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Micro-sized polyethylene particles show adverse effects in cell lines
Exposure to high doses of micro-sized polyethylene has adverse effects on cells, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland finds. The researchers investigated the toxicity of micro-sized polyethylene in two different human colorectal cancer cell lines. Being one of our most common plastics, polyethylene is used for a variety of purposes, for example as packaging material. Exposure to high doses of polyethylene was found to decrease cell viability and increase the production of reactive oxygen species in cell mitochondria, which are vital energy-producing organelles.
The findings were published in Science of the Total Environment.
Humans are exposed to various microplastics all the time
Microplastic particles are less than 5 mm in diameter. They can be specifically manufactured for, e.g., products of the cosmetics industry, but they are also formed as a result of fragmentation and degradation of plastic debris. The most common microplastic particles in our environment originate from car tyre dust, artificial grass, and washing of clothes made of artificial fibres. Humans are exposed to microplastics mainly through nutrition and air, and although this exposure is known to happen on a daily basis, the health effects of microplastics remain largely unknown.
Polyethylene particles caused adverse effects in human colorectal cancer cell cultures
Microplastics end up in our system especially through the gastrointestinal tract. In the new study, the researchers investigated the toxic effects of micro-sized polyethylene in two human colorectal cancer cell lines. In addition to raw, untreated polyethylene, the researchers also used polyethylene treated with ethanol to determine how the treatment process affects particle toxicity. Cells were exposed to plastic particles for 48 hours at several different doses.
Both raw, untreated polyethylene and ethanol-treated polyethylene caused cell death in the cell cultures at high doses. Cell viability was measured using two different methods, both of which showed the same result. The researchers also investigated the production of reactive oxygen species after exposure. Reactive oxygen species are naturally produced in cells, but different exposures may also increase their number, possibly leading to adverse effects, such as DNA damage. Increased production of oxygen species was observed especially in mitochondria, i.e., the organelles producing energy for cells.
More microplastics research is needed to assess their health risks
The results of the study support earlier findings suggesting that microplastic particles may have adverse human health effects.
"However, the spectrum of microplastics is very broad, and their effects may vary greatly depending on, for example, polymer type and particle shape and size," the article's lead author, Postdoctoral Researcher Mikko Herrala from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Eastern Finland says.
"To reliably assess the health risks of microplastics, we need more information on the effects and mechanisms of different types and shapes of microplastics both on the cellular level and in animals. We also need data on human exposure to microplastics, as well as on the resulting effects on human health," Herrala concludes.
Mikko Herrala, University of Eastern Finland, School of Pharmacy
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Essi Järvelä, University of Eastern Finland, School of Pharmacy
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Research article:
Herrala, M., Huovinen, M., Järvelä, E., Hellman, J., Tolonen, P., Lahtela-Kakkonen, M., & Rysä, J. (2023). Micro-sized polyethylene particles affect cell viability and oxidative stress responses in human colorectal adenocarcinoma Caco-2 and HT-29 cells. The Science of the total environment, 161512. 7.1.2023 OA https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723001274 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161512
Nano-sized plastics may enter and permeate cell membranes
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have used molecular modelling methods to investigate the movement of nano-sized plastics in membrane structures. The results indicate that for some microplastics, passive transport through the cell membrane may be a gateway into the cell.
Nanoplastics can move up the food chain from plants to insects and from insects to fish
A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that lettuce can take up nanoplastics from the soil and transfer them into the food chain.
Nanoplastics should be included in existing regulatory frameworks
In a viewpoint article published in Environmental Science & Technology, researchers address regulatory concerns related to intentionally produced nanoplastics.
University of Eastern Finland


People who fill out The Check Cashing Store application are looking to help people that need payday loans for the short term or to cash checks. With over one hundred stores in Florida, the company aims to be there for those who need it. Links to apply for jobs at The Check Cashing Store are at the bottom of the page.
The Check Cashing Store was opened in 1982. During the 1990s, they were bought and run as a subsidiary of Buckeye Cash Checking (now CheckSmart) until the 2000s. At that point, ownership was bought by the DFC Global Corp, Inc. who has run it ever since.
Although The Check Cashing Store devotes most of its attention to cashing checks and offering short term loans, the company is branching out. At some locations, they've started offering cash for gold in order to diversify their store offerings for customers. All store locations also offer prepaid debit cards, bill payment for select companies, and money transfers.
The Check Cashing Store values their customers and strives to give them the best customer service to make sure that they feel appreciated. With locations all over Florida, they aim to be convenient and easy to access for anybody that has to make use of their services.
At the corporate level, you may not be working with The Check Cashing Store as they are run by the DFC Global Corp, Inc. Many of the positions available will not be working with one specific subsidiary as the company is worldwide or you may be spending time making sure that the corporation is working smoothly.
Local The Check Cashing Store jobs will have you working on the front line with customers to give them the service that they need. With stores scattered across Florida, there are multiple locations that you could work at that work best with your location.
How old do you have to be to work at The Check Cashing Store? Age requirements vary by job. As you look at The Check Cashing Store jobs online, make sure to read all of the position needs closely because some require various degrees, experiences, or certifications.
Those with The Check Cashing Store careers know that store hours vary by location. Generally, stores are open by ten am and close anywhere between five and eight pm. Sunday hours are always different, as some locations are closed and others run on reduced hours. Holidays also effect store hours.
Customer Service Representative – Having a positive, friendly attitude is key to this position as you work to provide quick customer service while being able to recognize the types of checks that are being cashed. As needed, you will help maintain the store's cleanliness. Compensation is around $40,000 a year.
Store/Branch Manager – You will work to make sure that the overall operations of the store are going smoothly by making sure that staff members are giving excellent customer service, sales goals are being met, and that checks are being cashed to company standards. Compensation is around $50,000 a year.
Office Administrator – By working in the corporate office, you'll offer support to various executives and general staff members. As needed, you'll arrange travel and create expense reports for reimbursement. Compensation is around $40,000 a year.
Business Continuity Manager – Your focus will be on the North American businesses and making sure that everything is working smoothly and well. Proactively identifying and combating threats is a big part of this position. Compensation is around $80,000 a year.
Why do you want to work for The Check Cashing Store? As this is extremely common interview question, you should be prepared for it. Talk about what drew you to the company, whether it was the company culture or benefits and why it's your first choice in places to work.
What experience do you have? Highlight all of your relevant experience. If you don't have any, instead talk about what you can bring to the company and the position. Use plenty of examples to back up and enhance any claims you make.
Where do you see yourself in the next few years? Your interviewer is looking to see if you're planning on staying with the company. Be realistic in your career expectations, but let your interviewer know you're willing to take on extra responsibilities and challenges in order to move up in the company.
As The Check Cashing Store relies heavily on customer service, you may be asked this question in the form of a hypothetical situation: How would you take care of an upset customer? Be practical and realistic as you walk your interviewer through the steps you would take in order to turn the customer's experience around.
Some positions require you to stand or sit for long periods of time, so you may be asked this question: Is there anything that could keep you from doing your job? Be honest, they want to make any arrangements that they can so that you can do a great job in your position.
How to apply for The Check Cashing Store online: make sure you set your search limiter for this particular company. Make sure, as you look at the jobs, to read all positions requirements carefully before filling out a The Check Cashing Store application. There is no printable application for The Check Cashing Store available on their website.
Before going in for an interview, do research on The Check Cashing Store and the industry in order to have a list of questions that you can ask. This may seem excessive, especially for an entry level position, but it will place you in front of the other candidates as it shows that you think ahead.
Dress nicely for your interview in business casual as your interview will take place in a semi-formal setting. If you've applied for a managerial, supervisory, or corporate position, a suit would be appropriate. Have a positive and friendly demeanor when you attend your interview as it will give a good impression.
Show gratitude at the opportunity to interview with The Check Cashing Store. After your interview, inquire about the best way to check on your hiring status because few applicants will learn if they got the position they applied for during their interview. The Check Cashing Store will want to screen all candidates before making a final decision.
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From 2013 through 2018, Leah Frances explored America's real and imagined images of itself through the lens of her camera. Interested in the distance between commonly held ideas surrounding "Americanness" and the actual reality of daily life in this country, Leah examined these constructed perspectives, taking road trips to document traces of American cultural identity across as much of the country as she could reach. She found that the way she chose to frame the content of her photographs: to leave out what she wanted but also to include what she wanted could create a sort of displaced experience, an alternate reality both for the photographer doing the composing and for the viewer doing the looking. The resulting image could become a portal for the viewer, allowing for a flexible experience of time.
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We want to let readers know that World Cancer Day 2019 is fast approaching on the February 4, which is a great time to raise funds and vital awareness locally for children and young people with cancer.
At CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading cancer charity for children and young people, we want everyone to 'band together' behind families affected by cancer. You can make a difference by donating just £2 to get your own their special Band Against Cancer wristband (available in three different collectable colours).
Making a small donation, wearing your wristband and telling others about it is such an easy way to make sure you can help other families going through a really tough time.
Our Cancer Costs research revealed that families spend an extra £600 a month on average whilst on treatment. As treatment for children and young people's cancer is often many miles from home at specialist hospitals (Southampton is the nearest principal treatment centre for West Sussex), families have to pay for things like regular long-distance travel, additional food, clothing, parking and accommodation whilst having to keep up with regular bills including mortgage, rent and energy bills.
With your help this World Cancer Day, CLIC Sargent can reach those families through our support workers and nurses who provide practical, emotional and financial support, to help minimise the damage cancer causes to young people.
To support CLIC Sargent this World Cancer Day, get your own Band Against Cancer wristband at: www.clicsargent.org.uk/WorldCancerDay.


