This is a guest post by Timo Kiander.
Many people live their lives without understanding, that there is a giant potential inside them. In fact, if they would realize this, they would achieve so much more in their lives.
This is where the personal development comes into play. Once you get involved with different self-improvement topics, your mind starts to change and you'll start seeing everything differently (the people, the world, the events).
What I love about personal development is that it can be applied to many areas in one's life. When you improve yourself first, you can have better results in whatever you do.
Having a strong self-confidence is essential for any successful blogger. If you don't own this trait, you are building invisible obstacles of your path to success.
To build your confidence, you need to take action and go outside your comfort zone – constantly. I know, this may not be very easy to accept for some people, but this is the only way to do it.
However, it is relieving to know, that you don't have to make a huge leaps at once, when you are testing the boundaries of your comfort zone.
For example, if you want to start guest posting, but are afraid to give it a shot, start by submitting your posts to smaller blogs first. As your blog posts get accepted, move on to the bigger blogs. Finally, you have enough confidence to submit your guest post to big blogs too.
Once you have stretched your comfort zone a bit, you will feel more confident to take even bigger steps outside the zone. Finally, you realize that you have a rock-solid confidence and you are not limiting yourself from success.
If there are two characteristic that every blogger needs, they are persistence and consistency. Although I could have separated them, I feel that in many ways they go hand in hand.
When you start building your blog, you need to have persistence so that you are not quitting after the first setback. You also need to be consistent on your blogging efforts by creating high quality content – on a consistent basis.
Persistence and consistency build on top of motivation. You need to have a reason to move forward, even if at time you don't feel like it.
If your goal is to be a successful blogger and an authority on what you do, it is going to take you more than just a sprint – it is going to be a marathon.
Whenever I have felt lost, I have remembered the lessons in various self-improvement books about truly believing in my end goal. Since the goal still resonates with me, I have been able to get back on track and move forward.
Do you know what separates unsuccessful bloggers from successful ones? They are not afraid of failing. They have courage to be who they are and they take full responsibility of their actions.
Also, they are not afraid of negative feedback. Essentially, that's what any blogger can expect at some point – in a form or another.
A very common lesson in personal development is that there really aren't any failures. Rather, it is a feedback mechanism that helps us to improve ourselves further. Also, in many cases "failing" is success in disguise. It belongs to your journey from unknown blogger to a well-known blogger.
Many people are afraid of failing or receiving negative feedback. Instead, they should evaluate the events and see the positive potential in them.
No matter how well you plan something in advance, be prepared for setbacks and incidents that take your off-track. At the same time, be willing to learn from them and find out a way to turn that negative feedback into your advantage!
When I started blogging, I never realized how much work there is involved. I'm producing two posts per week for my blog and even that requires quite a bit of effort from my side.
Time management skills are essential for any blogger. Especially, if you are blogging part-time, it becomes even more important to learn the skills well.
What I have learned is that you should dedicate and prioritize time for those activities that matter the most. When the blogging is concerned, the most important one is naturally content creation.
You have to focus as well. For example, focusing on just the most important traffic sources related to your blog is a much better way to operate than trying to work on 20 different traffic-generating methods at once.
Focus also means cutting all the extra distractions to minimum when you work. You should develop a focused mindset so that when you create content, that's all you do and everything else can wait.
What keeps you blogging if you don't see any comments on your blog posts or if people are not singing to your e-mail list?
It's the motivation and faith: You have a compelling goal you are after and you are motivated enough!
Motivation is a very common theme in personal development. No matter if you set end goals or define visions – if you don't have energy to "travel the path" from start to finish, you are going to quit.
Obviously, motivation is also faith. Even if you don't get the results right away but you are still willing to work towards them consistently, you cross the finish line at some point.
Finally, knowing your true purpose is one of the most fundamental aspects of your life. There are countless of books, training courses and coaches out there to help you to define and clarify your purpose.
If you are willing to take time, do some soul searching and testing different possibilities, your vision and purpose starts to become clearer and clearer.
In most cases, finding your purpose is going to take time. However, if you are willing to find it, your life can finally make sense to you.
When you take this concept to blogging, I feel that blogging should reflect your purpose in some ways. When you have a purpose and passion, blogging is a great way of documenting that.
Not only is all this important for yourself, but it is important for others too.
At some point, others start to notice your passion and they are willing to join you on your journey. You are not just a blogger anymore, you are the blogger on your market.
People rely on you as an expert by asking questions and advice. Also, you feel confident and grateful, because you are able to help people.


