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Posted on March 1, 2022 at 6:13 pm by Bernard Munk
Freedom-lovers all around the world are hoping that tonight President Biden will reverse his previous floundering efforts in foreign policy and announce a substantial support package for the brave Ukrainians. Ukrainians, like their forbears in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania before them, have revolted against Russian totalitarianism. Our President has the opportunity to show he is a President of whom freedom-loving Americans can be proud. He needs to stand up tall and place the full panoply of American capabilities at the disposal of those who are sacrificing their lives and fortunes by defending their country against Russian expansionism through military force. Moreover, he needs to do it tonight at the traditional State of the Union speech to both Houses of Congress.
His recent behavior doesn't suggest that he will do that. But that is what he needs to do at a time when it counts! A strong statement backed up with immediate and substantial movement of military supplies and civilian goods to feed, clothe and heal the wounded is called for. The already-invaded economy of the Ukraine needs help now, not the promise of sanctions that may help, if at all, only after their emergency has passed.
American foreign policy, particularly regarding the twin threats from China and Russia, has looked weak and flailing. Under this President, real deterrence has not been in play. Deterrence begins with positive displays of meaningful action which our enemies need to worry about. This is not a time to cater to the prevalent view of "no more foreign wars." The Ukrainians have demonstrated that they are willing to fight and die for their country. We must immediately supply them for their struggle. This illegal attempt to take over a free country by military force is exactly what we must resist with substantive actions. The Free World cannot afford any further delay by America in meaningful support for the Ukraine.
Totalitarian countries watch what we do, not what we say. They formulate their own strategies by estimating how we will respond. A flaccid response by the USA is an open invitation by Putin and Ji pin to-implement their own aggressive policies with military means now and in the future.
This is nothing new. Have we learned nothing from the history leading up to WWII? Have we no guidance from our struggles during the Cold War? Didn't the confrontation with the
Khrushchev-led Soviet Union with Missiles in Cuba in 1962 teach us anything? A Putin-led Russia wishes to similarly assert its world presence by demonstrated military power coupled with a nuclear threat precisely because our leadership has been a blither of words lacking forceful actions. This is the time, Mr. President, to "walk the walk." Americans of all political persuasions know this. Your prestige hangs on your actions, not your speech, and so does the prestige of our country. As Benjamin Franklin once said at that critical moment of the signing of our Declaration of Independence, "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Mr. President: Don't denigrate our traditions of defending freedom by talking brave but doing little. Now is not the time for the "summer soldier and the sunshine patriot." Now is the time to be the Leader of free peoples everywhere and of those who yearn still to be Free.
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For the most part, eBay's shopping cart looks and behaves like shopping carts at other online retailers. But since eBay's format is still a hybrid of listing formats—some auctions, some fixed-price listings, some mixed listings—there are some slight differences in using its shopping cart other e-commerce websites shopping carts.
What Buyers Should Know About eBay's Shopping Cart
The eBay shopping cart experience is different for buyers and sellers. Ultimately, the shopping cart provides a streamlined process that allows things to go more smoothly on both ends of the transaction. Below are the most important things that you need to know about the shopping cart as an eBay user:
Adding items to your shopping cart doesn't reserve or "win" them: When you add an item to your shopping cart, you're not committed to buying it, and until you have paid, items in your cart are still available to other buyers. Since a lot of eBay's merchandise is sold in limited quantities, there's a good chance an item could sell out before you complete your purchase. If you want time to compare and contrast items you're thinking of buying, don't wait too long to make up your mind.
Items can appear in your cart even when you didn't "add" them: These may include items you've won in auctions or items you've chosen to purchase through eBay's Buy It Now feature. These items will remain in your cart until you've paid for them.
Paypal payments can be consolidated using the shopping cart: As long as all of the sellers represented in your cart at any given time accept PayPal payments directly, eBay's shopping cart feature can be used to consolidate multiple purchases into a single payment action on your part, with payments being automatically totaled and distributed to sellers as necessary by eBay. If you prefer, you can still purchase items separately, such as when you decide to buy one item now and save others for later.
As usual, you'll only be able to purchase auction items in your shopping cart after the auction has ended. If you prefer, you can still purchase items immediately with the Buy It Now button and bypass the eBay shopping cart altogether.
What Sellers Should Know About eBay's Shopping Cart
Notably, eBay has integrated auction payments and Buy It Now payments into the shopping cart with its release, so no changes need to be made to your selling practices to be "shopping cart ready." There are, however, some things that sellers should know about the shopping cart:
You can't opt out: There is no way to opt out of the shopping cart feature as a seller. All of your listings (apart from those in categories for which the cart doesn't make sense, like real estate and motor vehicles) will automatically function with eBay's shopping cart system as described above.
Buyer blocks and exclusions/requirements still work: Any buyer profile or geographical requirements that you have in place or blocks that you've added for problem buyers remain in effect with shopping carts.
Combined shipping discounts are good marketing: Any shipping discounts you offer for multiple item purchases are featured prominently in the shopping cart and calculated in a way that is far more transparent to the buyer, something that can serve to generate repeat business and loyalty.
You can't find out whether your items were added to a cart: The "number of watchers" that you see in your My eBay or Selling Manager area does not necessarily include everyone who has added your item to their shopping cart. There is currently no way for sellers to get a count of potential buyers that have added items to a shopping cart.
In general, eBay's shopping cart is easy to follow and gives another option for buyers who might not be ready to commit to an item right away. It makes changes and updates to the shopping cart occasionally, so when in doubt, check with eBay to make sure the information you have is the most up-to-date.
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Members of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee met on Tuesday with representatives from the biofuels and airline industries to discuss ways to expand production of low-carbon aviation fuel, the subcommittee chair said.
The meeting is part of a broader push by lawmakers to advance climate and energy legislation amid calls by U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to rapidly slash greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050.
The aviation subcommittee of the Democratic-led House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure met with low-carbon fuels provider World Energy, the Advanced Biofuels Association and Airlines for America, among others, two sources familiar with the meeting said.
The biofuels industry group represents about 30 companies and the airlines industry group represents about 10 airlines and delivery companies.
The virtual meeting was intended to brief subcommittee members about so-called sustainable aviation fuel, an alternative to traditional jet fuel that can be made using animal fat, used cooking oil and plant oils, Representative Rick Larsen, who chairs the subcommittee, said after the meeting.
Such fuels are considered more climate friendly because they help replace dirtier petroleum products while also providing new uses for wastes that would otherwise be thrown out.
"There's not a lot of SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) being used right now relative to the U.S. demand for aviation fuel writ large, but there's a lot coming online," Larsen said. "The biggest effort from a policy point of view is to include the aviation fuel in the blender's tax credit."
The meeting focused on the need for consistent policy that would help expand the market, one of the two sources said.
Airlines and renewable fuel producers have promoted sustainable aviation fuel as a way to help reduce aviation industry carbon emissions, though it is currently expensive to make and would require subsidies to be competitive.
The Biden administration last month issued a new tax proposal that includes a blender's tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel, which the Treasury Department said would enable "the decarbonization of a key portion of the U.S. transportation sector."
Air travel contributes around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Air Transport Action Group, a coalition of aviation experts focused on sustainability issues.
In March, the aviation subcommittee asked the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to assess questions around sustainable aviation fuel including what role the federal government plays in facilitating its development and what U.S. laws or policies present barriers to its production.
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Miami-Dade County area: 1,955 square miles / 3,145 square kilometers Elevation: 12 feet / 3.6 meters / 15+ miles of beaches
Climate:
Subtropical annual average daily temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit / 23 degrees Celsius
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800+ parks, including Crandon Beach County Park and Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, also home to two unique national parks, Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. Award-winning tennis and golf are popular here, as well as water sports, such as wake boarding, parasailing, windsurfing, wave-running and jet-skiing.
Miami-Dade County population: 2.8 million+
Ethnic breakdown: White 12.9%, Hispanic 69.4%, Black 17.7%
Median household income: $50,000
35 municipalities, including Miami-Dade County, City of Miami, City of Miami Beach and Bal Harbour Village
Lodging:
481 hotels and motels and 60,546 rooms
PortMiami Tunnel: The Port Tunnel has improved access to and from PortMiami serving as a dedicated roadway connector linking Port facilities with Florida's Interstate System. In addition to providing quicker access for Port-bound trucks and automobiles, the Port Tunnel is designed to reduce traffic congestion on downtown Miami streets. The tunnel is comprised of two side-by-side tubes that carry traffic underneath Biscayne Bay.
Brightline, is America's first major private intercity passenger railroad in over a century. Brightline launched service between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in May 2018. Brightline currently has plans to expand to Orlando and Tampa by 2022 and beyond.
Miami International Airport (MIA):
MIA offers more flights to Latin America and the Caribbean than any other airport in the U.S.
It is America's third-busiest airport for international passengers, boasting a lineup over 100 air carriers and is the top U.S. airport for international freight.
MIA is also the leading economic engine for Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida, generating business revenue of $31.9 billion annually and approximately 60 percent of all international visitors to Florida.
New Flight Services in 2020 and Beyond
For the first time to Miami (MIA), Southwest Airlines began operating12 daily flights with roundtrips from Baltimore, Chicago, Houston and Tampa to Miami – November 2020.
Eastern Airlines began nonstop service between Miami (MIA) and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia operating twice weekly – December 2020.
El Al resumed nonstop flight service between Miami (MIA) and Tel Aviv, Israel operating three times weekly – October 2020.
Quatar Airlines restarted operations from its base in Doha (DOH) to Miami (MIA) twice weekly – November 2020.
Frontier Airlines will begin new service to Miami (MIA) operating 4 flights weekly - Spring 2021.
American Airlines began nonstop service from Milwaukee Mitchell International to Miami (MIA) operating once weekly – November 2020 until April 2021.
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PortMiami, "Cruise Capital of the World™," welcomed over 6 million passengers in 2019. With more than 20 cruise brands and over 50 ships Miami continues to be the departure destination of choice for cruises to the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico & other exciting destinations.
Miami is home to the world's leading cruise lines: Aida Cruises, Azamara Club Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Crystal Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, MSC Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, and Royal Caribbean International.
PortMiami is Miami's second most important economic engine, contributing $43 billion annually to the local economy and supporting more than 334,500 jobs in South Florida.
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Greater Miami and Miami Beach is the Wreckreational Diving Capital of the World, containing Miami over 50 diveable wreck sites—such as ships, oil platforms, army tanks and the Spirit of Miami Boeing 727 jet-- sunken to provide artificial reefs for marine life.
Miami is also home to the largest concentration of Boutique Hotels in the world.
Miami Beach is a man-made island that was once a Coconut Grove Plantation.
Julia Tuttle, -- the "Mother of Miami" -- convinced Standard Oil co-founder Henry Flagler to extend his railroad from central Florida to Miami, build a luxury hotel, and lay out a new town. She did so by sending him perfect Miami orange blossoms during a crop freeze north of Miami. The railroad arrived in 1896. The City of Miami was incorporated on July 28 that same year. The city of Miami is the only major city in the U.S. to be planned by a woman.
Miami is home to the world's only Everglades eco-system, made famous in Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' book The River of Grass.
Miami is home to 150+ ethnicities and 60+ languages
Miami's unique sport of Jai-Alai features pelotas which are recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as traveling up to 75 mph.
Miami was a mangrove swamp before its development started in the 1920s. What is now a glittering city was once a mosquito infested swamp, with no deep-water port, railroad, or air conditioning. It wasn't until the extension of a railroad system from West Palm Beach to Miami in the 1920s that the development of the destination started.
Miami installed the first bank automated teller machine (ATM) specially designed for roller-bladers. In-line skaters weren't always the most popular customers in Miami's banks and shops. In 1996, Citibank's Miami Beach branch came up with an innovative solution to help roller-bladers access their funds – they set up an ATM outside the bank with a ramp leading up to it.
Miami has more than 800 parks and is the only city in the US that is bordered by two separate national parks – Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. Countless other parks situated downtown, oceanside and in the suburbs provide opportunities for picnics, watersports, fishing, and hikes.
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Café La Trova in Little Havana named Best American Bar Team winning a 2020 Spirited Award by the coveted World's 50 Best Bars. Café La Trova came in as the 70th best bar in the world.
Setai, Miami Beach, voted as the Leading Beach Hotel by the World Travel Awards and the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, voted Leading Hotel in Florida by the World Travel Awards in November 2020.
Miami named as one of the world's best cities to visit in 2019 by Lonely Planet.
The travel website TrekBible included Miami in its article of "11 Best Weekend Getaways in the U.S."
Wynwood included in TripAdvisor's list of "14 Coolest Hipster Neighborhoods in the USA"
Miami ranked #8 Best Large City in the Resonance 2019 America's Best Cities Index
PETA named Miami one of the top ten vegan friendly cities in 2018.
Expedia included Miami in its roundup of "11 U.S. Cities that Feel Like International Destinations"
Miami included in Trips to Discover's roundup of the "12 Best Atlantic Coast Beaches in Florida" as well as their roundup of the "12 Best Places to Go Paddle Boarding in Florida"
Travel+Leisure listed Miami as one of the 20 Most Fun Cities in America and one of the Best U.S. Cities for a Romantic Urban Honeymoon
Miami named one of the "Best U.S. Beach Towns to Live In" according to Travel + Leisure
Finance website, SmartAsset, ranked Miami as the number one city for foodies in the country
Trips to Discover featured Miami on its list of Top 10 Must-Visit Christmas Towns in Florida
Miami named 9th best U.S. city for vegans and vegetarians, according to a WalletHub study.
The U.S. News & World Report ranked Miami as #1 in "Best Places to Visit in January," #9 in "Best Shopping Destinations in the U.S.A.," and #11 in "Best Weekend Getaways"
Miami ranked #4 in "The 30 Most Fun Cities in America" according to a WalletHub study
Miami ranked #7 with the most art-buying customers in the U.S. according to a report from Artfinder. Miami is home to North America's only Art Basel show, attracting over 100,000 visitors from all over the world each year.
Escape Here, listed Miami as one of the Best Food Truck Cities in America
Millennials are flocking to Miami's tourism and entrepreneur industries, making it the 2nd most desired city for millennials according to Realtor.com
Downtown Miami's population has more than doubled since 2000, from 40,000 to 92,000+, driving businesses and millennials to the area, according to AP News.


