under control of printer driver software. Based on the printer driver instructions, the host processor 10 generates print data describing the test pattern 32 to be printed by the printer 4. A more detailed depiction of an exemplary test pattern 32 is shown in FIG. 3. The test pattern 32 is preferably a rectangular grid on which a test image 33 is printed for each nozzle of the print head 20. In the preferred embodiment, each test image 33 is a square block having sides of about 0.25 to 0.5 inch in length. The test pattern 32 of FIG. 3 is a 20×32 grid of 0.25 inch squares, providing 640 test images 33. Thus, as shown in FIG. 3, test images 33 for up to 640 nozzles can be easily accommodated on a single sheet of A4 or 8½×11 inch paper. Although the example described herein assumes a 640-nozzle print head, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to any particular number of nozzles.
In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the host processor 10 transfers the print data describing the test pattern 32 to the printer controller 30. Based on the print data from the host processor 10, the controller 30 generates print, scan, and advance commands to cause the print head 20 to fire only nozzle 1 (see FIG. 2) to print the test image 33 at the location A1 in the test pattern 32 as shown in FIG. 3. Subsequently, the test image 33 at the location A2 is printed using only nozzle 2. This process continues until each nozzle on the print head 20 has printed a test image 33 at a predetermined location in the pattern 32.
As shown in FIG. 3, the test pattern 32 preferably includes horizontal indicia 36 (A, B, C, . . . ) across the top and/or bottom of the pattern 32 and vertical indicia 38 (1, 2, 3, . . . ) along one or both sides of the pattern 32. As described in more detail below, these indicia 36 and 38 aid the user in designating empty locations 35 in the pattern 32.
When printing of the test pattern 32 has completed, the user inspects the pattern 32 to find areas within the grid that are void of test images 33. For example, in the test pattern 32 of FIG. 3, the user would observe that test images 33 are missing from locations Q2, F5, and B15. These empty locations 35 indicate that the nozzles corresponding to these locations 35 have malfunctioned. The user designates these empty locations 35 to the host computer 2 using the display device 6 and the input device 8, as described in greater detail below.
With reference again to FIG. 1, the host processor 10 generates image data representing the graphic image 42 displayed on the display device 6. The video controller 12 receives the image data from the host processor 10 and generates video signals based on the image data. The display device 6 receives the video signals from the video controller 12 and produces the graphic image 42 based in the video signals. Preferably, as shown in FIG. 1, the graphic image 42 closely resembles the rectangular grid of the test pattern 32, with each block in the graphic image 42 corresponding to a different one of the test images 33 in the test pattern 32.
While viewing the graphic image 42 on the display device 6, the user designates the blocks in the graphic image 42 that correspond to the empty locations 35 of the test pattern 32. Using the user input device 8, the user positions the cursor 44 over a block corresponding to an empty location 35 in the test pattern 32. The user then designates the block by "clicking" on the block using the input device 8. When the user clicks on the block, the input device 8 generates a cursor position signal that is received by the communication port 14. The cursor position signal includes information indicating the rectangular (x-y) coordinates of the location of the cursor 44 relative to the graphic image 42.
The host processor 10 receives the cursor position signal from the communication port 14, and translates the rectangular coordinates of the cursor location into a grid location in the graphic image 42. For example, when the user positions the cursor 44 anywhere within the grid block L11 and clicks on the block using the input device 8, the host processor 10 receives the x-y coordinates in the cursor position signal and correlates those coordinates as corresponding to the L11 block. Based on the coordinates in the cursor position signal, the host processor 10 generates a block identification signal which, in the above example, would identify the L11 block. This procedure is repeated for each empty location 35 in the test pattern 32.
Based on the block identification signal, the host processor 10 updates the graphic image data to change the appearance of the block identified by the block identification signal. Preferably, the color of the designated graphic image block on the display 6 is changed to indicate that the particular block has been designated as representing a malfunctioning nozzle location.
After the user has designated each of the empty locations 35 in the test pattern 32 as described above, the host processor 10 accesses a lookup table stored in the host memory device 9 that cross-references block locations to nozzle locations. For the print head of the above example, there are 640 block locations (A1, A2, A3, etc.) in the lookup table corresponding to 640 nozzles. In a preferred embodiment, each nozzle is identified by a unique nozzle number (1, 2, 3, . . . 640), as shown in FIG. 2. Thus, the lookup table of the preferred embodiment correlates block locations (A1, A2, A3, . . . T32.) to nozzle numbers (1, 2, 3, . . . 640).
Based on the lookup table, the host processor 10 generates a faulty nozzle record, such as in the form of a mask file, to record the faulty nozzle locations. Preferably, the mask file is simply a word having at least as many bits as there are nozzles. For example, for the 640-nozzle print head, the mask file consists of a word having at least 640 bits. The state of each bit in the word indicates the state of each nozzle in the print head. Preferably, the mask file is stored in the host memory device 9 for later access by the host processor 10. Alternatively, the mask file is transferred to printer memory 29 for later access by the printer controller 30.
In the preferred embodiment, the printer driver accesses the mask file when generating print data to be sent to the printer controller 30. Based on the mask file, the printer driver determines which of the nozzles on the print head 20 are good and which are faulty. If the mask file indicates that one or more nozzles are faulty, the printer driver alters the print data to bypass the faulty nozzles. Thus, image pixels that would have been printed by the faulty nozzles are printed by one or more neighboring good nozzles.
According to the preceding description, a printer driver running on the host processor 10 generates commands that control the printing of the test pattern 32. It will be appreciated, however, that the invention is not limited to generating these commands in the host processor 10. In an alternative embodiment, firmware in the printer controller 30 could control the generation of the test pattern 32 with minimal intervention from the host processor 10. In that embodiment, the printer driver on the host processor 10 may merely send a single command to initiate the test pattern printing process.
In another embodiment, when the printer controller 30 receives print data describing an image to be printed, the controller 30 accesses the mask file stored in the printer memory 29 and generates printer drive signals based on the print data and the mask file. Based on the mask file, the controller 30 alters the printer drive signals to print the desired image using only good nozzles. In this embodiment, the print data is not altered to compensate for the faulty nozzles. Instead, the controller 30 compensates by altering the drive signals to the print head to bypass the faulty nozzles.
It is contemplated, and will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the preceding description and the accompanying drawings that modifications and/or changes may be made in the embodiments of the invention. Accordingly, it is expressly intended that the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings are illustrative of preferred embodiments only, not limiting thereto, and that the true spirit and scope of the present invention be determined by reference to the appended claims.
