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Turkey says no disagreements with Russia over Syria operation
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia have no disagreements over Ankara's air and ground offensive into northern Syria's Afrin region and the two countries are in close contact over the operation, the Turkish foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Turkey launched "Operation Olive Branch" two weeks ago targeting the YPG Kurdish militia in Afrin, opening a new front in Syria's seven-year-old, multi-sided civil war. Russia is the main backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"We do not have any disagreements with Russia. We continue our contacts with Russia," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with TGRT Haber, when asked about possible tensions with Moscow over Afrin.
"We need to inform each other in a timely manner, especially (regarding) air strikes and the developments in the field. We contact them in real time or in advance."
He also said Turkish forces had finished building a sixth observation point in Syria's Idlib region.
Under a deal reached with Tehran and Moscow to try to reduce fighting between pro-government forces and mainly Islamist insurgents in northwestern Syria, Turkey has agreed to set up 12 observation posts in Idlib and neighbouring provinces.
But the "de-escalation" in violence they were supposed to monitor has halted. In December the Syrian army, helped by Iran-backed militias and heavy Russian air power, launched a major offensive to take territory in Idlib province.
Idlib is one of the last main strongholds of anti-Assad rebels who have been driven from most of their bastions in Syria since Russia joined the war on the side of the Damascus government in 2015.
Turkey, a NATO member, has long been one of the main allies of the anti-Assad rebels.
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Home Science Researchers completely re-engineer yeast to make more biofuel
Researchers completely re-engineer yeast to make more biofuel
Brewing fuel —
Systems-level engineering of a living thing is remarkably complicated.
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Enlarge / Colonies of genetically modified yeast.
A little while ago, we covered the idea of using photovoltaic materials to drive enzymatic reactions in order to produce specific chemicals. The concept is being considered mostly because doing the same reaction in a cell is often horribly inefficient because everything else in the cell is trying to regulate the enzymes, trying to use the products, trying to convert the byproducts into something toxic, or up to something even more annoying. But in many cases, these reactions rely on chemicals that are only made by cells, leaving some researchers to suspect it still might be easier to use living things in the end.
A new paper in Nature Catalysis may support or contradict this argument, depending on your perspective. In the end, the authors of the new paper re-engineer standard brewer's yeast to produce molecules that can be used as fuel for internal combustion engines. The full catalog of changes they have to make is a bit mind-numbing and most achieve a small, incremental increase in production. The end result is a large step forward toward biofuel production, but the effort involved is intimidating.
Making fuel
Brewer's yeast, as the name implies, can already produce a biofuel: alcohol. But ethanol isn't a drop-in replacement for many current uses, which raises questions about its overall utility. If we have to re-engineer both our engines and our infrastructure in order to use it to replace fossil fuels, then there's not much space for a smooth transition away from gasoline and other liquid fuels.
But yeast obviously produce a lot of chemicals in addition to ethanol, and some of them are much more similar to our hydrocarbon fuels. Most liquid fuels are short strings of carbon atoms with hydrogen linked to each carbon. That mostly describes the building blocks of fats, which differ from hydrocarbon fuels in that one of the carbon atoms at the end of the string is hooked up to a couple of oxygens. These molecules also have a longer string of carbon atoms than a typical fuel—18-24 carbon atoms, rather than six to 12. But living things produce them in abundance, since they're used to make membranes and store energy.
Still, as challenge go, this one sounds relatively simple: get the cell to make shorter versions of what it's already making, then eject those into the media the cells are growing in. We can simply harvest the media, separate out the fuel molecules, and then let the yeast start afresh.
It's not at all easy.
To begin with, making these molecules is very energy-intensive (they work as energy storage after all), so the cell regulates how much of them are made. Adding to the challenge, the shorter versions of these fat materials turn out to be toxic to the cells, and we're not entirely sure why. Finally, they're not especially soluble in the water that the yeast live in. All of which means it's not at all easy to get this to work, but an international team of researchers was determined to try.
Re-engineering
It's worth stepping back and taking a look at how the cell normally makes these molecules. Most organisms have two sets of enzymes to do the job. In one case, the enzymes all act separately. In another, the enzymes are all complexed in a single unit, which makes the pathway more efficient. The activity of the pathway is tightly regulated in terms of how many of these enzymes are made, how active the enzymes are, and how much of the raw materials they use are available.
The actual hydrocarbons are built up in stages. The process starts with an extremely short hydrocarbon chemically tethered to a molecule that's recognized by the enzymes involved. Enzymes add additional carbon atoms to the growing chain in pairs, gradually extending it. As the chain gets progressively longer, its ability to fit into the active site of the enzymes gradually gets worse. At random points in the process, a separate enzyme can cut the hydrocarbon's tether off, terminating the process. This typically happens when the chains are between 16 and 22 carbons long.
Obviously, there are a number of places to intervene in this process in order to favor the production of shorter chains. The research team appears to have decided to try all of them.
