Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969 in Manhattan's Harlem in New York City and was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother, Janice (Smalls), was a model and teacher's assistant and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U. S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas. At age 33, Melvin was shot to death while sitting in his car on Central Park West, when Combs was 2 years old.


The "garitas" or sentry boxes have become the country's national symbol.
1. El Morro Fortress: Begun in 1540, the great fort rises 6 stories and 140 feet above the pounding sea. El Morro underwent many modifications until 1783, when it became the formidable structure standing today.
Although impenetrable from attack by sea (Sir Francis Drake failed in 1595), it was taken by land attack by the Earl of Cumberland in 1598. He held the fortress only temporarily, leaving when the bottom fell out in a dysentery epidemic.
Both a World Heritage Site and a National Historic Site, El Morro is administered by the U.S. National Park Service. Orientation and slide programs are offered daily. With budget cutbacks, its opening times keep getting later; these days it's somewhere around 9, open until 6; check by calling 787/729-6536.
El Morro makes a wonderful silhouette for sunset photographs with the sun behind one of the guard towers.
2. San Juan Cemetery : Adjacent to El Morro and visible from its ramparts. Besides being the burial place of many prominent Puerto Ricans, it is an impressive display of elaborate tombstones surrounding a circular neoclassic chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene in 1863. Near one of the poorer sections of the city, it is considered safe to visit only in groups. A view from a hill or El Morro is just as appealing.
The cemetery is flanked by a section of the massive city wall that completely surrounded Old San Juan in the 1630s. The city wall consisted of 2 separate 40-foot-high, parallel limestone-block walls with the space in between filled with sand.
To discourage attackers, the exterior face was slanted, varying from 20 feet wide at the base, to only 12 feet at the top. "Garitas," tiny rounded sentry posts that have become the symbol of Puerto Rico, still line the top.
The wall was patrolled night and day, and every evening at sundown the 6 city gates were closed to completely cut off access to the city.
3. San Juan Museum of Art and History: On Norzagaray, corner of McArthur. Built in 1855 as a marketplace, it was used in the early 20th century for government offices before being turned into a cultural center in 1979. It has been undergoing extensive repair.


Nowadays, everyone has an Android Smartphone but not all know the hidden tricks of the android phone could do.
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Having the proper know-the way to get things completed for your Smartphone can make your experience like a bonafide master. However of path, there are top 5 most amazing hidden android tips and tricks right here and there that could marvel you.
How to Use Do Not Disturb on Android?
This Hidden tricks added in Latest Android 7.0. Nougat to run app side by side. If you want to display or run two app that means multitasking, display picture side by side and optimize your social media.
First of all tap the overview button and select which of your recently used application and you want to see. Then after hold and drag and drop that app's title bar to the top of the display.
On the other hand, you can double tap on the overview button to quickly switch between the multiple apps you've been using most recently.
2) How to Use Do Not Disturb on Android?
On activities, while you do not need to be disturbed, you can clear out text and phone notifications to handiest show contacts you deem essential.
To set your "Do Not Disturb" priority settings, go to Settings >> Sound >> Do now not Disturb. Here you can pick your notifications for calls and messages.
You may also switch on "Repeat callers" in this segment. If this feature is turned on, you will usually get a notification if a caller tries to name you inside a fifteen-minute duration irrespective of your priority settings.
If you want to make your Smartphone look bit easier or see what's happening on your screen. For better way seen you can zoom in or zoom out on text and object which you want to see visible.
Preserving your device cozy is critical, but if you're the only keeping it, there's no purpose you have to deal with a strong lock display every single time you drag it out of your pocket. Fortunately, Android 5.0 devices now have support for smart Lock. This selection can display the smooth swipe lock screen when it's safe to achieve this. How does it recognize? Properly, there is a spread of alternatives, some more at ease than others.
Clever Lock is added to devices through Play offerings, similar to Android tool manager. The locking alternatives will range by way of a tool, however Nexus telephones and capsules have the maximum. There's relied on Face, relied on the region, depended on devices, and on-frame detection. On the bare minimal, all gadgets ought to have relied on devices and trusted location.
World move to Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning technology. Google's Voice assistant Siri, Alexa or ala Cortana is the best example of them. you just simply say "Ok Google" or click the microphone icon on the Google Search Bar.
You can then use your voice to do a diffusion of tasks like send texts, emails, reminders, make phone calls. And also Google searches too. You could even have your Android Smartphone concentrate into a track to discover it.


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Udhampur, Jan 16: Adv. Suresh Kumar Dogra chairman OBC Cell Pardesh Congress Committee, today that only Congress can take care of all section of society.
Addressing the gathering, Adv Dogra said that Congress is the only platform which can provide rights of the OBC Community, as Teli Biradari is one of the backbone of the OBC, should adopt the policies and ideology of the Congress who played a prominent role for the freedom of India, while framing the constitution Congress kept in mind the needs and basic amenities and rights of the common people and removed the untouchability and tried to remove the Poverty from India by forming different policies, Adv. Dogra Further added that Our President AICC Rahul Gandhi has Keen focus on Upliftment of OBCs, And In the state leadership of G.A Mir the rights of the OBC peoples shall not be Ignored , and The OBC Leaders are also getting due respect in the party, so all OBC masses should shake hands with the Congress party.
The leader of the Teli Biradari Anayat- ullah and District Chairman OBC Udhampur Ashok Kumar also spoke on the occasion, they said that we are always with Congress and we seek the implementation of Mandal Commission report in the state. The other Prominents who attended the occasion Parshotam Mehra vice chairman OBC J&K, Raj Kumar Mehra, Aditya Dogra , Abhishek Kumar, Ashish Kumar, Asif Ali, and others.


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After more than a year of the covid pandemic, we are no longer at the mercy of models. Covid is in the range of once-in-30 year pandemics.
Fri 9:59 am +00:00, 28 May 2021
Australia's Representatives A political party to reclaim democracy and liberty
A party to replace the dinosaur Liberal and Labor parties of Australia
THIS IS NOT A ONCE-IN-100 YEAR PANDEMIC
After more than a year of the covid pandemic, we are no longer at the mercy of models. Covid is in
the range of once-in-30 year pandemics like Hong Kong flu or Asian flu. All standard precautions
prescribed in Australia's pandemic plans should be taken but the excessive measures introduced
since March 2020 are not justified.
Had it been in a once-in-100-year event in the range of the Spanish flu, as claimed by Mr. Scott
Morrison, 211 million people would die from it.
1 Every year around 60 million people die, so we
would need to see an additional 3.5 times normal deaths, distributed over two years. Until May
2021, after more than 18 months of the pandemic, around 3.5 million deaths have been attributed
to covid around the world, which makes it (currently) 60 times less lethal than the Spanish flu.
(Source: https://bit.ly/3ut40LA)
In 2020 around 150,000 covid deaths were reported in India, or around 1.5% or six days of additional
deaths (around 27,000 people die in India on average from all causes every day). The recent spike in
India still won't make it into a once-in-100 year pandemic. For Sweden – the only country that
followed standard pandemic plans and rejected lockdowns – using the baseline deaths of 2017-
2019, Nobel prize winner Michael Levitt has calculated 2,996 excess deaths in 20202
, around 3% of
its expected annual deaths. Its 2020 death rate was the average for the past 10 years.
1 https://teamaustralia21.org/data-and-explanation-for-the-sweden-chart-from-panda/ 2 https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/13684515068573818
https://australiasrepresentatives.org/Documents/AR-magnitude-of-pandemic-27May21.pdf

