"I'm fine, just cold," the teen said as she exited the raft prior to being escorted into an ambulance parked a few feet from where water met the road.
Rain and melting snow had caused the Sugar Creek to rise and flood neighboring areas. The water where the girl was found was close to five feet deep.
Temperatures were cold – measured at 28 degrees at 5pm at the nearby Akron-Canton airport – which may not have been the exact temp at the time and place of the rescue, but it wasn't a warm day. High winds were blowing at the time.
Unfortunately, they horse died as a result. "With cold temperatures and water, the muscles (of the horse) seize up. And it's hard to overcome," said Lt. Carpenter.
I've heard of rooftop flood rescues and rescues from cars, but this is the first time I've come across a buggy rescue. Good that this potential tragedy ended well, at least for the girl.
I am sure you have been told at some point in your life to "Turn around, don't drown"! You could have died and you did cost the horse his life for no good reason other than not using good common sense.
Well, might have been a lack of common sense involved, but not a lot of details in the report I linked as to how it actually happened. Do you perhaps know something more about the incident? The local fire department apparently issued a warning "to motorists" about that road and several others, but not sure how that warning was dispersed and if it would have gotten out to the Amish. Generally I think people don't realize the danger that high water can pose.
Carpenter said the depth of water where the girl's buggy got stuck was just shy of 5-feet. He was uncertain how she was drawn into the high water.
Thank goodness she was rescued and is alive. So sorry about your horse.
You are a very fortunate girl. Make sure that you thank God for His care and protection over you! It is of the Lord's mercy that you are still alive! May you make sure that you are ready to meet your Maker, next time it might be different.
No scolding from me. I wasn't there and don't know all the details. I am impressed she had the presence of mind to stay calm until help arrived. Life is precious at any age, but certainly so for one so young. I'd like to believe God has good plans in store for this young woman.
Unless we were there none of us have any right to judge what this young lady had to face and what she had to do. I've seen video of just how fast flood waters rise and there's nothing that will hold them back. Lets all just be thankful she is alright. I'm sure her family will miss the horse…but they can get another one. They can't replace her.
Some of these comments are SO RUDE,….Amen to not judging! Flood waters ARE unpredictable, the cost to replace those horses are sometimes megabucks $$$$, and the horse is like a part of a family. Tragedies happen, to most of us at one time or another, Amish and English alike. Glad she was rescued. Amish are people too, and not stupid, as some folks seem to think!
I agree. What happened to this young lady was not because of stupidity, and truth be known, probably not even carelessness. An 18 year old young man in our community had a automobile accident 3 nights ago, around midnight on a school night. Driving at a high rate of speed and lost control, hit a power pole, and died. 4 months shy of his graduation from high school. Why out so late on a school night? Why would his parents to allow him to be out so late? THIS is stupid. Also a tragedy, but a stupid decision that could certainly have been prevented.
There is no indication or information from the report as to the cause and reason why they were in the flooded area. Blaming the lady for the death of the horse is not even worth considering unless you first know the details. It could have been a flash flood for all you know. The woman could have been already along her route when the rain started down heavy and something happened where the horse was afraid to move and got stuck in the water. It could have been any number of reasons.
Some people though just look to blame without being considerate of details. That is a general issue for a lot of controversies in this day and age.
I live in the immediate area. These roads flood often because of the nearby dam and reservoir. This is not the first time a buggy has gone into flood waters around here where the horse has died and the occupants had to be rescued. It also happened on my own road a few years back; the couple went into the water and their excuse was "buggies can go where cars can't". They had to be rescued by a neighbor in a boat who heard them yelling. The horse was left there floating in the water until someone called the health department and the Amish were intructed to remove the horse immediately or be charged. Anyone who lives here knows that these waters get deep and should know not to go in.
That being said, this girl was not charged because there was no "high water" sign up yet at the time. She had gone through earlier and it wasn't as deep. She was younger and may not have been aware, and there are some newer families in the area who may be adjusting to the common flooding situation. She perhaps should have been instructed to not do this, considering the history of buggy vs issues here, but perhaps she was not. Hopefully others will take this as a reminder, but it seems to happen often still even so.
Thank the good Lord that the girl is alright. We must understand there is alot going on in America and God sees the sins of our hearts. let us not judge one another in the flesh. Rather let us pray for one another. Thank God that girl was saved form the flood. Floods, Fires, earthquakes, and Tornadoes will increase in America this year. Yes Floods happen but know that nothing happens with out the Lord God knowing it. Jesus Christ knows all things. We all have doors open in our own lives, we need to go before the Lord and ask Him to forgive us and heal us. We are commanded to Love one another, forgive one another, and pray for one another.


La Chapelle Royale is a French ensemble of baroque music. La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings. The initial vocation of the ensemble was to interpret the great French repertoire of the 17th century (Henri Dumont, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, André Campra, Jean Gilles...) but, since 1985, Herreweghe associated it more and more with his own Belgian ensemble, the Collegium Vocale Gent, in a repertoire almost exclusively dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach. Next to La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe also founded the "Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale". La Chapelle Royale was, during the 1980s, together with Les Arts Florissants, one of the pillars of the musical revolution known in France and Belgium under the name of "Baroqueux" (see Historically informed performance or "performance on period instruments"), initiated during the 1970s by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply..


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BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable version of the most used and best known ethical hacking tools.


Craps is a very old game, probably older as the invention of dice itself. For thousands of years, people played craps on streets. Soldiers and sailors especially loved the game – they are probably also the inventors too. As a casino game, it is fairly new when compared to other games and only has a one hundred years old history. But it is also one of the most popular ones: you can always see a crowd around the craps table. It is the only casino game that is mandatory to play while standing up; sitting is not allowed. For this reason, craps tables are always crowded, filled with excitement and adrenaline.
In this article, we will try to answer the most common questions about the game; such as how to win at craps and what are the best bets in craps. But before that, we need to explain the craps rules and how the game works. In the casino version, craps is being played on a specific table. This table looks like a bathtub – it is long and narrow, especially at the far side. The betting options and the paytable are displayed on this table too. The player rolling the dice is called the "shooter". There are four casino employees around the table, but only one of them is important: the boxman. The boxman is the only guy who is sitting in a chair – he supervises the game.
If the shooter rolls a 7 or 11, he wins.
If the shooter rolls a 2, 3 or 12, he loses.
If the shooter rolls any other number, this is called the "point" and the first phase ends. All players can put on their bets up until this point.
In the second phase, all bets are closed. The shooter tries to roll an outcome based on the point number.
If the shooter rolls the point number before rolling a 7, he wins.
If the shooter rolls 7 before rolling the point number, he loses. Basically, the shooter keeps rolling until he gets the point number or 7.
Pass Line Bets: You are betting that the shooter will win the round, as we explained above. Probably the most popular betting option of the game. Anyone can make this bet.
Don't Pass Line Bets: You are betting against the shooter. You can bet that he will roll a 7 before rolling the point number. Anyone can make this bet.
Come Bets: You are betting that the shooter will win the first phase. In other words, you are betting on the outcome of 7 or 11. Anyone can make this bet.
Don't Come Bets: The opposite of Come bets. You are betting that the shooter will roll a 2, 3 or 12 in the first phase and lose. Anyone can make this bet.
Odds Bets: This betting option is only available in the second phase. You are betting on a specific outcome, for example, 6 – 6. This is the option with the highest payout.
Buy & Lay Bets: You are betting that a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 will be rolled before the shooter rolls a 7. You are betting on all of these possibilities.
Place Bets: Same as Buy & Lay bets; but, this time, you are betting on one outcome only. In other words, your odds are very low but the payout is much bigger.
Hard Ways Bets: You are betting that the shooter will roll a double dice before 7, for example 2 – 2.
Field Bets: You are betting on that the shooter will roll a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12.
As you can see, there are lots of betting options but they all depend on the outcome of the dice, as expected. In other words, we need to take a look at the dice probability to determine the craps odds and find the best craps strategy.
To sum it up, the best bets in craps are Pass, Don't Pass, Come, Don't Come and Field bets.
Play craps online for fun to learn and practice the game. Playing for fun will teach you about the basics of the game and will help you to become a better player, without risking real money. Online craps games are as same as the "real" versions, rules do not differ. You can play for free and without downloading a software, that is why they are called "instant play" games. And when you think it is time to continue in the casinos, you can try your luck at real money craps too.