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A retrospective of fifty years of the artist's work on loan from the Hall Foundation, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, and tracing the career of the first artist to win the Turner Prize.
Malcolm Morley's paintings share a connection with Pop Art – but he isn't a Pop Artist. He created his work using methods similar to the Photo-realists – but he isn't one of them. The artist just does not fit into any one particular genealogy; this connection to Photorealism, or Super-realism – as he named it – was discarded by the artist in favour of a more expressive method of painting – that critics deemed a kind of Neo-expressionism. But as the artist has stated, with a wry quip; once a movement is named it's dead.
Morley is hard to place, difficult to categorise and therefore hard to kill, and because of this, critics don't quite know what to make of him.
In an art historical desire to pigeon-hole with a finely chosen 'ism'; It is harder to quantify what Morley is; than what Morley is not.
He is not a Photo-realist. Morley's painting can convey a Photo-realist quality when reproduced in publication, but to the eye of the viewer there is a subtle yet conscious energy to the paint; there is covert mark-making in Morley's Super-realist works. If an 'ism' was to be found it was in the artist's self-categorisation – before discarding the method and the category of Super-realism in order to follow an expressionistic route – a route already alluded to in that surreptitious energy.
As Morley stated; the paintings in reproduction appear as Photo-realist, but upon inspection of the actual work a strange phenomenon occurs and you see the physical reality of the surface, and it seems to work through your central nervous system.
As Morley focused his attention on 'area' [the surface of the canvas as opposed to any exploration of background or foreground] he worked in grids, painting each section of his canvas one at a time, and applying the equal values of a mathematician, or an artist of the Renaissance, to every segment of the image.
In fact Morley expressed an interest in Malevich's suprematism, where the object is rendered meaningless to feelings engendered by geometry and form. Morley was making his objects quietly flat, and his canvas democratic.
An idea reflected in the artist's work 'The Theory of Catastrophe' – a bird's eye view of a motorway pile-up, where, upon inspection of the Photo-realist energy and violence of objects, the painting gives way to an equality of form and surface.
The act of a Photo-realist painter – or in this instance; the Super-realist painter – is still, in and of itself, controlled and methodical. Yet Morley juxtaposes this restraint by delving into his own subconscious to find his subject matter, and there is a frequent exploration of chaos and destruction as an almost 'counter weight' to the artist's equipoise of paint.
The leitmotif of the ocean liner is a recurring image for the artist. Originally Morley attempted its likeness by painting the real thing from pier 57 in New York, only to discover that he couldn't take in the scale of these vessels. So instead he resorted to a postcard – with this decision; Morley's Super-realism was born, and a plethora of ocean liners followed in its wake.
Only many years later in the depths of psychoanalysis did the artist remember a balsa-wood model of HMS Nelson waiting to be painted, left overnight on a windowsill – destroyed by a German V1 bomb, along with his childhood home – with this memory Morley realised that all the ships that he, the artist, had painted in his career had been an attempt to complete that model.
The story is possibly a conceit similar to that of Joseph Beuys' story of the origins of felt and fat in his work; yet it is an exemplifier of Morley's need to inject an element of chance and the random into the highly structured format of his Super-real.
The exhibition has been curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal and is situated in one of the lower galleries of the Ashmolean Museum. This is not a white cube space in the sense of a contemporary art gallery, as the exhibition shares this location with a small number of permanent artefacts from antiquity. A fantastical hybrid creature rests between Morley's paintings in the form of an Assyrian 'Winged Genie' Relief carved from a slab of gypsum, a minor deity that rests its eyes upon 'Pamela Running before the Wind with a Dutch Lighthouse' – it's an unfortunate relationship thankfully not destined to last – yet Morley's oeuvre is certainly arresting enough to draw the eye away from this inadvertent juxtaposition, and that of Sir Henry Cheere's 18th century statuary.
In fact Morley has not been overpowered by old or indeed new media, his painting from postcards transcended that of the Photo-realists in that it never dismissed a sense of the painterly. But in this Malcolm Morley has far more in common with George Seurat than he does with Roy Lichtenstein.


