You can reduce funeral costs in Bamford by pre-planning and keeping things under control. By doing this, you can reduce the emotional part of planning a funeral for your loved ones, or for yourself if you pre-plan for a family member. Thinking rationally may not be as easy at the time of the death. These days' people are trying to lower the overall cost of a funeral so that they can pass more along to their surviving family members. Traditional funerals can be very costly. If you plan a simpler, more moderate funeral, you can reduce the costs by a large amount, while still having a respectful and meaningful service.
A funeral is way in which family members and close friends can pay their last respects to the deceased. In Bamford, funeral costs can be reduced by using the services of New Concept Funerals. You don't need to spend a fortune on a lavish funeral for your loved one. Our funeral directors will help plan a meaningful and respectful funeral, while aiming to keep costs low. A low-cost funeral is just as dignified as a traditional Victorian-style funeral, and won't leave you penniless. Our basic funeral service includes our professional services with all legal documentation, the doctor's fee and collection of the deceased, a dignified coffin, the service at our chapel, the minister's fee and the cremation fee. The most important aspects of the funeral are covered and the ceremony is a caring, dignified event.
To keep funeral costs in Bamford lower than traditional Victorian style funerals, contact New Concept Funerals. We will help you plan one that meets all your requirements. We are highly experienced funeral directors and you can depend on our help for a respectful and dignified funeral for your loved one.


Why is the ammonia in the calibration cylinder odorless?
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Question: Why is the ammonia in the calibration cylinder odorless? and is the concentration of gas used to calibrate gas dangerous?
Some people can smell ammonia down to 0.04 ppm. However, according to OSHA the odor threshold for most people is between 5 and 50 ppm. We normally use 100 ppm NH3 to calibrate Micro IV and G460 ammonia sensors. One hundred ppm is above the odor threshold for most people, so you would think you could smell the gas. But there are other factors to consider.
Ammonia has a desensitizing effect on the sense of smell for people who work around it for prolonged periods of time. There is a noticeable odor of ammonia throughout the facility where the NH3 Micro IV detectors are being used. Because of this on-going exposure, many people in the facility may be partly, and some may be almost completely desensitized to the odor of the gas. For these people it can take a concentration higher than 100 ppm for the odor to be detectable.
However, a more important factor is the dilution effect when the ammonia is released into the air.
A cylinder of 100 ppm ammonia calibration gas doesn't contain very much ammonia. Remember that it takes 10,000 ppm to equal 1%. Thus 100 ppm = 0.01% by volume. When you release this already low concentration into the air it is rapidly diluted to a level well below the odor threshold.
One of the instructional GfG webinars we offered last year, "Gas detection myths and misconceptions", included the following slide. You can see in my example that even when you release the NH3 calibration gas in a small enclosed space like the interior of a passenger vehicle, because of the dilution effect, the concentration is below the odor threshold.


This week in a cover story by People's Magazine Mariah Carey opened up about her battle with her Bipolar II Disorder diagnosis which she received back in 2001 after exhibiting symptoms of depression & hypomania. She recalled being rushed to the hospital after she suffered a physical and mental breakdown and said she "didn't want to believe it." Carey continued to rehash her struggle saying she:"lived in denial and isolation and in constant fear that someone would expose" her illness." After experiencing a difficult couple of years professionally and separating with her fiancé, Carey began seeking treatment from a therapist and eventually began taking medication. Since being in therapy the New York native claims she has a better understanding of what she was going through saying: "I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down, it turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania. Eventually I would just hit a wall. I guess my depressive episodes were characterized by having very low energy. I would feel so lonely and sad — even guilty that I wasn't doing what I needed to be doing for my career." As Carey continues to win the battle against the illness, she refuses to allow the disorder to distract her from the music and plans to release an album later this year. The cover story comes after Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson came forward last week on The Daily Express and opened up about his past struggle with depression sparking waves of support from social media.
Derrick Lawrence, one of the founders of the Aspire Music Group has been sentenced to 8 months in prison for tax evasion and will also be forced to pay nearly $600,000 in fees and penalties to the government. The music group was created in 2008 and was responsible for solely managing Drake. Prosecution claimed Lawrence's personal taxes hadn't been filled between 2009 – 2011. In court this past Monday Lawrence was recorded telling the judge: "It was never a disrespect to the government. It was a lack of knowledge," later saying: "It's my fault for not following up with my accountants who I hired," This will be another financial battle that the Aspire Group is currently dealing with, Jas Prince who is credited with discovering Drake is still entangled in a multi million dollar lawsuit for unpaid royalties which he filed back in 2012.
California announced that it will be sending 400 National Guard troops to assist in an ongoing transnational crime operation currently underway at the Mexican border, however they won't be assisting in Trump's deportation policies. The governor Jerry Brown was quoted as saying: "This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life," Brown said. "And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws." Officials say that the extra troops are simply there to be an extra set of eyes and a physical deterrent. Although the governor has agreed to the assist it will likely take time to deploy the troops with past requests taking up to several months to complete.
As the war in Syria continues with the government receiving support from Russian troops, Trump tweeted out warnings to Russian President Vladamir Putin last week. "Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'," Trump wrote. "You shouldn't be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!" Syria recently underwent a suspected chemical attack that laid waste to citizens many of whom were children under the age of 14. With relations with Russia continuing to fester since the fake news scandal, Trump's tweets come at a bad time, a point even Trump seemed to realized in a later tweet: "Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War. There is no reason for this. Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and we need all nations to work together. Stop the arms race?" Defense Secretary James Mattis said that U.S. intelligence is still reviewing whether or not the Syrian government was responsible for the recent chemical attacks and stands "ready to provide military options if they are appropriate as the President determined.
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name…other times you should just go elsewhere. Kristina Hoefs is a perfect example. This week the Department Of Corrections in New Hampshire received a job application from Hoefs but instead of giving her an interview or call back, they immediately arrested her after realizing she had an outstanding warrant in Maine. She was immediately taken into custody and scheduled for an arraignment this past Monday.
A Kansas man is under arrest after he was caught wearing his ex girlfriends t -shirt, an item he stole after breaking into her home and falling through the attic. Tyler Bergkamp had been arrested previously for stealing from another home, yet after being discharged he went to the women's house and tried hiding in apparent attempt to steal more clothing. The police were called when she came home and found a hospital gown and a giant hole in the roof.
Kip Sparrow is a HipHop creative originally from Boston, MA, and residing in Miami, FL. Kip grew up on music from Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem, and G-Unit, but when the south broke through mainstream media with artists like Paul Wall, Slim Thug, T.I. and Lil Jon, Kip fell in love with the 808's and snares and began to create his own music, fueling his ongoing love affair with rap. While focusing on music production, and content curation, Kip uses writing, and podcasting as additional creative outlets to interact with the culture he loves. Kip's focuses on highlighting quality content, and education within HipHop in an effort to continually push the culture forward.


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Being successful with social media requires more than just showing up. It must include storytelling aspects, allowing users a peak into your brand's story; they want to see emotion. That's what we will cover in Storytelling with Social Media. We will start out by reviewing each platform and its purpose, (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn) and then move into ways to create content that engages, resources, and more. Bring your laptop or tablet! In the final hour we'll offer a chance for you to log on to your existing platforms and offer live feedback.
This workshop is for you if: you're a small business owner and want to DIY your social media platforms; you're actively on social media but aren't seeing engagement (likes, shares, comments); you're all out of ideas to create content and don't know where to turn; you're interested in hanging out with cool people and want free snacks.
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I'm not sure whose idea it was to send us to hiking camp in the mountainous Haute Savoie region of France, but one August, there we were. Two little American kids among forty or so French-speaking 8 to 12 year olds. For an entire month. The camp was sponsored by SNCF, the French National Railway. We went two years in a row. The first summer was fantastic: Hiking in the high peaks, eating amazing cheese and foraging for hazelnuts and wild blueberries on our endless treks. It was there that I discovered the joys of eating a baguette stuffed with giant hunks of Swiss chocolate. On our longer hikes, and at higher altitudes, we would sometimes stay overnight at a farm. We would all pile into the stalls in the sheep or the goat barn. With the animals. Yep. The second year was decidedly less fun. I had sprained my ankle quite badly right before camp was to start. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out how that played out in a place where one was expected to be ambulatory and more. I mostly sat around reading, drawing and — inexplicably — making yarn pom poms that the bratty French girls then promptly pulled apart. The other day I found this picture of my brother (kneeling with his arms around the goat) with some of the other campers and it all came back to me in a rush.
This is a personal little tidbit: When I was 7 and my brother was 9, my mother decided to move us to Paris. She had visited a few months prior and left her notebook in a cafe. She decided it was fate. Or was it serendipity? Anyway, instead of relocating via airplane (boring!), she opted for the slow boat. The S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam. The very same ship pictured here. How she afforded it still baffles me. It was the last transatlantic voyage for this vessel and its Dutch crew. Any passage thereafter was spent in the Caribbean. We departed from a pier on New York's west side. All the requisite streamers and champagne were there to see us off. It had to be one of the MOST exciting days…ever. Until my mother realized that she had left her luggage sitting on our porch back in Philadelphia. Oops. She was a trooper though, and made the best of an awkward situation. She also quickly made friends, all of whom were happy to lend her a dress here, a pantsuit there (It was the 70s). But mostly she just wore the same thing. We were supposed to dock in Le Havre, but there was a dockworkers strike so we couldn't make port. Through some stroke of genius, or luck, or both, the trip ended up being extended for a few extra days before finally anchoring in Rotterdam. Photo via Old Chum via Electrospark.