July 17, 2017—One of the courses I most enjoy teaching is on educational philosophy. It's a course that is always interesting and one I think, when it connects with students, yields enduring understanding. Recently a former student wrote me to share his frustration at the lack of an educational philosophy at his church, and the effects it has on the practice of Christian education. It's gratifying when we see evidence that students have cultivated discernment and understand the importance of educational foundations—theory and philosophy.
The philosophical questions related to aesthetics—beauty—can be a challenge for students, and for the teacher attempting to teach about it. The starting point for conversations on the question tend to begin with the assumption that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Ultimately, it's a matter too subjective to allow one to plant one's feet and insist one way or another. Yet it's a question that moves quickly from the philosophical to the pragmatic when students grapple with the question in the context of worship and liturgy.
I have one friend who is enthralled with the beauty of motorcycles, those machines that can invoke feelings and sentiments beyond their mere utility. I have another friend who appreciates the craft of the handgun. Listening to him describe a pistol can make one eye the object with appreciation for its craftsmanship and aesthetics and put aside, if only for the moment, associative feelings of fear or antagonism for what "guns" may represent.
All things made by God are beautiful and pure," Athanasius wrote, "for the Word of God made nothing useless or impure." Note the contrasts: Pure-impure is obvious, but the contrast of beautiful-useless expresses a sensibility we have almost entirely lost.
For moderns, the beautiful isn't opposed to the useless. The beautiful is the useless. At least since the Romantics clashed with the Industrial Revolution, we've conceived of engineers and artists glaring contemptuously at one another across a razor-wire boundary.
This need not be, and isn't always true. It is not too hard to find engineers in rhapsodies over the elegance of their design, or poets who think of themselves as technicians of language.
But in the popular imagination, the useful and the beautiful are opposed, and we will go some ways toward regaining cultural health and integrity when we have ears to hear the mush of well-fitting gears.


I have never been a huge fan of cupcakes, I usually find them quite bland and that the icing provides the only flavour. However at home bored one day I decided to do some baking. I found a gluten free cupcake recipe of which I had all of the ingredients for so gave it a go. The icing I used consisted of icing sugar, butter and hot water (see recipe below) and then sprinkled flake on the top of some and white chocolate chips on the rest. The cupcakes, if I may say so myself, were amazing – not only did they look good (baked in very cute teacupcake molds) – but they were very tasty, even my non gluten intolerant friends and family enjoyed them. The cupcakes are even tasty enough to eat without any icing.
The recipe is from the book Gluten-Free Baking Classics, and you can find it on the site Cupcakes take the cake.
Preheat oven to 180 C. Position rack in centre of oven. Place cupcake baking liners in a 12-cupcake baking pan. Beat sugar and eggs in large bowl of electric mixer at medium speed for one minute. Add flour, salt, baking powder, xanthan gum, oil, milk and vanilla; beat at medium speed for one minute. Pour batter into prepared pan. Place in centre of oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until centre springs back when touched and cupcakes are very lightly browned (bake about 35 minutes for nine-inch round, 40 minutes for eight-inch round). Cool on rack for five minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan onto rack and cool completely before icing. Top with your favourite frosting.
Place a couple of tablespoons of icing sugar in a bowl with a slice of butter. Slowly add hot water ensuring you melt the butter and create an icing consitency. Add extra butter or icing sugar as required.
What is your favourite cupcake icing?
These cupcakes are amazing and so fluffy! They are delicious and i'm going to have to make some for any upcoming parties. Thansk for the recipe.
What gorgeous looking cupcakes. I must try the recipe. Where did you get the gorgeous cupcake moulds?


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11/20: COVID-19 dashboard updated as in-person portion of fall semester ends
On-demand testing numbers include latest results of voluntary student departure testing
The Pennsylvania State University seal is inscribed on a pillar in back of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.
Credit: Chris Koleno
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State released preliminary coronavirus testing results for the period of Nov. 13 to 19 on its COVID-19 dashboard today (Nov. 20). The University Park campus received 164 positive on-demand test results and two positive random test results from student testing during the period of Nov. 13 to 19.
As of Nov. 19 at University Park, there are 318 active student cases, up from 273 at the last update on Nov. 17, and 4,269 students have completed their isolation period and are no longer active cases.
The University's on-demand testing numbers include the results of student departure testing, which concluded Nov. 19 at University Park. Since Nov. 12, 13,101 University Park students have completed departure testing, with 165 positive results received thus far. University-wide, 15,600 student departure tests have been conducted, with 236 positive results to date. Tests administered later in the week are still pending results, which can take 48 hours or more and will be included in the dashboard update on Tuesday, Nov. 24.
Among employees at University Park, there are no new positive cases from University testing.
The data for the week of Nov. 6 to 12 also has been updated as additional test results came in and were validated. The dashboard, when updated and posted with new data, is only a snapshot at that one point in time and cannot be considered a final reporting as test results are still pending for the Nov. 13 to 19 time period.
University Park On-Demand and Random Student Testing Positive Results by Week:
Credit: Penn State
Commonwealth Campus test results
Since the last update on Tuesday (Nov. 17), the dashboard indicates the following new student testing results at Penn State campuses:
Abington: seven on-demand testing positives and one random testing positive for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Altoona: 17 on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Beaver: two on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Behrend (Erie): one random testing positive for the period of Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, six on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 6 to 12, and 38 on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Berks: two on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Brandywine: one on-demand testing positive for the period of Nov. 6 to 12, and one on-demand testing positive for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
DuBois: two on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 6 to 12, and two on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Harrisburg: 13 on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Hershey: three on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Lehigh Valley: two on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
Schuylkill: one on-demand testing positive for the period of Nov. 13 to 19
"The available Return Home testing for all students revealed higher numbers of positive results for three of our campuses that have resident students and demonstrated the importance of conducting this testing prior to departure for the semester," said Kelly Wolgast, director of Penn State's COVID-19 Operations Control Center. "We are contact tracing all of these students so that they and their close contacts can properly isolate or quarantine as needed for the recommended time."
Among employees, Penn State Behrend (Erie) had three on-demand testing positives for the period of Nov. 6 to 12. No other campus locations reported positive employee tests for the current update.
Students who are concerned about COVID-19 exposure or who are experiencing symptoms are urged to utilize the University's health care resources to seek out testing and facilitate contact tracing. At University Park, students can make appointments with University Health Services by using myUHS online. Other UHS COVID-19 related services can be located on the UHS website at https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/health. Commonwealth Campus students should contact their campus' health care services. Those with questions about all other COVID-19 topics should call the Penn State COVID-19 Response Center at 814-865-2121.
For the latest updates and information on Penn State's response to the coronavirus pandemic, including frequently asked questions and information specific for students, faculty and staff, visit virusinfo.psu.edu.
Dashboard updates
12/1: Latest COVID-19 dashboard update available
11/3: COVID-19 dashboard updated with preliminary results from weekend testing
9/29: COVID-19 dashboard updated with preliminary results from weekend testing
University to continue providing resources to mitigate spread of COVID-19
June 10: Penn State issues updated masking requirements for eight campuses

