Craft your creativity this season with the best homemade Christmas gift ideas because the season is here to make merry, exchange greetings, gift-giving, and meeting dearies. Christmas is all about distributing love and love can be in any form. Gifting someone something is never about how much we give but how much love we put into our offerings. For that reason, the best gifts for Christmas are the ones which have our own personal touch and a whole lot of our efforts. That is why this season try-out something new and different without overspending and overbuying anything useless, make it special by yourself by making it greener while craftier.
There are plenty of Christmas gift ideas to make a homemade gift without loading up your credit card. Make this Christmas extra exceptional by preparing and presenting homemade gifts for anyone might be your mom, dad, and the kid down the street or a friend. Use a little help from us, from our best craftsmen and most talented artists to find the best Christmas homemade gift ideas.
Set back and give some rest to your pockets and wallets as we are going to provide you the cheapest and the best extravagant handmade Christmas gift ideas.
Make it look luxurious without being expensive. Jars of homemade bath salts can be an excellent Christmas gift. You can use a typical recipes like sea salt, baking soda, food colours of natural varieties, vegetable based glycerine and all that you can think of adding. You have to decorate it then to make it look attractive, which is the most important thing to make your Christmas gift special and worthy.
List everyone's name and write a message for them. Now use your embroidery skills to design your handkerchiefs. Give it your own style and designs according to the categories like friends, parents and kids. You can give a paper clip handkerchief to your mother, for a businessman a stem stich in metallic silver thread. Children may prefer a cartoonish embroidered handkerchief. There are number of ideas you can use.
Here is the cheapest, handmade Christmas gift idea for you. A dollar glass can be decorated with stripes, flowery designs, polka dots, monograms etc. All you need to buy is etching cream from any craft art supply stores and the masking tape. Most importantly it requires your creativity and innovation.
This gift idea can be the best Christmas homemade gift for your mom or dad. Buy any vintage or antique floral pattern tea-cups or pots from second-hand stockpiles and plant ornamental bulbs in them. You can plant any of the various numbers of herbs like oregano, rosemary or basil. Don't forget to decorate it with ribbons and add a Christmas wishing card along with it, describing how to take care of the plant.
Make a painting and add your personal message to it. The creative scope is much wide-ranging in this one. You can use any type of colour or any form of designs and patterns. Don't forget to add the colours of Christmas and New Year to it. This can be the most memorable gift of all.
All it need is your knitting skills and some creativity. If you can knit, then it is the best handmade Christmas gift for small babies and kids. You can make pair of socks, apron, muffler, sweater with numerous designs and patters.
Give wings to your paper artist skills. This can be the best Christmas handmade gift for kids, students and book worms. With a piece of cardboard and a ribbon or any colour thread you can make a beautiful book mark. Add your message and a Christmas wish to this and that will remain with the person forever.
The best Christmas homemade gift to present it your teacher or some acquainted one. Bring any type of jar to keep your hand made cookies in it. Make the presentation attractive by adding layers of cookies and all the dry ingredients. Decorate it with fabrics or ribbons that will make it look extravagant. To make Christmas cookies there are plenty of recipes available for you.
This Christmas gift idea needs your basic sewing skills only, make it greener and cheaper by making a fabricated reusable shopping bag. Add to it different colour fabrics and designs using your most creative skills. Nothing can be hotter than this environmental friendly, reusable, fabricated bag this season.
This is the most common gift of all. Put all those little candies, slushes, berries, lollies and whatever you want to add to the basket. Decorate it with ribbons, crafted fabric and papers. Make it look more fashionable according to your design and taste.
Everybody likes chocolates. Handmade chocolates as Christmas gifts are evergreen and they cannot be compared to any other gift. You can get a recipe for the chocolate and mould it according to your shapes and design using chocolate moulders available in the market. You can decorate it using beautiful wrappers and can add flavours and messages to each and every chocolate.


We're treated to a cracking scene when a hideous female ghost spews 'slime' on someone. Like Cat Deeley hungover on SMTV Live. Retro.
The basic premise is revealed: Bad Guy makes Bad Ghosts Badder. How bad. Terrible.
Pretty Dumb Chris is 'infected' and becomes a 'ghost'. Demi Moore just fainted. Anyone got a pottery wheel? She'll unchain his melody.
If you're going to 'remake' a classic 30 years on, surely it should LOOK better? The kit/car/guns/city are all THE SAME. Feck sake.
JULY 15 Mark the date. JULY 15. That's when you should all be busy and NOT GOING TO WATCH THIS ABOMINATION.
Final Word: Dear Hollywood, Stop it. Just Stop It. Regards, The Whole World.


Taking place until July 26, the TEB BNP Paribas İstanbul Cup is a Women's Tennis Association (WTA) event that has hosted world-renowned tennis players including Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams, Agnieszka Radwanska, and Caroline Wozniacki.
The tournament will be held at the Garanti Koza Arena, which is the largest tennis center and most advanced sports complex in Turkey and Europe.
Since 2005, the competition has allowed elite female players of the world to meet and showcase their sporting skills, while giving exposure to the modern and culturally advanced face of Turkey.
Some of the prestigious names competing this year are Venus Williams, Elina Svitolina, and Jelena Jankovic.


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Bettine Jahn, née Gärtz le  à Magdebourg, est une athlète est-allemande, pratiquant le sprint et spécialiste du 100 m haies.

Elle a été la première championne du monde sur 100 m haies.

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques d'été
 1980 à Moscou ()
  sur 100 m haies
 1984 à Los Angeles ()
 absente à la suite du boycott des pays de l'Est

Championnats du monde d'athlétisme
 1983 à Helsinki ()
  Médaille d'or sur 100 m haies

Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme
 1982 à Athènes ()
  sur 100 m haies

Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme en salle
 1982 à Milan ()
  Médaille d'argent sur 60 m haies
 1983 à Budapest ()
  Médaille d'or sur 60 m haies

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Hurdleuse allemande
Athlète est-allemande
Coureuse de 100 mètres haies
Championne du monde d'athlétisme
Championne d'Europe d'athlétisme en salle
Athlète (femme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1980
Récipiendaire de l'ordre du mérite patriotique en or
Naissance en août 1958
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The Four Chaplains Memorial Service, sponsored by Princeton VFW Post 10452, will be held at 11 a.m. on Feb 2 at St. Johns Catholic School, Princeton.
On Jan. 22, Wautoma Welding Instructor Jessica Lloyd presented awards to six students following the completion of the Flux Core Arc Welding Techniques Course.
A Katelyn Quimby Benefit has been organized for Saturday, Feb. 20 from 1-5 p.m. at Wautoma High School for a Wautoma High School student that was seriously injured in a car accident in November.
For the past 30 years, ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah has maintained a resource essential in helping save countless lives not only in the Fox Valley, but also in Waushara County.
On Jan. 13, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley was introduced by retired Justice Jon P.
On Jan. 15, Wisconsin State Representative Scott Krug from the 72nd district made a stop at Tri-County Elementary School to visit with Dianne George's 1st grade class. During Rep.
The Hancock Lions Club will offer cash prizes in four categories of fish as well as a cash prize for the smallest catch of the day at the annual fisheree Saturday, Jan. 30 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Tri-County Penguins hosted the Wild Rose Wildcats for a Central Wisconsin Conference-10 match up at Just A Game Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells on Jan. 16.
Along with great community sponsors, Little Sprouts Discovery Center, Redgranite, is getting ready to host the first annual Rockin' Oldies Party at the Redgranite Lions Hall on Saturday, Jan.
The Alumni Association of Westfield Pioneers is in the process of being formed, with their number one concern seeing what can be done with the old high school building, which is up for sale.
Three-area community oriented radio stations are working together to bring a weekend of trivia to the Waupaca-Waushara region.
The Wisconsin 4-H Foundation plans to award more than $10,000 in scholarships to Wisconsin students pursuing undergraduate degrees in 2016.
The Waushara County Democratic Party met in Wild Rose in November, and in Wautoma in December, and it's now time to elect officers for 2016.
The Waushara Area Chamber of Commerce (WACC) held a ribbon cutting for Koeppl Law Offices, S.C., Wild Rose, on Jan. 12.
A Waushara County Teachers College (WCTC) Reunion will be held on Saturday, July 16 at the Dakota Town Hall, south of Wautoma on Hwy. 22, with an open house gathering from 1 p.m.
The Wautoma Area School District Vision 2025 Design Team met for the first time on Dec.
On the heels of their first place victory at Omro the week before, the Wautoma/Wild Rose Warriors wrestling team took to the mat at the 9-team Hillsboro Tiger Invite on Jan.
Cory A. Phillips, 44, will be released from the Department of Adult Institutions while he is on Extended Supervision (parole) until the remainder of his sentence, which ends on Jan. 25, 2027.
Pat Power and Joyce Zimmerman registered blood donors during the Coloma Lions Red Cross Blood Drive held at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church held on Jan. 16.