To begin with, there's the issue of regulation. Since the researchers were working in yeast, they started with a bacterial enzyme complex. Since the enzymes are from a completely unrelated organism, they should be unable to interact with any factors that normally slow down the enzymes' activity. The genes encoding these enzymes were placed in a DNA construct that ensured they were produced at high level. All of these changes should ensure that there's always a high level of activity along the pathway that will be producing fuel molecules, provided the raw materials are plentiful.
To be cautious there, the research team then engineered the yeast to produce more of the raw materials. Just in case.
Not done yet
Then there's an issue of carbon-chain length, more specifically the need to keep the chains relatively short. Other research groups have identified a series of mutations that ensure that longer carbon chains don't fit in the key enzymes as well. So those were engineered into the system. Then, the authors merged in extra copies of a gene that cuts the growing chain from its tether, stopping the elongation process. This version of the gene was engineered to be part of the complex that extends the chain, ensuring that it could easily interact with the growing chains before they got too long.
Combined, all these changes should produce more short-chain hydrocarbons in the yeast cell. And they do—but not a lot more. This wasn't a surprise because, as noted above, these molecules are toxic to the cell. Since we don't understand why, there was no way of directly engineering tolerance to them. Instead, the researchers simply grew yeast strains in high levels of short-chain molecules for multiple generation, allowing evolution to select one that tolerated them better. The researchers sequenced the genomes of multiple evolved strains and identified two key mutations.
Separately, they started with a protein that yeast use to pump toxins outside the cell, and sent that through two rounds of mutation and selection, looking for looking for version that more efficiently ejected the hydrocarbon molecules they were producing. The results of the two separate bits of directed evolution were combined in the yeast strain being used. Production went up a bit more.
Of course, from the cell's perspective, all these short hydrocarbons floating around are mistakes—biochemical dead ends. So it's not a surprise that cells also have enzymes that re-attach them to the linker that allows the synthesis enzymes to re-engage with them. These enzymes had to be deleted as well, allowing the levels of production to climb a bit more.
Protect the hydrocarbons
Finally, at this point, with the entire yeast metabolism re-engineered, there was one more hurdle. The build-up of the desired hydrocarbons in the growth media ended up being high enough that the cells started getting sick. So, the researchers figured out they could add a layer of an organic solvent on top of the water the yeast were growing in and the hydrocarbons would end up in that. This would keep them safely away from the yeast.
No single change was decisive in increasing the yield of the desired chemicals. But with each change, the yield went up a bit, and many of the changes had a synergistic effect on the output. The yeast started out by producing these chemicals in quantities measured in milligrams per liter of cultured yeast. By the end, the researchers were looking at grams.
Yeast are probably still better at producing ethanol efficiently than they are at making these hydrocarbon molecules. But, as the authors note, these materials are much more useful as fuels and as starting materials for other chemicals. As a result, they're much more valuable. Given all the work involved in just making them, however, the authors can be forgiven for not doing a full economic analysis of whether these yeast actually make economic sense as they currently stand or whether even more work might be needed.
Nature Catalysis, 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0409-1 (About DOIs).
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Q: Function moisture flux convergence? I have to compute several thermodynamic indices and MetPy offers plenty of sounding based parameters (e.g. CAPE, CIN, ...). For the evolution of thunderstorms, the vertically integrated moisture flux convergence is a good predictor. Does MetPy offer functions to compute moisture convergence?
Thanks for help and kind regards,
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Feel free to chime in there to express that this is an important calculation for you. If you get around to implementing it yourself, we'd love you to contribute it to MetPy.


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Since his first ceramics class in high school, Bruce Larrabee knew he wanted to create pottery. He went on to recieve his BFA from The University of Utah, and has been making unique clay pieces ever since. Bruce's designs are known for their fluid glazes, which are bold in color and evoke moving water. When he's not glued to the wheel, you might find him playing with his grandchildren, fixing up an old Mustang, or relaxing on a beach in Hawaii. He lives creates in Park City, Utah.
XS: 2.5" H x 4.75" diameter; 8 fl. oz. capacity; 0.35 lbs.
S: 2.75" H x 5.75" diameter; 16 fl. oz. capacity; 0.4 lbs.
M: 3.25" H x 7.25" diameter; 32 fl. oz. capacity; 0.75 lbs.
L: 3.75" H x 9" diameter; 64 fl. oz. capacity; 1.2 lbs.
XL: 4.25" H x 11" diameter; 104 fl. oz. capacity; 1.53 lbs.
Use these both for everyday prep as well as for serving. Both for family and guests. Love them. I never do reviews, but was shocked to see no reviews for this product yet.


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When it comes to watching his beloved Giants in luxury, the sky's the limit for one Manhattan insurance executive.
