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Chalked: Part 9
"Didn't have them turn the train off already?" the chief asked.
"Oh … it's you, chef," Barrister said, pronouncing it with a hard "ch" like in the "chosen one," and called him that in reference to a barbecue where the chief had burnt all the hot dogs. "Oh, oh, I did," Barrister answered as his head bounced like he was riding on a bad road and working to hypnotize anyone into believing that. "They just didn't listen."
The chief sighed. "I'm sure you did," he said, but sounded very much to the contrary.
Barrister reeled in his pit bull and exchanged it for a bloodhound as he crossed the subway station platform, scraping his soles over the cement. "Who the hell's that?" Barrister had two bloodhound masks that he wore. One bloodhound was there to solve the crime. The other suspiciously eyed anyone who stepped in his territory.
It was no secret that Barrister held no high regards for the chief, and his number two hound was not only eyeing Johnny, but his boss as well … as it was usually accustomed to doing, like an instinctive means to survive. "Well, chef, who the hell's that? This is a crime scene."
"This is David Joseph's son, Johnny."
"Oh … nice, very good." Barrister's mouth hung low as he examined Johnny, and then turned to the chief. "Can I talk to you?"
"Excuse us, Johnny," the chief said.
"Yes, excuse us, Johnny," Barrister's echo was sarcastically playful like a filled pin cushion as he feigned a grin. The two stepped over to the side. "What the hell is this? It's not another of your teachers, is it? You act like I don't know what side of the chalk I'm supposed to write with."
The chief sniffed the air in front of Barrister. "Does it matter?" he asked.
"That's right, it doesn't bloody matter. It writes from all sides," he said … "so I can be a …" and glared at Johnny. "… a buffoon too and still do it."
"He won't mess it up." The chief was clear on emphasizing the "He."
"What the freakin' are you talking about? Mess up what? He bloody hell ain't doin' nothin'," Barrister said. "What's with you and your teachers?" Barrister called all of the chief's outliners teachers … and there'd been quite a few. "I don't get it. Your holy cause is like a cult," he said and glanced over his shoulder at Johnny, "and this one … this one's too many bricks short of a wall."
"He's substantial enough," the chief replied.
"Oh yeah, like a sacrificial virgin?"
"Your problem is you don't have any faith."
"In hell what? What in the hell are you selling? Faith? Faith don't get a conviction," Barrister said. "And you're a fanatic. You keep crossin' this line over and over again, pulling these bugs out of the cracks, and then them disappearing again for another. You keep your religion to yourself, you Jehovah wizocrat, and out of my investigation. You hear?" He flapped his hand at Johnny … "And … and your wannabee monk too." and marched off as he instinctively sized up Johnny, readying himself in case of any future conflict.
"Detective Barrister!" the chief hollered. "He'll be doing it!"
"He won't!" Barrister huffed back.
The chief's voice was deliberate and unshaken, formidable, and resolute like death that has come to claim a victim. "He … will … or I … will have your badge. You know, detective, I don't need any more reason."
Johnny had not heard most of the conversation, but the chief's voice speaking out to Barrister rushed through the station like another subway train. Johnny hadn't liked the words, which Barrister had used, like "hell," "freakin'" and "buffoon," those had been louder than the rest. The detective sounded too much like a bully and Johnny didn't like bullies … but at least this one had been put in its place by the chief.
Barrister had stopped, and peered back … but choked on what he wanted to say and said nothing further … he knew the chief's tendencies, and there were too many names in the chief's rolodex that could end a career. Under wise restraint, Barrister's jacket appeared to grow another size larger and fold over him, accentuating his smaller frame like a muzzle as he buried his fists into his pockets. His eyes shuffled from the chief's impenetrable stare, and like a bully that searches out the weakest in the crowd, rested them upon Johnny. But for some reason … no matter how incoherent he saw Johnny to be … this new teacher, though perhaps the weakest, appeared to be someone to be reckoned with … and Johnny's however innocuous grin pierced him … right through … into his belly.
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Getting interesting………..wonder how all this with Johnny is going to come together. Waiting for the next chapter


This paper presents an energy management strategy for a commercial building in supermarket application. Some objectives are established as load shedding, to reduce the electricity bill and the CO2 emissions of commercial building, such as supermarkets, in using PV and storage systems. An energy management supervision strategy based on the rules of the electricity bill will be presented. This paper focuses on the supervision strategy with the help of fuzzy logic. It is shown, with the help of simulations and comparisons, that the energy bill cost and the CO2 emissions can be reduced by using the solution proposed.


John S. Christiansen has been named president of the Arizona Division and state manager for First American Title Insurance Company's Arizona offices, according to President Parker S. Kennedy. He will be responsible for direct operations and agency relations for the state of Arizona.
After working in commercial construction for 15 years in Southern California, Christiansen joined First American in 1992 as a sales manager. He then served as operations manager for Maricopa County from 1994 until his current promotion.
Christiansen received his bachelor of arts in Business and Marketing from the University of Washington, and a certificate in Commercial Project Management and Development from the University of California. He is currently a member of the Phoenix Community Alliance and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. A native Californian, Christiansen resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife, Leslie, and their two daughters.


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China tariffs will add 25 per cent to cars imported from U.S.
BMW, Tesla, Ford and Mercedes-Benz are likely to be the hardest hit by Chinese taxes levied in retaliation against Trump duties
US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he departs the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2019. Photo by Jim Watson /Getty Images
China on Friday announced tariff hikes on US$75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession.
China also will increase import duties on U.S.-made autos and auto parts, the Finance Ministry announced.
Tariffs of 10 per cent and 5 per cent will take effect on two batches of goods on September 1 and December 15, the ministry said in a statement. It gave no details of what goods would be affected but the timing matches Trump's planned duty hikes.
A separate statement said tariffs of 25 per cent and 5 per cent would be imposed on U.S.-made autos and auto parts on December 15. Beijing announced that increase last year but suspended it after Trump and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, agreed at a meeting in December in Argentina to put off further trade action while they negotiated.
Trump and Xi agreed in June to resume negotiations. But talks in Shanghai in July ended with no indication of progress. Negotiators talked by phone this month and are due to meet again in Washington next month.
Trump administration upholds tariff on GM's Chinese-made Buick
BMW, Tesla, Ford and Mercedes-Benz are likely to be the hardest hit by the Chinese auto tariffs. In 2018, BMW exported about 87,000 luxury SUVs to China from a plant near Spartanburg, South Carolina. It exports more vehicles to China than any other U.S. auto plant.
Together, Ford, BMW, Mercedes and others exported about 164,000 vehicles to China from the U.S. in 2018, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a think tank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Most of them are luxury cars and SUVs with higher profit margins that can cover higher U.S. wages. The exports are down from about 262,000 in 2017.
Tesla, which is building a plant in China, last year got about 12 per cent of its revenue by exporting about 14,300 electric cars and SUVs from California to China, according to Barclays. Most of Ford's exports are from the Lincoln luxury brand, but most of the vehicles it sells in China are made in joint-venture factories.