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Above: Councillors in waiting? Two candidates (at least) in the public gallery last night: Jimmy Cocking, third from left, and Joshua Burgoyne (far right).
MODIFIED to correctly attribute a quote, 4.48pm, 1 August 2017.
It was the final meeting for the 12th Alice Springs Town Council before going into caretaker mode from Thursday. A few boxes were ticked and a letter will be written to the NT Government.
Councillor Eli Melky tried again to get a youth curfew into this letter – tried but failed.
Nonetheless, he drew to everybody's attention that a curfew is still on council's books as part of a standing motion moved and carried in November 2006.
Its wording was crafted by then Alderman Robyn Lambley, later a Minister in the CLP Government that came to power in 2012 and now the Independent Member for Araluen.
This was to be a means of "addressing the need to protect" the said unsupervised children "wandering the streets of Alice Springs at night" and "of addressing the increasing levels of youth crime and youth violence in Alice Springs".
The strategy included "the establishment of a holding and processing centre where children can be taken and cared for while the Police and youth workers are able to establish a safe place for these children to be accommodated".
Councillors had no appetite to revisit these ideas and no one came forward as Cr Melky's seconder. They did however support a motion from Deputy Mayor Jamie de Brenni, addressing some of the same issues.
It called for funding to be allocated to immediately deploy youth workers onto the streets at night, while details are finalised for the reintroduction of the Youth Street Outreach Service (YSOS).
This service was infamously defunded by the Giles Government in early 2014 without anything to go in its place.
And so the 12th Council drew to a close. Mayor Damien Ryan made some remarks of farewell, acknowledging all the councillors who had served in the term, even Cr Geoff Booth who departed somewhat ignominiously 18 months into what turned out to be a five and a bit year term for council.
While Mayor Ryan also gave special thanks to CEO Rex Mooney and acknowledged the new directors, he did not mention directors who resigned in the recent term after long years of service, Craig Catchlove and Greg Buxton.
Cr Melky singled out for special thanks Director of Finance Dinesh Pillay, who he said had had "a fair bit to put with" from Cr Melky over council's Civic Centre loan. This earned a big smile from Mr Pillay.


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When you're using AngularJS, just like in most other computer languages, you'll most likely want to keep your controllers thin, storing most of your business logic and data elsewhere. This type of architectural design is referred to as "Separation of Concerns" and maintains that you split your applications tasks into different sections, where each section is responsible for a particular task. In Angular, this can be achieved through services. Two of the most popular types of services in Angular are factories and services.

Although factories and services share many similarities, there is a key difference between them: you instantiate a factory as an object, add properties to the object, and return the object, whereas you create a new instance of a service (with the new keyword), add properties to this, and return this. Therefore, you can achieve the same things in a factory as you can in a service but since a factory is an object, it is much more flexible.

To further clarify this distinction, let's look at an example from an app that I'm currently working on that calculates a user's daily return on investment for their stock portfolio. For demonstrating purposes, I'll make a call to the backend API to retrieve all of the stocks that are held in a user's portfolio.

app.service('StockService', function($http) {
    this.setStocks = function() {
        return $http.get('api/v1/stocks');
    };
});

app.factory('StockFactory', function($http) {
    return {
        setStocks: function() {
            return $http.get('api/v1/stocks');
        }
    };
});

The above example shows how to receive a user's stocks in both a service and a factory. Looks pretty similar right? They may be performing the same functionality but the architecture that make up these services are quite different.

A service is viewed as a constructor function and upon instantiation, implicitly creates an empty object and assigns it to the variable this. this is also automatically returned to you.

A factory differs from a service in that a factory is just called, and whatever is returned from the factory is the value of that service. As a result, factories give programmers more freedom to manipulate the data according to their needs before they return it.

In addition, factories enable the programmer to instantiate a new object and assign it the appropriate data. For example, let's say we want to create a new stock object of Apple's stock containing only the stock symbol (AAPL) and the price. Here is how we could implement this using a factory:

app.factory('Stock', function($http) {
  return function(symbol, price) {
      return {
          symbol: symbol,
          price: price
      }
  };
});

In our StockController, we can create a stock object like this:

var app = angular.module("app", []);
app.controller('StockController', function(Stock) {
    var stock = new Stock('AAPL', '106.10');
});

As a result, our stock variable would be assigned {symbol: "AAPL", price: "106.10"}.

In short, factories and services have very similar functionality but have a key distinguishable difference. That being said, I'll leave you with a quote by Pawel Kozlowski from his book "Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS": "The factory method is the most common way of getting objects into AngularJS dependency injection system. It is very flexible and can contain sophisticated creation logic. Since factories are regular functions, we can also take advantage of a new lexical scope to simulate "private" variables. This is very useful as we can hide implementation details of a given service."

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Santa to visit West Coast by 9 o'clock tonight
Justin Goulet, contributor, Monday, Dec. 24th, 2018
Santa heading for Tampere, Finland on Dec. 24, 2018. Image courtesy www.noradsanta.org.
NORTH POLE – It's a busy time for Santa Claus.
Old St. Nick will be busy traveling the world throughout the day and evening delivering presents to kids for Christmas.
Once again, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has its Santa Tracker online. You can check it out and see where Santa is on his journey.
Captain Cameron Hillier, a public affairs officer with NORAD, said the tracker has been an annual tradition for over 60 years.
"The NORAD Santa Tracker is actually something we've continued on now for the last 63 years. It's part of a tradition that was brought over by our predecessor, Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), in America," he said.
"It was (based) in Colorado Springs…a (local) newspaper had printed an ad to promote having kids call in and discuss with Santa. As opposed to discussing with Santa, the number that was given out on that particular ad was actually the number to the operations centre at Continental Air Defense Command."
He said kids that called in were greeted by Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, the duty officer at Colorado Springs' CONAD.
"As you can imagine, in 1955, at the height of the Cold War, it took some time to kind of figure out what was going on exactly," Hillier noted.
"By the tail end of the conversation however, Colonel Shoup had assured the child that Santa would have a safe flight through the U.S., and he then instructed the rest of his crew to do the same if they received such calls."
Hiller said that this happened for three years. NORAD picked up the tradition following its inception, and has carried it on ever since.
Hillier said as of this publication, almost 2.5 billion gifts have been delivered across the world.
"Here at NORAD, we've accepted over thirty-thousand calls at this point, and we hope to get about 150,000 to beat our mark of 126,000 last year," Hiller added.
He said that Santa should be visiting the west coast of Canada between 9:00 p.m. and midnight.
"However, he only shows up if you're asleep," Hillier said.
"If you're not asleep, then he has to make a delay and return to your house later on in the evening when you're asleep. While he may have been scheduled to show up at your house at nine o'clock, because there's a whole bunch of kids east of you that didn't go to bed on time, you're gonna get your presents late. Let that be a lesson."
Hiller added that the same military assets that are used to track Santa are the same used to execute aerospace missions and warnings for Canada and the United States.
"Our Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18s are the first jet fighters to escort Santa into North America. These guys are on station 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and that's part of their mission, they're always there to intercept potential threats to Canada and the U.S.," Hillier said.
"However, on the 24th, we have an expected friendly visitor and we're more than happy to escort him through our air spaces."
You can view the Santa Tracker at www.noradsanta.org, and find out more on Facebook and Twitter.
Google also has a Santa Tracker, available at santatracker.google.com.


