It's not just that the amount of space is a little sparse—especially for people looking to store, say, all the data that fits on their phones—it's that iCloud can be pretty obnoxious about making sure you get the message.
Inevitably, when my friends and family talk to me about tech problems, iCloud is among the most prominent culprit in their tales of woes and frustration. Of late, I've especially heard several friends' tales of being constantly bugged by messages that there's not enough space in iCloud to store their backup, along with a wheeling dialog box encouraging them to upgrade their storage plan.
Dan makes a lot of sense here. The 5GB iCloud limit looks pretty ridiculous at this point, especially since the quality of the camera continues to increase with every iPhone update. Not to mention, we live in an increasingly digital world, where not only us computer geeks are managing many of our documents through the cloud.
While of course, there's the argument that for .99¢, you could get 50GB of space, I think the argument of increasing the free space still holds water. Very much like we'd been clamoring for Apple to increase the space on the smallest iPhone, this seems a natural move. We just saw them increase the base model to 32GB. To me, that means Apple is listening when it comes to this stuff, but it happens very much on their timeline.


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You did this to yourself: America's plight
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In this particular genre we take a deep dive into America's good, bad and ugly bits. No holds barred eye opening look at where we have evolved as a United States. "Sounds interesting!"
The forgotten 13
So yesterday I took a gander at Executive Order 13603 and my brain would not shut off. The next few minutes I'd like to try and paint a picture for you all and where I think we're headed but before I do that I'd like to set the tone by posting the following:
"Secret Government Programs"
Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKUltra sub-project on LSD in this June 9, 1953, letter.
The project's intentionally obscure CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency's Technical Services Staff, f...
Apocalypse roadmap
Six Theses on Saving Us
As global capitalist economic growth accelerates planetary ecological collapse, this article, originally published on November 10, 2013, argues that – impossible as it may seem at present – only the most radical solution – the overthrow of global capitalism, the construction...
Technological progress has eradicated diseases, helped double life expectancy, reduced starvation and extreme poverty, enabled flight and global communications, and made this generation the richest one in history.
It has also made it easier th...
Weeping liberty
Greed and Inequality
In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by "the rectification of names," a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correl...
Physical and financial
Climate change is the Earth's response to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases trap infrared heat from the sun. That has raised the earth's average temperature at least 1.2 degrees Celsius since the late 19th centu...
Biggest FRAUD ever
America The "Rip off"
First it was "Pension fund socialism" in the 1970s, in which the people owned and shaped the corporations. Next it was "improving shareholder value" in the 1980s by forcing boards of directors to take their fiduciary values more seriously and thereby help ordinary s...
Solar geoengineering
Conspiracy on social media
Solar geoengineering and the chemtrails conspiracy on social media
Discourse on social media of solar geoengineering has been rapidly increasing over the past decade, in line with increased attention by the scientific community and low ...
'Some Suburb of Hell'
America's New Concentration Camp System
On Monday, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as "concentration camps," spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged ove...
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Who's responsible
As the novel coronavirus incubated in Wuhan from mid-December to mid-January, the Chinese state made evidently intentional misrepresentations to its people concerning the outbreak, providing false assurances to the population preceding the approach of the Lunar New Year celebrations on Ja...
How life has changed since coronavirus struck
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise and schools, workplaces and public gathering spaces across the United States remain closed, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the coronavirus outbreak is having profound impacts on the personal li...

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Q: Why does Unity's Legacy Vertex Lit disable my code that sets the color of tiles on a 2D tile map? To start, I have a bird eye view 2d tilemap that I generate procedural. I color each tile using TileMap.SetColor( new Color(r,g,b,a));. This works very well with the default shader that does not process light on the scene. I want light in my game, so I swapped the shader, 1 by 1, to every other shader with none supporting the custom color and lighting at the same time in Legacy vertex Lit Mode. I tried swapping my rendering mode to Forward and Deffered and this did work as I had my custom colors on top of the lighting, but problems occurred. The reason I swapped to Vertex Lit in the first place was because I was getting artifacts at the boundaries of every tile with lines that showed the cross sections of tiles that overlapped and I get a way lower frame rate in forward/deffered, so I prefer legacy. I know why the shader does this and I tried writing my own, but I am very new to Unity, so I am not experience enough to dive into graphics that far.
What Is Needed: All that is needed is my custom tile colors and lighting in Legacy Vertex Lit mode or A fix to the overlapping tiles lighting up in forward and deffered modes.
Thanks again for the help! I am losing my mind trying to solve this.
EDIT: I noticed that when I changed the layer or z position of a tile in that map, the effect disappeared completely in forward and deffered of just that tile only. I don't know if this the solution I am looking for, but its a start.
EDIT #2: I set the chunk rendering mode to individual and it fixes the problem as in the first edit, but performance takes a very big hit. Any way to tell the render/shader that each tile is separated?

A: Ok, I eventually got it to work. What I did to get rid of the lines and get custom coloring in the game was to swap rendering modes to forward mode. Then, you can go into the shader you are using for the tilemap and add #pragma noforwardadd.

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Asbach-Bäumenheim è un comune tedesco di 4.309 abitanti, situato nel land della Baviera.

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Girl Crazy és un musical de 1930 amb música de George Gershwin, lletra d'Ira Gershwin i llibre de Guy Bolton i John McGowan. Ethel Merman feu el seu debut en aquesta producció musical ensems permeté convertir Ginger Rogers de sobte en una estrella.

El musical ha estat adaptat tres vegades a pel·lícula, la més notable en 1943 amb Mickey Rooney i Judy Garland. En aquesta versió, els papers interpretats per Ginger Rogers i Ethel Merman es van combinar en un, interpretat per Garland.

La versió del 1930 segueix la història de Danny Churchill, que ha estat enviat a Custerville, Arizona, per gestionar el ranxo de la seva família. El seu pare l'ha enviat allà perquè s'ocupe de qüestions més greus que l'alcohol i les dones, però Danny converteix el lloc de la seva família en un ranxo d'animació, important showgirls de Broadway i contractant a Kate Forthergill (interpretada per Merman) com a animadora. Al capdavall, els visitants arriben des de les dues costes americanes fins al ranxo i Danny s'enamora de l'encarregada de l'oficina de correus, Molly Gray (originalment interpretada per Ginger Rogers). Les pel·lícules posteriors van seguir diferents trames.

Les cançons més conegudes d'aquest musical són Embraceable You y I Got Rhythm.