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In this scheme, providers sell cheap or free smart phones in return for long-term contract with customers. Furthermore, some companies risk more and first buy products in bulk for discounts and then implement the penetration pricing strategy. Factors to consider include: One explanation for this trend is that consumers tend to put more attention on the first number on a price tag than the last. Consumers might practice a decision avoidance approach when buying products in an unfamiliar setting, an example being when buying ice cream. Loss Leader Pricing and Rain Check Policy.
Tim Friesner Marketing Teacher designs and delivers online marketing courses, training and resources for marketing learners, teachers and professionals. Profit and Loss Statement. Winners identify the required in-store real estate and merchandising within and across customers to increase consideration of their products and design strong pay-for-performance programs to capture it. The price of the product is production costs plus a set amount "mark up" based on how much profit return that the company wants to make. How we change what others think, feel, believe and do. There are certain price points where people are willing to buy a product.
Promotional pricing is often the subject of controversy. Firms must have control over the changes they make regarding the price of their product by which they can gain profitability depending on the amount of sales made. A Durham, NC resident, Fraser has written about law, starting a business, balancing your budget and fighting evictions, among other legal and financial topics. The basic pricing architecture question is this: Method of pricing where an organization artificially sets one product price high, in order to boost sales of a lower priced product.


Urbansocial has completed more than 10 successful years on the internet. Launched in the year 2003, this UK-based dating site has grown unbelievably large over the years. Whether you are in Bristol, London or somewhere else, as long as you are sociable enough, this site will do you much good.
The website has a large number of profiles. If you are a female, you will find many successful, hot and caring men. In case you are a male, you will find thousands of absolutely gorgeous, bubbly, and smart women. The thing is, in this site, everybody wins! Also, since most profiles are really detailed, including information about hair color, favorite movie, vacation preference, and much more, finding a match is much easier in this site; at least, compared to other sites that do not encourage the members to enter a lot of details. You will mostly find people from the UK, but there are many members who belong to other ethnicities and backgrounds too.
This is a site which keeps track of many events, along with providing good dating service. There is a section dedicated to providing news and dating advice too, and that can get pretty interesting. Other than that, you can do a number of things that are found commonly in various dating platforms; such as contact others, upload multiple photos etc. Note that the site approves all profiles and photos, and therefore, sometimes you may end up encountering profiles that are fake or not reliable representatives of the actual person in question.
The main theme of Urbansocial is letting people connect with ideal matches without holding back. The site tries to make the whole dating thing as easy and straightforward as possible. Its efforts are evident in the registration process, which is painless, and in its overall interface, that shouts user-friendliness. The search feature is pretty good too, if not the best or most wonderful in the whole of the UK. Also, the website design seems really well-planned. The design, for the most part, is a combination of simplistic art and modern elements.
Is this the best dating website in the UK? Well, we really do not have a solid one-word answer to that. But, this site is definitely not one of those bad apples. In case you find some free time, create a profile and try it for a few hours. You will most probably not be disappointed.


A dividend is a profit distribution paid by a company to its shareholders. The profits may originate from normal company operations or from the organization's investment activities. The company's board of directors determines and declares cash dividends periodically – typically on a quarterly, semiannual, or annual basis. They can be paid to shareholders in the form of cash or as additional shares of company stock, though stock dividends are usually only issued when the board wants to reinvest cash profits to fuel future company growth.
The shares of stock that an investor buys represent equity (or ownership) in the issuing company. If that company pays a dividend, each share owned entitles the investor to a proportionate share of the total dividend to be distributed. For example, if Investor Smith owns two thousand of shares of ABC Corporation and the Board of Directors declares a cash dividend of fifty cents, Smith would receive a total dividend amount of $1,000. Or, if Smith's two thousand shares were to represent 2 percent of the total amount of outstanding stock certificates of the corporation (which in this example would be 100,000), Smith would be entitled to 2 percent of the total dividends.
As previously stated, company management determines if dividends will be distributed to shareholders, and if so, the form and percentage of overall earnings that will be paid out in relation to the amount retained and reinvested to further the organization's growth. This ratio of dividends paid out relative to the amount of earnings retained is known as the payout ratio. In addition to profit earned by the company, other factors can influence the board's dividend decisions, such as tax law changes and investor preferences. Dividend increases often lag substantially behind earnings increases because management generally wants to be certain that a new higher dividend will be sustainable in the future. This is because a reduction in dividends is usually perceived as a corporate sign of financial weakness.
Although some companies do experience financial difficulties that require them to reduce or completely stop their payment of dividends, the majority of dividend-paying businesses not only maintain the payouts that they establish but also attempt a policy of steady dividend increase for their investors. Some companies increase dividend payments quarterly, some annually, still others increase only as profits allow. Some companies even pay special dividends if earnings have been strong over an extended period of time.
Whenever the board of directors declare or make changes to a dividend payment, two important dates are also established: the record date and the distribution date. The record date is the date that the corporation finalizes its books for that financial period. Everyone who is listed in the books as a shareholder at the end of that day will be paid a dividend. After the record date, the stock trades ex-dividend (without the dividend). In other words, if the stock is sold, its price is reduced by the declared dividend amount because the purchaser won't receive the current dividend. The distribution date is the date that the shareholders of record are actually paid the dividend, generally several days to several weeks after the record date.
Dividend investing works quite well for many investors, for a number of reasons. For instance, dividends, needless to say, provide a steady stream of income – income that can be counted on whether the market moves up or down. This stream represents spendable cash which can be used or reinvested. Reinvestment allows the overall investment to grow at a compounded rate of increase. If quarterly dividends are used to buy more shares of stock, at the end of each quarter more and more owned shares will each be earning dividends, greatly increasing the total income stream. This is in addition to the fact that stock values historically increase over time. The new shares that are continually acquired with dividend revenues will also increase, simply adding to the value of the overall investment.
Additionally, dividend-paying stocks generally are not as volatile as other stocks. Because of the added benefit of a reliable dividend return, the investor faces less risk. This is even more important in a declining market, when investors can't count on price appreciation to give them the returns that they need. During these times, many will often buy dividend-paying instruments, stabilizing their price even further and causing the typical dividend-paying stock to fall much less than the equity market as a whole.
Dividend investing also promotes dollar cost averaging. Regularly and systematically acquiring more shares leads to a lowering of the average purchase price of the shares as the stock's price fluctuates. When prices are high fewer shares are purchased, but when prices fall more shares are bought with each dividend payment.
Without dividends, overall market performance would be quite lackluster, to say the least. It's common knowledge that over the last one hundred years, stocks have an average annual rate of return of 10 percent. It's not widely reported, however, that the rate is generated almost equally between price appreciation and dividends. Without factoring in dividends, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over the past century is only 5.2 percent, certainly nothing that would set most investors ablaze with excitement. Yet in a bull market with strong price appreciation to seduce them, many investors typically forget about the consistent returns and safety benefits afforded by dividends.
It should be stated that dividend-paying stocks work well in both overperforming and underperforming market cycles. During weak stock market performance cycles, dividends provide a positive return on investment that can be used to counterbalance a negative or nonexistent price appreciation. And in times of strong market performance, dividends can give an additional boost to the returns generated by increased share prices.
Under virtually any market conditions, history has provided strong and compelling evidence of the benefits of dividend-paying stocks. These benefits are applicable to and can be useful for all investors, from beginners to those who are already in retirement. With the addition of dividend reinvestment, they can also enjoy the advantages of increasingly greater income streams and a much larger and more valuable overall investment.


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Emisum (2004–1976 p.n.e. – chronologia średnia) – jeden ze słabo znanych królów Larsy, następca Naplanuma.

Bibliografia
 A.K.Grayson, Königslisten und Chroniken, w: Reallexikon der Assyriologie VI, s. 89.

Królowie Larsy

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This is just a shout out for a great blog I've been following for a while called "300 stories." The author, Dieter Rogiers, is writing a story a day or thereabouts, with the idea being he'll write 300 stories, each of 300 words or less (what the cool kids are calling "flash fiction"). They have mostly been pretty damn good, and have covered a lot of different genres, usually with dry humor. Anyway my point is that it is well worth your time to check it out. Unfortunately I only started following a month or two ago and he's pretty close to the 300 mark now, so if you follow by email you've got a month and half or so to look forward to. I think there is almost certainly a book to come out of this though, and of course the stories are archived on the blog.