William Powers and his buddies just plunked down $42,000 to rent a private Falcon 50 jet — complete with a personal flight attendant — to fly them to Big Blue's NFC Champaionship match against the 49ers in San Francisco on Sunday.
"I'm a diehard Giants fan and a born-and-bred New Yorker," said Powers, 42, who lives on the Upper East Side.
"I didn't think they'd make it this far," but now, "there is no way we'd miss this game."
He and seven of his friends split the cost of their luxury air ride, said Powers, who has been to all the Giants' home games this season.
The plan is to leave New York on Saturday. The 5 1/2- hour flight will get them to the City by the Bay in plenty of time for a game-eve bash.
"We will leave on Saturday, so we can have one night of pregame partying," the exec said. "We'll stay in downtown San Francisco [and] have a nice dinner."
Their rooms at the Ritz-Carlton in downtown San Francisco run about $380 a night.
Tickets to the game are $700 a pop, and Powers estimates a food-and-bar total of about $3,200.
"We will all split the cost,'' said Powers, who estimated he and his buddies will lay out about $7,000 each.
The plan for Sunday, Powers said, is "wake up, head over to the stadium, do some tailgating, go to the game — then go to the airport, hop back on the plane, and head home.
"It is all about convenience, obviously, which is why we're sucking up the cost," said Powers, who is married with two young kids."Flying private means we'll be back faster than the red eye."
And Powers said he and his high-flying pals are ready to do it again if the Giants score a Super Bowl slot.
"If the Giants win, we'll fly privately to Indiana for the Super Bowl," he vowed.
"We will do it all in a day — making our families happy by leaving and returning within 24 hours."
The group is one of several parties that have already snapped up 12 private planes from Manhattan-based Blue Star Jets, said company President Todd Rome.
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.
Get up to speed with what's happening in the fastest growing region in the world.
About 10,000 in Mandalay rally in support of charter amendment
About 10,000 people marched in Mandalay on Sunday to welcome the proposals for amending the 2008 Constitution that have been submitted to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union).
Gems dealers marched along 38th street from Mahar Aung Myay market at 87th street on Sunday by car, motorcycle, bicycle and on foot.
The march started at noon, and the protesters held a public talk on the amendment of the constitution at an open field in Maha Aung Myay in the evening that was attended by about 10,000 people. Journalist U Thein Tan, author U Ko Lay, and advocate U Thein Than Oo addressed the talk. – Myanmar Times
It's been over two years since the government laid a foundation for electric vehicle (EV) production in the country. The scheme has garnered 20-30 investment applications, covering car assembly, vital parts manufacturing and EV charging stations.
The Board of Investment (BoI) has yet to grant investment incentives to all applicants, saying it's considering many for plug-in hybrid EVs, battery EVs, electric buses and EV parts worth a combined 1.4 billion baht. It's also looking at applications for charging station projects worth 36 billion baht. – Bangkok Post
Four water treatment plants shut down again over diesel contamination
The operations of four water treatment plants had to be suspended yet again today after Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS), a subsidiary of Air Selangor, detected that diesel traces had contaminated the Sungai Selangor water source.
Air Selangor's Head of Customer Relations Department and Water Management, Abdul Raof Ahmad, said following the discovery, the Rantau Panjang water treatment plant (LRA) had to suspend its operations at 6pm.
This was followed by the LRA SSP3 at 8pm, as well as LRA SSP1 and SSP2 and 8.15pm. – New Straits Times
Number of babies born in Singapore drops to eight-year low
The number of babies born here last year fell to an eight-year low, posing more demographic challenges for an ageing population.
The Report on Registration of Births and Deaths 2018 said 39,039 births were registered last year, a 1.5 percent drop from 2017. – Straits Times
Property owners reminded to report foreign residents
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has reminded all property owners in the country that they must provide details of foreigners staying at their residences in order to strengthen immigration law enforcement.
In a statement on Friday, Mr Kheng noted that since the ministry issued the directive in 2010, most property owners have complied but there are some who are either ignorant of the law or choose not to follow it. – Khmer Times
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WriteNow is our award-winning programme which aims to find, mentor and publish new writers from communities under-represented on the nation's bookshelves.
"Sometimes you need someone or something to empower you: to show you the truth of what you can be and that's what the WriteNow process did for me. I have gained strength from this process, and Penguin Random House has made me feel like I have a seat at the table."
Through WriteNow we host free workshops for talented writers, offering information and inspiration about how to get published. Participants are given the chance to hear from published authors and literary agents, and receive personalised one-to-one feedback on their work from an editor. We then take forward the most promising writers onto our year-long mentoring programme - pairing them with one of our editors to help develop their manuscript, with the ultimate aim of publishing their work.
So far, we have published six writers through WriteNow: Charlene Allcott, Geraldine Quigley, Emma Morgan, Emma Smith-Barton, Elizabeth Jane-Burnett and Rashmi Sirdeshpande.
