Watering your potted plants efficiently is absolutely essential to maintain their good health. However, most gardeners, whether amateur or well seasoned, make the mistake of wither over watering or under watering their plants. So, we will help you to figure out a way to water your babies perfectly to keep them happy and healthy all year long.
The water requirement of each plant is a little different from the others. One standard technique to avoid under or over water your plants is to understand the moisture level of the potted soil. You should only water your plants when the surface of the soil feels dry to your touch or lightens in color.
Make sure you do not let water sit stagnant on the trays which lie underneath your pots or planters. It will retain excess moisture in the pot and deter it from drying which might cause serious issues like root may rot in the long run.
When you water your plants make sure to water them abundantly until water flows out of the drainage holes. This ensures that the entire soil is well hydrated till the very bottom of the pot. Watering your plants in small portions only dampens the surface and hampers the growth of the roots.
Talking of drainage holes, make sure that your plant pots and planters have proper drainage holes which are not clogged so the excess water can flow out effortlessly eventually.
If your potted plants are drying out too quickly then consider repotting them in a larger pot or planter. Larger pots will obviously hold more soil which can retain enough water to keep your plant hydrated for a longer period.
The evening or early in the morning are the two best times to water your plant as this is when the soil cools down and evaporation is minimum. So, you soil can drink up enough before the moisture is when the sun hits.
One of the easiest and most efficient tools to water your potted plants is by using a garden hose. So invest in a garden pipe online for easy watering.
While choosing a garden pipe online make sure to look for a material which is durable and abrasion resistant so it does not split or tear or leaks water within just a few days of use. A warranty of a year from the manufacturer is a good place to start.
Make sure you invest in a pipe which is long enough to cover the entire are of your garden comfortably. Try to measure the distance and add a few meters to that so you do not have to go though any hassle while watering your plants. If your garden is quite huge for just one pipe to cover then consider getting pipe connectors to attach another pipe.
While you garden pipe buy online go for a pipe which is about 0.5 inches in diameter so you can handle it easily while watering your plants.
Life is beautiful and you can make it even more spectacular with your gestures. You can always celebrate the presence of your loved ones with some moves on your part. Distance is just a cliché in this present era. If you want to express your warmth to someone, you can use the best items for it.
Be it anniversary, birthday or any other special day, you can make anyone feel special with your gift. Nobody is telling you to go any materialistic with expensive gadgets or clothes; just give something that touches the heart and brings a shining smile on the face. You can think about designer cakes in jaipur or in your city or simply stick to flowers. Bouquetsand cakes have the dynamic charm that is always alive and never withers.
When you give a bouquet of roses, there is love, romance and friendship in it. The romance it spreads and the mood it creates is matchless. You can find a huge pinch of love and warmth through bouquets of roses. Roses can be the apt thing that you can do to anyone you love or admire. Be it professional arenas or personal relations; these stand intact and hypnotic. Come on, flowers indeed are the most gorgeous creation on planet. Amidst these flowers, Roses are the most laudable. The rose stems from the genus Rosa, in family Rosacea. Roses denote passion, love, admiration and the beauty of the nature. Thesplendour these roses carry is hard to resist.Sought-after throughout the history for its unparalleled beauty and hypnotic fragrance, Roses have always been the finest messenger of emotions. Similarly the different colours of roses have different emotions and feelings to express.
If you want to express your burning love to someone, do express it with a bouquet of roses. It would be even better if the bouquet has red coloured roses. These are like synonym of deep rooted love and passion. Say 'I love you 'to your beloved with a bouquet of exotic red roses.
If you want to make someone's day shiny and charming, then yellow roses is apt. if it is an important day for your mother in office and you want to wish her happiness and cheer then you can do it with yellow roses. Indeed, yellow roses have a connection with Sun and they splendour cheer and admiration like no other thing on planet. Your yellow roses would bring shine in the days of your beloved ones.
If you want to appreciate the achievements of someone special then go ahead and give them a bouquet of orange roses. These coloured roses express desire and appreciation. They would fill the days with zeal and charm in no time.
Thus, different roses have their different moods to add in your special relations and days. Spice up your bonds through flower shop in jaipur. These flowers would beautify your life.
The fact is that corsages are considered to be still in vogue and found to be trendy and fashionable. The formal corsage can be termed to be basically a flower bouquet or one flower which is worn by the bride on her grown. Also, any other woman might wear it on her dress to show a sign of having a grand occasion or day, like the wedding or prom. Corsages are also worn by women around their wrists. But before selecting one, it is necessary to determine if only the flowers are to be ordered or the whole pre-made corsage is to be selected.
The person can contact the leading online flower shop in Jaipur and to get to know about the available corsage choices. This can help him to make a well-informed decision and also save on precious money, without compromising on the quality aspect.
Lace Corsage: In case, real flower is not desired on the corsage, then a lace flower can be printed upon heat transfer paper. This can be later ironed onto an organdy corsage, which is sure to appear beautiful.
Ribbon flower corsage: During the wedding, one can make use of silk ribbon flowers for making wrist corsages. This can be presented to the bridesmaids as fashionable floral accessory. The bridesmaids also have the corsage worn as brooches or tie it around their ponytail. Rather than silk flowers, real flowers can also be used.
Modern looking corsage: According to some, corsages are seen to be old fashioned due to their design. Hence, if an elegant and big flower is selected like the gardenia or flat garden rose, then it is to be added to green ribbon as base over the elastic band. This can help the corsage to get that modern, sophisticated look.
Ruffly corsage: If at the wedding, there is to be a flower girl who is not in a position to sprinkle properly flowers from the basket, then this sweet accessory can be worn by her. The layered petals of a lush bloom could be prepared, if gathers are created in eyelet trim. This can be secured with few stitches. The corsage can be further secured to the wrist of the little flower girl with another eyelet trim.
Wrist watch corsage: Large flowers can be used in single bloom for attaching it to elasticized ribbon that are available generally in different styles and materials. It can ensure snug and comfy fit. The corsage will appear just like a beautiful wrist watch.
Blooming rings: It is not required for the corsages to be made large sized. Using tiny single flower bud or bloom flower, it can be attached to the fabric bands. Such corsage rings can be presented to the bridesmaids at the shower or during the rehearsal dinner.
Therefore, when trying to consider flower delivery Jaipur, be it online or from physical stores, the above ideas are better understood and implemented for formal corsages.
Talk of charm and beauty and your mind will soon conjure up the images of a wide array of flowers in a myriad of shades. It is the colourful blossoms that give soul to the planet. The beauty of flowers makes them a perfect gift for expressing love. Thanks to their mesmerising fragrance and soft appeal, they never fail to bring a beam of joy on the face of the receiver.
Different flowers signify different facets of love. While some flowers imply love at first sight, some flowers mean true love and some mean pure love and loyalty. The list is indeed endless as is the number of flowers brightening up the planet.
People cutting across race, gender, caste and creed express love by giving each other red roses. Although many people believe that red roses can only be a symbol of romantic love, there are others who strongly feel that red roses can express the generic bond of love and can also express affection towards siblings and parents. The rose, which was initially a primal symbol of life, gradually metamorphosed into a symbol of profound emotions.
The red rose became the flower of choice for lovers because it sends the message of love strongly. Centuries passed by but the red rose has not lost its significance as a symbol of deep love and fidelity. This may be the reason why sending someone a bouquet of red roses is still the most popular way to say "I love you." The red rose's rich and diverse heritage has culminated into the modern day image of the lover's rose.
Red roses would make meaningful gifts for all occasions, spanning from the primal expression of intense love to wedding anniversaries. There are variations in meanings though. Even a single, long-stemmed red rose can evoke a powerful response from its recipient - a trait no other flower can convey and boast of.
If you are one of them who love an arrangement of odd number of blooms, go for the 19 Red Roses. A vibrant bouquet, the 19 Red Roses packs a powerful message of love with nineteen stunning, large headed, long stemmed red roses, making it an ideal gift for those who want to offer red roses in style.