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Let Down Tab (ver 3) - Radiohead
Let Down Tab
When i hum this song this is what i hear. (if that helps_)
h= hammerpick
Capo the 11th fret.
e----------------------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------14-----------------|
D-----------14-------------13-------------14----------------13---|
G--0h2-0h2-----0h2-0h2-0h2----0h2-0h2-0h2--------0h2-0h2-0h2-----|
A----------------------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------------------|  x2
(The strum pattern is set by the tamborine in the background.)
Transports, motorways and
Tramlines starting and then
Stopping, taking off and
Landing. The emptiest of
Feelings. Disapointed
People clinging on to
Bottles. When it comes its
Oh so disapointing.
D        A   E       A
Let down and hanging around...
D       A      E          A
Crushed like a bug in the ground...
D          A           A
A let down and hanging around...
repeat as necessary.
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About the artist behind Let Down Tab:
Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, electronics), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar, synthesisers) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). Radiohead have released seven albums and have sold over 23 million records throughout their career.[1]
Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992, and their debut album, Pablo Honey, in 1993. Though initially unsuccessful, "Creep" was a worldwide hit when reissued a year later. Radiohead's popularity in the United Kingdom increased with the release of their second album, The Bends (1995). The band's textured guitar atmospheres and Yorke's falsetto singing were warmly received by critics and fans. With the release of OK Computer (1997), Radiohead were propelled to greater fame worldwide. Featuring an expansive sound and themes of alienation from the modern world, OK Computer has often been acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s.
The release of Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) saw Radiohead reach their peak popularity, although the albums divided critical opinion. This period marked a change in Radiohead's musical style, with their incorporation of avant-garde electronic music, Krautrock and jazz influences. Hail to the Thief (2003), Radiohead's sixth album, blended styles from throughout the band's career, mixing guitar-driven rock, electronic influences and contemporary lyrics. Radiohead subsequently left their record label, EMI, and released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), through their own website as a digital download for which customers selected their own price.
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Nanoday #18 — the pathos arrives & we get past that… & Heart of Clouds carries on!
So, I'm sure that the block I had today is because I knew I had to tie in the character of Teenie Alexander's mom — and I knew that would be hard to do because she has been like an antagonist in the background?
I could have lead with the puppy Devlin just got, but? —
what showed up was T's mom and more backstory
today @ 1380 w/c and total is 33,325 right now…
an excerpt on Teenie's mom and her depression here:
It seemed to Teenie that ever since her dad had gone her mom had just closed up like a book that somebody had finished reading.
They almost never talked anymore at all, and her mother looked so
grey. Most of the time she looked like a day full of rain, as if all the life was just gone from her. Teenie wished she could have told her about Devlin Underwood but as usual she'd been curled in that little ball asleep on the sofa so Teenie had gone to Mr. Honeygarten's instead. She'd just really wanted to tell somebody about Devlin because it was really important. But at her house, it was so quiet all the time. Teenie looked up at her old house on the hill and remembered all the parties her parents used to have.
All the people who worked at the newspaper in the village used to come over and everyone brought big platters of food and she thought about her parents and how happy they had looked when they were dancing. When everyone was dancing.
Teenie had just slipped out of the house quietly when she saw her mother asleep. Had she known what her mother was going to do though? Teenie would never have gone at all.
Jax, why did you have to leave me? Teenie's mother thought as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. Her face was pasty and too pale in the early morning light that came through the white cotton curtains. She'd taken a very long bath that morning. Teenie
had gone out and so she had plenty of time to think and cry because Teenie was gone. She'd had to put on a very strong face for her daughter even when she was falling apart on the inside.
Why is my life so hard? she'd thought, as she slipped into the water. Jax, why did you leave?
It made Teenie's mom both sad and angry that he was gone. "My nerves are like glass," she'd told the doctor. "Let me give you some of these, he'd said. "And these."
The pill bottles were all over the house. She'd been given so many different types that even she couldn't get them straight. Most of the time she floated around as if she were a zombie. It was really hard to focus on anything.
The doctor hadn't really bothered asking her why she was so sad. He'd just called it a depression as he made some notes on a little piece of paper and wrote out her prescriptions.
If there were a way to describe what a depression felt like it had to be gray. It had to be where there was no color at all to see anywhere in the world. Some days she felt that she was in the center of a storm like when a hurricane blows through a town and leaves everything just devastated. Some days she felt as if she were being hurled and tossed about at the edges of things — those days felt like tornadoes in her soul, in a way. Or as if she was out on the
edges spinning round and round and round and waiting for the tornado to just drop her off or spit her out, when it felt like it. It was like storms raged in her spirit, but there was no way out. It had become obvious to her that Jax might not be coming back.
This passage was incredibly difficult to write but, it contains like I said, the pathos in the novel which you need to show in order to understand the crux of the novel — which is love?
xxoo!
onwards…. and back to Devlin's little puppy!
"Wake up, sleepyhead," Devlin's grandmother called from just outside his door.
Devlin turned on his side and suddenly realized he had a puppy in bed with him! The puppy yelped as he rolled on it by mistake.
"Hey, little guy," he said. "Are you okay?"
Devlin cuddled the puppy to his chest and pretty soon it was licking his chin again and pulling at the collar of his T-shirt. Tugging at it and playing like he was going to rip it to shreds.
"Hey, quit that," he laughed. "Cut that out!"
But it didn't do much good because the puppy just kept on until Devlin was laughing and rolling around on the bed while it barked and made little lunges at him.
"You nut," he said. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Come on downstairs, Devlin. I have breakfast ready. Have you decided what to name him yet?"
"I'm working on it, grandma," Devlin laughed, as the puppy wiggled and snuggled and cuddled against him.
"You little monster," he said. But he meant that in a good way, because overnight the bond between puppy and boy had been sealed forever.
"Brownie," he said. I think I'll name you after my favorite dessert, because that's what you look like to me.
"Come on Brownie, he said. "Let's go get some breakfast."
"He's Brownie, grandma!"
Devlin came down the stairs hugging Brownie like he was nver ever going to let him go. He just loved that little puppy with those big sad eyes that never left his.
back at it!
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Suevia Films va ser una societat productora i distribuïdora cinematogràfica espanyola, dirigida i propietat de Cesáreo González Rodríguez. Va ser l'empresa més prolífica de la producció al cinema espanyol durant el franquisme, després de la caiguda de Cifesa.

Va ser fundada en 1940 per l'empresari Cesáreo González Rodríguez al costat del seu germà Arturo González i va arribar a ser una de les majors productores espanyoles dels anys cinquanta i seixanta del segle XX a Espanya. La seva primera pel·lícula va ser Polizón a bordo, que va constituir una gran èxit de públic. Entre 1941 i 1967 va arribar a produir més de 130 pel·lícules, la qual cosa suposa una mitjana de cinc pel·lícules cada any.

En la dècada de 1950 va arribar la seva eclosió, amb la creació d'un sistema de grans estrelles propi, basat en el fitxatge en exclusiva d'actrius molt populars com Lola Flores (a qui va contractar en 1951 per a cinc pel·lícules i per les que "La Faraona" va rebre sis milions de pessetes), Sara Montiel, Carmen Sevilla, Paquita Rico (a la qual va contractar en 1953), Marisol o el cantant Joselito, acompanyat d'espectaculars estrenes abrigallades amb les seves figures estel·lars. Així mateix, l'empresa va consolidar una política de coproduccions que li va obrir el mercat llatinoamericà.

Suevia Films va produir diverses pel·lícules destacades de la història del cinema espanyol, com La calle sin sol de Rafael Gil (1948) o Muerte de un ciclista (1955) de Juan Antonio Bardem, a més de la seva abundant producció de consum més efímer. Cesáreo González va morir en 1968 i en els anys vuitanta la societat va abandonar definitivament la producció cinematogràfica.

En 1999 es va constituir una nova Suevia Films dedicada a la producció i distribució videogràfica, sense vinculació amb l'antiga productora de Cesáreo González.