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Hate Thy Neighbor
By: S.M. Soto
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
Categories: Romance, Romantic Comedy
Narrated by: Joe Arden,Maxine Mitchell
The Bromantic Comedies
Six Short Audio Plays for Fellas
By: Erin Mallon
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Jason Clarke, Shane East, and others
A paintball battleground. A wrestling mat for sleep-deprived new daddies. A feminine product aisle in the local drugstore. These are some of the places where men connect...at least in The Bromantic Comedies. A compilation of humorous and heartfelt plays exploring what it means to be "masculine" in a world where men are supposed to be tough.
How to Get Lucky
By: Lauren Blakely, Joe Arden
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell - epilogue, Erin Mallon - epilogue, and others
Every man knows there are lines you don't cross. Like this one - don't bang your boss' little sister. Too bad I didn't know sexy, clever, irresistible London is related to the guy who signs my paychecks. Would have been helpful to have that intel before I took her out on that first date, before I kissed her on the beach, before I made plans to take her home that night.
By: Ava Harrison
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Andi Arndt
Unemployed. Check. Zero prospects. Check. An eviction notice in hand. Check. Life in shambles? Check. Check. Check. Desperate to avoid living on my sister's couch, I took a job in the one place I shouldn't. That's where I first saw him. Drew Lawson. Elusive bad boy. Owner of the hottest club in the city. And apparently my new boss.
Temptation has never looked so good!
By SuziLovesBooks on 01-04-21
Southern Player
A Brother's Best Friend Romance: Charleston Heat, Book 2
By: Jessica Peterson
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Emma Wilder
I'm looking for a hot hookup with no strings attached. My dating history is lame. My experiences in bed? Even lamer. As the owner of a thriving business, I'm used to calling the shots. But one place I don't always want to be in charge is in the bedroom. Enter Luke Rodgers. My brother's best friend. Former major league baseball player. A guy who now hangs out on his farm, sweaty and shirtless, as he nurses a shoulder injury. If the rumors are true, he also likes to work up a sweat behind closed doors. A total MVP in the sack.
NOW THAT'S HOW TO WRITE & PERFORM A 5 ⭐ LISTEN
The Sham
Convenience, Book 1
By: Stella Gray
Narrated by: Elena Wolfe, Sebastian York
Our marriage is a sham. I'm the first to admit it. Only privately, of course. Notorious playboy Luka Zoric needs a wife and the good PR it brings. I just need the career boost being his top model will give me. It's a win-win - on paper. But since when has real life been simple? His jealousy makes me crazy. The control he maintains over my body is unacceptable. I really shouldn't be so turned on by it. But there's more to both me and my husband than meets the eye.And it isn't long before I'm wondering - which of us has made the bigger mistake?
By Linda G on 08-08-20
The Contract
Convenience, Book Two
If only I'd never signed that contract. Or accepted the one I didn't. My husband doesn't trust me. Not that I can blame him. But he needs me, needs my image. I need his connections. And I have to find a way to convince him to set aside our differences. There's one way that always works. Even when we hate each other, our bodies betray us. The one place we've never disagreed is in bed. Except this is about more than just us. And even Luka Zoric's legendary control breaks sometimes.
Love love this series hate hat cliffhangers!
Southern Heartbreaker: A Single Dad Romance
Charleston Heat, Book 4
Ford Montgomery was my first everything. First love. First guy I slept with. First heartbreak when he dumped me without explanation. A decade later, it's just my luck he's the first guy I run into after moving back to my hometown of Charleston. Three-piece suit, tie, and a watch worth more than my car - being a mogul looks good on Ford. So does being a doting dad to his adorable four-year-old daughter.
By CzekMart on 09-08-20
Happily Letter After
By: Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward
Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
My love story all started with a letter. Only it wasn't from the man I'd eventually fall in love with. It was from his daughter. A sweet little girl named Birdie Maxwell who'd written to the magazine that I worked for. You see, once a year my employer fulfilled a few wishes for readers. Only that column didn't start up again for months. So I fulfilled some of her wishes myself. It was harmless…so I thought. Until one day I took things too far. While anonymously granting yet another of Birdie's wishes, I got a look at her father.
Same premise as Written With You Duet
By Editor & Publisher who returns really bad books. on 10-20-20
By: Vi Keeland, and others
By: Lauren Blakely
Narrated by: Jacob Morgan, Teddy Hamilton
Ever hear the story about the bodyguard who falls for the rock star? Yeah, it never ends well. Each day I remind myself that it's my job to protect Stone. And nowhere in the job description does it say I should lust after the charismatic, charming man. Especially since we're opposites. But every night I spend with him the dangerous, off-limits attraction grows more intense. Until one night in a limo when we combust. One time only will have to be enough. One scorching, forbidden night. Because the mistakes from the past are chasing me. And if I give in again, I'll lose everything.
✫✫ All the Stars ✫✫
The Ruin
Convenience, Book Three
Narrated by: Sebastian York, Elena Wolfe
My life is in ruins. Failed marriage, failed career - I'm a failure. My husband may have had a hand in it, but I can't help missing him. We made an agreement. I signed the contract, and so did he. Without our arrangement, everything falls apart. So we'll keep losing ourselves in each other's bodies. We'll keep pretending everything is fine. But maybe I'm getting sick of pretend. Maybe I want to find something real. And just maybe, Luka does too.
By KLW on 10-06-20
By: Lauren Landish
Narrated by: Shane East, Carly Robins
Have you ever had one of those really bad days at work? You know, one where your sexy AF boss catches you photocopying your backside in his office? No? Just me, then? I blame my bestie and partner-in-chaos. She challenged me with a not-so-innocent dare that I should've flat out declined. But I'm an adrenaline junkie, and now, here I am. I know it sounds crazy, and daredevil tendencies aside, I definitely went too far to get his attention. But you haven't seen him. Colton Wolfe. My boss. Tall, dark, handsome, and with the sexiest British accent I've ever heard.
BIG, BAD WOLFE !
By Lisa Menor on 02-24-20
Kiss the Stars
By: A.L. Jackson
Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Zachary Webber
A single mother. An up-and-coming drummer with a sordid past. Their paths never should have crossed. But when a senseless crime rocks Mia West's entire world, she agrees to spend the summer hiding out at her rock-star brother's mansion in Savannah until the storm blows over. What she never expected was the gorgeous, brooding drummer living in the guest house. His darkness a lure. His gaze a trap. She knows better than to go after what will hurt her most.
By C. Y. on 03-18-20
Boss in the Bedsheets
By: Kate Canterbary
Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Emma Wilder
Mr. Santillian, Despite the fact I'm currently living out of your guest room and sleeping with you most nights, I am writing to announce my resignation, effective two weeks from today. In other words, I'll locate someone who is both obscenely overqualified and willing to devote their days to the handful of tasks you are able to wrench from your perfectionist, micromanaging grip.
So much more than the title would suggest
One Exquisite Touch
Narrated by: Emma Wilder, Joe Arden, Shane East, and others
When the invitation arrived, it detailed the rules of the masquerade - no names, no identities. I set one more - find a most wicked man for one night. The kind who'll bring me deliciously naughty pleasure in dark corners. But as the clock ticks to midnight, he finds me, whisks me away to a secret alcove, and delivers all that dirty bliss and then some. We make arrangements for another secret rendezvous before I rush out of the ball. But fate has other plans, since I see my most wicked man the next morning.
✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫ HOT HOT HOT
Rifts and Refrains
Hush Note, Book 2
By: Devney Perry
Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden
From the moment Quinn Montgomery sat behind her first snare and cymbal set, she was destined for fame and glory. As Hush Note's infamous female drummer, she sets the rhythm for the band's chart-toppings hits. When people tap their feet to their music, it's to her pulse. Quinn is content to live in a world away from her family and the cage of her youth. Her only regret is leaving Graham Hayes behind without a goodbye. No matter how many sold-out stadiums she plays, no matter how many crowds sing her songs, his voice haunts her when the music stops.
By Michelle Lucas on 10-01-20
Flirtasaurus
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
My name is Calliope and "I bone for a living." Kidding. I am studying to be a paleontologist though. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to be, and I have finally landed the perfect museum internship to make all of my dino-loving dreams come true. Trouble is, everyone wants me to be a gentle, loving sort of creature, but I'm more of the T-Rex type by nature - the kind who is determined to stomp and tear her way through any obstacle in order to get what she wants.
Couldn't Finish
By Kimberly on 08-19-20
Fresh out of a failed engagement, Olivia Hales is in dire need of a fresh start.
Tired of being the charming and accommodating girl who always gets stomped on, she's determined to change her outlook on life. When she finds her dream job in a small town in California, she thinks she's finally found her place in life. That is, until she meets her new neighbor.
Roman Banks. A moody, foulmouthed jerk. And the hottest man on the planet.
At a sprawling six foot five, he was coldly distant and physically intimidating. Not only was her new neighbor a god who was good with his hands, he was also a grade-A jerk. Trapped on the same street, sharing the same space together, they've become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous, never-ending game of insults and pranks that result in the destruction of two perfectly good homes.
The tension between them is as thick as the walls of their houses are thin. Roman's touch burned like fire even when his words were ice, and both of them will stop at nothing to make the other's life hell. In the midst of the pranks and the hate they harbor for each other, Olivia slowly pulls back the layers of the man next door and finds herself consumed with wanting to fix him and his past.
When both enemies start to catch feelings for each other, Olivia finds herself hiding her own secrets, not wanting to lose another man in her life. Lines are drawn. Strict rules put into place. But that doesn't stop Olivia from wanting to save the quiet, broody man next door.
They say you're supposed to love thy neighbor, but that was the furthest emotion she felt when thinking about Roman. Hate was all there was to their relationship. At the very least, that's what she tried to tell herself.
Hate Thy Neighbour is a full-length enemies-to-lovers stand-alone romance.
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William Joseph Roberts (March 13, 1925 – January 23, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He was awarded a varsity letter to play college basketball for the Wyoming Coyboys for the 1945–46, helping the team to a Mountain States Athletic Conference (MSAC) conference title and an NCAA tournament appearance.  The Cowboys were 22-4 with a MSAC record of 10-2. His Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) career lasted from 1948 to 1950.