designating as faulty the ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed the test images at the empty locations.
generating print data to be sent to the print head, where the print data causes activation of the ink jet nozzles to print an image on a print medium, the generating taking into account the ink jet nozzles which are designated as faulty, such that the print data causes activation of only those of the ink jet nozzles which are not designated as faulty.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the printing step further comprises printing each of the test images as a square block having sides of approximately 0.25 inch in length.
(e) repeating steps (a)-(d) for each empty location in the matrix.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of printing a test pattern further comprises printing indicia on the test pattern that are related to the location coordinates.
correlation means for receiving the cursor position signal, determining the empty location based thereon, and correlating the empty location within the test pattern with one of the ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed the test image at the empty location, and for generating faulty nozzle identification information based thereon.
print head control means for accessing the faulty nozzle identification information and for generating print commands to be sent to the print head based at least in part on the faulty nozzle identification information, where the print commands cause activation of only the ink jet nozzles on the print head which are not designated as faulty.
the correlation means for correlating the location coordinates of the test image designation area with the one of the ink jet nozzles that, if functioning properly, would have printed the test image at the empty location.
designating as faulty the ink jet nozzle that, if functioning properly, would have printed the corresponding test image at the empty location.
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Birdathon 2017 Results Are In!
A big "Thank You" to all our Birdathon leaders! We had a broad range of events this year that included several of the regular monthly bird walks, traveling caravans covering wide geographic areas, and a 2-hour sit-in at a single location.
Kris Ohlenkamp's Sepulveda Basin walk attracted twenty-five birders who viewed Yellow Warbler, Bell's Vireo and a Great Horned Owl. In total 57 species were observed.
Ten birders joined Carolyn Oppenheimer for a walk in O'Melveny Park that resulted in 37 species including White-breasted Nuthatch, Lawrence's Goldfinch and Hutton's Vireo.
Fifteen birders joined Jim Moore's Big Day in the Antelope Valley that tallied 117 species including three vireo species (Cassin's, Plumbeous and Warbling), five flycatcher species (Olive-sided, Willow, Hammond's, Gray, and Dusky) and Lesser Nighthawks.
Richard Barth's trip to Morongo Valley and Black Rock Campground with 12 birders resulted in 51 species including stunning Vermilion Flycatchers and Summer Tanagers, Yellow-breasted Chat, White-winged Dove and Costa's Hummingbird.
Three birders joined Pat Bates on a scorching day at Hansen Dam. In total 29 species including several Canyon Wrens and Phainopeplas were seen. A Belted Kingfisher surprised them by flying by and they had a fabulous look at a Yellow Warbler.
Four birders joined Mark Osokow for his Big Day in the Santa Susana Mountains and Simi Hills. They tallied 63 species including 10 White-faced Ibis at the Chatsworth Nature Preserve Ecology Pond observed from Chatsworth Oaks Park. Other special finds were displaying Common Poorwills, an unexpected flight of forty Vaux's Swifts, an active Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Hooded Oriole nests, and a Hermit Warbler.
Five birders joined Heather Medvitz and Pat Avery for the Big Sit at Sepulveda Basin. In total 30 species were identified including Bullock's Orioles and a female Mallard with fourteen hatchlings.
Andrew and John Willis birded Rancho Palos Verdes for the Lori Willis Foundation and identified 53 species including Blue Grosbeak, Red-whiskered Bulbul, three Cormorant species (Pelagic, Double-crested and Brandt's), and a Peregrine Falcon.
Ten birders joined Art Langton's walk at Malibu Creek State Park that yielded 45 species including Lazuli Bunting, Blue Grosbeak and White-breasted Nuthatch.
Allan and Muriel Kotin identified 88 species during their 24-hour birding marathon during which they visited hot spots in Orange and Los Angles Counties. They enjoyed seeing Yellow-breasted Chats, Lawrence's Goldfinches and watching an Osprey devour a fish. To see Muriel's complete report, with wonderful photos, click here.
This year's Birdathon raised over $10,000 -- but it's never too late to make a contribution. All funds raised support our vital education and conservation programs. Please join us by sponsoring Birdathon!
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Wheat Ridge Community Foundation
The Wheat Ridge Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization established in 2003. In 2011, it changed its name from the Wheat Ridge Foundation to the Wheat Ridge Community Foundation to broaden its support throughout the community. The Foundation:
encourages community giving by connecting donors to community needs, building permanent charitable funds, and bringing people together to improve the quality of life throughout Wheat Ridge;
is dedicated to financially supporting a variety of programs, including educational, social and recreational programs and facilities provided by the City of Wheat Ridge Parks and Recreation Department; and
is financially supported through charitable gift donations and fund raisers.
Board of Director Meetings
Quarterly Board Meetings on the second Friday of March, June, September and December
Wheat Ridge Recreation Center Conference Room
4005 Kipling St.
For a current list of Board Members, contact information, and complete information about all the programs it supports, see the Wheat Ridge Community Foundation website. For questions about supporting City of Wheat Ridge programs through the Foundation, please contact (303) 231-1307 or email.
Programs that support programs, facilities, parks and open space administered by the City of Wheat Ridge:
Arts and Culture Programs
Memorial Programs - Memorial Trees and Veterans Gazebo Memorial Bricks
Parks, Forestry and Open Space
Performances in the Park
Senior Fund (Active Adult Center scholarships, improvements)
Wheat Ridge Police Programs
Wheat Ridge Recreation Scholarships
Other Community Programs
Kyle Brake Sports Scholarship Fund - Information and Application
Feed the Future Backpack Program
Wheat Ridge Farmer Football Booster Clubs
Contributions made to the Wheat Ridge Community Foundation are tax deductible. Giving options are flexible to meet each individual donor's needs. Please specify which program you'd like your donation to support or indicate that you would like to make a general donation, where the funds are directed to the program with the greatest need. Donate online, in person (cash or check), or by mail at:
c/o Wheat Ridge Recreation Center
Other Forms of Donations
Financial donations are the simplest way to give, but you can also donate in other ways. Naming the Foundation as a beneficiary in your will, life insurance, or as a receiver in a charitable remainder trust are all charitable giving options available to you. Real estate or personal property may also be given.
Real Estate or Personal Property Donations
If you'd like to donate real estate or personal property, or designate the Foundation in your will, life insurance or in a charitable trust, contact the Foundation via email to assure that the transaction would be mutually beneficial.
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Keppel Island är en ö i territoriet Falklandsöarna (Storbritannien). Den ligger i den nordvästra delen av ögruppen,  km väster om huvudstaden Stanley.