Pel·lícules produïdes

 Polizón a bordo (1940)
 El abanderado (1943)
 El rey de las finanzas (1944)
 Bambú (1945)
 El crimen de Pepe Conde (1946)
 La pródiga (1946)
 Mar abierto (1946)
 La nao Capitana (1947)
 La dama del armiño (1947)
 La fe (1947)
 Reina santa (1947)
 La calle sin sol (1948)
 ¡Olé torero! (1948)
 Mare Nostrum (1948)
 Botón de ancla (1948)
 Una mujer cualquiera (1949)
 Yo no soy la Mata Hari (1950)
 Teatro Apolo (1950)
 La Señora de Fátima (1951)
 La niña de la venta (1951)
 Maldición gitana (1953)
 Gitana tenías que ser (1953)
 El seductor de Granada (1953)
 ¡Ay, pena, penita, pena! (1953)
 El pórtico de la gloria (1953)
 La alegre caravana (1953)
 Nadie lo sabrá (1953)
 ¡Che, qué loco! (1953)
 Siempre Carmen (1953)
 Camelia (1953)
 La bella Otero (1954)
 Morena Clara (1954)
 Los peces rojos (1955)
 La otra vida del capitán Contreras (1955)
 Muerte de un ciclista (1955)
 Historias de la radio (1955).
 La Faraona (1955).
 Limosna de amores (1955).
 Fedra (1956).
 Faustina (1956).
 Calle Mayor (1956)
 El pequeño ruiseñor (1956)
 La guerra empieza en Cuba (1957)
 El ruiseñor de las cumbres (1958)
 Échame la culpa (1959)
 La venganza (1959)
 Saeta del ruiseñor (1959)
 Carmen la de Ronda (1959)
 Escucha mi canción (1959)
 Aventuras de Joselito y Pulgarcito (1960)
 Mi último tango (1960)
 El indulto (1961)
 Ha llegado un ángel (1961)
 El balcón de la luna (1962)
 Tierra de todos (1962)
 El caballo blanco (1962)
 La reina del Chantecler (1963)
 Chantaje a un torero (1963)
 La verbena de la Paloma (1963)
 La nueva vida de Pedrito Andía (1965)
 Los pianos mecánicos (1965)
 Amor en el aire (1967)
 Del amor y otras soledades (1969)
 ¡Vivan los novios! (1970)

Referències

Productores de cinema d'Espanya

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Mr. Tube & the Flying Objects
By William Crain, June 23, 2010
Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects have described their music as "lowrider, Latin dub music," but that doesn't do justice to how mysterious it is. Trumpet and sax drift in and out of bass-heavy rhythms, while a distant voice sings things like "Jesus was king of the vatos." A fuzztone guitar will play a nasty lick while a pretty keyboard trills along and the whole band shouts, "They want your money!" In the song "Tryin','" the horns are all but lost in echoes, while deep bass and drums lay out a dub reggae rhythm and a world-weary voice sings, "I been wonderin' what happened to you."
But the music is just the beginning of the enigma. The official story is that Mr. Tube is actually one Freddie Dillenger (aka Freddie Dillinger, aka Freddie Danger), who led such bands as Freddie Feelgood & the Real Good Feelings in the 1950s before forming the Flying Objects the next decade. (Apparently, there was also at one time an all-female backup band called the Objettes.) The Flying Objects' debut album Listen Up was released in 2006, but supposedly it was recorded in the '60s. Mr. Tube now prefers to stay at home while a group of younger musicians play his music under his name.
Some killjoys have pointed out that the official story doesn't really hold up. They will say that the Flying Objects are actually a side project led by Pall Jenkins of the Black Heart Procession and Three Mile Pilot. I decided to get the truth by emailing the contact address Mr. Tube posts on his website. My email bounced back. That's okay. I think I like the mystery.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 8:30 p.m.
Casbah, 2501 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego
More stories by William Crain
Weatherbox on tour with Satan — Dec. 23, 2015
Mr. Tube's a big band with a big backstory — Dec. 23, 2015
Mr. Tube talks Freddie Feelgood and Flying Objects — Sept. 9, 2015
Plays well with others — Oct. 1, 2014
Three Mile Pilot — Aug. 22, 2012


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Mount Lemmon General Store and Gift Shop
Grey and Teri Carpenter
Mount Lemmon, AZ
loanssbabusiness acquisition
Mount Lemmon General Store and Gift Shop has been around for two decades.
It has a strong reputation and business model in place. When it became available to purchase, Grey Carpenter and his wife, Teri, jumped at the chance to acquire it.
Grey had previously been an electrical contractor for 17 years, owning Greyco Electric, Inc., and employing 20 people. Teri was the co-owner of the business and was responsible for all office activities.
"The previous owners were really successful in our area. It's on Mount Lemmon, which is just adjacent to Tucson (Arizona)," Grey said. "It's a destination spot for a lot of people. There are a lot of things to do like hiking and biking. We're also on the Arizona Trail that goes through the entire state."
To acquire the store, the Carpenters needed an SBA loan. After being referred from their broker to Stearns Bank, things really started to take shape.
The Carpenters started working with Stearns Bank on the acquisition.
"We liked what we saw from Stearns Bank right away. Stearns Bank was very good at assisting us to understand the difficulties that can happen with an SBA loan," Grey said. "I credit them for guiding us and making sure we were seeing things the right way. They were straight forward and blunt."
The Carpenters set a closing date of August 24, 2018. Stearns Bank was able to meet the deadline easily, especially thanks to its Customer Portal, which helped the Carpenters easily upload their documents during the approval process.
"The portal made things faster and we didn't have to shuffle a lot of paperwork in a fax machine," Grey said. "Everything was secure, which gave us peace of mind. Everything was easy to upload in the portal and it allowed us to get things done quickly."
Grey wouldn't hesitate to come back and work with Stearns Bank again. The personal customer service that was offered to him and Teri is something he won't forget.
"It was important for us to have a bank that was well-organized and had their ducks in a row to get the deal closed on time," Grey said.
The Carpenters have big dreams for the store, but admit they're not going to change the model too much. After all, it has been successful for a reason. They have a staff of five employees and have already seen positives from acquiring the store.
"My dream is that this store continues to thrive. We want to get toward retirement and this is a great asset for that. As long as things go the way they have been, it will do that for us," Grey said. "The store is very profitable and has provided us opportunities we didn't have before. It's the perfect fit for us."
If you're interested in acquiring a business, make sure it has a reputable reputation and strong business model in place
As a business owner, be passionate about what you're doing every day and follow those passions
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Terms of Reference – Checklist of Potential Tasks for Legal Advisers to the Government for the Development of a PPP transaction in the Transport Sector
The following sets out the areas of scope of work for terms of reference (ToRs) to appoint legal advisers to assist the Government in the preparation of a public-private participation transaction (PPP) in the transport sector.
The following issues will need to be addressed when considering the type of services that the Government may wish to receive from the legal service providers. It should be noted that some of these services may be provided by the Governments legal department or from the Attorney General. The legal skills required to undertake many of these tasks are highly specialized and therefore the Government legal function may not be in a position to provide the kind of advice required by the Government.
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Q: The data structure of libev watchers Libev uses three data structures to storage different watchers.
Heap: for watchers that sorted by time, such as ev_timer and ev_periodic.
Linked list: such as ev_io, ev_signal, ev_child and etc.
Array: such as ev_prepare, ev_check, ev_async and etc.
There is no doubt about that uses heap to store timer watcher. But what is the criteria of selecting linked list and array?
The data structure that stores ev_io watchers seems a little complex. It first is an array that with fd as its index and the element in the array is a linked list of ev_io watcher. It is more convenient to allocate space for array if use linked list as element. Is it the reason?
Or just because of the insert or remove operation of ev_io is more frequently and the ev_prepare seems more stable?
Or any other reasons?