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Stephen Peer was born in 1840 in the Stamford Township. When The Great Blondin performed his first tight rope walk in Niagara Falls, he was 19 years old and was inspired to become a tight rope walker.
In 1873, Stephen Peer signed on to become an assistant to Henry Bellini, mainly helping Bellini string the rope across the gorge. Peer's first public appearance opened with Bellini's equipment, but without Bellini's consent. In lieu of this, Bellini tried to stop Peer by trying to cut the tight rope, but was unsuccessful. After this futile attempt Bellini was chased out of town.
By 1887, Peer had become famous enough to begin performing under his own billing. On June 22nd 1887, Peer performed a tight rope walk on a wire cable with a diameter of 1.6 cm. The wire was stretched between the present Whirlpool Bridge and the Penn Central Bridge. Peer started his crossing on the Canadian side, successfully completing a double crossing.
On June 25th 1887, Stephen Peer was found dead lying on the bank of the Niagara River directly below his wire cable. It is assumed that Peer fell while he tried an unscheduled night crossing after an evening of drinking.
Stephen Peer crossing Niagara on a tight-rope.
Stephen Peer crossing Niagara on a Rope.
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Stephen Peer on the Rope.
Prof. Stephen Peer's Last Walk across Niagara River, on a 5/8 in. wire, June 22nd, '87.

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	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
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func EnsureFileOwner(destPath string, owner string, groupName string) (bool, error) {
	changed := false
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	if err != nil {
		return changed, fmt.Errorf("error getting file stat for %q: %v", destPath, err)
	}

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	if owner != "" {
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		if err != nil {
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		}
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LOS ANGELES, CA (March 22, 2018) Recently selected Grand Prize Narrative Feature at the 5th Socially Relevant Film Festival (NYC), the award-winning German arthouse film, LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ, THE AUDACITY TO BE FREE, directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post, who won the NDR Newcomer Award (Internationales Filmfest, Germany) will open in theatres, starting April 20 at Village East Cinema with Los Angeles and additional cities to follow.
The film was an Official Selection at Tallgrass Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, and Tbilisi Film Festival and was released by Wild Bunch in Germany, with successful theatrical runs in France and Brazil, with Spain and the U.S. upcoming. Cinema Libre Studio, handling North American rights, will release the film in select theatres following the festival.
Lou Andreas-Salomé is played by four actresses representing four life stages with the principal adult role performed by Germany's Katharina Lorenz (TATORT, DER TEL-AVIV-KRIMI). Even as a young girl, Lou (played by Helena Pieske), had little tolerance for society's gendered expectations. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud, and a femme fatale by critics.
Synopsis: Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe's greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé's desire to live a life free from convention scandalized society but spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Rée and her lover, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud, she became the first female psychoanalyst.
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Il serventese, detto anche sirventese o sermentese, è un componimento strofico della metrica italiana che utilizza schemi e argomenti vari, anche se preferisce quelli a carattere didascalico e narrativo, sorto intorno al XIII e XIV secolo.
Nonostante il nome sia legato al provenzale sirventes, questo tipo di componimento ha il metro della canzone e pertanto non è collegabile al sirventes trobadorico.

Tipologia
Vi sono diversi tipi di serventese:

serventese caudato, non molto differente dalla saffica, formato da strofe tetrastiche di tre versi lunghi monorimi (generalmente endecasillabi) più un verso breve (generalmente quinario), in rima con i versi lunghi della strofa seguente: AAAb-BBBc-CCCd-ecc. Si tratta di una forma rara, attestata nel Duecento e nel Trecento, con rare sopravvivenze quattrocentesche: ne sono noti circa settantacinque esemplari. Forma generalmente anonima, fu però coltivata anche da Iacopone da Todi, Domenico Cavalca, Antonio Pucci e Bianco da Siena, Schiavo di Bari..

Altissima regina incoronata
della superna glorïa beata,
chiamoti, madre, per mia avocata,
con tutto 'l cuore.

Benedetta sie tu a tutte l'ore,
etterna sposa del divino amore,
io ingrato misaro peccatore
a te m'apiglio.

Celestiale regina, el mio periglio,
provede, madre, pregando 'l tuo Figlio,
che me die gratia ch'i' sie suo famiglio,
fedel amante.

Bianco da Siena, lauda CXVII vv. 1-12.

serventese bicaudato formato da endecasillabi e settenari secondo lo schema AAAbAb-BBBcBc che Gidino di Sommacampagna ha semplificato utilizzando endecasillabi + quadrisillabi-quinari.
serventese duato formato da distici monorimi in versi vari (settenari, ottonari, novenari, endecasillabi):AA-BB-CC-ecc.

Sì com' altr' uomini vanno,
ki per prode e chi per danno,
per lo mondo tuttavia,
così m'andava l'altra dia
per un cammino trastullando
e d'un mio amor già pensando
e andava a capo chino.
Detto del gatto lupesco

serventese incatenato o terza rima:ABABCBCDCDED.
serventese incrociato formato da una strofa tetrastica di endecasillabi a rima alternata:ABAB-CDCD-ecc. Il nome di serventese incrociato è stato dato da Antonio da Tempo e da Gidino.
serventese ritornellato o sesta rima formato da una strofa esastica di endecasillabi ABABCC-DEDEFF-ecc.

Curiosità
Dante Alighieri, nel capitolo VI della Vita nova, asserisce di aver composto "una  sotto forma di serventese" nella quale stila una sorta di classifica delle sessanta donne più belle di Firenze. Questa epistola, tuttavia, non è giunta a noi.

Note

Voci correlate
Sirventes

Collegamenti esterni

Metrica
Letteratura medievale


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PUBLISHED: July 1, 2021 at 9:45 a.m. | UPDATED: September 23, 2021 at 6:29 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) – Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Jennifer Hudson will headline an August concert in Central Park, marking the city's comeback from the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
"It is going to be a great moment for the city, marking our rebirth, marking our comeback, and it's going to be one of the greatest Central Park concerts in history," the mayor said at a virtual news briefing
De Blasio announced last month that producer Clive Davis would recruit an all-star lineup for a Central Park concert in August. No exact date has been announced.
More performers will be announced in the coming weeks, de Blasio said.
The concert will come 30 years after Simon's memorable Aug. 15, 1991 Central Park concert, which was recorded and released as a live album and concert film.
Springsteen's return to Broadway last weekend was itself a step in the city's recovery from the pandemic. "He is beloved in New York City in an extraordinary way even though he happens to come from New Jersey – no one's perfect," de Blasio said.
The mayor said Hudson, an Oscar and Grammy winner is "someone who captures the grit and determination that we're all feeling as we fight through this crisis."
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Water off a duck's back — The Duck Inn Taproom overcomes massive challenges
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The reindeer husbandry in Russia is the basis of the cultures of many northern indigenous peoples, who have various traditions and wide experiences of reindeer herding in a diversity of landscapes.
Domesticated reindeer allows them to live in harmony with the extremely severe natural conditions of the Far North. They sew their clothing from reindeer fur using reindeer tendons as thread, live in tepees made of reindeer fur, drink warm reindeer blood and eat raw meat, and sacrifice reindeer to the gods of ancient shamanist religions.
Many herders say: "Our people will live as long as the reindeer are here. If there are no reindeer – there will not be our people".
Russia has about two thirds of the world's population of domesticated reindeer. They are herded on a territory of more than three millions of square kilometers on the tundra, forest-tundra, taiga and mountain areas.
Contemporary reindeer herding in Siberia varies greatly from region to region, due to influences of different environments, histories, and ethnic characteristics. For example, Evenki reindeer herding relies on small herds, with an optimal herd size of 20 to 30 deer per family. By comparison, the large-scale tundra reindeer herders who raise the animals primarily for meat have as many as 1,000 deer or more in one herd.
Tundra-type herding is more extensive, with less contact between the herders and livestock. On the other hand, Evenki and Sayan reindeer herding is based on a closer relationship between the reindeer and the herder. As a result, Evenki and Sayan reindeer are tamer than tundra reindeer. Most deer in Evenki herds are used to being saddled and either ridden or burdened with a pack, and the does are used to being milked.
The deer come to depend on specialized technologies requiring intensive and intimate contact between humans and deer, such as smudge pots to protect against midges and other biting insects, provision of salt, and protection from predators; thus, they never stray far from human settlements.
Life in the tundra and the taiga is hard, but reindeer have it easy thanks to their evolutionary enhancements. Their noses are specially adapted to warm the air they breathe before it enters their lungs. Their fur traps air, which not only helps provide them with excellent insulation, but also keeps them buoyant in water, which is critical being as how they often travel across massive rivers and lakes while migrating.
Even their hooves are special. In the summer, when the ground is wet, their foot pads are softened, providing them with extra traction. In the winter, though, the pads tighten, revealing the rim of their hooves, which is used to provide traction in the slippery snow and ice.
Reindeer are the only species of deer in which the females grow antlers as well as males. They use them to defend food in small patches of cleared snow.