After his playing retirement, Roberts worked for Reynolds Aluminium in McCook, Illinois, until 1973. He relocated to Indiana and opened a confectionery store with his wife. Roberts returned to Illinois and settled in DeKalb, where he died on January 23, 2016.

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Locate a pulloff on the right which has spring water coming out of a pipe. Park at the next pulloff on the right past the spring. Hike up the ridge of the hill on your right, and angle several hundred feet to the cliff.
I'd like to just point out that the notice that this and other areas are on property "owned by the USFS", that this is not technically accurate. These federal lands are owned by the PEOPLE, the citizens, you and I, and are merely managed by the USFS.


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Compton's Most Wanted made legendary music for years so when I booked Tha Chill to come on the "Murder Master Music Show" I knew we would be getting some dope early West Coast history and we did. He spoke about how CMW was actually close to signing with Eazy-E's Ruthless Records as well as ending a long time feud with DJ Quik. Check out some of the dope moments below.
1. Eazy-E wanted to sign Compton's Most Wanted
He (Eazy-E) was like "Man, I like ya'll n*ggas but ya'll sound just like EPMD, I love ya'll but you need to go to the studio and make some songs." He really wanted to get down with us but he really didn't have the time, and remember me and Eiht was like 16 years old at the time, so he was like "I'mma put all this stuff out then imma get wit you, I wanna do some stuff!" and then I said "Man, we gonna be old by the time you get to put our record out!" and Eazy said "You just need to go back to the studio and do some more records." And Ren just kept pushing us and told us to keep doing records. We eventually met Slip and that's how we put out those classic records, and we didn't have to go through Eazy!
2. Squashing the long time beef with DJ Quik
We from Compton so either you are Piru or you are a Crip! There ain't too many non-affiliates in Compton so you are a product of your environment. You never get to know a dude because of our environment. With that beef it was good for Hip Hop because nobody got hurt. After the smoke cleared and after people was dying off and going to jail, we was actually able to meet. I think they met a couple times on their own I think through Snoop. When we finally sat down in a room it was just me and him, nobody, just us a bag of weed and a bottle. He was playing tracks and I was playing tracks back and forth. I respect his craft! That beef was good for hip-hop but it wasn't a good look on our city. I look forward to working with him more and I respect his craft.
3. Early days of Compton's Most Wanted
We was just young B-Boys. MC Ren stayed across the street from me and recognized the hip-hop in me and he introduced me to Eazy. Eventually we met Lonzo and DJ Slip and they was doing the Compton Compilation and they let us get down on it with the first song Rhymes to Funky and that was the first song I ever did in the studio. That song was one of the stand out songs on there that struck us a deal with Unknown.
4. On becoming a producer
I always had an interest in beats so I was always off into it. I started getting more serious and Ren gave me a shot with his album Ruthless For Life. I took a hiatus on rappin' and just did the production. I did two cuts on the 213 album and from that Redman reached out and that is when I really started taking it serious.
5. DJ Premier and MC Eiht working together
We are friends and if people pay attention to the legacy of Gangstarr and Compton's Most Wanted we came out the same year so we were all touring. We had a cool a** friendship! Those were our dudes. I think it was a no brainer for DJ Premier and MC Eiht to get it in. We class of 1989!
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The effect of increasing the compression ratio on performance and economy.
Increasing the compression ratio helps generate more horse power by improving the engine's thermal efficiency and by raising the cylinder pressure. However, there are limitations to how high the compression ratio can be raised. Firstly, increasing the cylinder pressure increases the stress placed on the pistons and on the ring lands. Secondly, the more compressed air/fuel mixture would be more prone to pre-ignition and detonation that will wreck an engine sooner rather than later. This problem is exacerbated by the low octane nature of unleaded fuel that we use today. You could mitigate against this problem by retarding the ignition timing, but as Double H mentioned in ignition timing the correct ignition timing is crucial to producing optimal engine power. Thus, retarding the ignition timing would reduce optimal engine power. It would also loose responsiveness and fuel efficiency. Thirdly, the design and size of the combustion chamber as well as the cam timing and overlap period also affects the possible compression ratio. Cylinder heads with pent-roof and semi-hemi combustion chambers and longer duration camshafts allows for higher compression ratios than bath-tub or wedge combustion chambers and short duration cams.
On modern engines the compression ratio is quite often close to the optimal compression ratio allowed by the octane rating of modern fuels and the valve lift and valve overlap of the stock camshaft. Thus, there is often not much room for increasing the compression ratio. However, installing a performance camshaft with a longer valve overlap or duration reduces the pressure in the combustion chamber as the intake valve opens sooner while the exhaust valve is still open and some of the intake charge escapes through the exhaust valve that is still open. This reduces torque at low rpm. One way of overcoming this drop in cylinder pressure is by increasing the compression ratio.
You can mill the cylinder head to reduce the combustion chamber. This is the easiest way of increasing the compression ratio.
If your engine has deck clearance, in other words, if the piston tops do not reach the top of the engine block, you could mill the top of the engine to reduce the deck clearance. This would be preferred over milling the cylinder head.
You could fit pistons with a raised top, or if the stock pistons are dished, you could fit flat-top pistons.
If you have an aluminum alloy cylinder head, you could use aluminum welding to add metal to the combustion chamber. This is the best way to increase the compression ratio.
All of these methods, except welding the combustion chamber, reduces valve to piston clearance and might require that you add valve pockets to the piston top. Fitting high-top pistons also has the added potential of shrouding the spark plug, which could inhibit the effective burning of the air/fuel mixture and may leave pockets of air/fuel mixture that are only partially ignited or completely unburned. Finally, use aluminum welding to add metal to the combustion chamber requires a bit of skill to ensure that the heat caused by the welding does not warp the cylinder head. The threat of warping can be reduced by not working on one spot too long. The added metal should be ground smooth to prevent hot spots and each combustion chamber must have the same volume or the cylinder pressures would not be equal across the engine. You can cover the combustion chamber with a flat piece of perspex with a small hole in it and use a burette to measure the volume of the combustion chamber under the perspex. An added advantage of aluminum welding is the building of a squish area. A squish area purges the air/fuel mixture across the combustion chamber, mixing it with any residual exhaust gas that may still be present in the combustion chamber, resulting in a more homogeneous fuel/air mixture that allows for better flame propagation.
Forced induction has different demands on the compression ratio, especially when a forced induction system is added to a normally aspirated engine or when boost is increased. In this instance the compression ratio often needs to be lowered to compensate for the much higher cylinder pressure generated by the boost. This can be accomplished by fitting dished pistons but the outline of the dish should mirror the outline of the combustion chamber to retain the advantages of the squish area.