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Author: Sully
Just a guy that gets lost playing all the side quests of life. Enjoying the finer things like the PS1 and OG Xbox. Gamertag: L TheSully L PSN: CoolAwesomeWow Battlenet: Sullywog
N++ Ultimate Edition Review: Flow like Water
Real Talk By: Sully
I don't play platformers very often. Sometimes I get nostalgic and play some classics on the Super Nintendo, but I think my playing habits have been warped by all the big blockbuster triple-A games. So when I turned on N++ for the first time, I was having serious flashbacks to my days in high school when I was supposed to be using the computer for research instead of playing Flash games on Newgrounds or Ebaumsworld. For years now, I have spent most my time playing Battlefield, Halo, Uncharted, and so on. N++ reminded me that gaming doesn't have to be about the story or graphics. N++ goes back to the roots of what makes gaming so much fun: the gameplay.
The game mechanics are fairly simple. You're a Ninja and you must hit the button that the locks the door to reach the end of the level. However, being a ninja can be quite difficult as we all know. There will be enemies to avoid and puzzles to solve. You must use your ninja-like agility and master the physics of each level by running, jumping, and collecting gold to extend your time limit. It may sound simple enough but as you progress you will discover how difficult ninja life can be.
N++ is typically played with face-paced momentum, relying on timing and speed. Sure, you can try to take it slow and steady, but you must be a Ninja and flow like water to move up the leaderboards. Flowing through levels does get super addicting. In fact, this game does leave you wanting more and more. Good thing the guys at Metanet Software deliver over 100 hours of gameplay for you to indulge. For 15 bucks they're giving you your money's worth.
It's actually a pretty chilled game though. I don't know if its the music, the minimalist landscape, or sound effects. It may be all of it combined but it's actually pretty relaxing. If you are like me, when you die countless times, you typically spiral into a rage and give up. Not with this game though. The sound of the Ninja you play as splattering over and over makes you feel like dying is all part of the game. And I'm okay with that.
With over 1200 levels to play, it will be difficult to get bored or ever beat the game. Plus, the option to create and submit your own level design is pretty rad in itself. I enjoyed the time I spent playing N++. It was even better when playing co-op with a friend one Friday night. We spent hours trying to tackle each of the 5 levels to get through the countless chapters. You must complete all 5 levels in the chapter to move on to the next chapter. If you get stuck on the fifth level and quit, you have to go back and complete all five over again. Which can be super annoying and definitely the biggest drawback. There was one level we were stuck on for a good hour, quit, then had to do them all over again. Having to rely on each other adds another layer of difficulty. Trust me, there are plenty of moments where you finally finish and you can allow yourself to exhale and breath again.
This platformer has a ton to offer. You're allowed to customize the game's look with different color palettes and select music from top electronic artists. The single player has thousands of levels to choose from. Go ahead and team up with 4 other players locally and try Competitive mode, where it's a race to get to the door before others do. There's nothing friendly about it either. Typically, someone will have to be the sacrificial lamb to get the door unlocked. It will cause a ruckus that's for sure. Plus, watch out for those ghost ninjas. They are the absolute worst thing in this entire game. They will mirror your moves causing lots of pain and suffering as you try to get away from them.
N++ is a master level platformer. It's been quite some time since I've picked up the sticks to play one of these, I immediately shot back in time and fell in love with the genre all over again. Metanet Software really focused their attention to detail and created something special for fans of the previous game N+. I would recommend this game to anyone that enjoys playing those old-school flash games from back in the day, and really to anyone that has roommates and friends that you enjoy playing games with as well. Plus, who doesn't love playing as a Ninja?
N++ Ultimate Edition gets:
What's Legit:
+Addicting Gameplay
+Beautiful Level Design
+ Fun Local Co-op
+ Great music and Sound design
What's Perpetrating:
-Ninja Ghosts
-Can't skip levels
October 10, 2017 October 10, 2017 by Sully
Uncharted Lost Legacy Review: A Puzzling Experience
Real Talk by Sully
If you are not familiar with the Uncharted series, you might want to take a step back in time and go pick up the Remastered edition of the Uncharted series as well as Uncharted 4. This game follows two characters from the past with motivations that were grounded from the previous games. Let's take a look at how this game fairs for the series. Continue reading "Uncharted Lost Legacy Review: A Puzzling Experience"
September 14, 2017 September 21, 2017 by Sully
The Top 10 Greatest Xbox Originals
With the recent news that Microsoft is working on backwards compatibility with Original Xbox games, KJ and Sully have decided to put together their top ten favorites of all time. The following titles should definitely be made available on Xbox One X. Immediately! Continue reading "The Top 10 Greatest Xbox Originals"
July 3, 2017 July 3, 2017 by Sully
Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Mega Battle Review: Go Go
Rangers! Rita Repulsa is back and the only the ones that can stop them are the teens with attitude! That's right, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! Bandai Namco kicks up the nostalgic factor to 100% in Mega Battle. This side scrolling beat 'em up pays homage to successful titles like Turtles in Time and Final Fight with its local cooperative gameplay and familiar level designs. Continue reading "Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Mega Battle Review: Go Go"
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Q: ckeditor code snippet addon rails cdn I'm trying to use ckeditor with code snippet. The easiest would be to use the CDN and include it as a script tag. But the default ck editor doesn't have the code snippet plugin. If I download a custom package with code snippet included, then I have to modify all the files to work with Rails asset pipeline, which I don't want to do.
How can I put my own files or as a CDN for free, or find some other low-hassle way to incorporate ckeditor custom packages without having to "railsify" it?

A: You can still use CKEditor official CDN, but use full-all build, which includes all the official CKEditor plugins.
<script src="//cdn.ckeditor.com/4.4.7/full-all/ckeditor.js"></script>

And you're good to go. Don't forget to load this plugin, e.g. using config.extraPlugins. Like so:
CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1', {
    extraPlugins: 'codesnippet'
} );

A: Install additional plugins gem 'ckeditor' codesnippet
//adding app/assets/javascripts/ckeditor/plugins/codesnippet
//app/assets/javascripts/ckeditor/config.js
CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function (config) {
  config.extraPlugins = 'codesnippet';
}

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António José de Ávila, Duque de Ávila y Bolama (Horta, en la Isla de Faial, Azores, 8 de marzo de 1807 - Lisboa, 3 de mayo de 1881) fue un político conservador del tiempo de la Monarquía Constitucional en Portugal. Entre otras funciones, fue ministro de Finanzas y tres veces primer ministro de Portugal (1868, 1870-1871 y 1877-1878).

Biografía

António José de Ávila nació el 8 de marzo de 1807 en una casa modesta de la Calle de Santo Elias, situada en la Matriz de la entonces villa de la Horta, Isla de Faial, Azores, hijo de Manuel José de Ávila, zapatero, y de Prudenciana Joaquina Cândida, ambos hijos de familias pobres de la Matriz de la Horta.

De los diez hijos de la pareja, solo cuatro sobrevivieron hasta alcanzar la edad adulta. Entre los hijos que alcanzaron la edad adulta, António José, el futuro duque, era el muchacho de más edad, solo precedido por su hermana Joaquina Emerenciana (nacida en 1804). Los otros supervivientes fueron Maria del Carmo (nacida en 1815) y Manuel José, el último hijo de la pareja (nacido en 1817).

Durante la infancia de António José, las condiciones económicas de la familia mejoraron sustancialmente, habiendo trabajado el padre en el comercio y conseguido acumular algunos recursos. Tanto así es que, cuando António José termina con excepcional brillantez los pocos estudios entonces disponibles en el Faial, el padre ya disponía de medios suficientes para permitirle estudiar fuera de la isla, lo que entonces era privilegio de pocos.

Así, con solo 15 años, Ávila se matriculó en la Universidad de Coímbra, donde estudió Filosofía natural y los preparatorios de Matemáticas. Asistió también en aquella Universidad al primer año de Medicina. De los tiempos de estudiante no se le conoce ninguna militancia política.

Con el inicio de la Guerra Civil de 1832-34, regresó a las Azores, donde se hallaba el gobierno liberal en el exilio, haciéndose un político local de gran éxito. Después del fin de la guerra (1834), fue elegido por primera vez para las Cortes por el círculo de Azores; durante 26 años consecutivos fue diputado de la Nación al Parlamento.

En términos ideológicos, Ávila se aproximó a la facción más conservadora dentro del liberalismo portugués, el cartismo, que estaba en oposición al gobierno progresista que tomó el poder en septiembre de 1836, en la secuencia de la Revolución de Septiembre.

Cuando terminó el ciclo de los gobiernos setembristas (con la subida al poder, por primera vez, del cartista Joaquim António de Aguiar, en 1841), Ávila se hizo ministro de Finanzas, cargo que mantuvo durante los gobiernos de Costa Cabral y del Duque de la Tercera. Solo con la subida al poder del Duque de Saldanha abandonó el gobierno. En 1857, en el primer gobierno del Duque de Loulé, volvió a asumir el Ministerio de Hacienda.

Cuando, el 4 de enero de 1868, se desataron protestas contra el gobierno de coalición que presidía Joaquim António de Aguiar, Ávila fue llamado a ejercer las funciones de primer ministro.

Como primer ministro, Ávila revocó el impuesto que había causado la impopularidad y caída del gobierno anterior, pero ello agravó las dificultades financieras del Estado, que acabaría por caer el 22 de julio del mismo año.