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Flexible wearable sensor for detecting alcohol level can be worn on the arm.
San Diego, Calif., Aug. 2, 2016 -- Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a flexible wearable sensor that can accurately measure a person's blood alcohol level from sweat and transmit the data wirelessly to a laptop, smartphone or other mobile device. The device can be worn on the skin and could be used by doctors and police officers for continuous, non-invasive and real-time monitoring of blood alcohol content.
The device consists of a temporary tattoo—which sticks to the skin, induces sweat and electrochemically detects the alcohol level—and a portable flexible electronic circuit board, which is connected to the tattoo by a magnet and can communicate the information to a mobile device via Bluetooth. The work, led by nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang and electrical engineering professor Patrick Mercier, both at UC San Diego, was published recently in the journal ACS Sensors.
Recent research has shown that blood alcohol concentration can also be estimated by measuring alcohol levels in what's called insensible sweat—perspiration that happens before it's perceived as moisture on the skin. But this measurement can be up to two hours behind the actual blood alcohol reading. On the other hand, the alcohol level in sensible sweat—the sweat that's typically seen—is a better real-time indicator of the blood alcohol concentration, but so far the systems that can measure this are neither portable nor fit for wearing on the body.
The alcohol sensor consists of a temporary tattoo (left) developed by the Wang lab and a flexible printed electronic circuit board (right) developed by the Mercier lab.
More photos of the device can be found here.
Full paper: "Noninvasive Alcohol Monitoring Using a Wearable Tattoo-Based Iontophoretic-Biosensing System." Authors of the paper are Jayoung Kim,* Itthipon Jeerapan,* Somayeh Imani,* Thomas N. Cho, Amay Bandodkar, Stefano Cinti, Patrick P. Mercier and Joseph Wang, all from UC San Diego.
This work was supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (grant no. R21EB019698), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (grant no. HDTRA1-16-1-0013) and the UC San Diego Center for Wearable Sensors.


Turnkey, DIY or Independent Contractor: What's the best way to install your solar system?
Many years ago, we at Solar Power Rocks wrote an article called "Don't DIY: Why Installing Solar Panels Yourself Can Cost You More." It's a humorous (but mostly accurate) take on the idea that getting up on your roof with a bunch of wires and 45-lb. solar panels wasn't something the average homeowner can take on by themselves.
Fast-forward to 2018, and there are much better solutions on the market for people who have a little time and mechanical aptitude. There's also the option of designing your own system and sourcing all the equipment, enlisting help from professionals to complete the hard parts.
So in order to make up for leaving our "Don't DIY" post up for over half a decade without an update, we invited our friend Phil Taylor-Parker, from Wholesale Solar, to write up a blog post about the reasons you might consider going the DIY route.
Quick disclosure before we start: like Ben said, I work for Wholesale Solar, a company that (not surprisingly) distributes solar equipment. Since we sell directly to consumers, we're natural proponents of the DIY route.
Each approach to installation has its pros and cons, and I've tried to remain neutral when examining them here. But we do have a bit of natural bias involved, which is worth getting out in the open. Just keep that in mind as you consider your options.
That said, let's walk through the pros and cons of each installation option: turnkey, DIY or hiring a local contractor.
Turnkey providers design your system, sell you the parts and take care of the installation. They offer a full-service solution at a premium price point. Great for busy people with a large enough budget to hand the project off to someone else.
DIY (do-it-yourself) installations place the entire project in your hands. It's the least expensive option, but requires significant research and involvement in the process. When you go to install the system, construction experience is nice to have, but not necessary.
Buy direct and hire a contractor for a balance between budget and convenience. Local contractors will charge you less than a turnkey installer to build your system. But they can still touch base with the distributor on your behalf to handle aspects of the job you'd rather not handle, like permitting, design, and/or the installation itself. The homeowner handles the parts of the project they are comfortable with, and passes the rest off to specialized contractors (electrician, roofer, etc.).
How much does each method of solar installation cost?
Let's establish some baseline numbers to give you an idea of how much a solar installation costs.
I'm going to use this 6.6 kilowatt system as an example, because the price is right around $10,000, and that's a nice round number to help us do some napkin math. It's also a reasonably sized system to cover an "average" household's energy needs (though your needs will vary based on usage).
A typical roof mount installation may take a team of three people a full 8-hour day to complete. As a DIYer, your labor doesn't cost you any money (although your time has value, and you'll be spending a lot of it on this project – a consideration that can't be ignored).
However, you may spend about $500 for conduit, A/C wiring, breakers, electrical fittings and other hardware. You'll also spend a chunk of money filing for a building permit. That cost changes with your local jurisdiction, but let's estimate $200 to pull a permit.
In total, your cost to install is $10,700 before the federal tax credit, which gives you 30% back on your taxes if you build a system before 2020. After the credit, the total installed cost of this system is around $7,490.
(This tax credit is being phased out: it will shrink to 26% and then 22% over the following two years, until it disappears completely in 2022).
That's if you take the DIY approach, buying the equipment direct from a distributor and installing it yourself. How does that change if you get someone to handle the installation for you?
Another option is to buy the equipment, then turn around and hire a local contractor to handle the installation.
You don't need a "solar certified" installer. Any general contractor, electrician or roofer who is comfortable taking on solar projects can get it done.
Contractors start around 75 cents to $1 per watt to install solar systems. The sample system above is 6600 watts, so it would be reasonable for a local contractor to charge $6600 for installation.
$10,000 + $6,600 = $16,600, and after the 30% tax credit, the final installed cost of this system would be around $11,620.
These costs will be highly variable. The final cost really depends on what percentage of the work you contract out.
It's quite common for someone to install most of the system, then pay an electrician to wire their inverter into the main panel. That would typically only cost a few hundred dollars.
You might also bring in a roofing company to install flashings on your roof. Their rate will vary based on the slope and material of the roof (some materials, like tile, are harder to work with).
It can be challenging to find one contractor who can do the entire job. The more common choice is to do as much of the project as possible by yourself, then hire a few specialists (like a roofer and an electrician) to finish the job.
What about turnkey solutions? Plenty of companies will take the reins and sell you the complete package: design, equipment and installation. It's the most hassle-free way to go solar, but they will charge you a premium to provide a full-service solution.
Some of the major players in this space are Tesla, Vivint Solar and Sunrun.
Turnkey providers charge 100-200% of the equipment cost for installation. So for the same $10,000 system, you can expect an additional $10,000-$20,000 in installation charges. It's a wide range, but we've seen real quotes that cover the whole spectrum.
To pin down a number for the sake of comparison, let's say it costs $3.50 per watt to install solar with a turnkey provider (equipment costs included). That number is consistent with historical pricing studies published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Energy, and it falls right in the middle of the range referenced above.
At $3.50 per watt, a turnkey provider would quote the same system at $23,100. That shakes out to a final cost of $16,170 after you claim your federal tax credit.
We talked about budget first because it's the most important factor (if not the only factor) a lot of people consider when they buy a solar system. For many, decisions start and end with the goal of squeezing the most value possible out of their array.
Whether or not you own the tools necessary to complete the home modifications and installation. Most home owners have a tool kit and many of the best track saws will get the carpentry side done however, electrical tools are less commonly found in the average household.
Consider a turnkey installer if: Time is more valuable to you than money.
Maybe you care most about spending time with your family, or commit long hours to a demanding job. Whatever it is that makes you tick, you'd rather enjoy your life than work on a construction project if you can help it.
One other note: certain solar brands have exclusive distribution and installation partnerships. For example, if you love Tesla (who doesn't?) and want to install a Powerwall and a Solar Roof, you have to go straight to Tesla. No other company in the world is allowed to sell or install their products.
If you're married to a particular brand, like Tesla, you may have no other choice but to go with them as your turnkey provider.
The verdict: Turnkey is the way to go if you don't need to be involved in your project, and just want to ensure it's professionally installed without any issues. This is the most hands-off, hassle-free installation option. It costs more than the alternatives, but the convenience is well worth it if you have the room to fit it in your budget.
If you're interested in a turnkey solar installation, get quotes from Solar Power Rocks partners near you.
Consider a DIY solar installation if: Saving money and maximizing your investment is your primary concern, and/or you enjoy hands-on projects.
Do you take pride in building things yourself? Do you have experience with hands-on projects (or are you willing to do your research and learn the ropes)?
DIYers will be involved in the project every step of the way. You'll choose your parts, design the system layout, track down permits, and assemble the system with your own hands.
There are no shortage of DIY solar resources to guide you through installation, and the whole process is much simpler than a lot of people think. The system comes with a wiring diagram to label the connections, so every part has a clearly defined place to go.
Certain parts need to be screwed and bolted down, and the wiring can be tricky (most people spend a few hundred bucks for an electrician to hook the wires into the junction box). But in general, a project like this is well within reach, even for people without formal construction experience.
Not only is it the least expensive option, installing your own system is the best way to become familiar with its inner workings. You'll have a much better idea of how your system is connected, and what each part does, if you put the thing together yourself.
And when it comes time to replace something (like the inverter, which typically needs to be swapped out halfway through the life of the system), you'll know exactly how it's hooked up and what you need to do to replace it.
The verdict: DIY solar is the least expensive installation option. If you're willing to source the equipment yourself and feel comfortable with hands-on projects, the payoff is well worth it. Nothing beats the sense of pride when you flip on your personal power plant that you assembled with your own hands.
Consider hiring an independent contractor if: you want a nice middle ground between budget and convenience.
You get to play designer, pick the parts you love, and build a custom system to call your own. That's the fun part, and most everyone who goes solar wants some level of involvement in the decision-making process.
Local contractors provide an extra layer of expertise to guide you through your project. They'll talk to the distributor about any technical details that fly over your head.
Of course, they also perform the labor when it comes time to install the system. This is the part that's most appealing to a lot of people: passing off the grunt work to a third party.
The nice thing about this approach is you can have as much or as little involvement in the process you like. Some people order the parts and then pass off the entire installation to a construction team.
But most people assemble the bulk of the system themselves, only handing off the more challenging aspects of the project (like electrical hookups or roofing work) to the specialists.
We call this option "DIY with help" as the customer does most of the research, and maybe some of the labor, before handing the project off for completion.
If you are willing to do the legwork to source the parts, an independent contractor's rates will beat any quote from a turnkey installer by a landslide.
The verdict: Go this route if you want to play a part in the design process, but prefer to sit back and relax while someone else does the heavy lifting on the installation.
You'll save thousands of dollars vs. a turnkey installation, but you still have an expert on your side when you get stuck.
Don't DIY: Why installing solar panels yourself can cost you more What Could Go Wrong with My Solar Install? Should I install solar now, or wait until the cost goes down? Should you install more solar, or add batteries?
Great article with a lot of insights. Solar is just the way to go and will become more and more prevalent as people learn more about it.
According to EnergySage, the price per watt in 2018 is $2.71 – $3.57. According to PowerScout, the cost in 2017 was $3.00 – $3.70, and of course prices have come down since then. According to HomeAdvisor, it's $2.50 – $4.00. In many areas, you can now get turnkey solar for less than $3.50/watt.