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Paul Horton: Has Common Core Lost the Plot?
By Anthony Cody on January 9, 2014 12:27 PM
Guest post by Paul Horton.
David Coleman, the current Chairman of the College Board and principle author of the Common Core Standards, proved his mettle as a curriculum writer when he declared, "Forgive me for saying it so bluntly, the only problem with ...that [creative] writing is that as you grow up in this world you realize people don't really give a [expletive] about what you think and feel."
My guess is that the bard pantheon up in the sky somewhere (Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Yeats, Woolf, Achebe, Borges, and Lessing) wouldn't give a [expletive] about what Coleman thinks, either!
The fact is that humans are storytelling creatures! Now, there is nothing wrong with writing analytical memos. Heck, I get an analytical memo every day: my son can make a very concise and logical argument supported with more abundant evidence than any Pearson algorithm could possibly require for why he needs an iPhone. My guess is that if he wanted to become an aspiring global capitalist like Mr. Coleman he could sniff out the magic words in hundreds of memos while pimping "liquid information" for McKinsey Consulting. Mr. Coleman may be loyal to making money and now that he has much more than he could ever dream about, he may have no use for stories! Stay away from that Colorado hotel-keeping job: "all work and no play........."
The oldest story in any book is about how greed corrupts. If you aren't hospitable you might be smited (toasted). This is part of the reason why stories, storytelling, and story writing are so important. When you cut out creative storytelling and writing, you perform a frontal lobotomy on any culture, you dissolve the glue that holds any culture together.
Indeed, according to Jonathan Gottschall in his recent important book, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human, storytelling must have an evolutionary purpose because it is a cultural trait that informs survivors, not those individuals and species that plod their way to extinction,
Because my strong attraction to fiction is deeply interwoven with my attraction to gossip and sex and the thrill of aggression...it would be difficult to get rid of the evolutionary bathwater of story without throwing out the baby--without doing violence to psychological tendencies that are clearly functional and important. (p. 30)
It turns out that we learn storytelling as we learn to play. Our colleague here at the Laboratory Schools, Vivian Paley, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant recipient and kindergarten teacher, was a close observer of the spinning of stories that originate in play. Above all, play is essential and very complicated,
Whatever else is going on in this network of melodramas, the themes are vast and wondrous. Images of good and evil, birth and death, parent and child, move in and out of the real and pretend. There is no small talk. The listener is submerged in philosophical position papers, a virtual recapitulation of life's enigmas. (Paley quoted, p. 32)
If we push play to the margins of the early childhood learning as Coleman proposes that we do, to make room for nonfiction literacy and mathematics, children will "have fewer opportunities to rehearse for adult life," says Gottschall. "From this perspective, children at play are training their bodies and brains for the challenges of adulthood--they are building social and emotional intelligence. Play is important. Play is the work of children." (p. 41)
Gottschall believes that stories share common characteristics across cultures much as linguist Noam Chomsky has identified cross-cultural patterns in language. "No matter how far back we travel into literary history, no matter how deep we plunge into the jungles and badlands of world folklore, we always find the same astonishing thing: their stories are just like ours." Although Gottschall, ever the reputable scientist, is careful not to make any Jungian claims, he does suggest "that there is a universal grammar in world fiction, a deep pattern of heroes confronting trouble and struggling to overcome." (p. 55)
If you are like me, you might be asking yourself as a professional educator: could there be a connection between denying our children these common stories and replacing interactive play with digital video games, TV babysitting, and never-ending planned time? This is certainly worth considering as we are confronted with more young people who we refer to as being "on the spectrum," especially as single child households become the norm.
A recent Stanford study has indicated that the number and complexity of words that a parent or guardian shares with a baby before eighteen months might partially determine the rate of a child's acquisition of literacy in later years.
Perhaps more studies are needed to determine whether there is a similar bundled connection between exposure to narrative stories and creative writing and the development of social and emotional intelligence, empathy, tolerance, and sensitivity to the needs of others. To take things a step further, our codes of ethics, morality, and connection to the spiritual dimensions of experience have always been intertwined with our reading and writing about sacred texts, great poetry, and great literature.
When we marginalize storytelling, literary fiction, and creative writing within K-12 language curricula in favor of nonfiction documents and the construction of analytical memos that might please Pearson Education, McKinsey consulting, and Bill Gates; we risk losing something more important than the ability to construct analytical memos.
To do so would be to risk severing our connection to the rest of humanity, to fall away into the cold, endless, zero gravitational space: the existential reality of the jackhammering of human connection that is the object of uninhibited capitalism.
The metaphor of education as memo construction is the sign of the destruction of organic ideas of human development that extend from Plato to Rousseau and Dewey, three excellent storytellers.
Story--sacred and profane--is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. A society is composed of fractious people with different personalities, goals, and agendas. What connects us beyond our kinships ties? Story. As John Gardner puts it, fiction 'is essentially serious and beneficial, a game played against chaos and death, against entrophy'. Story is the counterforce to social disorder, the tendency of things to fall apart. Story is the center without which the rest can not hold. (p. 138)
Jonathan Gottschall makes a very important point here. We need to think about this issue as we think about how why the corporate reform movement seeks to limit play, storytelling, and creative writing at school.
What do you think? Should fiction and creative writing be sacrificed in schools to implement an untested Common Core Curriculum?
Paul Horton has taught for thirty years in virtually every kind of school. He began his teaching career in a recently integrated rural Texas middle school. He then taught for five years in a large urban high school in San Antonio's West side where the majority of young people were ESL. He has been teaching at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the country's most diverse independent school founded by John Dewey, for fourteen years.
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Direct mail makes us feel special.
That stat comes from research from Royal Mail that shows 70% of consumers feel more valued by a brand when they receive direct mail instead of email. (Don't believe it? Just look at what happened when Nordstrom cut direct mail from their customer loyalty program.)
But why? What is it about direct mail that makes us feel this way?
"A direct mail takes time to design, consideration over the print and feels a lot more personal like it's intended for the customer and that's why it's fallen through their letterbox," explains this article in Cuckoo. "An email on the other hand, while it should still be designed well, falls into an inbox with hundreds if not thousands of others, plus it's harder for those not in the industry to know how much work it took to produce. A creative, captivating and inspiring direct mail oozes time, effort and can be personalized to add that extra touch."
Direct mail is also far more likely to be seen, picked up, read and even kept than email. (Seriously, when was the last time you saved an email from a brand unless there was a good coupon to print out?)
"Direct mail marketing is also revisited an average of 4 times when it's in the home, which means it's more likely to sink in, be remembered and be viewed by multiple people," the Cuckoo article continues. "That sounds like a win-win!"
It's seen, it's sticky … and consumers report that it really does work to drive the purchase – especially in the lucrative millennial market.
It's essentially Marketing 101, and it works – really well – in an age where we are all inundated with digital distractions. Some digital marketing techniques work, to be sure, but direct mail gets its value from its staying power.
"Direct mail, if done well, is 5 times more likely to be remembered than a digital ad," the article continues. "While this could be because there is much less noise to cut through, 70% of people Royal Mail surveyed said that receiving a direct mail gave them a better impression of the brand."
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The field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is garnering a great deal of interest from Canadian industries seeking new ways to monitor and maintain infrastructure in remote areas. Alan Lynch is developing autonomous control systems for use in UAV's to enable partners such as B.C. Hydro to fly a camera along stretches of power lines to search for sections in need of repair.
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What I do is a mix of algorithm development and practical work. Although some of the work we do is theory, we also like to put a big emphasis on specific test stands (ph) that are of industrial relevance. The recent research has focussed on autonomous helicopter.
So this is our outdoor helicopter. And we've basically modified this RC helicopter in a number of ways. So the avionics system provides an embedded computer and a bunch of sensors, including gyros, accelerometers, GPS, magnetometer. And these sensors are key for the system to be able to sense its configuration.
So what we have now is we have it in manual mode, and the sticks directly influence the swashplate, which then controls the orientation of the helicopter. And so if I flick a switch here, then it'll turn it into computer-controlled mode. And now you can see that, when I orient the helicopter, the swashplate reacts on its own without having the pilot having to do anything. So it if moves to the right, then the swashplate will orient in an appropriate direction to provide the torque to restore the hover configuration.
what we're seeing are trajectories of the so-called roll and pitch angles. So you can see the trajectories being logged here on the screen. So this is going to sit on the ground and there's a radio link including wi-fi linked to the base station we`ve got set up right now.and being able to - interact with the helicopter, provide it reference signals and so on and keep track of the pilot controls.
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Аэропоэзия () — поэтическое течение, продекларированное Филиппо Томмазо Маринетти в 1931 году как новая стадия развития итальянского поэтического футуризма. Сам Маринетти и ряд его сподвижников продолжали развивать аэропоэзию вплоть до окончательного поражения Италии во Второй мировой войне; Маринетти умер почти одновременно с этим поражением. Наиболее важными примерами аэропоэзии являются поэмы самого Маринетти «Аэропоэма Специанского залива» (; 1935) и «Герои песнь и машины муссолиниевской войны» (; 1942, в названии отражён требуемый Маринетти отказ от связного синтаксиса).