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Top 10 highest-paid players in NBA history
Kevin Garnett is one of the highest-paid players in NBA history.
Victor R. Lopez M.
We have seen some tremendous contracts for NBA players who have earned it through a great level of play.
In NBA history, it might be predictable to pick the players who have earned the most among their peers.
Before the NBA 2020-21 preseason and the hype for the campaign's start, we had NBA Free Agency 2020. During the offseason, we saw some extraordinary contract extensions for several players with huge numbers. With that in mind, we will take a look at the highest earners in NBA history.
10 richest players in NBA history
Huge contracts usually correspond to a player's talent and the positives he brings to his team. Also, availability at the right time is key for a player closing a big deal with an NBA franchise. Some times, availability could be even more important than ability.
In this instance, that is not necessarily the case. When looking at the names of the highest-paid players in NBA history, you will easily understand why they have earned their deserved money.
Without further ado, let us start.
#10 Dwight Howard
Howard was a beast during his days with the Orlando Magic.
Dwight Howard might be a role player in today's NBA, but he is one of the best big men to have played in the league. Accordingly, his impact got compensated with huge paydays, and DH has earned $242,024,800 in his 16-year NBA career.
🏆 In Year 16, first-time champ with the
the @Lakers... Dwight Howard! #LakeShow pic.twitter.com/ZsJnJRYDsi
— NBA (@NBA) October 12, 2020
Howard will be a Hall-of-Fame member once he retires from the league.
His biggest contract in the NBA came in 2013 when he signed a four-year deal worth more than $87 million with the Houston Rockets. The highest salary he has earned happened after the three-year, $70 million deal he inked with the Atlanta Hawks in 2016.
Howard's impact in the game is not the same as it was in his best years. In his highest level, Howard became an eight-time All-NBA player and won three straight Defensive Player of the Year awards from 2009 to 2011.
He led the Orlando Magic to the NBA Finals in 2009 and five years after Orlando selected Howard with the first overall pick of the 2004 NBA Draft. Of course, being the first pick meant a big contract as a rookie for the center.
#9 Russell Westbrook
The King of the Triple-Doubles.
Russell Westbrook, the 2016-17 NBA MVP, has the second-highest salary for the 2020-21 season and is one of the 10 highest-paid players in NBA history.
Russell Westbrook (@russwest44) on the meaning of wearing #4 this season.
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— NBA (@NBA) December 5, 2020
Recently traded from the Houston Rockets to the Washington Wizards, Westbrook has earned $244,370,524 in his great NBA career.
Westbrook has been an NBA player since 2008. His entry-level deal was a four-year contract worth more than $16 million. Then, he signed a five-year extension with the OKC Thunder in 2012 worth more than $78 million.
In 2016, Westbrook earned another huge contract with OKC as he inked a three-year extension worth over $85 million.
Westbrook is a nine-time All-NBA player, a league MVP, and has led the NBA in scoring and assists twice each.
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European Heat Wave 2003
More than 70,000 people died during a record-breaking heat wave that left Europe sweltering in June, July and August 2003. In the first quantitative climate change attribution assessment, researchers found that human influence at least doubled the risk of a heatwave exceeding the threshold passed during the extreme European heat wave of 2003.[1] The study also finds that climate change made such an extreme heat event 4 times as likely.[1]
The period of extreme heat is thought to be the warmest for up to 500 years, and many European countries experienced their highest temperatures on record. One of the clearest findings of climate science is that heat waves are becoming more common, more intense and longer as a result of global warming. Heat waves today are already happening in a world that is 1.5°F (0.85°C) warmer than at the beginning of the 20th century. Warming has also influenced the way that weather patterns, including those that usher in heat waves, behave.
Heat Waves Kill, Now We Know Why
Hundreds of deaths in two cities in 2003 heatwave due to man-...
European Summers Are The Warmest They've Been In Two Millennia,...
The heatwave of 2003
Could we acclimatise to the hotter summers to come?
More than 52,000 Europeans Died from Heat in Summer 2003
Global warming likely causing more heat waves, scientists say
Europe heatwaves 'soon routine'
Global warming: a man-made heat wave
Europe recalls lethal 2003 heat wave
2003 summer hottest in 500 years
European heatwave caused 35,000 deaths
European heatwave death toll hits 40
Event Report: The Heat Wave of 2003
Maps: Cold and Warm Spell Durations
Donat, Alexander, Yang et al
Slideshow: 2003 European Heat Wave
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Event Report: Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe
Report: WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2003
Un/natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages Between Extreme...
Attributing human mortality during extreme heat waves to...
Environmental Research Letters
Understanding the rapid summer warming and changes in...
Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to...
Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-...
Nature Climate Change
Exceptionally Hot and Cold Summers in Europe (1951-2010)
Acta Geophysica
Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate...
Climatic Change
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Influence of sea surface temperature on the European heat wave...
Human activity and anomalously warm seasons in Europe
International Journal of Climatology
Doubled length of western European summer heat waves since 1880
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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The historic 2003 European heat wave
One of the clearest findings of climate science is that heat waves are becoming more common, more intense and longer as a result of global warming. The European heat wave during the summer of 2003 is considered to be one of the major climate anomalies in recent times. From June 2003 through mid-August, temperatures in Europe were 20 to 30 percent higher than the seasonal average over a large portion of the continent, extending from northern Spain to the Czech Republic, from Germany to Italy.[1] It produced record-breaking temperatures in many cities of central-western Europe, including a record of 38°C in London, 39°C in Milan and 42°C in Paris.[2]
The heat wave caused tragic deaths of more than 70,000 people[3] and was responsible for many catastrophic socio-economic impacts, including enormous crop losses, forest fires and widespread persistent power losses.
In a July 2016 study, scientists specified the number of deaths during the heat wave in Paris and London specifically attributable to climate change.[4] They calculate that in Paris, the hottest city in Europe during the heat wave, 506 out of 735 summer deaths recorded in the French capital were due to a heat wave made worse by human-caused climate change. The impact of climate change was less severe in London, with an additional 64 deaths out of a total of 315 heat-related deaths.
Climate change may be increasing the frequency of atmospheric blocking events
The immediate cause of the extreme and unprecedented weather was a high pressure system that remained stagnant over the region, blocked by two areas of low pressure (what is known as atmospheric blocking).
A 2012 study identifies an eastward shift of blocking events over the North Atlantic (fewer cases of blocking over Greenland and more frequent blocking over the eastern North Atlantic) and the North Pacific.[5][6] A 2013 study finds an increase in blocking duration year-round over the Northern Hemisphere since about 1990.[7]
This European heat wave was the first of many
Since 2003, Europe has been affected by two notable heat waves in 2006 and 2015 that were caused by very similar meteorological conditions.[8]


The City of Sydney has unveiled the creative line-up for 2017 Sydney New Year's Eve celebrations, including a new look and theme for Australia's largest public event, conceived by experience agency Imagination.
In its seventh year as the creative team behind the event, Imagination has set out to create a fresh, inspiring new theme and design for this year, once again collaborating with an up-and-coming Sydney-based artist.
The culmination of almost a year of design and planning work across multimedia and physical assets, Imagination has helped bring Sydney's vibrant mood and cultural diversity to life.
The creative expression for SydNYE is 'Wonder', with bold illustrations displaying a suite of stunning designs that represent Sydney's sense of wonder during the summer months.
Devised by Sydney-based multidisciplinary designer and artist Nadia Hernández, the City of Sydney and Imagination has continued their commitment to fostering local creative talent.
Around 600 banners with five designs will be displayed around the Sydney CBD from the end of November to early January 2018.
Once again, the Sydney Harbour Bridge will take centre stage for two spectacular firework displays: the family fireworks at 9pm, and the main event at midnight.
The coat-hanger structure will see over 28,000 fireworks shot from 175 firing points – an extra 3,000 fireworks from last year, making 2017 the biggest display ever.
Imagination director Heath Campanaro said the agency's ongoing relationship with the City of Sydney remains a creative dream.
"It's with good reason that Sydney has been hailed 'the New Year's Eve capital of the world', and each year we feel just as proud and excited to work with the City of Sydney to capture the vibrant culture the city is famous for," he said.
"Even in our seventh year, it's a creative brief we love to solve, to showcase this iconic destination to the rest of the world.
"The creative team's continued enthusiasm and determination to demonstrate Australia is a global seat of innovation has once again shone through, and I'm delighted with the calibre of work for 2017.


