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Guest Post from my son
June 1, 2015 UncategorizedSusan Taylor
I asked my son to write a post about his experience with drug addiction and recovery. I'm experimenting with having family members guest post for me on Sundays. How I love this kid. Here is his offering:
I honestly can't remember the first time I tried drugs, but I can remember why. It was exciting! It felt like I was doing something bad (but not as bad as, say, breaking into a business, so it was still within my comfort zone). I felt powerful and cool. Nobody else in 9th grade had really caught on that stuff like marijuana was around our town and it was a pretty fun way to waste an afternoon. What's interesting, looking back, is that I didn't even like the actual substance at first. For a couple of years all I did was smoke weed and drink, and both of those only because of social pressure, for the most part. I didn't like either of them, didn't like how they made me feel unfocused and out of it. Oftentimes they gave me anxiety or depression. But I wanted to be cool so I kept doing it.
Between the ages of 16-19 I found drugs I actually liked and I started doing them. All the time. A lot of people say that people become drug addicts because they're trying to cover up unwanted emotions. I guess there was some of that in my drug use. Mainly, it was based on a worldview that there was nothing beautiful or worthwhile in the world and I might as well feel good while I can, because I sure as hell never felt good normally. My depression was definitely a huge contribution to why I started taking so many narcotics. I usually felt either unbearably numb or unbearably sad. Unfortunately, the drugs did such a good job making me feel better – not just numbing me, as many people think – but actually giving me motivation, perceived creativity, social skills, and bringing me the happiness I had always sought.
I don't know when I first realized it wasn't working anymore but it couldn't have been long after waking up in my bedroom being held down by a paramedic as I came back from a heroin overdose. My whole body felt cold, my legs were shaking uncontrollably, and I was incredibly confused. How could this have happened? I almost killed myself. That was never supposed to be part of getting high.
Many more terrible things like that first overdose happened both before and after. Over the span of 3 years, it all slowly came to an inevitable head. I ended up in rehab multiple times, and started to visit different jails around the city in "field trips" that would range from a night to a week. I lost everything several times, got kicked out of several houses, and lost jobs. So what made the difference?
What made the difference was accepting that I simply wasn't going to get where I wanted to go with drugs. It had sure seemed like it for quite awhile, but for the past 12 months it had started to affect my life in a myriad of awful ways. Unfortunately, the police, my parents, and my girlfriend couldn't do a whole lot to convince me otherwise because I just didn't want to let go of the one thing that had worked so well. Sometimes I still don't want to but drugs take me to places I really, really, really don't want to be. And not doing drugs allowed me to purchase my own car, to find another job with a company who had previously fired me for getting arrested at my workplace, to move into an apartment, and to actually have some hope for my future.
I do go to a lot of AA meetings. I have to, because of the conditions of my probation. But at the same time, there's a few that I really like. I had no idea what AA was and didn't care to before I got into rehab. I still don't know how I feel about the "lifetime disease" model that most of AA believes. I don't want to think I'm an addict or an alcoholic, or that I have a lifetime disease. I already feel defective enough. The ways AA has helped me out the most have really just been a group therapy environment and the support of a lot of friendly individuals in the program. I take what I can get out of each meeting and leave the rest, but I do try to use it to become a better person. Awhile ago, I told someone close to me I want to make choices that I can be proud of. I still really want to reach for that. There's such a difference in me, even in my physiology, when I feel proud of what I've done. It cannot be overstated that a life of love and sharing and compassion really does feel better than a life of deceit and betrayal – even if the latter gets you high.
I've caught a glimpse of happiness, here and there. I'm so stressed most of the time it's hard to feel. Much of the time I feel like I'm stuck in midair, going nowhere. The way the justice system keeps me mired in obligations isn't just irritating, it's downright demoralizing. The only way I keep going on is leaning on the people around me. When I discovered drugs I didn't think I needed anyone and I avoided getting too close to people. Now I think I need people and I avoid getting too close to drugs. The only downside is, certain drugs have a 100% success rate in making me feel better and people don't. But the difference is people build me up and they give me constructive critisicm and they converse with me. Drugs are silent. They tear me down and are obviously nowhere to be seen when I'm sitting in a jail cell. It's just moronic to put all my faith in inanimate objects.
It's been such a tough path of recovery I've wanted to give up about a billion times. But I still have so much that I thought I had lost, it's worth continuing to try. I got a tattoo of a rose on my shoulder the other day. I just wanted to. And when my family asked me what it was for, I shrugged a little and said "I just like beautiful things." And that was true. That was a choice I could be proud of, and that rose represents a lot to me, even if it doesn't represent something specific. It represents the facet of my core personality, after stripping drugs and everything else away, that is absolutely in love with beauty. And that's how I want to live my life going forward. Surrounded by beauty, making choices that I can be proud of.


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Q: Windows Phone | Frame Based Animations And Memory Footprints I am developing a small game for Windows Phone which is based on silverlight animation.
Some animations are using silverlight animation framework like Trandforms API and some animations are frame based. What I am doing is, I am running a Storyboard having very small duration and when it;s completed event fires, I am changing image frame there. So images get replaced every time completed event get fired. But I think it is causing memory leakage in my game and memory footprint is increasing with time.

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*I want to ask is it a right way to do frame base animations or is there any better way to  do this in silverlight???

*What I can do to reduce memory consumption so that it does not increase with time.

A: As a general rule, beware animating anything which can't be GPU accelerated or bitmap cached. You haven't given enough information to tell if this is your issue but start by monitoring the frame rate counters, redraw regions and cache visualisation.
You can detect memory leaks with the built in profiling tools.
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'Let's Explore': David Sedaris On His Public Private Life
David Sedaris writes personal stories, funny tales about his life growing up in a Greek family outside of Raleigh, N.C., about working as an elf in Santa's workshop at Christmastime, and about living abroad with his longtime partner, Hugh. The stories have appeared on This American Life and in The New Yorker, and have now filled seven essay collections, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and now — his latest collection — Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls.
Because Sedaris' writing relies so heavily on his own life, it's not surprising that many of his essays begin as entries in his journal, which he has been keeping obsessively since Sept. 4, 1977.
"That's how I start the day — by writing about the day before," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross, "but every now and then I read out loud from my diary. ... I wouldn't open it up and just read, but every now and then something happens and I think, 'Oh, this might work in front of an audience, so I'm always hoping that something interesting will happen ... but I don't try to force it."
But most of his journal isn't for public consumption. In fact, Sedaris says his public persona as a famous writer is quite different from the person he is — and has been — in private, and the journal is where those two versions of David Sedaris collide.
"There's the you that you present to the world," he says, "and then there's, you know, of course the real one and, if you're lucky, there's not a huge difference between those two people. And I guess in my diary I'm not afraid to be boring. It's not my job to entertain anyone in my diary."
While Sedaris says his partner, Hugh, sometimes wonders whether the impulse to write almost exclusively about one's own life is a sign of narcissism, Sedaris understands his compulsion to journal and compose personal essays differently.
"I mean, I think everybody thinks about themselves," he says. "This seems to me like a part of the obsession with it is just as a writing exercise, really: I write in my diary, and that kind of warms me up, and then I move onto other things."
On the nasty thoughts he writes down in his journals
"Thoughts pass through your head, you know, like I'm sure perhaps you would walk down the hall one day, and you would see somebody and you would think, 'God, I hope my hair never looks like that,' but then five minutes later you might have a cheerful thought about this person, right, or a complimentary thought about this person. But see, that's the thing about a diary: You're just sitting down and you think, 'God, I saw so-and-so yesterday and I hope my hair never looks like that.' And then if you died, I just think of how hurt they would be to think you spent all this time criticizing them, but you weren't — it was just the thought that passed through your mind.
"I mean, I think ... I've always understood that. You know, my mom would walk into the room, and you would hear her talking about you on the telephone and saying bad things about you, but ... that's just in the moment. It never hurt my feelings. I thought, 'Well, tonight it will be a different story.' ... I don't know that I would be hurt by something like that; I just worry that other people would [be] if they were to read negative things about themselves. I say that to Hugh. Like, 'If I die and you start reading my diaries and you see something bad about yourself, keep going because there's some really good things about you in there too, you just have to skim forward a little bit."
When you're actively doing something like [drinking], there's a way to do it to get people to think you're cute or whatever. It wasn't cute [for me]. It was just dark and just an ugly place that I would go to every night.
On the former connection between drinking and writing
"You know, when you're actively doing something like [drinking], there's a way to do it to get people to think you're cute or whatever. It wasn't cute [for me]. It was just dark and just an ugly place that I would go to every night. I started drinking and writing at the same time, so when I quit drinking it was kind of hard. [Writing] was never a problem. I never had to force myself to sit down at the typewriter because I had a drink right there, and that was my reward for sitting down. But all of a sudden the reward was taken away, and I'm thinking, 'What's in it for me now?' So it just took a little while to get over that. It was the same when I quit smoking. ... It was all together, so I had to peel those [habits] away from the writing."
On portraying his father negatively in Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
"I would never want anyone to think that I would have wanted a different father. I always acted against my father, right? And ['You're a big fat zero'] was really, that was his mantra when I was growing up. You know, 'What you are is a big fat zero,' but it's what got me out of bed every morning, thinking, 'Well, I'll show him.' And I don't know if my dad knew that. I don't know if it was part of his master plan, but it really worked. You know, my mom was a cheerful, supportive person, and so I didn't really need two parents like that. One was enough."
On living in West Sussex, England
"Hugh and I got this house in West Sussex, right, and it's in an area called the South Downs. And the Downs are these massive, chalk-speckled hills that run for a hundred miles between East and West Sussex, and we're just at the base of one of them, and our house is on a one-lane winding road that's tree-lined, and it's my idea of beauty. There are forests, and it's just what beauty means to me. But English people throw everything out their car window, and the roadsides are carpeted with rubbish, so that's what I do with my life now: I pick up rubbish on the side of the road. I do it on my bike. I do it on foot. The local council has given me an outfit and a grabber."