I don't have a whole lot to say about this Almay Smart Shade CC Cream other than it surely is not my color. This is the lightest shade they have for this line and no amount of blending was going to get this to match me for reference I usually wear MUFE #110 pink porcelain for foundation.
Now maybe your wondering what the heck a CC Cream is? Good question let me fill you in. CC stands for Color Correcting and these products are formulated to target redness, dark spots, and uneven skin tone. They are still similar to BB's in the sense that they both can be used to prime, hydrate, protect, and perfect the skin. The difference is that CC's color correct the skin and BB's focus on perfecting the skin with targeted ingredients. CC's provide a more natural coverage to the skin and are sometimes thinner in consistency than BB's but I have found that really vary's by manufacturer.
Thank you for this helpful review! The color choices are good to know about because my face is pale and if I was to buy this product then the color choices may not be what I think they are.


SuiteScript allows developers and administrators to create flexible business logic within NetSuite tailored to specific business needs—from sophisticated business processes to entirely new applications.
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This is a chart showing nutritional values of various grains and other foods used like grains. For each food you'll see values for 100 grams (meaning the number is a percentage) and values for one cup (which varies in weight), if available. Amounts are in grams. Foods are raw and dry, unless stated otherwise.
Information comes from the USDA Nutrient Database, unless stated otherwise. Not all items had values by volume. A few don't list fiber (which is part of the total carb value). The USDA tests a few examples of each food and averages them. Values will vary based on the crop and processing. Also, some of the items had several versions, usually related to fat content, and I didn't list them all. Some of these foods have a tremendous amount of fat; with others, it doesn't matter so much. Removing fat will increase the amounts of carbs and protein proportionately.
Foods below are sorted by Net Carbs, from lowest to highest, by percentage. The fiber content of carbohydrate does not affect blood sugar so it is subtracted from total carb counts to create net carbs aka usable carbs. This is the carb count people use for lowcarb or diabetic diets.
I am including some whole food products because this will be the nutritional value of making meal at home. Commercial flours very often have much of the fat removed and sometimes fiber.


MSNBC Host Insinuates ANYONE Who Doesn't Agree with Liberals Gun Laws is NOT HUMAN!
MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Stephanie Ruhle told Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) to "step up" on Thursday and discuss gun safety, with Ruhle telling Rubio to "be a human."
The two MSNBC hosts were talking about Wednesday's high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 students dead, when they turned on Rubio, a gun rights supporter.
Brzezinski gave her final thoughts on the shooting at the end of "Morning Joe" just before Ruhle began her broadcast.
"Hearing anybody in Washington saying now is not the time is old, it's been used too many times, there are too many bodies in the wake of this conversation that we can't have at this appropriate time," Brzezinski said. "I'd say to Marco Rubio, step up, be a man, talk about it right now, or to anybody else who tries to deflect the question about what to do about guns and assault weapons in our society, step up, be a man and talk about it, and stop thinking about the NRA and your next campaign donation. Just stop. Everyone knows what you're doing and it's time."
Brzezinski then handed the broadcast over to Ruhle, who has a habit of directly addressing the camera to criticize Republicans.
"And to Marco Rubio, you don't have to step up and be a man. Step up and be a human," Ruhle said.
Rubio said Wednesday people should avoid jumping to conclusions and wait for the facts to see if any gun laws could have been passed to prevent the massacre.


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Staying power: Culture keeps Iowa in regional mix
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Iowa's Cole McDonald threw an offspeed pitch in the fourth inning against Michigan on April 29, and came out of the game with elbow discomfort. The pitch was actually a fastball, it was his elbow that slowed the pitch down and made it seem like a changeup. It was deja vu for Iowa head coach Rick Heller, who around the same time a year ago lost Friday starter CJ Eldred to a UCL injury that required surgery.
In 2017, Iowa went on to win the Big Ten Tournament without Eldred, making an NCAA Regional for the second time in three years. Since losing McDonald, the Hawkeyes have finished off a series win against the Wolverines and took two-of-three from a top-15 Oklahoma State squad the weekend after.
The success that comes every May for his team must be starting to become deja vu for Heller, as well.
"It's a priority for us to figure things out in the fall," Heller said. "We talk about how important it is to play our best baseball down the stretch. It's just talk at that point, but it sets the tone that we will work hard, we'll stay in the weight room…We're either moving forward or moving backward. We need to constantly be pushing forward. It's not a perfect science, but it's a part of our program that's planned out."
It seems as though Heller has it down to a science. Even with a series loss at Northwestern last weekend, the Hawkeyes still stand a good chance at grabbing an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, barring another series loss against Penn State this coming weekend.
It wasn't necessarily supposed to go this well for Iowa this season, though. Heller was tasked with replacing Big Ten Player of the Year Jake Adams, an impossible task after Adams reset the Big Ten's single-season home run mark, and all-conference shortstop Mason McCoy, both sixth-round draft picks. And those were just the guys you fully expected were gone.
Eldred and fellow RHP Nick Gallagher both signed professional contracts after last season, although both had eligibility remaining.
"All those things are so uncontrollable. Visualize this team if we had those guys back," Heller said. "It's the same mindset of losing guys to injury. Whoever is here, whoever is put out there, is expected to be successful. The accountability is there on this team, that's an expectation. You can't dwell on it, [because] there's not a whole lot you can do about it."
Heller is not unlike other college coaches. The more control he can have, the better. Where he can't control players leaving early in the draft, he can control the players filling their spots through recruiting. Now in his fifth year at Iowa, Heller's lineup is filled entirely with his guys, instilled with his culture.
That's a big reason why Iowa has become a contender each and every year.
"We have a culture established. The older guys understand you have to work hard on off days and in the weight room. They know we can't just try to stay even," Heller said. "It starts Day 1 when the players arrive. No matter who plays, we're still going to find a way to get the job done. If somebody goes down, somebody's prepared to fill in.
"We talk about it quite a bit, from the start of fall all the way through. That way, when someone does go down [or someone leaves], you don't have that shock. we all know whoever that player that needs to step up might be and what he needs to do, and no one panics."
There will be no panic this coming weekend for Iowa, although a series sweep of the Nittany Lions would go a long way in convincing the NCAA Selection Committee that the Hawkeyes should be in the tournament. Conference series wins against Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio State make up a strong resume. The non-conference series win against Oklahoma State was another resume booster, and one that wouldn't have happened without those Big Ten wins.
According to Heller, getting teams to travel to Iowa City has become easier as the team has improved each season. Come May, teams are looking for big wins, especially on the road, as those are worth more to the selection committee. For Oklahoma State, the idea of getting three games on the road against a team with a good RPI like Iowa was enticing.
The same was the case for Heller, with the added bonus of getting games in Stillwater next year. That being said, don't picture Heller in his office calculating RPIs and scouring the internet for tournament projections depending on whether or not they were to beat the Cowboys, or any other high profile team. He doesn't really pay attention to that stuff.
"I don't [pay attention] a whole lot. It's hard not to because everyone is talking about it, but it really doesn't matter if you're not taking care of your business on a daily basis," he said. "I don't get caught up in any of that. If we don't take care of our business, none of that matters. If we play well, and if wins come our way…against one of toughest, if not the toughest, schedules in the Big Ten, I think we'll be okay."
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Take-Two unfazed by potential loot box ban
CEO says "perfectly reasonable mechanic… forms a very small part of our business"
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Take-Two has said it's not worried about a potential ban on loot boxes as the controversial mechanic only accounts for a small amount of its sales.
During the publisher's earnings call on Monday, CEO Strauss Zelnick said loot boxes accounted for just three per cent of its net bookings during the financial year ended March 31, 2019.
The company reported net bookings of $2.929 billion for the period, suggesting loot boxes accounted for approximately $87.87 million of the total.
Zelnick's comments on the matter came in response to a question about US Senator Josh Hawley, who recently announced plans to propose new legislation that would ban loot boxes and 'pay-to-win' mechanics in video games targeted at minors.
"On the loot boxes question, just to put it in context, that mechanic is responsible for less than three per cent of our net bookings in the past fiscal year, so it's not material to us," Zelnick said.
"We have used the mechanic in the past, so it is something we've seen and we think it's just fine.
"There has been some noise around it, particularly internationally," he added. "As I said, we think it's a perfectly reasonable mechanic. However, it forms a very small part of our business."
In April 2018, the Netherlands Gaming Authority and the Belgian Gaming Commission declared that certain types of loot boxes were in violation of gambling laws, leading to a crackdown on their inclusion in games.
Last month, Rocket League became the latest high-profile game to remove the ability for players in Belgium and the Netherlands to purchase loot boxes with real money.
In the US, the Federal Trade Commission is due to hold a public workshop looking into consumer issues surrounding loot boxes on August 7.
Take-Two announces new sci-fi FPS from Halo co-creator
UK government 'may be forced to act' on gaming addiction
Take-Two CEO doesn't see the sense in game subscriptions
EA says loot boxes are 'quite ethical and fun'
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The Best Foreign Horror Movies You Probably Haven't Seen
Rental Review: American Heist
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. If there's a lesson to be learned from American Heist, it's that. Well, that and any bank job that relies upon the participation of jittery, nasal, sad giraffe face Adrien Brody is doomed to failure.
Returning to New Orleans from chokey after ten years (which seems quite a short sentence for killing a cop, particularly in Louisiana which is a death state), the first thing whiny, loose cannon Frankie (Adrien Brody) does is hook up with his homies, Ray (Tory Kittles) and Sugar (Aliaune Thiam aka hiphop/R&B star Akon), for a debauched night of strippers, blow and blowjobs. The second is to involve his more responsible little brother, ex-soldier James (Hayden Christiansen) in a murder after emotionally blackmailing James into driving Ray and Sugar to a business negotiation that ends in gunplay and forces James back into the criminal underworld he thought he'd escaped.
With a million dollar bank hest in the offing, Ray and Sugar need James' particular set of skills as a cool as ice getaway driver and his expertise with explosives to pull off the job and if he doesn't step up, Frankie's gonna pay. Torn between his love for his brother and his fledgling romance with ex-girlfriend (and police dispatcher) Emily (Jordana Brewster), James finds himself reluctantly sucked into Ray and Sugar's plan. But when the robbery goes awry and the gang are forced to take hostages and barricade themselves in the bank when the cops surround them, the brothers find themselves in a desperate fight for survival.
So generic and derivative it even has a "don't go for the vault man…you never go for the vault…" speech, I must admit much of my interest in American Heist lay in if and when whiny, nasal, gay goat rape phobic Adrien Brody (seriously, Google Adrien Brody Gay Goat Rape and be incredulous), officially The Worst Actor Ever to Win An Oscar, would take a high velocity, mushrooming hollow point to the face. And yes, I know Whoopi Goldberg, Roberto Benigni and Cher have also won the Oscar but none of them actively made me root for the SS. Not even Benigni. There's a reason why waving grass fetishist and amateur shoe-gazing teen poet Terrence Malick excised giraffe-human hybrid Brody from The Thin Red Line (a film based on a novel where Brody's character was the closest thing to a protagonist) and it probably wasn't because he was so good he was embarrassing the other actors.
So, as formulaic and obvious as the film is, working through the genre tropes with an earnest predictability, it's something of a shame when Brody turns his reading of Mean Streets' Johnny Boy all the way up to 11 and starts getting weepy about the prison buggery Ray and Sugar saved him from as American Heist does what it says on the tin. It's a decent, workmanlike, bank robbery thriller, grounded by a solid, likable performance from the reliable Christensen while Tory Kittles' psychotic Ray is coolly terrifying, gunning down cops and hostages without blinking an eye while raging about the iniquity of global capitalism, justifying his actions by reminding us that the banks are the true villains while Andreasyan keeps the pot boiling, injecting a sense of chaotic mayhem into the film's extended climactic shootout. But American Heist would have earned another star if someone had put Brody out of my misery sooner.
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https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/american-heist/id963496983
3.0Overall Score