Washington tempts India, but the temptation bears little substance.
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani paid a visit to India on Tuesday, October 24, and met New Delhi's top leadership and exchanged thoughts over the current state of affairs in his war-torn country. He praised the current US administration's strategy on Afghanistan, calling it a "game-changer" and the stern stance President Donald Trump has taken towards Pakistan on the question of "giving shelter to terrorists".
It is also of no coincidence that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was also due to arrive in India late on Tuesday after his stops in Kabul and Islamabad. Tillerson had met the Afghanistan president in Kabul on Monday (October 23) and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday where he pressed Islamabad to accelerate steps against the terror elements and extracted promise from the premier that Pakistan is committed to the fight against terror. Ghani's visit to India is also not a one-off affair as top officials from Afghanistan visited India recently while India's National Security Adviser Ajit Doval was in Afghanistan earlier this month to meet his Afghan counterpart Hanif Atmar.
It is quite significant that the Americans, Afghans and Indians have shown urgency around the same time to address the Afghanistan problem – something which seems to be spiralling out of control. The US has remained stuck in the war-torn country since 2001 when it had invaded it in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and three presidencies later, Washington has neither succeeded in making Afghanistan stable nor exiting it after handing it over to safe hands. The Taliban, after a temporary setback, are reclaiming prominence in terms of territory and influence and Trump, who had preferred a pull-out by the American soldiers from the Afghan quagmire as a private individual, has now pledged more troops besides looking for more helping hands.
But how much will the US-Afghanistan-India engagement help in finding a solution for the ravaged but strategically significant country? The problem with Afghanistan today is both internal and external. Within the country, Afghanistan is in no sound condition. The ethnic and sectarian strife continues; the economy is in tatters; the democratically elected leadership is fragile and has limited influence while the national security apparatus is vulnerable. There is very little Afghanistan's leaders and forces can do of their own unless backed by outside help and there too, the situation is too precarious.
It is not that Afghanistan has found itself at the centre of external power struggle. In the 19th century, Afghanistan had served as a buffer between the mighty British India and czarist Russia. During the Cold War era, the former Soviet Union had found itself being resisted by the Americans and their allies like Pakistan and also China after invading the country.
But today, the situations are far too complex compared to the past, thanks to factors like the fall of the Soviet Union, the emergence of a multi-polar world order and clash of nationalisms for strategic gains. It's not just Afghanistan's immediate neighbours like Pakistan, Iran, China and Central Asian republics like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan who eye to influence portions of the country because of the power vacuum which has been created there during years of civil war but also those who do not have a direct border with it – like Russia, Saudi Arabia and India. The reasons are strategic, political and religious and finding a solution amid the maze is almost impossible, to say the least.
The Afghanistan problem has been compounded by the United States' amazing policy failure. After the presidency of George W Bush took the US to the war and his successor Barack Obama could not eventually bring it out despite making claims, all eyes fell on how Trump would take it up. Given the current president's unconventional take on things, there was an expectation that America's war in Afghanistan could finally be seeing its final days.
But when Trump reiterated in August that Washington would continue with its engagement with the Afghans and strive for that elusive military victory, one could sense the helplessness of the American leadership. Also as a mark of desperation, Trump invited India to play a bigger role in Afghanistan, making evident his plan of India replacing Pakistan in the scheme of things. The thinking perhaps is out of the box but given the ground reality in Afghanistan and the adjacent region, it is no less than a roadmap to an even more unstable and hostile South Asia.
Washington's stress on a military victory in Afghanistan is likely to bring little success and the resurgence of the Taliban is making that evident. Moreover, seeing the Americans' strategy backfiring, Washington's foes like Russia and China have felt the eagerness to play their own roles in the country, thereby bolstering Pakistan's confidence to defy the US and continue with its support for the Taliban to check India's entry into Afghanistan. Iran, another foe of Washington, too has its own plans to serve in Afghanistan. The diplomatic tussle over and around Afghanistan has become a typical power struggle in a multi-polar world and it is next to impossible to pick an outright winner there.
As far as India's role is concerned, the Narendra Modi government should refrain from a US-pioneered engagement in Afghanistan and try to boost its anti-Pakistan plans more by siding with the Ghani government. New Delhi has rightly refused any military engagement in Afghanistan but it should also avoid Trump's trap and not join the power struggle which is most likely to prove to be futile. No power in history has succeeded in trampling Afghanistan and the Americans are certain to pay the prices of their misadventure dearly. Even if a democracy, India has no business to become a party to the US vision in Afghanistan. Geopolitically, India is no replacement for Pakistan when it comes to Afghanistan and the Trump administration can make progress in its Afghanistan puzzle only when Islamabad complies with its wish and will.


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Special issue call on "the Contested realities of the Circular Economy"
By Steffen Boehm on 5 October 2017
This special issue of Culture and Organization invites contributions that question the Circular Economy in innovative ways. This special issue aims at bringing together critical, interpretive and theory-driven papers that go beyond the often repeated, but largely a-historical, a-practical, and a-theoretical, claims that the Circular Economy will help organizations solve 21st century problems. There is, for example, a rich history of economic and social practices (think of the frugality of survival practices during various wars) that could be seen as precursors of the Circular Economy, and one might ask: If such practices have been around for some time, why have they not been able to address the questions the Circular Economy aims to answer? Likewise, the Circular Economy has a lot to say about materials and their flows, but very little about humans and the social dimension of circular activities.
We welcome contributions that address the organisational and social aspects of the Circular Economy, including questions of power, process, and labour; its cultural aspects, including symbolic, political, and historical dimensions; its theoretical aspects, including how the Circular Economy relates to organizational theories of sustainability, change, and materiality; and its ethical aspects, including questions of justice, Otherness, and responsibility. Here is an indicative, arbitrary and in no way exhaustive list of possible topics:
Ethnographies of organizational transitions to the Circular Economy, including specific aspects of such transitions, such as product design, restorative and regenerative strategies, and the development of circular business models.
People at work in the Circular Economy: organizational, local, regional, and global approaches.
The Circular Economy and innovation, for example recycling techniques, technologies, information technology and social media.
Organizing materials in a circular economy, from mines to landfills (and the atmosphere) via storehouses and homes.
Scales of circularity: micro-, meso- or macro-loops?
The Circular Economy and systemic transformations of consumption.
Circular-economic governance: soft, strict, or otherwise (e.g., nudge), exploring, in particular, the role of incentives and legislation.
The Circular Economy and master-metaphors: from utopias to dystopias, from socialism to sustainable development, and from the myth of the eternal return to the Anthropocene.
The management of externalities in the Circular Economy.
The Circular Economy experience of countries at war, for example Nazi Germany, but also of countries under embargo, for example Cuba.
Regional differences in the Circular Economy, for example between the "Global North" and the "Global South"; circular economy and de-globalization.
Examining the discursive development of the Circular Economy, focusing on the roles of key organizations and institutions, such as the Ellen McArthur Foundation, McKinsey, the European Union and the World Economic Forum.
Deconstructing the Circular Economy discourse, for example, how the European Union connects the Circular Economy to safety as much as environmental sustainability.
The Circular Economy as aesthetic, but also as play, derision, irony, and provocation.
How the contemporary circular economy fails.
The Circular Economy as paradign shift.
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The weather this morning may have been horrendous, but it was great to be out running a new location and meet top new people at Valentines, Ilford today!
It's hard to explain to a non runner being soaked right through by torrential rain but 161 brave souls run this event today and most probably would tell you that felt better for coming!
Talking of top people it was my pleasure to meet fellow Cow-Cowl tourist today Kevin Brown and Andrew James, hope to bump into you guys again in the near future!
The course starts near to the park cafe then you run along the main path to the far end of the boating lake. Next you run two anticlockwise laps of the park, then run up the main path to the finish that is located in the same place as the start!
For the record this is a 100% tarmac course, even though my watch showed some inclines this seemed a relatively flat fast course in the right conditions!
We were given a course report before we started that warned us about the slippery nature of the wooden bridge and lake section at the back of the course, due to mud and rain! There were also a few minor branches littered about I think from the previous nights storm that hit the capital!
Overall the course conditions did interfere with the enjoyment of the run in any way!
Should I have been running with a chest infection in the pouring rain, probably not! I will take 35:20 any day of the week the way I have felt recently!
I found public toilets facilities available on Cranbrook Road on the outside parameter of the park before the start of the run!
For parking there are two small pay and display car parks inside the park that reasonably priced at £1.30 for 2 hours, I decided to use the Cranbrook Road entrance one Sat nav IG1 4UA that is very close to the start of the run!
There looks like an excellent cafe to go in for your post run coffee in Valentines Park Café shame I could not stay try it out as I was just to wet!
In the summer there is boats for hire, Ilford cricket club next door to while the day away and if you are interested there is the beautiful Valentines Mansion and Gardens to look around!
I would like to thank Vicki and her team of volunteers for making us all feel welcome and doing such a sterling job in such horrid conditions!
Finally a lovely location to run a parkrun and very understandable why it won a Green Flag award as a top park destination!