Volvería aún a ser ministro de Finanzas, y de nuevo primer ministro entre el 29 de octubre de 1870 y el 13 de septiembre de 1871, siendo sucedido por António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo. Fue designado entonces para presidir la Cámara de los Pares del Reino, en sustitución del Duque de Loulé.

En 1877, debido al descontento popular, cayó el gobierno Fontes, y Ávila fue de nuevo llamado a formar gobierno, el cual duró diez meses, hasta que Fuentes volvió al Poder.

El año siguiente, recibió el título de Duque de Ávila y Bolama en recompensa por los servicios prestados al país y como gratificación por las negociaciones por hechas por él con miras a la posesión por Portugal de la isla de Bolama, en Guinea.

Nacidos en Horta (Azores)
Fallecidos en Lisboa
Presidentes del Consejo de Ministros del reinado de Luis I
Políticos de Portugal del siglo XIX

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Kako podsticati pozitivno razrešavanje konflikta u Montesori učionici.
Montessori seminar was delivered by Barbara Isaac of Montessori Centre International London and 'Pythagoras' Montessori school Belgrade, 18th - 20th of March 2016.
Encouraging positive conflict resolution in Montessori classrooms.
All participants received Certificate of Attendance signed by Barbara Isaacs of MCI.


Melt the butter in a medium hot frying pan and add the fish fillet. When the fish flakes start to separate add the milk, heat through and gently separate the flakes. Add ground black pepper and stir in the sweet corn. Serve with rice or mashed potatoes.
This also works with the addition of capers and lemon juice and with the corn replaced with rice mixed into the pan.


San Roque is one of the seven towns that form the Spanish region of the Campo de Gibraltar, where unemployment is endemic. In some cases, about 40 percent of the locals are jobless. There are many who find a solution a few kilometers away in Girbraltar, thanks to the one of the biggest employers in the Andalusia region, where the British flag flies.
Jesus Moya is a so-called frontier worker who is greatful for his job in Gibraltar.
Brexit could affect about 12,000 workers who cross the border into Gibraltar daily. Over 50 percent of them are Spaniards.
Gibraltar has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world, second to Qatar.
During times of increased tension between the two territories, the queues often drag on for hours.
"That's going to be one potential problem," pointed out Gibraltar employer Christopher Wall.
At least one-fifth of Gibraltar's workers are Spaniards. Brexit has brought uncertainty which is likely to last throughout the two years of negotiations. Whatever comes next could also be affected by the current political situation.
The consequences of Brexit have already begun to show in the region. Andalusian shopkeepers complain of a drop in sales due to the devalued pound.


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Good job......I'm also going through the detection arm issue so will keep abreast of each other. I do have a set of B&O training notes which provide a good amount of detail on these circuits (donated by solderon)….I have forwarded these to the site for inclusion in the service manual area in the fullness of time, however if you would like a copy now email me.
Thanks Craig. I could find the problem related to unrecognized 7" records. It was simply the spring that should press the corresponding button on the arm contacts board which was not low enough to be effective. Sorry I didn't took photos -I will do tonight- but it is the first button from right on the board (the only in grey color in my 4000, others are red).
A little bent on the spring, wich is flat on below contrary to the others that have a 45° angle shape, cured the issue.
But I have another question: when I keep press forward manually, the arm travels across all the rail (and this is correct) but does not have a safe-stop at the end.The arm motor keeps turning until I hold the key pressed, even if the arm it's at the end of the rail.
Shouldn't it have a safe-stop at the end of the rail? In auto-mode everything is fine: arm stops, lifts and go back.
6,1 it's a safe and good voltage). Clean sine-wave, no distortion here.
- checked arm alignment, adjusted arm height, and zero-balanced it.
- adjusted 7", 10", 12", start and stop button-springs positions and tested with different records.
Here testing the BG 4000 with a 10".
Fantastic pictures. I had one of these BG's many many many years ago, in fact it was my first Bang&Olufsen item. I regret I sold it.
From the last two pictures it doesn't look like the cartridge mounts/mates to the tonearm connector correctly. Is that something you were planning on fixing?


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Vitamin C protects MXenes from rapid degradation
(Nanowerk News) In work that could open a floodgate of future applications for a new class of nanomaterials known as MXenes (pronounced "Maxines"), researchers from Texas A&M University have discovered a simple, inexpensive way to prevent the materials' rapid degradation.
Two-dimensional MXene nanosheets have promise in applications ranging from energy storage to water purification. However, MXenes have an Achilles' heel: they rapidly degrade when kept in the open.
According to the Texas A&M team, the solution to this problem involves exposing MXenes to anything in a family of compounds best represented by a natural dietary supplement such as vitamin C.
"With these findings, shelf-stable MXenes become possible and engineering-grade MXene-based materials can become a practical reality," the researchers wrote in a paper for the upcoming issue of the online journal Matter ("Antioxidants Unlock Shelf-Stable Ti3C2Tx (MXene) Nanosheet Dispersions").
Researchers at Texas A&M University explain a simple, inexpensive way to prevent the MXenes' rapid degradation.
Interesting Properties
Discovered in 2011 by a team at Drexel University, MXenes are sheets of materials only a few atoms thick that are mostly composed of layers of metals like titanium interleaved by carbon and/or nitrogen.
Due to their nanothickness and the variety of elements they can be composed of (other nanomaterials like graphene contain only carbon), "these materials tend to have really interesting properties, like high electrical conductivity and high catalytic activity," said Dr. Micah Green, an associate professor who led the work and has joint appointments in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M.
As a result of those properties, MXenes have generated a great deal of interest and enthusiasm in the research community with potential applications in everything from batteries to electronic sensors.
"But there has been one problem lurking in the background," said Green. MXenes degrade, or oxidize, quickly. "They fall apart and stop being nanosheets. This happens in a matter of days."
Although other researchers have found that techniques like drying or freezing MXenes can delay their degradation, "They're still not going to last for years," he said. "And no one wants a material that doesn't have a long shelf life."
Texas A&M tackled the problem through an interdisciplinary team of experts in nanomaterials, ceramics and polymers.
The other faculty members involved in the work are Dr. Miladin Radovic, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Toward a Solution
The team ultimately found that exposing a typical MXene to a solution of sodium L-ascorbate stopped the nanosheet from degrading. Plus, several related compounds, including vitamin C, also worked. According to Green, the effect lasts. He also noted that the team made the discovery about a year ago and the treated MXenes are still stable.
To further investigate the phenomenon leading to the improved stability, the team completed molecular dynamics simulations of the interactions between the MXenes and the antioxidants. They found that the ascorbate molecules appear to associate with the MXene nanosheet, preventing it from interacting with water molecules and as a result, shielding it from oxidation.
The team is excited because their "method appears to work with a variety of different MXenes," Green said. The Matter paper focuses on the most common MXene (Ti3C2Tx), but other types of MXenes are even more unstable. So much so that "people have doubted whether those materials could ever find applications. With this technique, that could change."The researchers are currently exploring the stability of these additional MXenes using the same approach.
"Our hope is that everybody who works on MXenes, including people in industry, will use our technique to protect their materials," said Green.
Source: Texas A&M University
Chip converts waste heat into electricity
Imprinted nanoparticles fight breast cancer