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A screenplay is not just a piece of literature. It gives the material for performance and aesthetic design of a good movie.
A well-made screenplay contains these two levels of explicit structure and implicit dramaturgy – dealing with our two levels of thinking (Kahneman). Modern as well as postmodern fiction movies are using set design as well as gesture of the actors in a specific way related to implicit dramaturgy or intuitive thinking. How far this could be given or inspired by the screenplay? How much it is part of realization? I will explain these aspects with the help of practice-based research on the basis of selected sequences in SHUTTER ISLAND (Scorsese) and GAME OF THRONES (HBO).


A group of about 23 doctors is claiming that the Health Department refuses to place them for an internship programme within the country.
These doctors say that they underwent all the necessary processes and tests but still remain unplaced.
The president of HPCSA and Medical and Dental Board chair, Dr Kgosi Letlape says this happens every year when doctors who train outside of South Africa want to return and do their internship in the country.
He says the challenge is there is no space for these students in South Africa. Priority is given to doctors who have trained in the country.
The challenge is insufficient space in the training facilities, which is the same challenge why they could not get into medical schools in the country before they left.
The reality is that we do not have enough funded training posts and we plan for the people who trained in the country. The priority is to ensure that everybody who trained in the country is placed.
We always advise people that when you go and study elsewhere just ensure that you come back as a person with credentials from the country of study, which would mean that you are a qualified doctor. When you are here and you want to do an internship, there's always been pressure.
Abortion on demand has been legally available since February 1997 but still, there are reports of women dying of illegal abortion.
The Department of Health has proposed that the internship period of junior doctors be shortened to one year.
Junior Doctors Association of SA chair Dr Theresa Mwesigwa says the department has had challenges in making placements.
Dr Shevel says that treatment cannot be fully effective without assessing where the pain is coming from.
Dr David Moore says the number of cases reported on Listeriosis were a red flag and he immediately notified the NICD.