I övrigt finns följande på Keppel Island:

 Halvöar:
 Carruther Point (en udde)
 Glen Point (en udde)
 Lancaster Point (en udde)
 North Point (en udde)
 Point Frances (en udde)

 Berg:
 Mount Keppel (ett berg)

Källor

Falklandsöarnas öar
Öar i Falklandsöarna större än 10 kvadratkilometer

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Okręty wsparcia typu Absalon – dwie jednostki Królewskiej Duńskiej Marynarki Wojennej

Okręty wsparcia typu Absalon są kolejnymi duńskimi jednostkami opracowanymi w zgodzie z rodzimym systemem Standard Flex. Jest to koncepcja modułowości, w ramach której można dokonać stosunkowo łatwej wymiany uzbrojenia i wyposażenia na okręcie, aby przystosować go do wypełniania różnych zadań, zgodnie z aktualną potrzebą. Jednostka typu Absalon może więc służyć jako okręt dowodzenia, okręt desantowy, transportowiec, okręt szpitalny lub stawiacz min.

Projektowanie
Od lat 80. XX wieku Dania rozwija koncepcję budowy uniwersalnych okrętów z modułowym wyposażeniem systemu Standard Flex (pierwsze były okręty patrolowe typu Flyvefisken). Na przełomie XX i XXI wieku opracowano projekt nowatorskich jednostek, łączących funkcje okrętu bojowego, transportowego, dowodzenia, łączności i wsparcia, nadających się zwłaszcza do pełnienia misji pokojowych i humanitarnych, które stały się istotnym zadaniem marynarek wojennych państw zachodnich. Dla zmniejszenia kosztów, przy projektowaniu i budowie wykorzystywano technologie cywilne. Zaklasyfikowano je w Danii jako Fleksible Støtteskibe (FS) – elastyczne okręty wsparcia.

Budowę pierwszej jednostki "Absalon", która dała nazwę typowi, rozpoczęto 30 kwietnia 2003 roku, oba okręty wodowano w 2004 roku i oddano do służby w 2005 roku. Budowane były w stoczni Odense Stålskibsværf A/S w Odense.

Dotąd nie brały udziału w konflikcie zbrojnym, lecz wykorzystywano je w zwalczaniu piractwa u wybrzeży Somalii (Operacja Atalanta).

Opis konstrukcyjny
Kadłub okrętów jest gładkopokładowy, z silnie wychyloną prostą dziobnicą i wieżą działa na pokładzie dziobowym. Ponad połowę długości kadłuba zajmuje nadbudowa na śródokręciu, łącząca dziobową i rufową nadbudówkę, z płaskimi nachylonymi ścianami łączącymi się z burtami i ustawionymi w stosunku do nich pod kątem. Jej przednia łamana ściana jest silnie nachylona do tyłu i zwieńczona jest przeszklonym pomostem bojowym na całą szerokość. Pod nim znajduje się bojowe centrum informacji. Większymi otworami w bocznych ścianach nadbudówki rufowej są wnęki na łodzie półsztywne, zasłaniane roletami. Cały pokład rufowy zajęty jest przez lądowisko śmigłowców o powierzchni 850 m². Kadłub, nadbudowa i graniaste maszty oraz kominy zaprojektowane są zgodnie z nowoczesnymi zasadami architektury okrętowej, zakładającymi zmniejszenie śladu radiolokacyjnego okrętów (stealth). Starano się także zminimalizować generowane przez okręt pola fizyczne (akustyczne, termiczne, magnetyczne).

Kadłub i nadbudowa zbudowane są z 10 zasadniczych bloków. Kadłub podzielony jest na 16 przedziałów wodoszczelnych. Pomieszczenia załogi znajdują się w nadbudówce i pod nią. Załoga liczy etatowo 100 osób, lecz przewidziano miejsca dla 140 osób; marynarze mają kabiny czteroosobowe, a oficerowie i podoficerowie jedno- lub dwuosobowe. Większą część rufowej nadbudówki zajmuje hangar mieszczący dwa ciężkie śmigłowce EH-101 Merlin. Na pokładzie nadbudowy między nadbudówką dziobową i rufową znajduje się pięć gniazd na moduły uzbrojenia Standard Flex.

W części rufowej w kadłubie znajduje się zamknięty pokład ładunkowy o wymiarach 84×10,9×4,5 m i powierzchni użytkowej ok. 900 m². Załadunek możliwy jest przez  rampę w pawęży rufowej. Można transportować pojazdy o masie do 62 ton, np. 12 czołgów podstawowych lub ponad 40 samochodów. Na pokładzie tym mogą zostać zainstalowane specjalistyczne kontenery, umożliwiające transport do 170 ludzi, pełnienie roli okrętu dowodzenia ze specjalistycznym wyposażeniem i pomieszczeniami mieszkalnymi dla 70 oficerów sztabowych, albo okrętu szpitalnego z blokiem operacyjnym i salami intensywnej opieki medycznej dla 40 pacjentów. Istnieje także możliwość zaadaptowania okrętu do roli stawiacza min, przenoszącego na torach minowych do 400 min.