1.1.1.4 FPL travel to LATAM events!
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 232 for the week ending June 30, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Issue 232 begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including notice of end of life for Fedora 11, details on the next Fedora Project leader, Jared Smith, and a remainder on the upcoming Fedora 14 feature submission deadline, amongst other news and upcoming events. From the Planet Fedora, details on how to use Adobe Flash on 64-bit systems now that packages have been pulled, analysis of the performance of Cairo with a number of different graphics chipset and driver configurations, and other posts. The Marketing team reports on their work on SWOT analysis, a printable version of the Fedora 13 feature profiles, and a new SOP for doing focus groups. Fedora In the News follows with coverage from the trade press on this past week's announcement of the new Fedora Project leader. In Ambassador news, a Fedora 13 event report from Quebec City, Canada. FWN is also looking for a new writer to take over the Ambassador beat, see below if you are interested! In Quality Assurance news, details on Test Day process improvements, a move to the proven testers instruction page, and updates on new Fedora 14 Trac tickets, amongst other news. In news from the Artwork Team, coverage of the weekly IRC team meeting, and a request for stories from the Design Team. This week's issue wraps up with security-related packages from the past week.
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced, "This announcement is a reminder that as of 2010-06-25, Fedora 11 has reached its end of life for updates. As planned, last update pushes to Fedora 11 were made in advance of this date. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 11.
Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 14. The maintenance schedule of Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki."
The Deadline for ordering a FUDCon-Shirt is 2010-June-30 12:00 UTC!!!
After this you can still register yourself for FUDCon but we can not assure you a Shirt matching your Size."
"A leadership change is always momentous, and the Fedora Project is no exception to this rule. I wanted to share some thoughts about being the Fedora Project Leader, tell the community about the person who will be taking over that role soon, and to let you know what to expect over the next few weeks and months.
I joined the Fedora Project in 2003 so I could give something back to a free software community from whose work I had benefited for a long time. Fedora gave me the chance to bring my skills and experience and use them to help people I'd never get a chance to meet personally. I had no inkling at the time that one day I'd have the opportunity to serve the community beyond helping write some documentation.
When Max Spevack called me in late 2007 to let me know he was considering stepping down, and was interested in having me succeed him as the Fedora Project Leader, I was surprised and humbled. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to both serve the community and to contribute as an employee at Red Hat, where I had already made many friends while working on Fedora -- an opportunity I was happy to take. Over the past two and a half years, through many challenges and changes, not once have I regretted that decision.
One of the hallmarks of Fedora leadership is that it's open to change. The FPL is not a semi-benevolent dictator for life, but rather a position to which new people can regularly bring their passion for making Fedora better. And so, just as previous FPLs announced their readiness to search for the next leader, I did so a few months ago, in the spirit of openness and transparency that's a hallmark of the Fedora community.
The FPL job is a salaried position at Red Hat, and the Fedora Board members as well as many other stakeholders have been informed and involved with the process of selecting a new FPL. The job posting brought in numerous applicants from throughout the community. Through the hiring process we identified a few best qualified candidates. From them the next FPL was selected, based on the qualifications and experience our entire community expects. At every juncture during that process, the panels were focused on the needs of the Fedora Project, to ensure the next FPL would be a good listener, speaker, and writer; thoughtfully consider solutions to difficult problems; and most importantly, lead effectively.
So it's with great pleasure that I announce Jared Smith will be joining Red Hat in a few weeks as the new Fedora Project Leader.
Jared's been a long-time user of both Red Hat and Fedora, and an active participant in the the Fedora community since 2007. He's primarily spent his time working with the infrastructure and documentation teams. He's helped with the development of Fedora Talk, our community VoIP telephony system. Fedora Talk allows various Fedora developers and contributors to communicate verbally for free across the internet.
Jared has also participated in community events such as various FUDCons and Fedora Activity Days. In addition, he has assisted with toolchain development, release materials, and steering duties as a member of the Fedora Docs team.
Jared also brings a wealth of of both technical and community relations expertise from his prior job history. His previous employer is Digium, the commercial sponsor of the open source Asterisk software. While at Digium, Jared worked as Community Relations Manager, as well as an instructor, lecturer, and training department manager.
Before working for Digium, Jared was a Network Operations Manager for the web analytics company Omniture (since acquired by Adobe Systems), where he managed a network of over 6,500 Linux machines. These experiences as a speaker, evangelist, practitioner, and collaborator make Jared exceptionally well suited for the position of FPL.
On a more personal note, I've come to know Jared well over the past several years. He cares deeply about community and family, not the least part of which is the Fedora community and family. His honesty, integrity, good humor, patience, intelligence, and good old-fashioned common sense will serve him and our growing community well, as we try to take Fedora to the next level.
Although Jared is away on personal travel right now, Max and I have already started including him in some important conversations, and the community can expect additional exciting news shortly. Over the next few months, part of my changing responsibilities in Red Hat will be to ensure a smooth runway for Jared, as he takes over the duties of the FPL job. Max Spevack will also continue to assist, especially where his role as the manager of Red Hat's Community Architecture team brings strategic benefits to the Fedora Project.
Over time, I expect to spend more time on work that's internal to Red Hat, but I will continue to be involved in Fedora to some extent as an individual contributor. That transition will allow Jared to effectively bring his own vision and energy to Fedora, and I look forward to helping him in whatever ways I can.
I hope the entire community will join me in welcoming Jared to Red Hat as the FPL, and that you'll gift him with the support and friendship I've enjoyed and treasured over the past two and a half years."
FPL travel to LATAM events!
Encouraging the growth of Fedora community around the world is important to our project. That's why the responsibilities of the Fedora Project Leader include lowering barriers and advocating for involvement and participation. One of the ways the FPL does this is by travelling to different community events and talking about the way that Fedora works, and our dedication to sustainable community and free software development.
So I'm very pleased and excited to announce that our new Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith's first appearance at a community event will be at the FUDCon in Santiago, Chile. In addition, just a few days afterward Jared will attend the FISL 11 conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Both events represent a unique opportunity for the Fedora Project to support our friends and extend our community in Latin America. As always, the FUDCon event in Santiago is free and open to everyone to register and attend. We look forward to seeing the community at these events!
You can find more information about Jared"
For critical path updates to be approved for pushing to the stable repository, they now require a minimum karma of 2, consisting of a +1 from a single proventester, and a +1 from another authenticated user.
You can optionally pass in a specific 'release' or an 'untested' flag, which will return a list of critical path updates that have yet to be approved. I have not added these links to the main interface yet, because at the moment they are fairly expensive calls. This will be addressed in an upcoming release.
I re-enabled the auto-obsoletion code in bodhi. This means that new updates will automatically obsolete older testing updates containing the same packages. The new update will also inherit all of the old updates bugs and notes. This code had been disabled for a while now, due to some nasty edge cases, but those have since been resolved.
If you experience any problems, please file tickets here"
"Another friendly and brief reminder that the deadline for new features for Fedora 14 is July 13, 2010.
Please send any other questions about the feature process or this deadline by replying to this message on the list."
Jonathan Dieter mentioned that deltarpms should be working again now for Fedora 13.
Benjamin Otte analyzed the performance of Cairo with a number of different graphics chipset and driver configurations. The results may surprise you.
Máirín Duffy found a bunch of amusing geeky comic strips. But more seriously, Máirín identified the first "Fedora Design Bounty Ninja". "Jef responded to our first Fedora Design Bi-Weekly Bounty just a couple of hours after it was posted, and he did an amazing job putting together a 6-page layout for the Fedora 13 feature profiles, carefully adhering to all of the Fedora branding guidelines and providing all of his source work!"
Adam Williamson reminded Flash users running 64-bit systems how they can use Flash Player, now that the 64-bit downloads have been pulled.
Andrew Vermilya Jamison outled a few of the exciting new features of Fedora 13.
Lennart Poettering suggested a number of sources of data that could be used under Linux to help generate unique identifiers. "When programming software that cooperates with software running on behalf of other users, other sessions or other computers it is often necessary to work with unique identifiers. These can be bound to various hardware and software objects as well as lifetimes. Often, when people look for such an ID to use they pick the wrong one because semantics and lifetime or the IDs are not clear."
Lennart also wrote a pair of articles on handling locking under Linux (and the sad state of locking under Linux in general).
Luis Villa dissected the US Supreme Court Bilski ruling. "I'm afraid that at the end of this brief train ride, my only firm conclusion can be that the real winners here are patent lawyers - this decision creates no new certainties, only uncertainties, which will encourage patenters to spend more money patenting things, and the rest of us to waste time and energy worrying about the problem - time and energy that should have been spent on innovating..."
The Red Hat Press Office announced that Jared Smith will become the new Fedora Project Leader. Paul W. Frields posted a few words about passing on the baton to Jared.
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-06-23 to 2010-06-29.
Nelson Marques continues his effort to complete a SWOT analysis.
Robyn Bergeron is trying to make a list of interview topics that we can tackle to have content flowing in between releases.
Finally we have MMM – Marketing Meeting Minutes.
This past week's press focused on the appointment of Jared Smith as the new Fedora Project leader. Several postings follow.
"Jared Smith will be the new Project Leader of the Fedora Project. This is the second non-Red Hat employee Red Hat has hired and appointed as Fedora Project Leader, after previous Project Leader Paul W. Frields."
"Paul Frields, who has been getting his paycheck from Red Hat to run the Fedora development Linux variant since 2008, is moving back inside the company to work on Enterprise Linux, and an outsider named Jared Smith is being brought in as the new Fedora Project Leader.
Frields joined Red Hat in February 2008, replacing Max Spevack, another Red Hat employee who ran the open source Linux development product from February 2006 until Frields took over. Smith will take over the FPL position (which is a full-time job with a Red Hat paycheck) to steer the development of Fedora 14, something that Frields already got the ball rolling on."
"I'm a huge fan of the work and the leadership that current Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has done since 2008. Frields has always been one of the most articulate, honest and insightful Linux community leaders that I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
The process of how Fedora's leadership is chosen is different than other distributions. It's not a totally democratic process like the one that Debian has. On the other hand it's not totally autocratic like Ubuntu. In a mailing list posting announcing the transition, Frields explained the process. "One of the hallmarks of Fedora leadership is that it's open to change," Frields wrote. "The FPL is not a semi-benevolent dictator for life, but rather a position to which new people can regularly bring their passion for making Fedora better...The FPL job is a salaried position at Red Hat, and the Fedora Board members as well as many other stakeholders have been informed and involved with the process of selecting a new FPL."
Rene Purcell reports that Fedora Ambassadors in Quebec held a Fedora 13 release party in Québec city earlier this month. Many people attended to learn new features and discuss about the new release.
Jean-Francois Saucier and Rene gave a presentation about new features in Goddard, and attendees were offered live media, as well as setting up a usb stick station where we offered to create live usb sticks.
A report on the event can be found here.
A message from James Laska prompted a wide discussion of possible improvements to the Test Day process to improve participation. James asked if the group was trying to run too many events and not dedicating sufficient time to each, but Adam Williamson did not think so.
Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested extending the test period to a week and broadening the coverage of each event. Adam felt the concurrency aspect of a single day to bring testers and developers together in real-time was valuable, but thought Jóhann had a valuable point in that the group could do a better job of making it clear to potential testers that testing performed outside of the Test Day is still valuable. Jeff Raber made some concrete suggestions as to how this could be achieved, and Adam implemented them.
Jeff also suggested changing the name of the events, though Adam mentioned in his reply that he had not been able to think of anything that improved on 'Test Day'. Eric Blake suggsted 'Test Blitz', James contributed 'Bug Day' and Jóhann favored'Test Sprint'. Adam jokingly proposed a poll, and added some wider-ranging thoughts about how the process could be re-organized to provide greater opportunities for participation and publicity while not losing the aspect of concurrency.
After several more revisions following the work mentioned in last week's issue, Aaron Farnes announced that the proven testers instruction page had been moved to the main wiki space. Several people replied to congratulate Aaron on the clarity of the page.
Adam Williamson proposed several new release criteria, as a result of his discussions with the various desktop SIGs. These would cover session management tasks, update notification, and keyring functionality.
James Laska announced that he had filed a group of trac tickets covering the recommendations for the Fedora 14 cycle which had derived from the Fedora 13 retrospective discussed in previous issues.
A new weekly Design Team IRC Meeting happened, the notes are available, and it covered Fedora 14 Artwork Schedule, the Trac tickets queue, the Design Team Bi-Weekly Bounty, the fedora official font and marketing the design team.
Robyn Bergeron from the Marketing team asked for stories from the Design Team "it would be super cool to do a piece on what the Design team is up to - particularly since we're really at the start of the cycle here, and it's a great time for people to get involved and come up to speed without it being crunch time. :)", the topic was discussed at the weekly IRC meeting where Robyn was invited, and Máirín Duffy summed the conclusions, as 6 possible interviews with members of the team on various projects they are working on.
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CDC accuses CUP of "putting the revolution before independence"
Current governing party liberal CDC commented on CUP's 'no' to investing President Mas as President and accused the radical left party of being "immature" and "putting the revolution before independence", according to CDC's general coordinator, Josep Rull. "CUP hasn't been able to make operative the majority of 72 pro-independence MPs" stated Rull and added that "by accepting CUP's demands it will look like the minority of 10MPs out of 135 is leading the process". Rull denied that cross-party list 'Junts Pel Sí' would present an alternative candidate to Artur Mas. "We have moved because we wanted to be respectful of the 27-S democratic mandate" he emphasised "and they told us to reach agreements to make the roadmap possible".
ACN / Sara Prim
Barcelona (CNA).- CUP's decision to reject Mas' candidature shows the radical lefties' "incapability" to "take risks" and "reach agreements with those who think differently" stated the current general coordinator of governing party liberal CDC, Josep Rull. Regarding CUP's demands for cross-party list 'Junts Pel Sí' to propose an alternative candidate to Artur Mas, Rull assured that there won't be any other name put forward to run for President and added that "by accepting CUP's demands it will look like the minority of 10 MPs out of 135 is leading the process". "CUP hasn't been able to make operative the majority of 72 pro-independence MPs" he stated and accused the radical left party of "putting the revolution before independence". "We have moved because we wanted to be respectful of the 27-S democratic mandate" he emphasised "and they told us to reach agreements to make the roadmap possible".
"First, independence. Then, we will decide how we build the new country" stated Rull. "But the problem is that, now, who decides is 500 kilometres from here" he emphasised, referring to Spain's institutions in Madrid. According to Rull, CUP has prioritised "the revolution and socialism" rather than "Catalonia's independence" and by doing so it is Madrid who wins. "With this 'no' CUP has sided with Spain's factional powers which want to overthrow President Mas" he stated.
"We have negotiated and we have made many efforts to make the 27-S mandate a reality" stated Rull and named the Parliament's declaration of independence and the social action plan proposal as examples. "However, to build independence we must take risks and reach agreements with those who think differently" assured Rull "and we have done so", he emphasised."CUP hasn't been able to make operative the majority of 72 pro-independence MPs" he noted "despite the efforts, the negotiations and the fact that 50% of CUP supported Mas' investiture". Rull accused CUP of being "immature" and "afraid of taking risks" and noted that "independence will not be obtained by vetoing but by voting, by joining and by adding new sensibilities" he concluded.
Regarding the possibility of 'Junts Pel Sí' proposing an alternative candidate to Artur Mas and thereby facilitating the investiture and obtaining CUP's and other parties' support, Rull was clear. "By accepting CUP's demands it will look like it is the minority of 10 MPs, and not the majority of 62, which is leading the process". Rull insisted on Mas as their one and only candidate and responded to CUP's call for them to make a move. "We have definitely moved because we wanted to be respectful of the 27-S democratic mandate" he emphasised "and they told us to reach agreements to make the roadmap possible".
'Junts Pel Sí' Agreement Catalan Government CDC CUP Investiture josep Rull Negotiations Pro-independence Pro-independence forces Pro-independence roadmap
Image of current governing liberal party CDC, with current Catalan President, Artur Mas and CDC's General coordinator, Josep Rull (by ACN)