With the craziness of the holidays almost upon us, now's the time to start preparing for the season!
In between looking for presents, setting up decorations, and bracing yourself for awkward dinner conversations with distant family, how can you expect to find the time to tailor your paid marketing efforts to the holidays?
We have some tips that could prove helpful.
It's easy to get comfortable with a well-performing account. Your campaigns worked well all year, why mess with success, right? Unfortunately, the holidays are a completely different beast than the rest of the year.
Consumers are far more transaction-minded during the holidays, and you should be capitalizing on that mindset by moving your budget around to maximize results and minimize waste. Support high-potential areas such as a shopping campaign or a shopping campaign dedicated to a sale you are offering. Move budget away from lead-generation campaigns.
If you are in a B2B space where the holiday season is your slow time, now could be a great time to cut budget and strategize for the upcoming year.
Now you might be thinking, "I already changed my budgets around, but I still don't think I'm prepared for the season." Well, the next step is to simply build out a new campaign. This is something to do right away (or get your marketing professionals to do for you) – the sooner you can start the traffic flow, the better! I advise focusing your holiday campaign(s) on a few specific products that you expect to perform well.
Things to keep in mind for holidays-only campaigns.
With this last option, be careful not to copy over your regular ads, as you do not want to erase any data that you have accrued over the lifetime of the account!
It is absolutely essential that you have a tailored, specific destination for your traffic.
If you don't have anything specific on sale, sending paid traffic to a promo code is a great, low-budget way to incentivize potential customers to visit your site and convert. If you don't have any sales or promo codes active, I highly recommend you create some right away.
Choose a product or service with high interest and a strong margin, and watch traffic numbers swell as the end of the year approaches!
4: Run branded ads pointing to a great landing page.
Take your promo code and make it part of the headline of your holiday ad.
Direct traffic to the portion of your site where they can enter the code (or use call-only ads if you don't have a place for gift/promo codes), and include helpful sitelinks that allow your customers to figure out exactly where they want to go on your site. This is a great practice not only for promo code ads, but for holiday ads in general.
If you want to see your overall conversion rate go up, run an ad for your company name that drives traffic to a high-converting landing page. This will direct a decent amount of your typical organic traffic to a page that is designed to convert them at a very low cost to your business. Because the term you are bidding on is branded, you will have an excellent quality score and your ad will be very cheap to maintain first position on.
Be sure to put this ad in its own campaign, or in your existing branded campaign if you have one, as its metrics will be skewed by your typical organic traffic.
If you've read through this guide and don't feel like any of these solutions apply to you, perhaps you are advertising for a B2B business that just doesn't need to ramp up for the holidays. in that case, ignore everything I have said so far – you are going into one of the slowest seasons of the year.
I know this last point sounds weird coming from someone who works in digital marketing, but hear me out. If you know that the holidays are a bad time of year for business, put that money elsewhere. Save it for a new PPC platform to try in January, use it as a surplus to add to well-performing campaigns, or treat your employees to a nice lunch.
I hope this has been helpful, and that it takes some of the stress out of the holiday season. Relax, drink some eggnog, and have a terrific end of your year!