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Q: Probability generating function for negative values of random variables? What if we have negative integral values for a random variable?Then is it possible to write a probability generating function for it? All definitions I have seen so far is for non negative integer values. I hope someone could assist me. Thanks

A: Using probability generating functions $s\mapsto E(s^X)$ for $s$ in $[0,1]$, for negative valued random variables $X$ would be taking the risk of manipulating divergent series. This is the reason why random variables with negative values (integer or not) are best dealt with using characteristic functions $t\mapsto E(\mathrm e^{\mathrm i tX})$ for every real number $t$, always well defined and allowing every manipulation that probability generating functions would.

A: Yes, you could define a possion distribution on negative integers as follows. Let support of $X$ be $\{0,-1,-2,...\}$ and let pdf of $X$ be
$$f(x)=\frac{e^{-\lambda}\lambda^{-x}}{(-x)!}$$
compared to $Y$ with support $\{0,1,2,...\}$ with possion has pdf
$$f(y)=\frac{e^{-\lambda}\lambda^{y}}{(y)!}$$

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The Beast from the East could bring a Big Freeze worse than 2010
Cold air from Minsk in Russia could bring a prolonged spell of bitter weather
Colleen SmithDevon Live Chief Reporter
Britain is about to enter a deep freeze that the Met Office says could bring significant amounts of snow and bitterly cold weather before the start of Spring.
The weather models indicate a large mass of cold air barrelling in Minsk in Russian by tomorrow.
Be prepared for a prolonged spell of bitter weather after recent milder temperatures teased Brits into thinking Spring was on the way.
Some forecasts indicate the cold snap could be one of the most severe seen for several years in Britain as thoughts of milder days are back on ice.
Is it cheaper to leave heating on low rather than turn it off and on?
The change is down to a slab of bitter air ripping across Europe towards the UK and experts are predicting prolonged spells of sub-zero temperatures and a risk of snow in the east and south-east of England.
St Mary's Church in Kingskerswell in 2004 (Image: John Hartley)
Boffins blamed the looming icy blast on a dramatic rise in air temperature, known as Sudden Stratospheric Warming, at around 30km above the North Pole, and this rare event is set to draw bitter weather from the east.
Rare weather phenomenon could bring Big Freeze back to Britain, emergency services warned
This warming results from a breakdown of the usual high-altitude westerly winds and often leads to a switch in weather conditions with a cold easterly blast more likely to dominate subsequent UK weather instead of the usual Atlantic flow.
There tends to be a delay of about 10 days before effects of the Polar split are noticed because it takes time for the influence in the upper atmosphere to feed down to lower levels.
Snowplough at work on Dartmoor in 2003 (Image: Steve Pope)
The mercury will start to dip from midweek, but colder weather will be felt in all areas by Sunday with values struggling around freezing as a raw wind tears across the country.
Widespread overnight frosts are also likely with the bitter conditions possibly remaining for a lengthy spell.
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A spokesperson for The Weather Channel said it was set to feel bitter as brisk winds reverted to the east and north-east.
The forecaster added: "Temperatures will be dropping 2-3C below average by the end of the week.
"Confidence is building in a cold, unsettled start to March with temperatures below normal and dominated by various areas of low pressure, with much of the associated precipitation falling as snow."
However, some forecasts suggest milder air will eventually push upwards through the country from the south banishing the bitterly cold air to the north.
What is a Sudden Stratospheric Warming?
An SSW event occurs when that mass of cold Arctic air, known as a polar vortex, expands and gets pushed south, carried along with the jet stream.
Forecaster Dr Dave Reynolds, of The Weather Channel, said the mass of polar air was set to expand and possibly drag bitter air towards the UK.
He explained: "The process of vortex splitting is accompanied by sudden stratospheric warming, whereby temperatures in the stratosphere rise.
"This warming can then extend downwards through the depth of the atmosphere and result in an increased risk of blocking, which in winter-time raises the chance of widespread cold conditions developing."
This prevents milder conditions from the west heading across the Atlantic allowing colder air to dominate. However, there's no guarantee Europe will see increased cold.
"To go from vortex splitting and sudden stratospheric warming to a blocked pattern won't occur overnight, it's a process that can actually take some 10 days to three weeks."
The forecaster said computer models indicated a cold, blocked pattern over Scandinavia for the last week of February and first week of March, reinforced by a possible polar vortex split and accompanying stratospheric warming.