Time spent before harvest on the defoliator will increase productivity and reduce downtime during harvest.
Check frame and hitch components for cracks. Weld and reinforce all cracks.
Check and repair Power Take Off shaft.
Check all hydraulic hoses and cylinders. Repair or replace leaking couplers and all worn hoses.
Check all bearings. Replace any bearing that seems worn-focus on the center hanger bearing on the twelve row machines.
Check tire pressure. Maintain equal pressure across the machine.
Check and replace worn flails on all drums.
Check scalping equipment. Sharpen or replace all knives. Check bearings on disc scalpers.
The set up and operation of the defoliators has not received enough attention. Payments to growers can be dramatically affected because of the impact of defoliator operation on crow yield and quality.
Set the defoliator for each field. Different varieties have different crown height.
for flails to remove the petioles.
Adjust the scalping equipment. Do not remove excessive crown material. Remove only the top 1/3 or a 50-cent piece size part of the crown.
Adjust the height of the front of the machine to keep the steel flails above the crowns. This should be one inch above the tallest crown.
Adjust the rear of the machine to clean the crowns and sweep each side of the row.
As the weed pressure in a field increases decrease the forward speed.
Do not use equipment with only rubber flails after severe frost.
Take time to train defoliator operators. A well trained operator can make timely adjustments in the field to decrease harvest losses.
Please refer to the fact booklet "The Sugarbeet Harvest" for more details.


The interior was stunningly created by Ava Sofya. The tens of thousands of Iznik tiles define a huge central prayer space which is lit by 260 windows.
The architect who orchestrated the visual impact of the exterior was Sedefhar Mehmet Ağa. The curves of the domes are best described as voluptuous. At the time of its construction, the six minarets were the largest number around. The courtyard is the largest of any mosque in the Ottoman empire.
In order to fully appreciate the stunning proportions of the complex, be sure you enter the courtyard by way of the Hippodrome. It gives you a better prospective on the size and beauty of the design. The alternative entrance is from Sultanahmet Park.
Those who come to the mosque to worship may enter through the main door. Tourists should follow the signs to the south door. Separating the many people who come to see the popular attraction, from groups of worshipers, preserves the sacred atmosphere of the mosque.


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Аљаски маламут је једна од најстаријих вучјих пасмина паса, а име је добио по урођеничком племену Инуита звано Малемут који су настањивали висинске дијелове западне Аљаске. Аљаски маламут је сличан другим арктичким пасминама и шпицевима, као што су гренландски пас, канадски ескимски пас, сибирски хаски и самојед. Аљаски маламут се у почетку користио као пас за вучу, због своје снаге и издржљивости. Данас се све мање користи у те сврхе, али и даље има земаља у којима служи за вучу.

Основно
 Мужјак
 Висина од 61 до 66 cm
 Тежина од 36 до 43 -{кг}-
 Женка
 Висина од 56 до 61 cm
 Тежина од 32 до 38 -{кг}-

Историја
Једни од најстаријих паса коришћених за вучу санки, преци аљаског маламута су пре више хиљада година прешли копнени мост са доморадачким народима. Племе, познато као Махлемутс било је настањено у североисточном делу полуострва Севард, одакле ова раса и потиче. По овом племену је пасмина добила назив - маламут.

Пси су коришћени за лов на фоке, растеривање поларних медведа, вучу тешких санки напуњених храном и осталим залихама. Ескими су их добро третирали и маламути су за њих били веома драгоцени. Осим што су им помагали у разним пословима, били су веома везани за ове псе, који су им чували и грејали децу услед хладноће. Маламути су у саживоту са својим људима били поштовани као равноправни чланови породице.

Историјски догађај назван "златна грозница" 1896. године пратио је огроман прилив великих паса који су могли поднети тамошње временске услове. Многи доморадачки пси спајали су се са псима "придошлицама", па се оригинални тип паса полако губио. Махлемути су били релативно изоловано племе, па су аљаски маламути много боље поднели инвазију од осталих раса.

Артур Т. Валден је у Њу Хемпширу основао своју одгајивачницу маламута. Он и његови наследници (Милтон и Ева Сили) су 1930-их снабдевали псима експедицију на Анктарктику (Бирдова експедиција на Анктарктику). Породица Сили започела је програм репродукције паса пронађених у подручју Њу Саунд, на Аљасци. Ова лоза аљаских маламута постала је позната као лоза звана "Котзебуе".

Са псима које је купио на Аљасци, раних 1900-их, а касније и током 1920-их година, Пол Велкер развио је нешто другачију пасмину. Та пасмина је позната као лоза "М' лот". Ови пси су коришћени током Првог и Другог светског рата у другој експедицји адмирала Бирда.

Клуб аљаских маламута из Америке формиран је 1935. године, а амерички кинолошки савез је те исте године признао расу. Током Другог светског рата већина регистрованих маламута "позајмљена" је за обављање ратних дужности, будући да је постојала велика потражња за псима који вуку санке. Ови верни пси, који су на експедицији на Анктарктику током Другог светског рата безрезервно служили својим људима, до краја рата скоро су уништени.

Карактеристике пса

Нарав
Аласки маламут је веома интелигентан и енергичан пас. Прилично их је једноставно дресирати, али дресура мора почети рано како би се добили најбољи резултати. Због њихове прошлости у улози радних паса и паса за пратњу остао им је нагон за ловом, те им је на време потребна социјализација. Уз рану социјализацију и обуку, маламут ће се добро слагати са осталим псима. Ипак, има тенденцију да лови мале животиње, осим ако није одрастао са њима или ако га власник не дресира да то не ради. Најважније је упознати аљаског маламута са другим животињама у домаћинству. Маламути су изузето дружељубиви и стрпљиви са децом и воле пажњу коју добијају од њих, али брзорастући, енергични штенци аљаског маламута могу лако надмашити дете од пет година.

Маламути су веома активни пси, треба их свакодневно шетати. Због високог нивоа енергије, нису најбољи избор за неискусне власнике. Углавном су тихи, ретко лају.

Глава
Велика је и снажна, у поређењу са другим расама "природна", али треба да буде пропорционална телу, тако да пас не изгледа трапаво и грубо. Лобања је широка између ушију и постепено се сужава ка очима. Њушка је снажна и масивна у односу на лобању. Благо се смањује и сужава ка носној печурки. Носна печурка је црна. Горња и доња вилица су велике да би носиле снажне зубе. Очи су бадемасте, боје кестена, осредње величине за свој облик, искошене. Пожељно је да буду што тамније. Уши су средње величине, мале у односу на лобању. Врат је снажан и лепо грађен.