10 April 2019 : Sarawak Forestry Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (SFCSB) personnel who have been on the forefront fighting the forest fire at Similajau National Park were given a morale boost when the CEO, Haji Zolkipli Mohamad Aton made a surprise visit to the affected site.
The forest fire, first spotted in an area at a settlement nearby and spread into the park's forests on 24 March, has seen the gritty side of SFCSB personnel who are working close quarters and under the watchful eyes of the Fire and Rescue Department officers ever since in containing the fire. To date, 66 personnel, comprises of 40 firefighters and 26 SFCSB staffs are involved in the operation that is entering its third week now.
CEO extended his gratitude to Fire and Rescue personnel for their assistance in this operation during the debrief on site.


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Elvis Aaron Presley, known to most simply as Elvis, was a singer, actor, all around entertainer, and the King of Rock and Roll. There are many attractions devoted to The King, but this bronze Elvis statue in Memphis, Tennessee is a must-see when visiting the city and checking out Beale Street.
The Elvis Presley statue, as it stands today, is actually the second version of the larger than life bronze idol. The first statue, by artist Eric Parks was unveiled in 1980. It was a fitting tribute as Elvis once lived in Memphis, walked those very streets, and, of course, made music.
In 1994, that original Elvis statue was removed from its location on Beale Street and moved to the downtown Memphis Tennessee Welcome Center. By that time, the sculpture had seen better days, having been worn down from the elements and plucked over by intense fans.
After that, Elvis Plaza was left empty for many years until 1997, when the current statue of Elvis Presley, modeled after the singer circa 1955, by sculptor Andrea Lugar took its place. This 9.5-foot statue features a curled lip, a wave of hair, and a guitar poised to make fans of all ages swoon.
While traveling to Memphis, there are plenty of Elvis tourist attractions to see, all of them fit for a King!
Here are some of the other must-see Elvis attractions in Memphis and Nearby:
Take a tour of Sun Studio, one of the most famous recording studio in the world, and where Elvis recorded his first song.
Memphis City Tour with Sun Studio Upgrade – $30.00
See top Memphis attractions on this narrated sightseeing tour that takes you along the Mississippi River. Pass Victorian homes, historical statues and cultural landmarks like the Pyramid Arena and the Lorraine Hotel, where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Upgrade to include a tour of legendary Sun Studios, where some of the greatest singers recorded their music – including Elvis Presley, Johnnie Cash, BB King and many more.
Elvis's teenage home at Lauderdale Courts (185 Winchester, #328)
Tour or spend the night at Lauderdale Courts, where Elvis lived with his parents in the late forties to early fifties while he played music, went to school, and started developing his signature style.
Lansky Bros. Clothier to the King
A young pre-King Elvis was a loyrl customer at Lansky Bros. on Beale Street. Mr. Lansky helped craft Elvis's look and style, earning him the title "Clothier to the King."
The Arcade Restaurant
Sit at Elvis's favorite booth, now known as "The Elvis Booth," at The Arcade Restaurant, a restaurant he once frequented. Be sure to order the Fried Peanut Butter N' Banana sandwich!
Memphis Music Hall of Fame
The Memphis Music Hall of Fame pays tribute to some of the greatest musicians of all time who had deep roots in Memphis. Learn about the King of rock 'n' roll and other music greats.
Probably the most well-known Elvis attractions in the world is Graceland, a mansion once owned by Elvis Presley himself. No visit to Memphis is complete without a tour of the legendary singer's impressive homestead.
Elvis Presley's Graceland Tour – $53.10
Walk in the footsteps of the King of Rock 'n' Roll at Elvis Presley's home, Graceland Mansion, in Memphis, Tennessee. The full Graceland experience will take you from Elvis' humble beginnings through his rise to superstardom. See how a rock 'n' roll legend lived and relaxed with family and friends. Enjoy video, photos, Elvis' personal mementos, movie memorabilia, stage costumes and much more.
Elvis Presley Graceland VIP Tour – $86.85
In the annals of American pop culture, Elvis Presley is the King, and Graceland is his palace. Spend the day in Graceland including a 3-hour tour which puts VIPs virtually in Elvis' footsteps: Explore Graceland, the top attraction in Memphis, with an audio-guided tour, including a VIP-only exhibit in the mansion. Get front-of-the-line access with the special all-day ticket. Hang out and gawk at his cars in the Automobile Museum and Custom Airplanes (if option selected). Take home a souvenir with you: the Keepsake Backstage Pass. At the end of the day, you'll feel like a king.
Address: 115 Beale St, Memphis, TN 38103
Cost: Free to See
Hours: Always Visible
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One company's successful product development process
When he started building drones, Johan Lassalle was confronted by a challenge many companies face in the product development phase: the temptation to say yes to every custom order.
Lassalle is President of DroneXperts, a company that designs, builds and operates drones to collect specialized data for companies and governments. The firm also retails drones to the public in Quebec City and Montreal.
"Especially at the beginning, you don't want to miss any opportunity," says Lassalle, who started building drones in his garage in Sainte-Marie de Beauce, just south of Quebec City. "In my head, everything was possible, so I always said yes to every customer request."
Resists urge to customize
However, like many entrepreneurs in product development, he was inundated with requests for features. He found responding to each of these wasn't sustainable if he wanted to build a growing business with wide appeal.
Doing so would have been too costly and time‑consuming and led to what's known as feature creep—adding more and more features that create undue complexity in a product.
"Each client has his or her needs, and it's easy to spread yourself too thin," Lassalle, 28, says. "We learned to say no."
The origins of DroneXperts date back to 2011 when Lassalle worked on developing an innovative system to stabilize cameras in flight. At the time commercial drone use was still in its infancy and paying attention to individual client needs helped Lassalle get his company off the ground.
"We built a reputation and made a place for ourselves in the market, but each project cost us a lot of time and money."
Collects data
The company now uses drones to collect images and specialized data for surveying, agriculture, civil engineering, municipal projects and video productions. DroneXperts' partners include Rio Tinto Alcan, Hydro‑Québec and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), a Quebec research institute.
"Large companies don't want any fluff," Lassalle says. "When the project manager in charge of drones at Hydro‑Québec's research institute asked me if we could inspect pylons and power lines with a drone, I told him: 'Tell us exactly what you need and we will show you what we can do.'"
Lassalle's passion for aeronautics, robotics and modelling started in French Guiana when he was a young boy.
"My dad worked for the Guiana Space Centre, so I grew up surrounded by engineers."
Trained as a pilot
Having arrived in Quebec at the age of 20, he trained as a professional pilot then as a flight instructor before laying the groundwork for DroneXperts.
Jonathan Dupont Champagne, 26, joined forces with him as an investor, and DroneXperts obtained flight operations certificates for Transport Canada for its first projects in 2013.
To the technology developed by Lassalle to fly drones equipped with professional camera equipment, Champagne added his administrative management skills. Their first clients were local video production companies.
"It took months of research and development. Every time we solved a problem, a new one came up," Lassalle says. "Unfortunately, our clients at the time had very limited resources. We were losing money."
Building a solid financial structure
It was the arrival of a third investor, 29‑year‑old Marc‑Olivier Bleau, that put DroneXperts on a smoother growth path.
The company got another big boost at the end of 2014, when a Quebec‑based surveying company saw DroneXperts' potential and put together a group of investors. "That was a turning point. They brought us to a higher level."
DroneXperts, a BDC client, has also opened a store in Quebec City and a location in Montreal offering both drone sales and repair services.
Prices for drones sold at the store range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The customized drones that DroneXperts makes for its clients cost between $20,000 and $150,000.
Plans to add staff
The company currently has seven employees and expects to hire between eight and ten more by the summer of 2015. "We have work coming in. We have to plan ahead so that we have enough time to train our employees."
"We have a solid structure and we are ready to move on to the next level of growth," Lassalle says. "We have what it takes to succeed."
1. Know when to say no
Determine the strength of your business and focus on it. "Don't spread yourself too thin," advises DroneXperts President Johan Lassalle. "You might not get anything done."
2. Surround yourself with the right people and delegate
Most entrepreneurs want to manage everything. "Performance and the quality of your work will suffer. Trust your collaborators and delegate."
3. Don't rush into things
You need a solid foundation before going out and looking for work. Lassalle recommends taking the time to ask the right questions and getting help from specialists, either in finance, marketing or human resources.