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This gives you access to our gym 3 times a week. You may pick any 3 days and class times that you would like to come Monday through Saturday.
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In one of my favourite classes I took last year, my professor told us a story about her then toddler aged son. His hair was long and he wore it in a braid, and some of the other kids at the daycare asked him if he was a girl or "why he had long hair like a girl". He responded sombrely, "There are many ways to be a boy in this world". I tell this story to everyone I know, and I want this kid to run everything in the world one day.
Girlhood, or Bande de filles, is a gorgeous French film about the many ways to be a girl in this world. Girlhood is about Marieme/Vic (as in "victoire" or victory) a teenage girl who is growing up in France, faced with not many school opportunities, but who meets some new, cool girls that she befriends: Lady, Adiatou, and Fily. Girlhood's opening scene of an all-girl (American) football team is just the beginning of a film that is a love story to the many relationships girls have with each other in a world that tells girls to cater to the male gaze. Most importantly, the film notes that these relationships are intense, or even violent at times, that they are valid, and incredibly central to growing up and learning about yourself and the world. The opening scene reminds me of Grimes' Oblivion video, since both play with the idea of women reclaiming and complicating often hostile, male dominated spaces.
Throughout the film, there are some incredible deliveries of the things young girls deal with. After the opening football practice scene, the girls are all in a flurry of excitement walking home together, and suddenly they quiet as young men and boys lurk in the shadows, occasionally yelling things at them, until the girls disperse. Friendships between girls are so often invalidated, stifled, and demeaned under men's eyes, and this film artfully demonstrates the tension between loving your friends so much (and understandably so), and also always knowing that girls have to go above and beyond to prove their legitimacy as individuals and as friends to onlookers.
Girlhood is also very conscious of race and class. The main cast is comprised of people of colour (POC), which is refreshing and necessary from the sea of whiteness we are often given with Hollywood teen coming of age films. The first time Marieme and the girls go to Paris together and go shopping, a white sales girl follows Marieme around the store, and Lady quickly calls her out on it, and the girls leave triumphantly together. Reclaiming power and taking control happens consistently throughout the film, and the girls are given the space to be fearless and fearful simultaneously.
Marieme, her friends, and her family live in a subsidized housing "project" somewhere near Paris, and the film recognizes the difficulties Mariame and her friends and family experiences because of it - such as Mariame's mom working late as a cleaner, and her responsibilities for her younger siblings. The film addresses the realities of Mariame's life, at times at a superficial level, like when the film later falls into clichés of paths that youth living in subsidized housing are thought to fall into. Despite this, the film presents Mariame's socioeconomic class as a part of her identity that is interwoven throughout her life, and very rarely romanticizes her experiences.
Throughout the film, violence is consistent and on a continuum. The girls fight with each other, with other girls and boys, and with their families. Marieme's home situation is stressful, as her older brother is abusive and controlling and takes on a patriarchal figure in her family, and Marieme has a lot of responsibility to help out with her 2 younger sisters. The initial group of friends fights with each other and with other girl groups. The violence is uncomfortable, but I think it's important to critically reflect on whether I was uncomfortable with the violence because it's violent, or because it is girls perpetrating the violence and girls are not "supposed to be violent". It's also difficult because throughout the film it's clear that those in Mariame's close social circle value violence as a way to show strength and it even gives Mariame a break from her brother being horribly abusive to her for a short time since he respects violence.
Marieme herself also explores what it means to be a girl. There is no "one way" to be a girl in this film - there's just a huge outpouring of support for one another that recognizes the realities of being a girl. It's also realistic in the way that the girls make fun of each other, but it never seems cruel or unwarranted, it's just an authentically tender representation of how friends are. Marieme explores different ways of dressing and presenting herself, from the way she dresses to binding, and despite backlash because of it, she stands her ground on her choices. Mariame's femininity and sexuality is entirely her own and she is in control of it, despite very difficult circumstances, which is one of the most powerful representations you can have for other girls watching.
Throughout the film: selfies are taken, dancing in the streets happen, they eat, they hug, they go mini-golfing, and they cry, they wait around, they fight. They live. It's a beautiful and accurate depiction of the raw emotions that you feel as a teenager.
It is so good to see on film depictions of teenage girls supporting one another and looking after themselves. And, also getting validation that it is okay to want to be liked, to be tough, to be soft, and understanding that all these things happen simultaneously.
Overall, the entire movie is visually beautiful, the characters memorable, and the soundtrack incredible. One particularly life-restoring scene, that is a turning point for Mariame, is when Marieme, Lady, Adiatou, and Fily are all dressed up and dancing and singing to "Diamonds" in a hotel room they get for a night. When I saw it for the first time, I had chills. It is so carefree and powerful. Being a teenage girl holds a very unique and unstoppable kind of force and power. While at the hotel, Marieme's brother calls her, and Lady, serious and up to her neck in bubbles in the bath, insists she turn her phone off. To Marieme she says, "You have to do what you want. Say it." And she insists Marieme repeats it, which she does. And Lady is right. Girls need to do what they want, on their own terms, and Girlhood shows just how important that is.
For folks in Toronto, go see Girlhood at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, starting February 27.
For folks in Canada and the US, check out if there is a screening near you!