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Konate Likely out for Brawl; Capel, Huggins Appreciate Each Other, Rivalry
Pitt at Georgia Tech Postponed Due to Yellow Jackets' Positive COVID-19 Test
PITTSBURGH — West Virginia power forward Sagaba Konate will not play in Saturday's Backyard Brawl, WVU head coach Bob Huggins said in an appearance on 93.7 The Fan on Friday afternoon.
Konate, who flirted with leaving early for the NBA after a tremendous 2017-18 season, has done even better so far in 2018-19. The Kennedy Catholic (Hermitage, Pa.) grad is averaging 13.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. He also blocks over two shots per game.
Konate has been dealing with a right-knee injury and missed the game against Rider on Nov. 28. He played in the Mountaineers' 66-56 loss to Florida on Tuesday, but was 2 of 10 for just four points.
"I don't think Konate plays on Saturday," Huggins said. "I don't think there's any chance that he does."
His absence should be of significance for Pitt. The Panthers' big men have not come through much the scoring department this season, and the presence of an elite shot-blocker like Konate could have de-railed their efforts further.
ADMIRATION STATION
Pitt head coach Jeff Capel said on Thursday that he's admired Huggins' ability to adapt as the game has changed and the fact that he's been able to continue to display his trademarked fiery nature and utilize his notoriously difficult practices, despite a changing landscape in basketball that means many players enter the collegiate ranked having never been coached that way before.
"I've always had a ton of respect for him," Capel said. "I think he's coached some of the best teams. I thought he had a team at Cincinnati – it's a travesty what happened to Kenyon Martin because I thought they were the best team in the country. The thing that I've always admired is how his players love him. And he coaches them hard. I mean, really, really hard. But they know that he loves them, and because of that, they love him and he's able to coach them hard, he's able to push them, he's able to, at times, take it to the edge, but they know that he really and truly cares about them."
"I've always felt that's the sign of a really good coach, is how loyal the players are to him. And you go back to those guys that played for him at Cincinnati and the guys that play for him now at West Virginia and that have played for him there and even his one year at K-State or however many years he was there, they are incredibly loyal to him. That's a testament to who he is as a man more than as a coach."
Huggins likewise gave high praise to the job that Capel has done thus far at Pitt. When asked during his weekly interview with broadcaster Tony Caridi how Pitt looks under Capel, Huggins didn't mince words.
"Duke. I mean that's what they are. They're straight-line drive guys. They put tremendous amount of pressure on the rim the way they want o play fans and they've got three guys shooting over, I think it's over 43 percent from three. So they get you spread and attack you."
KEEPING IT GOING?
The teams will play for the second straight season after allowing the rivalry to go dormant from 2012 to 2017. They have two more games in the current contract. It seems Huggins is keen to keep the rivalry going beyond that.
"We need to do it for the fanbase of both schools," he said on The Fan. "It's drivable for our people, drivable for their people, and it's a great atmosphere. It's one of the great atmosphere in college basketball."
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Cpl James Elliott
19 Apr, 1972 | Northern Ireland, Ulster Defence Regiment | 0 |
CPL. Elliott was abducted on a border road near Newtownhamilton where his body was found. It was said he was being taken to a place for interrogation and was shot when he drew his weapon and fired at his abductors. This claim was rejected by the RUC who said that medical evidence shows that he Cpl. Elliott had been held for a day and a half before being killed.
Cpl. Elliott's wife was pregnant at the time of his death. A Belfast Telegraph report of 27 April said: "feelings ran high in Rathfriland last night after news of finding the UDR ,man's body, shot through the head and back and surrounded by a minefield of 6 Claymore devices and a huge 500lb bomb only feet from the body. Youths smashed windows in Roman Catholic premises in the town before they were dispersed by security forces. Tripwires ran from the body to explosives and across the border to a farm building. The booby trap was set so that the bomb would go off if the body was moved".
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Officers Mess of 16 Parachute Brigade
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* A number of `Stdio` related doc examples include running the "rev"
only the end of the sentence.
constants for arrays (see #58212).
fix stabilization order of uniform_paths.
Revert "Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'"
This PR contains a number of improvements to the `unused_doc_comments` lint.
- Extends the span to cover the entire comment when using sugared doc comments.
- Triggers the lint for all unused doc comments on a node, instead of just the first one.
- Triggers the lint on macro expansions, and provides a help note explaining that doc comments must be expanded by the macro.
- Adds a label pointing at the node that cannot be documented.
Furthermore, this PR fixes any instances in rustc where a macro expansion was erroneously documented.
It passed `python x.py test src/tools/tidy`  locally, as well as the recommendation to run `/x.py test src/test/ui --stage 1 --bless`.
Moves these passes as early as possible so later passes will see the same markdown that is passed to the test collector.
Fixes #58473, and a similar issue with the private-doc-tests lint.
Local measurements indicate the performance effect is negligible.
This commit prevents code using `async fn` from being compiled in Rust 2015 edition.
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This resolves #58652 and also resolves #53714.
This removes two dependencies of the old version (string_cache is already the latest version).
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Letter To Oratory Benefactors
To our Dear Oratory Benefactors:
It has been some months since Fr. Driscoll and I have communicated with all of you, our dear Oratory benefactors. It has been a challenging year for all of us (we arrived in San Francisco August 2014), but I know that God sanctifies us through difficulties. I think the Archbishop, however, would agree with me that establishing an Oratory has proven to be far more complex than we would have thought. As of Wednesday, with Brother Gabriel's departure, our Oratory project has been put on hold, and I want to explain where we stand now and what we hope for the future.
I tried my best, but I have to say it is beyond my capacity to both form an Oratorian community and dedicate myself to rebuilding a needy parish, especially in the difficult circumstances in which we found ourselves. We thank God that the Archbishop entrusted us with Star of the Sea, but it has required so much time and energy that little remained to build the community. Much of the parish infrastructure has been rebuilt, and good relations with the wider community is being restored, but more needs to be done before we can provide the peaceful order needed for an Oratorian community to flourish.
The Archdiocese has required our candidates (Brothers Ivan and Gabriel) to be accepted into its seminary program in order to stay with us. We had hoped to send Brother Ivan to St. Patrick's Seminary this fall, but he has decided to discern instead with the Institute of the Incarnate Word, in which his sister is in formation. Brother Gabriel has also decided to apply to his home Diocese of Pittsburgh, PA, rather than the Archdiocese of San Francisco. We thank God for having had these two men for the year, we will miss them, and we pray for them as they test their vocations elsewhere. Other candidates have asked to discern with us, but we cannot accept them until we receive recognition from the Archdiocese. For his own good reasons, Archbishop Cordileone has decided to await further developments before granting that recognition. I am content with his wisdom. I will focus on my archdiocesan assignment, which is Star of the Sea parish, until he decides to move ahead with the Oratory project.
I want to thank all of you for your sacrificial prayers and financial gifts. You have supported an Oratorian community for this year, which has brought inestimable benefit to the four of us, to our parish, and to our archdiocese. We have prayed our "oratory" before the Blessed Sacrament twice a day together, taken daily meals in common with reading at table, studied the Oratorian Constitutions, read biographies of St. Philip and other Oratory literature writings together, been faithful to community recreations and outings, and put ourselves at the service of the parish and archdiocese. It has been a solid formative year for all of us, and much good has resulted.
Besides the four of us, the parish has also benefitted immensely from your support. We've developed a deeper prayer life for the parish; for example, 10-12 laypeople join us for public vespers every evening, a dozen men come together for prayer and fellowship in the Little Oratory twice a month, 60 people come to our parish Holy Hour every Tuesday, many are coming for all-day adoration every Saturday, and our church is now open 12 hours a day for public prayer. Many are making regular confessions because a priest is in the confessional before every Mass. Many are embracing the spirituality of Christian stewardship: Mass attendance, services to the poor, and the Sunday offertory have all increased. We now have 20 young men and boys serving the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Mass. We continue to offer more Latin Masses than any other parish (six days a week) and have improved the sacred music program, including Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony on Sundays, with a children's chorister program in development.
Among physical improvements are new sound and security systems, upgraded electrical and lighting systems, new carpet, and a cloud-based computer network for the office. We now have a Parish Council, a functioning Finance Council, a parish budget, a website, and a full-color parish bulletin. Parish staff are meeting regularly and now have job descriptions. Adults are learning the Catholic faith through a newly-established RCIA program, weekly bible studies, and occasional courses in prayer and doctrine; the Missionaries of Charity Sisters are teaching our catechism students; and we have good attendance for our Speakers' Series (Raymond Arroyo spoke in May and Fiorella de Maria last week). On the social level, we have begun monthly parish barbecues, coffee and pastry after Masses, and are planning a parish pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Crucial to the life of this parish, and this archdiocese, is Eucharistic Adoration. Making perpetual adoration available to our parish and the entire city will be our focus this coming year. Donors have given $60,000 for a perpetual adoration chapel, which we hope to open in a few months. Our greatest challenge is getting enough people to commit to regular adoration hours, so please pray for this intention! We thank God for the beautiful parish and school that is Star of the Sea.
Your sacrificial gifts have strengthened this parish, a community with so much potential for good in the City of San Francisco. But where does that leave the Oratory? Archbishop Cordileone has told me that he wants an Oratory and considers San Francisco a perfect place for an Oratorian community. We await his guidance and direct support, which he will provide as God allows. In the meantime, I will remain faithful to my assignment at Star of the Sea parish, doing my best to provide quality preaching and education, beautiful and reverent sacramental liturgy, and pastoral charity, especially to the neediest.
As of right now, we have enough in the Oratory account, to cover Fr. Driscoll's salary, benefits, and insurance for the next two years. As the Oratory is on hold, you are under no obligation to continue fulfilling your pledges, but are welcome to do so, to support our apostolate in this parish and archdiocese, as we await the Archbishop's further direction. God willing, he will provide the means to establish an Oratory in a year or two, and we hope to be a part of that establishment. We cannot thank you enough for your support thus far, and will continue to keep you in our daily prayers and Masses.
Star of the Sea Parish
4420 Geary Blvd.