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Private Investigator Busted for Using Trump's SSN
Jordan Hamlett is facing five years in prison after trying to get the president's tax info
Posted Dec 11, 2017 3:34 PM CST
Jordan Hamlett, left, leaves federal court with his attorney Michael Fiser, following his guilty plea in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. The Louisiana private investigator pleaded guilty in his alleged attempts to access Donald Trump's tax returns during the presidential campaign. Authorities... (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A Louisiana private investigator pleaded guilty on Monday to misusing Donald Trump's Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the president's federal tax information before his election last year. Jordan Hamlett, 32, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his guilty plea in federal court, the AP reports. Authorities have said Hamlett failed in his attempts to get Trump's tax information through a US Department of Education financial aid website. A court document accompanying Hamlett's plea agreement says he used Trump's Social Security number and other personal information to open an online application for federal student aid on Sept. 13, 2016.
After obtaining a username and password, he tried to use an Internal Revenue Service data retrieval tool to obtain Trump's tax information, the document says. "The defendant made six separate attempts to obtain the federal tax information from IRS servers, but he was unsuccessful," says the document. It doesn't specify how much of Trump's tax information could have been retrieved with the online tool. Defense attorney Michael Fiser had argued Hamlett didn't have any "intent to deceive" and simply tried "out of sheer curiosity" to discover whether Trump's tax information could be accessed through the government website. Trump has refused to release his tax returns, bucking an American tradition honored by every president since Jimmy Carter. Hamlett's sentencing hearing wasn't immediately scheduled.
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Interviews / Jamie S23 / drum and bass / Low Down Deep / Upgrade
A name that's never far from the minds of a drum and bass fan, Upgrade has continued to raise the bar tune after tune, DJ set after DJ set. Jamie links up for an exclusive interview.
It's been a minute since our last chat and it would seem so much has changed in the world of drum and bass. Do you ever see the scene slowing down for a quick break? Would you say 2019 has been the fastest moving year music development wise or have we been dropping foghorns for 9 months?
"I think it's growing at a faster rate than ever! People have taken a liking to more atmospheric soundscapes and simple but effective drops, you can hear it being applied to everyone's work.
The foghorn thing has been rinsed to death in the short time it's been around but there are people who do it well.
I don't care for the hype around that style at the moment but I've heard some fantastic stuff come from it. Benny L undoubtedly being the front man! Big up Benny."
The 'Shot Down' project was A BEAST but I bet it was also a fucking headache. Did you rope anyone else in to manage the admin side of it or was this solely down to you and T>I?
"I'd built the entire track before taking it to T>I and asking him to join in on the project. Simply out of respect. It had his style implemented from the get go and once it was complete he helped out with the final arrangement and adding a few bits to bring more of him into it.
There were DJ's on the cricut playing a 1.25 minute clip back in 2015 before I'd even finished it! Out to Heist, Voltage and Brockie for being some of the first to rep that tune before it was a thing. Massive shouts to my good friend Reece Ketly too. He's been a part of this project as much as anyone else."
How do you deal with negative or impatient people online? A certain mental health element must creep in here and as easy as it is to rise above it, how you not let it ruin your day?
"I have a lot to say on this issue but I'm slowly learning that taking time to myself and remembering that I don't need to rise to it is often the best solution. I'll happily call someone out if they're just being an asshole but I don't hold grudges. We all say stupid shit at some point and I think people don't believe that you'll actually see it or it'll effect you in any way or that you shouldn't let it because of the position you're in."
On the subject of mental health, social media and an online presence in general, do you think DJs and producers have the right grasp of how to react, behave and actual deal with it in general? Should labels or agents be doing more?
"It's a difficult thing to approach. I think one major aspect which is overlooked is the way the majority of us have gotten into this scene. A lot of us started with very little and maybe wasn't surrounded with the best people. There's also those who probably haven't had to struggle a day in their lives. Most of us regardless of how we started out understand how difficult it can be to live the double life.
I personally don't think it's healthy working in an industry where the majority of promotional, social and musical process is predominantly run independently by the artists. It's a lot of work to take on and understanding boundaries is a major learning curve for any producer.
One wrong post could ruin everything. I remember Funtcase tweeting it's like we're all on a game show waiting to be buzzed out.
I think we should give people the chance to explain what they mean before lighting the torches."
After all this, would you do another USB project again?
"No. Maybe. We'll see."
Vinyl is obviously heavily supported again, is this something you would entertain knowing that you love to experiment with various sub genres. An Upgrade jungle project via Serial Killaz would be nice.. (hint hint)
"Ha ha I've worked with Terra and Vita Elements for as long as I've been releasing music. My first release with Serial Killaz was back in 2013 on vinyl! I do love my jungle but I think it would be rude to call my interpretation of it actually jungle. I've made some jungle for Liondub before! Out to Eric in New York. Track was called 'Mashup' – check it out if you need a fix."
We all know about the big trends this year but what's 2020 looking like for you so far? How do you see the next year panning out? I spy something on RAM..
"I've been working closely with the team at Ram and I'm definitely doing more work for them. I'm hoping people will start to recognise the vibe I'm going for. It's definitely a direction I'm looking to take in the future."
One thing that sets you apart is your willingness to try new ideas. For example the recent car audio test with your track 'Real' featuring Bassman. Who knew that the modified car scene was still a thing! Will you be doing more videos like this? Did your ears and heart need a rest after that amount of bass?
"I had so much fun filming that. I like to think that that's what separates my style of promotion to the usual promotion routines.
Shakey video playing out. Announcement video with cool graphics. Further shakey club videos. Release. Rinse and repeat.
I wanted people to be involved with the process a bit. I won't be doing them all the time but when I get the motivation to do it I always have a lot of fun so expect more. My ears were fine! Not that they aren't totally battered already but bass frequencies work differently to the ear. We can tolerate them better."
You're a car fan right? Talking of the modified scene, can you drop your top 3 classic hot hatches below and any stories that link to them?
"Fiesta XR2, Golf R32, Renault 5 Turbo.
Dad had a Fiesta XR2 for a while. Golf R32's look wicked and The Renault 5 Turbo was from watching Group B Rally as a kid!"
If you could rewind time, what would be the one car you wished you had salvaged or picked up back in the day and why?
"Back in the day? I'm 27! Saying that. I'm into American classics. 69 Chevy Nova with a V8 Is my dream car. One day…"
On the driving tip, do you have any epic journeys in store DJ wise? Will this New Years Eve be a mammoth fuel expense?
"Bookings have been fantastic this year. The next journey I'm looking forward to is Belgium to Rotterdam then to Cardiff! Logistically it's a nightmare but I'm ready for it."
Lastly, sticking with present times here. A lot of producers and DJs have set up their own labels this year with varying levels of success. Is this part of the scene any interest to you? It must something be frustrating sitting on music or do you find that as soon as you complete something, you know where it's going?
"I've got everything in place for a record label, I'm just not sure how I'd like it to go. Few more brainstorming sessions and I'm sure I'll have a clearer vision. I want it to be different."
Any shouts or big ups?
"Out to all the Ram team. Logan at Low Down Deep. Trigger and Bass too. Big up the Serial Killaz team, out to Urban Agency (bookings) out to T>I my main G."
You can follow Jamie Section 23 on Twitter, @JamieS23
Jamie S23 is part of the editorial team at Drum&BassArena, has a huge collection of vinyl from the 90's and spends many hours wishing music still came on cassette. He's stupidly into fitness and most importantly, a devoted Dad. Reminisce about air horns, lighters and The Sanctuary with him via Twitter or Soundcloud
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David Bowie shares a cigarette with actress Elizabeth Taylor in Beverly Hills, 1975. It was the first occasion that the pair had met.