In 2019 we're 'doing a Glastonbury' and taking a year out to give ourselves the opportunity to re-group and focus on the 32 current and alumni mentees on the programme. This means that we won't be opening up WriteNow for new applications or hosting any regional workshops in 2019. But don't worry – we will definitely be returning in 2020.
We'll be updating this page with news about next year's programme towards the end of 2019. In the meantime, you can sign up to our WriteNow newsletter below to be notified about plans for next year.


Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 is a version of the famous Microsoft Office Suite, designed specifically for private or educational use. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.... Free Microsoft Office software for students All Queensland State School students from Prep�Year 12 can now get multiple free copies of the Microsoft Office 2013 Suite. The Microsoft Office 2013 Suite can now be downloaded by all students on to their personal devices.


"Metro" is the name for Windows Phone 7 users interface. It has brought us "Live Tiles". You can have all apps and its updates at a single site. No more switching on and off to all the applications that you have. All that you feel important you are there on your Start Screen. All the real-time updates are out there waiting for you. You can also add, remove the tiles as your need and convenience.
You have a built-in browser that provides the same experience as you have in your PC. You can also have your web- pages linked to the Live Tiles in the Start Screen. You can have access to them every time whenever you need to.
Recent Contacts are now very handy. You can reach to your loved ones in a matter of seconds.
Have you ever imagined of Microsoft office suite in your phone? Your very conveniently portable Phone is now enough to access and work on Microsoft docs, excels etc. Apart from this, you have lots of other features like multitasking, syncs, Games, and Multimedia.
What all these new features for? It is to have a great quality experience with your apps and instantly share them with the same quality expected. It is all now done. Tell me your favorite app? Though the question is to you, I have the answer for myself.
What comes to your mind when you hear all this? Without a second thought, all will scream Instagram. It will be really amazing and surprising when you come across reports on Statistics about Instagram. What a big community it has formed! What a platform it has given to professionals like Photographers. It has become an essential part of all our lives.
Instagram has come up with a new feature that allows you to save posts for you to use it at a later time. Viewing through the Instagram, we may like a photo or video. It is usual that we do not take even a screenshot of the picture. You would search for the picture that is something really irritating. To avoid this, you can use the Bookmark feature to save all your favorite posts in under one collection.
You know what selfies are. Has it been old right? Yet, there is something more interesting with an Instagram selfie. Heard of mini-selfies? Imagine a cute little image of your all around your story. Let me tell you how to do it. Here how it goes!
You can find a smiley-face icon on the right corner.
It is the same as how you'll add a sticker.
Tap the camera icon in the magic folder and take a selfie.
What next? Just post your selfie stickers all around.
I personally enjoy this feature. I have never thought of mini-selfies.
It is one of the great ways to grab attention. When you put up something with hashtag message along with a suitable picture, it is all new. You know how to make Sticker hashtags? It is as below.
In a white box, you can find the hashtag. Click on it.
As per your wish, customize it.
It is all done now!
Is that not cool, if something against gravity? Instagram has that!
Throw a ball. It will sure get back to you without anybody in the opposite end.
Dance and see the backward dance of yours.
This can be called the coolest feature of the Instagram.
Paintbrush is common in all paint applications. Having any clue on what is an eraser brush? Let me start telling you on how to use it as it that would wipe all your questions.
Take a photo and select the drawing tool and pick your favorite color.
Hold on your picture for the favorite color to spread the picture.
Now go ahead and tap the eraser icon. Your pick will reveal amidst your favorite color.
What can be daring in Instagram? It would be posting a live video. A talk, a dance, a comment, an opinion. All this is possible in a minute with this feature. It is just like sharing your Instagram story. As simple as that! Wait you have more surprises!!!!
After you complete your Live stream, you have two options.
First one is that you can save the video and share it. Others can see it for 24 hours.
You can even discard it if you are not satisfied with the video.
If you want to share your video, Play Button will be shown on your profile photo.
You have to know that there is no official client for Instagram for Windows 7. But you do have help around. And yes! The official Instagram app is now available on Windows 8. Know the 6tag of the Windows phone. It is the unofficial client for Windows phone that allows you to do all you do with your Instagram official app. You can download the 6tag app that is available in the Windows Store.
Go to the Windows Store.
You have to type "6 tag app" in the search tab.
Install it on the Phone.
It is a third party Application for Windows. It behaves just like your Instagram. Hope we have solved the problem – Download Instagram for Windows 7 phone.


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AfCFTA: Presidential committee gives consent
The Presidential Committee on Impact and Readiness Assessment African Continental Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement has submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The committee, which is chaired by Desmond Obadiah, recommended that Nigeria should sign the treaty.
Receiving the report at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Buhari said the treaty will have positive and negative impacts on Nigeria and its neighbours.
"Our position is very simple, we support free trade as long as it is fair and conducted on an equitable basis. The AfCFTA will have both positive and negative effects on us as a nation and on our region," the president said.