В основу аэропоэзии, как и манифестированной на три года раньше аэроживописи, легло преклонение итальянского футуризма перед новейшей техникой и технологией, воплощением которых выступал для них самолёт. Среди 22 принципов аэропоэтического письма, сформулированных Маринетти в манифесте, многие напрямую связаны с самоощущением человека, летящего в самолёте: Маринетти требует от поэта не только избегать земных образов и апеллировать к образам облаков, тумана и других атмосферных явлений, но и непосредственно передавать в стихотворении вращение пропеллера, стук мотора и вибрацию кабины.

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Central Phoenix: Good, Bad, Ugly
March 21, 2009 by Sam Richard
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Because I know the fragile self-esteem of Phoenicians is at stake, let me begin my observations about the state of the center city with the good stuff. I smelled the orange blossoms — even stepping out into one of ugliest urban spaces anywhere, the pedestrian loading zone at Sky Harbor. Many of the Midwestern transplants dislike the scent, which makes me dislike some of them even more. But this small, fleeting thing reminds me of my often magical city that is gone forever.
Some of the projects begun under former Mayor Skip Rimsza and spearheaded by people like former Deputy City Manager Sheryl Sculley, retired Deputy City Manager Jack Tevlin and Ed Zuercher, now a deputy city manager, have turned out quite well. As I wrote before, the starter light-rail line is great. Now lots of places are clamoring for LRT; the trick will be to avoid using light rail when commuter rail would be more efficient. A metro area the size of Phoenix needs both. The Convention Center is such a startlingly attractive set of buildings that you wonder if the design was approved by mistake, given Phoenix's ability to erect such ugliness. The ASU downtown campus, Mayor Gordon's signature accomplishment, is more of a reality, and thus will be more difficult for the Legislature to destroy. The lovely oasis of Arizona Center remains, shady and cool.
Read on if you want to know "the rest of the story," as the late Paul Harvey would say.
Much of the center city looks as if it has been cleaned up after repeated carpet bombing by the Allies in World War II. There's just nothing there. It's staggering to see the cleared land along Van Buren, Washington and Jefferson in what was to be Mayor Gordon's "Opportunity Corridor." Other vacant lots proliferate around the Central Corridor. City Hall seems to have learned nothing from its clear cutting of the neighborhoods between 7th Avenue and the state capitol during the 1980s.
This is problematic for many reasons. First is what's lost. One would never know that Phoenix in 1950 was as densely populated as Seattle is today. Buildings, many average but many with architectural value, crowded along every street. For example, the district between 7th Avenue and the capitol had many Victorian houses and apartments from the territorial and 1920s era. Van Buren and east McDowell, to give just two examples, sported commercial strips with the buildings right up to the sidewalk. Downtown and the warehouse district were dense with interesting, durable, and in some cases priceless buildings. Now all gone.
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New York City is probably the least car-friendly place in the United States. Its streets are perpetually gridlocked and garage fees cost more than rent in other parts of the country. Most people who live in the city don't even own cars and regard them as an occasional necessary nuisance. Mostly, they hail a cab. Or they walk or take the subway.
So it makes perfect sense for a major car company to relocate the headquarters of its luxury division there.
Well, yes — in a way. The new way.
You will sign up for a subscription — a monthly/yearly fee, like a membership at a health club. This will allow you to use the facilities; to access different GM vehicles — in order to "experience" them.
De Nysschen does not seek buyers. He seeks consumers — his word. "We wanted to see luxury consumption through the eyes of our consumers," he said about the move to NYC.
In other words, short-term rentals of various models in the GM inventory rather than owning or even leasing one single car. Use by the hour/day/weekend — and so on. The car is never yours. The payments never end. Consume, consume, consume.
Well, it is — for GM.
And for any other car company that follows this new consumption-based business model. Which — if GM's admittedly bold attempt to "disrupt" the way the car business works succeeds — they will follow.
In which case, our transition to a modern-era company town model in which debt is perpetual and the serfs' consumption is in proportion to their debt and no one except the latter-day equivalent of our feudal overlords owns anything will have taken another great leap forward.
But first, the money — which is why they'll follow it, probably.
The margins on a new car sale are pretty thin. And new cars are becoming so expensive that fewer marks are stepping up. A crunch is inevitable.
But imagine how much more money a car company could make if, rather than extract a single monthly payment of say $500 from a single individual who is making those payments toward the purchase of the car — and who stands as the legal owner of the car the moment he takes possession of it and is therefore entitled to all the usufructs of ownership, so long as he continues to make those payments — the owner of the car (GM) could rent that same car to multiple people each month, each of them making an individually smaller but collectively much larger total payment.
Instead of $500 a month generated, perhaps several times that sum. That is very good business.
For the marks, not so much.
The analogy — to an extent — would be a house that you pay a fee to use occasionally — i.e., a timeshare — along with many other people who also pay to use it occasionally. It is a hugely profitable arrangement for the owner of the property, who is collecting the payments. And there is certainly an element of convenience and even savings for the occasional users, who are not burdened with having to maintain the place and who would otherwise have been facing a much larger monthly rental or mortgage payment.
But they will never have any equity in the house. The accumulated value goes to the owner, along with your rental check.
Just as — under GM's new business model — you will never have equity in the car. Debt, ongoing — to permit momentary consumption.
This may work for some people, much as timeshare vacation properties work for some people — in the sense that they are convenient and there are fewer strings attached.
Except that a car is fundamentally a different thing. It is, to begin with, a regular necessity for most people — those who do not live in New York City, at least. For those who prefer not to live in an urban hive like NYC.
It is also inconvenient to not have a car ready and waiting in your garage (or outside your home) that you can just get into and go wherever you need to go on the spur of the moment, without having had to plan for the trip in advance.
As opposed to the experience of waiting for your rental-for-today to show up.
And then experiencing having to adjust the seat, the mirrors and everything else — which were set by the prior user to suit his needs, not yours. And then experiencing getting used to how the unfamiliar-to-you car drives, how its controls — how its gadgets — work.
Those are some of the practical considerations which no one seems to be considering.
But the more ominous aspect is the strings that will be attached.
If you own a car, it is legally your property — even while you are making payments.
Among other things, you have a right to privacy within it. If, for example, a third party were to install a "bug" in your car, in order to record your conversations or to video you or to track your movements, they would have committed a criminal act. They are subject to prosecution. But if you are merely the temporary user of the car, which remains the legal property of another party . . . that party has every right to set the terms and conditions of use, which can (and will) include their right to monitor usage and perhaps monitor you, too.
If that seems a bit too far, consider that most over-the-road truckers who do not own their rigs are subject to exactly such monitoring — both audio and video. And consider that GM — and not just GM — has already installed at least some of the technology needed to keep track of you and what you do in cars already on the roads — and nominally owned by you.
What do you suppose will happen when GM holds the title?
Also, as the owner, you have full control over the vehicle. You can use it as you wish. If you are not the owner, on the other hand, it is the owner who will decide how you will be allowed to use his car. This will include everything from being required to buckle-up to not being permitted to drive in ways that the owners do not approve of — including when you drive and where, not merely how.
Wait and see what happens when Tesla embraces the GM model — which it will. So will other car companies. There is just too much money on the table for them to resist — and too much control (for them) in the offing.
Anyone half-awake within the car business knows this is coming — like a freight train barreling down on someone tied to the tracks. You can feel the rumble, see the light in the distance getting closer.
It is all part of a concerted effort to control transportation; arguably, to eliminate the free movement of individuals in this country. Every authoritarian state pursues this course because it is essential to establishing the state's total control of the populace. If people are still free to move — unmonitored, uncontrolled — then they are still largely free people.
It is of a piece with the drive to eliminate cash, to disarm the populace — with the end goal being a continental company town of — as the great comedian George Carlin put it — obedient workers, keeping their heads down — and their noses to the grindstone.
If we let them do this to us.