Wyporność standardowa wynosi 4500 ton, a pełna 6600 ton. Okręty mają długość całkowitą 137 m, szerokość 19,5 m i zanurzenie maksymalne 6,3 m.

Uzbrojenie
Główne uzbrojenie stałe stanowi amerykańska armata kalibru 127 mm Mk 45 Mod 2 o długości L/54 (54 kalibrów, produkcji BAE Systems, w wieży na dziobie. Początkowo przewidywano uzbrojenie okrętów w armaty kalibru 76 mm OTO Melara z wycofywanych ze służby ścigaczy, ale zdecydowano się na zakup nowych znacznie skuteczniejszych armat większego kalibru.

Uzbrojenie to uzupełniają dwa zestawy artyleryjskie obrony bezpośredniej GDM-008 Millennium firmy Rheinmetall Defence (dawnej Oerlikon), każdy z rewolwerową armatą kalibru 35 mm o szybkostrzelności 1000 strz./min, umieszczone w superpozycji przed nadbudówką dziobową oraz na dachu hangaru na rufie. Zasięg zwalczania samolotów wynosi do 3,5 km, a pocisków rakietowych do 1,2 km, a w przypadku użycia amunicji programowalnej AHEAD – do 2000 m. Ponadto można na okręcie zamontować do sześciu karabinów maszynowych kalibru 12,7 mm w przypadku zwalczania zagrożeń asymetrycznych.

Uzbrojenie rakietowe może być instalowane na pięciu gniazdach na moduły Standard Flex. Typowo stanowią je dwa moduły z pociskami przeciwokrętowymi AGM-84 Harpoon i trzy moduły z pociskami przeciwlotniczymi RIM-162B ESSM. Każdy moduł z pociskami Harpoon obejmuje dwa bloki z czterema kontenerami startowo-transportowymi, ustawione pod kątem w kierunku przeciwległych burt – łącznie w dwóch modułach okręt przenosi 16 pocisków AGM-84 Harpoon Block II. Każdy moduł pocisków przeciwlotniczych mieści starszą wyrzutnię Mk 48 z sześcioma pionowymi kontenerami startowo-transportowymi pocisków ESSM lub nowszą Mk 56 Mod 1 z dwunastoma; łącznie okręt może przenosić ich od 18 do 36. Ponadto okrętu mają cztery podwójne wyrzutnie pocisków przeciwlotniczych bardzo bliskiego zasięgu Stinger.

Uzbrojenie przeciwpodwodne stanowią dwie dwururowe wyrzutnie torped MU90 Impact kalibru 324 mm, umieszczone na pokładzie na każdej z burt na śródokręciu, zasłonięte w położeniu marszowym pokrywami w ścianach nadbudowy.

Lista okrętów

Przypisy

Bibliografia


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I am excited to announce a wonderful new partnership with Elli, a fabulous online stationery boutique. With wedding season just around the corner, I've been hard a work designing Save the Dates exclusively for Elli. Checkout my latest designs: Sweet Lace, Posh Affair, and It's a Date.
Stay tuned: I'll be posting about more designs for Elli soon.


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I received a special offer through for a free item from everything5pounds; I needed a dress for a Christmas party and some new work trousers so decided this was a good opportunity to try some of their clothes and have a look at the quality.
I chose a crochet midi dress in the pink. It arrived very quickly and well packaged. It is very nice quality, although the size is certainly a small 10, very clingy.
I have 2 parties which I need dresses for, one is a work Xmas do and the other is a very posh event in the City of London. This dress is nice but would never do for such a posh party, the inner dress is just above knee length and the top layer is split twice at the front.
I think it will do very well for the office party.
I also purchased some work trousers, they are well made and very comfortable.


HOUSTON, TX, March 28, 2018 – Sentai Filmworks announced today that it acquired all distribution rights to Tada Never Falls in Love for North America, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The 12-episode original series by Doga Kobo (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Himouto! Umaru-chan) explores the wonder of adolescence through the eyes of Tada, a thoughtful teen who finds beauty through his camera lens but has never fallen in love.
One serendipitous day, Tada is taking pictures of cherry blossoms and unexpectedly meets Teresa, a transfer student from Luxembourg. Tada helps Teresa as she gets separated from her group and takes her to his grandfather's coffee shop. As Tada and Teresa's friendship begins to blossom, Tada starts to question his feelings.
The original anime will be directed by Mitsue Yamazaki (Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East) with series composition from Yoshiko Nakamura (Kabukibu!) and character designs by Junichiro Taniguchi (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun).
Tada Never Falls in Love will be available to stream on select digital outlets for the Spring 2018 simulcast season, with a home video release to follow.


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Man who died after Land Rover flipped and submerged in pond is named by police
His family have described him as a loving grandfather who will be "truly missed"
Sophie Prideaux
A man who died after his Land Rover overturned and submerged in a pond has been named as Yate grandfather Mervyn Clive Dunn.
Mr Dunn, who was 69, was travelling along Latteridge Road, Iron Acton, at around 4.10pm on Saturday May 19 when the crash happened.
The vehicle had been driving along the B road towards Yate in South Gloucestershire .
Formerly of Vivian Street, Windmill Hill, Bristol, Mr Dunn leaves behind his wife of 44-years Margaret Dunn, his two daughters Sue and Liz and their husbands along with six grandchildren.
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His family have paid touching tribute to him, saying he will be missed.
Latteridge Road, heading towards Yate Road in Bristol
In a statement, they said: "He loved to spoil his grandchildren and he would shower them with love. He will be truly missed."
A police investigation is ongoing. A statement from Avon and Somerset Police, released on Monday, said: "A Land Rover Freelander was travelling along the road towards Yate, when it overturned and was submerged in a pond .
M5 crash: Man cut out of car and rushed to hospital
If you were travelling through the area at the time or you have any information please call 101, quoting reference number CI/92/18/3153 and ask to speak to the Collision Investigation Unit."