"As Africa's largest economy and most populous country, we cannot afford to rush into such agreements without full and proper consultation with all stakeholders.
"As you mentioned in your report, intra-African trade is only 14% of Africa's total trade. For AfCFTA to succeed, we must develop policies that promote African production, among other benefits.
"Africa, therefore, needs not only a trade policy but also a continental manufacturing agenda. Our vision for intra-African trade is for the free movement of made in Africa goods. That is, goods and services made locally with dominant African content in terms of raw materials and value addition.
"I am very delighted to receive your report today. Let me assure you that your report will form part of the consideration in our decision on the next steps on the AfCFTA in particular and on broader trade integration subjects."
Making the conclusions of the committee known, Obadiah had said signing the treaty would be in the overall interest of Nigeria.
"Today, many Nigerian companies have developed capacity in some of these sectors and have long desired to expand to Africa but have been constrained by trade barriers which AfCFTA is expected to remove," he said.
"Our study has shown that AfCFTA is not without major risks and undesirable impacts. The most significant of which is the potential rise in smuggling and abuse of rules of origin. The risk is that it will provide an incentive for traders to disguise goods imported from outside the continent as made- in-Africa goods, to qualify for duty-free treatment.
"This risk is high for Nigeria considering that 92% of Nigeria's imports come from the rest of the world and smuggling, under-reporting of imports and other forms of abuse of rules of origin already constitute major challenges faced by Nigeria in ECOWAS.
"The risk is further complicated by the lack of capacity, resources and "will" on the part of some African countries, to enforce their borders. Tackling this threat will require collective efforts at the highest level of ECOWAS and the African Union.
"Our report recognizes that there will be significant adjustment costs to manage the negative impacts and to take advantage of the opportunities."
Some of the recommendations made by the committee include extension of the timelines to achieve trade liberalization and integration ambitions and possibly replacing them with a readiness criteria; introduction of explicit rules on import quota restrictions and adoption of a common Market Access Offer for Trade in Goods and Trade in Services for ECOWAS, including synchronized Sensitive and Exclusive Lists
The African Union's heads of state and governments had, in 2012, resolved to establish the African Continental Free Trade Agreement treaty to create a single continental market for goods and services in member nations.
The federal executive council (FEC) had agreed that Nigeria should sign the agreement at the extraordinary meeting of the African Union (AU) heads of state and government in Kigali, Rwanda.
However, Nigeria had withheld its signature to the agreement because the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria (MAN) among other groups kicked against signing the treaty.
They had warned that signing the treaty was extremely dangerous to Nigeria as it would open the country to unbridled foreign interference.
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Cedar Point is Opening Soon for the Summer of 2020
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Hands up! Cedar Point has clearance from the Ohio governor and will finally open the park for the 2020 season- it's 150th anniversary.
Cedar Point had a memorable year planned for their 150th anniversary, and 2020 sure has been a year to remember. The venerable theme park opened on the shores of Lake Erie in 1870, and has remained closed so far this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Ohio has different rules than Michigan, and the company has just gotten clearance from Governor Mike DeWine to open for business. CEO Richard Zimmerman shared a message at cedarpoint.com on June 5:
As a result of ongoing discussions with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. John Husted, we are very pleased to announce that our Ohio parks, including Cedar Point and Kings Island, have been cleared to reopen. We will provide specific opening dates just as soon as we confirm details with the governor. We appreciate the cooperation and support of all those that are working hard to help us and the state of Ohio reopen.
-Cedar Fair Entertainment Company CEO Richard Zimmerman
Cedar Point had a big year planed to mark the 150th anniversary, including a ticket for a lifetime giveaway, music festival weekends with live bands, vintage merchandise and more. They pivoted to honoring "everyday heroes" with lifetime passes, and had just started offering reservations at their beachfront hotels on June with the pitch "no coasters, no problem." The sesquicentennial anniversary celebration has been pushed to 2021.
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Cedar Fair Entertainment Company also owns Michigan's Adventure. Our state's largest amusement park is still in discussions with Governor Whitmer for a reopening date as of this writing.
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Southerly 20/30 knots. Seas: 2/2.5 metres. Swell: Southerly 1/2 metres.
Outlook Saturday: South to southwesterly 15/25 knots, reaching up to 30 knots south of Port Kembla early in the morning. Winds becoming variable about 10 knots in the early afternoon then becoming north to northwesterly 10/15 knots in the late evening. Seas: 2/3 metres, decreasing to 1/1.5 metres during the morning, then decreasing below 1 metre during the afternoon. Swell: Southerly 2/4 metres, decreasing to 2/2.5 metres during the morning.
Outlook Sunday: Northwesterly 15/20 knots becoming southwest to southeasterly 10/15 knots during the day. Seas: Around 1 metre. Swell: Southerly 1.5/2.5 metres.