A mechanic's lien is a debt collection tool that contractors can employ to ensure that they are paid by the people that employ them. The attorneys at Nearhood Law Offices, PLC, provide legal guidance and aid regarding mechanic's liens to contractors and owners. Our understanding of Arizona construction law gives us a leg up on getting the right results for those we represent.
Why Would You Receive A Mechanic's Lien?
If you hired a licensed contractor to perform a construction project or improve your residential or commercial property, that contractor may have lien rights against the property if he is not paid for his work or materials. There are several statutory protections for owners, and you should immediately contact an attorney to evaluate the validity of any mechanic's lien recorded (or threatened to be recorded) against your property.
Our firm will work with you to pursue the outcome that protects your property. Ideally, you should come to us before entering into an agreement with a contractor, so we can protect you beforehand. However, you do have options if a lien is recorded against your property.
As a contractor you have the right to get paid for the work you do, and the materials you provide to any construction project or improvement. You put in time and money into the project and getting short-changed will hurt your bottom-line and future prospects for your next project.
You have obligations and we understand that. We will help you receive the payment you deserve for your time and investment.
In both cases, owners and contractors can find themselves in a time crunch. That is why it is vital to get proper legal advice as soon as you can. Contact us at our Scottsdale office immediately by email or by phone at 480-269-8979 to find out how our lawyers can assist you with your issue.


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Rivet is a Levi's heritage store in Bangalore, showcasing a hundred years of the brand's global presence. The store experience needed to facilitate an engagement with the brand's legacy. We designed the History Wall at the Rivet store as a 34 ft long wall to narrate the story of the Levis brand through a graphic-rich archive of advertisements, catalogs, letters and milestone garments, running alongside concurrent world history.
A 'smart' touch-screen, combined with customized electronics, slides along the length of the History Wall and detects the decades mapped on the wall to reveal detailed information for corresponding decade. The visual interface mimics the spontaneous abundance of a Levi's fanatic scrapbook, with links containing detailed information revealed within a rich collages depicting individual decades.
The identity designed for the store revels in its vintage character and is inspired from the landmark rivet patent attributed to founder—Levi Strauss. In-store signage and product descriptors were developed to establish the unique museum-like character of this heritage store.
Store Design: Lotus


A Coca Cola plant is spewing out raw or partially-treated sewage and toxic industrial waste into a pond surrounded by agricultural fields near Delhi, the Centre's top green watchdog has said.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has indicted the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd (HCCB) after three of the four clean-up plants at its Hapur (UP) facility were found to be defunct.
The plant has been running without the requisite 'consent to operate' for a year, the CPCB has said in its inspection report.
Granted after periodic audits, the consent is a key safeguard against environmental degradation.
The inspection, ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), found a 75m x 75m pond was overflowing with effluents. There was a growth of mosquitoes and flies. The coliform (found in excreta) count in the pond was about 3,500 times more than what it should be in treated waste water.
Water quality in the pond - with inlet and outlet at the same corner - quality is also poor on organic strength indicators.
The NGT ordered the inspection after a lawyer in July this year filed a petition against government agencies in Uttar Pradesh, complaining of groundwater contamination - a public health hazard.
The plant, 45 km from Delhi, throws out 1,900 KLD (kilo litres a day) of industrial waste water and 100 KLD of sewage.
HCCB is not yet party to the case. It came into the picture only during the inspection in October. The tribunal will hear the case next on December 7. HCCB, in a statement to Mail Today, said it operates its plants in compliance with all regulatory norms.
"HCCB, not being a party in the matter before the NGT, hasn't been served with a copy of the stated [inspection] report. Thus we are unable to make any comment," said the statement.
HCCB is the bottling investments group of the US-based beverages giant with plants engaged in manufacture, package, sale and distribution of a slew of beverages across India.
The inspection report - a copy of which is with Mail Today - was filed before the NGT on November 19.
"We will wait to get a copy of the report, study it in totality and respond accordingly," said an HCCB official.
After the petition was filed, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) in July informed the tribunal that only cleaned-up waste water was being flown into the pond.
The Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (UPSIDC) went a step ahead a month later and said that the petitioner should be fined heavily.
This prompted the NGT in September to ask the country's top pollution watchdog CPCB, under the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), to do an inspection at Mussoorie Gulawati Rd industrial area set up by UPSIDC.
"The discharge from the plant is partially treated or untreated. There are two effluent treatment plants (ETPs). The one in the pulp section was found defunct. Both sewage treatment plants (STPs) were found defunct. The plants need to ensure all its ETPs and STPs are functional. Only after that there should be any discharge," said a senior CPCB official.
This is a major water polluting industry but there is no facility for online monitoring of the quality of effluents, the report says.
No papers were produced to show hazardous waste (burnt oil residue etc) was being sent to a dedicated facility for safe disposal, it says.
The poor quality of groundwater that has coliform and excess iron content could be because of defunct clean-up systems and discharge from other industries, the CPCB official said.
The report says safe drinking water should be ensured to villages in the vicinity on polluter-pays-principle. It has also indicted UPSIDC for a messy drainage system, resulting in discharge from various industries into agricultural fields, saying farmers complained that the soil in their fields has become infertile.
UPSIDC should completely revamp the drainage system in the industrial area, the report says. Coke plants in Varanasi and Kerala have in the past faced similar charges.
Environmentalist Manoj Misra says it is a classic example of how and why there is large-scale industrial pollution in the country.
"Why is a direction from NGT needed for environmental regulatory institutions to wake up? Strongest possible actions should be taken till the plant gets all its pollution-control measures in place," he said.
The pond was built by the plant apparently to provide treated waste water to agricultural fields, the report says. The discharge is ultimately reaching the main drain in the industrial area, it adds.
"There needs to be a detailed investigation of the entire industrial complex to prevent water and industrial pollution and its deleterious impact on the surrounding agricultural fields," Misra said.


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The cost of memory care in Burgaw, NC ranges from around $4,356 per month up to $8,098 per month. The average cost is $6,993 per month, or around $83,903 yearly.
Burgaw is a small city in Pender County within the State of North Carolina. It is included in the Wilmington metro statistical area. The encompassing area includes 275,187 inhabitants, but there are 10,906 living inside the city limits. Approximately 28% of the local residents are over 55.
The SeniorScore™ for Burgaw is 62. The average home price in the city is $184,500, which is relatively less than the North Carolina average of $204,000. Burgaw has a high unemployment rate of approximately 13.89%. The city's average household income is $48,000 ($19,000 per capita), in comparison to the average of $41,000 for the state of North Carolina.
Burgaw has ideal mean temperatures, with very mild winters and very warm summers. The city gets very large amounts of rainfall each year. Burgaw has a low rate of crime and above average air quality ratings in comparison to other cities.
To see information on the SeniorScore™ for Burgaw, NC, please visit senioradvice.com/seniorscore/senior-living-in-burgaw-nc.


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About the Richardson Lab
The Richardson Lab, headed by Professor Mark Richardson, comprises a team of researchers from several different disciplines, including neurology, psychology, engineering and physics. We study the brain as an entire functioning system, rather than studying small components of the brain. Most of our work involves the direct study of people with epilepsy, their relatives, and people unaffected by epilepsy.
Current work aims to understand the brain networks underlying epilepsy, how these network abnormalities affect cognition, and whether interventions targeting specific components of the network can improve epilepsy.
Research methods/focus
In order to study the brain as an entire functioning system, we use brain scanning techniques (especially MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG, a method to record electrical activity from the brain), as well as transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (TMS). We are especially interested to create simplified models of the brain using computers, which can provide important insights into the workings of the highly complex brain.
We collaborate very closely with mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists to achieve this goal, especially with the lab of Professor John Terry.
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Our current epilepsy research projects involves the acquisition and collation of clinical data via MRI, EEG and TMS. You can read more by visiting the current projects area of this website.
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Herberger Construction is a 3rd generation heavy highway construction company with a bridge building focus. Our crews and construction process span safety with quality workmanship at each and every job project. While known throughout the Midwest for bridge construction and bridge work, Herberger also handles driving piling along with bridge removal, the construction of retaining walls, pump stations, and culverts.
Herberger Construction's roots began in the 1940's, when Walter Herberger and his partners started the business in Humboldt, Iowa. Growing into a sole proprietorship in 1961, the Herberger family moved to Indianola, Iowa and has been performing bridge and heavy highway construction projects all across Iowa since. A third generation company with two sets of twin brothers across multiple generations, Herberger's family-owned quality workmanship and expertise have remained through the years.


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Q: How Spring boot internally knows about a controller's endpoint if there are ten rest controllers in the spring boot application and each controller has 10 methods and I want to call 10th controller 9th method,
How spring boot does it efficiently internally ?