"Association of 5-HTT gene polymorphisms with migraine: A systematic re" by Hua Liu, Ming Liu et al.
Background/aims: Serotonin is known to play an important role in the pathogenesis of migraine, but individual genetic association studies that examine the relationship between polymorphisms of serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene and migraine have yielded inconsistent results. This study aimed to evaluate the association between 5-HTT gene variants (including 5-HTTLPR, VNTR and SNP) and migraine using systematic review with meta-analysis. Methods: Relevant studies were identified by searching English and Chinese databases extensively. Allele and genotype frequencies for each included study were extracted. The odds ratio (OR) was calculated using a random-effects or fixed-effects model. Q statistic was used to evaluate homogeneity, and Egger's test and Funnel plot were used to assess publication bias. For family-based association studies, a descriptive analysis was carried out. Results: A total of 15 studies were identified for meta-analysis. It was found that the 5-HTT VNTR Stin2.12 allele or 12/12 genotype had an increased risk for migraine in the general population (Stin2.12 allele: OR, 95% CI: 1.34, 1.09-1.64, p = 0.006; 12/12 genotype: OR, 95% CI: 1.55, 1.17-2.05, p = 0.002), but there was no significant association between migraine and 5-HTTLPR or SNP rs2020942. Conclusions: Existing evidence indicates that the 5-HTT VNTR polymorphism (mainly the STin2.12 genotype) is associated with an increased risk of migraine in the general population. Future studies with larger sample sizes will be necessary to confirm the present results. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


HONG KONG/SHANGHAI — Beijing's giant state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are playing an increasing role in China's build-up in the South China Sea and could seek to cement their dominant position in coming years, according to new research.
"They cannot operate independently, but they are ultimately opportunists and when the policy environment is favorable, then they will go for it. And we have seen signs of that behavior in the South China Sea," said Gong, who is based at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
It cites state media estimates that building up Fiery Cross Island alone, now home to a 3-km runway and military facilities including missile and radar installations, cost around $11 billion.
The ongoing buildup of the seven islands deep in the maritime heart of Southeast Asia has alarmed the United States and other regional powers.
CCCC has formed new units centered on the Paracels, which China disputes with Vietnam, that are eyeing expansion in tourism, logistics, fishing as well as ongoing construction business, according to the paper.
It has earmarked $15 billion for investment across various sectors — a plan that "stems from the fact that it has quietly benefited from land reclamation in the South China Sea through implementing national tasks," the research states.
The Singapore research also details how China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) lobbied for funding and greater Chinese involvement in the South China a decade ago after facing criticism from scholars concerned about activities by rival claimants.
CNOOC later earmarked $32 billion for exploration and built a giant deep-water drilling rig that was placed off central Vietnam in 2014, sparking tensions with Hanoi.
According to its first-quarter filings of listed unit CNOOC Ltd., which is in charge of all the group's exploration and production business, the South China Sea's share of the company's total oil and gas output rose to 45 percent — up from 43 percent last year. That was second only to its Bohai operations off north China. CNOOC's latest annual report listed eight new discoveries in the South China Sea, out of a total of 19 struck offshore China in 2017.
Some players like CNOOC "appear more skillful and effective in mobilizing resources to influence state policy, while some actors, such as enterprises in the tourism industry, respond only when the state provides incentives," Gong noted.
In a statement to Reuters, CNOOC Ltd. said it had a deep-water development strategy for the South China Sea and planned to extend investment on future exploration and development.
"All oil and gas companies among the globe are welcomed to jointly invest and operate in offshore China and to achieve success together with the company," CNOOC Ltd. said.


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The British Line of Succession
Here's who will take the throne after Queen Elizabeth II.
On, May 6, 2019, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, announced the birth of their first child, a baby boy, weighing 7 pounds, 3 oz. While details of the child's name are currently under wraps, we do know where the youngest member of the royal family sits in the pecking order for the throne.
Regardless of whether the baby is a boy or a girl, Prince Harry's child will be seventh in line to the throne, behind his or her father, and will remain ahead of any other children Harry and Meghan have in the future, again regardless of gender. He or she will also bump Prince Andrew (and everyone else) down a position. Read on for the full order of succession from Prince Charles to the Earl of Ulster.
1. Prince Charles
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9. Princess Beatrice of York
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10. Princess Eugenie of York
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We live in a dynamic world that is increasingly driven by technological innovation. Within urban populations, there has increase in the demand to use new technologies, especially if they result in making life more enjoyable, more interactive and simpler.
Today, transport agencies can use secure contactless technology to deliver seamless inter-operability within a wide variety of third-party applications, thereby increasing ridership, enhance passenger experiences and build lasting relationships within the community – all whilst moving closer to the ideology of smart urban environments.
Throughout this webinar provided insight into how Monorail tickets were integrated into CES 2017 event tickets, using NXP's highly secure MIFARE DESFire EV2 contactless IC. Discussion included technological possibilities and how easy it is to integrate additional services into existing contactless solutions. Attendees of this webinar will, therefore, learn how one single card can be used for multiple services and why all parties therefore profit from a multi-application solution.
How secure contactless technology can connect people to an exceptionally broad range of programs and services that provide a convenient, easy starting point for an entire universe of daily activities. The smartphone, therefore, becomes almost a personal kiosk for secure payments, storing funds and connecting to an individual's preferred payment scheme to enable cashless, on-the-go transactions. What's more, the addition of secure, interactive, over-the-air services let people customise content and use personal preferences to design their own mobility experiences.
MIFARE DESFire EV2 – NXP's latest smart medium solution provides a secure and flexible way to connect an unprecedented range of activities on a single credential. This means there's no need to keep track of multiple cards, tickets or keys, etc., since a single card or device can be used for e.g.: transport; accessing a hotel room; as a museum ticket; as sport event ticket; or to attend a concert.
Alexander is located in Graz, Austria, at the NXP Competence Centre for Secure Identification Solutions and is focusing on driving NXP's engagement to build smart cities based on NXP's solutions in the area of security and connectivity within the MIFARE product portfolio. Hence Alexander is deeply involved in activities that promote solutions for cities to become greener and smarter places to live, facilitating efficient and safe mobility by enabling cross industry collaboration.
Christoph has a deep knowledge of contactless smart card technology and its various application fields – he supports customers in the creation of secure and innovative contactless solutions. Through his global engagement with leading suppliers and end customers, Christoph has advanced insights in the key requirements and hurdles associated with the usage of contactless technology. As contactless solutions are moving into a multi-application environment, Christoph is driving this in the area of event access, by adding services like micro-payment and loyalty schemes to access systems, ensuring beneficial and convenient solutions for all stakeholders.