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The Ordovician Period
The Rise of The Cephalopods
This is all about the Ordovician Period: The climate, geography, and the major events that shaped life on Earth. Some plants and animals thrived while others became extinct.
The second period of the Paleozoic Era, The Ordovician rocks were first found in Wales, so its name comes from a tribe of people who once lived in the area where the rocks were found. The Ordovician began about 490 million years ago and lasted for about 47 million years.
Crinoid
The Continents-Gondwanaland
Gondwana was a huge supercontinent during the Ordovician Period. It contained the modern continents of Australia, Africa, Southern Europe, Antarctica and South America. During the Ordovician Period, Gondwana gradually moved toward the South Pole until it covered the pole at the end of the period. Most of Gondwana was covered by water during the Ordovician.
The Continents-North America and Europe
Modern continents of North America, Western Europe and Northern Europe were located in the tropics, on or near the equator. These land areas were sometimes covered with water and sometimes not. Toward the end of the Ordovician Period more of the land was out of the water. This was due to changes in the Earth's climate.
During the first parts of the Ordovician the climate was fairly warm. The land uplifted and the continents moved around. When Gondwana stopped its movement over the South Pole, glaciers formed. This caused the sea level to drop and the climate to change. These changes led to a mass extinction at the end of the Ordovician Period.
Life In The Seas of The Ordovician Period
Life was still primarily found underwater, but there were more different species than ever before. The trilobites did not die out with the mass extinction at the end of the Cambrian period. Trilobites lived on and many new species developed.
Straight Shelled Nautiloid Commonly Called Orthoceras
New animal forms developed, too. The cephalopods became the dominant predators of this period. Cephalopods are a group of mollusks that are related to octopus and squid.The orthoceras was a straight-shelled cephalopod that lived in the largest open end of its shell. Its feet came out of its head! They could rise and fall in the ocean water like a submarine. The siphuncle was a tube in the center of the animal. When filled with air, the animal's body floated upward. A burst of air out the back end of the siphuncle pushed the animal forward.
Brachiopods were also new in the Ordovician period. Brachiopods look like clams, but they do not belong to the same family. A brachiopod's shells do not match. If you look closely, one shell is slightly larger at the hinge. The shells themselves each have bilateral symmetry. Clam shells have identical hinges so their shells are not symmetrical.
Crinoids were an echinoderm that looked like a feathery plant. They grew long "stems" and attached themselves to the ocean floor. The tentacles floated in the water. They caught the crinoid's food.
Sponges, corals and even primitive fish lived in Ordovician waters. The plant life in the water was red and green algae. On the very bottom of the oceans were the first animals with primitive backbones. They did not move very well, but they would grow to become the most important new animal group in the sea. The seas of the Ordovician Period were full of many diverse species.
The Seas of The Ordovician Period
The First Land Plants
Along the edges of the water, groups of algae evolved into mosses and bryophytes. These plants must live in watery environments so the water can flow directly into and out of their cells. These plants had no veins for moving the water around inside their bodies, so water had to flow between the outside environment and the cells of the plants. These were true plants, because they had chlorophyll and could make their own food.
There were fungi in the water, too. Fungi feed on decaying matter. Fungi and algae left on the bare land worked together to form lichen. The lichen could break down the rock they lived upon. The broken rock became the first soil.
Return to Geologic Time Line
The next Period is The Silurian Period
What came before the Ordovician Period?