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Death Squadron personnel
Imperial Navy admirals of the Galactic Empire
Imperial Navy pilots of the Galactic Empire
Chiraneau
< Chiraneau
4 ABY, Executor, above Endor[1]
Human[2]
Male[2]
Gray[2]
Brown[3]
Light[4]
Chronological and political information
Affiliation(s)
Galactic Empire[4]
Imperial Navy[2]
Chiraneau was a Human male who served the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. A TIE fighter ace and an expert in the field of deep-space transmissions, he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral by Firmus Piett, the commanding officer of Darth Vader's Death Squadron. In 4 ABY, Chiraneau was serving as Piett's personal advisor aboard the Super Star Destroyer Executor during the Battle of Endor, and he was killed when the warship plummeted into the second Death Star's surface.
1.1 Ace pilot
1.2 Battle of Endor
2 Personality and traits
3 Skills and Abilities
4 Equipment
5.1 Deleted scenes
Biography[edit | edit source]
Ace pilot[edit | edit source]
A Human male, Chiraneau was an expert in the field of deep-space transmissions. In his service to the Galactic Empire, he also flew as a TIE pilot, becoming an ace.[2]
This section of the article assumes 100% game completion. Alternate stories are noted in the "Behind the scenes" section. Note: The events in this section may or may not have been confirmed as canon within the Star Wars Legends continuity.
Sometime following the Battle of Yavin, Chiraneau partook in a skirmish against at least one Rebel pilot. Although defeated in the engagement, Chiraneau managed to escape the battle in his crippled TIE fighter.[3]
Assumption ends here.
Chiraneau was later promoted[2] to the naval rank of Rear Admiral[5] at the request of Admiral Firmus Piett,[2] the commanding officer of Death Squadron, the personal Star Destroyer fleet[6] of the Dark Lord Darth Vader.[4] Chiraneau served as Piett's personal advisor[2] aboard the Super Star Destroyer Executor,[7] the flagship of the fleet.[8] At some point during his service as a Rear Admiral, Chiraneau piloted a VT-49 Decimator.[5]
Battle of Endor[edit | edit source]
Chiraneau (right) was present for Darth Vader's arrival aboard the second Death Star.
In 4 ABY,[1] Chiraneau was present aboard the second Death Star battlestation during its construction in the Endor system. He was one of the Imperial officers assembled to greet Vader when the Sith Lord arrived aboard the Death Star to discuss the station's lagging construction schedule with Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod, the station's commander.[4] At some point around the same time period, Chiraneau was among the officers who strode down a corridor alongside Vader and Jerjerrod.[9]
When the Rebel Alliance launched an attack on the Death Star,[4] Chiraneau served aboard the Executor as Piett's personal advisor during the engagement.[7] After a Rebel A-wing starfighter crashed into the Executor's bridge, setting off a chain reaction that sent the warship out of control,[4] Chiraneau died[7] when the massive Super Star Destroyer collided with the Death Star's surface.[4]
Personality and traits[edit | edit source]
Chiraneau had gray hair,[2] brown eyes[3] and light skin.[4]
Skills and Abilities[edit | edit source]
Chiraneau was a deep-space transmissions expert[2] and a TIE fighter ace.[7]
Equipment[edit | edit source]
On one occasion, Admiral Chiraneau wore the standard-issue Imperial officer's uniform without a rank insignia plaque or a code cylinder,[3] though by 4 ABY,[1] he wore the uniform with both of those.[4]
Chiraneau, as he appeared in Star Wars Galaxies
Admiral Chiraneau first appeared in the opening scene of 1983's Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi as an unnamed background character.[4] Although not credited in the film, he was portrayed by Mike Havord.[10] He was given a name and a brief backstory in the 2000 Death Star II Limited expansion set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game,[2] and in the 2001 video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Chiraneau's name appeared as one of the leaders for an AI player controlling the Empire in the standard game mode.[11]
Chiraneau, in his TIE fighter, was added to the video game Star Wars Galaxies[3] in Game Update 20[12] as one of various, randomly-generated "elite pilots" whom the player, as a Rebel character, can fight in a Tier 7 Duty Mission. When vanquished, a message indicates that the player successfully defeated Chiraneau. The player then receives a collection icon for the feat.[3]
Deleted scenes[edit | edit source]
An unused version of the scene featuring Chiraneau was reused in the Special Edition of The Empire Strikes Back.
According to several images found on T-bone's Star Wars Universe website, Chiraneau was meant to appear in at least two more scenes in Return of the Jedi not found in the film's final version. The first four images show Vader and a group of Imperial officers, Chiraneau included, heading toward the Death Star's docking bay to greet Emperor Palpatine upon his arrival.[13] A still from that deleted scene was used for the "Imperial Command" card for the Death Star II Limited set, though there was no confirmation that it depicted the same event in-universe.[9]
Because an alternate angle of the Return of the Jedi scene showing Vader's arrival on the second Death Star was reused for Vader's return to the Executor from Bespin in the Special Edition release of The Empire Strikes Back, Mike Havord can be seen in the Special Edition version alongside other extras who portrayed Imperial officers in Return of the Jedi.[14]
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (Appeared in comm message)
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (First appearance)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi PhotoComic
Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi book-and-record (Picture only)
Sources[edit | edit source]
Star Wars: The Action Figure Archive (Picture only)
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Death Star II Limited (Card: Admiral Chiraneau) (First identified as Chiraneau)
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Death Star II Limited (Card: Captain Sarkli) (Picture only)
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Death Star II Limited (Card: Imperial Command) (Picture only)
"The Men Who Built the Empire"—Star Wars Insider 96 (Picture only)
Death Star Owner's Technical Manual (Picture only)
Darth Vader in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (Video clip only)
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game – Rulesheet (Card: Rear Admiral Chiraneau—VT-49 Decimator)
Star Wars: Armada – Gladiator-class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack (Card: Admiral Chiraneau)
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The New Essential Chronology dates the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, which includes the destruction of the Super Star Destroyer Executor above Endor, which The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 123 ("Chiraneau, Admiral") confirms killed Chiraneau, to 4 ABY.
↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Death Star II Limited (Card: Admiral Chiraneau)
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game – Rulesheet (Card: Rear Admiral Chiraneau—VT-49 Decimator)
↑ Piett, Admiral in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 123 ("Chiraneau, Admiral")
↑ Super Star Destroyer in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
↑ 9.0 9.1 Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Death Star II Limited (Card: Imperial Command)
↑ Oldbury, Dave Louis (2011-07-14). My Mike Havord Starwars Autograph. Star Wars Autograph Collecting. let-the-wookie-win.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2018. (backup link not available)
↑ Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
↑ Star Wars Galaxies - News - Game Update 20: Galactic Civil War 2 – Space on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
↑ T-bone (2003-06-03). T-bone's Star Wars Universe - Return of the Jedi - Off To See The Emperor. T-bone's Star Wars Universe. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved on January 20, 2011.
↑ Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
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Carbon3D introduces CLIP, breakthrough technology for layerless 3D printing
Harnesses light + oxygen to grow commercial quality parts at game-changing speeds
Partners with Sequoia and Silver Lake Kraftwerk and raises $41 million
Vancouver, CANADA – March 16, 2015 – Carbon3D today emerged from stealth on the main stage of the TED conference with an innovative approach to polymer-based 3D printing that promises to advance the industry beyond basic prototyping to 3D manufacturing. The new Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP) harnesses light and oxygen to continuously grow objects from a pool of resin instead of printing them layer-by-layer. The technology was simultaneously introduced to the scientific community as the cover story in the journal Science. Carbon3D's CLIP technology raises the state-of-the-art in 3D printing in three ways:
GAME-CHANGING SPEED: 25-100 times faster than conventional 3D printing
COMMERCIAL QUALITY: produces objects with consistent mechanical properties
MATERIAL CHOICE: enables a broad range of polymeric materials
"Current 3D printing technology has failed to deliver on its promise to revolutionize manufacturing," said Dr. Joseph DeSimone, CEO and Co-Founder, Carbon3D. "Our CLIP technology offers the game-changing speed, consistent mechanical properties and choice of materials required for complex commercial quality parts."
How CLIP Works
Existing 3D printing technology, or additive manufacturing, is really just 2D printing, over and over again. As a result, 3D printed parts take many hours, even days, to produce and are mechanically weak due to their shale-like layers. Using a tunable photochemical process instead of the traditional mechanical approach, Carbon3D's layerless continuous liquid interface production technology (CLIP) eliminates these shortcomings to rapidly transform 3D models into physical objects. By carefully balancing the interaction of UV light, which triggers photo polymerization, and oxygen, which inhibits the reaction, CLIP continuously grows objects from a pool of resin at speeds 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printing.
At the heart of the CLIP process is a special window that is transparent to light and permeable to oxygen, much like a contact lens. By controlling the oxygen flux through the window, CLIP creates a "dead zone" in the resin pool just tens of microns thick (about 2-3 diameters of a red blood cell) where photopolymerization cannot occur. As a series of cross-sectional images of a 3D model is played like a movie into the resin pool from underneath, the physical object emerges continuously from just above the dead zone. Conventionally made 3D printed parts are notorious for having mechanical properties that vary depending on the direction the parts were printed because of the layer-by-layer approach. Much more like injection-molded parts, CLIP produces consistent and predictable mechanical properties, smooth on the outside and solid on the inside.
Venture Backing
Carbon3D also announced it had partnered with Sequoia Capital to lead the company's Series A round of financing in 2013 along with Northgate Partners, Piedmont Capital Partners and Wakefield Group. Silver Lake Kraftwerk led the Series B round of financing in 2014 with Northgate Capital and Sequoia Capital, for a total raise of $41 million to commercialize the technology.
"If 3D printing hopes to break out of the prototyping niche it has been trapped in for decades, we need to find a disruptive technology that attacks the problem from a fresh perspective and addresses 3D printing's fundamental weaknesses," said Jim Goetz, Carbon3D board member and Sequoia partner. "When we met Joe and saw what his team had invented, it was immediately clear to us that 3D printing would never be the same."
"We had studied the additive manufacturing ecosystem comprehensively and had concluded that the promise far exceeded the current reality in the marketplace," said Adam Grosser, Carbon3D board member and Managing Director at Silver Lake Kraftwerk. "When we witnessed the CLIP process, we believed we had found a company that had invented a solution to speed, quality, and material selection. We are proud to work alongside Carbon3D to create a new category of 3D manufacturing."
To learn more visit: https://carbon3d.com
Media kit: https://carbon3d.com/media-kit
About Carbon3D
Carbon3D, a Silicon Valley based company, was founded in 2013 in Chapel Hill, NC. Working at the intersection of hardware, software and molecular science, Carbon3D is delivering on the promise of 3D printing, allowing commercial customers to go beyond prototyping to achieve 3D manufacturing. The Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP) was originally developed by Professor Joseph DeSimone, Professor Edward Samulski, and Dr. Alex Ermoshkin and introduced simultaneously at TED 2015 and to the scientific community (Science, 2015). Since its inception, Carbon3D has partnered with Sequoia Capital to lead the company's Series A round of financing in 2013 along with Northgate Partners, Piedmont Capital Partners and Wakefield Group. Silver Lake Kraftwerk led the Series B round of financing in 2014 with Northgate Capital and Sequoia Capital, for a total raise of $41 million to date.
About Sequoia
The Sequoia team helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. We spur them to push the boundaries of what's possible. In partnering with Sequoia, companies benefit from our unmatched community and the lessons we've learned over 40 years working with Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, John Morgridge, Jerry Yang, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, Adi Tatarko and Jack Dorsey, among many others. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 20% of NASDAQ's total value. We're proud that their success also fuels great causes: since 2000 alone we have returned more than $10 billion to non-profits like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT.
About Silver Lake Kraftwerk
Silver Lake Kraftwerk is part of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing with over $23 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of approximately 110 investment and value creation professionals located around the world. Silver Lake Kraftwerk focuses on providing growth capital to technology innovators with established business models in the energy and resource sectors. Silver Lake Kraftwerk targets companies globally that leverage technology and business model innovation to improve energy efficiency, reduce waste and emissions, harness renewable energy, and more efficiently use natural resources, among other applications. For more information about Silver Lake Kraftwerk and its entire portfolio, please visit www.silverlake.com.