A: What you are asking is managed by Spring MVC request mapping.
Spring boot provides starter that autoconfigures Spring MVC.
In your case I suppose each method will be annotated with @RequestMapping (or one of its  HTTP method specific shortcut variants like @GetMapping, @PostMapping, ...)
You can find how @RequestMapping works  in the spring documentation
To sumarize it, you have to annotate each method with @RequestMapping. Spring has a generic entry point (the dispatcher servlet) that intercept all incoming requests and forward them to the right controller.
@RestController
public class Controller1 {
    @GetMapping("/endpoint1")
    public String method1() {
        return "Controller1.endpoint1";
    }
    @GetMapping("/endpoint2")
    public String method2() {
        return "Controller1.endpoint2";
    }
}

Notice that Spring Mvc doesn't allow ambigous request mapping. You cannot have more than one method with the some request mapping url (Your application will not start)

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Lemonade: the market most talked about disruptor
Written by Roger Peverelli and Reggy de Feniks - Founders The DIA Community on Aug 28, 2017
Lemonade, is an American insurance carrier offering homeowners and renters insurance. It is fully powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. Launched in September 2016, the startup enjoys an unrelenting wave of positive publicity and steady growth: they are already well on their way to reaching 50% of the US population. Their approach is refreshingly different. By replacing brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, Lemonade promises zero paperwork, instant everything and killer prices. And as a Certified B-Corp, where underwriting profits go to nonprofits, Lemonade is redefining insurance as a social good, rather than a necessary evil.
Lemonade uses bots, software that automatically performs simple tasks, to deliver insurance through its app and at lemonade.com. Consumers also file claims with the bot, which is authorized to pay claims instantly and without human intervention, creating an "delightful" insurance experience for customers which are often compelled to share the experience on social media. Lemonade's renter's insurance starts at $5 a month and home insurance for as low as $25 a month, which is up to 80% cheaper than its competitors while it takes less than 90 seconds to purchase it. The Lemonade app has a rating of 4.2 out of 5.
Unlike traditional insurance companies, Lemonade takes a flat fee and gives back unclaimed money to social causes which policyholders care about. This unique blend of technology and social innovation is appearing more and more frequently in novel organizations all over the world.
"Insurance that doesn't suck"
The company's tagline is "Insurance that doesn't suck." The existing insurance business model is broken from the start, with misaligned of incentives between the insurers, who want to pay out as little as possible and the customers, who expect the insurer to pay when needed.
Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber explained this in our book Reinventing Customer Engagement. The next level of digital transformation for banks and insurance: "Insurance is one of the most disliked sectors. A key cause is the profound conflict of interest at the very core of the insurance business model. As an insurer, every dollar that I pay you is a dollar less to my bottom line. Insurers basically make more money by denying claims. Conflicts of interest doesn't get more entrenched than that. Lemonade is built as a new kind of insurance carrier. Our starting point is that you cannot be in conflict with your customers. You cannot make money by denying them. We needed a broader mission: how can we earmark that money to the good of the community? In this way when you think about embellishing your claim, you are not hurting some unanimous insurer who you don't trust, but you're hurting friends, your community, things you care about. This modifies behaviour profoundly. We call this partnering on purpose. This is not about altruism, but about enlightened self-interest. It is about realigning incentives and creating a new point of equilibrium where every player acts better."
Honesty baked into the claims process
Lemonade bakes honesty into the claims. Lemonade's Chief Behavioral Officer is famous behavioral scientist Professor Dan Ariely. He helps design systems and processes that ensure that the interests of the insurer and the insured are aligned. Lemonade's "Giveback" program derives from his studies and has earned Lemonade a B-Corporation certification.
Ariely "People are generally honest. We all have a trust self-image that we might push from time to time. It's like speeding; that doesn't make us feel like bad person when we do it. The same goes for insurance. People don't feel aligned to the insurer, but they do feel the relationship is adversarial. This gives people a sense of entitlement and leads to embellishment and even fraud."
WHAT'S REALLY DIFFERENT AT LEMONADE?
It's a platform
Lemonade has taken out the "winners and losers" dynamic that today's insurance model is built upon. They addressed the conflict of interest between insured and insurer by simply eliminating it. Operating as a platform and not as an insurer means that, Lemonade does not gain from the non-payment of claims. It takes a flat fee for running the platform and makes its profit from the fee. Non-payment of claims does not increase the bottom line.
It's peer to peer insurance
Unspent premiums are put to good use. As a signed-up member of B-Corp, Lemonade groups its customers by affinity to good causes. This means that, for example, everyone who cares passionately about local youth development is grouped together or those who care about finding a cure for cancer. Unspent premiums from the risk pool are donated to the good cause at the end of each term.
When a customer makes a claim, he or she knows that the payment will be taking money away from the good cause they support, not from the so-called "fat-cat insurers." This is smart. It creates a dynamic where the insurer's job is to pay claims, and the insured's motivation is to help others.
It's all about trust and behavior
Lemonade bakes honesty into the process of filing claims, in part by using Dan Ariely's, own research. For instance, the Duke University professor has found that when people sign forms at the top of a document it encourages them to be more honest — so Lemonade uses that policy in its own applications. And when they do pay a claim, they remind the policy holder that the leftover money is going to a charity the person cares about.
It's about the greater good
Lemonade is a public benefit corporation. This means it balances the needs of shareholders with a social responsibility to make decisions for the greater good. Like a government department, Lemonade has a corporate duty to make decisions that do not put profit and returns to shareholders first.
Killer prices…
How can Lemonade be so much cheaper? According to co-founder Daniel Schreiber it is by building an insurance company, from the ground up, powered by A.I. and behavioral economics. Not brokers and bureaucracy. Their acquisition costs are already 10x lower than legacy carriers. It's achievable without being reckless or naïve. It is available 24/7, a bot who creates a $5 policy in 90 seconds and with zero paperwork. It couldn't be easier or faster. There are no forms to fill out. The customer only speaks to the camera. So it takes 90 seconds to get insured and only 3 minutes to get paid. At Lemonade they treat the premiums not as if it's their money. With Lemonade, everything becomes simple and transparent. They take a flat fee, pay claims super fast, and give back what's left to causes the consumer cares about. Lemonade reverses the traditional insurance model.
Why we selected Lemonade for DIA Munich
Lemonade created a new business model for insurance based on behavioral economics and technology. Using artificial intelligence and chatbots to deliver insurance policies and handle claims for its users on desktop and mobile without employing the use of insurance brokers. Social good is another, important aspect of the business model, where underwriting profits go to nonprofits of the customers' choice, in the company's annual "Giveback." Lemonade is harnessing a compelling mix of behavioral economics, artificial intelligence and great design.
At DIA we look for companies that have the potential to radically improve customer engagement. Lemonade is revolutionizing insurance, transforming one of the largest and most outmoded industries into an enjoyable experience for consumers. It's unique blend of technology and social innovation appear more and more frequently in novel organizations all over the world. We are convinced Lemonade will make insurance even more enjoyable, affordable and instant.
Who is Lemonade?
Lemonade is founded by Shai Wininger and Daniel Schreiber, two relatively seasoned entrepreneurs. They first launched Lemonade in New York in September 2016. While New York is the most highly regarded, exacting and regulated state for insurance.
The startup is headquarted in New York City with around $60 million in its coffers — from some big-name backers, including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Sequoia Capital, and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures. Allianz added its name to the list of investors in April 2017. The company has some top-notch reinsurance partners, including Lloyd's of London.
Schreiber, a lawyer, who has been a general manager at SanDisk, a president at wireless charging company PowerMat, the wireless charger for Samsung devices. Wininger was a cofounder at Fiverr, a big Israeli startup success story. They based their innovative business model around donating all unclaimed money to charities of the policyholder's choice. Their goal? To ultimately rebrand the insurance industry as convenient and beneficial.
When they entered the insurance industry, they knew one of the biggest problems with traditional insurers was the endless amounts of red tape and long wait times. That's why they committed to 'instant everything' since day one. From the world's first 90 second sign-up to their world-record-setting claims process, they've already hit some pretty exciting milestones.
Impressively Schreiber and his cofounder, Shai Wininger, raised the cash from Sequoia Capital without a demo app or even so much as a slide deck presentation. The meeting with Sequoia was "just two guys and an idea. It helps that they are two relatively seasoned entrepreneurs, not 19 years old. They had a credible thesis. We were thoughtful about the [business] model. It was talking it through," Schreiber said. "For Sequoia, the opportunity was pretty compelling. And they liked that they were going after the trillion-dollar property insurance industry."
Shai Wininger (l) and Daniel Schreiber (r), founders of Lemonade
"Making insurance instantaneous and delightful takes more than breakthrough technology, it takes a new way of doing business. One that's less conflicted. Insurance that is a social good rather than just necessary evil. And that takes new business models, new actuarial models, and new corporate structures". Daniel Schreiber, CEO and Co-Founder Lemonade
Website: www.lemonade.com
Presenter: Daniel Schreiber
Contact info: Yael Wissner-Levy
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Half a century has passed since the Great War turned the world to ashes. Mankind was already facing the twilight of their time, but the flames of war still demanded sacrifices. Our nation, Selene, an alliance of moon megalopoli, after demanding the return of the "Holy Land" of Gesetz from Earth's remaining nations, declared war and invaded.
The war dragged on, and I enlisted, hoping to be sent to earth. After completing harsh training and ideological re-education, I was ordered on a reconnaissance mission of an enemy capital. In my fighter plane, I descended to Earth, alone.
In my fading consciousness, a single doubt remained. Were the allied forces really late, or...? Then, right before the end, I thought I saw countless white angels circling down from an endless heaven. The only thing that kept me alive under the intense gunfire from my allies was one burning question, "Why are they after me?"
After the battle, both sides, no longer able to fight, agreed to a temporary cease-fire. Gradually, the people on each side became aware of the conditions of the other, naturally leading to the end of the war. Although no Utopia, a temporary balance fell over the world again. But the name of the one who indirectly brought about the end of the war was completely erased from the official records of both powers.