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After the birth of her child and initial examinations at the hospital, the mother may freely choose the doctor who attends to her and her infant's care.
The Turkish Ministry of Health determines the timetable of compulsory vaccinations. This vaccination calendar is regulated under Turkish legislation.
A newborn is vaccinated against Hepatitis B within 48 hours of the birth; follow up shots are given at the end of four weeks and again after six months. The schedule of other vaccines - BCG for tuberculosis, DTB for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, Hib, and OPV the oral polio vaccine - begins when the baby reaches three months of age.
At one year of age, the baby receives the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine; doctors recommend vaccinating against chicken pox and Hepatitis A at this point.


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/**
 * Experimenting a bit with converting leap motion to observable data
 */
var _          = require('lodash'),
    Rx = require('Rx'),
    Color      = require('color'),
    settings   = require('../settings'),
    util       = require('../lib/eos/util/util'),
    colorUtil  = require('../lib/eos/util/util.color.js'),
    rxUtil     = require('../lib/eos/util/util.rx.js'),
    Api        = require('../lib/eos/api'),
    ColorLight = require('../lib/eos/light.color'),
    leap       = require('../lib/eos/actions.rx/leap-motion.observable'),
    Light      = require('../lib/eos/actions.rx/light.color.observable'),
    Sparkles   = require('../lib/eos/actions.rx/sparkles.color.observable');

//var oLeap = require('../lib/eos/util.leap.rx');
var api = Api(settings);

// custom light settings
var lightSettings = [
    {
        length     : 200,
        waveLength : 3.0,
        wave  : {
            scale  : 0.5,
            offset : 0.5
        }
    },
    {
        length     : 200,
        waveLength : 3.1,
        wave  : {
            scale  : 0.5,
            offset : 0.5
        }
    }
];

var leftHandToLight = leap.hand('left')
    .filter(filterConfidence)
    .map(mapHandToLight);

var rightHandToLight = leap.hand('right')
    .filter(filterConfidence)
    .map(mapHandToLight);

var leftLight = Light(lightSettings[0])
    .combineLatest(leftHandToLight, mergeLightSettings)
    .map(toResult);

var rightLight = Light(lightSettings[1])
    .combineLatest(rightHandToLight, mergeLightSettings)
    .map(toResult)
    .startWith(Light.allLightsOff);

//setInterval(function () {
//    console.log('x');
//}, 60);

var colorsCombined = rxUtil
    .combineColors([leftLight, rightLight])
    .throttle(16)
    // fade stuff
    .scan(colorUtil.fadeColors({ fastOn : true }), Light.defaults.numLights)
    // start empty
    .startWith(Light.allLightsOff);

// DEBUG INFO
leap.connected().subscribe(() => console.log('connected'));
leap.streamingStarted().subscribe(() => console.log('streamingStarted'));
leap.streamingStopped().subscribe(() => console.log('streamingStopped'));

//leftAppear.subscribe(toApi);
leap.handOn('left').subscribe(() => console.log('left hand animation'));
leap.handOn('right').subscribe(() => console.log('right hand animation'));

// send to the api
colorsCombined.subscribe(toApi);

// UTILITY FUNCTIONS

/**
 * map a hand to light settings
 * @param hand
 * @returns {LightSettings}
 * @todo make this configurable
 */
function mapHandToLight (hand) {

    if (!hand) return {intensity : 0}; // return a light that is off

    // map Y to light Position
    var xPos     = hand.palmPosition[0],
        yPos     = (hand.palmPosition[1] - 100) / 400,
        zPos     = util.clip((hand.palmPosition[2] + 100) / 500),
        yaw      = hand.yaw(),
        roll     = (hand.roll() / (Math.PI * 2)) + .5,
        rollNorm = (roll - .3) * 1.3,
        hue      = (roll * 360) % 360,
        //rotationAngle = hand.rotationAngle(),
        // hand grabstrength = intensity (more grabbing is less intensity)
        size     = (1 - hand.grabStrength),
        color    = Color({hue : hue, saturation : 100 * zPos, value : 100});

    return {position : yPos, color : colorUtil.colorToInt(color)};
}

/**
 * copy properties from the settings object into a new light object and return it
 * @param light
 * @param settings
 * @returns {Light$}
 */
function mergeLightSettings (light, settings) {
    // aiai
    var lightCopy = light.clone();
    _.extend(lightCopy, settings);
    return lightCopy;
}

function filterConfidence (hand) {
    return hand.confidence > .3;
}

function toResult (light) {
    //console.log('light', light);
    return light.result();
}

function toApi (light) {
    //console.log('light', light);
    api.colors.set(light);
}

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From the larger-than life characters to the charming little boy, the Snowman at the Mayflower does not fall short of enchanting. From heartwarming to hilarious scenes, it is for all the family!
In this wintery wonderland the Snowman comes to life and takes the boy on a series of wonderful adventures: playing limbo with food from the kitchen, racing around the forest on a motorbike whilst a cast of woodland creatures are trying to dodge them and also flying to the North Pole to meet the man himself, Father Christmas!
Walking in the Air is such iconic song and does not fail to whisk you away into a wintery magical world. The Snowman and the boy are majestically lifted into the air which is accompanied by a full orchestra – this scene is truly amazing. Followed by a duet between the Snowman and the Ice Princess, spell bounding for both adults and children!
To end the show, the magic comes to life when the audience is covered in snow from above!
From start to finish The Snowman is a magical production and we would highly recommend going to see it, it is on at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton until 17th January and you can get your tickets here.
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Gus Lesnevich (* 22. Februar 1915 in Cliffside Park, New Jersey USA; † 28. Februar 1964) war ein US-amerikanischer Boxer und sowohl Weltmeister des ehemaligen Verbandes NYSAC, aus dem später der WBC-Verband hervorging, als auch der NBA, die sich 1962 in WBA umnannte. Zudem wurde er im Jahre 1947 sowohl von der US-amerikanischen Boxzeitschrift The Ring als auch von der BWAA zum Boxer des Jahres gekürt.