No high tech – just a ring and a hole. Two parts to build a very functional hinge which can easily and smoothly be swivelled in two axis. Minimalist in its design PIT concen- trates on its function. As a result it brings a pleasant light for reading and working.
Versatile wall light made of the same material and featuring the same functionality as the PIT table and floor lamps. Available in two options: plug-in (Version 1) or hardwired (Version 2). The lamp switch is located on the base plate, which assures that it's always easily accessible.
Reduced down to the basics, the new floor lamp PIT can illuminate any room. The lamp head can swing 180° up and down. The fabric lampshades come in black or white, the wooden elements are made of black- or white-glazed oak and the metal parts are black or white powder coated. The cables come in red, blue, silver-grey and hemp, allowing you to assemble the lamp individually.
PIT works with its simple hinge as a table lamp as well. Everywhere light is needed, PIT can easily swivelled in this direction. The available colorful cable emphasise the clever and minimalistic design of the whole PIT lamp family.


What are hottest topics around the fascinating autonomous driving technology? A vast amount of companies are investing in this future assets, which will be essential for future transportation of people and goods. For this reason the technology is currently under heavy development. This analysis is based on 1.500 news on the given topic. I've used bing news and newsisfree as a source for english news. The news sources are ranging from http://www.huffingtonpost.com to http://www.telegraph.co.uk.
As you can see, the plot is showing the big players / companies, that are investing in the sector of self-driving cars: Google aka Waymo, Nvidia, Intel just entering the market, BMW started a cooperation with delphi to enhance their technology. A very interesting one is the cluster on the top left corner, as you see on the highlighted section below.
It's about the struggle between Waymo and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski, who is accused of reusing googles technology for his own start-up, which has been bought be Uber. "In a lawsuit filed last month in San Francisco, Google's autonomous vehicle spinoff Waymo accuses former engineer Anthony Levandowski of stealing 14,000 pages of intellectual property and trade secrets, then using them to launch his robotruck startup, Otto. Just four months later, Uber acquired Otto for a reported $680 million—and that, Waymo alleges, is how the ride-hailing giant started using Google's vital circuit board and sensor setup in its own self-driving cars." See https://www.wired.com/2017/03/simple-theory-ubers-waymo-mess-just-sloppy/ for full article.
tried different ways of transforming this topic into a graph. The co-occurence approach worked best.
The tagging consists of 3 different steps. The first phase is using a positive phrase lexicon, which is extracted automatically from a vast amount of news. This delivers a big amount of valid and commonly used phrases, e.g. self-driving cars. Secondly I'm using a chunk parser. A chunk parser is using a language specific morphology to extract meaningful multi token terms from a given text. Since the chunking delivers quite a amount of phrase, which are prefixed with some kind of stopwords, e.g. "the engine" or "our target" you need to make some clean-up. In the third and last step I'm picking up a single token terms, that are not intersecting with one of the previous tags.
The scoring is based on TF-IDF, an approach that is very know the information retrieval or tagging.
The clustering of the terms is simple co-occurence: the more often two terms appear together in one news, the more similar they are. After a preselection of the 100 most important topics, I'm creating co-occurence matrix, which creates a connection / edges between each top terms and each topics in a news. This way a natural clustering is created. Using the Force Atlas 2 algorithm for sorting the nodes creates nice and meaningful cluster. This algorithm is using a kind of attraction and repulsion logic for displaying the given nodes and edges. Things that often meantioned together will be closer in the gephi plot.
Currently I'm working on different ways to visualize the topics extracted from the news. New results will be posted on this page.
Being curious about artificial intelligence and data-science I'm leveraging such technologies to create a deeper understanding about the development of the future economy.


Here in Germany, the French Horn has been proclaimed Instrument of the Year 2015. Now, my horn makes an appearance on every episode of Sarah's Music but I wanted to do something special to mark this year and when the opportunity came up of doing a tour of all the horned animals at the Berlin Zoo with my friend Dr Andreas Ochs, I thought this would make a good basis for one of our episodes. It was definitely a first for me doing the introduction with a rhino…I got thoroughly slobbered on by Ine the Rhino who has two rather magnificent horns of her own!
In this episode you can get an idea of how a French horn like mine evolved from the animal horn to the concert stage, I have included some links below as I am sure you will want to know more details…:-) We all had fun at the Zoo and I loved playing our little barn concert with my friends and fellow horn players, Thomas Jordans and Klaus Wallendorf. It was a family affair and their children showed how they take after their fathers by playing loudest during the Horn Challenge!
The Berlin Philharmonic Horn Marathon Day at the Philharmonie was also a perfect opportunity to show you how we horn players like to get together and play our favourite instrument. Horn is really much more fun in a group and the more the merrier, as you can see at the end in the Flashmob. Well, we were more like just a mob because we took so long to get organized and tape the music onto the backs of the person in front of us, so it wasn't really a surprise flash, more like a little concert. I had the best human music stand of all – you'll have to watch to see what I mean! Clemi was also our very first Sarah´s Music Horn Challenge, have a look here.
I hope you enjoy this episode and will agree with us horn players that our instrument really does deserve the honour of being Instrument of the Year 2015!
Horn Concert in the Barn 2.
Sarah and the Instrument of the Year 2015!