Outlook Monday: South to southeasterly 15/20 knots tending south to southwesterly 10/15 knots during the morning then becoming variable about 10 knots during the day. Seas: Below 1 metre, increasing to around 1 metre offshore. Swell: Southerly 1.5/2.5 metres.


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In Tabaimo's dolefullHouse (2007, 6:21), the bright interior of an empty dollhouse undergoes a surreal transformation. Disembodied hands arrange bourgeois furnishings, piece by piece, until each room appears conventionally domestic. Yet all is not as it seems: as the intimate spaces of the home are made comfortable and orderly, the walls begin to pulsate under the pressure of a grim, unseen force lurking beneath the surface. The hands begin to frantically scratch themselves and then at the walls of house, exposing something wildly organic and bizarre. The film concludes as a leak grows into a disastrous flood and water bursts through the façade washing everything away so that the whole process may begin again. You are invited to enjoy Tabaimo's vision, elegantly rendered and eerie displayed under the night sky at the Detroit Institute of Arts Loggia.
Tabaimo
Tabaimo was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1975. Tabaimo's drawings and video installations probe the unsettling themes of isolation, contagion, and instability that seem to lurk beneath daily existence in contemporary Japan. She draws aesthetic inspiration for her animated videos from a combination of Japanese art forms—ukiyoe woodcuts, manga, and anime—while she often sets her layered, surrealistic narratives in domestic interiors TABAIMOand communal spaces such as public restrooms, commuter trains, and bathhouses. Tabaimo populates her work with uncanny characters that, either through mutation or as victims of inexplicable violence, become fragmented in their relationships to the environment and their own identity. Installed in theatrical, stage-like settings, her work is attuned to the architecture and the viewers within it. Tabaimo graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (1999). Her work has appeared in major exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2011, 2007); Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (2010, 2007); Yokohama Museum of Art, Tokyo (2010); National Museum of Art, Osaka (2010); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2010); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007); Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2006); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006, 2003); Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2005); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2004); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003); and the São Paulo Bienal (2002). Tabaimo lives and works in Nagano, Japan.


Maine wedding makeup artists, along with Maine wedding hair stylists, are among the first on the scene on wedding day. Most Maine wedding makeup artists will travel to where you are, and sometimes that means traveling for an hour or two! It's worth it for them, and for you, when you hire the right talent! These artists work hard to ensure that everyone looks their very best. It's not an easy task, and we (and we know you, too!) appreciate all they do!
In our continuing Maine wedding vendor series, in this post we present to you Maine wedding hair stylists and salons. These uber-talented, creative artists are usually among the first to arrive on-site on wedding days. In Maine, that often means traveling for a an hour or two. They're in charge of ensuring that everyone's hair looks the very best it can, for this very important day.
Oh, how digital storage has changed! At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Lexar introduced a 1 TB (terabyte) SD memory card. This makes Lexar first to the market with this large of a capacity card, beating SanDisk, which had shown a prototype before Lexar, to the punch. It's going to sell for around $400.
So, just how much storage is this 1 terabyte card, anyhow? It's a LOT!
Keep in mind that an SD card is about 1.5″ tall by under 1″ wide. And about 1/16″ thick. That's TINY for massive storage. I'm guessing here, but this is likely several orders of magnitude more data capacity than, say, that used in the 1969 NASA moon landing mission.
One terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes. One gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes. One megabyte is 1,000 kilobytes. To put this into perspective, one image in raw file format with our Canon 5D Mk IV cameras is ~30 megabytes. This one card could then hold ~33,000 or more raw format digital image files from a state-of-the-art camera.
Not that anyone would necessarily want to do that. But for the sake of digesting the scale of the magnitude of this card, it sure puts things into perspective.
Nor would anyone want this for cost savings, because, well, that's not the case either. You can get the same amount of storage in two 512GB cards (@~$100 ea) for half the overall cost.
Yet, there will be applications where the mere notion of a card double the size of anything previous to it could be a real game-changer. One application that comes to mind is a case of a remote time-lapse camera. If under the old maximum the camera could shoot for, say, a month using a 512GB card, this card will (your get it) give you TWO months before it would need to be changed.
Of course, pundits will point out that should that card fail or corrupt, it'll be that much more lost. That will always be the risk, albeit in these days a much lower one than perhaps the case in the past. That was said when the first 16GB card was released, doubling the size of the not-all-that-long-ago standard 8GB cards. Which the new 1TB card is of 125 times greater capacity!
Oh yes, we HAVE come quite the long way in the digital storage world!
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This Tech Tuesday post is about how digital storage has changed. Do you have questions, or recommendations for the Tech Tuesday series? Let us know in the comments! And don't forget to share this post with your friends. Russell Caron is available for workshops, group instruction, or one-on-one mentoring. Call Russ at (207)233-4050, or email him at russ@wed-pix.com.