Chinese president Xi Jinping just declared that China will grow an average of6.5% a year from 2016 until 2020. The announcement comes as part of China's 13th Five-Year Plan—that throwback to hoary socialist planning that lays out the country's blueprint for economic and social development—in which Xi vows to, by the end of the decade, double China's 2010 per capita GDP.
More importantly, that 6.5% target is also a faster pace than China should be trying to grow, says Jiming Ha, an economist at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.


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Nigeria's officials get visa exemption from China
China announced a visa exemption for Nigerian diplomats and government officials under a package the Asian giant says aims at strengthening trade and diplomatic relations
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China announced on Saturday a visa exemption for Nigerian diplomats and government officials under a package the Asian giant says aims at strengthening trade and diplomatic relations with Africa's most populous country.
"We all know that visa issue is very important for the purpose of promoting our countries' relations," Chinese Ambassador Deng Boqing told a gathering of Nigerian businessmen and diplomats at the Nigeria-China Business Roundtable and Luncheon in Lagos.
"We have, therefore, decided to offer visa exemption for Nigerian diplomats and senior government officials in a first phase," he said, to the applause of the gathering.
"In the future, we will also be working with the Nigerian government to simplify other citizens' visa application process," added the diplomat.
He confirmed that the package takes affect from February 1.
"China is prepared to promote people-to-people interaction between the two countries," said the ambassador.
He urged the Nigerian and Chinese business communities to foster relations and strengthen business interaction between them.
The diplomat asserted that Chinese investors plan to increase their Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria in 2014 and beyond.
He confirmed that trade between both countries had increased by 25 percent in the last three years, coming short of giving exact figures.


''The Flash Class began, as usual. And the objections began, as usual at the first and second sessions.
''Was the teaching weak?'', I asked.
''Your mind is a one thousand skyscraper. Why do you hide yourselves in its basement? Do you fear of vertigo? You fear of elevation?'', I asked.
No, it was not possible.
They began to practice impatiently and they began to object loudly.
I gathered them together, again.
''What do you want?'', I asked.
– ''Haven't you seen sheep? If you put some grass in front of it, it began to eat! It is not the person of art, nor elegance, or thought! It is always waiting for grass to eat! Again, and again, and again. The sheep eats anything you feed, till the butcher comes and slaughter this artless and thoughtless animal!
But lion! It practices from its childhood! Practices! Practices! Its dad wrestles with him. He throws it down! He stricts it! He puts him in difficult situations! He lets him to decide himself! Himself! By himself! And then the baby lion becomes a lion!
The class got calmed and I was waiting. The space of the sheep was empty. All of them were lions, fortunately. They began to wrestle with Flash. And then, they start to solve it, one by one. First, the brave ones, then the curious, and then the anxious ones. Step by step, they began to peep each other. They learnt from each other. They got each other's hands and they went up floor by floor. Up and upper. They cross the clouds. They cross the teacher, the class, the Flash. The cross the …. They found another ego in themselves.
''Well, wanna practice like me?'', I asked.
این شما هستید که با هنر و توانمندی های بی پایان خود باید همه ی جاهای خالی را پُر و سطح دانش و فرهنگ را بسیار بسیار بالا ببرید.
این حس را با خود داشته باشید.
این حس را به خانواده ببرید.
این حس را با خود به کلاس درس ببرید.
مطلب بالا بسیار جالب و خواندنی بود . راستش یاد جلسات کلاس محتوای الکترونیک خودمان با شما افتادم .اولش برامون خیلی سخت بود ولی باور کنید شما به ما یاد دادید با اعتماد به نفس و ایمان به توانایی ها و جستجو برای کشف راه حل ها می توان کارهای بزرگ کرد .
بزرگترین ارزش این تکنیک در حس خودباوری و اعتماد به نفس است که در آموزش های کهنه جایگاهی ندارد.
امیدواریم روزی کاوشگری و پردازش جای کپی محتوا در مغز را بگیرد.


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Iron and Ashes: "Rome" Ends its Run on a High Note
With all the hubbub the other night with the season finale of Battlestar Galactica and a particularly fractious episode of The Amazing Race, I didn't want you to think that I'd forgotten about the series finale (sniffle) of Rome.
If you haven't ever watched Rome, I'm sure the episode in question wouldn't have even caught your notice but for those of us who have obsessively followed the slow burn of Rome, with its intrigues, vendettas, and fractured brotherhoods, the series finale, which aired Sunday (to be repeated a zillion times this week and available on HBO On Demand), was the perfect ending to a near-perfect series, which rarely had a misstep in its two-season history.
While I'm sad that this beloved series was drawn to a close sooner rather than later, I do have to admire HBO and BBC for acknowledging that it's far better to go out on a high note than draw out the inevitable with lackluster writing, subpar stories, and off-the-mark characterization. Like nearly every series tends to do. (Or what Lost is desperately trying to avoid.) Instead, Rome ended much like it began: with backstabbing and bloodbaths and brothers-in-arms Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus.
I was sad to see period rock star Mark Anthony throw himself on his sword (especially given that he made Vorenus hold said Roman sword) after fighting so valiantly (and in recent weeks in a drug and prostitute-fueled stupor). It was Anthony who gave the series that dog-eat-dog-and-die-smiling passion that will be missed but it was an incredible sight to see Vorenus transform the now Egyptian Anthony back into a true Roman. Of course, his death was for naught as the manipulative Cleopatra faked her death in order to engineer a truce with the clinically brutal Octavian... only to take an asp to her own breast when she realized that, as Anthony had told her, Octavian was a monster after all.
Did anyone else feel more than a little bad for poor Atia? Given that she's been responsible for most of the misery, heartbreak, and death in Rome, that's a pretty amazing feat. But I did feel truly awful for Atia, who realized that victory always comes at a price. She might be the mother of the emperor and guaranteed more power than any other woman in Rome, but it does seem that Servilia's curse did come true after all: despite new new position, she has lost everything and everyone she once cared for. ("Send her bitterness and despair for all her life. Let her taste nothing but ashes and iron.") And yet, even faced with all of this, she still manages to keep her head high... and cut Octavian's wife Livia out of her rightful place.
Titus Pullo finally finds his family after, let's say some pretty major setbacks with Eirene and Gaia, coming face to face with his own son Caesarion. He's also reunited, albeit it briefly, with his brother-in-arms Lucius Vorenus, who get to battle side-by-side one last time. Pullo takes Caesarion (now being called Aeneas) back to Rome, along with Vorenus. He too gets the chance to put things right with his blood, finally receiving forgiveness from his wrathful daughter Vorena the Elder.
Does Vorenus die at the tavern? While we never see the death scene itself, I think it's pretty safe to say that if Vorenus didn't die soon after the benediction he receives from Vorena, that the end is coming pretty soon. And in the end, I don't think Vorenus could have asked for a more fitting death than to have died as a result of a "glorious" wound from a sword during a fierce battle that had him and Pullo vastly outnumbered.
As for Pullo, he's happy to collect the reward for Caesarion's death and invents a story to conceal the truth of Caesarion's existence (it involves a rotting head and the desert; you fill in the blanks), which apparently suits Octavian, who wanted the boy put to death for political reasons. It never occurs to Octavian that his old friend Pullo might be lying to his face, but the never-blinking Octavian was never very good with people.
In the end, Rome boils down to those crucial relationships between people: parents, children, brothers, and the eternal possibility of reconciliation or treachery. That we're left with Pullo and Caesarion walking the streets of Rome somewhat richer as he finally tells the boy the story of his father is a fitting end to this vibrant, stirring, and thoughtful series. While life look a lot different since the days of Octavian's rule in Rome, it's a reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
8 pm: NCIS (CBS); Dateline (NBC); Gilmore Girls (CW); Dancing with the Stars (ABC); American Idol (FOX)
9 pm: The Unit (CBS); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC); Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search of the Next Doll (CW); Primetime (ABC); House (FOX)
10 pm: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC); The Great American Dream Vote (ABC)
8 pm: American Idol.
Gwen Stefani Alert! The fashion icon, former No Doubt singer, and Mrs. Gavin Rossdale coaches the remaining ten finalists in some pop-themed performances. Where are the Harajuku Girls though?
8 pm: Gilmore Girls.
I've given up on this once-great drama, but for the few of you out there still watching, here's what's going on. On tonight's repeat episode ("To Whom It May Concern"), Lorelai forced Jackson to reveal the rationale behind Sookie's odd behavior, Luke and Anna attend a custody hearing, and Paris helps Rory mend things between her and Lucy. All in favor of ending this once great show, say aye.
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Danielle C.F. Maris said…
God (or should I say Gods) this was a great series. And even though it was short-lived, I'm thankful that the creators knew it was coming to an end and were able to wrap it up in a wholly satisfying and exciting way. I'm already looking forward to rewatching this brilliantly written and performed series on DVD.
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Whenever I write a book review where the main character is a girl, I get emails or comments about the fact that I'm a boy reading 'books for girls'.
I don't really think of it like that. To me, a good book is a good book.
Anyway, here's a little round-up of some of those books. Your boys might like them, too.
You might also like this post about books for boys featuring awesome girls – a list based on books that I had read and recommended.
I love your list, Book Boy. As a mother of three kids, the eldest a boy the other two girls, we 'exchange' books all the time. In fact, I reckon that trying a book aimed at the other gender might just be the key to getting a reluctant reader to enjoy books. I can add these series to your girl-books-for-boys list – all enjoyed by my boy: Dork Diaries series; Ivy & Bean series; Trixie Beldon series; Withering By Sea and Wormwood Mire; Ruby Redford series.
My 9 year old son loved The Grace Books in the 'Our Australian Girl' series. His teacher read some of one to the class and all of a sudden all the boys wanted to read it. It's a lovely addition to our bookshelf at home.
Thanks Emma! I've heard a lot about that series, but haven't read it yet!