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In case you weren't aware of the ongoing cooperation between Wargaming's World of Warplanes and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, you are now and trust me - Aces High doesn't even scratch the surface of what the man is set to teach you now.
Dickinson's fans know that when he's not being an absolute heavy metal legend, the man is spending time flying airplanes, with quite some high profile flights in his repertoire too. Yeah, other than flying Iron Maiden around, as he was flying football teams, stranded airmen and tourists, etc.
The series he's doing with Wargaming is called Bruce Dickinson's Warplane Diaries and it does a great job at introducing some of the planes used in World of Warplanes. Seeing as how this is the same company that brought us World of Tanks, you can imagine there's plenty to talk about.
They're off to a great start as well, because since Dickinson started his partnership with World of Airplanes on 18 June 2018, he's already racked up quite a few videos of various flying icons from World War II and the so called Golden Age of Military Aviation. Seeing as how this is the era the game focuses on, it's not hard to see how the love story unfolded.
So far, Dickinson and Wargaming covered the Hawker Hurricane, Messerschmitt BF 108, Focke-Wulf FW 190, De Haviland Mosquito, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Hawker Tempest, Stuka JU87 and to layman perhaps the most iconic, the Spitfire, which you can see on the video below.
To bluntly steal the comment of one of the fans from the youtube video comments, Dickinson has a knack for teaching more about an airplane than your school teachers did, so it's a pretty nice viewing. Besides, being bite sized at 3-4 minutes tops, what've you got to lose?
I must admit that even though Wargaming's partnering with Gianluigi Buffon for the World of Tanks' World Cup Mode was a nice gimmick, the partnering with Dickinson is much more to my liking. I mean, it's educational and very game related. Plus, you know...Aces High.


Prague is my favourite place to drink beer because you get the best of everything, all in a beautiful city that's easy to get around, and one with some of the tastiest beer snacks. (And if you want the primer on understanding Czech beers then read this first).
Because you might want to do some sightseeing (or at least pretend to see sights between the bars…), head to the castle then over to the monastery for KlasterniPivovar Strahov. They make my favourite version of a Polotmavý, or semi-dark lager, which is a style unique to the Czech Republic. It's amber with a creamy foam, the malt is toasty and nutty and it finishes deliciously dry with a powerful bitterness from spicy Saaz hops. They make a good IPA and dark lager as well, plus they'll have a special or two on tap, but always start with the Polotmavý.
On the opposite side of the city, in Vinohrady, is Vinohradsky Pivovar. They have two good beers and one excellent one: the good 13° amber and 15° IPA (using mostly Czech hops) were surpassed bthe excellent 11° unfiltered pale lager. Straight-up, balanced, smooth with a wonderful teasing mix of sweetness, some doughy malts and lemony-peppery hop bitterness – it's a proper quaffer. You can see the handsome brewhouse while you drink and the food is very good.
Nearby is Beer Geek which has an excellent range of local and imported craft beers pouring through the 32 taps, though walk in and you could be in any beer bar anywhere in the world, and in a place like Prague I want to feel something local and special. However, it's definitely worth visiting for how it'll pour some of the best Czech craft beers by breweries like Matuška, Raven, Falkon, Kocour, Zhůřák, Únětické.
Also nearby is U Kacíře, one of the only places in Prague that regularly has the 10 and 12 pale lagers from the glorious Kout na Šumavě brewery. I can't tell you what the place is like because when I went it was shut (don't go on a Sunday), but I can say that when I'm next in Prague I'm going there.
If you want the better, bigger choices of Czech craft beers then Zlý Časy is the original bar. They have a few areas over different floors with different beers available in each. Closer to the centre, and run by the same guys as Zlý Časy, is Kulový Blesk, with a similarly good range. But I definitely suggest mixing these venues with the classics and drinking the classic Czech lagers which taste better and fresher here than you'll have tasted them elsewhere.
For some of the best Czech food and beer, head to U Šumavy (to me it like it's cut from a Wes Anderson film set, with precisely lined tables and a dramatically printed wallpaper). The food here is typical Czech done to a great standard. They also have around a dozen beers on tap including a mix of large and small breweries.
Sometimes I like to drink things which aren't beer and Bokovka (which translates as Sideways) is a fun little wine bar, hidden away in what feels like a wine cave (a few doors down from Lokál Dlouhá in a small courtyard), with a large selection of bottles plus a range by the glass, mostly all Czech and Slovakian. Staff are very knowledgeable and friendly. They also have a cheese cave (an actual cheese cave!).
Some of the best coffee I've ever had was in Můj šálekkávy. Made with care, served with a smile and brewed with some special beans. My girlfriend had a chai tea which was extraordinary (and I usually hate chai tea).
If you want a grand breakfast then Café Savoy is the place to go. Smart staff, a bakery on site, excellent coffee, a huge tea list and a small but great choice of food. Their Savoy omelette is approximately 90% cheese.
I'm the kind of person who always googles 'the best burgers in…' wherever I go. In Prague, I recommend (though I'm still forever searching for more…) U Kurelů (traditional Czech pub, great beers, and with American diner food instead of dumplings), Dish and Naše Maso, a butchers that cooks sausages, burgers and meatloaf during the day and serves dinner at night.
And finally… Sansho is a little piece of pan-Asian perfection and it deserves some extra space to explain it properly. Paul Day is the owner. He's an English chef and butcher who moved to Prague, opening The Real Meat Society butchers, Sansho and Maso a Kobliha(meat and doughnuts, which is opposite Sansho), serving a couple of excellent craft beers on tap and a range of meaty British-inspired beer snacks (using the local meat, of course) like scotch eggs and faggots.
Go to Sansho in the evening, sit down and prepare to be wowed by the stunning combos of local Czech ingredients and the brightest, freshest, most fragrant flavours from the nearby Vietnamese supermarkets. It's a tasting menu format without a paper menu – just tell them what you like or don't like and they'll bring you lots of little dishes to share.
My highlights were the octopus satay, soft shell crab bao and a dish of pork, watermelon and hoi sin – it's some of the most addictively umami-rich food, with amazing textures, and the lively South East Asian accent. There are great Czech wines and a super pale lager from Dalešice – it'd be hard to find an all-round lager more suited to this food, with its light caramel malt body carrying a lemony, zesty zing and bitterness – the hops highlight the herbs and spices used while the toasty malt wraps it in a cooling sweetness. Expect to pay about £50 a head and make sure you book in advance.
Prague is the best beer-drinking city in the world. And there's so much more than just beer.


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Adhémar Esmein, właśc. Jean Hippolyte Emmanuel Esmein (ur. 1 lutego 1848 roku w Touvérac, zm. 20 lipca 1913 roku w Paryżu) – francuski prawnik.

Po krótkim okresie wykładania prawa karnego w Douai (w latach 1876–1879), Esmein został profesorem historii prawa i prawa konstytucyjnego w Paryżu. Od roku 1898 aż do śmierci, uczył także prawa kanonicznego w École pratique des hautes études, gdzie był kierownikiem Katedry Nauk Religijnych.

Esmein był autorem wielu podręczników dotyczących historii francuskiego prawa publicznego oraz francuskiego prawa konstytucyjnego, a także wielu monografii na inne tematy, między innymi na temat prawa kanonicznego.