In the Maine wedding vendor world, we're surrounded by so many diverse and talented artists. We're all artists because we all create something beautiful. Whether that's hair, makeup, florals, music, planning, venues, cakes, bridal attire, food, or photographs! Maine wedding vendor artists have an enormous wealth of talent, and today we're talking specifically about Maine wedding floral designers and florists.
We had an absolutely blast with Emily and Jake, can you tell from their Crescent Beach engagement photo?!? So. Much. Fun!!
Thinking back on what we said about our #1 top wedding photo of 2018 (here) we said something to the effect of "if you could have only one photo from your wedding, this would be it." Well, that is what we found ourselves saying here with this engagement photo. We scored soooo many fun and loving shots of Emily and Jake. For sure, having to have just one isn't in the equation. BUT, here we say it again, this ONE photo so perfectly sums up the fun and love these two share, it would be this one. That one special shot that would just look amazing as a large canvas on the living room wall. That's why this one is our #1 top engagement photo of 2018!
See Emily and Jake's Crescent Beach engagement!
Emily and Jake, your Mount Sunapee wedding can't come soon enough! We can't wait to see what will unfold as August turns to September! We already "just know" that you've chosen a spot perfect for what will no doubt be a totally amazing wedding day.
Megan and Mike were so much fun to photograph, as you can see from this beachy Kennebunk engagement image!
Honestly, I mean, how much more iconic could a summery, "beachy" engagement image be? We ended up at the always-spectacular Gooch's Beach area of Kennebunk. Megan and Mike were awesome sports! They hadn't really planned or dressed for romping in the water, but they were game, and so were we!
We explored the very differing effects of running along the shoreline toward the light, and then reversing things to have the light falling on them (as in this shot).
And it's not all about the photography and the light, it wouldn't begin to be a worthy photograph without a really loving couple simply enjoying themselves and looking lovingly into each other's eyes.
You can see all the fun we had during their beachy Kennebunkport engagement session!
It all adds up to being one of our top two engagement photos of the entire 2018 season. We're really looking forward to more fun and beautiful photos this summer during their Nonantum Resort wedding!


UNIQUE DESIGN - With classic wood grain finish, makes this essential oil diffuser look very natural and primitive. Refreshes the air and helps deodorize air of strong tobacco, pet odors and more. Perfectly suitable for home, yoga, office, spa, bedroom, baby room, office.
SUPER QUIET �C Adopted ultrasonic technology, less than 20db operation make it an ideal aroma diffuser for overnight sleep or working. It gives out ultra fine and smooth mist which can soften and moisten dry and chapped skin in winter. Also helps you breathe better when your are sleeping with air conditioner on.
ADJUSTABLE LED LIGHT �C You can choose 7 soothing colors between two mode : dim and brighter. The color can be cycled through or set it to one fixed color. Also can be set to 4 timer settings( 1 hour/3 hours/6 hours/steady on ), suitable to your needs.
LARGE CAPACITY AND LONGER MIST TIMER �C Water tank:300ml. Diffuses all natural essential oils with aroma coverage that lasts up to 10 hours of continuous output and produce up to 30ml of moisture per hour. Automatic power off function ensures safety when water runs out.
DIFFUSER & HUMIDIFIER �C Adding several drops of oil into the water, it will fill your space with lovely fragrance. Some special oils can create therapeutic benefits. You can also use it as a humidifier without oils to add more moisture to the air-conditioner room.
Cshidworld aromatherapy for better & healthier living!
Enjoy a better night sleep with this ultra quiet diffuser which will sooth the air with gentle smell while removing odors, bacteria and dust particles.
4.Connect the humidifier to power source and press "MIST" to choose your desired mode.
5.You can press "LIGHT" to change the color of LED light.
6. When the water is used up, the unit will automatically power off along with "beep" sound.
"MIST": Press the "Mist" button, choose the time from 1 hour/3 hours/6 hours/steady on.
"Light"-Press the "Light" button to turn on the LED light, the color will change automatically.
Press the "Light" button again to freeze the color you want.
Press the "Light" button again to change another color, 7 color is available.
1.Do not add water over MAX line (less water, more mist).
3. Please use the Water-Soluble Essential Oils.
I bought this essential oil diffuser because my sister-in-law has joined the essential oil craze and recently gifted me a set of essential oils, so I needed a diffuser to use with them. I ordered the 300 ml diffuser in Black (the product description has now been changed to dark brown, which is more accurate than black). I love the sleek modern wood grain look, and it is small enough that you can find a place for it anywhere in the house. There are 7 different colors of lights that it cycles through, or you can select the color you want. The colors can be bright or dim as well. It also has a timer for 1, 3, or 6 hours, which i like when we want to run it when we are going to bed, but don't want it running all night long. The diffuser runs very quietly and puts out just the right amount of mist. Another plus is that it will shut itself off when it runs out of water. Our house smells wonderful when we are using this! I am anxious to use it to put some moisture in our air during the dry, Nebraska winters!