I am a perverse and unruly patient!
One wrong step — and down we go!
A union which will last forever!
What a mercy that I have been preserved so long!
When I hide myself in the Rock of Ages cleft for me!
Can we ever reach the promised land?
Why, papa, you have mamma and me left!
Unless we are upheld by an invisible arm!
In that moment we would fall into mischief and misery, if not into Hell!
You have but a little way to go!
But oh, the struggle! oh, the conflict!
What a contrast, mixture, paradox I am!
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand!
These peril-beset feet of mine!
He never takes His eyes off them!
His sheep feed in the midst of wolves!
We are never out of danger — while we are out of Heaven!
Our path is often slippery!
What a holy, happy life is this!
Who are they, and from where did they come?
But my eye and my heart are to Jesus!
How can he travel through this waste howling wilderness?
The shadow of God's wings!
Not one of us would ever be saved!
I am truly a marvel and miracle!
A lion! a dragon! a serpent!
A miracle of omnipotent grace!
You have only just begun!
I am a living commentary!
We must fly to God!
Many are the hindrances, and many the snares!
I will hold you up with My victorious right hand!
She had been plucked from the burning fires of Sodom!
If only one of God's sheep were to perish!
What! Will He forgive us all sins?
Have we not many Orpahs?
To bathe in the ocean of endless bliss!
No pilgrim has perished on the road!
The Lord's secret power in our souls?
Ah! we live in an enemy's land!
Behold His precious Gift transfixed to it!
They will never perish — ever!
Hold me and never let me go!
The best of saints would fall into the worst of sins?
We are never beyond the reach of His care!
All others are walking to perdition!
How are we to walk safely along such a path?
What a debt of love we owe Him!
If God should forsake the best saint?
My soul, where would you have been this day?


Major computer events in 1972.
Other computer events in 1972.
New computer products and services introduced in 1972.
Computer companies founded in 1972.
Computer company events in 1972.
Computer pioneers born in 1972.
Computer pioneer deaths in 1972.
Intel introduced the 8008 processor on April 1, 1972.
First public demo of ARPANET in 1972.
The compact disc is invented in the United States.
Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs invents the C programming language.
Edsger Dijkstra is awarded the ACM Turing Award.
Norm Abramson' Alohanet connected to ARPANET: packet radio nets.
The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey was demonstrated on May 24, 1972, and later released by Magnavox and sold for $100.00 USD.
The first scientific pocket calculator the HP-35 is introduced.
The programming language FORTRAN 66 is created.
Whetstone was first released in November 1972.
Atari released Pong, the first commercial video game on November 29, 1972.
Roland was founded on April 18, 1972.
Atari was founded on June 28, 1972, by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
Cray Research Inc. was founded in 1972.
Oki Data was founded in 1972.
SAP was founded in 1972.
Syzygy Engineering was renamed to Atari on June 27, 1972.
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Evan Williams was born on March 31, 1972.
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The first major exhibition in Australia of work by acclaimed Italian contemporary artist Francesco Clemente, and second in the annual Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international visual arts projects, Encampment includes six of Clemente's celebrated large-scale tents, transforming 30,000 square feet of the precinct into an opulent tented village. Created in collaboration with a community of artists in Rajasthan, India, with exteriors that combine camouflaged fabric and golden embroidery, the tents in Encampment invite us into jewel-toned spaces populated by Byzantine angels. Presented by Carriageworks and Anna Schwartz Gallery.


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Microsoft buys Movial, developers of the Surface Duo OS
Fahad Ali July 7, 2020 Featured, Microsoft, Software, Strategy No Comments
Well, this was snappy! Microsoft is said to have acquire Movial, a software firm that has reportedly been building the Android OS for the Surface Duo handset.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Based in Finland, the company is a software engineering and design services firm that specializes in mobile and embedded devices. And it was providing third-party services to Microsoft for the development of the operating system for the upcoming Duo smartphone.
As part of the deal, the local business of Movial — spread across the US, Romania, and Taiwan — are now owned by Redmond. Additionally, the firm's office in Iasi, Romania, will serve as the fourth Microsoft research and development center in the country.
The software titan is also incorporating 60 Movial employees into its Devices division in an effort to advance work on its Android-based devices.
With this purchase, the technology giant is now moving the development work in-house, in a sign that the company sees a future in dual-screen machines.
The acquisition means that the software giant could be forming an internal team that will be responsible for the OS work for the Surface Duo going forward. And this move is seen as a preparation for the rumored launch of the handset in the next few weeks.
Tags:Acquisitions, Android, Developers, Employees, Finland, Microsoft, Movial, Strategy, Surface, Surface Duo
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//  Created by Dan Nilsson on 10/31/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Dan Nilsson. All rights reserved.
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@class NSManagedObject;
@class NSManagedObjectContext;

@interface CoreDataUtil : NSObject
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/**
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/**
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 *  cases.
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 *  Please note that this is just a basic example of how it could be done. If you
 *  use RestKit for example you should probably look into RKEntityMapping instead.
 *  Sometimes it's hard to do a 1-1 mapping between a JSON response and the
 *  NSManagedObject (even though it's desirable), particularly with nested objects.
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+(NSDictionary*) managedObjectToDictionary:(NSManagedObject*) object;