IRC Background: Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. The IRC is on the ground in more than 40 countries, providing emergency relief, relocating refugees and rebuilding lives in the wake of disaster. Through 25 regional offices in cities across the United States, the IRC helps refugees resettle and become self-sufficient. Our programs are designed to ensure refugees thrive in America–whether ensuring children are enrolled in school, adults become self-reliant through employment or starting businesses, or families receive acute medical care they need to recover from trauma or illness. The IRC helps those in need to rebuild their lives and regain control of their future in their new home community.
Job Overview: The Volunteer Coordinator supports all of IRC's programs by recruiting and training volunteers and interns and assisting with the coordination of donations of clothing and goods from community members and distributing them to clients.
In collaboration with program managers, create and maintain accurate, up-to-date descriptions for all volunteer and internship opportunities.
Recruit, screen, orient, train and match volunteers and interns with appropriate service opportunities in accordance with IRC national volunteer guidelines.
Provide ongoing support to volunteers and interns throughout their service period.
Record and report all volunteer time and keep accurate, appropriately documented electronic and paper records of service time.
Maintain individual files on all volunteer and intern staff, ensuring required documentation is complete, accurate and on file.
Recognize volunteers and their service through events and communications.
Serve as the staff contact for the University of Virginia Internship Placement Program (IPP).
Assist with the organization and execution of donation drives.
Oversee the management of volunteer receptionists including training and scheduling, and updating materials as needed.
Oversee resettlement shop ensuring it is a well-stocked, organized, and clean space for clients.
Represent IRC at volunteer and career fairs, fundraising events, and other community outreach opportunities.
Minimum one year of demonstrated success in managing volunteer programs.
Proven, superior organizational skills in a complex, multi-tasking environment and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
Ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically with current and prospective donors and volunteers, partner agencies, multi-cultural clients and colleagues on all levels.
Excellent Microsoft Office skills and ability to learn new computer applications rapidly.


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Q: intel_agp kernel module not found I trying to use intel embedded HD 4400 graphics.
As best as I know, it's need to load i915 kernel module (and the kernel module loader also try to load it) without success because it's depends from intel_agp module.
root@Laptop:/# lsmod | grep -i intel_
root@Laptop:/# modprobe intel_agp
root@Laptop:/# lsmod | grep -i intel_

When i try to load module, there is no error message, but the module is not loaded.
Than I  searched for kernel module file:
find /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64 | grep -i intel_agp
(no result)

But it's doesn't exists. How can I get this module?
In most of driver topic, there is an output of lsmod which indicate this module loaded.

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Consistent with the results of the present study, SIMV (60.
The patient was subsequently returned to the standard (baseline) mode of ventilation, ASV, for 2 hours, followed by a change to SIMV mode for a period of 2 hours, after which the same, previously described parameters were obtained.
The inspiratory time in AC or SIMV mode is usually determined by the Vt and inspiratory gas flow rate.
The Evita XL ventilator will provide plateau pressure data in SIMV without autoflow mode, however because our current clinical practice is to use SIMV with autoflow, plateau pressure data was not available.
Ventilation--how often are we correct?
These results differ from those of a European study in which the combination of SIMV and PSV was the most common weaning methods (14).
Ventilator settings: PS-20; PEEP-10; VC-50; IMV-6; FiO2-21%; TV-50; Mode SIMV with PS.
Ventilation was initiated on ventilator, with a tidal volume of 500ml, FIO2 100% & PEEP of 10cm of water in SIMV mode.
Mechanical ventilation set on SIMV mode was started in the supine position.
Studies of varying quality have conflicted, but generally held that PSV is at least as effective as t-piece and SIMV alternatives.
Mandatory PC modes including SIMV (PC), assist control (A/C PC), BiLevel[TM] (also referred to as biphasic positive airway pressure), airway pressure release ventilation and pressure regulated volume control were used in 48/284 (17%) patients.
She was placed on a ventilator with settings of SIMV with tidal volume of 70 cc, IMV of 30, PEEP of 5 cm, FI[O.


Don't think anyone will seriously argue against the usefulness of namespace.
It is also mentioned that we can use struct to simulate the namespace functionality. But it will not be able to support direct, infix call of operator functions.


Rovi is one of the biggest owners of patents for digital entertainment devices.
Digital entertainment devices patent owner Rovi is in advanced talks to acquire DVR pioneer TiVo, The New York Times reported on Thursday. TiVo's stock jumped in early trading and was up 20.8 percent at $9.25 as of 11 a.m. ET.
Rovi shares were down slightly at that time.
Financial details weren't immediately clear, but the report said Rovi was offering cash and stock to combine with TiVo. Rovi shareholders would own about 70 percent of the combined company, it said.
Rovi's market value stood at about $1.7 billion as of the end of trading on Wednesday, and TiVo's at $750 million.
Rovi is one of the biggest owners of patents for digital entertainment devices, with more than 5,000 issued or pending patents worldwide. An activist investor has been pushing it to look at a deal with TiVo.
Early this year, TiVo named CFO Naveen Chopra interim CEO. Tom Rogers left that post after about 11 years but is continuing as non-executive chairman.
A TiVo spokesman declined comment on the report. Rovi said: "We do not comment on rumors in the marketplace regarding speculation of possible M&A transactions or otherwise."