West Midlands Railway has been clamping down on ticketless travel and antisocial behaviour on the Chase line. On Friday (18 January), a total of 25 revenue protection managers were stationed at six locations on the line between Bloxwich and Rugeley Town from 1500 until 1830.
Passengers travelling on routes via Birmingham Snow Hill are being advised to check their train times before they travel this afternoon. There have been two incidents on the route today – a signalling problem at Old Hill and a separate incident elsewhere on the line.
West Midlands Railway is looking for the region's Cross City Heroes. The train operator has opened a competition to find deserving community groups near to stations along the line between Redditch/Bromsgrove, Birmingham New Street and Lichfield.
Passengers using Birmingham's Snow Hill Station are to get a new entrance so they can switch seamlessly between local rail and tram services. An image of how the new eastern entrance will look was released today (Tuesday December 18) by Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).


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Scott Edwards, founder of Portland's drone hobbyist group, test-flies his craft.
In a dusty vacant lot beneath the Fremont Bridge, Scott Edwards toggles switches on a bulky controller and watches his drone rise. About two feet across and equipped with four rotors, it looks nothing like the winged combat drones that loom over various theaters of war and, thus, the darker corners of the public imagination. In fact, its sleek, white surfaces recall nothing more exotic than an iPhone.
On this summer day in 2014, Edwards's drone is a curiosity. In 10 years, such machines will almost certainly be humdrum, each device just one of thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) buzzing about our airspace.
Best known in America as weapons in the War on Terror, drones are quickly moving from the military to the civilian sphere, where the technology offers applications, both potential and proven, in "the three F's"—farming, film, firefighting—and beyond. (In Japan, crop-spraying by drone is already commonplace. DHL uses drones to deliver medical supplies to a small German island, and filmmakers used a drone to capture a motorcycle chase scene in the James Bond movie Skyfall.) The possibilities have attracted at least one top technophile: Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson left that magazine, one of high tech's more excitable hype machines, in 2012 to cofound 3D Robotics, now a drone-industry leader. Major corporations are also circling, with Amazon developing a "Prime Air" service to deliver packages by UAV (in a half-hour or less!) and Google at work on its own drone-delivery program, Project Wing.
Oregon boasts a robust aviation cluster, including Boeing Portland (based in Gresham), heavy-duty-helicopter manufacturers Erickson and Columbia Helicopters, and Insitu, one of the lead players in combat drones. (Owned by Boeing, Insitu is technically in Washington, just across the Columbia from Hood River, but has many ties on the Oregon side of the border.) Meanwhile, the "Silicon Forest" seeded decades ago by the likes of Tektronix and Intel has attracted a deep pool of engineering talent. This convergence has drone boosters forecasting a "Silicon Sky" over Oregon: a vibrant new industry, pioneered by tech-scene and aviation veterans and buoyed by state R&D funding—not to mention the only federally designated test ranges on the mainland West Coast.
In this imagined future, flying robots tell farmers which crops need to be irrigated, sprayed with pesticide, or treated for disease. They reveal hot spots in building fires before firefighters charge in, or map the earth with previously unimagined detail. The infant industry's proponents conservatively estimate that Oregon drone design, manufacturing, software, and applications could bring $486 million to the state over the next decade. "In 10 years, the aerial-robotic network will be as common to our civilization as the smartphone is today," predicts Jonathan Evans of Portland drone start-up Skyward.
But the industry must overcome a few not-so-minor obstacles. Besides intense competition from other states and less stringently regulated countries, there's the technology's ominous military heritage and its attendant privacy concerns. Above all, many in the industry fear that federal bureaucratic dithering and overzealous state laws, passed in reaction to an unfamiliar and sometimes unsettling technology, will leave America flailing behind the rest of the world in this near-space race.
Before setting the sky abuzz, Oregon's fledgling drone sector faces a fight and flight moment.
Drones, like this one from the local start-up Honeycomb, can provide detailed crop data to farmers.
A large screen in a conference room at Central Oregon's Kah-Nee-Ta Resort shows an overhead view of the ruined Chernobyl nuclear plant, the camera looking straight down into a cooling tower. The next footage weaves among beams inside the postapocalyptic structure. These images would be difficult, if not impossible, to capture without a drone, explains the New York–based filmmaker Brian Streem.
"You can do things with drones that you've never seen before," Streem later tells me. Drone filming is cheaper than shooting by helicopter, allows launch and landing in environmentally sensitive areas, and gives access to places cameras previously couldn't go. "It gives you a different perspective on the world," Streem adds.
Decker's is one of five UAV projects—from among 40 applications, all from Oregon-based companies—partially funded by SoarOregon, a state-subsidized nonprofit formed late last year. The state invested around $880,000 in SoarOregon—not a lot compared to competitors like Nevada, where one drone initiative received $3 million in state funds in October. But SoarOregon's overseers believe they can encourage technological breakthroughs via a less expensive, more entrepreneurial approach. "Oregon will punch above its weight—which is something Oregon's always done," says Mark Morrisson, the organization's executive director, citing the presence of industry-leading companies here.
If SoarOregon is one potential (but unproven) catalyst, Oregon's new federal drone test ranges are another. Located near Pendleton, Tillamook, and Warm Springs (hence the conference's location), these swaths of airspace are among a limited number of places, outside remote military bases, where UAVs can legally be flown for commercial purposes. Right now, drones in America occupy a tricky legal space. While it's legal for hobbyists such as Scott Edwards to fly UAVs for fun, it is currently almost always illegal to fly a drone for any commercial purpose. That means most of the entrepreneurs gathered in Warm Springs are operating in a gray area, developing—and, in some cases, already selling—products they only hope will become legitimate. The Federal Aviation Administration has promised to make rules for commercial drones by September 2015, but has repeatedly delayed the process.
With regulators thus blocking the critical R&D step, the drone community saw the FAA's selection of the Oregon ranges (part of a larger network also including ranges in Alaska and Hawaii) last December as an enormous boon to the industry here. Drone enthusiasts hope the ranges will attract companies—Amazon, for instance—that want to test commercial UAV technology. "This would be a great place for them to validate the engineering behind what they want to achieve," says Brian Whiteside, manager of the Warm Springs test range and CEO of the Corvallis drone outfit VDOS Global.
The gap between that hope and current reality, though, is ironically apparent during the conference. Nothing gets off the ground, as a pair of planned test flights are scrubbed at the last minute due to safety issues. In fact, while Oregon's ranges were supposed to be operational by July 1, only one, Pendleton, has actually hosted a flight.
Despite frustrations, Oregon drone projects are moving forward. Ryan Jenson's company, Honeycomb, which markets UAV systems for agriculture, projects revenue of $500,000 in its first year of sales. "We've been getting the early adopters," says the 28-year-old CEO at his Wilsonville office-park headquarters, adding that "2015 is the year of massive expansion." So-called precision agriculture is forecast to make up approximately 80 percent of the commercial drone market.
By next year, Jenson's 15-employee operation is on track to produce 300 batlike, 4.5-foot-wide aircraft that utilize a camera, multispectral and thermal sensors, and, of course, a bird's-eye view to detect, for instance, early signs of crop distress invisible to the naked eye. Clients pay a $21,000 annual subscription fee for the aircraft and a software package that helps them interpret data the drones gather. Jenson's initial success comes despite one major technicality: customers are buying his product even though it's currently illegal to use in the United States. So far, the FAA hasn't enforced its rules in the agriculture sector, and the agency will almost certainly approve drone use in rural areas whenever it gets around to issuing its long-awaited rules. Meanwhile, Jenson has his eye on venture capital, which proved elusive when he started his company two years ago but is now starting to flow into this emerging industry.
"The investment environment now is very different," Jenson says, pointing to the $30 million in VC funding 3D Robotics, Chris Anderson's company, recently landed.
In September, the FAA granted six film companies exemptions to its commercial-UAV ban, signaling a significant relaxation of its unmanned-aircraft policy. As the red tape loosens, this incipient industry will confront a larger issue: drones' image problem.
Perhaps the most visceral discomfort around drones involves, simply, where they fly. Except for novelty remote-controlled aircraft, nothing man-made has ever plied the airspace directly above our heads. The sight of a hovering drone—just 100 yards or so above, highly mobile, and apparently autonomous—feels not only unfamiliar, but like an invasion of a space you didn't even know you had. A close encounter with a drone evokes the feeling that technology is, finally and inexorably, closing in from all sides.
Or, depending on your perspective, opening a new, vertical frontier. Evans notes that UAVs' ability to fly at low altitudes allows humans to see and learn about the world from a new vantage point: "You can query the surface of the Earth in exquisite detail that we've never seen before," he says.
The implications of this are far-reaching and, to a large extent, still unknown. Just as Internet pioneers didn't foresee Wikileaks, Bitcoin, or Tinder, neither could the founders of Tektronix have predicted that an oscilloscope workshop at Southeast Foster and 59th Avenue would plant the seeds for a new tech ecosystem that would sprout Intel's multibillion-dollar research and production facilities in Hillsboro. Located at the auspicious intersection of high tech, aviation, and an energized start-up scene, our local drone sector could be as unpredictably transformative. But will the Silicon Sky really soar over Oregon?