A: The expectation is that there are only a few (usually one, and almost always at most two) io watchers for the same fd (similarly for signals). Putting the list links into the watcher means no extra allocations are required, as would be required if an array was used per watcher. If a lot of I/O watchers were active on the same fd, then this linked list approach would be slower.
Arrays are used because insertion and removal is very fast (the watcher stores the array index). Using a 4-byte index also reduces memory requirements on 64 bit machines (12 bytes per watcher as opposed to e.g. 16 for a doubly-linked list), and using an array of pointers means that all pointers are near each other in memory, which improves cache efficiency when scanning, which is a frequent operation for some watchers.
Cache efficiency is also the reason why a 4-heap is used over a 2-heap, and the reason why the time values are copied to the heap data structure, to avoid having to access the watcher memory on heap operations.
Child watchers actually use a fixed-size hash table, and again the expectation is that the number of child watchers per hash bucket is small, so the list pointers become part of the watcher data structure.

A: Probably the reason is that in typical scenario ev_io needs to be looked up by fd. Underlying library (epoll, select, or whatever) would provide fd that has some event. Libev would then simply use it as index, and the just iterate over the linked list of event watchers that need to be invoked. So it can be fast in firing events.

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Q: onchange event in magento 2 I am using magento 2.1.0, i am new to magento, so i am not able to get the actual result.
I have created this block:
public function serviceArea() {
    return $this->getArea1('2');
}

public function getArea1($city_id) {
    return $this->areaModel->getCollection()->addFieldToFilter('city_id',$city_id);

}

and I am calling like this:
$areaCollection = $block->getLayout()->createBlock('XXXX\Vac   \Block\Vac')->serviceArea();
print_r($areaCollection->getData());

I am getting output like this:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [area_id] => 1 [area] => banashankari [city_id] => 2 ) [1] => Array ( [area_id] => 2 [area] => madiwala [city_id] => 2 ) [2] => Array ( [area_id] => 3 [area] => btm layout [city_id] => 2 ) )

now, i want this out for my onchange process, like when i change city  in dropdown , my area will change accordingly.
for that. I write script:
<script>
    require(['jquery'], function(jQuery) {
        jQuery('#city').on('change', function () {
            jQuery.ajax({
                url: "<?php echo $this->getBaseUrl('*/*/*', ['_current' => true, '_use_rewrite' => true]).'Vac/area/index/'; ?>",
                // url: "getAjaxUrl()",
                data: {city_id: jQuery("#city").val()},
                type: "POST",
                success: function(data) {
                    jQuery('#area').html(data['html']);
                }
            });
        });
    });
</script>

in script, I gave the url of my controller. but I don't know what to do there, or I have to modify the script. please help.

A: Check all below mentioned files exist in your shipping extension.
view/
└── frontend
    ├── layout
    │   ├── checkout_cart_index.xml
    │   └── checkout_index_index.xml
    └── web
        └── js
            ├── model
            │   ├── shipping-rates-validation-rules.js
            │   └── shipping-rates-validator.js
            └── view
                └── shipping-rates-validation.js


Obuasi is about the same as Zhengzhou. Jan 2019 Cost of Living.
For example, to keep the same standard of living that would require 10,000元 in Zhengzhou you would need to make just about 9,988元 (GH₵7,613) in Obuasi.