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SD Writing
Cosmonauts Revisited
1. Early Dreams and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 2. Sergei Korolev; Stalin Wants Missiles! 3. "Beep, Beep, Beep!" Sputnik-1 and the First Interplanetary Probes 4. "POYEKHALI!" The First Man in Space 5. More Soviet "Firsts" in Space 6. Lunar Landings 7. Space Stations and Beyond 8. The Final Frontier?
Russia: Collected Wisdom
Russia: Collected Wisdom: Index Russia: Collected Wisdom: Bibliography Section 1, Chapter 1: Mother Russia Chapter 2: Geography Chapter 3: Moscow Chapter 4: St Petersburg/Petrograd/ Leningrad Section 2: PEOPLE; Chapter 5: National Characteristics Chapter 6: Population Chapter 7: Men and Women Chapter 8: Sex Chapter 9: Language Chapter 10: Lies Chapter 11: Corruption Section 3: HISTORY. Chapter 12: The March of History Chapter 13: Revolution and Civil War Chapter 14: Stalinism Section 4: SOCIETY. Chapter 15: Social Mores Chapter 16: Everyday Life Chapter 17: Biznes
Russia, China and Putin's PR Missile Shield Be Careful What You Wish For: Is Video Technology Ruining Sport? VAR: May The Farce Be With You Why DOES Russia Interfere in Other Countries' Political Systems? Football, Flags and Fury: Russian Football Confused Over History Putin's Pet Space Project Dogged By Corruption: But What Did He Expect? Book Review: 'The Return of the Russian Leviathan' By Sergei Medvedev Fairy Story: King of the World It's 28 Years Since the USSR Collapsed. Do We Really Know What Happened? Speak Out. Now. North London Giants On Their Knees The Ballad of Arsenal's Season (Part 1) I'm No Film Critic, But... Making Your Voice Heard In Today's Divided Societies Remarkable People
'I cried throughout and the whole country cried with me!' Irina Nistor 'The Fall of the Wall seemed to have no effect on the Soviet military.' Carey Schofield
People London Landmarks Meringues in the Park Curiousities Flowers and Gardens 1 My Moscow 1 Photo-Essay Night-Time St Petersburg Abstract Architecture
Section 3: HISTORY. Chapter 12: The March of History
How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned. So history is rewritten to suit the present.
(Pomerantsev, p.132; 2015)
Russia's history has often been bloody and vicious, as is well illustrated
by this Bolshevik poster from the Civil War of 1917-1922. Referring to the
White Army led by the former Tsarist General, Pyotr Wrangel, the caption
reads: 'WRANGEL IS STILL ALIVE. FINISH HIM OFF WITHOUT MERCY'
Many people agree that 'History is written by the victors' (even if no-one can determine who first said it). In Russia and the Soviet Union, it would be even more accurate to say, 'History is re-written by the victors', or even 'History is re-written, re-written and re-written again by the victors.' As the above quotation and others in this chapter show, there is plenty of evidence to demonstrate that this is the case.
Rewriting history is an old Russian habit. It pre-dates the Bolsheviks. The earliest Russian history was recorded by priests who often distorted what happened to make their favourites look better, or to improve the image of their Church. In the sixteenth century Ivan the Terrible personally oversaw the rewriting of the chronicles of his reign. In the nineteenth century the reactionary Count Benckendorff, chief of Tsar Nicholas I's secret police, was quoted as saying: 'Russia's past was wonderful, her present magnificent, and as to her future – it is beyond the grasp of the most daring imagination. This is the point of view from which Russian history must be written.'
(Kaiser, p.250; 1976)
Perhaps the earliest example of Russia's writing of history to fit in with the time at which it was written can be found in the Primary Russian Chronicle, thought to have been composed in the fifteenth century from older texts but detailing (among other things) Russia's choice of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the tenth century. Although it is generally accepted that this was a political decision (not something unique to Rus' or Russia), the justification for the choice of Orthodoxy is interesting: when Prince Vladimir's emissaries witnessed the Greek worship, they knew not whether they 'were in heaven or on earth'. And the reason they did not choose Islam will ring true even now with anyone who has spent any time in Russia or with Russians. Vladimir is said to have told the Bulgar missionaries who tried to convert him to Islam that abstinence from pork and wine were disagreeable to him, especially because, 'Drinking is the joy of the Russes. We cannot live without that pleasure.'
Many people consider icons to be a special part of the beauty of Orthodoxy - heavenly figures
portrayed in an abstract way on earth
'Ah,' said the professor… 'you must learn to expect the unexpected in Mother Russia. You know the Soviets say, "the future is bright", but privately they admit they are one of the few nations with an "unpredictable past" – history is rewritten regularly…'
(Lifflander, p.14-15; 2015)
Huge numbers of publications were banned from the bookshelves altogether. For example, one directive, issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party on March 7, 1935, ordered the removal of Leon Trotsky's works from libraries throughout the Soviet Union. This ban continued until the late 1980's, but sometime in between it was toughened up to include even some anti-Trotsky material. Publications with titles like Trotskyists: Enemies of the People and Trotskyist-Bukharinist Bandits also became proscribed reading.
(King, p.10; 1997)
One of the best known examples of this re-writing of history came in 1954, after the last head of the secret police under Stalin, Lavrenty Beria, had been arrested by the Soviet leadership and executed in December 1953. A long biography and full page photograph of Beria had been published in 1950 in Volume 5 of the second edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia (1950-1958). After being disgraced and shot, the leadership realised that this henchman of Stalin's did not deserve such glorification. So all subscribers to the Encyclopaedia – both inside the Soviet Union and abroad – were sent new pages to insert into Volume 5 to cover up Beria's details. An article which purported to show fascinating new information about the Bering Sea, complete with half a dozen photographs, was provided. A copy of the page of photographs is reproduced in David King's, The Commissar Vanishes, p.181. There was also a biography of an eighteenth-century German courtier, Friedrich Wilhelm Bergholz, who had kept a diary of his travels in Russia. The fact that the Soviet authorities had no qualms about sending such instructions even to foreign subscribers is an indication of just how much this had become normal practice for them, just as it would have been for Winston Smith in George Orwell's 1984. The instruction was met with incredulity in the West.
Yesterday's saints become today's Judases, then heroes again. History is hastily rewritten to document the latest immutable truth. But a portion of the slag heap of superseded literature finds some use. In a reeking latrine the other day, a copy of the obsolete 1967 History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was braced between the tiles and drain pipe, its pages extolling N S Khrushchev's inspiration to progressive mankind to be ripped out for toilet paper as needed. But no irony was intended: the convenience was an unconscious acquiescence to the law of shortage requiring maximum recycling, and acceptance that the yellowing pulp now best serves for this.
(Feifer, p.62; 1976)
'Every new regime builds the past so radically,' Mozhayev says…'Lenin and Trotsky ripping up the memory of the tsars, Stalin ripping up the memory of Trotsky, Khrushchev of Stalin, Brezhnev of Khrushchev; perestroika gutting the whole communist century…and every time the heroes turn to villains, saviours are rewritten as devils, the names of streets are changed, faces scrubbed out from photos, encyclopaedias re-edited.'
…history became increasingly difficult to teach in a country which was almost daily changing its views about its past.
(Millinship, pp.231-232; 1993)
But even though Russia's history was and is continually being re-written, what has remained constant has been the way in which the country has been ruled by a firm fist from the centre, as David Willis explains.
…the Party holds sway because Russia has been ruled from the centre for one thousand years; central authority has never been diluted, either under the tsars or the commissars. Russia has been governed from Moscow or St Petersburg (now Leningrad NB: Now, of course, St Petersburg once again – SD]). It has seen no centuries of kingly power eroded by clergy, nobles, or burghers. There has been no Renaissance, no Reformation, no Luther, no Erasmus.
(Willis, p.9; 1985)
One reason why first Mikhail Gorbachev and then Boris Yeltsin became deeply unpopular with the Russian people was because they dared to try to relax that grip. Vladimir Putin reinstated it; and won huge popularity.
Vasily Grossman considers that the biggest change in the monolithic state structure was not the Bolshevik Revolution, but the emancipation of the serfs in 1861:
The emancipation of the serfs – as we can see from the history of the following century – was more truly revolutionary than the October Revolution. The emancipation of the serfs shook Russia's thousand-year old foundation, a foundation left entirely intact by both Peter the Great and Lenin: the dependence of the country's evolution on the growth of slavery.
(Grossman, Everything Flows, p.195; c.1960)
Laurens van der Post bemoans the lack of peaceful evolution when there has been change in Russian history:
One of the most depressing aspects of Russian history is the total absence of the peaceful processes of evolution. Instead of an orderly routine of change one encounters repeatedly violence, assassination, massacre and terror. Instead of an individual challenge of authority there are inducements to mob action and rioting…
(van der Post, p.44; 1965)
And Francis Spufford comments on the country's backwardness in 1917 and the Bolsheviks' way of dealing with this:
[In 1917] Russia had fewer railroads, fewer roads and less electricity than any other European power. Its towns were stunted little venues for the gentry to buy riding boots. Most people were illiterate. Within living memory, the large majority of the population had been slaves. Despite this absence of all Marx's preconditions, the Bolsheviks tried anyway to get to paradise by the quick route, abolishing money and seizing food for the cities directly at gunpoint. The only results were to erase the little bit of industrial development that had taken place in Russia just before the First World War, and to create the first of many bouts of mass starvation.
(Spufford, p.83; 2010)
Hedrick Smith points out the contrast between Russia's backwardness, yet its possession of modern weaponry (something which led to the cruel nickname being given to the country in the 1970's of the USSR being 'Upper Volta with missiles').
I had to unlearn the notion that Russia had become a modern industrial state on a par with the advanced West, for that concept obscures as much as it reveals. Behind the mask of modernism, of missiles, jets and industrial technology, is concealed the imprint of centuries of Russian history on the structure of Soviet society and the habits and character of the Russian people. For it remains an intensely Russian land in ways that newcomers … are slow to comprehend. Here and there the traveller glimpses signs of a very traditional country – women patiently sweeping city streets with long-handled twig brooms, peasants bent over the fields hoeing by hand, store clerks adding up bills, click-clack, on ancient wooden abacuses.
(Smith, The Russians, p.22; 1977)
Even though Smith was writing in the late 1970s, I saw an abacus still being used in a shop in a Russian village in 2009.
Vladimir Soloukhin feels deeply the
loss of traditional Russian place
names and traditions
Vladimir Soloukhin, and George Feifer's friend, Alyosha, bemoan the disappearance of many old Russian names in the wake of the Revolution.
1931. Throughout the land the bells have been cast down from the bell-towers. In place of the ancient village names in our area – Prokoshikha, Brod, Ostanikha, Kuryanikha, Venki, Pugovtsino, Vishenki, Lutino, Krivets, Zelniki, Rozhdestveno, Ratmirovo, Spasskoe, Snegirevo, Ratislovo – in place of these ancient, centuries-old Russian names, each with its own history…other names started to appear: 'Red Communist Avant-garde', 'The Road to Socialism', 'Pace-setter', 'Forward', 'Red Profintern', 'Champion', 'Rosa Luxemburg', 'Red Banner', 'Lenin's', 'May Day'…
(Soloukhin, p.145; 1990)
Least of all, he likes the Sovietisation that continues to blanch these remnants of local colour, to smother the wheeling-dealing of urban life, to homogenise everything into a single stretch of prefabricated apartment blocks. And relentlessly rename tradition-laded streets: each new sign announcing the appearance of yet one more 'Redproletarian', 'Lenin', 'Leninist', or 'Marx' in place of a descriptive or old Slavic appellation is a personal wound.
'Splendid news: Kaluzhskaya Square becomes dear "October". Naturally, measures had to be taken: "Kaluzhskaya" stood for something in the life of old Moscow, and had a comforting ring. Besides, millions of people knew where it was and didn't waste hours getting lost or trekking to one of the thirty other Octobers. Too pleasant, too convenient…'
On his personal count, eleven Moscow streets are now called 'Leningrad', and he suspects he's missed a few. Like everyone else, he says, street-namers prefer a safe bet – that is, anything with Lenin in it – to risking Oak Tree Lane or something similarly untried. And every time we pass the famous open-air swimming pool a mile east of the Kremlin, a biting quip reminds me that before Lazar Kaganovich and Stalin stuffed it with dynamite, this was the site of the third largest church in Christendom, built to commemorate the victory over Napoleon. Only in the renaming of academies and institutes from 'Stalin' to 'Lenin' does he milk some satisfaction, for the former derives from 'steel' while the latter, 'appropriately', has the same root as the Russian word for 'laziness'.
(Feifer, pp.159-160; 1976)
This final point in Feifer's piece – about Lenin's pseudonym having the same root as the Russian word for 'laziness' – was a point with which I shocked a member of the Communist party in 1979 when I pointed it out. Vladimir Ulyanov chose the pseudonym Lenin because when he was sent in exile to Siberia he was living near the River Lena. But it happens that 'lentai' means a lazy person! The 'third largest church in Christendom' which Feifer mentions, blown up by Kaganovich and Stalin, stands there once again, to show that official Russia has changed its mind once more on the place of religion within the state. Russians are people of extremes, indeed.
The River Lena, which flows through Yakutia, is one of the
great rivers of Russia
This quotation from the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia is an excellent illustration of the way in which in reporting history the Soviet version was often very selective.
In the summer of 1939 the British government, in collaboration with the French government, broke off negotiations begun upon the USSR's initiative concerning an alliance of these three powers in the struggle against fascist aggression.
(BSE, as quoted by The Free Dictionary: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Soviet-British+Agreements)
It would be difficult to think of a more convoluted description of the consequences of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, blaming the British and the French for breaking off negotiations, without mentioning that this was because the Soviet Union had just got into bed with the enemy! But despite the official, often biased gloss put on history, Hedrick Smith indicates what real history can mean to Russians. He asked a group of them sitting chatting around the dinner table what had been the best period in Russian history. After a pause, his host, a Jewish scientist called Ben Levich, said, 'The War'.
'The War,' Ben repeated quietly. 'Because at that time we all felt closer to our government than at any other time in our lives. It was not their country then, but our country. It was not they who wanted this or that to be done, but we who wanted to do it. It was not their war, but our war. It was our country we were defending, our war effort.'
(Smith, The Russians, p.370; 1977)
Smith continues his exploration of how Russians have seen their own history, when he asked people about their attitude to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Beyond the substantial indifference to the invasion [of Czechoslovakia in 1968] on the part of the masses, many people evidently took pride in the exercise of Soviet power … It was one of the attributes of being a super power. A Russian writer I know was vacationing at Sochi in August 1968 … 'The people down there were really very happy with what happened,' he recalled. '"Finally," they said, "our troops have gone into Czechoslovakia. We should have done that a long time ago …" These people were glad to see that Russia had used its force …' Gennadi … said … 'They believed in the huge wild lie that the Soviet Union had to invade Czechoslovakia to help the people there' … Another friend … found himself sharing a hospital ward with a civilian chauffeur who had been a tank driver in Prague during the invasion [and told how they had blasted the top off buildings if they saw any locals on the rooftops. The driver] had no qualms, he said, 'because they were all Fascists.'
(Smith, The Russians, pp.382-383; 1977)
This chilling statement, that it was acceptable to kill Czechs in their capital city in 1968, 'because they were fascists', has strong echoes of 2014 and the seizure of Crimea and subsequent invasion of Eastern Ukraine by Russian troops. Not only did many Russians rejoice in the demonstration of Russian power and strength, but a frequently-heard justification for the action was that, 'they were all fascists'. Even after Ukrainian right-wing parties polled less than one per cent in elections for the country's parliament in October 2014, the accusation that there are 'fascists' everywhere in Ukraine continues to be made by Russians.
I came across this next quotation from Hedrick Smith on 9 May 2015, for Russians the 70th anniversary of victory in Europe. (Russians celebrate 9 May as the day the War ended, as the peace was signed late at night on 8 May in Berlin, by which time it was already the 9th in Moscow.)
…emphasis on wartime memories not only reinforces patriotic feelings but points up the need for vigilance and readiness today. It was striking that in 1975, the 30th anniversary of the Allied victory over Germany brought such an outpouring of war propaganda in the press that some Western experts tabulated the flow as heavier than in 1965 or 1970, on the 20th and 25th anniversaries of victory in Europe.
In the build-up to the 70th anniversary in 2015, there was more propaganda in Russia about the War than had been seen for many years, possibly ever. It was bitterly ironic, therefore, that some of the propaganda posters displayed the remarkable ignorance of those who had been tasked with creating them, as instead of Soviet forces they portrayed American soldiers, Israeli tanks and, worst of all, Second World War Luftwaffe pilots! Banners were displayed throughout the country and millions of Russians wore the orange and black ribbon of St George, which in recent years has become Russia's symbol of that victory. Russia held what was thought to be the largest military parade ever on Red Square. The leaders of the USA, Great Britain and Germany refused to attend because of Russia's military actions in Ukraine. The guest of honour was the Chinese President, Xi Jingping; and his host, President Vladimir Putin commented, 'Everyone we wanted to see was here'. This ignores the fact that the USA and Britain were the USSR's allies in the War, and that, had it not been for supplies and armaments shipped from these allies to Russia, even the Russians' legendary courage may not have been enough to bring victory.
Martin Walker gives a version of a great Russian myth: that 'Russia has never started a war against anyone'.
Traditionally for Russia, war is something that other people inflict on them.
(Walker, p.102; 1986)
True, the Mongol hordes, Napoleon and Hitler all attacked Russia; but Russia has committed more than its fair share of aggressive acts against others. You do not even have to go far back in history to show this: the attack on Finland in 1940; the use of force to crush unrest in East Berlin in 1953, the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968; and the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Now to this list can be added the unleashing of war on Ukraine in 2014. And yet even after this a Russian tried to convince me in 2015 that Russia had never attacked anyone.
The first part of Walker's next comment, written in 1986, shows less that he mis-read the signs in the early years of Gorbachev's time in power; rather it emphasises just how swiftly the situation changed.
It should be clear from this account that the Soviet Union is not facing imminent collapse, that it is even a fairly stable system, capable of change and improvement, and that it now has an intelligent leadership with a well-thought-out programme of reform. But if this view is wrong, and the Soviet system is about to implode, then before applauding or encouraging that process, we ought to think through its implications.
Five years later, the USSR was no more. But whether this process should be applauded is a question which is still unanswerable a quarter of a century later.
That there was a glimmer of hope for genuine positive change at the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union is summed up in this brief quotation from an interview I took in September 1991 with Gennady Yagodin, then Chairman of the Soviet State Education Committee:
We were not so open towards the whole world as now, from the time of Peter the Great.
(Yagodin, interview with Dalziel, September 1991)
One is tempted to ask, 'What went wrong?' What we can say for sure is that these words, written by Joseph Conrad in July 1905 are as true today as they were then:
The throes of Russian resurrection will be long and painful.
(Conrad, p.42; 1905)
Under Putin's leadership, Russia has soured its relations with the West; and ruined for generations to come a genuine brotherhood between Russia and Ukraine. The resurrection of those relations and Russia's place in the world will indeed be long and painful.
Chapter 13: Revolution and Civil War
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Throughout the world, iodine deficiency is the most common cause of brain damage. Deficiency in pregnant women can result in miscarriage or stillbirth, low birth weight, and congenital abnormalities such as cretinism, a severe condition characterized by stunted growth and mental retardation. In children, iodine deficiency can impair physical and mental growth and development, and in both children and adults, goiter (enlarged thyroid) ran result.
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import org.scalatest.{Matchers, WordSpec}
import org.tensorflow.example.{BytesList, FloatList, Feature, Int64List}
import org.tensorflow.hadoop.shaded.protobuf.ByteString