Główne publikacje
 Histoire de la procédure criminelle en France et spécialement de la procédure inquisitoire depuis le XIIIe jusqu'à nos jours (1882)
 Études sur les contrats dans le très ancien droit français (1883)
 Mélanges d'histoire du droit et de critique. Droit romain (1886)
 Études sur l'histoire du droit canonique privé. Le Mariage en droit canonique (1891)
 Cours élémentaire d'histoire du droit français à l'usage des étudiants de première année (1892)
 Histoire du droit français de 1189 à 1814 (1892-1908)
 Le Serment des accusés en droit canonique (1896)
 Éléments de droit constitutionnel (1896)
 Éléments de droit constitutionnel français et comparé (1899)
 La revue du droit civil (1902)
 Trois documents sur le mariage par vente (1910)
 La Vieille Charente, chansons et croquis saintongeais, contes populaires de la Charente (1910)
 Précis élémentaire de l'histoire du droit français de 1789 à 1814. Révolution, Consulat et Empire (1911)

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Kid Interview with Michaela of 5 Girls Book Reviews!
Stacy Davidowitz is the amazing author of the Camp Rolling Hills series.
Why did you write about summer camp?
BECAUSE I LOVE IT. Anyone who knows me knows that I tend to write a lot about sleepaway camp. It's been a major part of my life since I was ten. Also, my family is in the camping industry. My mom runs a day camp in Long Island, my brother is the Assistant Director of the camp we grew up at, and my sister-in-law runs girls' side there, too. Plus, this series has given me the opportunity to write about kids living together, growing together, and learning together away from their parents. How special is that? Camp is a place where friendships blossom, self-confidence is fostered, and the high jinx is endless. The real question is: Why wouldn't I write about camp?
Who is your favorite camper in your book(s)?
Melman. She's brave, athletic, funny, and a really great friend. In the second book of the Camp Rolling Hills series, she really shines! I also love Sophie's weirdness. Writing such a wild card oddball is super fun.
Is there going to be a whole series? If so, how many books? I would love to review them all for you!
There IS going to be a whole series. The first two books of the series, Camp Rolling Hills and Camp Rolling Hills: Crossing Over launch together on May 10, 2016. The third book, titled Breakout!, is all about Color War (a weeklong, amazing campwide competition) and will be released in April 2017. The fourth book will be released in April 2018. After that, there might be two more. There are twelve kids total, and the idea is that each book is told from the point of view of one girl camper and one boy camper. So the first book is told from the perspectives of Slimey and Smelly. The second book is Melman and Steinberg. The third book is Jenny and Play Dough. The fourth book is Missi and Wiener. And if there are two more books, the fifth will be Jamie and Dover and the sixth will be Sophie and Totle. The campers grow from 12-years-old to 14-years-old as the series progresses. And yes, I would LOVE reviews for each book! That would be amazing!
Color War, for sure. That's the weeklong, amazing campwide competition I mentioned earlier. The whole camp is divided into two teams that compete in everything from sports to trivia to apache relays to rope burn to singing to dancing to scavenger hunts!
If you could become any character in your book(s) who would it be? Why?
Slimey. She's sweet, artsy, sensitive, optimistic, and has an undying love for camp. Maybe Play Dough for a bit, too. He's adored by his friends and gets to eat snacks he hides in his socks.
Who is your all time favorite author? Book?
Let your imagination ride the train to where miracles happen. Allow your characters to be your best friends. Have them join the circus. Be patient. And kind to yourself. Let your friends in on what you're writing. Be bolder than bold. Learn to love revising. Treat yourself to good snacks while doing all of the above. If you're ever stuck, email me, and I'll send you a very random prompt.
Any other interesting facts/info you would like to share about yourself and/or your book?
Thank you so much Ms. Davidowitz for allowing me to read your books and interview you! I can't wait to read the next books in the series.
You can find more information about Stacy Davidowitz at her website.


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Bridger Coal Company was recognized for successful reclamation work April 16 by the Interstate Mining Compact Commission, a multi-state governmental organization that represents natural resource and environmental protection interests.
The company earned an honorable mention for using innovative methods to restore areas of Bridger Coal's surface mine to its pre-mining state – rangeland supporting a multitude of wildlife species.
The IMCC honors mining operations each year that have demonstrated reclamation excellence in five categories: compliance, contemporaneous reclamation, drainage control, bond release (or reclamation success), and innovation.
The Bridger reclamation efforts employed technologically enhanced designs and GPS-aided earth-moving systems to recreate natural landscapes from the large open-pit mine. That innovative approach has produced stable, maintenance-free topography and stream systems that enhance the wildlife and plant habitat.
"By reclaiming the disturbed acreages in a manner that imitates the diverse native topography, we've created a habitat where native wildlife is abundant both on and off the mine site, even during ongoing mining operations," said Scott Palmer, technical services manager at Bridger Coal.
Bridger Coal Company owns and operates the multi-faceted Jim Bridger Mine complex that employs surface, highwall and underground mining methods, along with extensive reclamation operations.
The mine, located near Rock Springs, Wyo., began producing coal in 1974 and supplies the adjacent Jim Bridger Power Plant with approximately 6 million tons of coal per year.
Reclamation activities take place on an ongoing basis in areas where coal mining has been completed. Once mining operations cease, the disturbed areas are reshaped to their approximate original topography, as approved by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality/Land Quality Division. Topsoil is then applied and reseeded with native plant species.
At the height of operations, Bridger's open-pit mine was almost 17 miles long, with nearly 10,500 acres of land disturbed by mining operations. Of those, 4,000 acres have been reclaimed.
Reclamation design and implementation techniques have been greatly enhanced in recent years, according to Palmer.
Bridger's new approach uses the GeoFluv™ modeling method to design landform that is stable against erosion. The reclaimed landform is constructed with a dragline and track dozers that both use onboard Global Positioning Systems (GPS) loaded with design surfaces that included ridges, sub-ridges, valleys, sub-valleys and drainages.
"Previous designs had much less detailed topographical relief and fewer drainages, while the new geomorphic designs are providing more topographic relief and drainage placement for a long-term, stable landform," Palmer said.
Adding a ridge line near the middle of the project area and draining each side to a different main drainage have been key to restoring habitat. Various tributaries are added, and slopes are created for snow-catch basins. Additionally, the sub-ridges and sub-valleys prevent erosion in larger precipitation events, as runoff is more controlled than it would be on flatter topography.
The complex slopes also enhance plant and animal diversity, supporting wildlife habitat and vegetative cover equal to or better than pre-mining conditions.
During 2012, Bridger Coal moved nearly 28 million cubic yards of earth using geomorphic design principles and onboard GPS technology. More than 700 acres have been designed and reclaimed using the new methods.
Elk, pronghorn antelope, mule deer and wild horses now inhabit the reclaimed lands, along with a wide variety of smaller mammals and birds.
"Geomorphic reclamation designs have facilitated the restoration of diverse and environmentally desirable landforms required by the company and the government agencies that oversee reclamation – and by the local wildlife," Palmer said.


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Q: how to implement video streaming in black berry? I have implemented one project in which I want to implemet video streaming functionality
Say for example:User can see youtube video in bleck berry.
I want to implement for blackberry bold 9700(with 4.7 OS ).
Is it possible?If yes then how it possible?Can you give me some idea about my query.
Thanks in advance

A: just port mp4 demuxer, AAC and AVC decoder.


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These derivatives were evaluated for their in vitro antibacterial activities against a panel of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. 15 (4′-O-(3-Phenylpropanoyl)-9-O-acetyl-desmycarosyl josamycin) and 16 (4′-O-butanoyl-9-O-acetyl-desmycarosyl josamycin) exhibited comparable activities to josamycin against S. aureus (MSSA) and S. epidermidis (MSSE). (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved."
"Existing diagnostic tests for pleural tuberculosis (TB) have inadequate accuracy and/or
turnaround time. Interferongamma (IFNg) has been identified in many studies as a biomarker for pleural TB. Our objective was to develop a lateral flow, immunochromatographic test (ICT) based on this biomarker and to evaluate the test in a clinical cohort. Because IFNg is commonly present in non-TB pleural effusions in low amounts, a diagnostic IFNg-threshold was first defined with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent selleck chemicals assay (ELISA) for IFNg in samples from 38 patients with a confirmed clinical diagnosis (cut-off of 300pg/ml; 94% sensitivity and 93% specificity). The ICT was then designed; however, its achievable limit of detection (5000pg/ml) was over 10-fold higher than that of the ELISA. After several iterations in development, the prototype ICT assay for IFNg had a sensitivity of 69% (95% confidence interval (CI): 50-83)
and a specificity of 94% (95% CI: 81-99%) compared to ELISA on frozen samples. Evaluation of the prototype in a prospective clinical cohort (72 patients) on fresh pleural fluid samples, see more in comparison to a composite reference standard (including histopathological and microbiologic test results), showed that the prototype had 65% sensitivity (95% CI: 44-83) and 89% specificity (95% CI: 74-97). Discordant results were observed in 15% of samples if testing was repeated after one freezing and thawing step. Inter-rater variability was limited (3%; 1out of 32). In conclusion, despite an iterative development and optimization process, the performance of the IFNg ICT remained lower than what could be expected from the published Selleckchem GS-7977 literature on IFNg as a biomarker in pleural fluid. Further improvements in the
limit of detection of an ICT for IFNg, and possibly combination of IFNg with other biomarkers such as adenosine deaminase, are necessary for such a test to be of value in the evaluation of pleural tuberculosis."
"This review focuses on so-called "periodic syndromes of childhood that are precursors to migraine," as included in the second edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders. Presentation is characterized by an episodic pattern and intervals of complete health. Benign paroxysmal torticollis is characterized by recurrent episodes of head tilt, secondary to cervical dystonia, with onset between ages 2-8 months. Benign paroxysmal vertigo presents as sudden attacks of vertigo lasting seconds to minutes, accompanied by an inability to stand without support, between ages 2-4 years.