The design attempts to promote activities through movable and configurable furniture, where the objects have a positive feedback against the activity.
The activity of drinking is promoted here through the utilization of the empty beer bottles as a hinge of assembling 2 modules in forming different configurations of the furniture.
The more the drinking process goes, the more different furniture variations produced for the party to go on.
A modular seat with 2 structural ribs and beam-like members to describe the sitting surface and the back.
3 tpyes of configurations can be achieved with the help of empty beer bottles.
Fillet corner facilitates the insertion of tight-fit components.
The original purpose of arranging several components in an angle is for maximizing the cutsheet with minimal material. However, during the milling, a comparable difference of cutting time was found between straight lines and lines in an angle. The balance between time spent on cutting diagonal lines and material being utilized has to be considered in the future.
The filleted corners helped a lot on assembling the components into their corresponding slots.
The seating surface turned out to be too flimsy. The depth of the beams have to be increased.


Just as the acorn holds the entirety of the oak tree within it, we hold within ourselves a full and unique human being. For the tree to reach its optimal expression it needs the ideal combination of soil, water, light and attention.
We are the same, and the practices of yoga are a beautiful way to nourish our body-mind-heart with movement, breath, light and awareness. With the dawning of a new year we have the cyclical gift of renewal. This new start is a beautiful time to rediscover what supports and nourishes us so we can fully express and embody our most authentic self, moment to moment, breath to breath. Come enjoy the blessings of community and practice on this auspicious first day of 2019. All levels welcome.
Pre-registration highly encouraged as this practice typically fills to capacity.


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#ifndef DIALS_ALGORITHMS_SIMULATION_RECIPROCAL_SPACE_HELPERS_H
#define DIALS_ALGORITHMS_SIMULATION_RECIPROCAL_SPACE_HELPERS_H

#include <boost/random.hpp>
#include <scitbx/vec2.h>
#include <scitbx/vec3.h>
#include <scitbx/array_family/tiny_types.h>
#include <dxtbx/model/beam.h>
#include <dxtbx/model/detector.h>
#include <dxtbx/model/goniometer.h>
#include <dxtbx/model/scan.h>
#include <dials/array_family/scitbx_shared_and_versa.h>
#include <dials/algorithms/profile_model/gaussian_rs/coordinate_system.h>
#include <ctime>
#include <dials/model/data/shoebox.h>

namespace dials { namespace algorithms {

  using dials::model::Foreground;
  using dxtbx::model::BeamBase;
  using dxtbx::model::Detector;
  using dxtbx::model::Goniometer;
  using dxtbx::model::Scan;
  using profile_model::gaussian_rs::CoordinateSystem;
  using scitbx::vec2;
  using scitbx::vec3;
  using scitbx::af::int6;

  /**
   * Simulate a gaussian in reciprocal space and transform back to detector
   * space.
   */
  int simulate_reciprocal_space_gaussian(
    const BeamBase &beam,
    const Detector &detector,
    const Goniometer &goniometer,
    const Scan &scan,
    double sigma_b,
    double sigma_m,
    const vec3<double> s1,
    double phi,
    const int6 &bbox,
    std::size_t I,
    af::ref<double, af::c_grid<3> > shoebox,
    const af::const_ref<int, af::c_grid<3> > &mask) {
    vec3<double> s0 = beam.get_s0();
    vec3<double> m2 = goniometer.get_rotation_axis();

    // Seed the random number generator
    boost::random::mt19937 gen(time(0));
    boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_x(0, sigma_b);
    boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_y(0, sigma_b);
    boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_z(0, sigma_m);

    // Do the simulation
    int counts = 0;
    CoordinateSystem cs(m2, s0, s1, phi);
    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < I; ++i) {
      // Get the random coordinates
      double e1 = dist_x(gen);
      double e2 = dist_y(gen);
      double e3 = dist_z(gen);

      // Get the beam vector and rotation angle
      vec3<double> s1_dash = cs.to_beam_vector(vec2<double>(e1, e2));
      double phi_dash = cs.to_rotation_angle_fast(e3);

      // Get the pixel coordinate
      vec2<double> mm = detector[0].get_ray_intersection(s1_dash);
      vec2<double> px = detector[0].millimeter_to_pixel(mm);

      // Get the frame
      double frame = scan.get_array_index_from_angle(phi_dash);

      // Make sure coordinate is within range
      if (px[0] < bbox[0] || px[0] >= bbox[1] || px[1] < bbox[2] || px[1] >= bbox[3]
          || frame < bbox[4] || frame >= bbox[5]) {
        continue;
      }

      // Get the pixel index
      int x = (int)(px[0] - bbox[0]);
      int y = (int)(px[1] - bbox[2]);
      int z = (int)(frame - bbox[4]);

      // Add the count
      shoebox(z, y, x) += 1;

      if (mask(z, y, x) & Foreground) {
        counts += 1;
      }
    }
    return counts;
  }

  /**
   * Simulate a gaussian in reciprocal space and transform back to detector
   * space. Estimate the expected intensity within the masked region.
   */
  int integrate_reciprocal_space_gaussian(
    const BeamBase &beam,
    const Detector &detector,
    const Goniometer &goniometer,
    const Scan &scan,
    double sigma_b,
    double sigma_m,
    const vec3<double> s1,
    double phi,
    const int6 &bbox,
    std::size_t I,
    const af::const_ref<int, af::c_grid<3> > &mask) {
    vec3<double> s0 = beam.get_s0();
    vec3<double> m2 = goniometer.get_rotation_axis();

    // Seed the random number generator
    boost::random::mt19937 gen(time(0));
    boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_x(0, sigma_b);
    boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_y(0, sigma_b);
    boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_z(0, sigma_m);

    // Do the simulation
    int counts = 0;
    CoordinateSystem cs(m2, s0, s1, phi);
    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < I; ++i) {
      // Get the random coordinates
      double e1 = dist_x(gen);
      double e2 = dist_y(gen);
      double e3 = dist_z(gen);

      // Get the beam vector and rotation angle
      vec3<double> s1_dash = cs.to_beam_vector(vec2<double>(e1, e2));
      double phi_dash = cs.to_rotation_angle_fast(e3);

      // Get the pixel coordinate
      vec2<double> mm = detector[0].get_ray_intersection(s1_dash);
      vec2<double> px = detector[0].millimeter_to_pixel(mm);

      // Get the frame
      double frame = scan.get_array_index_from_angle(phi_dash);

      // Make sure coordinate is within range
      if (px[0] < bbox[0] || px[0] >= bbox[1] || px[1] < bbox[2] || px[1] >= bbox[3]
          || frame < bbox[4] || frame >= bbox[5]) {
        continue;
      }

      // Get the pixel index
      int x = (int)(px[0] - bbox[0]);
      int y = (int)(px[1] - bbox[2]);
      int z = (int)(frame - bbox[4]);

      // Add the count
      if (mask(z, y, x) & Foreground) {
        counts += 1;
      }
    }
    return counts;
  }