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Abstract Creation
I am a writer, poet, artist and filmmaker, and citizen of the world. James Honzik
Abstractions in the Seismic Medium
(Wrote this a few years ago, just reworked it a little)
She was an earthquake artist in the storm of the western dream and her appearances were like the visitation of an angel. She would dress in black with metallic shoes and gloves and her hands were long and she was tall and her long dark hair streamed behind her like a dark river. Her performances had altered landscapes along multiple coasts, river valleys, mountain ranges. Skylines had been reconfigured. Cities metamorphosed. Neighborhoods transformed. Landscapes altered. She played the coasts and large cities. Metropolis mutated. The elements of neighborhoods transmuted. Economies revolutionized. The iconography of intersection and roadway translated into languages heretofore never conceived of.…..
I had been a fan and followed her performances intently. In a way, I had been transformed by her art. My house had been filled with scale models of mutable cities. I entered my house through a twisted wooden staircase. Doors had become windows, and my basement had been transformed into a small pond with glowing neon lighting. In a way though, the transformation I had undergone had been only that of any other obsessive fan. I could have very well been just a baseball card collector who knows countless statistics but has never played the game, or anime otaku holed up in a Tokyo one room, or a suburban punk rock mall rat, buying collectibles and life style accessories, taking on image without essence. Later on, after we had all been transformed by the disaster, I could just say, like everyone else, I had never understood her.
The petitions had been signed, the referendum had passed, she had been invited, cajoled, convinced, and highly paid, to come and perform her actions upon our city. She stood with grace and posture on stage before assembled dignitaries, payers of high priced tickets, the mayors, council members, community representatives, and winners of random lotteries. Projected all around were numerous video screens showing different views of the city. Maps, stereographic projections, geodesic maps, topography, satellite photos, bus maps. On other screens historic newspaper headlines were projected. "Storm shuts down city for three days" "Mayor arrested in Payola Scandal" "Crowds celebrate end of war" On other screens a collection of old photographs. A couple kissing in a park, a building on fire, a crowd standing waiting at a movie premier. Every second, ten new photographs. We could smell fireworks on the Fourth of July, the musty wetness of the waterfront, leaves burning on an October evening, the acrid scent of a plastic factory. Old posters, parking regulations, minutes of the city council. The most popular songs of the old era. The sound of traffic at an intersection. The whistle of a train in the night in the hill. A conversation on a street corner. The sum of all recorded and collected information. The history of our fair city. Multimedia sensory wafting in cataclysmic orgasmic sensory stimulation history - moments that had been forgotten, times we had ceased to remember, the future that we once dreamed of, the reality of what we had today, on this very day, as we streamed into the performance and looked up at the street cameras as we walked into the door.
She had been wired in to the mechanism. High capacity fiber optic cables extended from her fingers. As she moved across the stage the displays changed, A new photograph, zooming in on a satellite photo, the blueprint of a skyscraper, blueprints, landscapes, zoning codes, bus maps, train schedules, opera performances, punk clubs, baseball stadium seating charts. She moved intently, and we all watched the displays with equal intent.
If you go online you can see the records of her performances. The Paris Surrealistic Exposition of 2023. The Eiffel tower had been shaken into a structure that broke upsideways and backwards and simply and now elegant you could take the elevator through its folded sections forth and back and contrary. The St Louis Convocation, where the Arch had twisted into a double knot and the Mississippi broke its banks and left the structure embraced in the dividing river. The Santa Cruz return, where brown hills and apricot orchards had replaced sprawls and superhighway, and a tidal wave had washed away vertical concrete sprawl impaled against the beach.
She called herself an earthquake artist, but her art was, had always been of transformation rather that destruction. I had known her when she had worked on a smaller scale and rearranged rooms. The physics of place was somehow altered and a door would become a window and a refrigerator would become a bed. A spinning ceiling fan might change its positions and become an abstract sculpture of beckoning hands.
You could enter a city after one of her performances and not even be able to say what has changed. Her art would alter maps. A street that once curved along the river from would rise up into the hills above the city. A collection of buildings around a square would be dislocated to various section. Busy thoroughfares might become one way streets, ending in staircases. The results were so inevitable it was as if they were always there.
You could also enter a city after her performance and the utter dislocation and transformation would be immediately apparent. A skyscraper might be laid out on its side, windows sideways, elevators proceeding horizontally, and the cornice being laid out into a sculpture garden in a public park. A downtown might be flooded, its skyscrapers only reached by boats in a post modern Venice. Mountains could arise, leaving a city perched like a glowing beacon over a desert plain..
So we all sat and applauded and watched fascinated up at her and the visions projected. The mayor cut the ribbon, and the fire tugs sprayed water in an arch, and cars honked their horns, and the crowds waited in the parks with picnic baskets and we sat with bated breath.
And as it happened, everything changed.
Now I walk these new labyrinthine streets, the mutating, metamorphosing streets; in the place where the maps have changed, where all destination is in motion. Where what once was the way up, is now the way down. I watch the faces in crowds, like petals on her flowers, who look upon my face, as I look upon theirs. I don't even know if they remember her. But I can see her eyes in the motion behind windows, hear her lips speaking in the noise of the crowds, her hands touch me through passing strangers, her skin in the changing facades, her mouth in the mutating alleyways.. She was an earthquake artist in the storm of the western dream and her appearance was the visitation of an angel.
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is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for the Japan national team.

Club career
Kamata was born in Ibaraki Prefecture on December 16, 1937. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined Furukawa Electric in 1960. He won the 1960, 1961, and 1964 Emperor's Cup. In 1965, Furukawa Electric joined the new Japan Soccer League. He retired in 1974. He played 106 games and scored 6 goals in the league. He was selected for the Best Eleven in 1967, 1968, and 1969.

National team career
On December 25, 1958, when Kamata was a Chuo University student, he debuted for the Japan national team against Hong Kong. He played at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He played in all matches at both tournaments and Japan won the bronze medal in 1968. In 2018, this team was selected for the Japan Football Hall of Fame. He also played at the 1962 Asian Games. He played 44 games and scored 2 goals for Japan until 1958.

Coaching career
After retirement, Kamata became a manager for Furukawa Electric as Saburo Kawabuchi's successor in 1976 and managed until 1978. The club won the championship of the 1976 Japan Soccer League, 1976 Emperor's Cup, and 1977 JSL Cup. In 1981, he signed with the Japanese Regional Leagues club Daikyo Oil (later Cosmo Oil). He led the club to win league championship four times and promoted the club to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1986. He resigned in 1991. In 2007, he was selected for the Japan Football Hall of Fame.

Club statistics

National team statistics

National team goals

Awards
 Japan Soccer League Best Eleven: (3) 1967, 1968, 1969

References

External links

 Japan National Football Team Database
Japan Football Hall of Fame at Japan Football Association
Japan Football Hall of Fame (Japan team at 1968 Olympics) at Japan Football Association

1937 births
Living people
Chuo University alumni
Association football people from Ibaraki Prefecture
Japanese footballers
Japan international footballers
Japan Soccer League players
JEF United Chiba players
Japanese football managers
Olympic medalists in football
Olympic footballers of Japan
Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1962 Asian Games
Association football defenders
Asian Games competitors for Japan


text:
"""Data containers and other utilities."""
import time
import json
import collections
import logging
import os
import sys

LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class Range(object):
    """Encapsulates a ranged defined by a min and max numerical value."""
    def __init__(self, minimum, maximum):
        self.min = minimum
        self.max = maximum

    def within_range(self, value):
        """Returns True if the value is between this Range, inclusive."""
        return value >= self.min and value <= self.max

    @property
    def spread(self):
        """Returns the spread between this Range's min and max."""
        return self.max - self.min

class AgingData(object):
    """Mixin to associate a class with a time of birth."""

    def __init__(self):
        self.created_at = time.time()

    @property
    def age(self):
        """Return the age of the data in seconds."""
        return time.time() - self.created_at

def quacks_like_dict(object):
    """Check if object is dict-like"""
    return isinstance(object, collections.Mapping)

def quacks_like_list(object):
    """Check if object is list-like"""
    return hasattr(object, '__iter__') and hasattr(object, 'append')

def merge(a, b):
    """Merge two deep dicts non-destructively

    Uses a stack to avoid maximum recursion depth exceptions

    >>> a = {'a': 1, 'b': {1: 1, 2: 2}, 'd': 6}
    >>> b = {'c': 3, 'b': {2: 7}, 'd': {'z': [1, 2, 3]}}
    >>> c = merge(a, b)
    >>> from pprint import pprint; pprint(c)
    {'a': 1, 'b': {1: 1, 2: 7}, 'c': 3, 'd': {'z': [1, 2, 3]}}
    """
    assert quacks_like_dict(a), quacks_like_dict(b)
    dst = a.copy()