Actually, that is only in the camaraderie sense. We recently attended our second Skinnie Winnie rally at Live Oak Landing Resort in Freeport, Florida. A total of 39 rigs gathered for great fun and information. There were some really great meals provided by the volunteers to make the gathering a big success. One of the food highlights of our five days was the fish fry- really good. There was also a small group that played Texas holdum poker, and I will avoid mentioning that I was the big winner.
We have been to so many rallies and other group events that I have started to generally avoid the informational seminars as either: I have heard it before or I am immune to the sales pitch. However, I did attend the one seminar offered here called the technical session. Normally, in these kind of sessions there is a wide diversity of rigs and lots of cross information. In this case everyone had the same equipment and the information exchanged applied to everyone in the group.
We had a great time and hope to make more of these events, as they are held around the country about five times a year.
We mostly had pretty good weather for Feb and one morning I managed to get up early enough to take some pictures of the sun rising on our waterfront campground in the river system. I have made a note to myself to try and get up early more often!
Actually, it was our granddaughter Victoria's third birthday party. She has been very much into superheroes, in particular Spiderman for some time now. It was only to be expected that her mother arranged for a superhero party.
It was a great time with the guests finding their own superhero cape hanging on the wall for them, as they arrived. To be sure, there were the usual party events including lots of good food and gifts.
My job was to try and get some pictures in those rare moments when the party goers were not moving for a least several seconds. Based on the level of activity and noise, it was a huge success.
I cannot speak for the kids, but I was sure pooped when it was over.
Let me start by saying this is not a weather blog. Certainly weather plays a role in this perk, but not the only one. We have lived in numerous places, but one thing is different, at least for us, about Florida.
We first noticed this perk while living in Miami for a year. We found that we were suddenly popular. Almost as soon as we settled into our condo on Biscayne Bay, we started to have friends and family visit in a steady stream. I certainly get the appeal of being in Miami in the winter rather than the other places like OH, PA, or DC where we have lived. Whatever the attraction, we enjoy the opportunity to visit with friends old and new wherever we are.
These last two weeks we have been lucky enough to have two couples we have known for many years visit along with relatively new friends that we met on a rally back in 2010.
Our friends Judy and Gary stopped by on a road trip from the Tampa area on their way to New Orleans. They made the Alaska trip with us back in May of last year. Their picture is from the glacier tour out of Valdez, since I failed to get a picture during this visit.
Next Jim and Helen made an extended stop here with their new motorhome to help us taste test some wines from our wine club. We had a great time with them and even managed to get out see some local history at Fort Pickens.
Most recently, Dan and Corrie stopped for a few days in their motorhome to visit on their way west. We have known Dan and Corrie since the late 1970's. Dan and I were stationed together in Rotterdam and we both left with Dutch wives. We have continued to cross paths over the years and even were stationed together in Rotterdam during the last part of the 1990's. Since then we both have enjoyed RVing, meeting up along the road occasionally.
We certainly hope this perk continues, as spending good times with friends and family is what it is all about!