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Flip through the pages of and furnishing style, decorating or architectural magazine and you will soon realize that freestanding baths are a design statement for the 21st century.
In splendid isolation in the center of a grand room, the freestanding bath is the focus of an important bathroom. An alternative to the quick shower culture, freestanding baths speak to pampering and sybaritic luxury.
Often made of very special materials such as marble, copper, and fine hardwoods, freestanding baths are furnishings of beauty. Even the smaller size 60 freestanding bathtub is generously large and deep, to allow for stretching out and a really good soak. Of course, there will be ample surfaces around the bath for scented candles, books, bottles of wine in ice buckets, delicious snacks, rare flowers, the finest bath oils, and every comfort for the decadent bather.
The practical advantages of a free standing bath become obvious when you are converting an older building with large rooms. In these older properties, the actual bathrooms are often very pokey – hygiene was not given high priority in the past, and the wealthy residents of a home would bathe in a tub in front of a fire. For modern living, many families choose to have a shower room attached to each bedroom, and then a larger bathroom for more luxurious and relaxing occasions. The benefit of free standing baths is that they use space in a larger room more effectively, as well as course as being an important design feature with their central positioning in the room. A really special bathroom features twin washbasins, bidet, separate toilet, perhaps a shower and definitely an open fire place in colder climate. A mass of storage space for towels and bath unguents is a must – this will create a bathroom which is totally about pampering yourself.
Before installing a freestanding bath, you will need to talk to an expert plumber who will make sure the structure of your house is strong enough. Some freestanding baths are extremely heavy and would be too much weight for certain floors.
One of the most beautiful bathrooms with a freestanding bath I ever experienced was in a hotel in London. My room had a 60 freestanding bathtub made of green marble, without any taps, which allowed you to really stretch out and let the water wash away the stresses of the day. But the really special thing was that the bathroom itself looked out over a deer park, so you could lie back in your bath, glass of champagne in hand, whilst admiring the beauty of the landscape and watching the deer. Water was piped up from the base of the bath, rather than from taps. The owners thoughtfully provided chestnut essence bath oils to match the chestnut trees in the park.
This bathroom was said to have been installed especially for King Edward VII and his mistress of the hour when he was a guest in the great house, and it was easy to imagine the royal frolics!


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MTSU media students get experience 'beyond … wildest dreams' before ACM Awards Show in Vegas [+VIDEO]
by Andrew Oppmann
LAS VEGAS — As the clock ticked to showtime for the 53rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday, April 15, Pete Fisher reflected on his journey from Middle Tennessee State University student to CEO of one of music's biggest events.
"I recall having big dreams about where a career in the music industry could take me," said Fisher, who became ACM's top executive after working 17 years at the Grand Ole Opry, most recently as its general manager and vice president.
"Those lofty dreams have definitely been exceeded."
Fisher earned a bachelor's degree in recording industry management from MTSU in 1987 and was recognized as a distinguished alumnus in 2004. He also serves on the Board of Trust for MTSU's College of Media and Entertainment.
Academy of Country Music CEO and MTSU alumnus Pete Fisher, standing at right, holds a class Sunday, April 15, for five students from MTSU's Department of Media Arts on the floor of the ACM Awards Show at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino's Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. From left, facing camera, are MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, Media Arts Chair Billy Pittard, Media Arts professor Bob Gordon and College of Media and Entertainment Dean Ken Paulson. (MTSU photo by Andrew Oppmann)
After three decades of work in Nashville, Fisher and his wife, Hope, moved to the Los Angeles area in early 2017 so he could take the reins of the ACM.
This weekend, Fisher welcomed MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, as well as students and faculty from his alma mater to get a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for Sunday's awards telecast, honoring the biggest names and emerging talent in country music.
"We are grateful and thrilled five of our students have been given an opportunity to experience the ACM Awards from an inside point of view," said Billy Pittard, Media Arts department chair. "Magic happens when serious students see how their studies relate to the real world."
Bob Gordon, an assistant professor in Media Arts, mentored a five-student team sent to Las Vegas, thanks to a grant from Brentwood-based American Addiction Centers (Follow them on Twitter and Facebook). Joining Gordon was students Kyra Black, Zac Leonard, Laura Morgan, Isaac Shaw and Caroline Steele.
"Oh, wow, beyond my wildest dreams," Morgan said, as MTSU alumna and country music star Hillary Scott rehearsed. "I never thought I would be standing this close to Lady Antebellum. It's been absolutely incredible."
Added Steele, "It's been eye opening. I've been introduced to so much new equipment and so many new experiences."
Fisher, who was already familiar with the impact of the college's five previous trips to the Grammy Awards, said he was glad to see True Blue in Las Vegas.
"It's great to see MTSU represented at the ACM Awards," he said. "As they have done over the years at the Grammys, MTSU realizes the value of being present at these marquee events."
Fisher said the university's presence at high-profile events such as the ACMs, Grammys and Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival "are ripe to present future opportunities," since they are well attended not only by artists but by recording and media industry leaders.
Media and Entertainment Dean Ken Paulson agreed, calling the opportunity "another great example of extending our classroom to the country's biggest entertainment capitals."
Gordon said events like these allow students to "see the link between the campus world they are in, or getting ready to leave, and the professional world they are about to enter."
Said Gordon, "This opportunity for students to attend a professional awards special and talk with the director, the producer and the crew and to watch them work really ties things together for them."
For Fisher, hosting the students and faculty members was yet another opportunity for him to pay forward what he received as a student at MTSU.
"None of this would have been possible if it weren't for the education and experiences I had at MTSU," he said of his career.
"MTSU has given me, and consequently, my family, a gift I will never be able to repay. So, I'll keep on giving, in hopes I can get close."
— Andrew Oppmann (andrew.oppmann@mtsu.edu)
Academy of Country Music CEO and MTSU alumnus Pete Fisher, center right, and MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, center left, are shown Sunday, April 15, with the rest of the visiting MTSU contingent on the floor of the ACM Awards Show at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino's Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (MTSU photo by Andrew Oppmann)
Academy of Country Music CEO and MTSU alumnus Pete Fisher, standing at right, holds a class Sunday, April 15, for five students from MTSU's Department of Media Arts on the floor of the ACM Awards Show at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino's Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. From left, facing camera, are MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, Media Arts Chair Billy Pittard, College of Media and Entertainment Dean Ken Paulson and Media Arts professor Bob Gordon. (MTSU photo by Andrew Oppmann)
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Three to five milliliters of CFS is optimal for fungal investigation, however lesser volumes are often received and should be processed.
CSF specimens should be transported to the laboratory as soon as possible and processed promptly. If there is a delay do not refrigerate the samples, rather they should be left at room temperature or incubated at 30C. The specimen should be centrifuged. Keep the supernatant for cryptococcal antigen testing and process the sediment as follows.
For direct microscopy use 1 drop of the sediment to make an India ink mount.
(b) Brain heart infusion agar (BHIA) supplemented with 5% sheep blood and incubate at 35C. Maintain cultures for at least 4 weeks.
Cultures from patients undergoing treatment for cryptococcal meningitis should be maintained for 3 months, so that dormant viable cells, which do not start to grow until after a one month period, will not be missed.


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As library, archive, gallery and museum professionals, you deal with copyright every day. In this CIT we go through the fundamentals of copyright and its legal framework in Australia, tailored especially for you. Whether you're new to copyright or in need of a refresher, this CIT will provide you with the knowledge you need to understand copyright and apply it in a practical setting.