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Paul Di Filippo reviews Dave Hutchinson
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Europe in Winter, by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris 978-1781084632, £7.99, 320pp, trade paperback) November 2016
I first encountered the work of Dave Hutchinson in 2015, when, as one of the judges for the Campbell Memorial Award, I voted to put his Europe in Autumn (2014) on the final ballot. Then, as circumstances so often conspire to ordain, I was unable to approach the sequel that I had much anticipated, Europe at Midnight (2015). But now that the third volume in the sequence is out, and number two became a finalist for both the Campbell Memorial and Clarke Awards, I finally get to revel in the whole saga.
The engine at the center of Hutchinson's near-future landscape is a prophetically simple notion that permits elaborate outgrowths of plot and speculative riffs. Basically, Hutchinson proclaims that the past will reassert itself—an observation utterly relevant in the light of certain political events of our own 2016. Here is how the book phrases it, close to the start of the story.
In the latter years of the twentieth century, Europe had echoed with the sound of doors opening as the borderless continent of the Schengen Agreement had, with some national caveats, come into being.
It hadn't lasted. The early years of the twenty-first century brought a symphony of slamming doom. Economic collapse, paranoia about asylum seekers — and, of course, GWOT, the ongoing Global War On Terror — had brought back passport and immigration checks of varying stringency, depending on whose frontiers you were crossing. Then the Xian Flu had brought back quarantine checks and national borders as a means of controlling the spread of the disease; it had killed, depending on whose figures you believed, somewhere between twenty and forty million people in Europe alone. It had also effectively killed Schengen and kicked the already somewhat rickety floor out from under the EU.
The Union had struggled into the twenty-first century and managed to survive in some style for a few more years of bitching and infighting and cronyism. Then it had spontaneously begun to throw off progressively smaller and crazier nation-states, like a sunburned holidaymaker shedding curls of skin.
Nobody really understood why this had happened.
What was unexpected was that the Union had continued to flake away, bit by bit, even after the Xian Flu. Officially, it still existed, but it existed in scattered bits and pieces, like Burger King franchises, mainly in England and Poland and Spain and Belgium, and it spent most of its time making loud noises in the United Nations. The big thing in Europe these days was countries, and there were more and more of them every year.
The Continent was alive with Romanov heirs and Habsburg heirs and Grimaldi heirs and Saxe-Coburg Gotha heirs and heirs of families nobody had ever heard of who had been dispossessed sometime back in the fifteenth century, all of them seeking to set up their own pocket nations. They found they had to compete with thousands of microethnic groups who suddenly wanted European homelands as well, and religious groups, and Communists, and Fascists, and U2 fans. There had even been, very briefly, a city-state — or more accurately a village-state — run by devotees of the works of Gunther Grass.
In this scenario, a somewhat illicit organization named Les Coureurs des Bois exists to ferry information and valuables and persons across the myriad borders, with the approval of authorities or not. Stumbling into this setup, our hero is the innocuous, humble, and modest young fellow named Rudi who wishes to be naught but an expert chef, yet is somehow enlisted into the shadowy world of the Coureurs.
The first book follows Rudi from incompetent and naïve apprentice to grizzled, savvy, somewhat jaded veteran. His thrilling adventures that take him up and down the Continent and to England—narrated in the omnisciently droll, knowing manner of Bruce Sterling or Charles Stross—seem somewhat episodic and unrelated at first, albeit immensely entertaining. Hutchinson's gift for creating scads of memorable, believable yet quirky characters serves him very well. The reader is quite content to follow Rudi's cack-handed exploits even without any seeming cohesion. But then at the end Hutchinson ties it all up brilliantly, as the major secret prize behind everything is revealed.
This was what Fabio had stolen from the Line's consulate in Poznati. Three proofs of the existence of a parallel universe. And a map showing how to get into it.
The Community was a topological freak, a nation existing in the same place as Europe but only accessible through certain points on the map. Its capital, Wladyslaw, occupied more or less the same space as Prague, but the way Baedecker described it, it sounded more like a mixture of Krakow, Warsaw, Paris and Geneva. Fifteen million people, back when Baedeker wrote his guidebook. How many people were there in the Community by now? What were they all doing? Was that a secret worth protecting? Worth killing for? Rudi thought it probably was.
Now we have stepped into weird ontological Christopher Priest or China Miéville territory, and we enter fully in the next volume.
Europe at Midnight opens with the first-person account by a fellow named Rupert, whom, we soon deduce, is an inhabitant of the Community—or rather a small pocket of it called the Campus (shades of John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy!). Rupe has no notion of the existence of Europe or the interface between Community and the larger "real" world. But soon his conception of the cosmos will shatter when he winds up in our world, very much a stranger in a strange land.
Meanwhile, in alternate sections, we ride the shoulders of Jim, a member of the UK's Security Services, who is dealing with strange eruptions of unreality. He learns from Adele Bevan, an expert on the Community—insofar as anyone really is—that the parallel universe has been spying on Europe for centuries, and that their machinations are soon going to ramp up.
The rest of the book chronicles the intersecting activities of Jim and Rupe and a host of other players, some quite nasty, who are seeking the upper hand in the new landscape that is going to result from a fusion of the two universes—but on whose terms? And of course, Rudi eventually returns to enact his part.
This book employs a wider lens than the first, making it somewhat more diffuse and hence a tad less intimately compelling than Rudi's solo autobiography. Parallel love stories involving Rupe and a woman named Araminta and Jim and Adele Bevan do add a lot of vital focus. But ultimately this volume serves admirably to jolt up the concept and the consequences, and performs as the essential catalyst and bridge to the third volume.
Europe in Winter commences with a shocking act of terrorism committed against the TranEurope Rail Company Line, which is itself a very narrow sovereign state stretching from Portugal to Siberia. As a guaranteed hook of an opener, this incident is presented by Hutchinson with the same sense of enigma paradoxically abetted by crystal-clear visual and sensory detail that he imbues many other incidents with. This strategy, put to good use also in the previous books, requires the reader to play along, suspending any desire for immediate understanding of how all the parts fit together, trusting that the ultimate puzzle payoff will be satisfying. Hutchinson always delivers, but it does demand a certain kind of faith.
Along with all the new characters continually arriving—such as the charmingly amateurish Gwen, who is part of a Community-centric conspiracy group—we get some anchoring familiarity. Rupert, Rudi and other initiated folks in their circle from the first two books are back, in a highly changed and charged environment. Existence of the parallel world Community has been public for a number of years now, and intercourse between the two worlds is accelerating. Why, even Starbucks is building franchises in the other world. But someone has also stolen a portion of the Community, topologically transposing the slice of terra firm elsewhere, and Professor Mundt, discoverer of some new topological algorithms, has been assassinated. And in the polity of Dresden-Neustadt, someone else is using scads of computing power to run a Matrix-style simulation of the whole planet. Rudi & Company get eagerly on the scent in a thrilling and recondite hunt for the secrets behind the original creation of the Community by the eccentric English family named Whitton-Whyte, and the probable futures of that anomaly. Their quest involves lots of tradecraft and no small amount of danger. Even innocently attending his father's funeral, Rudi is nearly killed.
Novice readers could, I think, enjoy this book solo, since Hutchinson offers some scant but sufficient backstory. But total enjoyment will be obtained only by those familiar with the first two installments. A big part of that pleasure is seeing how much Rudi has changed from his innocent days. His expertise is seasoned with a certain world-weariness, which actually begins to dissipate under the new challenges. "Rudi turned and perched on the windowsill and looked around the flat. It was two years since anyone had tried to kill him. Something was wrong."
With small flavors of Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere) and Matthew de Abaitua (IF THEN) and even Alastair Reynolds (Hutchinson posits the Mirny EcoState, a kind of "steel beach" arcology that Reynolds might have envisioned on Mars), Hutchinson delivers an absolutely au courant tiptop thriller with a satisfying ending that even circles back to the start of Autumn.
In an interview from late last year, Hutchinson promises to round out this marvelous series with a fourth book, Europe at Dawn. My bet is that when the fourth book appears, he will still be ten entertaining steps ahead of our current turbulent sociopolitical reality.
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What do you think of that? I was mumbling over it while doing jogging this morning. I remember Dragon Age 2 (at least I think it was that game) where you would get special skills for each party member, based on the relationship, either extremely positive or negative. Like, that character really liked you (not necessarily love you, but with a sort of "Friend" value) or he really hated you ("Dislike" maybe, not hate).
Now I haven't asked Aleema yet if that could fit the story, since I think is a bit odd to have some party member that can't stand you, but perhaps if written properly could work (won't be easy). For example, you could get on the nerves of Philipp, but he would still need to fight with you in the party because has no choice (impending doom/enemies). Is a bit hard for me to explain in English, but some kind of rivalry, or "positive dislike" so that the party member is pushed to fight better.
Normally I'm not a big fan of this system - however, since my games the relationships have a big role, I think would make sense and give an extra goal to the player to spend time in the dialog scenes to try to unlock some extra skills?
I really enjoyed that aspect of Dragon Age 2, but I want to make a couple comments.
First of all, I like it, but I think the player should be rewarded for playing a CONSISTENT character from a roleplaying perspective, not simply "Wait, to bring up THIS character's friendship, I should go give money to that beggar, but for THAT character's friendship, I am going to go kick the beggar now! Yay! Double friendship!"
I like the rivalry aspect, though I think it could be better explained as you may provoke or irritate the character, but you are still drawn together-- either from a shared goal, or because even if you are at full 'dislike', there is some sort of attraction, where you know you aren't good for eachother but can't resist anyways. (Though writing variant romances (romances because it is a Winterwolves game! :D ) based on which relationship path you're at might be tough!) It might not always be a HEALTHY relationship, but it would provide some extra replay value and insight to the characters.
Along that path, one of the things I liked about Dragon Age 2 (and I don't know if you're considering) is that sometimes, just being someone's 'friend' (positive relationship) isn't always doing the right thing either. If you agree with everything the character says and are always buttering them up, you can still be enabling some very bad decisions or patterns.
biscuit wrote: Along that path, one of the things I liked about Dragon Age 2 (and I don't know if you're considering) is that sometimes, just being someone's 'friend' (positive relationship) isn't always doing the right thing either. If you agree with everything the character says and are always buttering them up, you can still be enabling some very bad decisions or patterns.
I like it because it makes the NPCs more prevalent. In PS1 unless you were going to romance someone how they felt about you was a moot point because they still had to do whatever you told them without any consequence. Anything that makes for stronger character interactions is a good thing, IMO.
I feel like I need to add that although I like the idea, the reason Boiware used it in DA2 was because the plot was so weak. They used it as a gimmick.
I think this aspect is as well a chance as a risk.
It spices social play up, if you do not have to be bff with everyone in your team. It is more realistic if you have to manage a team of individuals that just do net get along with everyone in the team (incluing you) but have to work together to survive / achieve a goal.In PS 2 this is not too hard to code since the PC is the captain of the base and the captain gives orders that have to be followed weather you like it or not, that is the job of a soldier.
But I think it is a bit odd if you base the skills on the relationship, since it will suggest that you "grind" through the dialogues to get the skillpoints.
It is more interesting if you hide hints on secret quests in the dialogues, where you can find unique euipment or unique expansions for your base. Maybe one of the NPC tells you a secret he found out after you drink him/her unter the table or he/she might accidentaly say something like "we would never have defended our hideout in X if our comande had been a douchbag like you" (so you get a hint, that there might be the lefovers of a hideout somehwer ein the area X). So you are motivated to really listen to what the NPC have to say and think about your answers.
In modern day rpgs, relationships have started to become a mechanic in most games, especially tactical rpgs. In some mmos, they are very prevalent, granting new skills to spouses/couples or even skill inheritance, such as Ragnarok Online.
In games like Shining Force and Phatasy Star, Fire Emblem, there can be relationship levels. They mildly effect your stats, and higher closer knit relationship grants life or death skills.
I am not sure - I know that some people like it, since it gives a sort of goal/gameplay mechanics for the relationship parts. While others don't like it, since as they posted above, is kind of "cheating" and they pick the answers only based on the end goal and not because of the situation or character personality.
Aye in earnest, it's probrably up to the writer, but you can always base the bonus to stats based on their friendly meter. You know, the happy face one that goes from 0 > 50?
- you can add a positive and a negative feature to a good/bad relationship, e.g. some stats rise while others fall or you get different boni/lai on skills. This will not "cheat" your companions because of boring stat maximazation but it can individualize them, as long as the positive and negative parts balance each other out. E.g. Rebecca might get better survival skills since she believes she cannot rely on you but on the other hand she gets a malus to social skills because she loses hope in social relationships and prefers to stay on her own.
militia for dead to make a run for your life, an NPC might say "hey, I understand this. I had to do the same decision 20 years ago but did not speak to anyone about this. You can talk to me about your guilty feelings if you want to" and his/her affection rises.
But in this way the situation at hand has a higher priority than the "endgoal" and you are not forced to be bff with everyone (which is kinda worn off since you have to be bff with every companion in 90% of all rpg). It might help to add some contrary charasteristics to the NPC so it won't be too easy to anticipate the effect of your action/answer. But I think this can be fun for the writer to do . If your writer is into it, you can set up a few contradictionary situations where the player just cannot get a good result from all of them and has to think about which way he/she will follow.
In general I would say - it is essential for this kind of relation ship baes skills/stats that everything has a good and a bad side. I did something like this in a decision tree for a P&P game a few months ago and it got more interesting for the players when there weren't just "good" or "bad" choices but also a great "grey space" where you could not clearly distinguish good and bad from another.