Тело
Грудни кош је снажан и дубок, а труп је снажан и збијен. Леђа су равна, благо нагнута ка бедрима. Крста су мишићава, али не кратка да ометају лако и ритмично кретање које је условљено снажним подстицајем задњег дела. Лопатице треба да су умерено искошене. Предње ноге су мишићаве са снажним костима. Подлактице су усправне до дошапља која су кратка и чврста и скоро вертикална, гледано из профила. Шапе треба да су кратке и збијене, прсти збијени и извијени у облику лука, јастучићи дебели и отпорни, нокти кратки и јаки. Мора да постоји заштитна длака између прстију. Реп је средње усађен и следи линију кичме, богат је крзном и ношен на леђима када пас не ради. Не обликује прстен који лежи на леђима и није снабдевен кратком длаком ни ношен као лисичја четка, већ као лелујава перјаница.

Покровна длака маламута треба да је оштра, усправна и густа око врата. Њена дужина је променљива, као и дужина подлаке. Уопштено, длака је умерено кратка са стране тела и у средини, а повећава се око плећки и на врату, дужином леђа и на сапима, као и на завесицама и перјаници. Длака је много краћа и ређа преко лета, за време лињања. Уз белу боју која је јединствена код свих маламута у комбинацији са њом најчешће се појављују нијансе црвене, сиве и црне боје. Могу бити и потпуно бели.

Неупућени аљаског маламута неретко мешају са сличним сибирским хаскијем. Обе расе потичу из хладних крајева и изворно су коришћени за вучу. Аљаски маламут је већи, снажнији и мирнији, док је сибирски хаски нешто ситнији, гласнији и има више енергије. Уочљива је разлика и у боји очију јер хаскији могу да имају смеђе и плаве очи, а чистокрвни аљаски маламут искључиво смеђе. Најлакше их можемо раѕликовати по репу, јер маламут има чупав реп као лисица преко леђа, а хаски обичан реп.

Нега и здравље
Не захтева често четкање, учесталије чешљање грубим чешљем је нужно приликом лињања. Купање је довољно једном до двапут годишње, осим ако се не испрља.

Маламути су, генерално, здрава пасмина, али и они, као и остали пси, склони су појединим здравственим проблемима. Најчешћи узрок смрти је рак. Катарактаа је присутна од прве до око друге године старости, а ретко доводи до слепила. Као и код осталих великих раса, може се јавити дисплазија кукова. Може се јавити хондродисплазија, тј. рађање штенаца са деформитетима и манифестује се абнормалним обликом и величином екстремитета.

Аљаски маламут у просеку живе око око 10-12 година, а женка оштени око шест штенаца.

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This square-bound book includes a reprinting of a two-part Heroes Incorporated story from 1995 and eight pages of bonus material from the never-completed third part. It is published in the Hurm Studio section of Lulu.com.
Heroes Incorporated was written, penciled, and inked by Keith Quinn (who also colored the cover and typeset those sections that have text!). This story was originally completed in December of 1994 and published in two parts under the Hurm Studio imprint by Double Edge Publishing in March of 1995.