    stack = [(dst, b)]
    while stack:
        current_dst, current_src = stack.pop()
        for key in current_src:
            if key not in current_dst:
                current_dst[key] = current_src[key]
            else:
                if (quacks_like_dict(current_src[key]) and
                        quacks_like_dict(current_dst[key])):
                    stack.append((current_dst[key], current_src[key]))
                elif (quacks_like_list(current_src[key]) and
                        quacks_like_list(current_dst[key])):
                    current_dst[key].extend(current_src[key])
                else:
                    current_dst[key] = current_src[key]
    return dst

def find_file(filename, search_paths):
    for search_path in search_paths:
        if filename[0] != '/':
            full_path = "%s/%s" % (search_path, filename)
        else:
            full_path = filename
        if os.path.exists(full_path):
            return full_path
    fatal_error("Unable to find '%s' in search paths (%s)" % (
            filename, search_paths))

def dict_raise_on_duplicates(ordered_pairs):
    """Reject duplicate keys."""
    d = {}
    for k, v in ordered_pairs:
        if k in d:
           raise ValueError("duplicate key: %r" % (k,))
        else:
           d[k] = v
    return d

def load_json_from_search_path(filename, search_paths):
    with open(find_file(filename, search_paths)) as json_file:
        try:
            data = json.load(json_file, object_pairs_hook=dict_raise_on_duplicates)
        except ValueError as e:
            fatal_error("%s does not contain valid JSON: \n%s\n" %
                    (filename, e))
        else:
            return data

def fatal_error(message):
    LOG.error(message)
    sys.exit(1)

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Q: Repetição até que a letra correta seja digitada Usando a função switch,
case 'T' :
case 'T' :

default:

Como é que faço para por exemplo os dois cases representam uma letra cada um, mas caso o utilizador escolha outra diferente então segue por default que vai voltar a refazer a mesma pergunta, (escolher uma letra entre T e F).

O que eu queria era por exemplo: Escolha uma letra entre P ou B, caso o utilizador escolha a Letra C o sistema diz que a letra está incorreta e volta a fazer a mesma pergunta.

A: Essa é a sintaxe básica do switch:
switch (letra)
{
    case 'T':
        // Código;
        break;
    case 'F':
        // Código;
        break;
    default:
        // Código;
        break;
}

EDIT: Conforme seu comentário:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{

    char letra;
    do
    {
       cout << "Digite a letra correspondente: \n";
       cin >> letra;
    }
    while((letra !='T')&&(letra !='F')&&(letra !='t')&&(letra !='f'));

    switch (letra)
    {
        case 'T':
        case 't':
            cout << "Digitou a letra T.\n";
            break;
        case 'F':
        case 'f':
            cout << "Digitou a letra F.\n";
            break;
        default:
            // Código;
            break;
    }

    return 0;
}

Veja funcionando no C++ Shell.
Esse código vai repetir até que as letras T ou t ou F ou f sejam digitadas. Essa condição é feita nessa linha: while((letra !='T')&&(letra !='F')&&(letra !='t')&&(letra !='f'));


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NEIL YOUNG WANTS TO QUIT SPOTIFY OVER MISINFORMATION
Canadian music legend Neil Young is threatening to pull his music from Spotify, a popular music sharing program.
In a since deleted open letter to his management and record label posted to his website , the 78 year old rocker had a strong message for Spotify.
They can have Joe Rogan or Neil Young. Not both.
The 54 year old Rogan signed a $100 million dollar deal with Spotify where his podcast is the most listened to on the platform where he frequently spreads false information about COVID-19.
A group of dozens of doctors and health experts wrote a letter to Spotify earlier this month calling on the platform to remove Rogan for that reason.
By the way, the hall of fame rocker survived polio as a child and the disease has been mostly eliminated due to widespread vaccinations.


Availability: The explorer / Katherine Rundell.
Aircraft accidents > Juvenile fiction.
Amazon River Region > Juvenile fiction.
The return : a novelization / by John Vornholt.
Rooftoppers / Katherine Rundell ; with illustrations by Terry Fan.
Before the fall [text (large print)] / Noah Hawley.
Air crashes / Elaine Landau.