class FeatureDecoderTest extends WordSpec with Matchers {

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      val int64List = Int64List.newBuilder().addValue(4).build()
      val intFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setInt64List(int64List).build()
      IntFeatureDecoder.decode(intFeature) should equal(4)
    }

    "Throw an exception if length of feature array exceeds 1" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val int64List = Int64List.newBuilder().addValue(4).addValue(7).build()
        val intFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setInt64List(int64List).build()
        IntFeatureDecoder.decode(intFeature)
      }
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not an Int64List" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(4).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        IntFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Int List Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Int List" in {
      val int64List = Int64List.newBuilder().addValue(3).addValue(9).build()
      val intFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setInt64List(int64List).build()
      IntListFeatureDecoder.decode(intFeature) should equal(Seq(3,9))
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not an Int64List" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(4).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        IntListFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Long Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Long" in {
      val int64List = Int64List.newBuilder().addValue(5L).build()
      val intFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setInt64List(int64List).build()
      LongFeatureDecoder.decode(intFeature) should equal(5L)
    }

    "Throw an exception if length of feature array exceeds 1" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val int64List = Int64List.newBuilder().addValue(4L).addValue(10L).build()
        val intFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setInt64List(int64List).build()
        LongFeatureDecoder.decode(intFeature)
      }
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not an Int64List" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(4).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        LongFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Long List Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Long List" in {
      val int64List = Int64List.newBuilder().addValue(3L).addValue(Int.MaxValue+10L).build()
      val intFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setInt64List(int64List).build()
      LongListFeatureDecoder.decode(intFeature) should equal(Seq(3L,Int.MaxValue+10L))
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not an Int64List" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(4).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        LongListFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Float Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Float" in {
      val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(2.5F).build()
      val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
      FloatFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature) should equal(2.5F)
    }

    "Throw an exception if length of feature array exceeds 1" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(1.5F).addValue(3.33F).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        FloatFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not a FloatList" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val bytesList = BytesList.newBuilder().addValue(ByteString.copyFrom("str-input".getBytes)).build()
        val bytesFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setBytesList(bytesList).build()
        FloatFeatureDecoder.decode(bytesFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Float List Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Float List" in {
      val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(2.5F).addValue(4.3F).build()
      val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
      FloatListFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature) should equal(Seq(2.5F, 4.3F))
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not a FloatList" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val bytesList = BytesList.newBuilder().addValue(ByteString.copyFrom("str-input".getBytes)).build()
        val bytesFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setBytesList(bytesList).build()
        FloatListFeatureDecoder.decode(bytesFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Double Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Double" in {
      val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(2.5F).build()
      val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
      DoubleFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature) should equal(2.5d)
    }

    "Throw an exception if length of feature array exceeds 1" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(1.5F).addValue(3.33F).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        DoubleFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not a FloatList" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val bytesList = BytesList.newBuilder().addValue(ByteString.copyFrom("str-input".getBytes)).build()
        val bytesFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setBytesList(bytesList).build()
        DoubleFeatureDecoder.decode(bytesFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Double List Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Double List" in {
      val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(2.5F).addValue(4.0F).build()
      val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
      DoubleListFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature) should equal(Seq(2.5d, 4.0d))
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not a DoubleList" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val bytesList = BytesList.newBuilder().addValue(ByteString.copyFrom("str-input".getBytes)).build()
        val bytesFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setBytesList(bytesList).build()
        FloatListFeatureDecoder.decode(bytesFeature)
      }
    }
  }

  "Bytes List Feature decoder" should {

    "Decode Feature to Bytes List" in {
      val bytesList = BytesList.newBuilder().addValue(ByteString.copyFrom("str-input".getBytes)).build()
      val bytesFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setBytesList(bytesList).build()
      StringFeatureDecoder.decode(bytesFeature) should equal("str-input")
    }

    "Throw an exception if feature is not a BytesList" in {
      intercept[Exception] {
        val floatList = FloatList.newBuilder().addValue(2.5F).addValue(4.0F).build()
        val floatFeature = Feature.newBuilder().setFloatList(floatList).build()
        StringFeatureDecoder.decode(floatFeature)
      }
    }
  }
}

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Development of an operationally effective trap has been a goal of the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) eradication program since the first individual ALB was found in New York in 1996. A trap that can demonstrate the presence of ALBs in an area is critical to detecting and eliminating infestations. A trap that is capable of detecting ALBs at low densities in quarantine zones can also provide positive confirmation of successful eradication. Part of an interagency and university effort, the Northern Research Station helped develop traps for ALBs.
In 2009, researchers hung traps in trees in Worcester, Massachusetts, in areas where infested trees were still suspected to exist. These traps caught female ALBs when baited with male-produced pheromones alone or in combination with plant volatiles. In 2010, researchers deployed the traps in both the Worcester and Brooklyn/Queens, New York infestations to assist in pinpointing lingering ALB populations. In the future, researchers deploying traps in other high-risk areas could detect new infestations.
Research partners include Pennsylvania State University, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication Program, Massachusetts State Department of Environmental Protection, and Beijing Forestry University.