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Industry 4.0 ready
Melanie Stark February 18, 2020, 5:29 am February 18, 2020
As we enter the e-commerce age of fulfilment, John Butera, Logistics Automation Manager at SICK Australia presents some innovative solutions for revenue recovery.
Last year, Australia Post opened the largest parcel and mail facility in the Southern Hemisphere. The Brisbane Parcel Facility is able to process 700,000 parcels per day at full capacity. The facility boasts two high-speed sorters that are capable of processing over 50,000 parcels per hour.
With the rise in e-commerce there has been a huge increase in the volume of parcels, as well as a decrease in the size of parcels, John Butera, Logistics Automation Manager at SICK says.
"We're really in the e-commerce age of fulfilment now. The packages have completely changed, they are much smaller than they used to be, many are more like a satchel than a parcel," John says.
This shift to a much smaller parcel presents some challenges for any logistics provider involved in the movement of goods. One area that SICK is improving the process for sortation facilities is through a variety of different sensors, with a particular focus on revenue recovery.
"When we talk about sensors in this area, we refer to both basic sensors as well as the more advanced kinds. What we would typically refer to as a basic sensor is now a lot smarter than it used to be. They now have the ability to communicate with much higher-level control systems," John says.
In a sortation facility there are parcels with different surface tension, size, colour and weight – sensors help organisations ensure that they are identifying and tracking these parcels accordingly.
"The role of a sensor is to make sure that products are detected accurately and efficiently. With e-commerce, products are now being sorted and charged right down to the individual item, it is more important than ever to ensure that they are scanned accurately," John says.
Industry 4.0 capabilities
For John, a key principle of Industry 4.0 is trying to gather as much data and information as possible. "Even the much simpler sensors we offer now have the communication protocol to talk to high level controls," he says.
One area that SICK is offering solutions with regards to revenue recovery process is with Dimensioning Weighing and barcode scanning Solutions (DWS). "This system provides efficiencies in this process of determining the parcel identification, weight and dimension in one step," John says.
A common problem with parcels is that they need to be recalculated or recharged. Sometimes they could be reported into the DC at a certain size but when they go through the system it turns out its much bigger, or even heavier, John says. "When it goes through this system, it's redetected, profiled and declined at that particular booking rate and there is a billing process – without this level of detection there would be revenue loss."
It's not just about the revenue recovery process, John says, but also about efficiency gains. "It helps the industry to build the business, once these kinds of supply chain processes are in place the entire system can run much more efficiently," he says.
The requirements of e-commerce have made DWS more important than ever. "If you have a huge box that only weighs a few kilos, then you will charge it according to its weight if you only have a weighing system. But once you have a dimensioning system, you can look at whichever one is greater and then charge it accordingly," John says.
SICK has also recently released the VMS5200, with this dimensioning sensor using laser technology a parcel that is less than 50mm in height can now be measured down to 20mm as a legal for trade device.
"Previously, any parcel below 50mm in height could not be measured and revenue recovery was not captured. Now organisations have the capability to measure a parcel below 50mm, so again there is that revenue recovery benefit," John says.
Further advances in the DWS arena can now be realised with camera technology. "Camera technology is able to read much poorer quality barcodes than laser technology," John explains.
For the likes of TNT and Australia Post, this can be of huge benefit. "If a parcel comes through the system, but is not identified, an image is captured and then goes to a server where its processed further by video coding or optical character recognition (OCR). The postcode can be read, either manually or by software, and then ensures it goes to its destination," John says.
This also helps reduce the rejection rate, also increasing efficiencies. "A no read and an increase in reject rate can really slow things down – with sometimes 100s of parcels needing to be manually sorted. If you have the capability to reduce this, you can really improve efficiency across your entire process," John says.
Traceability and data collection
With the increase of traceability requirements, it's even more important to know where a parcel is at all times, John says. "Once a parcel gets processed it then travels along a conveyor, being constantly scanned. Sensors allow the parcel to be checked numerous times and that information can be fed back to the consumer, enabling them to have total visibility of where their parcel is and when they can expect delivery."
A further area that SICK has recognised a benefit for sensors in a logistics facility is in the monitoring of crucial parts of the operation, such as conveyors. "In some of these facilities they have metres and metres of conveyors running at high efficiencies, sometimes 24 hours a day. We have recognised that by placing sensors along these conveyors you can significantly reduce downtime and breakdown costs," John says.
The sensors John is referring to monitor velocity, vibration and temperature and determine what kind of effect a high level of frequency has on the entire system. "Our sensors can provide some kind of preventative notification that informs that the conveyor needs some attention before it breaks down," he says.
SICK also recognised that when it comes to e-commerce, some organisations may not have the requirement for the full DWS system at first, but as they grow it is easy to add on different features.
"Our DWS solutions can be scaled accordingly, we always ensure that we are backward compatible. We build our systems so that they are modular so if someone was starting off and they just needed a sortation system for scanning, we can then provide the solution and later on down the track if they need to capture revenue loss we can add dimensioning as well as a scale," John says.
As organisations operating in the e-commerce sector range from large-scale retailers to small start-ups, having the ability to scale up with this kind of technology is a huge advantage, John says.
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using System.Net.Http;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace MonoTests.System.Net.Http
{
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	{
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		}

		[TestMethod]
		public void CopyTo_Invalid ()
		{
			var m = new MemoryStream ();

			var sc = new ByteArrayContent (new byte[0]);
			try {
				sc.CopyToAsync (null);
				Assert.Fail ("#1");
			} catch (ArgumentNullException) {
			}
		}

		[TestMethod]
		public void CopyToAsync ()
		{
			byte[] b = { 4, 2 };

			var sc = new ByteArrayContent (b);

			var dest = new MemoryStream ();
			var task = sc.CopyToAsync (dest);
			Assert.IsTrue (task.Wait (500));
			Assert.AreEqual (2, dest.Length, "#1");
		}

		[TestMethod]
		public void LoadIntoBufferAsync ()
		{
			byte[] b = { 4 };

			var sc = new ByteArrayContent (b);
			var t = sc.LoadIntoBufferAsync (400);
			Assert.IsTrue (t.Wait (500));
		}

		[TestMethod]
		public void ReadAsByteArrayAsync ()
		{
			byte[] b = { 4, 55 };

			var sc = new ByteArrayContent (b, 1, 1);
			var res = sc.ReadAsByteArrayAsync ().Result;
			Assert.AreEqual (1, res.Length, "#1");
			Assert.AreEqual (55, res[0], "#2");

			sc = new ByteArrayContent (b);
			res = sc.ReadAsByteArrayAsync ().Result;
			Assert.AreEqual (2, res.Length, "#10");
			Assert.AreEqual (55, res[1], "#11");
		}

		[TestMethod]
		public void ReadAsStringAsync ()
		{
			byte[] b = { 77, 55 };

			var sc = new ByteArrayContent (b);
			var res = sc.ReadAsStringAsync ().Result;
			Assert.AreEqual ("M7", res, "#1");
		}
	}
}


You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up.
That song must have been written in the depths of a serious heat wave because man, does that flavor combination just taste like mid summer. It just refreshes the socks of off you! These ice pops are the perfect summer treat at the end of a day of fun, are easy to throw together, and are made from just a handful of healthy ingredients.
This recipe is about as easy as homemade ice cream gets, requiring no cooking and just six natural ingredients you probably already have kicking around your kitchen. The prep time is minimal, though the ingredients do need some time hanging out in the ice cream machine until they become a magically delicious frozen treat. Luckily, that is the machine's job and not your's. So, you can pretty much walk away, read that book you've been meaning to finish, and forget that you're even making something until the timer goes off that your ice cream is done.


Under the options --> select the "show tray icon " --> Select "Hide when minimized"
Thank you very much, for taking time to let other know about this. Much Appreciated :) !!!
thanks for the solution. i had disabled it cuz I didnt want to minimize it as a tray icon. but I guess, it doesnt work without it.
Can we have a 'proper' GUI frontend for a gloriously ported linux tool ?
Thanks a lot, but I have seen that If I checked this option, when Putty Manager get hidden at task bar, then I can not open and keep working, thats why I unchecked that option, and I didnt see other way to fix it.
Not working for me same error "object reference not set to an instance of an object"
yes. just enable the option hide on minimise and once it goes to notification area, custamize the notification area as show the icon and notification for puttycm.
wonder .. it worked for me ..
Great! It's still working! Big thanks for Sameer.