There are several ways to cook brown rice. In our s, we made the rice two ways -in the and . But unexpectedly, we had an equipment glitch with both cookers during class. The electric rice cooker didn't get switched on properly (or somebody accidentally pulled the chord out) and the pressure cooker was leaking steam from the side. We had tested the brown rice before class so we had rice to serve but I hope we don't have this kind of double trouble again.
Akila uses the standard electric rice cooker to cook brown rice. We used my rice cooker that can be set to brown rice cooking. I like to use an or a to cook brown rice. The textures come out differently depending on what equipment you use. The electric rice cooker makes a soft fluffy brown rice. The method keeps the grains nutty and mochi-like in texture, and uses less water to cook. If you use a , the texture is somewhere in between the electric rice cooker and pressure cooker. The brown rice in this picture was cooked in the rice cooker, Akila's way. I think you will have to experiment on your own to see what you like the best. They are all good, especially with the azuki beans, which adds a tint of red to the rice and azuki flavor.
Soak the rice and azuki beans for 4-6 hours.
1 knob of ginger, peeled and sliced into tiny slivers. This is the hidden ingredient which will disappear into the cooked rice.
Roasted sesame seed topping (Gomashio) Coarse salt – Okinawa salt, Maldon from Britain, Fleur de sel In a very small frying pan, toast coarse salt to reduce its moisture content. Add sesame seeds and toast them, too but be careful not to burn them.
Wash the brown rice really well and drain water completely before adding the measured water.
Soak in 4 cups of water for 4 hours. Cook the rice with measured water and ginger in electric rice cooker.
Garnish rice with roasted sesame seed salt.
You can also make the rice in a pressure or donabe rice cooker. Follow manufacturer's instructions for cooking brown rice. The amount of water will vary depending on the cooker you use.


The item Mattimeo, Brian Jacques ; illustrated by Gary Chalk represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chatfield High School.
Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders. Sequel to "Redwall."


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Q: MongoDB Storage Architecture (MySQL innodb_file_per_table equivalent to MongoDB) I am new to MongoDB.I looked inside dbpath I found
users.0 -  16.8MB
users.1 -  33.6MB
users.ns - 16.8MB

Further when I dig deeper I found,
The .0, .1 files are datafiles. Each datafile is preallocated to a particular size. (This is done to prevent file system fragmentation, among other reasons.) The first filename for a database is .0, then .1, etc. .0 will be 64MB, .1 128MB, et cetera, up to 2GB. Once the files reach 2GB in size, each successive file is also 2GB.
The ".ns" files are namespace files. Each collection and index would count as a namespace. Each namespace is 628 bytes, the .ns file is 16MB by default.Thus if every collection had one index, we can create up to 12,000 collections. The --nssize parameter allows you to increase this limit
But I when I started comparing MySQL with I figured out if you specify
innodb_file_per_table = true/1

But I cannot find any option for MongoDB to create separate file to each collection.
Does MongoDB only creates datafiles(.0, .1) which will contain all the collection?
Or
Is there any way to tell MongoDB to create separate files for each collection?
Your kind help and precious time would be highly appreciated

A: MongoDB only creates discrete file-sets for discrete databases. There isn't an option to split out collections into files like table-files in MySQL.