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College basketball: South Dakota women outlast FGCU for WNIT title
Florida Gulf Coast guard DyTiesha Dunson, left, and South Dakota guard Tia Hemiller (4) reacts as a ball gets away during the second half of the WNIT final Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the DakotaDome in Vermillion, S.D. South Dakota won 71-65. (Corey Perrine/Staff)
Florida Gulf Coast forward Katie Meador, center, walks off the court holding the runner-up trophy after the loss of the WNIT final Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the DakotaDome in Vermillion, S.D. South Dakota won 71-65. (Corey Perrine/Staff)
Florida Gulf Coast guard Stephanie Haas (12) tangles with South Dakota guard Jasmine Trimboli (5) drawing a foul during the second half of the WNIT final Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the DakotaDome in Vermillion, S.D. South Dakota won 71-65. (Corey Perrine/Staff)
Florida Gulf Coast head coach Karl Smesko gives a thumbs up, flanked by Florida Gulf Coast guard Whitney Knight (14) and Florida Gulf Coast guard Jaime Gluesing (21) to the few fans who made the trip after the loss of the WNIT final Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the DakotaDome in Vermillion, S.D. South Dakota won 71-65. (Corey Perrine/Staff)
Florida Gulf Coast guard Kaneisha Atwater (2) rips the ball from South Dakota guard Tia Hemiller (4) as South Dakota guard Kelly Stewart (15) looks on during the first half of the WNIT final Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the DakotaDome in Vermillion, S.D. South Dakota won 71-65. (Corey Perrine/Staff)
WNIT Final: South Dakota 71, FGCU 65
College basketball: FGCU record-setting seniors go out with a loss, but together
Social media archive: South Dakota defeats FGCU, 71-65, in WNIT championship
By Adam Fisher of the Naples Daily News
Posted: April 02, 2016 0
VERMILLION, S.D. — The Florida Gulf Coast University women's basketball team relied on its seniors, shooting and swagger during its energetic postseason run.
But in the WNIT championship game, FGCU ran into a team just as experienced, just as offensively gifted and with just as big a chip on its shoulders. And this time it was the Eagles' opponent that was spurred by a wild home crowd.
South Dakota answered every FGCU run in Saturday's championship. The Coyotes hit big shots and got big stops when they needed them in a 71-65 victory in front of 7,415 fans.
"We have nothing to hold our head down about," said FGCU senior Kaneisha Atwater, who led the Eagles with a game-high 25 points. "We had a tremendous season. This was a great tournament for us, a great experience, even if it didn't end the way we wanted."
The Eagles' seven seniors in uniform didn't let their careers end without a fight, even after South Dakota took a 12-point lead in the fourth quarter.
FGCU (33-6) trailed the entire second half, but the Eagles cut their deficit to one possession five times in the fourth. Each time, South Dakota (32-6) and its five prominent seniors had an answer.
The Coyotes swung the momentum for good with 4:40 left. Atwater was fouled and hit a layup to cut South Dakota's lead to 53-51, but she missed the free throw. On the other end, South Dakota's Kelly Stewart hit a 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down to put the Coyotes up five points.
Atwater later made two free throws to make it 56-53 with 4:19 left, but the Coyotes got big shots from Nicole Seekamp and Miller to seal their first WNIT title.
"Give (South Dakota) credit," FGCU coach Karl Smesko said. "Under pressure situations they knocked down big 3s. We just couldn't come back after they extended (their lead) that last time.
"We knew it would take a tremendous effort to win against a quality team. We wanted a chance in the last five minutes to pull it out. We were there, we just didn't do it. That's part of basketball."
Since losing in the Atlantic Sun Conference finals by two points and missing the NCAA tournament, the Eagles have used that disappointment to drive them. South Dakota had the same impetus behind its championship run.
Like FGCU, the Coyotes won their regular-season conference championship and lost in the Summit League championship. South Dakota also felt it had a resume strong enough to get an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, but was passed over.
"I'm so incredibly proud that we were playing our best basketball down the stretch," South Dakota coach Amy Williams said. "We had to play our best to sneak out a win versus a very, very good Florida Gulf Coast team."
Atwater, a three-year player who transferred to FGCU as a sophomore, single-handedly kept the Eagles alive in the fourth quarter.
South Dakota took an eight-point lead with 6:43 to play. Atwater then scored FGCU's next 19 points. The 5-foot-8 guard had all her team's points the rest of the game until reserve Jessica Cattani made a 3-pointer with five seconds left.
"I wasn't attacking as much as I should have in the first half," Atwater said. "In the second half, I was more aggressive. That's the way I should have been the entire game."
Atwater led FGCU in scoring this season with 14.3 points per game. But before the fourth quarter she was 2-of-9 from the floor with six points. Atwater finished 8-of-17 with 25 points, four rebounds and three assists.
"What an incredible basketball player," Williams said of Atwater. "We knew (FGCU) had some tremendous players and we weren't able to keep everybody under control. We did a good job making it difficult for (Whitney) Knight today, but we did let Atwater get to the basket. She's a great player and difficult to defend."
Knight, second all-time in scoring and rebounding at FGCU, had one of her worst offensive games in four seasons. She shot 2 for 12 and was 1-for-7 on 3s. Knight finished with six points, her second-lowest total of the season.
"I did what I could," Knight said. "I got into foul trouble and my shots weren't going down. … We fought our hardest. It (stinks) that we lost, but we were happy to get to this point. We fought hard."
With FGCU guarding the Coyotes' talented shooters, Knight played defense inside with little help. Though she struggled on offense, she was a force on the other end.
Knight tied her own school record with nine blocked shots. She also had five rebounds and two steals.
FGCU was at a disadvantage playing on the road, but also after a quick turnaround from the WNIT semifinals. The championship game tipped off 41 hours after FGCU beat Michigan at home Thursday. The Eagles had to travel all day Friday before arriving at South Dakota less than 24 hours before the game.
The Coyotes also were inspired to close out their famous DakotaDome. The 10,000-seat arena will continue to host South Dakota football games, but the basketball teams move to a new complex next season. The dome has hosted basketball since 1979.
"We did have a long travel day," Knight said, "but when you're playing in a championship game, fatigue and outside factors go out the window. I don't think we were too tired. We put it all on the floor."
NOTES: In getting past the WNIT second round for the first time in six appearances, FGCU became the first Atlantic Sun Conference team to play in the tournament's championship game. … South Dakota also was the first team from its conference, the Summit League, to play in the WNIT finals. … The Eagles' 33 wins this season are a Division I school record, breaking the mark of 31 set last season. … FGCU is one of nine teams the country to win 30 games in back-to-back seasons.
SOUTH DAKOTA 71, FLORIDA GULF COAST 65
FGCU (33-6)
Dunson 2-5 1-2 5, Atwater 8-17 7-8 25, Knight 2-12 1-2 6, Gluesing 1-4 0-0 3, Gradinjan 5-10 0-0 12, Cattani 1-1 0-0 3, Meador 0-4 0-0 0, Murrell 0-0 0-0 0, Goodall 0-0 0-0 0, Haas 5-12 1-4 11, Laughter 0-0 0-0 0, McCaskill 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-65 10-16 65
SOUTH DAKOTA (32-6)
McCloud 1-5 0-2 2, Hemiller 6-11 8-10 22, Timboli 2-3 0-0 4, Stewart 4-8 1-2 12, Seekamp 3-15 1-2 7, Bradley 0-1 2-2 2, Arens 0-0 0-0 0, Homoly 0-0 0-0 0, Duffy 2-3 2-2 8, Liveringhouse 2-4 0-0 4, Hoff 0-0 0-0 0, Fogg 5- 0-0 10. Totals 25-59 14-20 71
FGCU 18 9 11 27 — 65
SD 19 12 14 26 — 71
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Will Home Capital Group Inc.'s Crisis Trigger a Housing Meltdown?
By now, investors are familiar with the crisis that has engulfed Canada's largest non-bank mortgage lender, Home Capital Group Inc. (TSX:HCG). It is not only experiencing a massive run on call deposits, but it's facing a potentially even greater liquidity crunch as almost $13 billion in guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) start to mature.
Speculation that the collapse of one of Canada's largest non-bank mortgage lenders has triggered an fear across Canada and could be the spark required to burst what many believe is a massive housing bubble.
As we all know, there have been claims that Canada is caught in a housing bubble of epic proportions for years. Despite repeated claims since at least 2012 that the market is in a massive bubble and ready to burst, nothing to that effect has occurred.
Alberta's housing market cooled significantly in the wake of the oil slump, whereas Vancouver's came off the boil after the introduction of a 15% tax on foreign house buyers. Ontario recently introduced a similar tax to rein in Toronto's frothy housing market; for April 2017, the average house price spiked by a massive 32% compared to a year earlier.
The greatest fear is that the collapse of Home Capital will trigger a rout in housing prices, particularly in overheated Toronto.
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Nonetheless, it's doubtful that it would trigger an all-out crash.
Prices in both markets are supported by shortages in housing stock and the fact that they are gateway cities, where many immigrants choose to live; this is leading to higher demand for housing.
There is also the lack of a clear mechanism to trigger the contagion needed, such as a large volume of non-recourse subprime mortgages, to cause prices to plummet at a calamitous rate.
Home Capital's mortgage book, valued at just under $15 billion, represents only around 1% of Canada's $1.5 trillion mortgage market. Even if the lender collapses, the impact on the housing market will be minimal.
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Furthermore, the average loan-to-valuation ratio for the mortgage portfolios of the major banks is around 70% or less, which means there is plenty of wiggle room for borrowers and the banks alike should prices plummet.
For these reasons, it is unlikely that the rapid cascade of prices caused by ever greater quantities of repossessed homes coming onto the market, which was a key feature of the epic U.S. housing meltdown, will occur.
The crisis at Home Capital is very real, and while it will have sharp impact on its investors, there are signs that the contagion will be limited. Not only are there significant regulatory firebreaks designed to manage situations such as this, but tight prudential regulations mean that the fallout for the housing sector will be limited.