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Memo to Entrepreneurs: Advertising isn't a strong business model
May 22, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Strategic News / 16 Comments
I am proud to be a mentor for the Colorado TechStars program, and this evening we had our first mixer, a typical geeky mixup with poor acoustics and a male:female ratio of about 30:1. The mix was young entrepreneurs who won the TechStars competition and are now seed funded through the summer (along with gaining access to an array of very sharp advisors and mentors), the mentors, and other folk in the community who are focused on startups and business development.
A nice group and it was a good opportunity to both visit with some of my Denver-based friends and meet the young turks who are hopefully going to be building the next YouTube or Flickr in our proverbial garage.
Except for one glaring problem…
I estimate that I talked with about seven different startups this evening, roughly fifteen different entrepreneurs who are eager to dive into their business ideas full-time, to really devote all their energy into building Something Cool and Meaningful. Hopefully there's the proverbial pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow, but there was very little sense of people tilting towards a payout (or what we finance types call an "exit event"), which was nice.
But time after time, I asked "interesting idea, but how are you going to monetize it?" and received back flowery explanations that boiled down to "advertising" or, worse, AdSense. One group was even more disconnected, explaining that their goal was to build a large community of users, then they'd "figure out" how to make money.
Here's a tip for all you budding startup junkies: A busy site can certainly make for a great hobby, a fun project to fiddle with, and maybe a few bucks at the end of the month, but (with precious few exceptions) that's not a business.
Advertising? Well, you can look at the slow dissolve of the traditional media — newspapers, magazines, radio, broadcast TV — to understand the great risks involved in believing that someone else will always underwrite your efforts, someone other than your users. Further, while there might be high-flying estimates of future advertising revenue in the online world, it isn't often highlighted that the competition is going to get tougher too. A company like IBM might spend millions on advertising, but their money is going to skew towards a small number of large sites, not a large number of small ones, meaning that unless you want to build a business on the nickel and dime PPC payouts of Google's AdSense, AuctionAds, and related, you've got a fundamental problem in your business model.
How much smarter to have a business that has figured out a compelling value proposition, a solution that's so slick, so useful, that users are happy to upgrade to a paid premium service. Not an awkward afterthought of useless tools for the less than one percent who upgrade, but something really revolutionary, something new and clearly cool. Unfortunately, there wasn't much of that thinking embodied in the groups I met this evening, and while I remain highly enthused about TechStars, I am a bit concerned about the likelihood that we'll see a bunch of home runs, or, heck, even a single or two out of the mix…
No question, it's going to be very interesting to see how these companies evolve over the summer as various of us mentors and advisors try to hammer home the idea that the difference between a good idea and a real business is a reliable revenue stream, and that the best way to create that is to offer a compelling, valuable business service.
Then again, there are plenty of startups that were acquired without much more of a business plan than "get lots of eyeballs", so maybe I'm completely off-base here. How important do you, dear reader, believe it is that a business have a clear and sustainable revenue stream identified in the earliest stages of its existence?
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16 comments on "Memo to Entrepreneurs: Advertising isn't a strong business model"
Brendan Lally says:
Wise words but one could say "isn't that common sense' — awh but doesn't that fly out the window pretty quick (reminds one of the dotcom fools/horses!)
but no doubt u'll hammer some sense into them (and your fellow advisors) by the time they leave.
Jake Ludington says:
As someone whose business makes a good percentage (a majority?) of its income from advertising, it seems odd you would try to deter people from starting businesses with advertising as their revenue model.
There's plenty of potential in advertising-based revenue models. Using traditional media as an example of why this will fail is hardly fair, considering most of the traditional media companies are currently in financial decline because they are failing to adapt to the changing state of media delivery; not because the idea of advertising as revenue model is fundamentally flawed.
A fair point, Jake, but the difference is that I am not building a multi-person business or planning on seeking venture capital down the road. Is advertising a possibility for a small shoestring startup? Sure. But that's not what we're talking about and that's not the focus of the TechStars program either.
Further, since you ask, a quite significant percentage of my income comes from non-advertising sources, more traditional revenue streams for a management consultant…
Dick Carlson says:
I think I agree with both you and Jake.
We need to change what we call the "advertising" business, because that metaphor is hopelessly defined by newspapers and other media. If everything looks like a hammer, …
Jake, your business is much more than advertising. I send people to you to get knowledge. I send them to you to get expert opinions. I send them to you to save me time.
It would be rare for me to find a newspaper or TV station that I could do that with. When someone wants to know about some kind of digital media, the generalized pap (think Kim Komando) that is out there in traditional channels is pretty much useless. Driven by the idea of serving the largest possible audience and offending the fewest people, there will never be much value in the information.
JLMB is very clearly focused, even though there's a lot there. It's also very clearly the opinions of an expert, and rarely seems to be rah-rah or driven by a vendor. And the tone is very different from what you'll be hearing from Katie Couric or the lovely Kim.
That's why I'd advertise on it. Because of the context, because of the cachet, and because of the community.
Craig Eubanks says:
I have a similar problem with clients who only want to use email to communicate with their customers. In spite of overwhelming evidence that delivery is getting worse on a daily basis.
If email were taken away their business would tank.
I'm curious how you persuade your clients to use 'diversified' marketing?
Ok Dave you've dragged me into this from your email newsletter .
I'm helping a start-up business newspaper which is extremely tightly focussed on a section of Greater Manchester.
I really believe businesses that want to reach businesses in that part of Manchester will want to buy advertising through it. Therefore estimated revenues were identified before getting bank funding.
I think estimated revenue helps with investors. And should make the entrepreneur more comfortable. However, as you know entrepreurs are about risks too and sometimes you just have to believe in making something work and going for it.
I'm wondering how these start-ups all made it into Techstars without plans for revenue streams other than advertising, or it sounds like at least in one case, without even that! Were these really the best that were out there?
– Jeff
I was product manager at CompuServe for many years. We recieved hundreds of proposals for new services every month and the one attribute frequently overlooked was Promotions. People still seem to believe it "If you build it they will come!" There may be one or two of those services every few years, but with the millions of web sites out there, it takes more than luck!
David Cohen says:
TechStars is not about picking the perfect business and revenue model. It's about picking great founders who value mentorship so much they'll drop everything else for it, and supporting them any way we can. It's hard to judge them two days into things. Hopefully you picked up on the fact that they're all bright, motivated, and passionate founders who are focused on problem areas. Business models will evolve – that's why great mentors like you are involved!
Roddy says:
Sitting in Boulder as I write this, I wonder at the ultimate viability of the concepts being honed at TechStars – are these seasoned founders or first timers? If they're the latter, what's the downside to a Meebo-style $12m round of funding for a concept with a 1000ish Alexa rank and no obvious business model? Given exit strategies are leaning more toward acquisition by Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc and not IPOs, wouldn't expanding the advertising reach of those corps be enough to justify a focus on advertising supported ventures? Or are you suggesting that the 2.0 bubble is waning, (seems like it's at about a May 2000 point relative to the first .com wave) and we're going to actually have to be creative and find some way for someone to actually pay for something and stop dropping the 'e' from our .coms?
Jeff Barson says:
Ah, the lure of adsense and CPM. It's started many new hobbies.
To me it is just amazing that programers build businesses and get funded. I create value in business and would never think of actually coding a website. Not sure why coders think they can pull off biz models.
Another way to look at it. In the long run, these bizs are giving something away to attract users. What advertiser can really monetize that well?? The 'customers' won't pay the primary biz but they will click through and then pay?
Luckily, I don't have either of these problems.
anon e mouse says:
I worked at a startup recently for a year.
They had a pretty decent app but were going for the sm. biz segment and had the typical freemium business model.
I wrote a fun little video site / app on the side.
1 year after the day gig startup launched, with 3 co-founders + 1 full-time developer, we were only at $2100 / mo. in revenues on the freemium model.
At the same time, 6 months after launching my little side project, spending just a few hours a week on it, it was already doing $2k per month in revenues (almost pure profit).
Just one small example. The CEO of the startup had never worked in advertising-based companies so he had no clue how much you can make from them, if they go over even moderately well. (20,000 – 50,000 daily uniques, any more is pure gravy)
Sarah at Corona Advertising says:
"Not sure why coders think they can pull off biz models." Mike, they do it because others have done it successfully in the past. You cant do what you believe you cant do.
Don H. says:
How is it that the biggest player on the Internet is an advertising-only model. Of course an advertising-only model is valid, in fact it's the norm for most content publishers.
eddie says:
I guess the investors for facebook and myspace must of been crazy for putting money into a advertising-only business model.