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The Makwala is headed up! We want to send out big love to our family and friends tonight who are gathering at Alert Bay and say thank you to everyone who is donating to the cause. We are also holding the space and returning the support to our family who need our love and prayers tonight. Our loyalties for each other are inspirational, and together, I believe we could move the moon. Gilakas'la!


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Changing Horizons in Gerontology: Marginalised Ageing and Inclusive Systems Webinar Series
By	Christine Delargy
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the marginalities of ageing experiences for many groups of older adults. It has also demonstrated the pervasiveness of inequalities for these groups and the absence of their voice across social and economic, civic and health spheres. These challenges to inclusivity, however, are longstanding – despite being more acute in form and impact since the onset of the pandemic. Arguably, they emerge from different degrees of: our collective complacency; deficiencies in our support systems; and how we view and position ageing and older people within our policies, practices and communities. But how can we distil learning from this recent unsettling and uncertain period, when, thus far, the perspective of marginalised older adults have not been sufficiently captured within research published on and around the COVID-19 crisis? Without these perspectives, our criteria for policy development, resource allocation and, ultimately, inclusive societies, are always likely to be skewed and unequal.
In collaboration with the Irish Gerontological Society (IGS), the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) and the Centre for Economic and Social Research on Dementia (CESRD), at NUI Galway, will begin to address this deficit in the four-seminar Marginalised Ageing and Inclusive Systems online series.
As a part of the IGS 2020/2021 scientific programme, this series will draw on ICSG and CESRD research conducted with diverse and vulnerable older people during and around the COVID-19 pandemic, and will critically assess current gaps, and future opportunities.
The series incorporates the voices and views of such groups as precarious older workers, informal carers, people living with dementia, older members of the Traveller and homeless communities, and older adults who have experienced isolation and age discrimination.
It will also present the perspectives of key stakeholders and international research experts in response to this research, as well as showcasing the work of early-career researchers on social and economic aspects of ageing.
Time: 3.00-4.30 pm
Registration – https://www.irishgerontology.com/event_list
Meeting 1: Targeting disadvantage and inequality in ageing societies.
This webinar, Targeting Disadvantage and Inequality in Ageing Societies, investigates the pervasiveness of complex forms of disadvantage across the life course for older populations, and how the COVID-19 outbreak has altered these patterns. It presents the findings of three empirical research studies conducted during the pandemic on different kinds of inequality: health and gender implications for older workers; age discrimination and safeguarding access to services; exclusion from social relations for older men and women. More details here
Meeting 2: Promoting Marginal Older Adult Voices and Identities: Launch of the findings of the Older Traveller and Older Adult Homeless (OTOH) Study.
Meeting 3: Continuum of Care and People with Dementia.
April 22nd 2021
Meeting 4: Family Carers, Public Policy and Dementia
More details available here
IGS in partnership with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Centre for Economic and Social Research on Dementia.
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Jim Federico, a General Motors engineer who led an internal analysis of the automaker's ignition switch defect more than a year before the company recalled 2.6 million cars, has retired, the company confirmed today.
Federico in 2012 was examining the defect that lower-level engineers first discovered more than a decade ago, according to GM documents released last month by Congress.
But GM failed to order a recall until February 2014, and the issue is now blamed for at least 31 accidents and 12 deaths in the U.S. and one fatal crash in Canada.
His latest title is executive director of global vehicle performance, safety, proving grounds and test labs. Before that, he was chief engineer for global compact, small, mini and electric vehicles, reporting directly to GM CEO Mary Barra, who was then global head of product development.
"After a 36-year career with General Motors, Jim Federico has decided to retire from the company to pursue other opportunities," GM spokesman Greg Martin said in an email. "We congratulate him on his retirement and wish him the very best in his future endeavors."
Federico's departure comes nearly a month GM suspended with pay two engineers -- Ray DeGiorgio and Gary Altman, who were involved in the decision to change the ignition switch design without changing the part number.
It also comes about two weeks after John Calabrese, GM global engineering chief, retired voluntarily.
Barra has vowed to hold executives responsible for the company's failure to promptly fix the ignition switch on 2.6 million small cars, mostly from the 2003 through 2007 model years.
The automaker is facing investigations by the U.S. Justice Department, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as its own internal probe.


UC San Diego bioengineers have developed smart, self-healing hydrogels with far-reaching applications including medial sutures, targeted drug delivery, industrial sealants and self-healing plastics. Credit: Joshua Knoff, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
University of California, San Diego bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that binds in seconds, as easily as Velcro, and forms a bond strong enough to withstand repeated stretching. The material has numerous potential applications, including medical sutures, targeted drug delivery, industrial sealants and self-healing plastics, a team of UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering researchers reported March 5 in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hydrogels are made of linked chains of polymer molecules that form a flexible, jello-like material similar to soft-tissues. Until now, researchers have been unable to develop hydrogels that can rapidly repair themselves when a cut was introduced, limiting their potential applications. The team, led by Shyni Varghese, overcame this challenge with the use of "dangling side chain" molecules that extend like fingers on a hand from the primary structure of the hydrogel network and enable them to grasp one another.
"Self-healing is one of the most fundamental properties of living tissues that allows them to sustain repeated damage," says Varghese. "Being bioengineers, one question that repeatedly appeared before us was if one could mimic self-healing in synthetic, tissue-like materials such as hydrogels. The benefits of creating such an aqueous self-healing material would be far-reaching in medicine and engineering."
To design the side chain molecules of the hydrogel that would enable rapid self-healing, Varghese and her collaborators performed computer simulations of the hydrogel network. The simulations revealed that the ability of the hydrogel to self-heal depended critically on the length of the side chain molecules, or fingers, and that hydrogels having an optimal length of side chain molecules exhibited the strongest self-healing. When two cylindrical pieces of gels featuring these optimized fingers were placed together in an acidic solution, they stuck together instantly. Varghese's lab further found that by simply adjusting the solution's pH levels up or down, the pieces weld (low pH) and separate (high pH) very easily. The process was successfully repeated numerous times without any reduction in the weld strength.
Ameya Phadke, a fourth year PhD student in Varghese's lab said the hydrogel's strength and flexibility in an acidic environment – similar to that of the stomach – makes it ideal as an adhesive to heal stomach perforations or for controlled drug delivery to ulcers.
Such healing material could also be useful in the field of energy conservation and recycling where self-healing materials could help reduce industrial and consumer waste, according to Varghese. Additionally, the rapidity of self-healing in response to acids makes the material a promising candidate to seal leakages from containers containing corrosive acids. To test this theory, her lab cut a hole in the bottom of a plastic container, "healed" it by sealing the hole with the hydrogel and demonstrated that it prevented any leakage of acid through the hole.
Moving forward, Varghese and her lab hope to test the material in its envisioned applications on a larger scale. The team also hopes to engineer other varieties of hydrogels that self-heal at different pH values, thereby extending the applications of such hydrogels beyond acidic conditions.
Such a gummy bears could be regenerated in original form after being eaten. I can see a potential for huge material savings here.