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Ranking protetto

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Alternate

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Q: Shift Register Counter I am working on a project with my MBED microcontroller and I'm running into some snags, because I'm new to it and getting myself confused with how exactly everything works.
I have my MBED hooked up to a 74HC595, which in turn is hooked up to a 7-segment display. I am currently just trying to test the seven segment by creating some sort of counter that goes from 0-9. However, I'm not sure how to do this. Below is my code and how I have it hooked up, I have a few extra declarations in place for the final project, so please just ignore them:

#include "mbed.h"

SPI spi(p11,p12, p13);
DigitalOut red(p25);
DigitalOut green(p26);
DigitalOut cs(p14);
DigitalIn button(p27); //enter
DigitalIn button2(p28); //down
DigitalIn button3(p29); //up

char switchWord;
char record;
int i;

int main() {
  spi.format(8,0);
  while(1) {
    switchWord=0x3F;
    if(button==1)
      switchWord=switchWord^0x06;
    if(button2==1)
      switchWord=switchWord^0x5B;

    cs=0;
    record=spi.write(switchWord);
    cs=1;
    wait(0.01);

    red=0;
    green=0;
    record=record&0x03;

    if(record==1)
      red=1;
    if(record==2)
      green=1;
    if(record==3){
      red=1;
      green=1;
    }
  }
}

Obviously this isn't working how I want it to, I have tried several different ways to get it to count up, and I have been playing with 2's compliment but it's been awhile since I learned about that so I am really fuzzy on it and I couldn't get it to work. Obviously counting up in this set of binary will be different since the 7-segment displays zero when 6/7 LEDs are set to 1, instead of all zeros, so I can't just add the next number or I get a nonsense display. I eventually want to be able to count from 0-9 by hitting the first button, and count down with the second button, but I can't even figure out how to get it to go from 0-1 so if I can get that I think I can get the ball rolling.
I hope this is all clear and I appreciate any help I can get! Thanks!
Alli

A: Unless I am missing some important information here regarding what you are trying to do, in order to get the 7-seg to "count" you are going to need to shift into the register the equivalents of each number you want to display in your sequence (0, 1, 2 ... )
Consider this schematic of a segment display. Although this is likely not exactly how yours is laid out, it will suffice for an explanation.

Doing of few experiments we find that if we connect the register to the display as follows (starting with the registers LSb):

*

*1 -> a

*2 -> b

*3 -> c

*4 -> d

*5 -> e

*6 -> f

*7 -> g

Consider the event in which we shift out a character 5 (00110101), for example. The correct pattern on the display to create the symbol 5 would be:

*

*1 -> a

*0 -> b

*1 -> c

*1 -> d

*0 -> e

*1 -> f

*1 -> g

As you can see, 00110101 -> 1101101 which could be called data conditioning, if you will.
The point of what I am trying to get at here is that you cannot shift out a number or a character, you must in fact manipulate the word based on what data you are trying to display; such work is most simply done with a look-up-table(LUT), as suggested earlier.
For reference, see: The ASCII Table

A: Are you expecting your 7-seg display to understand ASCII or to be able to interpret binary numbers into a symbol to display?
That's not how 7-seg displays work.
You're driving each individual segment of the display, so you decide on what pattern of segments to light up.
You choose a pattern for each digit you want to display.
When you say that it displays a zero when 6/7 LEDs are set to 1, this is perfectly normal & expected behavior. Count the number of segments which are lit up.
 - '1' requires 2 segments
 - '2' requires 5 segments
 - '3' also requires 5 segments, but not the same set as a '2'
 - etc ...
You could also add on a decoder IC - something like a 74HC4511 would work - to do that job for you. It takes a 4-bit BCD input and produces the correct combination of outputs to drive all of the segments and display recognisable digits.

A: the TDSR1360 is a common-anode display, so to make the segments light up they must be grounded through individual resistors while the display's anodes are connected to Vcc.
In order to do that, each segment must be connected to a 595 output, through a resistor, and will only light when that 595 output goes low.
One way to map the segments for the digits "0" through "9" to the 595's outputs is like you've shown, but with the display's anodes (pins 3 and 8) connected to Vcc instead of to ground.
Then, in order to make the display count up, what you must do is serially shift a byte which corresponds to, say, "0" into the 595, and then assert RCK. That'll broadside load the byte into the 595's parallel outputs and light up the segments which correspond to "0".
Next, you'll shift in a byte which corresponds to "1", assert and deassert RCK, and the display will now read "1".
Next, you'll shift in the byte which corresponds to "2", assert and deassert RCK, and the display will now read "2".
Continuing on with the bytes corresponding to 3 through 9 will make it seem like the 595 is counting up, when all it's really doing is sequentially displaying canned bit sequences arranged to display digits.

A: Perhaps I'm blind, but I don't see the translation table in your code that translates between the integer holding your counter and the pixel-pattern of the glyph that represents that digit.
// ...
int counter=0;
char translation_table[] = {
    0b11110111; // 0
    0b00001100; // 1
    // ... fill in details here ...
};
while(1) {
    counter=counter+1;
    // FIXME: do something about overflow
    char LED_pattern = translation_table[counter];
    cs=0;
    record=spi.write( LED_pattern );
    cs=1;
    wait(0.5);
    // ...
}

The "translation_table" mentioned in the above code is also called the

*

*the sevenSegmentLookUp[] array in "Principles of Embedded Systems: Display Devices"

*the "n[]" array in "Parallax Seven-Segment Display"

*the "b7SegmentTable[]" array in ST application note AN1781: STR71x GPIO driving four 7-segment display

*the "characterArray[]" array in the Arduino library SevSeg used in the Sparkfun Serial7SegmentDisplay

*the "seven_seg_digits[]" array in Arduino and 7 Segment LED

*what Majenko calls a "mapping table" or "look-up table" (LUT)

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It is with great shock that we heard the news of the attacks on Cathedrals, the St. George Coptic Cathedral in Santa and the St. Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria and rumors of another one next to a Roman Orthodox Church, also in Alexandria, causing deaths and injuring many others. This happened while they were celebrating Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of our Lord into Jerusalem, an important day in the Christian calendar.
The AACC member churches hereby want to express their solidarity with you at these difficult times and want to assure you of their prayers as you face this violence.
We are asking the Lord to continue strengthening you, so that your faith would not be shaken by any of these events.
"Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets".
You have heard that it was said: "Love your neighbour and hate your enemy". But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
By copy of this letter, we ask the entire membership of the AACC and partners to remember our brothers and sisters, who were victims of these unfortunate incidents.
© 2019 All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC-CETA). All rights reserved.


DARKE COUNTY, situated on the west boundary of Ohio. Area, 714 square miles. Face of the country diversified, but generally level; soil productive. Seat of justice, Greenville. Pop. in 1820, 3,717; in 1830, 6,203; in 1840, 13,282; in 1850, 20,274.
How to Cite This Page: "Darke County, OH," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/29392.