November 2009 by illustrator Dan Krall. Follow this link to see the image up close and personal. Many thanks to Dan.
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Top Music Performers Unite to Aid Africa Drought
By Bryan Lynn 12:12 PM PDT, August 9, 2011
Music superstars including Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Madonna and U2 are teaming up to launch a huge social networking campaign to raise awareness and money for millions of children facing starvation in drought-stricken East Africa.
The Bob Marley campaign -- called 'I'm Gonna Be Your Friend' -- aims to reach nearly 600 million Facebook and Twitter fans, according to the Save the Children organization. Other celebrities committed to the project include David Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Muse, Coldplay, Elton John, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Kanye West, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber and Sting.
A focus of the campaign will be to get people to watch a short film on the crisis in East Africa created by award-winning director Kevin MacDonald. The film is set to the 1973 Bob Marley & The Wailers song High Tide or Low Tide.
The worst drought in decades across East Africa has led to a devastating food crisis affecting millions of children and their families. For more information on how to help save the children go to: www.imgonnabeyourfriend.org.


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The exhibition was also hosted at the United Nations Headquarters on 13-25 June & 11-16 July 2016 in New York, USA, in partnership with the European Union Association.
In Singapore, the exhibition kicked off for the public at LASALLE College of the Arts from June – July 2016, followed by Jurong Regional Library, Bukit Merah and Marine Parade Public Libraries and Tampines Regional Library from August to November 2016. The exhibition had its last public presentation at Temasek Polytechnic Library for the students to appreciate photography and cross- culture works from 16 January to 3 February 2017. Thereafter, the exhibition will return to ASEF.


Blue Atlas Cedar has attractive blue foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain blue throughout the winter. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.
Blue Atlas Cedar is an open evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a stunning habit of growth which features almost oriental horizontally-tiered branches. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Blue Atlas Cedar will grow to be about 50 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 40 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 5 feet from the ground, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more.


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Sports Picks > Free NBA Picks > Milwaukee Bucks vs Miami Heat 12/29/2020 Picks Predictions Previews
Miami Heat VS Milwaukee Bucks
Spread: Miami Heat +4.5
Over/Under: 222
Milwaukee Bucks vs Miami Heat 12/29/2020 Picks Predictions Previews
The Milwaukee Bucks will play against the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida on Tuesday, December 29, 2020, at 7;30 P.M., ET.
The Bucks will look to bounce back after a disappointing loss against the New York Knicks. Milwaukee had a weak 1st half with only 45 points made while allowing 61 to the Knicks in the same period. The team added 65 more in the 2nd half but the Knicks made 69 more to hand the loss to the Bucks with a score of 130-110. The team was 43.1% from the floor on 41-95 attempts while being ice cold from deep for 18.4% on 7-38 shots. They were 21-29 from the line for 72.4%. The team is 3rd in the Central Division in the Eastern Conference with a record of 1-2.
Giannis Antetokounmpo led the team with a double-double at 27 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals while Khris Middleton added 22 points, 4 boards, and 5 dimes. Bobby Portis came off the bench to score 17 points and 7 rebounds. The team is 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games and 2-6 SU in their last 8 outings.
Milwaukee Bucks vs Miami Heat Predictions 12/29/2020
The Heat split their 1st 2 games after winning their last match against the Young Pelicans team. The squad scored 66 points in the 1st half while allowing 53 in the same span. Both teams slowed down in the 2nd half with 45 points made each to result in Miami's win with a score of 111-98. The squad shot for 50.8% in FGs on 38-75 attempts while hitting 43.2% from deep on 16-37 shooting. They drained 19-23 from the line for 82.6%. Miami is 3rd in the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference with a record of 1-1.
Duncan Robinson scored 23 points with 5 rebounds while Bam Adebayo added 17 points with 4 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals. Goran Dragic made 18 points, 9 assists, and 4 steals from off the bench. The team is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games and 5-1 ATS in their last 6 home games.
Milwaukee Bucks vs Miami Heat. The NBA pick is the Miami Heat. The Bucks aren't doing too well defensively this season even with a solid performance from the season MVP. Giannis will have to pump up his teammates to get as much help as he needs since he is carrying the team every game. The Heat is rested well after their win against the Pelicans last time and will continue their momentum moving forward. Robinson was hot from deep with 7 3s drained while the team had Dragic coming off the bench to help in making plays. Miami will win a tough matchup against the Bucks predicted at 114-110.
NBA Starting Time: 7:30 P.M. ET
Location: American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2020
TV: TNT
NBA Odds: Miami Heat +4.5
NBA Totals: 222
Free NBA Basketball Pick: Miami Heat +4.5
By: Tonys Picks Staff | December 29, 2020


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NCRI Backs Research, Modern Technologies for Enhanced Agricultural Productivity
Investments in agricultural research will go a long way in ameliorating Nigeria's food system and tackling the challenges posed by climate change as well as the novel COVID-19 pandemic.
This was the position of the National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI) at its recently held 2020 Farmers' Field Day and Technology Exhibition at the Moore Plantation, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The event was themed "Sustainable Response to Post-COVID-19 Through Improved Agricultural Technology".
The Institute submitted that research and modern technologies were critical to the improvement of agricultural productivity in the country.
Speaking in his keynote address, Head of Station, NCRI, Dr. Danbaba Nahemiah noted that to effectively capture the government's objective on food security there was a need to invest in research resources to mitigate climate change-related challenges.
In his remarks, Nahemiah said that research institutes were critical to this task, to develop innovative ways of boosting the country's food sector and promoting Good Agricultural Practices.
He said, "Improvement of agricultural productivity through the adoption of good agronomic practices and improved technology has to become critical
"The time is here for research for development (R4D) organizations to invest research resources towards mitigating climate change-related challenges and develop a food system that is resilient across food-deficit countries including Nigeria, to forestall food security shocks and civil unrest".
Nahemiah added that the Farmers' Field Day and Exhibition was a deliberate effort by the Institute to allow researchers, farmers, SMEs and other development partners to reexamine the country's food system due to the COVID-19 lockdown and the recent unrest across the country.
In the post-COVID-19 era, he pointed that ensuring a sustainable food supply chain in Nigeria was also one of the most important challenges that must be tackled headlong in the aftermath of the pandemic.
"The priority would be to invest in agro-processing for rural communities, which will significantly support rural youths and women and reduce rural-urban migration.
"Secondly, small scale farmers should be supported with improved seeds and other inputs to enhance both their farm productivity and market of quality of food they produce. Also, market access should be improved through e-commerce promotion among youths, as service providers for farmers and SMEs.
"Thirdly, deliberate efforts by governments at all levels to implement aggressive infrastructural development (road network, logistics, etc), so that food can be moved across the country with minimal losses," Nahemiah proffered.
NCRI and its partners have over the years supported small and medium scale agro-processing entrepreneurs to develop successful businesses in rice, soybeans, sugarcane and other crops processing.
This, according to the station head, had effectively contributed to employment generation, food security and improved rural and sub-urban livelihoods.
Currently, the Institute, which has its headquarters at Badeggi, Niger State, also has 10 outstations across the country actively involved in crop production, research and extension services.
Nehemiah restated the commitment of the NCRI to deliver sustainable food systems and flexible technology that will support Nigerian farmers to improve both vertical and horizontal productivity with minimal impact on the environment.
Representing the Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, chairman of the occasion, Engr. Dr. M.O Ogunbiyi, who also doubles as the Zonal Director of FMARD, Southwest called for partnership between public and private stakeholders to boost the agricultural sector.
On behalf of NCRI's governing council, the ED/CEO and the entire staff, Nahemiah presented Acha crop to farmers in Southwest Nigeria.
Acha is a cereal believed to be mostly grown in the North-central region of Nigeria and it is arguably the oldest cereal in Africa.
The cereal nutritionally contains a good amount of dietary fibre, protein, minerals such as iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamins such as folic acid and vitamin B3. It is also low in calories, fat and sodium.
Participants including reps from FMARD and research institutes, farmers, students and stakeholders in the agro-allied sector were taken to the field to inspect the Acha crop at its maturity stage, as part of the significant take-off of the Farmers' Field Day.
The post NCRI Backs Research, Modern Technologies for Enhanced Agricultural Productivity appeared first on AgroNigeria.
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Abstract: Creation of isopenicillin N from δ-(L-α-aminoadipyl)-L-cysteinyl-D-valine (ACV) in the penicillin and cephalosporin biosynthetic pathway is catalysed by isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS), a non-heme iron-containing dioxygenase. A tripeptide R-X-S motif which consists of arginine-281 and serine-283 (Cephalosporium acremonium IPNS numbering) was found to be conserved in IPNS and other related proteins. These two amino acids mentioned were proposed to have a role in ACV substrate binding by the recent Aspergillus nidulans IPNS crystal structure. Using site-directed mutagenesis, arginine-281 in C. acremonium IPNS (cIPNS) was earlier found to be essential for catalysis by our group. Similarly, serine-283 in cIPNS was also altered by site-directed mutagenesis to determine its role in cIPNS. No measurable activity was detected from the resultant mutant using enzyme bioassays. It is most likely that the elimination of the mutant's substrate-binding capability similar to that of arginine-281 lead to the abolishment of the catalytic reaction. This highlights the importance of the R-X-S motif in the functionality of cIPNS. Copyright (C) 1998 Federation of European Microbiological Societies.