/**
 *  Really simple method for creating or updating an existing object of type class
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 *  in order to perform updates.
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+(NSManagedObject*) updateOrCreateObjectOfClass:(Class) class fromDictionary:(NSDictionary*) dictionary inContext:(NSManagedObjectContext*) context;

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Dr Julia Shaw, psychologist and senior lecturer in criminology at London South Bank University, talks to members of the CLO Connect Network in London.
Julia shares her latest research, why we remember things that didn't happen, techniques to make things more memorable and the role of memory in learning.
Dr. Julia Shaw is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Law and Social Sciences at London South Bank University. She is heavily involved in teaching classes on criminology and psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level, for which she has won two teaching excellence awards.
She has published research articles in various international academic journals, written chapters for textbooks, and gives guest lectures and conference presentations around the world. Additionally, Dr Shaw is the author of "The Memory Illusion", which was published on June 16th, 2016, with Penguin Random House in the UK. The book will also appear in 13 languages with several other international publishers in the fall of 2016. Dr. Shaw is also a regular contributor to the popular science magazine Scientific American, hosting a series on how our memories can mislead us called "Memory Mondays".
Dr. Shaw consults as an expert on criminal cases, delivers police-training and military workshops, has evaluated offender diversion programs, and works to ensure best practices for dealing with vulnerable populations in business settings. She is also on the board of the European Association of Psychology and Law.
Her work has been featured in outlets such as Discovery Channel, BBC, CNN World, Der Spiegel, Russia Today, New York Magazine, The Times, The Telegraph, NPR, The Daily Mail, Pour le Science, and The Sun.
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Bulk waste refers to appliances, furniture and other large household items too large to fit in 96-gallon trash cart if it were empty.
Carpet (4-foot bundles, limit 2).
Refrigerators, freezers and AC units must be certified Freon free.
NO construction debris; concrete; bricks; roofing; vehicles or parts; computers; televisions; household waste or yard trimmings.
Extra bags of household trash require a pink tag available for $1.75 each at local grocery stores and DO NOT need to be scheduled for pick-up.
At least 2 working days prior to your regular service day, call Waste Management at 1-800-800-5804 or email to schedule pick-up.
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Request a confirmation number and keep it handy until service has occurred.
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1. PCORI Meeting Materials: Latino Roundtable, click here to view the meeting agenda, and here to view the presentation slides.
2. PCORI Blog: Digging Deeper into PCORI's Cycle II Awards, click here to view the blog post.
3. PCORI to Host Roundtable, Webinar on Data Dissemination, click here to register for the webinar, and here to submit questions and responses.
4. PIPC Chairman Comments on Living with a Disability, Patient Centered CER, click hereto view the blog post.
5. It's Time for Insurers to Pony Up PCORI Fees, click here to view the article (subscription only).
6. Pink Sheet: Woodcock Pushes Standardization to Speed Rx Development, But Will Uniformity Cripple Innovation?, click here to view the article (subscription only).
On Tuesday, July 23 the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) held a Latino Roundtable Discussion. The purpose of the roundtable was for PCORI to leverage the wisdom and experience of Latino patients, healthcare professionals, and the organizations that represent them to help guide development of an innovative and patient-centered research agenda to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Their objectives included: (1) create community and promote interest in patient-centered research among Latino male patients and health professionals; (2) identify healthcare issues and outcomes important to Latino men for future research; (3) identify barriers and gaps in knowledge or opportunities for dissemination and implementation; (4) gain input from Latino men on PCORI's research programs; and (5) identify how PCORI should engage Latino men in our research process. Click here to view the meeting agenda, and here to view the presentation slides.
In a recent post on the PCORI Blog, PCORI Executive Director Joe Selby writes, "I'm pleased to share the latest analysis of our most recent awards cycle, including the volume of applications received, types of research proposed, and other attributes of the projects we have added to our growing portfolio. Compared to our first funding cycle, we were able to fund a much higher percentage of the proposals we received. The funding rate in Cycle II was 12 percent, compared with 5 percent in Cycle I. This increase, in large part, reflects a greater understanding of our unique patient-centered requirements." Click here to view the blog post.
PCORI will hold a roundtable on July 29, 2013 to discuss the dissemination and implementation of comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) findings. According to a release from PCORI, "We are commissioning the development of the PCORI Blueprint for Dissemination and Implementation of Research to complement the work with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The roundtable is an opportunity to provide input into the development of the request for proposal (RFP) for the commission." You can enrich the discussion in advance by offering your responses to key questions we'll explore during the event. You can also participate in a public comment period from 4:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. ET by emailing your thoughts toimplementation@pcori.org, or by joining the Twitter conversation using #PCORI. Click here to register for the webinar, and here to submit questions and responses.
Chairman Coelho continues to write, "As someone with epilepsy as well as a former policymaker, I know the importance of securing a seat at the table so our voice will be heard. We must urge entities like PCORI to include all people – the disabled, people of color, women and the elderly, among others – when designing new comparative clinical effectiveness research studies… As Chair of PIPC, I urge all of our members and friends to stay engaged with PCORI to ensure that their work truly improves the lives of patients." Click here to view the blog post.
In an article published in CQ HealthBeat, John Reichard reports, "The first insurance industry payments for a provision of the health overhaul that its framers hope will help bend the cost curve in health spending are due to the Internal Revenue Service on July 31. The money goes into the trust fund established for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Under the health law, there are two funding streams for that account, which is expected to receive $3.5 billion through Sept. 30, 2019, when the authorization for the trust fund expires. According to the PCORI website, in fiscal 2013 the amount going into its trust fund will total $320 million, of which $150 million comes from the Treasury and the remainder from Medicare and insurers. If the research works out the way policymakers hope, the findings will identify areas of wasteful treatment that insurers will be able to avoid covering. Medicare coverage isn't automatically changed as a result of the findings, but PCORI critics claim it will lead to government rationing, while supporters say it makes no sense to spend limited health care dollars on treatment approaches that don't work." Click here to view the article (subscription only).
6. Pink Sheet: Woodcock Pushes Standardization to Speed Rx Development, But Will Uniformity Cripple Innovation?
According to an article in this week's The Pink Sheet, "The ultimate goal may be to use an established clinical trial and data infrastructure – such as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's planned clinical data research networks and patient-powered research networks – to work 'seamlessly' in both observational and experimental research, Bryan Luce, PCORI chief science officer said. 'Imagine a new world,' Luce said, where 'as you do an observational study and have a hypothesis that needs to be tested you could break into clinical trials.' He acknowledged that this will be challenging and is likely a long ways off." Click here to view the article (subscription only).