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A case of severe 'Prosecutorial Misconduct' and Preet Bharara
Corruption at the highest levels of Obama's DOJ
By Frank Dux
With former US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, Preet Bharara is said to be under consideration for the post of NY State Attorney General recently vacated by disgraced and abusive prosecutor Eric Schneiderman,
Following the "Great Recession" in 2008, President Barack Obama's Justice Department launched a concerted effort to go after "white collar" criminals. Leading the effort was Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI's New York Field Office.
Bharara's high-profile investigations quickly earned him a reputation as "the scourge of Wall Street" and landed him the cover story in Time Magazine as the "top cop busting Wall Street."
Bharara also aggressively prosecuted political corruption in Albany winning convictions against assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Republican Senate majority leader Dean Skelos–both of which were overturned. Silver was retried and convicted.
The 'crime-busting" Bharara was hailed as a future Governor or US Attorney General. When fired by President Donald Trump Bharara attacked the President and signed a lucrative contract with CNN as a legal analyst.
But Bahara is neither the "White Knight" nor the "Mr. Clean" depicted by the media.
A closer look reveals that as a prosecutor Preet Bharara regularly broke the law and abused his power in order to convict innocent targets. This pattern includes knowing about and approving FBI leaks of grand jury testimony to the media and lying to a federal Judge about it, pressuring compromised witnesses into changing their story and lying, pressuring an exculpatory witness into pleading the fifth amendment, suppressing exculpatory evidence and violating the rights of the accused in order to maximize publicity for himself.
In other words, Preet Bharara regularly broke the law in order to convict innocent men of breaking the law.
Billy Walters
A 2016 conviction of Las Vegas businessman, celebrity gambler and philanthropist William "Billy" Walters is the best place to look because the entire record is public and none of it is redacted or withheld so the government's admitted conduct is stunning.
A 2011 investigation centered on suspected insider trading in stocks of Clorox involving well-known investor Carl Icahn hit a dead end.
In 2013 the investigation shifted to suspected insider trading by Walters in stocks of Dean Foods. But that investigation stalled as well.
In April of 2013, and in an effort to revive the "dormant" investigation, FBI Agent David Chaves began leaking confidential information – including secret grand jury information from the investigation – to reporters for both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Published stories by both papers at the end of May 2014 resulted in the questioning of Tom Davis, then a board member of Dean Foods. Davis initially denied any involvement or knowledge or involvement any kind of insider trading.
A separate investigation by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) uncovered the fact that Davis had embezzled money from a charity for battered women and lied to cover it up. That resulted in Davis changing his story and agreeing to cooperate with the government in its investigation of Walters.
Relying primarily on Davis' testimony, a grand jury indicted Walters for insider trading.
They trial documents made public reveal
In 2011, the FBI and Office of the United States Attorney (USAO) began investigating "suspicious" trading in the Clorox Company in advance of an announcement that well-known investor Carl Icahn was possibly interested in acquiring the company.
The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened a civil investigation into the same matter. Billy Walters was a target in both investigations.
Special Agent Matthew Thoresen was assigned to the investigation by the FBI under the supervision of Supervisory Special Agent David Chaves.
In April 2013, the Financial Industry and Regulatory Authority (FINRA) brought to the SEC's attention trades in Dean Foods by Walters just prior to the August 2012 announcement that Dean Foods was spinning off its dairy business, WhiteWave.
In May 2013, the SEC shared the FINRA information with the FBI and USAO after it was discovered that Tom Davis, who was a board member of Dean Foods, was a longtime friend of Walters. The FBI then expanded its investigation to include Davis and others close to him.
On June 23, 2014, both the WSJ and NYT publish articles noting that subpoenas had been issued to Dean Foods.
In the fall of 2014, Agent Thoreson was removed from the case and transferred out of the FBI's New York office and Agent Chaves was promoted to a position in which he "no longer directly supervised the (Walters) investigation."
On March 6, 2015, Davis was approached by the FBI after the New York Times and Wall Street Journal stories. He denied insider trading and refused an FBI request to cooperate.
On May 18, 2015, Davis testified before the SEC about the Dean Foods investigation.
On August 12, 2015, the WSJ specifically names Davis as a target of the investigation, likely due to another Chaves leak.
In February 2016 Davis, "through new counsel," decides to cooperate with the government and changes his story from his earlier SEC testimony.
The first lawyer for Tom Davis starting in the summer of 2014 was Thomas Melsheimer of Dallas, Texas. In early 2016, a new attorney for Tom Davis approached the U.S. Attorney's Office to inquire about cooperation. The new attorney, a recent alumnus of the U.S. attorney's office, was Benjamin Naftalis. Naftalis is an associate of then Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch
Davis and his new attorney met with the government for debriefing and prepping about 29 times to concoct his testimony.
On May 16, 2016, Davis pleads guilty to lying to the SEC, securities and wire fraud, obstruction of justice and other crimes.
On May 17, 2016, the grand jury issued indictment charges for securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy against Walters.
On May 18, 2016, Walters was arrested.
Again the court documents prove:
In an effort to resuscitate what he described as a "dormant" investigation into Walters, Agent Chaves began leaking confidential information about the investigation to newspaper reporters.
A March 29, 2015, article in the Wall Street Journal described such actions as "Mr. Bharara's M.O," noting that the U.S. Attorney, in earlier cases, had "exploited tools once reserved for the mafia or terrorists to go after white-collar crimes."
As subsequent articles explained, the leaks were a government tactic used in an effort to "scare (targets) into cooperating" through public exposure of the mere fact they were under investigation.
The unauthorized leaks – including some "over dinner" – occurred between April 2013 and at least June 2014, and probably several years thereafter, and included secret grand jury and wiretap information.
The leaked information, including secret grand jury information, was provided to reporters Matthew Goldstein and Ben Protess of the New York Times and Susan Pulliam and Michael Rothfeld of the Wall Street Journal.
On or about April 17, 2014, Chaves dined with three NYT reporters and leaked details about the Walters investigation. Phone logs indicate that "multiple phone calls" and texts between Chaves and Protess occurred over the next couple of weeks.
Officials and supervisors at the FBI and USAO became aware of the leaks in early May.
Aware that the newspapers were preparing to go public with their stories, the FBI sent agents to interview Tom Davis and Golf Pro Phil Mickelson on May 29, 2014. Subsequently, Davis supposedly destroyed evidence by allegedly throwing his cell phone into a pond which was never recovered.
The WSJ published its first story on the investigation on May 30, 2014. It identified Walters, Icahn, and professional golfer Phil Mickelson as targets of the original Clorox investigation and mentioned the government's expanded investigation into Dean Foods. The NYT published its similar story on the same day. Both papers did follow-up stories the next day.
Mickelson repeatedly told the FBI in multiple interviews that there was no insider-trading and that Walters was innocent of the charge. Bahara's investigation into Mickelson exposed huge overseas gambling debts and the prosecutor threatened to indict the pro golfer for money laundering and tax evasion unless he agreed to plead the fifth amendment in the Walters matter thus denying Walters an exculpatory witness. Mickelson folded.
On the evening of May 30, Assistant FBI Director George Venizelos sent an email to parties involved in the case, including Agent Chaves, to stop talking to the WSJ reporter. "I mean it when I say cease contact with this reporter for now," Venizelos wrote. "(I)f I find out someone is still talking to this reporter after today than (sp) there will be reassignments immediately."
On June 1, Agent Thorensen, apparently unaware that his supervisor was the source of the leaks, described them as "deplorable and reprehensible." That same day, United States Attorney Preet Bharara referred to the leaks as "outrageous and harmful" and Venizelos described them as "an embarrassment to this office."
Ignoring the order, Chaves stopped using his FBI cell phone and began communicating with reporters using his personal cell phone. He also deleted his personal email account at the time for an unexplained reason.
In an April 19, 2017, editorial, the Wall Street Journal noted that "According to emails revealed in the Walters' case, (U.S. Attorney Preet) Bharara knew about the leaks pouring out of the FBI's white-collar unit…but as far as we know he did nothing to stanch the leaking. The paper concluded that "there's a pattern of troubling behavior and a problematic culture inside Mr. Bharara's old shop."
The Trial record further reveals
On September 23, 2016, Walters' defense team asked the court for a pretrial hearing to address alleged government misconduct related to the leaks in the FBI investigation.
On October 21, 2016, the government filed its opposition to the request for a pretrial investigation into the leaks, with Bharara characterizing the request as a "fishing expedition" and "nothing more than unfounded speculation." He stated unequivocally that the allegations of misconduct by "an agent for the government" were "not true."
On November 17, 2016, the court granted Walters' request for a pretrial hearing.
On December 16, 2016, the government disclosed to the court that Agent Chaves had admitted to leaking confidential grand jury information to reporters in interviews conducted by the USAO on December 6 and 8 in advance of the pretrial hearing.
After the December 8 interview, Agent Chaves invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to appear for a third scheduled interview. However, based on the first two interviews, the government was forced to admit that information in the WSJ and NYT articles "contained a significant amount of confidential information relating to the investigation" and conceded that an illegal violation of grand jury secrecy had occurred.
On December 20, 2016, the Office of Inspector General opened a criminal investigation into the press leaks, including Agent Chaves' involvement in them.
On December 21, 2016, the court heard arguments related to the now-admitted leaks by Agent Chaves. Walters' defense team argued the indictments should be dismissed due to the government misconduct in the investigation. The court agreed to hear such a motion.
On January 13, 2017 Walters' defense team submitted a pre-trial motion to dismiss, noting that "We now know that the shield of grand jury secrecy was turned upside down, and misused instead as a sword in a systematic, deliberate, sustained, and illegal campaign by the government to leak and barter secret grand jury information as an investigative strategy to revive a moribund investigation" by Agent Chaves.
On January 30, 2017, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara submitted a memorandum to the court opposing Walters' motion for dismissal despite the fact that the "improper and inexcusable leaking of information to the media" was "unquestionably wrong" and that there should be "serious consequences for that misconduct." Nevertheless, Bharara denied that Chaves' leaks and the USAO and FBI's failure to stop them rose to the level of "outrageous government misconduct."
Two e-mails from U.S. Attorney Bharara to the FBI prove he knew about and approved the illegal leak of grand jury testimony- a strict violation of the law. Bharara would simply lie about it to federal Judge.
On February 6, 2017, Walters' defense team submitted a memorandum in support of its motion to dismiss the indictment due to the government's misconduct.
Judge Castel said "I will say that I've learned a lesson here. I reviewed the defendant's motion. I was somewhat skeptical that the allegations could possibly be true, but I felt the defendant had made a sufficient case to warrant an evidentiary hearing. I felt that an evidentiary hearing was, at a minimum, a wise prophylactic measure.
I wasn't cynical enough to think that I was going to learn of deliberate disclosures by a special agent of the FBI and deliberate disclosures after the fact of leaks became known within the Bureau and the U.S Attorney's Office and a warning, a strongly-worded warning, was issued by a person within the bureau in a supervisory capacity.
Human nature being what it is, I could certainly understand if an agent found themselves in communication with a member of the press and somehow a conversation got out of hand and went beyond where it should have, and the agent, without any real thought ahead of time, misspoke. That is not what happened here. This included dinner meetings and the like. I'm a wiser person today for having been exposed to this. To say I was shocked would be an accurate statement.
The thing that I find — an overused word in the English language is "ironic." It's often misused. But I think it is truly ironic that Mr. Walters is charged with, among other things, tipping material nonpublic information to another. And to help support that case, the special agent apparently tipped material nonpublic information improperly to another. That's what we have here. And it is a true irony."
On March 1, 2017, Judge Castel issued a memorandum and order declaring that "David Chaves, a Supervisory Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), acting without authorization, leaked sensitive information regarding a criminal insider trading investigation to reporters at the Wall Street Journal and New York Times." He nevertheless denied Walters' motion to dismiss based on the government's misconduct in the investigation.
Also from the trial record:
Walters' trial began on March 15, 2017
Two 30-day wiretaps of Walters' phone after the newspaper stories were published did not turn up any incriminating conversations; however, that fact was withheld, at Judge Castel's order, from the jury. In addition, the defense was not allowed to inform the jury of the press leaks by Agent Chaves.
The prosecution's case relied primarily on the testimony of Tom Davis and the timing of phone calls between Davis and Walters – but not substance, as none of the calls were recorded – and trades Walters made after those calls.
No texts, emails, letters, faxes, voicemails, wiretaps or other documented evidence was introduced during the trial which incriminated Walters.
The jury was informed that when Davis was initially questioned about insider trading related to Dean Foods, for which Davis was a board member after the press leaks became public, he replied, "I never provided Billy Walters any confidential information. I'm certain of that."
The jury learned that Davis subsequently changed his story after getting caught embezzling $100,000 from a charity for battered women in order to pay off a gambling debt and lying about it. He then cut a deal with the government to be a cooperating witness against Walters.
Under cross-examination, Davis admitted: "I'm not going to make any bones about it. I was hoping that…providing cooperation to the government would help me avoid going to jail."
Testimony during the trial also revealed that Davis, admittedly, lied repeatedly, cheated on his taxes, cheated on his wives, paid for prostitutes, committed insurance fraud, gambled extensively with an illegal bookie in Dallas and had a drinking problem.
On April 7, 2017, the jury found Walters guilty of insider trading.
The sentence received by Walters also raised eye-brows:
Sentencing guidelines call for the courts to take into account "the history and characteristics of the defendant" and impose a sentence "sufficient but not greater than" necessary to "promote respect for the law," to "provide just punishment for the offense" and to "protect the public from further crimes of the defendant."
Courts may also consider a defendant's "age, education, mental or emotional condition, [and] medical condition" in issuing a sentence substantially below what is outlined in advisory guidelines.
The Probation Department – considering Walters age (71), lifetime of good deeds and generosity, absence of any past criminal history, and low likelihood of recidivism – recommended a prison sentence of no more than one year and one day.
On July 27, 2017, Judge Castel ignored Probation Department recommendation and sentenced Walters to five years in prison and fined him $10 million. In addition, stating his personal opinion that "the chances of success" in appealing the decision were "especially low," Judge Castel denied Walters' request that he be allowed to remain free on bail pending appeal.
On October 10, 2017, Walters entered federal prison to begin serving his sentence.
This past Christmas President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a Brooklyn Rabbi who had been convicted of financial crimes. The President should commute the sentence of William Walters and order Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review the action of the Justice Department in what Judge Andrew Napolitano has called the "most stunning case of prosecutorial misconduct I have ever seen".
All supporting documents can be seen here
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Frank William Dux (born 1956) is a martial artist and fight choreographer. Dux established his own school of ninjutsu in 1975, called "Dux Ryu Ninjutsu". An article about his exploits, which appeared in Black Belt in 1980, was the eventual inspiration for the 1988 film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Famed Mexican Publisher Alejandro Junco said to be 'gravely ill'; as daughter Rosa Laura remains in sex slave cult