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Almost a week after Zee News promptly shut the Congress on false charges of doctoring a video, a live video done by editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary went viral on social media with the audience appreciating his stance.
A video last week showed 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans being raised at an election rally addressed by senior Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu. After Zee News brought to light the video, the Congress leaders remained defiant and instead accused Zee News of playing a 'fake video'.
After the stand taken by Zee News amidst the accusations by Congress, Sudhir Chaudhary made a live video on social media platform Facebook and reiterated that the stand taken by the media organisation is influenced by truth and truth alone. The video has garnered the support of thousands of people on the social media platform.
The post has had 3.2 million hits till Tuesday 10 pm, shared at least 55,884 times and 91,000 likes. After Chaudhary shared the video on Twitter, the post was retweeted by at least 1K people and liked by 2.8K people.
But Congress leaders were defiant and accused Zee News of playing a doctored video. Sidhu even threatened to file a defamation case against Zee News. Congress supporters launched a campaign against Zee News on social media which was also supported by a few media houses and journalists. Congress leaders went as far as possible to tweet suitably edited videos that omitted the part where the slogans were raised.


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If you choose any of the semi-dedicated servers offered by our company, you will be able to use DKIM protection with any domain that you register through your brand new semi-dedicated hosting account without any manual intervention, as our leading-edge cloud platform will set up all the needed records automatically, provided that the domain uses our name servers. The aforementioned is needed for a TXT record to be set up for the domain, since this is how the public key can become available in the global DNS system. The private key will also be added automatically to our mail servers, so every time you send a new email, it will carry our platform's electronic signature. The number of spam email messages continues to increase every year and quite often forged email addresses are used, but when you use our hosting services, you and your customers or associates will not need to bother about that.


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Fat embolism (FE) occurs frequently after trauma and during orthopaedic procedures involving manipulation of intramedullary contents. Classically characterized as a triad of pulmonary distress, neurologic symptoms, and petechial rash, the clinical entity of FE syndrome is much less common. Both mechanical and biochemical pathophysiologic theories have been proposed with contributions of vascular obstruction and the inflammatory response to embolized fat and trauma. Recent studies have described the relationship of embolized marrow fat with deep venous thrombosis and postsurgical cognitive decline, but without clear treatment strategies. Because treatment is primarily supportive, our focus must be on prevention. In trauma, early fracture stabilization decreases the rate of FE syndrome; however, questions remain regarding the effect of reaming and management of bilateral femur fractures. In arthroplasty, computer navigation and alternative cementation techniques decrease fat embolization, although the clinical implications of these techniques are currently unclear, illustrating the need for ongoing education and research with an aim toward prevention.
Neither of the following authors nor any immediate family member has received anything of value from or has stock or stock options held in a commercial company or institution related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article: Dr. Rothberg and Dr. Makarewich.
JAAOS - Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons27(8):e346-e355, April 15, 2019.


ReactiveSocket Protocol for Client/Server for JS. Also comes with a CLI.
This library only supports the request/response, setup and error interactions. More interactions are coming soon.
The transport for this library is built entirely on top of the Node.js Stream API. As a result, it is agnostic to the underlying transport mechanism. As long as you pass in a transport stream that is a Node.js Duplex stream, this library will work.
Using streams means that this library natively supports backpressure regardless of the transport implementation.
We currently target TCP via the net module, and WebSockets via the yws-stream module. You are of course, free to inject other transports.
This library supports 3 classes of clients. A fully managed load balancer, which automatically manages a pool of connections and takes care of automatically reconnecting and load-balancing connections from the pool. A fully managed single TCP connection, which can be configured to automatically reconnect if the TCP connection disconnects. Lastly a "raw" ReactiveSocket connection, which doesn't include any retry or transport logic. You provide a transport stream to plug in to the connection. This is the most flexible client, as you can use it with any transport mechanism. Examples for TCP and WebSockets are provided.
// Create any transport stream that's a Node.js Duplex Stream.
As a convenience for the user, the ReactiveSocket client provide 'timeout' events. Below is an example of how to listen to those events.
ReactiveSocket client allows you to specify if you want to honor the lease semantic.
If you don't, it means that the ReactiveSocket is ready as soon as the connection is established, and you can start sending messages. But if you do, it means the client has to wait for a LEASE frame from the server before sending messages.
Note that nothing is preventing the client to send requests to the server before receiving the LEASE, the LEASE reception only update the return value of the availability method (number between 0 and 1.0).
The availability method gives precious information to a potential higher level library (e.g. load-balancing library) about the capability of the underlying connection.
More details about the lease semantic are available in the protocol Spec.
ReactiveSocket uses the metrix library to collect and export metrics. By default, the library doesn't collect any metrics, and then its usage doesn't have any impact on the performance of ReactiveSocket.
To enable the collection, you need to pass a Recorder when creating a ReactiveSocket, and listen to this Recorder with an Aggregator.
This library comes with a CLI. You can use it by installing this module.
There are two versions of the client CLI. The simple CLI makes one request to a server.
Simple echo servers are also available for both TCP and Websocket.
Contributions welcome, please ensure make check runs clean.