}}  // namespace dials::algorithms

#endif  // DIALS_ALGORITHMS_SIMULATION_RECIPROCAL_SPACE_HELPERS_H


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Can You Pass This 3rd Grade Quiz?
How long ago has it been since you were in the 3rd grade? You have probably learned a lot since then. You've grown up and matured. However, can you still remember all that important info from when you were seven years old? People say that third grade is when children really start getting into their education. In first and second grade, they are perfecting their reading, writing, and counting. By third grade, you really dive into the cool trivia!
We have the perfect quiz to test your 3rd grade knowledge. You might surprise yourself – have fun!
Quiz WriterJake
Jake didn't think he'd become a writer when he was growing up in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, but fate had another idea. After barely squeaking through grade 9 English, by the luck of the draw Jake found himself with the most inspiring literature instructor his small town had ever known, and grade 10 English changed his life! Suddenly, evenings once spent at the hockey rink were spent curled up on the couch with the best of Hemingway, Dickens, and John Grisham. A valedictorian address and English degree at the University of Regina later, Jake is proud to call Heywise his favorite place to pen informative quizzes about all his passion projects. If you're reading a post and pick up a hint of classic English literature, you're probably reading something by Jake - especially if you come away feeling like a slightly better person for it.
Hey kid genius...
According to History, the famed European composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy. He started playing the harpsichord when he was only three years old and published his first piece of music at the age of five. As a teen, Mozart created dozens of operas, symphonies, sonatas, and more. People all over the world wondered at the young boy as he not only sight-read unfamiliar music to a tee, but could improvise playing the piano blindfolded. Before Mozart died at the age of 35, he wrote over 600 musical pieces.
Pablo Picasso was another child genius. Born to a painter, the young baby could supposedly draw long before he could talk. His mother claims his first word was 'pencil,' which is only fitting. Pablo Picasso created his first masterpiece when he was just nine years old, an oil painting. When he was 14 years old, he attended Barcelona's prestigious art school. The following year, Pablo Picasso painted "First Communion." Over the next eight decades of his life, Picasso would create over 22,000 works of art.
How long ago has it been since you were in the 3rd grade? You have probably learned a lot since then. You've grown up and matured. However, can you still remember all that important info from when you were seven years old? You know, people say that third grade is when children really start getting into their education. In first and second grade, they are perfecting their reading, writing, and counting. By third grade, you really dive into the cool trivia!
You have heard watched clips of that game show about being smarter than fifth graders. Have you ever felt not-so-smart watching it? Well third grade should be a breeze, right? We have the perfect quiz for you to test your knowledge. You might surprise yourself – have fun!


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La Pfungstädter Brauerei Hildebrand est une brasserie à Pfungstadt, dans le Land de Hesse.

Histoire
En 1831, le fondateur Justus Hildebrand brasse sa bière à Hahn, une municipalité voisine, devenu un quartier actuel de Pfungstadt. La brasserie s'appelle alors Zum Hirsch et est construite dans l'auberge Zum Hirschen dans l'actuelle Gernsheimer Straße 82. Alors que la production annuelle de la brasserie n'est initialement que de , elle connaît un tel succès au cours des années suivantes que l'entreprise est transférée à Pfungstadt en 1846. Avec le déménagement, la brasserie change son logo, passant d'un cerf à un fer à cheval avec les armoiries de la ville de Pfungstadt.

En 1855, Justus Ulrich commence sa formation dans la brasserie ; il deviendra directeur général de la brasserie et gendre du fondateur de la brasserie. La production augmentee continuellement, de  en 1861 à  en 1867. En 1868, une malterie est construite dans les locaux de la brasserie. La brasserie de Pfungstadt livre dans de nombreux pays et remporte des succès et des récompenses internationales. Grâce à son succès économique, la brasserie favorise la prospérité de toute la région.

Le marché des ventes diminue en raison des deux guerres mondiales et des restrictions commerciales associées. En 1945, la brasserie est occupée par les Alliés qui aident à la reconstruire. En 1955, l'entreprise est complètement modernisée et la production atteint pour la première fois . Sur cette base, Pfungstädter devient l'une des plus grandes brasseries privées de Hesse, elle réalise en 2004 la plus grande production de bière de son histoire avec .

La brasserie Schönberger de Groß-Bieberau est reprise par Pfungstadt et sa bière est désormais également produite à Pfungstadt. De plus, la Pfungstädter Brauerei  brasse la bière de la marque Köthener, une ancienne brasserie de Saxe-Anhalt. En outre, Pfungstädter Brauerei possède Brauerei Treiber GmbH à Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim jusqu'à sa radiation du registre du commerce en 2010. La Treiber-Bier  continuera à être brassée à Pfungstadt et est à nouveau commercialisée depuis 2015. En 2016, la brasserie Michelstädter Bier est reprise.

Il y a deux tavernes de brasserie : La première est ouvert en 1880 lorsque Justus Hildebrand acquiert le restaurant Sitte à Darmstadt, qui est toujours géré sous ce nom aujourd'hui. La Pfungstädter Brauereigasthof est la deuxième taverne de la brasserie, elle est située juste à côté du site de la brasserie à Pfungstadt.

Dans le cadre d'une Schutzschirmverfahren, une procédure dite « d'écran de protection » avant l'ouverture de la procédure collective, le site de la brasserie est vendu à l'entrepreneur Daniel Hopp (Mannheim) et au développeur de projet Conceptaplan (Dossenheim) à l'été 2020. Des appartements doivent y être construits. La brasserie est reprise par le fabricant d'usine Lauer GmbH (Seeheim-Jugenheim) le . Il envisage de construire un centre de remplissage et de logistique dans une zone industrielle à Pfungstadt.

À compter du , la Pfungstädter Brauerei reprend la brasserie Michelsbräu de Babenhausen.

Production
Pfungstädter
 Edel Pils Premium
 Export
 Helles
 Alkoholfreies Bier
 Justus Weizen Hell
 Justus Weizen Kristall
 Justus Weizen Dunkel
 Justus Weizen alkoholfrei
 Braumeisterpils
 Schwarzbier
 Kellerbier
 Landbier
 Radler
 Radler alkoholfrei naturtrüb
 Sportweizen (mixte)
 Brauer Limo (Fassbrause)

Schönberger
 Landbier
 Ur-Pils
 Helles
 Weizen
 Schwarzbier

Treiber-Bier
 Treiber 1880 Original Helles
 Treiber Weizen
 Treiber Pils

Michelstädter Bier
 Pilsener
 Hefeweizen
 Dunkles

Références

Pfungstadt
Brasserie ayant son siège en Allemagne
Entreprise ayant son siège en Hesse


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HomeCivicWhy we need to remember Gandhi in order to make our cities better
Why we need to remember Gandhi in order to make our cities better
October 3, 2020 Revathi Siva Kumar
WEBINAR: GANDHI AND CITIES
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Gangtok, Sikkim. Pic: Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia Commons
'Gandhi and Cities' was the paradoxical title of a webinar organised by the INHAF Habitat Forum on October 1st. I say paradoxixal because it discussed deeply modern, urban worries and concerns, with reference to a freedom fighter who primarily explored rural landscapes and opposed capitalism and industrialisation.
Yet, most of Gandhi's life was lived in urbanscapes. He had a "tender love" for London, said Dr Tridip Suhrud, Provost of CEPT (Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology) University, in his introductory speech. But how is Gandhi relevant to our cities today?
Ela Bhatt. Pic: Wikimedia Commons
According to the first speaker, Ela Bhatt, activist and founder of SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association), just thinking about Gandhi is good enough to plan better cities and put his ideas into action. Delinking of 'urban' and 'rural' issues, as has been the practice for ages, is misleading and divisive, said Ela. A town is more rural than urban, she feels, due to its many migrants. City structures, layouts and services are often fashioned on rural templates, although urban architecture and design stand out.
Speaking of slums as an integral part of the city, she said that they must not be considered problems, but rather solutions for forsaken people and a unit or form of self-rule. Cities must aspire to improve the situations of all citizens, their income, access to basic services and jobs and their social status. She argued that Gandhiji always talked of citizens, not rural or urban dwellers. So how can we rethink cities, when we have not done the right thinking about them in the first place?
Ramachandra Guha. Pic: Wikimedia Commons
Ela was followed by historian Ramachandra Guha, who began by calling out the fallacy in Gandhiji's assertion that "India lives in her villages." India has also always lived in her cities, from the fabled cities of Hastinapura and Indraprastha to medieval Delhi and Agra, he quipped. Gandhi himself was shaped and made by cities. In the 1930s, Gandhi had said that the blood of the villages is the edifice on which the cities are built. However, cities can also be emancipatory, as Babasaheb Ambedkar found for Dalits, said Guha.
London, Ramachandra pointed out, opened Gandhi's mind and developed his deep, ethical understanding of egalitarianism and non-violence. He lived with the English, the Christians and Muslims in London. In Durban, he slept under the same roof with a Muslim, in Johannesburg he got funded by a Parsi, Rustom. He understood the diversity of India only through diaspora. Cities made him universal, not just a parochial, successful 'baniya'. They emancipated him in a cultural, ethical, religious, linguistic, religious, moral sense.
What Gandhi gave back to these cities was also immense. He invented the Satyagraha concept in Johannesburg, 1906 and pioneered the Ahmedabad mill workers' protest in 1918. The first major movement was in Bombay, 1919, against the Rowlatt Act. The very concept of Satyagraha was conceived, thought out and articulated in cities. He made his epic fasts post Partition in Delhi and Kolkata and applied the ideas of pluralism, ethics and tolerance to the cities.
The mature Gandhi of the late 1920s and after forbade industrialisation. The broader environmentalism he harboured looked at concepts of decentralisation and self-sustainability. However, it was his compatriot Patrick Geddes, also born in October 2, 1854, whose ideas of Gandhian cities would be more illuminating than Gandhi's, concluded Guha.
Sunita Narain, Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment, said that while Gandhi's vision of a city is not clear, modern cities desperately need him, as we are drowning in garbage and the spit of our cars. Our model is most resource and capital intensive, using large swathes of land, water and forests and discharging a large amount of waste.
Sunita Narain. Pic: Wikimedia Commons
Sunita rued that we do not have the resources to upgrade our cities for all. While less than 10% of the people in Mumbai drive cars and occupy more than 90% of the roads, about 26% of Delhi is under roads and flyovers. Construction activity robs people of the right to walk or even cross roads safely, or breathe.
While rivers have become nullahs, we need to understand the inequity in cities to explain its shit flow. You cannot clean your rivers unless you have an affordable sewage management system and sanitation for all. We have no dream or vision of a city, no Gandhi to turn to, to ask how that city should be in order to be inclusive, yet diverse.
With COVID, the digital divide has made the socio-economic divide starker. We need to reclaim public spaces and design it for the poorest of all; we need a mobility system that is modern enough for the privileged, yet affordable for the poorest, some of whom presently cannot even ride a bus. Gandhian values of frugality, equity and environment become extremely important if we want to make cities truly livable and inclusive.
Kartikeya Sarabhai, Founder-Director, Centre for Environment Education, clarified that it's not what Gandhi said about cities per se, but the crux of his broader thoughts on governance and living that can make our cities more sustainable.
Gandhi spoke about self-sustaining village units, which we can emulate in cities at the ward level, with the same sense of community ownership, control and responsibility. Old Ahmedabad had such communities with their own laws and self-governing structures. But today it is a sarkari city, mainly due to western influence, which divides cities into commercial and residential 'zones', making mobility difficult.
Kartikeya Sarabhai. Pic: Wikimedia Commons
In 1935, Gandhi said that he would prefer trusteeship by citizens rather than the state, as the 'violence' of citizens is less. In 1943, Gandhi had said that Ahmedabad was dirty and men and women volunteers should clean it in a joint effort between citizens and the municipality. He had even added that if cities were made cleaner, the price of land could shoot up!
In 1940, Gandhi wrote to Hariprasad at Sewagram, that it should be everyone's effort to remove hunger, poverty and inequality, through the key concepts of decentralisation, trusteeship, equality, participation, sanitation, non-discrimination and non-violence, which are all important tenets for an ideal city. Unfortunately, we are far from realising those principles in our cities. Even today, in 2020, a person with a Dalit or a Muslim name cannot get a house in the city, as Kartikeya concluded.
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Revathi Siva Kumar is a freelance writer based out of Bangalore.
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Pilot redesign of Mumbai's Nagpada junction shows the way for busy intersections
September 1, 2017 Amit Bhatt and Dhawal Ashar
The new design by WRI India, implemented on a temporary basis, intends to change the current approach of designing intersections – from one that prioritises motor vehicles to one that considers all road users.
When Gurugram citizens took charge of cleaning a stormwater drain
September 6, 2017 Latika Thukral
Solving many of our everyday civic issues does not involve rocket science; all it takes is for citizens and administration to work together, as the successful cleaning of this Gurgaon stormwater drain shows.
Pune, Hyderabad bank on municipal bonds, but why are Kochi and Surat dithering?
April 2, 2018 Navya P K
The Centre has been actively promoting municipal bonds as a source to fund development of cities, but those with lower credit ratings may not find it a very smooth option to raise money through the same.
Ramesh says:
Two things which we can focus on:
Affordable Housing is currently hijacked for people mostly interested in rental income. Housing Boards need not necessarily build apartments for sale. They can rent it out on a No Profit No Loss basis.
Profit cannot be the motive of Public Transport esp. buses and local trains. Having a good Public Transport will help the poor and lower middle class in reducing rental expenses.