If you haven't had your vacation yet, don't despair. You can fly around Europe at prices that rival train or bus tickets a few years ago. To find the cheapest airfares online, choose the least busy days to fly – i.e., Tuesday and Wednesday – avoid holiday periods, and stay at your destination at least over the weekend.
This site lists low-fare airlines, including their destinations and rough prices. Seven firms currently fly from Ruzyně, and most direct links go to the UK. With Easyjet (www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp) you can go to London, Newcastle, Nottingham, Bristol, or Dortmund, Germany. BmiBaby Airlines (www.bmibaby.com/ bmibaby/en-gb/index.aspx) connects Prague to London, Cardiff, Teeside, Manchester, or East Midlands. You can find connections to Belfast and Leeds at www.jet2.com, while FlyBee (www3.flybe.com) will take you to Southhampton, a hub for reaching 14 other destinations.
Since May, Ruzyně has been the home of the Czech low-cost airline SmartWings, with 10 Boeing 737s servicing Copenhagen, Madrid, Zurich, Paris, and Amsterdam – attractive destinations that were previously inaccessible on the cheap. This is particularly true of the latter two destinations, for which flights depart seven days a week. But prices vary greatly. A round-trip to Paris with SmartWings can cost as little as CZK 1,820 or as much as CZK 5,750. The earlier you buy your ticket, the cheaper it will be. The cheapest tickets are sold first, and as the plane is filled, the prices go up.
This on-line reservation system has the latest information on ticket availability with 750 airlines, including ČSA. Enter your place of departure and destination, and wait for offers and prices of various carriers. You can immediately reserve a seat, and confirm it over the phone. Bank transfers, cash, and credit cards are accepted as payment. The site's operator, Asiana, supplements the database with low regional tariffs, or nego-fares.
Charter flights from Vienna, Cologne, Bonn, and Milan head beyond European borders. You can take low-fare airlines to get there. For example, you can get to Vienna via Košice with SkyEurope Airlines. Vienna is one of seventeen destinations reachable from Košice. Germany is covered by GermanWings (www20.germanwings.com), and the Mediterranean is covered byVolareWeb (buy.volareweb.com/sito_cz/index.html). Take an Airbus 320 to Milan and Venice and continue on to the rest of Europe, including Tirana, Albania for example. Call 800 142 331 to combine flights.
Interest in 20% last-minute discounts is rising steadily, already accounting for 30% of all excursions sold. The offer is vast – hundreds of destinations, but it's still limited, since prior to departure you don't know which hotel or pension you'll go to. On the Centrum zájezdů na poslední chvíli page you can browse for cheap air tickets and excursions. Under "Last Minute" just enter the date you want to travel on, and in a short while a huge number of offers and prices will appear, with links for more detailed information. This site also offers German travel agency trips as well.
If you don't want to travel to shop, choose a more convenient method. Enter this address and see a catalog of 1,519 web shops, including ratings and e-business information.
This site offers a lot of useful information connected with travel abroad, including a list of travel insurers in this country. Each features a link to the home page, with tariffs and medical expenses in the event of injury or illness.
One of the largest, fastest, and best laid-out sites. It contains databases of over 1.8 million firms and over 180,000 Czech internet sites, arranged according to business field and location.
This hosting site is the first in the Czech Republic to allow each visitor his own weblog, "written, photographed, and recorded" from more or less anywhere over a mobile phone that supports MMS messages.
– Global Positioning System is synonymous with a box the size of a mobile phone that helps you find your way under any conditions. Its display shows your geographical coordinates and a map of your surroundings. It can pinpoint your location to within 7-10 meters. GPS is based on many satellites that send signals about current locations. The system, used for many years by the US Army, reached the public only recently, and it's only a matter of time until we all have GPS modules built into our cars and mobile phones. Once and for all we can throw out all our atlases, shredded maps, and city plans.


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By Mark S. King
From TheBody.com
Mark in 2014
Some years ago, I told someone that I was HIV positive before I agreed to his invitation for a date. "Yeah, I know," he casually replied, and then he looked a little embarrassed, as if he shouldn't have said it. It was too late, of course; I knew exactly what he meant. He could tell my HIV status by my face.
I had The Look. The sunken, wasted cheeks of someone living with HIV. It became a common manifestation in the 1980's and persisted until the medications that caused the condition, known as facial lipoatrophy, were changed or abandoned for better treatment.
Today, facial lipoatrophy is almost exclusively limited to long-term HIV survivors who used medications like d4t and ddi more than twenty years ago.
I'm one of those long-term survivors. I am proud of my history advocating and living with HIV. But as uncomfortable as it may be to admit, it's a lot easier to live openly as a person with HIV when you don't look like it.
When the symptoms began to appear, it meant that the choice to share my status, as an activist or on a personal level, had been taken away. My HIV was written across my face for all to see.
I felt ashamed, and then conflicted. For someone who has been fighting so hard to reduce HIV stigma, what is there to be ashamed of, exactly? Many of the physical signs of HIV treatment — from weight loss to fat redistribution to facial wasting — are worn as battle scars, if not badges of honor, by thousands of people living with HIV. My disease is mirrored in my physicality. What's wrong with that?
Eventually, I realized that correcting my facial wasting was no different than improving my t-cell counts. I wasn't making a political statement — I was improving my health and well-being.
And so, I began a journey that would include multiple visits to a specialist and more than $20,000 worth of various "facial filler" products injected into my face. My biggest advantage was the physician I chose: Dr. Gerald Pierone, arguably the most experienced person in the country on facial fillers (who also answers questions from readers here at TheBody.com).
Along the way I chronicled my journey through video blogs. They span more than six years, explicitly showing the treatments in Dr. Pierone's office as well as before and after footage. They include a wealth of information and advice about getting facial lipoatrophy treatment, the products involvedand their relative costs.
Reference Article: thebody.com