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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, are fatal degenerative brain diseases that occur in humans and certain animal species. They are characterized by microscopic vacuoles and the deposition of amyloid (prion) protein in the grey matter of the brain. All forms of TSE are experimentally transmissible.
TSE agents exhibit an unusual resistance to conventional chemical and physical decontamination methods. They are not adequately inactivated by most common disinfectants, or by most tissue fixatives, and some infectivity may persist under standard hospital or healthcare facility autoclaving conditions (e.g. 121°C for 15 minutes). They are also extremely resistant to high doses of ionizing and ultra-violet irradiation and some residual activity has been shown to survive for long periods in the environment. The unconventional nature of these agents, together with the appearance in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and France of a new variant of CJD (vCJD) since the mid- 1990s, has stimulated interest in an updated guidance on safe practices for patient care and infection control. The World Health Organization guideline on the prevention of iatrogenic and nosocomial exposure to TSE agents was prepared following the WHO Consultation on Caring for Patients and Hospital Infection Control in Relation to Human Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, held in Geneva from 24 to 26 March 1999. The meeting was chaired by Dr Paul Brown. Dr Martin Zeidler and Dr Maurizio Pocchiari kindly agreed to be Rapporteurs.
TSEs are not known to spread by contact from person to person, but transmission can occur during invasive medical interventions. Exposure to infectious material through the use of human cadaveric-derived pituitary hormones, dural and cornea homografts, and contaminated neurosurgical instruments have caused human TSEs.
the nature or route of the exposure to these tissues.
From these considerations it is possible to make decisions about whether any special precautions are needed.
Is a high or low risk tissue involved?
Where a clinician diagnoses or suspects the diagnosis of CJD or another TSE, the patient must be considered to be a risk for transmitting infection. Where a person has a history of exposure to dura mater, cornea or human pituitary hormones, they are considered to be 'at risk' for transmitting infection, however the risk is dependant upon the risk level of the tissues, as discussed next. Where persons have a family history of TSEs, or carry a genetic marker of inheritable TSEs, without any clinical signs of TSEs, it proved impossible to be infinitive – alternative approaches can be taken, also discussed in the following section. Finally, vCJD was not the subject of the consultation; the published guideline discusses this issue in an appendix.
Infectivity levels in tissue were classified in one of three categories – high, low or no detectable infectivity - as per Table 1, below.
Not all clinical or medical procedures carry a risk of transmission of TSE. Routine patient activities do not require any sort of special precautions for TSEs. However, neurosurgical and ocular surgical procedures are the highest risk procedures and it is essential that appropriate precautions be taken for any person known, suspect or at risk of a TSE if they undergo such procedures. If a person is at risk for familial TSEs, as was noted earlier, there was no consensus on whether precautions should be taken for neurosurgical or ocular surgical procedures. Regarding other surgical procedures, special precautions are recommended for persons known or suspected of TSEs, however, it was acknowledged that the less rigorous methods could be used and that special precautions were unnecessary for persons at risk. Regarding dental procedures, no consensus was reached, however some potential interventions can be taken and are described in the full document.
Autopsy requires special precautions, however can be conducted without undue risk. Mortuary handling of bodies may require alterations if the brain pan is open or if an autopsy was conducted, otherwise the body is handled as per routine procedures.
The safest and most unambiguous method for ensuring that there is no risk of residual infectivity on contaminated materials is to discard and destroy them by incineration. While this strategy should be universally applied to those devices and materials that are designed to be disposable, it was also recognized that this may not be feasible for many devices and materials that were not designed for single use. For these situations, the autoclave/chemical methods recommended below appear to remove most and possibly all infectivity under the widest range of conditions. Incineration remains the most suitable method for disposing of all waste and of contaminated tissues.
Those surgical instruments that are going to be re-used may be mechanically cleaned in advance of subjecting them to decontamination. Mechanical cleaning will reduce the bio-load and protect the instrument from damage caused by adherent tissues. If instruments are cleaned before decontamination, the cleaning materials must be treated as infectious waste, and the cleaning station must be decontaminated by one of the methods listed below. The instruments are then treated by one of the decontamination methods recommended below before reintroduction into the general instrument sterilization processes.
Immerse in sodium hydroxide (NaOH)3 and heat in a gravity displacement autoclave at 121°C for 30 min; clean; rinse in water and subject to routine sterilization.
Immerse in NaOH or sodium hypochlorite4 for 1 hr; transfer instruments to water; heat in a gravity displacement autoclave at 121°C for 1 hr; clean and subject to routine sterilization.
Immerse in NaOH or sodium hypochlorite for 1 hr.; remove and rinse in water, then transfer to open pan and heat in a gravity displacement (121°C) or porous load (134°C) autoclave for 1 hr.; clean and subject to routine sterilization.
Immerse in NaOH and boil for 10 min at atmospheric pressure; clean, rinse in water and subject to routine sterilization.
Immerse in sodium hypochlorite (preferred) or NaOH (alternative) at ambient temperature for 1 hr; clean; rinse in water and subject to routine sterilization. Autoclave at 134°C for 18 minutes.
Flood with 2N NaOH or undiluted sodium hypochlorite; let stand for 1 hr.; mop up and rinse with water.
will remove most infectivity by dilution and some additional benefit may be derived from the use of one or another of the partially effective methods listed in the guideline.
Small dry goods that can withstand either NaOH or sodium hypochlorite should first be immersed in one or the other solution (as described above) and then heated in a porous load autoclave at ≥ 121°C for 1 hr.
at 134°C for 1 hr.
The principal recommendations of the guideline are contained in the following table.
The majority felt that TSE decontamination method should be used, but a minority felt this was unwarranted.
Assignment of different organs and tissues to categories of high and low infectivity is chiefly based upon the frequency with which infectivity has been detectable, rather than upon quantitative assays of the level of infectivity, for which data are incomplete. Experimental data include primates inoculated with tissues from human cases of CJD, but have been supplemented in some categories by data obtained from naturally occurring animal TSEs. Actual infectivity titres in the various human tissues other than the brain are extremely limited, but data from experimentally-infected animals generally corroborate the grouping shown in the table.
Experimental results investigating the infectivity of blood have been conflicting, however even when infectivity has been detectable, it is present in very low amounts and there are no known transfusion transmissions of CJD.
Unless otherwise noted, the recommended concentration is 1N NaOH.
Unless otherwise noted, the recommended concentration is 20 000 ppm available chlorine.
In worse-case scenarios (brain tissue bake-dried on to surfaces) infectivity will be largely but not completely removed.