Men who supplement early dating with a lot of swell gifts are generally distracting you from the stuff they are never going to give you.
But nowadays men cannot love but seven night but they must have all their desires… right so fareth love nowadays; soon hot, soon cold. This is no stability, but the old love was not so. Man and woman could live together seven years, and no wanton lusts were between them, and then was true love and faithfulness.
There is an unspeakable luxury, charged with a powerful undercurrent of eroticism, in choreographing a seduction to unfold not in hours or in days, but in months.
Is anyone entirely innocent of the way they exist in another's heart? Every interaction is part conspiracy. Afterward each person is both more and less than they were, and none of this has happened without some intent, however unconscious that intent may be.
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Q: Reading and Writing Fifo Files between C and Python In general, I am creating two fifo queues to be read and written to by my .c and .py programs. To enable my .c program to interact with python, I have included the <python2.7/Python.h> library.
Firstly, my .c program creates a file called CFifo and writes text to it using fprintf. No problem there.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <python2.7/Python.h>

int main() {
    FILE *CFifo, *pythonFifo, *pythonFile;
    char buffer[1024];

    // declare python
    Py_SetProgramName("writer.py");

    // init python
    Py_Initialize();

    // open python
    pythonFile = fopen("writer.py", "r");

    // C writes to file, python reads from this file
    CFifo = fopen("./CFifo", "w");

    // Print strings to file using fprintf
    fprintf(CFifo, "This is a test");

    // close file python reads
    fclose(CFifo);

The second part of my C program should read the information written (in the second fifo queue) by my python program but instead it just hangs in the terminal when opening ./pythonFifo.
    // make second fifo queue
    // python writes to this file, C reads from it
    mkfifo("./pythonFifo", 0777);

    // run python program
    PyRun_SimpleFile(pythonFile, "writer.py");
    pythonFifo = fopen("./pythonFifo", "r");

    while(fgets (buffer, sizeof(buffer), pythonFifo)) {
        printf("%s", buffer);
    }

    // close python
    Py_Finalize();
    fclose(pythonFifo);
    remove("./pythonFifo");

    return 0;
}

This is the python section responsible for writing to the fifo queue.
# open fifo file that python writes to
filename_write = "./pythonFifo"
pipe = os.open(filename_write, os.O_WRONLY)
for output in finalStringList:
   os.write(pipe, output)
os.close(pipe)

The purpose of the second file is to write modified information read from the first file.

A: You can't get there from here. From the mkfifo man page...

Once  you have created a FIFO special file in this way, any process
  can open it for reading or writing, in the same way as  an  ordinary
  file. However,  it  has to be open at both ends simultaneously before
  you can proceed to do any input or output operations on it.  Opening a
  FIFO for reading  normally  blocks  until some other process opens the
  same FIFO for writing, and vice versa.

Both sides need to open the file before they can continue. But since PyRun_SimpleFile runs a python script sychronously, the latter C code that opens the file is never reached. If you try to open it in the C code first, it would hang before running the python code. You have a classic deadlock.
I added several prints to your sample and was able to see the program advance as I did cat pythonFifo and echo foo > pythonFifo in a separate console. It returned garbage of course, but proved the problem.
Actually, you can get there from here (again, the man page)

See fifo(7) for nonblocking  handling  of FIFO special files.

but you open yourself to more deadlocking if your python code writes more than fits in the pipe. You may be better off having your python program write to some variable and have your C code read it from there.


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UAE to cut troops in Yemen
AFP Published July 9, 2019
In this file photo taken on October 04, 2015 Emirati soldiers, taking part in the Saudi-led operations against Yemeni Houthi rebels, stand during rehabilitation and demining operations at the al-Anad airbase in the southern Lahj governorate, some 50 kilometres north of the Red Sea port of Aden. — AFP
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said on Monday it was redeploying and reducing troops across war-torn Yemen and moving from a "military-first" strategy to a "peace-first" plan.
The UAE is a key partner in a Saudi-led military coalition which intervened in Yemen in 2015 to back the internationally recognised government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi against Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.
"We do have troop levels that are down for reasons that are strategic in (the Red Sea city of) Hodeida and reasons that are tactical" in other parts of the country, a senior UAE official, who requested anonymity, told reporters. "It is very much to do with moving from what I would call a military-first strategy to a peace-first strategy, and this is I think what we are doing."
The official however reiterated the UAE's commitment to the Yemeni government and the Saudi-led coalition, saying discussions on redeployment have been ongoing for more than a year.
"This is not really a last-minute decision. This is part of the process and naturally a process within the coalition that's been discussed extensively with our partners, the Saudis," he said.
Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said both the UAE and Saudi Arabia are committed to achieve their goals in Yemen. "The United Arab Emirates and the countries in the coalition continue to achieve their operations and strategic goals," he told a news conference in Riyadh in response to a question about the redeployment of UAE troops.
According to a Yemeni military government official, UAE troops fighting the Huthis have "totally vacated" the military base in Khokha, about 130 kilometres south of Hodeida.
The UAE withdrew part of its heavy artillery from Khokha but was — along with the Saudi-led coalition and the government — still overseeing the military situation in Yemen's western coast, he said on Monday.
Middle East expert James Dorsey has said a redeployment reflects "long-standing subtle differences" in the Saudi and UAE approaches towards Yemen.
The pullback "highlights the UAE's long-standing concern for its international standing amid mounting criticism of the civilian toll of the war", he has said.
Rebels claim drone attacks on two Saudi airports
Yemen rebel attack wounds 26 at Saudi airport
Saudi Arabia intercepts two Yemen rebel drones: coalition
Lessons of Musharraf era
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Former COAS of Pakistan is leading the Coalition Forces without much success.
Wise move.
Too little, too late. In fact, two wrongs don't make it one right. Instead, UAE must go for complete withdrawal of its armed forces from the poorest and weakest Middle Eastern country of Yemen and work towards promotion of lasting peace and tranquility in the world.
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I thought it was a just war. Tens of thousands of Yemenis are killed and they are not coming back.
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India's Budget Airline Hits out at European Airbus for Delayed Aircraft Delivery
New Delhi (Sputnik): India's no-frills carrier GoAir has cancelled more than 40 flights in the past four days, claiming inclement weather and the uncertain delivery of aircraft are creating problems with normalising operations. Airbus has been facing huge pressure to replace over one hundred engines in its A320 Neo aircraft in India.
Private Indian Airline IndiGo Airbus A320neo Catches Fire Before Take Off - Video
New Delhi (Sputnik): Last month, India's aviation regulator DGCA had given an ultimatum to private airline IndiGo to replace the engines of its entire A320neo fleet of 97 aircraft by 31 January "at all costs" or face grounding.
India Gives Ultimatum to Biggest Airline to Replace Faulty Airbus Engine
New Delhi (Sputnik): The step has been taken against a backdrop of persistent technical snags in jets operated by the country's low-cost carriers like IndiGo and Go Air.
India Questions Airbus and its Engine Maker Over Safety Concerns - Reports
The Indian Government held a meeting to review the safety and suitability of Airbus-manufactured aircraft, taking serious note of recent incidents related to engine malfunctions.
Newest F-35 Villain Isn't Lockheed Martin: Pratt & Whitney Blamed for Tens of Millions in Overruns
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's rising costs cited in last week's Select Acquisition Report to the US Congress have been pinned to Pratt & Whitney.
US Names 7 Contractors to Build New B-21 Strategic Bomber
The Secretary of the Air Force said that the US Air Force has chosen several aerospace companies to work with prime contractor Northrop Grumman on the new long-range B-21 strategic bomber project.
Pentagon: Troubled US F-35 Fighter Jet Needs More Engine Changes
The US Department of Defense stated that United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney Military Engines has won a $33.1 million contract to adapt the engines of the exceedingly expensive and still-troubled F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
Pratt & Whitney Wins $214Mln Maintenance Contract for F-35 Jets - Pentagon
United Technologies Corporation Pratt & Whitney has won a new $214 million contract for jet engines maintenance for the over-cost and troubled F-35 stealth fighter bomber, the US Department of Defense announced.
F-35 Engines Deemed Unreliable by Government Accountability Office
Two separate US government watchdogs are outlining problems with the engines used in their F-35 jet fighters - one finding the systems unreliable and another citing dozens of violations in its quality assurance inspection.