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You will see computer science as both an engineering discipline, concerned with building complex software systems, and a scientific discipline, making new discoveries through the world-leading research being undertaken in the Department. You will learn to understand users and how to design interactive systems centred on their needs. You will recognise the power of data, how to manage and exploit it and how to build intelligent systems that learn from data.
The content of the course is the same for the BSc as well as the BEng, and you get to decide which qualification you leave with when you successfully complete the course - meaning if you are going into an environment where one of the qualifications might be more valued, you can opt to choose that one.
This course is accredited by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional.
This course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer and partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.
Find out more about what this professional accreditation means.
You'll take 120 credits per year as part of this course.
The first term will focus on the Theory and Software streams enabling you to establish a solid foundation regardless of your previous experience of programming and computing.
You will spend this year out in industry if you successfully obtain a placement. You will be supported in achieving this by our dedicated Industrial Placement Coordinator, who is there to help you with your CV, give you interview tips, arrange interviews on campus, and visit you on placement to ensure everything is going well. We have excellent relationships with a strong portfolio of companies from large multinationals such as IBM and Airbus UK, to smaller companies such as YorkTest and Informed Solutions.
Your year in industry gives you a chance to use what you have learned during your degree. As well as being paid a good salary, students who take a year in industry generally achieve better grades, develop a broader range of skills and are more attractive to future employers. Some students even find a job with their placement company before they graduate.
Apply computational thinking to problems they encounter, using skills in problem analysis, representation and abstraction, and in algorithm selection, at different scales in complex situations, and drawing on the foundations of computer science.
Adapt to new technologies, languages, paradigms, terminologies and models as they become available, being confident to use advanced techniques and tools in their practice.
Design and build computer-based systems to serve the needs of users, with the most appropriate combination of software and hardware, by applying the theory and practice of programming and software engineering, while making effective use of the variety of physical implementations on which that software may be running.
Engineer solutions to problems in which computation forms a significant part, by using skills from the whole breadth of Computer Science across all parts of the development lifecycle, with deeper skills in chosen areas.
Make immediate and effective contributions as part of multidisciplinary teams in industry, consultancy or education, by managing workloads, optimising resources and meeting deadlines, using experiences from team projects.
Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders about complex computational problems and their solutions in a clear and organised manner.
Operate as responsible Computer Science professionals, by maintaining awareness of key legal and ethical issues, appreciating how computers and technology can impact on society, and by continuing to expand and deepen their knowledge through critical engagement with the discipline.
AAB - ABB including an A level in Mathematics at grade B or above.
DDD - DDM plus at least a grade B in A level or equivalent qualification in Mathematics. We also consider applicants with a combination of other BTEC Level 3 qualifications and A levels but this must include A level Mathematics. Please email the Department at cs-ug-admissions@york.ac.uk to discuss your combination of qualifications and our grade requirements.
Pass with D3/D3/M2 - D3/M2/M2 in principal subjects including Mathematics.
H2,H2,H2,H2,H3,H3 - H2,H2,H3,H3,H3,H3 in Higher Level, including H1 or H2 in Mathematics.
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers: AB in Advanced Highers, including Mathematics, plus AAAAB - AAABB at Higher Level.
We welcome applications offering a mix of Open University (OU), A level, and other appropriate qualifications. Applicants can use appropriate OU courses to fulfil some or all of our A level subject requirements. The 30 credit courses Essential Mathematics 1 (MST124) and Essential Mathematics 2 (MST125) can be taken to replace our Maths A level requirement. You must take both courses and achieve at least 85% (Distinction) in both. Please note that we require Mathematics as your main qualification: from the OU (as above) or as an A level, or equivalent.
Mature students: We welcome applications from mature candidates and will assess any application on its own merits. However, we still expect you to have an appropriate background in Mathematics. We recommend that you contact us for an informal discussion before you apply.


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I'm participating in the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop March 17- 20. Over 250 participating blogs are offering a book related giveaway and we are all linked up together so you can easily hop from one giveaway to another.
Thanks for the giveaway! My computer hates me this morning so I might have entered twice. Sorry!
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Love WinSCP :) . I'd like to have the ability to re-order the saved sessions by dragging and dropping them, so that I can group them in an order that makes sense for me, rather than by the order in which they were entered. Right now when I try and drag a session, I get an icon of a circle with a slash through it.
They are ordered by alphabet, not by order in which they were entered.
You can group them in folders, if that helps.
OK, they're listed alphabetically. I'd still like the ability to drag and drop them to change the order. Thanks!


Poetry, Rants, Stories, Songs, and Plays.
My biggest delusion also felt the most real.
Grief is the bite of the wind on your cheek. Life is the brace of air against your face and your hair standing on end.
Intertwined like two strands, they stood at the bus stop hand in hand. A familiar memory stood next to you is still there years after you saw them last. Look after your mind. Reign in fear and hate because you might be alone at the bus stop one day.
The breath goes in and out. Your breath becomes someone else's whether you are on your own or not. Keep breathing, that's what living is.
Sorry yes. That's ok. I just walked in a tree because I was looking away. Sorry. Errrr. Where was I? Oh yes I've got to walk around the tree. Errr yes. Ok. Oh no sorry I got a text, one moment. Oh sorry tree again, I was looking at my phone. Oh the bus is here. Oh sorry driver I don't have change will a note be ok. Oh wait.. errr. A £20 is my lowest. Sorry. Oh blimey it's a busy bus isn't it. I'll have to stand up. Maybe I should just squeeeeeeeze past some of these people. Sorry. Oh I'm not getting off for a while and these people might be getting off sooner. I'll squeeeze past another oh sorry. Errr ever so sorry are you getting off now? Sorry I'll move out of the way so you can get out. Ah. At least there's a free chair to sit on. Oh sorry my knee just touched your knee I'll try and close my legs so I take up less room and sit on the outside of the seat. Sorry. Oh sorry you want to get past. I'll swing my legs back around. Oh sorry you're getting up, is it your stop? I better let you out. Ah at least I've got a window seat. Oh you're sitting down next to me sorry I'll tuck my legs in. Sorry, your bag is touching my legs. Ah it is my stop, can you press the bell for me please? Sorry. Ah excuse me you're still standing, can I squeeeze past? Uh. Sorry. Right. Sorry driver, I mean thank you. Sorry.
Try to remember even the cleverest people are just advanced apes trying to conform to an ideal that is in their head.
The mind is a big place to get lost. The world is bigger. Space is unmeasurably bigger. The unknowns beyond are infinitely bigger.
You can paint tomorrow, today.
Sometimes our emotions are like when we look everyday for that sock we lost 15 years ago.
At least learning will come from trying new things.
We will grow, improve, and get better.
How I improved my health.
Don't starve yourself of fat/non-sugar carbs.
Drink more water/sugar free drinks.
One (or more) day a week not thinking about any of the advice above.
Disclaimer: this guide isn't gospel, it is 100% anecdotal, but it has worked for me.
Imagine not really knowing if you are dreaming or if you are wide awake. You are either feeling super elated or depressed or both at the same time. You can't talk clearly or communicate how your feeling and you don't know where you are or what's going on.
I must hide. My imagination becomes real when I get ill. For shame, I sometimes choose a miserable existence. In theory things must get better from this sad old place. In action, the theory fails magnificently when I get more and more comfortable with my delusions. I feel bad.
Well because… She looked lonely as me, she was a pea in a bowl trapped under cling film, I was a glimpse – an image, a moment in time, seemingly screaming alone in an unspent void!
I don't even smoke anymore.
Take a seat, I'll be your chair for this evening.
Tired, it won't be long before you're leaving.
Take some heat, I'm highly strung tonight.
Giving off warmth, you might, just might, just might pluck my branches until tomorrow afternoon. So let's fight!
Tomorrow afternoon, we can play and have a sight of the sea, draw the rocks on the beach, weigh up options, how much balance does it take to say thanks for being a snapshot.
Lass, you move differently to how I guessed, but you leave me shaking, dissecting truth from my words, you are everything I need. Of course you might never know if the mirrors aren't set up well. If the angles are wrong and the camera isn't set.