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ARTHUR, Edward and Amy, Smithfield, Sept. 22, 1994, daughter at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
ARTIS, Larry and Angela, Smithfield, Sept. 20. 1994, son at Mary Immaculate Hospital.
DANIELS, Taumi and Rene, Smithfield, Sept. 19, 1994, daughter at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
FORMELLA, Mark and Kristan, Smithfield, Oct. 9, 1994, son at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
JOHNSON, Joby and Teresa, Surry, Sept. 27, 1994, daughter at Mary Immaculate Hospital.
LINDSEY, Steven and Patricia, Smithfield, Oct. 7, 1994, daughter at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
ROSEN, Stephen and Debra, Smithfield, Oct. 23, 1994, son at Mary Immaculate Hospital.
SEABORNE, Tyrone and Angel, Sedley, Oct. 19, 1994, son at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
SHENK, Lester and Tammy, Smithfield, Sept. 14, 1994, son at Mary Immaculate Hospital.
SHIPLEY, Richard and Debra, Surry, Sept. 21, 1994, daughter at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
STARNES, Paul and Patricia, Smithfield, Oct. 11, 1994, son at Riverside Regional Medical Center.


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James II's portrait aged 10, produced c. 1440.
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March 25th 1437, Holyrood Abbey
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Q: Getting corresponding auto-generated ID's in SQL to match XML passed values I am new to SQL, and XML so please bear with me. I have a query that gets values entered into a multi-line textbox, passes them as xml to @data xml parameter declared and then writes them to the History and Diary tables respectively.  Along with other parameters declared.
So, my problem is, it is first written to the Diary table where the ID's in that table is auto-generated, say 551 and 552 respectively for the below matters, THEN the information is inserted to the History table.  This should not happen.
I want the information to be written to the History table first, then the "Auto-generated" ID in History for the respective matters should be passed as a Foreign key to the Diary table and inserted into a column (DY_H_ID).  At the moment, that column is not being populated with data as it was only added later.
Please see my code below:
        declare @U_ID varchar(50)
        declare @Add_U_ID varchar(50)
        declare @Subject varchar(50)
        Declare @iPriority int
        declare @data xml
        declare @UN varchar(500)
        declare @Date varchar(50)
        declare @sDesc varchar(500)

        set @U_ID = 18185
        set @Add_U_ID = 18185 --'liihvcvbbbr43v55vx4wsk2x'
        set @Subject = 'Bulk'
        set @iPriority = 2
        set @data = '<Matters>
                        <string>G0000010</string>
                        <string>G0000011</string>
                    </Matters>'
        set @Date = '2013/08/23 17:00'
        set @sDesc = 'Diary item added for : 2013/08/23 17:00
User : Tommy de Longe
 Bulk PAM'

        select @UN = RTRIM(LTRIM(isNull(U_Name,'') + ' ' +  isNull(U_Surname,''))) from Users with(nolock) where id = @U_ID
        ;with cte_Tmp ([MatterIDX], [MatterID]) as
        (
        select null, ParamValues.M_ID.value('.','VARCHAR(50)')
        from @data.nodes('/Matters/string') as ParamValues(M_ID)
        )
        select Matter.M_IDX as M_IDX, [MatterID] as M_ID
        into #TBL_Matter
        from cte_Tmp
        inner join Matter with(nolock) on cte_Tmp.[MatterID] = Matter.ID

        Insert Into Dairy(DY_IDX,DY_MatterNo,DY_UserID,DY_Date,DY_Subject,DY_Priority)
        select #TBL_Matter.M_IDX, #TBL_Matter.M_ID, @U_ID, @Date, @Subject, @iPriority
        from #TBL_Matter

        Insert into History(H_IDX, H_MID,H_UserID,H_Description,H_HA_ID,H_HSA_ID)
        select #TBL_Matter.M_IDX, #TBL_Matter.M_ID, @Add_U_ID, Replace(Replace(Replace(@sDesc,'@UN', @UN),'@Date', @Date),'@Subject', @Subject), 7,19
        from #TBL_Matter

        drop table #TBL_Matter

I received this code to maintain and its breaking my head.  I know I need to switch the two inserts at the bottom of the query around, to insert into History table first, then get the corresponding auto-generated ID's (matter G0000010, matter G0000011) in this case then Insert those values into the Diary table.  Sometime the user can enter 20 values into the textbox, other times only 2, so it must be dynamic.
Any help with regards to this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: Thanks to @bummi.  I used OUTPUT to get the inserted ID's on the History table.  And then took the ID and identifier H_MID into a Table Variable called @MyTableVar.  Then on the INSERT of the Diary table, I joined to my Table Variable on the identifier.  Then I just add the Table Variable ID column to the insert list of the Diary table.  Works like a dream!  A big thanks to @bummi.  Below is my code:
        declare @U_ID varchar(50)
        declare @Add_U_ID varchar(50)
        declare @Subject varchar(50)
        declare @iPriority int
        declare @data xml
        declare @UN varchar(500)
        declare @Date varchar(50)
        declare @sDesc varchar(500)

        declare @MyTableVar table
        (
            ID int NOT NULL,
            H_MID varchar(50)
        );

        set @U_ID = 18185
        set @Add_U_ID = 18185
        set @Subject = 'Bulk'
        set @iPriority = 2
        set @data = '<Matters>
                        <string>G0000010</string>
                        <string>G0000011</string>
                    </Matters>'
        set @Date = '2013/08/23 17:00'
        set @sDesc = 'Diary item added for : 2013/08/23 17:00
User : Tommy de Longe
 Bulk PAM'

        select @UN = RTRIM(LTRIM(isNull(U_Name,'') + ' ' +  isNull(U_Surname,''))) from Users with(nolock) where id = @U_ID;

        with cte_Tmp ([MatterIDX], [MatterID]) --Column names for Temporary table
        as
        (
            select null, ParamValues.M_ID.value('.','VARCHAR(50)')
            from @data.nodes('/Matters/string') as ParamValues(M_ID)
        )
        select Matter.M_IDX as M_IDX, [MatterID] as M_ID
        into #TBL_Matter
        from cte_Tmp
        inner join Matter with(nolock) on cte_Tmp.[MatterID] = Matter.ID