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Taylor Swift Sends Terrible Gifts To Her Friends
Puja Patel
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One thing we know to be true about Taylor Swift is that she is frequently photographed with other people. The Instagram personality, who is also a musician, refers to the people in these photographs her "friends." She has many of them! More friends than you and me, and everyone we know combined. She has friends who go to her birthday parties, slide down her 4th of July party waterslide, and appear on stage with her during her sold-out tour, in no way acting under the direction of many publicists, or the opportunity to further their own career by proximity. She has a metaphorical army of them! (At least two of whom are not white, and still definitely among her intimate group of close friends.) To have so many real, genuine friends must be nice.
Charli XCX is one of these friends. She has performed this friendship not only by singing a cover of "Shake It Off" on a radio show once, but by then being invited to travel on Swift's private plane, taking tampons from the plane's bathroom, and later appearing with her onstage during the Toronto stop of Taylor's last celeb-packed tour. (The duo performed Charli's "Boom Clap.") It's assumed that Charli performed alongside her peer that night out friendship, and not for a fee. (Note: If you work with Taylor Swift on a project, or appear onstage with her, you will appear on both her Instagram and Twitter at least one [1] time, and it has been shown that Swift's "social lift" will immensely boost the follower/engagement of any one of the friends she mentions therein.)
According to a new interview of Charli XCX in the Fader, Taylor Swift did later go out of her way to thank Charli for appearing and performing at her show ... by sending her a surprise.
[I]t was a bunch of Taylor Swift merch. Charli had recently appeared onstage at one of Taylor's concerts, where they duetted to "Boom Clap," and the surprise was a thank you sent by the artist herself, a pop giant reaching out to someone figuring out how she might be one.
What lunacy is this?! Imagine doing a favor for a friend and receiving a box of promo shit that they had lying around in their garage in thanks. Imagine that all that shit was emblazoned with the face of the person who is grateful to you (for your friendship), and that it was both free of charge and required little effort on their part. It's insane! It's sociopathic! "As a token of our friendship, and in thanks for your kindness to me, here is my image for you wear on your being, and plaster upon your walls."
Previously, as a token of friendship, Taylor Swift has given Carly Simon a discount on her tour bus. [via Time]
Simon has recently purchased Swift's old tour bus, since she doesn't care much for flying. She says Swift gave her a discount ("the price you'd charge your sister") and even left all her linens onboard.
She has sent Lorde flowers. [via Vogue Australia]
"My friendship group is one of my favourite things about my life right now. Our friends really have each others' back. It's the first time in my life that I've had anything strong like that in the friendship department," Taylor revealed.
"A lot of the time I'll reach out to people to tell them they're great and a friendship will come out of them. Ella and I (Lorde) met on our own because her album came out and I sent her flowers and told her it was great and now she's one of my best friends."
She was rumored to have given an attractive homeless fan, Brandon, $4,000 in rent after his dad kicked him out of his house. And in 2014, in a move that was not at all a PR stunt, she enacted "Swiftmas," a social media initiative that ended with large boxes of curated gifts appearing on the doorsteps of random fans.
All of the aforementioned gifts are better than the one she sent to Charli XCX: the gift of a pile of Taylor Swift merch. This is not a good gift to give to a friend.
Senior Editor, Deadspin


Skyera Incorporated has announced the skyEagle™ Series, the first all-flash enterprise storage arrays with the reliability, performance and capacity to handle mission critical data center applications below the price per gigabyte of legacy disk-based arrays.
Based on Skyera's third-generation solid-state platform, the skyEagle series builds on the breakthrough innovations introduced last year in the skyHawk™ array, adding active/active high availability, synchronous/asynchronous replication, fully converged networks, protocols, and storage, and an unprecedented half petabyte (500 terabytes) capacity in a 1u form factor –more than 2.5 Petabytes after compression and deduplication.
By leveraging the high density of the Most Advanced 1y/1z NAND (MAN) flash chips operating on their true 16nm process, combined with its proprietary high-performance flash controller and hardware accelerated services, Skyera has boosted the capacity and performance of skyEagle by a factor of 10 over the market-leading skyHawk array in just one year, to 5 million IOPS. Skyera has also set a list price for the read-optimized half petabyte skyEagle storage system of $1.99 per GB, or $.49 per GB with data reduction technologies.
The skyEagle series offers 16 interchangeable 16Gb Fibre Channel and 10Gb Ethernet ports supporting a mix of Fibre Channel and iSCSI block-based SAN protocols, as well as an option for 96 lanes of PCIe connectivity. Support for NFS and SMB makes skyEagle a truly converged enterprise storage solution.
Skyera's innovations in flash controller design and adaptive read-write techniques make the company the only enterprise flash array supplier capable of utilizing MAN flash chips, bringing a huge capacity boost to skyEagle without the penalties commonly associated with these chips. As NAND flash geometries shrink below 20nm with the newest products, the durability and performance of the media are reduced below the standards demanded for enterprise data center environments.
However, Skyera's 100x life amplification technology eliminates those issues. In addition, Skyera is working closely with the top flash vendors to tune the performance and durability characteristics of the MLC media so that media is optimized for the skyEagle platform. The result is that Skyera is able to leverage the economy of MAN flash with unprecedented capacity while producing enterprise-class durability and performance at a price point that is moving below hard-disk based systems.
Hey, it's only $1.99/GB. I think I'll order the 1 GB model.
Don't hold your breath on getting one, I hope you noticed there are no customer quotes in the press release which means it is all just smoke and mirrors.
Links to reviews anywhere? They sound fascinating, I've used everything from Netapps, to old EMC Clarions, to more contemporary Isilon (pre-EMC buyout), XRAIDS, iXSystems TrueNAS and some others not even worth mentioning along with the low end crap like IOMega and questionably useful F5 ARX gear. Very curious to know how these compare, it seemed that some fully populated 44TB arrays were in the $40-$60K range when I went digging last, but I don't know if that was accurate, sounds tempting on many levels.
It's a new world record: $1 million for a 1U chassis – and not a very pretty chassis at that.


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One A/B was working his first time in Cook Inlet after only 27 days aboard the vessel. As he worked the lines alone, his inexperience, combined with the lack of a seasoned A/B to provide him with the necessary guidance on the vessel's equipment, contributed to his releasing too much tension. This caused a strain on the other mooring lines, which then compromised the strength of the entire mooring system.
Contrary to Coast Guard ice guidelines, there was no seagoing watch present on the bridge and the engines were not kept in immediate standby.
Additionally, the operations manual at the facility necessitated mooring lines be doubled or tripled during extreme ice conditions, and required that transfer operations should be suspended within two hours of max flood or max ebb currents during ice conditions. The incident occurred within one minute of the calculated max flood.
The master's failure to ensure that the vessel's moorings were strong enough to hold during all anticipated conditions resulted in the Coast Guard seeking a two-month suspension of his license and merchant mariner document.
As a direct result of this grounding, the Coast Guard continues to conduct spot-checks of vessels mooring at Cook Inlet facilities to ensure they take adequate extreme weather precautions.
Ensure all deck personnel are equipped with protective winter clothing.
Conduct an operational test of steering gear.
Confirm a properly heated wheelhouse and living quarters.
Conduct an operational test of ballast and emergency fire pumps.
Conduct an operational test of all deck mooring winches and anchor windlasses.
Confirm that a heated medium is available to primary and secondary sea chests to prevent icing.
Confirm that all systems and machinery will be operable in ice-filled waters and air temperatures to -40°F.
Ensure that the emergency generator is fully fueled and the generator is set to automatic mode and do an operational test of the generator, conducted by setting it to "manual" and back.
Conduct a briefing for the vessel's personnel to discuss the requirements needed to maintain compliance with ice guidelines while at the dock or underway.