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Tag: Michel Faber
In Which I Give Up On A Book
First of all, let me be clear about one thing: this never, and I mean never, happens. I don't stop reading books. Partly this is because I have a good sense of what I like as a reader; partly this is because "what I like as a reader" happens to be an extremely wide field; and partly this is because I have a weirdly Protestant work ethic/competitive streak when it comes to completing a book. Even if I'm not particularly enjoying it, I'll push through to the end. Very occasionally, I'll stop a book halfway through because it's too dense or I don't have enough time or something else comes along (see, for instance, The Hobbit and The Portrait of a Lady), but I always keep those books on hold in my head; I always intend to pick them up again. (In the case of The Hobbit, I actually did, when I was ten or eleven. I have yet to return to The Portrait of a Lady, but I know precisely where my copy is and I have every intention of reading it properly in the future.)
Putting a book down and thinking, no, I'm done now, I'm not going to finish this? Never. I can't ever remember doing it before.
The book that made me do it this time is Michel Faber's novel The Book of Strange New Things.
Plenty of people have loved this book, and they're not necessarily wrong. I was excited for it. Its premise is thrilling: a not-quite-first-contact mission to a faraway planet undertaken by an evangelical Christian. A chance to play out the tropes of colonization, with its ingredients of racism and religious fervor, in a new arena; whenever I see an author trying to play out tropes in a new arena, I get excited. I think, maybe we'll learn something about ourselves that we couldn't learn if we used an old arena, a familiar setting. Maybe something true will come to light.
But a little more than a hundred pages in, I realized I wasn't enjoying it at all. I carried on for a few more pages, and then had one of those epiphanies about my own agency: I didn't have to keep reading it. You'd think this would be fairly obvious, but see paragraph one, above: I don't stop reading a book. It's not something that even occurs to me 96% of the time. It's a really nerdy version of the mentality I heard a triathlete describe a few weeks ago: Not finishing is not an option. But it was this time; it was a necessity. I had to put the book down. And because I'd promised to review it in Shiny New Books, and because their ethos is a book recommendation site, not a review site, I had to write to them and tell them that I was terribly sorry, but I couldn't do it. They were lovely about it, but it made me want to write down what, in particular, made me stop.
Partly it was because the protagonist annoyed the shit out of me. In and of itself, this isn't a huge problem: Holden Caulfield annoys the shit out of me, but I liked (and, more to the point, finished) The Catcher In the Rye. Peter, Faber's main character and evangelist (you see what he did there with the names, huh? Peter, the bad disciple, the salty-tongued and boisterous, who was still entrusted with being the first pope. Oh, and the character's saintly wife is named Beatrice. Sigh.)—anyway, Peter is a Christian. One of the first things I read about this book, in a New York Times review, was that Faber does an unusual thing in portraying a Christian who isn't rabidly exploitative, a la TV Tropes's Corrupt Church. I grant that this is unusual, but I don't think Faber's solution is much better. Peter and Beatrice are kind of guerrilla evangelists: there's a scene in the first chapter, in Heathrow, where they talk to a couple going on holiday with their children, in a manner that one reviewer (I can't find which one, now) referred to as "predatory". It's exactly the right word. This is coupled with a general sense of what the Strange Horizons reviewer calls "unthinking privilege": Peter and Bea are constantly internally judging and assessing other characters in a manner, at best, flippantly thoughtless, and at worst, cruel. The couple they talk to in the airport are "none too bright, and not very fascinating" (but that's okay because Peter and Bea recognize that "they were human beings, and precious in the eyes of God". Isn't that generous of them.) A woman who works at the USIC base on Oasis is described three times as "butch" and "hefty", though none of this contributes to her character in any way. Bea jokes, of a young Muslim woman whose husband has just beaten her for attending their church in secret, that she doesn't want their house to be "the scene of an Arabic honor killing!", which would be a sufficiently tasteless remark even without the exclamation point.
All of this isn't to say that such Christians don't exist—they most assuredly do. It just means that Peter (and Bea to a lesser extent, as someone with fewer pages) is a self-righteous asshole, and Faber (as the Strange Horizons reviewer again so brilliantly says) never interrogates that. We're meant to think of Peter as a good man, a flawed "human being…precious in the eyes of God" who's trying his hardest. Instead, he comes across as pompous, dour, and a bit stupid. His backstory as an addict and homeless person doesn't help; he's curiously naïve for someone who has supposedly experienced rough living, not to mention that his devoutness seems, in this context, more like a symptom of displaced obsession than of profound spirituality. Again, this could have made him a fascinating, rounded character, if Faber had acknowledged the inconsistency, but he doesn't seem aware of it.
The patronizing, self-congratulatory, middle-class form of Christianity that the book espouses wouldn't be so bad if the plot compelled me or the world and situation seemed built with care. None of this is the case. Mary Doria Russell's novel The Sparrow does a beautiful job exploring the practicalities of a mission, both scientific and religious, to another planet. Faber's novel doesn't. Russell takes care to outline the deep background in linguistics that her protagonist has, which he needs in order to communicate with the indigenous folk on Ra'kat; Faber invokes a shadowy linguist named Tartaglione, who disappears before Peter arrives on Oasis. There's talk of fuel, something called the Jump (like a warp drive?) and various disasters occurring on Earth in Peter's absence, but there's no follow-up. What kind of fuel? How does the Jump work? What the hell is going on? What is USIC? How have they been allowed to essentially colonize a new planet? How did we find this damn planet in the first place? Maybe all of this is explained later (although I doubt it, since there was no serious attempt at world-building in the first 150 pages), but it's still not good enough. Of course, this is a matter of personal taste, but it's a taste I share with a lot of other people, including ones who read sf far more seriously and regularly than I do.
Here's the takeaway: read The Sparrow. It does what this book is trying to do: it tells a story about a Jesuit priest who, along with some actual scientists, embarks on a journey to a newly discovered planet. It builds its world carefully—there are explanations of telescopes, technology, biology, physics—without being impenetrably technical. It's also emotionally engaging from beginning to end, and the actions and reactions Russell describes in her characters ring true: even the less savoury stuff (and there is plenty of that; it's a visceral, at times very violent book) adds complexity to the work. The Book of Strange New Things simply left me feeling uncomfortable as, time and again, our solipsistic hero muses on the "childlike" innocence of his "sexy" wife, or congratulates himself for being able to get over the shock of looking at the aliens' unhuman faces. Ultimately, I felt I'd already read a better version of this book. It's a shame, because I loved Under the Skin and am really looking forward to The Crimson Petal and the White, whenever I get around to it. But it feels strangely nice to put down a book that's bothering me. Maybe I'll do it again sometime.
Further Reading: Here's the Strange Horizons review that really helped me get a handle on the nature of the issues I had with this book, and here's the New York Times review.
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In November 2018, the CA Browser Forum voted to sunset the use of underscore characters in the domain names of SSL/TLS certificates. Ballot SC 12 called for a rather short timeline in which Subscribers had to sunset underscores. While Entrust Datacard agreed that the issue involving underscores needed to be resolved, we could not find any justification for this sense of urgency and therefore did not support it. The potential disruption to Subscribers' resources during the holiday season, which represents a blackout period for many IT organizations, was not warranted.
The use of underscore characters is a little confusing. Underscore characters are not permitted in domain names in accordance with RFC 1035, which only allows letters, digits and hyphens. As such, you cannot register a domain name with an underscore character. Unfortunately, certificate users have used underscore characters in subdomains and certification authorities (CAs) have supported these users for many years.
All underscore certificates will be revoked or expired by April 30, 2019.
Entrust Datacard voted against the underscore ballot with the following statement: "We do agree that the issue for use of underscores needs to be resolved as to whether they are allowed or not allowed. However, this ballot does not address whether underscores can be used. The ballot assumes that underscores are not required. The ballot does not address the threat, nor does it justify the urgency to remove underscores. The urgency of removing underscores by decreasing validity period and revocation, does not give Subscribers sufficient time to change how they deploy their certificates."
Nevertheless, to ensure compliance, Entrust Datacard has quickly implemented the ballot. Certificate subscribers were immediately advised of the changes due to ballot SC 12. All issuance of certificates with underscores for all validity periods was stopped on December 7, 2018. All certificates with underscores were revoked on or earlier than January 14, 2019.
We thank our customers for reacting to the change in a timely manner.
Update January 21, 2019: Entrust Datacard discovered nine additional SSL/TLS certificates with underscore characters following January 15, 2019 deadline. These certificates were revoked on January 18, 2019, and the SSL/TLS community was advised of the issue.