        Insert into History(H_IDX, H_MID,H_UserID,H_Description,H_HA_ID,H_HSA_ID)
        OUTPUT inserted.ID, inserted.H_MID INTO @MyTableVar(ID, H_MID)
        select #TBL_Matter.M_IDX, #TBL_Matter.M_ID, @Add_U_ID, Replace(Replace(Replace(@sDesc,'@UN', @UN),'@Date', @Date),'@Subject', @Subject), 7,19
        from #TBL_Matter

        Insert Into Dairy(DY_IDX,DY_MatterNo,DY_UserID,DY_Date,DY_Subject,DY_Priority,DY_H_ID)
        select #TBL_Matter.M_IDX, #TBL_Matter.M_ID, @U_ID, @Date, @Subject, @iPriority, mtv.ID
        from #TBL_Matter
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Apartment hunting can be hard. We wanted to make it easier, and safer for everybody. So, we did.
When you begin your search for the perfect apartment, you can view information about the security of inside the apartment. However, there isn't a way to view the surrounding area of the apartment, until now! With our hack you can select an apartment and view the crime around the area. They can see a description of what happened as well as when it happened. In addition, we have allowed for the viewing of nearby construction, through the use of building permits, for those of us who take the 2-5 daily nap and have a deep distaste for construction noise/ traffic problems. All of our data came from Tuscaloosa's Open Data Portal (https://data.tuscaloosa.com/). All of these things make the apartment hunting experience much simpler, and allows students to get all of the information that goes into an apartment decision much easier.
Upon entrance to our site, the user is able to view all apartments in a given city on a Google map. From here, the user is able to view all building permits and crime data in the area. They can then click on individual apartment complexes and view the crimes that occurred within a .25 mile radius as well as the construction permits within a .20 mile radius. Furthermore, upon click the view shrinks down to only the relevant building permits and crime data, to provide a clearer viewpoint for the user. Users can also toggle a heatmap of either building permit data or crime data, to easily view apartments in an area of town that they would be more inclined to live at.
We built it on a Amazon EC2 Ubuntu Server running Apache using Flask. We used the Google Maps API to show the data for apartment locations and compared it with area crime statistics and building construction permits. To export our data that we needed we created json files from python scripts. We also used Geopy to geocode all of the addresses that came off of the open data portal. We also used vincenty to calculate distances between the latitude and longitude of all events, so you can see what crimes and construction that are relevant to a given apartment complex. The scripts we built that are on our github can be made to rerun daily. This would allow for automatically updating statistics to stay relevant with current trends.
We had a problem with how bad the data we exported was and cleaning it up for what we needed. Tuscaloosa's portal proved more than difficult in garnering all relevant information. All apartment complexes were obtained from offcampushousing.ua.edu, which also proved difficult. When we pulled the data we couldn't figure out which permits were active and nonactive. Another issue we had was configuring apache to work with flask.
This is a very relevant tool for a college community. Not only does it help parents search for apartments that are historically safe, but it allows for more personalized decisions when picking an apartment. This web app also has the potential to spur positive change, in that a complex that has countless crimes/building permits in the nearby area might be encouraged to improve their standards to better meet the demands of apartment renters. Ultimately this tool simplifies a very complicated searching process, and allows for the visualization of important data that was previously difficult to access/discern. We implemented the ability to view a heatmap of both crime data as well as building permits. This will allow for users to easily slim down their top choices if either of these things are a large factor in their decision.
How to set up and debug apache.
How to attach a domain name to a EC2 instance.
Exporting data as a json file.
Cleaning data is very difficult. "lol"
The incorporation of 311 call data is our next big feature. 311 calls that are placed within a certain radius of an apartment complex that refer to things such as trash, rats, or cockroaches could prove to be something that apartment hunters want to be informed about before they make a decision.
Adding the ability for customization of preferences. Perhaps some users are more cautious and want a wider crime data radius around their complex of choice; or maybe users have an outrageous fear of cockroaches and can't handle a single report of roaches in the area. This, among other things, are our future goals.
The implementation of a login system for users to save certain apartments, download data on an apartment, and even customize their preferences for construction/crime and, eventually, 311 call data.
Creating a heatmap for 311 calls relative to specific keywords. For instance, show a heatmap of 311 calls with the keyword "Rats" or the word "trash" in the description.
Use social media keywords to determine if their is a public opinion of negative or positive. Search for content containing the name of the apartment complex. Parse all the words in that content and determine what they are talking about (generally negative or positive based on words like "great", "good",etc or "terrible", "dirty", etc). Then present the user with the summary of information, so they can develop their opinion based on the data we found.
I handled AWS, and helped with the cleaning of data.


Good news for jewellers. Now PAN card and Aadhaar card are not needed for jewellery purchases above Rs 50,000, according to ANI. In a bid to give some relief to jewellers, the government decided to revoke the notification that extended provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, (PMLA) to jewellery purchases.
PAN card details not required for gold purchase up to Rs. 2 Lakhs.
Jewellers or any entity dealing in gems, jewellery and other high-value goods that has a turnover of Rs 2 crore or more in a financial year will not be covered under PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002).PAN card not required for jewellery purchase above Rs 50000, PAN card not required for jewellery purchase above Rs 50000, PAN Card Mandatory to Buy Gold worth Rs.2 Lakh or More.
That will help to improve the market conditions and will greatly helpful for jewellers and for normal peoples too because of this sell of jewellery will boost up again; jewellers are saying that this decision by the govt. is very helpful and relaxing.
The decision was taken at the 22nd GST Council meeting held on 6th Oct 2017. Now there is a relaxation for Jewellers as well as buyers of jewellery in cash up to Rs. 2 Lakhs. Also, the government need not be informed on jewellery purchase of over Rs 50,000.
Previous articleUnmarried Women allowed 250 Gram gold, Married Women 500 Gram, new Clarification by Indian Government.


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Q: Print text between delimiters using sed Suppose I have op(abc)asdfasdf and I need sed to print abc between the brackets. What would work for me? (Note: I only want the text between first pair of delimiters on a line, and nothing if a particular line of input does not have a pair of brackets.)

A: $ echo 'op(abc)asdfasdf' | sed 's|[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*|\1|'
abc

A: sed -n -e '/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*/s//\1/p'

The pattern looks for lines that start with a list of zero or more characters that are not open parentheses, then an open parenthesis; then start remembering a list of zero or more characters that are not close parentheses, then a close parenthesis, followed by anything.  Replace the input with the list you remembered and print it.  The -n means 'do not print by default' - any lines of input without the parentheses will not be printed.


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Q: How can I disable the caps lock key? Is there any way to completely disable the caps lock key without using any third-party apps?
(Virtually, of course—I don't plan on jamming something under the key.)

A: In System Preferences, go to Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys… From the popup that appears, you can change caps lock's function to another modifier key, or to "No action."

The options available in the pop up menu:

A: Just use the Keyboard pane of System Preferences.
Click "Modifier Keys", and set "Caps Lock" to "No Action".

n.b. This setting can be different if you have more than one keyboard.

A: This changed in macOS Ventura 13.

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*System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts... > Modifier Keys


This case study is further facilitated by a video that can be played in the class or be made a part in a digital course pack. Teachers should be careful about ensuring that the video is available for the students as when needed by the course design as it divulges key information pertaining to the case. Harry Rawlinson is the managing chief of Aqualisa, a noteworthy U.K. producer of showers. He has quite recently introduced the most critical shower development in current history: the Quartz shower. The shower gives huge upgrades as far as quality, cost, and simplicity of installation. In the product testing phase, the Quartz shower was host to enthusiastic reviews from both consumers as well as the plumbers and the handymen. However, the early vending numbers for the shower have fallen short of expectation. Rawlison must now decide if he should alter his channel strategy, marketing plan, and the overall stand of the product in context of the current product line.
What is the Quartz value proposition to plumbers? To consumers?
Why is the Quartz shower not selling?
Aqualisa spent three years and 5.5 million developing the Quartz. Was the product worth the investment? Is Quartz a niche product or a mainstream product?
Aqualisa currently has three brands: Aqualisa, Gainsborough and ShowerMax. What is the rationale behind this multiple brand strategy? Does it make sense?
What should Rawlinson do to generate sales momentum for the Quartz product? Should he change his marketing strategy to target consumers directly, target the DIY market, or target developers? Should he lower the price of the Quartz? Or should he do something different altogether?