ISC West's "Best In Show" has failed.
For more than a decade, it has become increasingly irrelevant as the selections exhibit a cartoon level understanding of technology and the market. The 2018 winner is a case in point, as it is the same approach that has been available for years with minimal market impact.
In this note, we review the past decade's "Best In Show" winners, the 2018 winner's issues and the broader problems this presents.
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Related, periodically people ask about IPVM doing awards. On the one hand, we could obviously do much better identifying real innovations. On the other, as is our concern generally, we worry about the misuse of our analysis as promotion or marketing for companies. I am not sure what we would do. If anyone has thoughts on this, feel free to share.
I think, respectfully, that John's post misunderstands the meaning -- or at least *a* meaning -- of "Best New Product". There is a semantic game at work here: is "Best New Product" the best product that was released in the past year, or the best product that's first to occupy a brand new market position? In my view and in the view of the SIA judges, this award addresses the former.
The best product in a class is rarely the first. Good work takes time, both in terms of product development and understanding customers' needs in a new or changing market space. IPConfigure Orchid Fusion VMS on ACAP for Axis cameras is a new product that offers a no-compromise embedded, web-based VMS with first-class user experiences and capabilities that are fundamentally identical to Orchid Fusion VMS running on traditional servers -- and in fact the two can integrate seamlessly in a way that's transparent to end-users and system administrators.
While intelligent and well-meaning folks can disagree on the degree to which this architecture is revolutionary, IPConfigure feels that our product represents the cleanest, most technologically sound, and highest value implementation of the concept and has likewise earned the judges' decision.
Cort, thanks for the feedback!
The 'class' is not the issue here but the entire industry.
'Best in show' is not simply 'best in class' or best in a category. There are individual class awards for that (34 for this awards program). 'Best in show', if it means anything, has to mean it is better than any other product across all classes.
To be the best product of all products in an industry for a year means that the thing is 'revolutionary', to use your word. Your entry is not revolutionary (that's not a knock on your product, it may be a good product that sells well for you) nor does it solve or breakthrough fundamental barriers.
Moreover, my point is not simply about IPConfigure. Looking at the last decade, the show repeatedly picks products that have little market impact or even hope for that.
Most folks on the front-line of our industry are certainly interested in what all is going on and are most interested in what is new, hot and could have a good impact on my business today. An honorable mention is always welcome for new things of all kinds like scratching on a rock a couple thousand years ago, (1) Man going to moon & (2) New substance discovered for killing devices. The second would most likely be the number one topic at the the monthly carnivore fest. Anyone spending a lot of time wanting to discuss going to the moon would probably raise a few eyebrows.
The fact that 10 out of 10 previous year picks have faded into the woodwork would be more of a news story than anything else, which is exactly what you are pointing out. Another job well done, John.
Agreed. Isn't every camera that has an SD card technically a VMS, even if only a rudimentary one?
Isn't every camera that has an SD card technically a VMS, even if only a rudimentary one?
Yes, but there is a world of difference between an IP camera allowing navigating files of video clips vs a VMS.
Running a 'real' or 'full' VMS is materially different and if IPConfigure was the first to do that (say this was 2003, not 2018) you could make a real case that this could be revolutionary but not now, knowing what experts in the field should know.
Here's the first IP camera I can remember with its own VMS, circa 2002. Built-in hard drive and support for 4 cameras. It did not win any best in, well... anything awards.
I have never seen an RFP or spec call for "award winning products only", nor have I ever had a customer say "I called you because we saw your award for X".
To me, these awards are almost valueless. I say "almost" because they are not entirely valueless, but they have a very short half life. The problem with the ISC West awards in particular is that there is too much going on at the show, and the awards are announced roughly halfway through the show, near what is basically the peak of show floor attendance. This leaves winners practically zero chance to really promote and capitalize on their awards. By the week after ISC West, nobody cares who won what, everyone is back to grinding at sales, and "Wanna hear about the award we won" is a freshman's pickup line.
If SIA announced the award winners before the show, it would give manufacturers some opportunity to promote their wins, and possibly even adjust booth signage to say "Come see our award winning analytics-for-detecting-people-loitering-in-the-rain". This might help drive greater awareness of the awards in general, and actually allow winners to get some value from it.
"Wanna hear about the award we won" is a freshman's pickup line.
Lol, that is funny. I did get 2 manufacturers citing their 'govies' awards in the past week. That was amusing.
I agree about that. Also, if they would promote the award nominees before the show that would help. We actually try to draw attention (see e.g., 102 New Product Showcase Entrants - ISC West 2018). It's 2018, they might as well have presentations as a webinar, which would make it easier for everyone.
Also, related, Savvy Marketers Announce Before Shows.
SIA used to be the good ole boys club and if your in you win. Don't know about the last ten years but seems to me the products that win are pretty weak. Or is it there isn't much inovation any longer ?
Or is it there isn't much inovation any longer?
Come on, Larry! For example, Hikvision DarkfighterX was a submission this year and it got shut out. There were 36 total awards for 122 products and it got zero. Why? (that's my question to SIA, not you).
And you look over the years for big changes in video - Axis was first was super low light MP, first with smart codecs. And look at Avigilon, Genetec, Milestone, etc. The most used products in the industry never win best in show. Clearly, these companies have released innovative products over the years but SIA goes for these weird, almost destined to be irrelevant offerings.
So John you don't think politics has role in their choices?
I'm intentionally the least political CEO in the industry. This was not politics for IPConfigure. Our success won't be attributed to politically savvy. Anyone who knows me can attest to this.
Larry, the SIA / NPS judging process has minimal transparency so it is not feasible for me to determine the exact roles in their choices.
That said, when I look at the pattern over the last decade, the most common thread is companies whose ideas sound interesting to those with limited knowledge of the industry.
Look at the 2016 winner Lynx Tiger, I am not aware of them having any political connections. But if a person did not understand that various platforms have had that for years and that it remained a niche application (just like IPConfigure this year), they might conclude it's a big new thing.
I am a marketing guy. I am not a sales guy. I am not an engineer. Some of you can stop reading now.
Because John Honovich has such a significant following in the industry which my employer serves, I try to understand the underlying (or overarching) principles of his arguments. Why? By representing a manufacturer, I have a responsibility to try to understand what our potential customers think, or are being influenced to think.
As I understand it, John is not taking issue with running a VMS on the camera. John is taking an issue with the criteria used to choose winners of awards, specifically a "best of show" award at a security products convention.
To me, to understand this you must accept that John's purpose with IPVM is to educate and PROTECT integrators.
When he states that the market for security cameras running the VMS on the camera is small, I think that he is telling us that he questions why such a niche product would be deemed significant. It could be the universally best VMS running on the universally best camera and he would still say that few people are going to need it or buy it. So, why should it win an award?
We sell a very, very good VMS and it is now available on very, very good cameras as "edge" offerings. That is why this issue is important to me.
John's argument acutely illustrates my challenge -- what is the use case for these cameras? Are there uses that integrators (and apparently, even John) are not recognizing, or is the application always going to be limited?
But to have a product named "best in show" where there is an old and ongoing argument about the usefulness of the product does not make much sense to me, either. But, congratulations. You won. If your win increases the market for the cameras running your VMS, it should influence our sales as well.
As several here have pointed out, it may just be that some of us disagree with the criteria for the award.
If the award was, as has been alluded to, "The Best New Product with the Most Potential to Make Integrators More Profitable," it might be easier to understand and to debate the winner.
As a marketing guy for a manufacturer, I never want to be accused of doing marketing for marketing's sake. Our engineers should not do engineering for engineering's sake. Innovation should not be innovative for innovation's sake.
Marketing and innovation for the customer's sake.
By choosing products for awards that solve niche issues, is the customer ultimately being served? Is the customer even considered in the criteria?
Related, we did ask SIA for an explanation of why IPConfigure won but they did not provide one nor is any explanation provided in the announcement.
This is typical for their awards. Because of that, it is impossible to know for sure what the judges were thinking. However, looking at the awards over the years leads me to the conclusion that the judges pick things that sound impressive to outsiders but are obviously insignificant or destined to be niche offerings to those in the field (look at the mobile streaming service or the Windows IP camera or the various complex and super expensive biometric offerings that have won over the years).
Mark - what a refreshing perspective - marketing that is focused on providing relevance on consumers (integrator).
I get that crass commercialization is the means-to-an-end for manufacturers - but sometimes, I'd just like an awesome product to be released with minimal fanfare that is widely adopted - because its a freaking awesome product.
Okay - let's throw that idealism out the window Ed and live in the real world. Marketing, despite what engineers think, is critical for placement / relevance of products and it helps to establish the target audience.
When I was at ISC West this year, I overheard a discussion at a booth. I was having one of the highly overpriced meals on the floor (standing at one of those lousy tables they put up at the Sands). While consuming my soggy, overpriced wrap (trying to lose weight) I heard a "customer" asking a camera vendor (who shall remain unnamed) ask if their "system" would protect perimeters by providing alerts. The customer described the need - 1.2 km of perimeter with the longest segment being over 550M. The vendor (still unnamed) indicated that their cameras would pick-up all movement on the perimeter, day or night. I chuckled, finished my wrap and then left.
That interaction, however, is primarily because the sales team is being told - move units (regardless if the solution is not needed or relevant to the customer).
I'm hopeful that the user had enough knowledge to call out that BS as what is was - but that's not a given.
This is where a subscription to IPVM would have helped the customer more than paying for a ticket to Vegas and the attendance fee.
So, is the customer really being served by overzealous sales people who are loathe to tell the "whole" truth. I prefer to quickly "fire" customers before them become customers IF my solution will not work for them. I'm happy to refer them to products that would meet their needs. I don't need to own the world, just a small chunk of it - unfortunately - so many vendors want it all. How much is enough? Just one more 1$ -or in this case, one more award leading to the false perception that because they received the award - it must be an excellent product - which is not always the case.
Wow - that was a ramble - sorry.
In a way, this is why I initially subscribed to IPVM. There are many like-minded individuals on here who are anti-BS received from sales people. I come from a family of sales people / chronic liars so I instantly distrust sales people until they prove otherwise. I feel badly for people who are duped by price or persuasive sales pitches. A good rule of thumb is to A) always test the product first and B) check IPVM for reviews or discussions.
Call me jaded, but I view the entire "association" (SIA, ASIS, PMI) as money machines and that "awards" and "pre-advertising" are just a means to an end - enriching the association.
I know that these shows combined with their membership pushes (and educational classes / materials) are their primary revenue sources and it's a necessary evil, but it does allow for agendas.
What criteria is used to establish the "best-in" label? Who's on the committee? Why did they get chosen and not others?
I think highlighting and spiking new technology - without consideration or remuneration - would give far more credibility to the SIA and selection committees. (Which is why I SO enjoy reading the reviews on IPVM - unbiased, relevant reviews of products - kudos).
I, as an end-consumer and reseller, would appreciate understanding "real" new technology in the market space. Additionally, I think that the SIA should take a focus annually as to where the market is trending - it certainly isn't with a VMS on the camera?
Looking forward to the recriminations of the industry groups to this post.
I'll stand up for sales people here, since I am one.
Depending on the size of the organization they can or do provide so much sales support that most of their sales team can only call someone to show you how to make it work. Is that their fault? Partially.
Some provide no support beyond a bunch of glossy literature, power points created by product managers and mar-com who have never seen the product in the wild. There you have good sales people passing bad info and not knowing.
Several provide the ability for a sales person to either sink or swim with so little support by team members or internal product resources. The swimmers usually know the product inside and out, but get trapped with after sale support calls.
On the sales person side, I've seen the people who won't use external resources because they either lack the ability to manage them, schedule, communicate, or they just find doing themselves easier.
Then, there are the worst offenders. They take bits and pieces of solutions as a total solution and just make it up on the go. When caught, they move to another company claiming the last one didn't really fit or their technology didn't work as described.
Speaking of 'Best In Show' Fails, 2011 award winner FST has failed, ceasing operations.
In terms of the award, what was strange even at that time, given the complexity of technology involved and the price point they were trying to charge, this company had a high probability of failing and was virtually guaranteed to be, at best, a niche high-end play.
And we called those concerns many years ago.