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UMaine students gather in protest of Dakota Access Pipeline, President-Elect Trump
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Haley Sylvester
Haley Sylvester is from Greenwich, CT and an undergraduate student at the University of Maine. She is studying Management and Marketing with a concentration in International Business and a minor in Professional Writing. She joined the Maine Campus in the spring of 2016 and currently serves as the News Editor.
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On the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 15, the University of Maine saw two protests located in front of Fogler Library. The first was a protest for Standing Rock, an American Indian reservation in North and South Dakota currently fighting against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion investment to move domestic crude oil through four states.
The second was a protest as part of a national walkout movement called "Stop Trump." Supporters of all levels gathered in hopes of having their voices heard and to advocate their beliefs.
The Standing Rock Protest started in front of the library at 12 p.m. The protest included a group of students standing in solidarity with the Standing Rock people and in opposition of the national Dakota Access Pipeline project. The plan was introduced in 2014 and the project would run through and destroy sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Reservation, an action which has angered people in their community. In recent months, the pipeline and protests have garnered national attention as thousands of protesters continuously gather in the reservation in attempt to block the 1,200-mile project.
Theophilos Fitanides, a third-year Art student at UMaine, believes the United States is abusing its power by proposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
"It is a situation where the United States allows the abuse of minorities and the continued thieving of native land and wilderness for the industrial ruining of the surrounding wildlife," Fitanides said.
Fitanides mentioned that he has plans to travel to Standing Rock in the spring to join the official protest. "I'm trying to do what I can to try to make a difference. I believe as a member of society, I need to play my part."
Amber Hathaway, a doctoral student in physics, considers the idea of the pipeline being constructed through sacred lands and without the consent of the tribes "outrageous." She noted that the violence tribal members are facing for their protesting efforts is one of the many reasons she participated in the Orono protest. "I went to stand in solidarity with the protesters at Standing Rock," Hathaway said.
Hathaway added that the timing of the protest was perfect.
"A lot of people were crossing the mall to change classes or grab lunch while we were out there, and so we were able to get a fair amount of attention," Hathaway said.
Hathaway believes President Obama has some power in shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline, but it's unlikely that he will.
One hour after the Standing Rock protesters stepped down from the Fogler Library steps, new protesters gathered in front of the building to fight back against new President-elect Donald Trump. Hathaway also participated in the Trump protest for its duration, which lasted from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
"I participated because Trump's administration poses a huge threat to equality. I'm worried that Trump's commitment to appointing anti-choice justices not just to the Supreme Court, but also to the lower courts, that play a crucial part in the judicial process," Hathaway said.
The protest featured students of all backgrounds holding up signs and screaming phrases such as "Love Trumps Hate," "Nasty Woman" and "P—- Grabs Back," all in opposition to crude remarks Trump made during his presidential campaign against women and people of color.
Hathaway stated that she is worried that her friends who are currently studying in the United States on visas could face harassment and that her friends in the LGBTQ community could face new-found discriminations under a Trump presidency. She added that if individuals come together and fight against the hate and vitriol, it will be harder for politicians and fellow citizens to take away individual rights or discriminate.
"For me, the protest was a very powerful experience. It felt good to come together with fellow equality minded people and channel the fear, anger, and sadness that we've been feeling in the wake of the election into something productive," Hathaway said.
"I'm a huge proponent of nonviolent resistance," she continued. "Historical record has shown how effective collective action can be, so I see these protests as essential and hopefully as signifying the beginnings of a larger movement toward equality," Hathaway explained.
She hopes that in the future, the University of Maine community will build momentum in tough times and "keep up a good fight."
Sam Wheeler, a third-year journalism major, was drawn into the Trump protest after coming out of the library around 2:30 p.m. and hearing people yelling.
"I didn't have a ton of interest in joining [the protest]," Wheeler stated. "I don't particularly care for Trump, and I don't support much of what he has said or done. But, he's our president, and we have to rally around him now. We have to back him, even Obama emphasized that when talking about the president-elect," he added.
Wheeler noted that it's possible for more "Stop Trump" protests to occur on the Orono campus. He added that it is still the early stages of the post-election fallout and that there are many students frustrated over the situation.
"They weren't harming anyone by the looks of it, so the more power to them."
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Donald Trump Jr. And Kimberly Guilfoyle Make Their First Red Carpet Appearance As A Couple Since His Divorce
Former Fox News host and new girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. Kimberly Guilfoyle has pitched her tent with President Donald Trump. Guilfoyle made the announcement of her exit at the end of July in an Instagram post.
READ ALSO: Don Jr.'s Girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle Left Fox News To Become Vice Chair Of Pro-Trump Super PAC
Her exit was marred with controversy and allegations of sexual misconduct that has left many observers baffled. Guilfoyle made no mention of the allegations and sounded optimistic about her future outside the network.
Following her exit from the network, many observers suggested Guilfoyle might head to the White House. The 49-year-old shared the news of her new job as vice chairwoman of the America First Action, a pro-Trump organization working on getting the President reelected, in the same Instagram post.
Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle made their first red carpet appearance as a couple on August 1 at the DC premiere of the film, "Death of a Nation". Guilfoyle appeared in a white, peplum-style dress with a plunging neckline and lacy netting across the bodice.
Completing her outfit was what looked like an Alexander McQueen clutch with a crystal-studded skull clasp, pearl earrings and cream-colored heels with gold studs. Trump Jr. looked pretty sharp himself in a light blue suit and matching dark blue tie with golden stripes.
READ ALSO: Donald Trump Jr.'s Girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle Had 2 Failed Marriages. What Is Known About Her Married Life?
Trump Jr. officially introduced his new girlfriend to his father President Donald Trump on July 4 at a visit to the White House. While the couple looked quite happy together in public, some commentators on Twitter were not as pleased.
The Trumps continue to face a lot of criticism largely due to unpopular polices instituted by President Trump. However, it seems the members of the Trump family are trying their best to go about their regular lives amidst the backlash.
READ ALSO: Donald Trump Jr. Defends His New Girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle After A Racist Attack On Her


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The Judgement of Cambridge: Cambridge Vs Oxford Blind Merchants Challenge
By Chris Wilson
| 14 June, 2019
In a small room upstairs at the St John's Chop House in Cambridge on a wet Tuesday night, the Oxford Wine Company meet for a debrief following round one of their blind tasting challenge against hosts Cambridge Wine Merchants.
"I think it was Viognier," says one of the team, far from confidently. "No", says another, "Albarino." "Chardonnay?", enquires a third before a string of possible white grapes are reeled off; Chenin, Semillon, Godello, Riesling all get an airing.
It turned out to be Albarino, but that's far from the point. The merchants were gathered in Cambridge for the revived blind tasting challenge between two of the UK's best known independents; a chance to pit their staffs' tasting skills against one another in a friendly(ish) varsity battle.
Never mind the Boat Race or the official Varsity Blind Wine Tasting Match, this is where heroes are born and reputations come to die… and both teams were taking it very seriously.
"We had a little competition eight years ago and never got around to having another one, so we thought we'd revive it and we hope to make it an annual event," said Oxford MD team leader and Ted Sandbach before the event.
"We are naturally going to be competitive because that's human nature," he said, adding that his team have had their noses in glasses for the past few weeks practicing for the completion. "The day before yesterday we tasted a wine and all four people had different answers," he joked, but on the whole the sessions have been a success.
Hal Wilson's Cambridge team had been blind tasting in preparation too, and they even carried out heats among staff to see who made to the cut and earned a place on the six-berth team.
"It's easy to forget to do blind tasting in your business practice – you have to make the opportunities and this has helped us get back into that habit and it's a really good thing to do," said Wilson. "It's good to 'learn' yourself back into knowing what good value is. Seeking value is a different prospect to looking just at price, and our job is often to select the best wines across the board."
The format for the competition was simple; 12 wines were tasted in two sittings, six whites and six reds, and points were awarded for correctly identifying hemisphere and country of origin, principle grape variety and RRP. There were supplementary points for reasoning, and to separate the wheat from the chaff head judge Martin Gamman MW threw in a couple of 'out there' wines including an Austrian Pinot Noir.
Gamman, the UK Market Manager for Champagne Joseph Perrier who sponsored the event, sourced the wines for the tasting from The Stroud Wine Company, Majestic and Waitrose, steering clear of anything in either merchant's portfolio.
"It's a game," said Gamman and mustn't be taken too seriously, "we're here to have some fun." When training for his MW and blind tasting with merchants such as Berry Bros. & Rudd he was tickled by the huge differences in perception of wines and the ways that different people approached blind tasting. "The Berry's lot were trying to work out if it was Pauillac or Margot, and I was trying to see if it's Australian or French," he laughed.
When the game was up - and after a few nervous minutes while the scores were compiled - both teams grabbed a glass of Champagne as Gamman listed the top tasters from each team and revealed the overall winner.
"Out of a total of 864 marks up for grabs, there were only 19 marks between the two teams" he teased before handing the trophy to the home team which defeated Oxford 233 points to 214.
Magnanimous in defeat - and thrilled that he was named one of the top tasters of the competition - Sandbach invited the Cambridge crew to Oxford in 2020 for the return fixture.
"As wine merchants we share a lot of values and we do a lot of business together," he said, "and an event like this is good for everyone, we look forward to welcoming Cambridge next year."
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Thanks to some marathon sessions of Breaking Bad, I've made a little progress on the carnation needlebook. I had fun with the leaves. I decided that I wanted to stitch the big leaves all in buttonhole or satin stitch, for a cohesive overall look, but that on the smaller leaves, I wanted to play with different textures.
The smaller leaves are done in chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, open chain stitch filled with French knots, leaf stitch (appropriately enough,) and coral knot stitch.
The bud on the left also varies from the larger, more open flowers.
After not working on this for almost a week, it's exciting to see progress ticking along.