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HomeNewsLittle Mix won best British group at the BRIT awards ceremony, marking them as the first ever female group to win the award
Little Mix won best British group at the BRIT awards ceremony, marking them as the first ever female group to win the award
Author: Wardah Sempa | Wednesday 12th May 2021
Little Mix won best British group at the BRIT Awards ceremony, marking them as the first-ever female group to win the award! The band's Leigh-Anne Pinnock thanked their fans, former bandmate Jesy Nelson – and their team, in a wide-ranging speech.
She went on to say: "It's not easy being a female in the UK pop industry. We've seen white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity."
Jade Thirlwall took over the speech, adding: "This award isn't just for us, it's for the Spice Girls, Sugababes, All Saints, Girls Aloud, all of the incredible female bands - this one's for you!"
The acceptance speech follows the announcement of both Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards announcing their pregnancies.
Watch the full speech below:
Author: Wardah Sempa
@wardahsempa@wardahsempa


I made a recent transplant to Boise from Louisiana. I have been a cosmetologist for seven years and spent three years at the Aveda Institute Lafayette working as an educator. I've also done hair and make-up for editorials, hair and fashion shows and platform classes.
My favorite part of working as a cosmetologist is having the chance to share the Aveda mission and lifestyle with new people.
My specialties include color corrections and the new Smooth Infusion Retexturizing System.
William Edge and Jeanine O'Neill Blackwell are both great inspirations to me.


Just did a bit of tweaking to my #gurdy and it's performing better than it has for weeks! The weather today must suit it perfectly — it's all nice and crisp. Might have to go and play in the park after lunch.
#idea for an augmented sense useful for musicians: add the ability to hear whether or not a note is in tune. Not sure how best to implement this — some sort of kinetic feedback system would be the most straightforward, but doesn't seem true to it's purpose in the same way that the belt buzzing north does.
How about a small speaker on the shoulder/in a hat which plays a very quiet A 440hz — then use the beats to judge whether or not the note is in tune.
Possible problems: might only work adequately for A and related notes (E, maybe D), might be irritating to have a constant sound — like artificial tinnitus. Also irritating if notes which the wearer doesn't control are slightly out of tune! Probably the most simple solution is to allow the sound to be toggled quickly and easily.
↪ Drew McLellan: All you people saying morris dancing are wrong. That's a nobel English tradition. That's our heritage. Our GLORIOUS HERITAGE.
Trawling through Dubliners CDs to try to find one particular song I remember hearing early in my childhood. I really love this #music, it is so grounded.
@sophiedennis have you seen this talk (slides) by @fullcreammilk? Lots of good #music → #web links, similar to your own but on a more technical level.


Crockpot Braciole with spaghetti and salad for dinner.
I was just reading the Nancy On The Home Front blog. It had a post calling October the month of Crocktober.
How fitting, what better way to make a meal on a cold blustery day than in a crockpot. Now that's comfort food for sure.
Here's a crockpot recipe I've used. It's a little more involved than stew, but the results can be used for an evening meal for two or party fare, the choice is yours.
I get things going early in the morning and then have the rest of my day off without worry.
Funny, I use my crockpot more now than I ever did when I got it as a wedding present in 1971. Who would have guessed.
I chose a new recipe for Braciole from Rival Crock-Pot Cooking. This edition is out of print, but you can find it in used bookstores or online for a reasonable price.
Chop and saute garlic and onion in olive oil. Put in mixing bowl. Crumble and lightly brown sausage. Add oregano and Italian spice. Put in mixing bowl and let cool slightly. Add bread crumbs, grated cheese and salt. Beat an egg and add to the mixture to act as a binding agent. Mix well.
Chop and saute garlic and onions. Add oregano and Italian spice. Add stewed tomatoes and tomato paste. Use water to rinse cans into the sauce. Add garlic powder and salt to taste. Let sauce simmer while assembling Braciole.
Trim fat from steak and cut into 8 evenly sized pieces. Pound steak pieces until thin and easy to roll. Place a slice of Provolone cheese on each piece of steak. Cover with about two tablespoons of filling and roll jelly-roll style. Secure with toothpicks. Don't worry if you have any extra filling. Just add it to the sauce.
Spray crockpot with Pam to reduce sticking. Cover the bottom with sauce. Layer in the steak roll-ups. Cover with the remaining sauce. Cook on low for 7 to 10 hours.
Yes, it is time to get the crock pot out. Your recipe sounds really good. I made a big pot of bean soup today, perfect for a damp and chilly day.
Wow - that looks and sounds especially good - a recipe I'll have to try for sure. I'm a huge fan of crock pots, for sure! Happy week ahead my friend - I think more rain is coming.
Sounds delicious and must really smell good!


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Billboard Lists It's Top 10 Artists Of All Time And We Disagree
Billboard dropped a list of their top 125 artists of all time and since we don't have time to go into all 125, let's talk about top 10!
10) CHICAGO
9) STEVIE WONDER
8)TAYLOR SWIFT
7) MICHAEL JACKSON
6)BARBARA STREISAND
5) MADONNA
3) ELTON JOHN
2) THE ROLLING STONES
1) THE BEATLES
So now that you've seen the list, how mad are you? Where is Whitney Houston? Where is Beyoncé? WHERE IS DRAKE?! Lol But seriously, you can take Barbara, Chicago, The Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Elton John right off top 10 for me. They're all great artists, but top 10?!
*Billboard says they used a formula "blending all titles tallied on both the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (since its inception on Aug. 4, 1958) and the Billboard 200 albums chart (since it became a combined stereo/mono survey IN 1963.)"