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A file photo shows Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (Reuters)
Ethiopia's Abiy has 'special responsibility' to end Tigray conflict: Nobel panel
Published: 13 January ,2022: 06:26 PM GST Updated: 13 January ,2022: 06:35 PM GST
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, said Thursday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the honor in 2019, bore special responsibility for ending the bloodshed in Tigray.
"As Prime Minister and winner of the Peace Prize, Abiy Ahmed has a special responsibility to end the conflict and contribute to peace," Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the committee, said in a statement to AFP.
Northern Ethiopia has been beset by conflict since November 2020 when Ahmed sent troops into Tigray after accusing the region's ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), of attacks on federal army camps.
The fighting between forces loyal to Abiy and the TPLF and their allies has killed thousands of people and forced several million from their homes.
Tigray is under what the United Nations calls a de facto blockade that is preventing life-saving medicine and food from reaching millions, including hundreds of thousands in famine-like conditions.
"The humanitarian situation is very serious and it is not acceptable that humanitarian aid does not get through sufficiently," Reiss-Andersen said.
Speaking at a press conference, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth appealed for countries to press Abiy to allow aid to get through.
"The big threat there is the Ethiopian government's blockade of humanitarian assistance that is desperately needed by millions of people in the region," Roth told reporters.
"This is a classic case of collective punishment. This is not punishing Tigrayan military forces. It is punishing the people... in Tigray," he added.
The conflict in Tigray has sparked calls to strip Abiy of the Nobel, but this is not possible under the award's statutes.
The Norwegian committee said it could not comment on what factors were emphasized when the prize was awarded to Abiy beyond "the reasons given in connection with the award," as the panel's discussions are confidential.
Abiy's prize "was awarded on the basis of his efforts and the legitimate expectations that existed in 2019," Reiss-Andersen said.
"The peace initiatives that Abiy Ahmed launched and for which he received the Nobel Prize were based on his contribution to the peace agreement with Eritrea and his comprehensive political initiative for democracy and the development of civil rights," she added.
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Corbyn and challenges to political power
Noam Chomsky and other serious critics on the left often have to contend with dismissals from opponents (including most in our political and media elites) that they are conspiracy theorists, or "anti-American" and "anti-West".
For those who have not taken the time to read Chomsky, such arguments can sound superficially plausible. Does Chomsky's criticisms of the US and the West not rest on the assumption that their leaders act together, conspiratorially, in bad and exploitative ways against weaker nations? Can all of our leaders really be so rotten? Isn't it, in truth, more cock-up than conspiracy?
Chomsky is actually talking about structural conditions in our societies that maintain elites in power and allow them to look out for their own interests largely unchallenged.
Here Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who has been in the diplomatic wilderness since he turned whistle-blower on British collusion with torture more than a decade ago, makes a very simple observation that can help us understand what Chomsky is talking about.
Murray notes that of today's crop of senior politicians, media editors, top diplomats and university vice-chancellors, almost all supported the Iraq war in 2003. Not only did such support not harm these individuals' careers but it appears to have propelled them to even greater things.
The careers of prominent critics of the war, conversely, have tended to suffer. And all this despite the fact that there was huge popular opposition to the war at the time. The folly of the war was obvious to ordinary people but not, it seems, to our brightest and best.
The success of the war crowd can be explained without resorting to conspiracy theories. Chomsky's structural critique is expressed well below by Murray:
It is that Iraq is the touchstone for adherence to the neo-liberal consensus. All these professionally successful people share a number of attitudes, of which support for the Iraq War is a good indicator. There is a very strong correlation between support for the Iraq War and fierce Zionism. But there is also a strong correlation between support for the Iraq War and support for austerity economics. The strongest correlation of all lies in support for the Iraq War and for "business-friendly" tolerance of corporatism, TTIP, multinational tax avoidance, low taxation and marketization of public services including in education and health.
In short, our key institutions are in the grasp of a set of ideological assumptions (very strange ones) popularly described as neo-liberalism. This neoliberal elite becomes self-selecting, replicating itself through the selection processes imposed by private schools, elite universities, the diplomatic service, the finance system, top legal firms, and the media. If one makes one's way through this obstacle course, then the door may open to a political career.
By the time politicians reach Westminster, they do not need to be recruited to a cabal. They have simply proven over a long period that they have a strong ideological fit with the institutions that govern us. If not, their careers would have stalled much earlier, in the lower rungs of these institutions, or they would have "dropped out". The same processes select those who fill top posts in the media and other influential "professions".
This isn't true just in Britain, of course. One can see similar processes of filtering and selection in the US and other western societies. That is why trying to tinker with the system invariably fails to bring about real change. These structures have to be overhauled.
That has happened – partially at least – in the past, following major social and economic upheavals like the Second World War. Our elites had to respond to the greater sense of entitlement and empowerment of the working classes, both the men who had been recently demobbed and the women who had gone out to work for the first time in factories to help the war effort.
That was why a Labour government was elected, in spite of the heroic standing of Winston Churchill, the Conservatives' leader, during the war. A key victory was the establishment of free health care for everyone, in the form of the National Health Service. Hard as it is to recall today, the NHS was long presented as a radical, dangerous idea – reminding us how crazy ideological assumptions can comfortably dominate even democratic systems. The NHS' popularity has made it difficult politically to reverse that success, but politicians of the right and left have been slowly eroding the principle of free health care for at least the past two decades.
Now the British elites are being challenged again, this time by a potential mass movement led by Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn is the last gasp of that post-war era of Labour politics, when a class divide was acknowledged and some politicians were elected precisely because they represented the working poor's interests, often via trade unions.
It is a sign of quite how much the traditional elites have reasserted their power that Corbyn seems an isolated relic from that previous era. It is also a sign of how effectively the system locks the doors to outsiders that the young people who are so fed up with neoliberalism and our political elite have been unable to inject new blood into the system, and must rely on Corbyn instead to represent them. Expect an extremely rocky ride ahead.
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A Canadian cleric, who has twice played a part in backing military juntas in nuclear-armed Pakistan, is back in that country. And once more, he appears to be facilitating a military takeover in Islamabad.
Tahir-ul-Qadri is better known for his role in the creation of the infamous anti-blasphemy law of Pakistan, which has brought untold misery to religious minorities and agnostics.
In the 1980s, Qadri backed the military junta of the Islamist General Zia, who had overthrown former prime minister Z.A. Bhutto. In 1999, he backed the administration of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, which had staged a coup against former prime minister Nawaz Shariff.
By the time democracy was restored in Pakistan, Qadri had emigrated to Canada, where he went into political hibernation until he became eligible for a Canadian passport.
With that in hand, Qadri left Canada to manage his worldwide network of devotees, who believe the Prophet Mohammed has appeared in Qadri's dreams and gives him instructions.
In September, Qadri landed in hot water in Denmark, where Integration Minister Karen Haekkerup pulled out of a conference when she discovered Qadri was one of the speakers, saying he had helped fashion Pakistan's anti-blasphemy law.
However, within days, a new video emerged showing Qadri saying the exact opposite. He was shown boasting in Urdu before an audience that he alone was responsible for crafting the blasphemy law.
Now Qadri, travelling as a Canadian, has come back to haunt Pakistan by besieging the parliament in Islamabad with about 50,000 of his devotees.
In the meantime, the rest of us should be worried about the potential destabilization of a country with 200 nuclear-tipped missiles and the role played by Qadri in that.