Consumer debt in Florida and around the country has been climbing steadily for more than three years, and it has now reached an all-time high of nearly $13 trillion according to a report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in the United States, and experts expect consumer borrowing to continue at a brisk pace as long as unemployment figures stay low and confidence in the economy remains strong.
The report reveals that credit card debt in the United States increased by $24 billion during the third quarter of 2017 and now stands at a worrying $808 billion. Student loans and auto installment agreements also increased sharply during the quarter by $13 billion and $23 billion respectively. However, the central bank's figures suggest that lenders may still be reluctant to extend credit to borrowers with modest incomes and troubled credit histories.
Borrowers taking out auto loans during the third quarter had a median credit score of 705 according to the report, and the scores of those signing new mortgages were even higher. However, stricter lending practices generally reduce delinquency rates, and the 4.9 percent of household debt currently in arrears does not seem to be a major cause of concern for economic analysts and forecasters.
Delinquent debt is a problem for the millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet and face daily harassment from bill collectors. Spiraling debt can be an easy trap to fall into when a job is lost or an illness strikes, but lawyers with debt relief experience may explain how filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy provides the possibility of a fresh start. It might allow individuals to remain in their homes and keep their assets while paying down their debts over a three-to-five-year period.


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seem now master and release use different rust version.
@DorianZheng We should add a release-2.1 branch without Titan related code in pingcap/rust-rocksdb.
@siddontang yes they are on different versions now. What do you think we should do about it? How long is it between now and the next release?
In order to compile tikv-ctl, we need to cherry pick #4068, PTAL @huachaohuang , especially the rocksdb commit hash, thanks!


Visit us next week as we'll be putting up a post each day as we participate in the Knitting and Crochet Blog Week.
We've taken a sneak peek at all the topics and decided that it's going to be a group effort with postings contributed by everyone in the office. Visit their site for full details. Some of the topics will touch on embellishing your FO, comparing yarns, and learning new skills.
Will you be joining in? Let us know and we'll be sure to read your postings!


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Midnight Run is a New York based volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the homeless.
Midnight Run coordinates over 1,000 relief missions per year, in which volunteers from churches, synagogues, schools and other civic groups distribute food, clothing, blankets and personal care items to the homeless poor on the streets of New York City. The late-night relief efforts create a forum for trust, sharing, understanding and affection. That human exchange, rather than the exchange of goods, is the essence of the Midnight Run mission. Through Midnight Run, volunteers come to see people on the streets as real people, not a commodity. And homeless men and women interact with mainstream adults and teenagers whose commitments and concerns go beyond their own lives and families.
Please click here to learn more about this organization.
Scarsdale High School (SHS) is proud to have a long standing official club dedicated to assisting the Midnight Run organization. In normal times, students in grades 9 to 12 collect donations (new and used clothings, toiletries, bags, etc) throughout the year. Each month a "Run" is made to multiple NYC meeting spots , where home made sandwiches, coffee and donations are distributed.
Due to the Coronavirus, the SHS Midnight Run Club is unable to make its traditional "runs". So we have adjusted our mission and will now assist servicing homeless and family shelters in the lower Westchester County area.
Bake Back America is inspired to facilitate the continuation of Midnight Run during the impact of COVID-19. We will be ensuring that clothes and toiletries will continue to go to homeless shelters.
First delivery to WestHab Vernon Plaza Mens Shelter.
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