Housing affordability in Australia continues to be a hot topic, especially for young Aussies looking to live independently of family.
Moving out of home is a rite of passage for every young person. There comes a time when you want to make your own choices, live life the way you want and, most importantly, have your own space.
All animals have different personalities and unique characters. Some are more laid back than others which can affect how they adapt to change and separation from you.
House and pet sitting is open to anyone with the will to travel and a love for animals. That's it!
New people to meet, new places to visit and new pets to keep you company are just around the corner on a house and pet sitting adventure.
About an hour's drive northeast of Adelaide in Southern Australia lies the Barossa Valley which derives its name from the surrounding Barossa Ranges. With a population of only 20,000 people living mostly in four major towns, the area exudes a quiet, quaint serenity that belies its role as a world-class wine producing region. It is a restful and interesting location to venture out with a spot house sitting or pet sitting and take in a touch of the world!
My name is Jo and although I am no longer a house sitter I thought I'd write and share my house sitting experiences with you. My partner and I first learned about house sitting from family and friends and I thought it sounded like an ideal way to save money on accommodation so we decided to give it a go.
Perched atop the northern rim of the country, closer to Singapore than it is to Canberra, Darwin has grown from an outpost into one of Australia's most modern cities with a cultural diversity unseen in any other part of the country. Named after the Charles Darwin who had previously sailed with the HMS Beagle, the city was destroyed by Japanese air raids in WW II and Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Because of both occasions, Darwin has been rebuilt twice, each time making it more and more modern. It has a dry season with blue skies and soft breezes, and a wet season with cyclones, heavy rains and spectacular lightning displays.
Every year, to celebrate its phoenix-like rise from the ashes, the city stages the Darwin Festival, an exciting event that showcases its multicultural population, distinct weather, picturesque outdoors and vibrant arts.
My dog Flee. She's travelled the country with me and made some great friends on these house and pet sitting adventures.
I can't imagine how I could travel Australia to raise money and awareness for Oscar's Law without her. She is my inspiration.
The thing that I like most about choosing to house and pet sit is that Flee has a 'home' to stay at when I'm out. It's impractical to have her at a photo shoot so it gives me peace of mind that lovely home owners are willing to share their properties with Flee and I to call home for at least a little while.
It's as 'Good as Gold' being a house sitter on the Gold Coast!
Whether you are holidaying or home sitting on the Gold Coast in sunny Queensland, you are sure to find a whole range of things to do, see and have fun. The Gold Coast is a place with a heart of gold, full of lively, vibrant people and all the amenities close at hand. Only 94 kilometres south of Brisbane, the Gold Coast has a reputation as a top class tourist destination, fantastic surfing and impeccable views and beaches.
I love to travel and my most recent experience was to Nashville where I visited the Grand Ole Opry. This is best known for housing the longest-running radio show in America, and a country music institution since 1925.
The venue used to be housed at the Ryman Auditorium (which is a wonderful old building still in the heart of Nashville), until 1974 when it moved to its new location on the east side of downtown Nashville. It now seats over 4000 people.