A construction budget is not a simple checklist of nails and wood. The budget for any construction project is massive and includes both hard and soft costs. Hard costs are what is spent physically constructing a building. Soft costs go toward things that aren't physically solid but are just as vital, such as design costs, legal fees and permit processing. Soft costs represent a smaller part of the budget than hard costs.
Hard costs are your "brick-and-mortar" costs to actually construct the building. Soft costs are not tangible and include expenses such as loans, permits, insurance, marketing costs and taxes.
The hard costs of a project are the parts of your project you can actually see. This includes everything from the foundations and the structure to the detailed interior finishes, combined with electrical wiring and plumbing and the furnishings. The labor involved with putting the structure up is also a hard cost. Hard costs per square foot vary according to the project type. If a customer requires state-of-the-art precision engineering – a high-tech manufacturing facility, a research lab – the costs per square foot will be higher than an ordinary office building.
Unlike hard costs, the soft expenses aren't instantly visible. These are the fees that pay for the the small details that get the job done. They include, for example, design fees, management fees, legal fees, taxes, insurance, financing costs and administrative expenses. Legal requirements can increase soft costs. For example, the government may mandate the design include certain environmental features. Meeting all the required points to earn a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification is considered part of the soft cost. Permits and the fees attached will fall into the soft costs category as well.
The work covered by soft costs has a direct effect on the hard costs. The more efficiently the architect's design uses space, the lower the hard costs may be. The American Institute of Architects says that the simplest, easiest building to construct would be simple and square, but that doesn't make the building very attractive. Adding notches and shadow lines to the building envelope can improve its appearance, but the complexity of constructing them can increase the hard costs. The LEED Certification falls under soft costs, but plays a big part in the building materials budget in the hard costs.
What is the Definition of a Building Envelope?
Even after all this, hard and soft costs don't comprise the total construction budget. The cost of purchasing the land is a separate item, and the contractor's budget itself usually includes more than the company's costs; the contractor figures in overhead, profits and usually a contingency budget. A contingency budget equal to 10 percent of hard costs can protect against the unexpected, such as the client requesting a sudden change. Soft costs are more predictable, so there's less need for contingency.