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A Gymnocalycium ambatoense a valódi kaktuszok (Cactaceae) Trichocereeae nemzetségcsoportjának Gymnocalycium nemzetségébe tartozó gömbkaktusz faj; a Mostiana fajsor egyik faja.

Elterjedése
Természetes élőhelye Észak-Argentína Catamarca tartományában van, a Sierra Ambato hegységben, 900–1100 m között.

Megjelenése, felépítése
A növény alakja a nyomott gömbtől a gömbig változó, mintegy 15 cm széles és 5–10 cm magas, a csúcsa kissé besüllyed. A színe matt sötétzöld, 9–17 lekerekített, kb. 1 cm magas bordája fölül 2, az alapnál nagyjából 3 cm széles, az areoláknál kiszélesedik. A bordák alsó részén egy-egy vízszintes rovátka húzódik.

Az 5–15 mm x 3–7 mm-es, ovális areolák egymástól 25–35 mm-re állnak, filcesek: a fölsőkön a filc világos szürke vagy krémfehér, az alsókon (szürkés) fekete, az alapnál kiszürkül. Egy-egy areolából (5-)11, többnyire párban álló, erős árszerű peremtövis nő ki. A keresztmetszetük legtöbbször ovális, ritkán lapított. A pár alsó állású tagja lefelé mutat és a növény teste felé ível vagy szabálytalanul áll. A peremtövisek hossza 1,5–3(–4) cm, (szürkés) rózsaszínűek, vagy (a természetben) sötét barnásvörösek, a csúcsuk világosabb. Nő 1–3 egyenes vagy kissé hajlott, kiálló középtövise is, de ez ritkán akár hiányozhat is. A középtövis hossza (2)–2,5(–5) cm, színe a peremtövisekével egyező, de a csúcsa sötétebb rózsaszínű.

25–45 mm x 30–40 mm-es virága világos rózsaszínű, világos olajzöld középcsíkkal. A világossárga bibeszál 15 mm-es, a portokok piszkos lilásak, a pollen sárga, a mintegy 6 mm hosszú porzószálak is sárgák; a tövük világos vöröses.

17 mm x 23 mm-es termése matt sötétzöld, mintegy 1 mm x 0,7–0,8 mm-es magja barnásvörös vagy barnásfekete.

Források
 Gymnocalycium ambatoense

Kaktuszfélék
Növényfajok
Argentína növényvilága


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La Débauche peut désigner :

Cinéma
 La Débauche, film érotique français, réalisé par Jean-François Davy, sorti en 1971 ;

Théâtre
 La Débauche, comédie en deux actes et plusieurs tableaux de Marcel Achard, créée en 1973 au Théâtre de l'Œuvre, dans une mise scène Jean Le Poulain et publiée en 1974 aux Éditions de la Table ronde ;

Bande dessinée
 La Débauche, bande dessinée de Jacques Tardi et Daniel Pennac publiée en 1999, chez Futuropolis ;

Autre
 La Débauche, microbrasserie située à Angoulème


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Q: Binding two divs to two click events when one is contained within the other Consider the following code:

$('#outer').click(function() { alert ("outer"); });
$('#inner').click(function() { alert ("inner"); });

The inner does get called, but the other gets called as well. I want to do an either-or situation. Can you advise on a better way to get around this problem so that I can click my inner div successfully without triggering my outer div click event?
Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/Squ9m/

A: Use event.stopPropagation():
$('#outer').click(function() { alert ("outer"); });
$('#inner').click(function(event) { event.stopPropagation(); alert ("inner"); });

JS Fiddle demo.
You could also use return false:
$('#outer').click(function() { alert("outer"); });
$('#inner').click(function(event) { alert("inner"); return false; });

JS Fiddle demo.
return false; is the equivalent of using event.stopPropagation() and event.preventDefault(); the first example is useful, then, if you wanted to retain the default function of the element that was clicked, without allowing that event to bubble up the DOM tree.
References:

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*event.preventDefault().

*event.stopPropagation().

A: You need to pass the event to the method that fires for the inner div and then tell it to stop propagation.
$('#inner').click(function(event) { alert("inner"); event.stopPropagation();});

Working Example


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Wonder of Ages slot review
Posted on June 30, 2020	by Admin	in Gambling
Wonder of Ages is a game with great graphics and bunches of features, it ought to have a lot to offer those that acknowledge a bit of risk in their slots.
You will notice that 5 reels and 20 active lines are accessible inside, enough mix for a slot machine layout. You can get a few dynamic jackpots through this slot, just as a fixed payout of up to 10,000x per spin. Include four variants for the free spins and the excitement is guaranteed in Wonder of Ages. It is a slot that has been declared with a medium-high unpredictability while its RTP is 95.49%.
Betting and Prizes
The slot's wagering range is somewhere in the range of $0.20 and $40, which permits the player to cover every single active line. You play with 20 lines here, so the line wager seems to arrive at a limit of $2 with a starting point at only $0.01.
With regards to the prizes that you can bring home, you have two or three potential choices. One is through the slot's own combinations and features with up to 10,000x being a chance inside, meaning up to $400,000. The other originates from the Jackpot King system of which Wonder of Ages is a part. Three dynamic jackpots are offered as a major part of that presence.
The slot's unpredictability is reported as Medium-High which implies that it will convey a considerable measure of risk with it. RTP being set to 95.49%, I would consider the game's arrival worthy but not important.
Wonder of Ages Slot Features
I prefer wild symbols in many slots given that they are not really restricted and in Wonder of Ages they have the opportunity to carry out their responsibility. They are available on all reels, they go about as substitutes for every ordinary icons and the best part is that a full combo with five wilds in it will pay 500x the stake, the game's best prize.
The free spins will be the game's most significant extraordinary features with four unique variants available for the player to encounter. A prize of up to 100x the stake is available too. The four variants that are accessible include Wonders of Egypt, Rise of Greece, Empire of Rome and Mighty Dynasty.
Retriggering the free spins is additionally a chance, which is consistently a plus but this is just conceivable once you have consumed the initial 9 rounds through another picking screen. Now, getting the image with the Fallen Temple will end the feature.
You can get one of the game's dynamic jackpots by means of the reward game activating when you have the Jackpot King symbols on every one of the five reels. Re-spins follow and you gather crowns so as to get to the Wheel and spin for a jackpot.
Theme and Design
The game is dedicated to a few empires that have left their mark on the historical background of mankind. From Ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece, Rome or the Mongol Empire you get a decent mix here. Every one is spoken to through the images you see, a warrior or ruler from every empire being incorporated. There are additionally Roman numerals, game logos and pots with gold coins. The graphics quality is high and I would call it one of the good looking designs originating from Blueprint Gaming lately.
Wonder of Ages has superb potential, includes a jackpot and in spite of the below average RTP, I would still say it is a good game to be given a trial.