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Movies – TV – Reviews
Film of the Day
Review - The Avengers: Series 1, Episode 15 – The Frighteners
Posted on Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 at 8:02 am. Written by Steve
Doris Hare, Patrick Macnee and Ian Hendry vie to stay in shot in The Frighteners
The 15th of 26 episodes in the first series is a story that Humphrey Bogart might recognise. A tale of a greasy heel sending his thugs around to put "the frighteners" on a society lothario who is wooing the impressionable daughter of a local business big noise, it looks and feels every inch like a film noir.
It's something director Peter Hammond clearly relishes and, on a TV budget, he does impressive things with pools of shadow, out of which loom both goodies and baddies. Two levels of baddies, what's more – the Deacon (Willoughby Goddard) is the sweaty and corpulently effete manager of muscle, while Sir Thomas Weller (Stratford Johns) is the sort of crook who pays to have his dirty work done for him, though he looks like he'd rather be doing it himself. And that's not including the heavies themselves, the slightly rentamob Philip Locke and Godfrey James.
Steed and Keel both appear in this one, Steed first appearing in the back of a dimly lit cab to brief Keel on their latest job – taking out a pair of "massage demonstrators" who are plying their trade in London. Really? A couple of low-level fists for hire, that's the gig? Indeed it is, and all the more mystifying is that Steed seems now to have become a kind of crime-fighting Fagin, with a network of cheery Cockney street operatives addressing him with an "Ere, Guv" wherever he goes.
If it asks a lot of unanswered questions about what organisation it is exactly that Steed actually works for – the Savile Row division of the CID is what it looks like – it doesn't detract too much from the story, which is starting to move in what would later become the recognisable baroque Avengers way.
Preventing a silver-tongued lounge lizard (Philip Gilbert) from eloping with the breathy, silly daughter (Dawn Beret) of some magnate, and stopping him from getting a thorough beating first, yup, that's it. But it's efficient and, to an extent, quippily done, with Willoughby Goddard and Stratford Johns providing a lot of the acting wallop, while there's a nice comic turn by Doris Hare towards the end. And nice to see Macnee beginning to stretch out in his first real lead role in a career that was already 25 years long. Hat fans – Steed wears a trilby, not a bowler. Looks dapper enough in it, though.
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Tags: Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee, Stratford Johns, Willoughby Goddard
The Frighteners (1961)
53 min|Action, Comedy, Crime|27 May 1961
7.1Rating: 7.1 / 10 from 34 usersMetascore: N/A
Sir Thomas Waller disapproves of his daughter's choice in boyfriends and hires a criminal to scare off an unwanted suitor. Keel and Steed rescue the swain from the criminal's henchman and discover a clue to an extortion plot.
Director: Robert Fuest
Creator: Berkely Mather (teleplay)
Actors: Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee, Ingrid Hafner, Willoughby Goddard
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Girl Guides to play greater role
Businessman Ken Boyea has called on the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Girl Guide Association to play a greater role in the development of young women in the society. {{more}}
He gave this advice as one of the speakers at the Girl Guide Association's retreat, which was held at the Tropic Breeze Hotel from March 17-18.
The eloquent Boyea outlined, "Women leaders are emerging all over the world, now more than ever Guides have a role to play. No Politician, no bureaucrat can make a bigger impact."
He noted that too many young people lack what he described as "soft skills" where they are unable to answer telephones politely and dress appropriately for work. The entrepreneur noted that employers get workers who are well educated but who are not "workforce ready." The businessman also noted that young people seemed not to care about simple, but crucial things like picking up a piece of paper that fell on the floor at their work place.
He complained that the country needs what he described as a SWAT team to teach people to speak properly, and that if this was not done urgently, young people who could not communicate well could not sell this country effectively.
Boyea also called on the Association to transform their image into one that can tackle issues affecting youth, girls and young women.
The former politician stressed that many young people have their morals and priorities mixed up and need guidance. He revealed that this was evident since a local business sold some 800 pregnancy test kits in one week. Meanwhile past Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association Jeanette France reminded the Guides that they are a part of a 10 million strong world wide organisation that can impact the local society.
She called on the members of the local association to market themselves by bringing to the forefront young ladies who have benefited from training at the organisation and have excelled in life.
France pointed out young ladies such as the Deputy Speaker of the House Rochelle Forde and Accident and Emergency Doctor at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, Dr Simone Keizer as prominent women who could now excite and encourage other young ladies to join Girl Guides. The former Field Support Officer for the Western Hemisphere also called on Girl Guides to see themselves as a business that has to keep up with the times and issues affecting young women.
Third speaker at the retreat, Youth Officer Carlos Williams congratulated the movement for doing a lot over the years but also urged them to do more. He pointed out that while many young women in the society were getting educated and developing themselves, the males were continually left behind and now many females now find it difficult to get suitable male companions.
Williams encouraged the Girl Guides Association to balance the gender issues by helping the males while they are on their mission to develop young women since they would ensure a balanced society.
Boyea, France and Williams were all panelists speaking to members of the Girl Guides Association on the topic "The Impact of the Girl Guides Association in St.Vincent and the Grenadines."
The theme for the retreat of the 92-year-old St.Vincent and the Grenadines Girl Guides Association was "Open the Door to Tomorrow and Let in a Breath of Fresh Air."
Field Support Officer for the Western Hemisphere Region, Grace Goeda-Martin from Curacao was also in attendance at the retreat.
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Project Findings
Original Study Objectives
Following from "Building the Bridge. A Discussion of the Evidence", this section represents the final part of the EC-funded project "MEDICINE. Indigenous concepts of health and healing in Andean populations. The relevance of traditional MEDICINE in a changing world". It meets the overall project goal, as defined by Research Objective 6 of the proposal to the European Commission Horizon 2020 funders:
"RO6: 'Bridge' to contemporary global ethnic scenarios and policy making 'tool'. Drawing upon the stages developed in ROs 3 and 4, a conceptual 'bridge' will be developed from the study population to generate a trans-cultural model for use with contemporary peoples from migrant or marginalised backgrounds that informs best practice for the integration of their traditional beliefs into modern health and social care provision."
This has since been modified into being a 'practitioner's tool', but one with clear with policy relevance and guidance for policy making. Lessons learned from the study of a population with an historical experience of destructive impacts to collective cultural identity via persecution, socio-cultural trauma and population displacement would aim to draw out key dynamics related to their survival and adaptive processes into contemporary global population displacement scenarios via the aforementioned 'bridging process'. This process built upon 1) Project Phase 1 – the study of archaeological, ethnohistorical, ethnographic and bibliographic sources to draw out key ancestral (pre-European) Indigenous Andean beliefs related to health, illness and healing and 2) Project Phase 2 – the development of a survey instrument to take into three contemporary Indigenous Andean (Ecuadorian) communities to test the validity of the concepts previously identified, to review evidence for the survival of key cultural patterns and ancestral beliefs and practices related to Indigenous pre-European Andean epistemologies and ontologies.
The earlier chapters in the report presented the evidence in this sequence, building a clear narrative serving this overarching goal, concluding with "Building the Bridge. A Discussion of the Evidence" wherein it is stated:
"The preceding section has interwoven the historical narrative of the study populations within their broader regional and historical contexts, with the way that Andean Indigenous mythos offers a more nuanced insight into the lived experience, as it impacts psychologically upon people. The relevance to human experience more generally, beyond any constraints of time, culture or space are clear. This forms the bridge of common human experience that links us to the final section of the study, where the aim is to connect with modern displaced peoples – refugees, asylum seekers and migrants – and to see what the lessons in common tell us, and the way from this we might be able to construct a practitioner's and policy 'tool'".
The process of developing the 'bridge' between the two apparently widely different populations has sought to identify the common denominators and core processes involved, where they are comparable and where divergent, as demonstrated graphically in the figures below.
It is noted in MEP-TP that many traditional societies have a series of commonly accepted elements that persist and form an essential part of the culture, which have been situated here into what I am calling 'Framework 1' and have set these to be considered in terms of the personal, family, originating community (Community 1) and recipient community (Community 2) dimensions and which will all influence the ways in which people are affected and will therefore demand appropriate consideration under these categories by health care professionals.
Framework 1 (see Section 3. Ch. 6. Full Report: From Bridge to Policy and Practice Guidance) synthesises key points identified by the ASPHG that need to be addressed by practitioners, which I have developed further with Framework 2 (see below), which includes additional ethnic/culturally specific dimensions which need to be addressed in a similar way, across the dimensions of individual, collective, community of origin and recipient community. Both work well as 'guidance frameworks' to assist practitioners in the way they classify refugees at initial stages of presentation, within the interactive dimensions relevant to individual, family and community contexts. As with the 'Trauma Grid' (Papadopoulos 2007), information is tabulated within these dimensions that allows a more comprehensive and sensitive assessment of the presenting individual/s and their circumstances and needs.
Lessons Transferable from the Study Populations
Key factors which have emerged earlier as present or absent in the two contrasting study populations of Salasaka and Zuleta in their respective ability to engage successfully (or not) with the impact of the alien colonisation of their land were:
• Resilience;
• Agency;
• Opportunity (with circumstances);
• Creative engagement with adversity;
• Assistance.
And two polarised survival scenarios emerged from this:
Enclave formation
In the absence of any mediating circumstances to promote either of the above, where agency and choice is reduced to a minimum, there might be a reduction to 'basic survival' outside of any sustaining social context promoting identity and hope in a constructive future, as with 'mere continued existence', itself a worst case scenario and one clearly to be avoided.
However, assimilation carries with it the clear risk of loss of ethnic/cultural identity/distinctiveness, (i.e. not a 'meaningful' survival of the people concerned), whilst enclave formation (one in general discouraged by refugee resettlement policies of receiving countries) promotes 'meaningful survival' and the continuation of ethnic and cultural distinctiveness detached from the society and culture of the recipient country, exhibiting introspective isolationist tendencies, as exemplified in the Salasaka's 'cultural denial', something also 'not ideal' as far as the dominant culture of the recipient country is concerned.
A synthesis of these two polarised and mutually exclusive survival scenarios therefore needs to be sought in order to achieve a 'meaningful reconciliation' of survival outcomes, promoting both ethnic/cultural integrity with a realistic integration of the refugee group within the society of the dominant culture of the recipient country. It should be remembered that the meeting of people from different ethnic/ cultural groups can be a very positive experience and exposure to different ways, beliefs and customs brings with it opportunity for the cultural enrichment of both sides. How this itself might be achieved is the task of policy makers to determine, in dialogue with both their own society and culture, and that of the incoming refugees being resettled.
Additional points to bear in mind
Additional factors to emerge in the development of realistic guidance frameworks include the importance of developing an awareness, based upon prior training, of 'critical attention to cultural detail' (both Frameworks 1 and 2 perhaps) that may not be initially clear at the earliest stages of reception of the individual or family into the receiving country. Examples include:
1. Behavioural characteristics. The importance of making accurate and informed assessments of critical behavioural characteristics to identify correctly conditions which might indicate a pathological psychiatric condition such as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or Possession Trance Disorder (PTD) from non-pathological culturally mediated spiritual experiences of people from traditional belief systems, bearing in mind that "spirit possession is a common idiom of distress in the majority of societies in the world" (Hecker et al. 2015).
2. Unusual cultural practices. These might have a fundamental significance to the individual/family. A good example of this is the placing of a red cord upon the wrist of a new born infant to guard against the 'evil eye', widely practiced in Andean societies. Accounts were given that upon arrival at clinical or hospital facilities, the red cord is often cut off automatically being deemed as being unhygienic, thereby exposing the child to dangerous influences in the understanding of the family.
3. Active engagement with narratives. As highlighted earlier, to engage actively with storytelling/narrative in displaced societies in a way that incorporates the dynamic into the fabric of welfare services provided to refugees, both early in their presentation as well as later, following placement and integration in the recipient country.
The provision of 'intercultural mediation' to allow a meaningful dialogue between receiving health and social care professionals and the presenting refugee/asylum seeker is already commonplace in the provisions for the reception of refugees. It is clear, however, that the consistency of standards and standards of competency are very variable and probably better knowledge and awareness training would improve the quality of the service .
Training modules in Diversity and Sensitivity to Diversity developed by the ASPHG and the approaches devised by Renos Papadopoulos, also address these to some extent.
Policy Guidance
Predictably, the policy research and guidance literature dealing with refugee integration from major organisations such as the UNHCR, UNDESA, the OECD and the EC is very considerable and it has not been possible to include it here. Recommendations which follow are therefore drawn solely from the study findings, and do not include such additional material.
Briefly stated:
• policy makers must decide how best to manage the contradictory survival strategies highlighted earlier in a way that promotes 'meaningful survival' via balanced socio-cultural integration strategies, and not impose practices and pressures that are essentially assimilative, which is to say, erode and ultimately eradicate individual ethnicities and cultural distinctiveness.
• policies should promote plurality through preservation of ethnic diversity. There is a real danger that, in the professed commitment towards equality of opportunity and integration within the receiving countries' socio-cultural structures and employment markets, pressures will be put upon refugees and asylum seekers to demonstrate their willingness to prioritise those of the receiving countries' culture to the diminution of their own.
• A balance should to be sought that both respects diversity and ethnic/cultural distinctiveness, yet allows for a wholesome integration of the refugee/asylum seekers within that of the receiving country. Whilst not desirable that incoming displaced people being resettled form large blocks which exercise a form of 'cultural denial', a balanced approach between these two polarised scenarios should be sought via full engagement and dialogue with the relevant organisations representing people seeking asylum.
ASPHG. Ainhoa Ruiz Azarola and Olga Leralta, Andalusian School of Public Health, 2015. Module 1: Sensitivity and Awareness of Cultural and Other Forms of Diversity. Unit 1: Diversity and Unit 2. Intercultural Competence and Sensitivity of Diversity Guidelines (M1-U1 and M1-U2)). https://www.mem-tp.org
Hecker, T. L. Braitmayer and M. van Duijl. 2015. "Global mental health and trauma exposure: the current evidence for the relationship between traumatic experiences and spirit possession", European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 6:1, 29126, DOI:10.3402/ejpt.v6.29126 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v6.29126
Papadopoulos, R. K. 2007. "Refugees, Trauma and Adversity Activated Development." European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, September 2007; 9(3): 301–312


Usually on the third Saturday of the month, The Pavilion opens up to bring a free film with tiered cinema style seating in The Circle.
The Pavilion Cinema Club sees The Pavilion hark back to its roots as a local cinema. Come along to see a free film with tiered cinema style seating in The Circle with popcorn and other refreshments available to buy.
Our next screening on Saturday 20th April at 1pm is Sherlock Gnomes!
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