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Dixon Place Presents "The Magnificent Seven"
Our first public performance of some brand spanking new material from our gymnastics musical that we've been developing at Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Play Group is coming up this Thursday, 10/6, at 7:30pm at Dixon Place! We're presenting about 25 minutes of material, and we're co-billed with indubitable multi-hyphenate Adam Stasiw, who will be doing a kick-ass piece with dance, and projections and algorithms, oh my! The whole thing will be under an hour. The Dixon Place Lounge is open before and after the show though, and you can bring your drink in the theater to raise a glass to feats of athletics and multimedia! The deets:
Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street)
Book and Lyics by Gordon Leary
Tickets are here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10119170
Featuring: Collin Batten, Ally Bonino, Amy Linden, Ellen Condon Macy, Elexis Morton, Gillian Munsayac, Alex Ratner, Lynne Marie Rosenberg, Dana Steingold, Dustin Sullivan & Emily Walton
Amanda Borden, Amy Chow, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Jaycie Phelps, and Kerri Strug made up the first U.S. women's gymnastics team to win Olympic team gold at the 1996 Atlanta games. The Magnificent Seven imagines their inner lives on the two days of team competition, as they reach for their young dreams and their faces on the Wheaties box, all leading up to a star-making vault heard 'round the world.


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S has been chivvying me for some time about getting more hens. The demise of Carol finally left us with just two laying hens. And service on the egg laying front has been very intermittent this year. We had the space to restock for ages and finally I decided to go for it.
So yesterday The Chicken Lady, S and I ate an enormous, delicious, waist expanding lunch. Then we piled into their car and shot off with a heavy wooden crate in the boot and hats at the ready as it was raining. Our destination was Cambridge Poultry. I've heard a lot of good things about this company. They stock a large range of free range point of lay hens at a good price.
On arrival it was clear that the Cambridge Poultry birds were happy and well nurtured. The hens were happy to be picked up and examined. I quickly chose five beautiful hens whilst TCL and S carefully chose birds with particular colourings and detail. They used to breed award winning chickens after all!
Of course my new girls were a bit jumpy when they were introduced to the home team in the chicken run. Within a few minutes there were two camps – the old retainers and the five nervous maidens. The chicken run is long – roughly 30'- with places to hide. So there's room to escape nasty nips and frights. It was stand off.
Lets look at the staus quo before the arrival of the new stock. At the moment, Zebedee (slinky black Leghorn) is head hen of the pecking order, followed by Beatyl the diminutive Golden Seabright cockerel. Once step down the ladder is Hope the pretty Laced Winged Wyandotte bantam and on the lowest rung of the ladder is our eight year old hybrid ginger hen – Thumper. Her egg laying was brilliant for three years and then she swiftly hung up her laying gloves. She will have a home until she goes to the great meadow in the sky. She is very pretty – as the years have rushed by her feathers have turned from ginger to apricot.
Finally there is Baby – such a special chicken in my book. Our tiny brown Leghorn bantam is alive and well and as he lives apart from the rest of the flock his pecking order days are long gone. Thank goodness.
Thumper was clearly thrilled when the new girls arrived as, for the first time in months, she was allowed to join Zebedee's coterie.
Today she sunbathed with them on the roof of the chicken house – stretching out her legs and finally able to relax and close her eyes against the sun. Whilst the new girls were hunched in the Ken Doherty Day Centre – looking just like 'new girls' the world over.
Last night I crept down to the run after dark and found the new girls in the run. Three were roosting on the top of the Emerald Castle. The other two were hiding in a gap beside the Day Centre – clearly very rattled.
I quickly put them into the big girls' dorm at the top of the chicken house. Nightime is a good time to introduce new birds to the sleeping quarters as the older flock are sleepy and not in combat mode.
This evening I discovered that one had made her way up the nesting box and the others were dithering about in the Day Centre. The new hens are surprisingly tame and quite easy to catch. I'm thrilled with them.
Now I'd like to introduce them individually to you. Florence and Venetia are Neras – a Rhode Island Red/Barred Plymouth Rock cross that will lay brown eggs. Paris is a white Leghorn – she will lay white eggs and like Zebedee is a bit flighty and very beautiful. Brittany – think French beaches and pancakes rather than Spears – is a Goldline. She will lay very well like Thumper. She's a very pretty brown hen and there's something about brown hens that makes my heart turn over. Finally we have Vienna – A Cambridge Blue – anAndalusian/Barred Plymouth Rock cross. Vienna is bigger than the rest and had the nouse to find her bedroom this evening. I'm not sure what colour that her eggs will be – I'm guessing creamy brown!
So now we have 10 birds in our bijou flock. I've noticed that the Neras spend most of their time together. Safety in numbers. I'm going to monitor the new girls' progress over the next few days and might very well return to buy a companion for the other three birds if I feel that they need a friend of the same breed.
Meanwhile we are in the happy expectation of lots of eggs in the future.
Delighted to read about your chickens, as we have just acquired some point-of-lay Warrens (hybrids) and I was very encouraged to read that Thumper is such a great age. We were told that hybrids are rather short-lived, but perhaps that's just the ones who are battery-farmed, poor things. I must say that although I never approved of the practice, it's only when you have the birds and realise how sociable and intelligent they are that you fully appreciate the inhumanity of factory farming.
Hoping the new pullets will be laying by Easter!
We love eggs. Friatta, souflee omlette, just plain hard boiled or baked eggs are all wonderfull!
Eggs and some hen fun is what we are after!
Yes I'd love new chicken posts too. ATM they are minding themselves very quietly..
No Zebedee is not butch in any way. there was a slight naming mix up when she hatched (my fault) and she was named Zebedee. She is now named Zebedee, Queen Zee. A beautiful yet somewhat aggressive leader.
Good to hear your wartime memories. I reckon that it's only a matter of time that we consider raising chickens for the table. We've already eaten two and they were delicious.
Thank you for all your comments. I'm still battling with the deamon four that refuse to go up to roost at night. They cluster together in a far corner of the Ken Dogherty Day Centre and I feel a bit of a pig moving them into the warm. Crazy!
However, I do like the fact that when they calm down I can hold them in my arms and tickle their chests (chicken love)and then they cluck semi happily.
Even chickens can stretch you!
At last the chicken blog has been revived! I have missed it. So pleased you are delighted with your new hens.


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