Winter in our state is incredibly short-lived. For example, it is currently the middle of January and the thermostat in my car claimed the temperature had reached 67 degrees the other day. This is a far cry from the cold, dreary, and very icy Januaries I grew up with in the Chicago area. Here snowfall happens once, maybe twice, a year and lasts about a day. Usually, we can't even classify the phenomenon as snow. More often than not it's a sort of sleet that coats our roads with ice, causing everything to shut down.
As I planned our Five in a Row curriculum schedule back in May, I figured I would place the book Katy and the Big Snow at a random week in January. If I were still living in the Midwest, I could easily assume that any point in the winter would be an appropriate time for a snow-themed week, considering that there is almost always a white powder on the ground. Down here in the south, however, I had to take my chances. The best bet would be sometime in January.
Similar to last year when we read The Snowy Day, it just so happened that on the week we were scheduled to read a snow themed book, we received our 24-hour snowfall. I was overjoyed about the timing.
I love snow days, especially now that I'm living in an area where snow isn't common. The way it softens the loud hustle and bustle of everyday life is dreamy, and I'll admit that I love an excuse to spoil my kids. When snow happens here, it shakes up schedules and brings a different atmosphere to the house. It's a special occasion of sorts, therefore rules can bend and we concentrate on making our day cozy and memorable.
To be completely honest I fed my son way too much sugar that day. We began the morning with honey since I normally allow him an activity that involves drizzling the shape of letters onto a plate whenever he is ready to progress in Hebrew. The idea is that we want to instill our children with how sweet G-d's word is, so we offer them a taste of honey while we learn a Biblical language.
After doing school work, we went outside to play in the snow, where we built Hudi's first real snowman (usually we don't get snowman worthy snow, so this was pretty exciting). Naturally, hot chocolate followed after, topped with whipped cream and sprinkles, of course. As a continuation of our Tale of Peter Rabbit week, we dabbled in English cuisine and baked delicious raspberry lemon scones. To finish out the night we had one last treat that is a snow day tradition in our home: snow cream.
It was a wonderful snow day and perfect for our snow week lessons. When planning a schedule for our curriculum, I can only guess when snow-themed books will work for us, and for two years in a row now I was excited to discover that I guessed right. I was, however, prepared to move forward with or without snow. If there wasn't snow outside, we were going to make our own snow inside.
Even with the experience of having real snow on the ground, my kids were getting stir crazy once they got tired of playing outside. Having the materials needed for fake snow was a life saver, as it kept both my four year old and one year old occupied for quite a while. Having the real stuff was great, but making pretend snow in your kitchen is pretty intriguing as well.
The directions are simple. In a large bowl or container, mix 1/2 cup of conditioner with 3 cups of baking soda. Include toys such as trucks, cookie cutters, plastic forks, and anything you would normally give your kids to use with play-dough.
This was a fun and relaxed winter themed sensory activity that captured the attention of both my 4 and 1-year-old. They even played together, which I love to see! Clean up was a bit more of a challenge, but nothing a vacuum couldn't handle.
Definitely worth it for the time it occupied their interests.


We are far removed from the "anything at anytime" availablility of goods in the developed world. There is no such thing as 7-Eleven or WalMart, or even anything close. Town is a 40 minute walk away. There are little hole in the wall food shops, and I have only found a couple of restaurants I would venture to eat in. Also, since the town water pump has been broken for a few weeks I am reluctant to go to even those, since the water shortage has probably left them washing food and hands a little less carefully.
On the good side, we have a plethora of fresh vegetables at amazingly cheap prices, compared to what we are used to, even with the "mzungo premium" we sometimes pay. There is a central market in town situated under old UN tents that is open daily. There are also some open air shops where our dirt road meets the main road, about a 20 minute walk away. The best prices are at the Saturday market, when all kinds of sellers bring their goods (fruits, vegetables, meat, used clothes, and kangas (the African material used for clothes and a lot of other things) and lay them out on blankets for display. It covers a whole hillside. Luckily this is only a 5 minute walk from us, so we can load up on a lot of things and not have to carry them far. There is some bargaining involved but it is easier once you know the going price range. We pay about 40 cents per kg of potatoes (about 1/2 pound), 12 cents for an avocado or cucumber, and 30 cents for a small pineapple.
We eat meat rarely and only at restaurants, since we have no refrigerator. Even there, you would not eat a lot since the goat and beef meat is very tough and takes a long time to chew. The chickens here have so little meat on them it is almost not worth the trouble. I pass a lot of goats on the way home from school, and they are extremely skinny. The one time I went to Rwanda the animals looked a lot plumper, and the chicken I had in Kigali was like a dream. The farmers occasionally bring live chickens to school to sell to the teachers and charge about $3 for them. One of my teachers offered to come to my house and slaughter one for me, but I refused, since I would have no idea what to do with it and not sure I want to learn. I am sure my diet is deficient in protein so I am trying to eat a few eggs every week. They can be found in town for about 15 cents apiece and I try to eat them within a couple of days since they are not refrigerated. I know corn and beans make a complete protein. There are plenty of beans around, although they are a little hard on the digestion in any quantity, but so far I have only seen maize flour, not the fresh stuff. I am not sure when the season is, but I remember seeing dried corn stalks when we came here in July. I did make vegetarian chili a couple of times and would have loved some cornbread to go with it, but haven't seen corn meal either, even if we had an oven to make it in. Cooking is confined to our 2 burner electric hotplate, which we didn't get till we had been here about 6 weeks. Before that we only had a small camp stove we had to use outside due to the fumes from the petroleum. I much prefer the hotplate, though it is not of any use when the electricity goes out. This was rare when we first got here, but lately it has happened several times a week. It is nice to have some bread and peanut butter handy for those occasions.
Neighbor Elie from England checks her cell phone while making banana fries in our "kitchen."
The "supermarket" in town is like a mini Walmart compressed into a room about 20 by 40 feet. Food is on a few shelves and the rest of the room is taken up by sundries and hardware. They do not sell fresh food here, just packaged things like juice, cookies, powdered milk, oil, mustard, coffee, and spices. The owner is from Oman, so a lot of the imports are from Arab countries. She also sells bread from the bakery in town for about 80 cents a small loaf, but it always tastes stale even when you buy it the same day it was made. They apparently only make white bread here. I bought some whole grain rolls at a restaurant in Mwanza, but that was the only time I have seen it. I am pretty sure they don't fortify it with vitamins as they do in the USA, but it is filling. Rice and white flour are available but expensive compared to other things, about $1 per kilogram.
The family that owns the supermarket also owns the best restaurant in town, Paradise. She contracts with a local woman to supervise all the cooking, but approves all the recipes. They do not have a menu but serve a buffet daily which usually consists of rice, fried bananas, beef stew, tomato sauce, and cabbage salad for about $2. Sometimes they have chicken which is very well prepared but you feel like you are just chewing skin on bone, no meat. The other restaurant we go to is mainly an outdoor bar, named Garden Pause. They have little cabanas roofed with some kind of thatch where people mostly drink beer, but you can get rice and meat stew, brochettes, and chips mayai, a Tanzanian omelette made with french fries and eggs. One problem is that the restaurants here only serve food after 1 p.m., a little late for me since breakfast is usually just a piece of plain bread and coffee. I rarely would go there at night because I could not walk home in the dark. No street lights here and a little scary, although there does not seem to be a big crime problem here. There are picky pickys that go at night but I am a little leery of getting on a motorcycle at night with someone I don't know, although I have done it and not had a problem so far.
The meals I make most often are usually a combination of vegetables. Avocados are cheap so we make a lot of guacamole with onions and tomatoes. I like salad with boiled potatoes, cucumber, onion, tomato, olive oil and vinegar. Greens are not recommended by the Embassy because of bacteria but Breana makes a good cabbage salad. She likes to cook and has made good banana curry, rice pilaf, and chappatis. Ellie, our new English neighbor, came over and made spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce and banana fries. Another time I made sweet potato fries but still cringe at the amount of oil used. For years I have not added salt to food, but I got a little freaked out after I passed out at school from dehydration, and have been pretty liberal with it since. We are so used to a processed diet in the USA, which contains tons of salt. My present diet consists of almost all fresh food. Even the peanut butter is local and lightly processed. The only canned things I buy are coffee and powdered milk.
Hoping to get to Kigali soon for some protein.