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GM Sells Opel and Vauxhall to PSA For $2.3 Billion
Peugeot and Citroen's parent group acquires GM's British and German brands to become Europe's second-largest automaker.
By Máté Petrány
While Opel and Vauxhall CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann maintains that the brand would have been profitable last year if it wasn't for the Brexit vote, GM didn't want to wait any longer. The automaker giant has just effectively ceased its European operations, selling Opel, Vauxhall, and the European division of GM Financial to the PSA Group for $2.3 billion.
General Motors bought British carmaker Vauxhall in 1925, and gained full control over Germany's Opel by 1931. Needless to say, it's been a rough ride since then, with the Vauxhall brand being reduced to selling British-made Opels and the German company losing money by the tons. Now that the deal is done, PSA becomes Europe's second largest carmaker after Volkswagen with a 17-percent market share excluding Russia and Turkey.
What does this all mean? For starters, the BBC reports that the French believe the deal will result in savings of €1.7 billion (roughly $1.8 billion) per year by 2026. On the Vauxhall side, the British are worried about job cuts, although a "hard Brexit" outcome could also lead PSA to increase UK production to avoid import taxes. Complicating matters, the automakers face overcapacity across their European plants already.
If that's how it's going to play out, PSA will almost certainly reduce its 35,000-strong headcount in continental Europe, where Opel has multiple factories in Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Poland and Austria. A line in their statement regarding "synergies in purchasing manufacturing and R&D" also points towards that direction.
#Peugeot shares open up 4.5% in Paris, investors believe PSA Group have negotiated a good deal. NOT taking on the pensions deficit is key.
— Sally Bundock (@SallyBundockBBC) March 6, 2017
What's for sure is that Opel/Vauxhall will license GM intellectual property "until its vehicles progressively convert to PSA platforms over the coming years." What happens to the Opel-based Buick lineup, so important for the Chinese market, remains an open question.
GM boss Mary Barra says the merger is "a win for both sides," stating that together, PSA, Opel and Vauxhall will be in a much stronger position than they are today.
But Dominic O'Connel, BBC Radio 4's business reporter, took a look at the fine print:
The [$2.3 billion] headline price suggests both General Motors and Peugeot think the former's European operations have significant value. The fine print of the deal suggests something slightly different, and shows that GM has in fact taken a hit of up to [$7.3 billion] in order to get shot of Vauxhall and Opel. First, a big chunk of the price [...] is not for car plants, but for loans taken out by the owners of Opel and Vauxhall cars through GM's finance arm. Second, GM is keeping most of the outstanding pension liabilities. Third, the Detroit giant will take an accounting hit of [$3.9 billion] on the deal—a confirmation that the value it had placed on Opel and Vauxhall in its own books was born more out of hope and the scale of past investments than any solid expectation of future profits.
While PSA Group boss Carlos Tavares says that "the future of plants is in the hands of the workers," the company is looking into new Asian markets with both Vauxhall and Opel, despite GM's previous struggles in that region.
PSA Group CEO Carlos Tavares and GM CEO Mary Barra.
Looking at Europe, product integration will be quite a challenge as well, since both Opel/Vauxhall and Peugeot/Citroën produce similarly priced cars, though PSA is trying to catch up to VW with the next generation of Peugeots.
GM on Opel, in general.
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The Eudora Welty Book Prize Is Awarded to Casey Kayser of the University of Arkansas
Casey Kayser, assistant professor of English and director of the medical humanities program at the University of Arkansas, has been awarded the prestigious Eudora Welty Prize for her new book Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender (University Press of Mississippi, 2021).
Each year, the Mississippi University for Women and the University Press of Mississippi collaborate to award the Welty Prize for an outstanding work of literary scholarship on women's studies, Southern studies, or modern letters in honor of MUW's most famous alumna, writer Eudora Welty.
In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in Southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of Southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region.
Dr. Kayser joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas in 2012. She teaches courses in literature and medical humanities. She also co-leads the Theatre in London Study Abroad program.
Dr. Kayser is a graduate of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. She holds a master's degree in English from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University
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Stephanie Krikorian's Zen Bender: Anti-Self-Help Is the New Self-Help
By David Taylor
"Zen Bender" author Stephanie Krikorian, Photo: Courtesy Krikorian
With hundreds of self-help books lining the shelves of local bookstores, and hundreds of thousands more online, finding the one that's right for you can be a daunting task. You could try each one to see what works, or you can simply read one book written by someone who spent the better part of a decade trying every "fix" from the SIBO diet to the Artist's Way to the KonMari Method. Written by celebrity ghostwriter and New York Post columnist Stephanie Krikorian, Zen Bender: A Decade-Long Enthusiastic Quest to Fix Everything (That Was Never Broken) is a hilarious, relatable "anti-self-help" book that turns the new age wellness industry on its head as its author learns to bet on herself.
After losing her job as a TV news producer during the 2008 recession, Krikorian found a career in celebrity ghostwriting. For each self-help book project she took, she'd do extensive research on the topic and begin living whatever lifestyle she was writing about, much like a method actor, repeating the process with each new assignment. After a while, she wasn't reading just for work—she was hooked. "I started reading more, because I found them helpful," she says. "Then I started seeking out experts, coaches, gurus, healers and all kinds of things for a couple of reasons, but it started as an occupational hazard."
What came next was a decade-long Zen bender filled with numerologists, reiki healers, astrologists, dating coaches and fad diets. "For me, it was this idea that, like a bag of chips sitting in front of me, if it's there, I should consume it," she explains. "Because there must be something broken in my mind, my soul, my body, all of that, or else why would all this stuff be out there to fix it if it wasn't important?"
It wasn't until a healer recommended a book that left her screaming, "This is ridiculous!" that she began to realize, maybe she didn't need fixing after all. "When you get shaken, everything moves, and it's hard to see what's really wrong, and you start grasping at all these opportunities to fix it," Krikorian says, looking back on her self-help circuit. A dating seminar she attended later, which told her she needed to keep her hair long and shiny so men would think she's fertile, undoubtedly confirmed her epiphany.
Krikorian explains that writing Zen Bender, her first-ever solo book, was a very different process from her ghostwriting projects. "There's less personal stake in the game when you're writing someone else's book," she says. "They're in tears sometimes, and I'm always looking at it in a very objective way." Though she admits to stressing out over her own work due to numerous revisions and an unfortunately timed kitchen remodel running concurrently. "This book about letting go became an exercise in letting go, because I had all of this construction going on and I'm freaking out. Everything that could've gone wrong in the writing process that I had witnessed writing other people's books, went wrong."
If she hadn't moved to the Hamptons, Krikorian isn't certain the book would've been written at all. Having rented in Springs before, she decided to buy the house across the street after selling her grand New York City apartment. "It was never the plan to do the full time thing, and it ended up being the prescription that I had been chasing all along. I just didn't know it until it happened," she says. "It was peace that I really wanted and the Hamptons provides peace in many ways."
While Krikorian describes Zen Bender as witty anti-self-help, she doesn't wish to "slaughter all the sacred cows," instead opting to take away one lesson from each book and teaching she tried out, in an effort to find her balance and avoid ceding power to any one ideology. "It's meant to be humor, but there is takeaway," she says. "I learned to bet on me."
For more info on Zen Bender, visit stephaniekrikorian.com.
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