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The Current: Shed One
|By Tim Huber
Decades ago numerous outfits from across the globe made names for themselves selling DIY motorcycle kits that buyers could purchase and assemble themselves. Companies like Rickman, C&J Frames, and Trackmaster thrived on selling everything needed to assemble your own high-performance two-wheeler. Fast forward to the present, however, and moto-kit operations have become rare – something that can largely be chalked up to millennials' general aversion to mechanics (not to mention an overall decline in interest in motorcycles).
The basic architecture of the Shed One, with additional parcel rack up front. [Shed Rides]
A new UK startup, Shed Rides, is aiming to change this via the introduction of a new DIY moto-kit for the modern era, comprised of a modular, upgradable, electric platform designed for short-distance riding/commuting. Shed Rides isn't just selling kits too, it's also offering a range of add-ons and accessories, as well as the knowhow to enable even the least mechanically-minded individuals to build their own electric bike. "Shed One is not designed to worry a Ducati Panigale but riding something self-built and customized to your own satisfaction would reward its owner with a sense of achievement and connection whilst zipping along," explained Shed Rides' Andy Trainor.
Andy Trainor, founder of Shed Rides. [Shed Rides]
Framing A Good Idea
The platform is centered on a CAD-designed, TIG-welded, steel, "container" style chassis featuring a motor-plate that's been pre-drilled allowing for a number of different electric AC or DC powertrains to bolt directly in — though Shed Rides makes specific reference to a 22hp unit in a recent press release. Thanks to Unistrut-compatible frame-spars, powertrain and other internal components can easily be mounted too.
The "Frame One" also boasts cross-tubes that serve as mounting points for a number of bolt-on racks — which are offered in standard units or available custom – and other accessories. The company says the chassis was designed to accommodate generic, readily available suspension and brake components from existing pit-bike models, making sourcing parts both easy and affordable.
The basic welded frame, with space to easily insert the batteries and mount the motor. [Shed Rides]
An Education In e-Bikes
On top of simply selling customers the Shed One kit, the West Yorkshire-based startup has announced it will be offering a myriad of classes, teaching owners how to do everything from assemble, to maintain, to upgrade their new e-Bike. The hands-on education consists of both classroom lessons and classes held in a workshop.
Classes are slated to begin in September of 2019, and a free one-hour teaser workshop is available to anyone — plus discounts on classes will be offered to Shed One buyers. For more information on specific lesson plans you can checkout the "Courses" page on the Shed Rides website. While the classes do cost money to attend, Shed Rides says it will also be offering (Ikea-style) phone and email support for technical help and troubleshooting.
Good Today, Good Tomorrow
Shed Rides has also accounted for the rapid pace at which EV tech is currently advancing, by offering future-proof upgrades that are supposedly to be made available down the road, allowing owners to up-spec their motors, batteries, controllers, etc. This should, in theory, prevent the Shed One from being totally obsolete by the time the Shed Two rolls around.
A Shed One cafe racer with aluminum 'tank' and seat unit. [Shed Rides]
Bells & Whistles, Add-ons & Accessories
Like many of today's highly-modular offerings, The Shed One — which is said to be street-legal — is being launched with a bevy of bolt-on parts and accessories, allowing customers to tailor their respective machines to their specific tastes and needs. In addition to the aforementioned luggage racks, Shed Rides is also reportedly offering a number of (plastic vacuum-formed) body panels, stands, displays (including using a Smartphone), regenerative braking, Bluetooth connectivity, alarm, remote starting, and a slew of electrical bits such as lighting,
Team Green? The Shed One with off-road styling. [Shed Rides]
Despite the Shed One not officially launching until September, the company is already keen to receive public feedback on its inaugural offering. For this reason Shed Rides will be attending North England's upcoming Manchester Bike Show — held on the weekend of March 23rd/24th 2019. According to the company's press release, the feedback received on the Shed One's final design, and custom/add-on options will help the startup determine an ultimate price for the DIY kit — a factor that I imagine will play a pivotal role in determining Shed Rides' overall success.
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