Perfect size diffuser! I have these all over my house and love the nice clean smell. Oils actually remove Toxins and clean the air. I have had Many times where everyone around me was sick and I stayed healthy by breathing air with essential oils which kill germs. This is an awesome size 300 mil. Which can be set at 1hr 3 or 6 hrs.You can change the light colors too. Very good quality and puts out a lot of vapor.
I love this aroma therapy diffuser. It is very elegant looking compared to many of the other ones out there. The color lights are not too much and does not make it look cheap or childish. It is made out of plastic but it looks like wood. There are settings for 1,3, 6 hours and setting for different color lights. It's perfect and so nice looking.


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After having gathered entrepreneurs to help them formulate their ideas along three days, Startup Weekend Amman (SWA) has concluded its fifth and final event for the year. SWA was the first event to be held at Zain's creative platform, ZINC, located in the Grow building, which was inaugurated last week as an initiative from the King Hussein Business Park to provide a co-working space.
1) Eventalize which pitched an app that can help plan an event by introducing participants and organizers to each other.
2) The Good Kid which has developed an app that helps parents and kids bond.
3) Indie Hub which offered a platform that helps entrepreneurs and small business owners connect.
Among the most important services that SWA offered young entrepreneurs was mentorship by almost 15 specialists. We approached some of them to ask them about the importance of mentorship in entrepreneurship.
Question: How important is a mentor?
Question: What should be taken into consideration when choosing a mentor?
Moreover, it is not important for the mentor to be experienced or to have a high rank. Any person, even a regular employee, can help in a specific topic such as a given technology or the like. Moreover, entrepreneurs should connect with their mentors clearly and on a continual basis and consequently the two should agree on when and how to be in contact.
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Celebrations for National (US) Poetry Month continue, here at Kinna Reads :). The theme for today's 21 Days/21 Poems is disease or sickness.
I had planned on posting a poem on the subject by W.H. Auden; either Letter to a Wound or Surgical Ward. But I came across this one by Silverstein and liked it immediately. Besides, it lightens the mood here. And, of course, it reminds of my four-year-old. Although, he tends to ask me what day it is before proceeding to make excuses for not wanting to go to school or to detail a schedule for his day at odds with my plans. This poor child! The litany of complaints, all well-thought out. Some of the maladies are priceless. All this work, this long recital, then to find out that it's Saturday! Bliss :).
Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) was an American poet and song-writer. He also wrote children's books.
This is adorable! A great match to the poem you featured on childhood as well.
Yes, it is. Thanks for noticing :).
I also always liked school. I find that as an adult, I need more sick day excuses :).
I remember this one! When I was in third grade my teacher did a whole unit on Shel Silverstiein, and this was one of the poems we read. (I can't believe I can remember that, when I can't remember what I read last week….) I've really been enjoying your poems this April, Kinna. For whatever reason, somewhere along the line I got it into my head that poems really have to be worked at to be understood, more than I would be willing to put into them, but the poems you've showcased have really put that notion to rest. Thank you!
Obviously, the poem made a lasting impression on you when you read it in third grade. But what a lovely curriculum for third graders. And thanks for coming by to read the poems. Poetry just has a bad reputation not of its own making.
I remember this one from my childhood. Like Parrish, it still applies to me some days now, as well. Shel Silverstien has some great poems. As a country music buff, I particularly like the ones turned to song – A Boy Named Sue sung by Johnny Cash and The Winner sung (in the recording I've heard) by Kris Kristofferson.
He seems to have been quite the poet and composer. I came upon this quite by chance. I've added him to my list of poets to explore. Thanks.
This entire book was a treasure. Love this poem!
I get so happy when people express their appreciation for my poetry selections. Thanks.
This was one of my absolute favorites as a child. I love seeing the poems on your website each day.
Thank you for your appreciation :).
Reminds me of myself in my youth & occasionally a work day now & again.
The list of ailments that we give to justify the occasionally mental day away from work :).


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Volvo Trucks continues America's Road Team sponsorship in 2017
Volvo Trucks announced that it will again serve as the exclusive sponsor of the America's Road Team public outreach program in 2017. Gӧran Nyberg, president of Volvo Trucks North America, made the announcement today at the American Trucking Associations (ATA) Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"The America's Road Team program continues to play a valuable role in bringing our industry's messages of safety, essentiality and environmental care directly to lawmakers and the motoring public," Nyberg said. "We appreciate the work of the America's Road Team Captains and applaud these professional drivers for their outstanding safety records and commitment to promoting the trucking industry. We are proud to extend our sponsorship of this valuable outreach program once again in 2017."
America's Road Team Captains are experienced professional drivers who have logged millions of accident-free miles behind the wheel. The Captains travel around the country in a Volvo VNL 780 model, which hauls the ATA's Image Trailer featuring exhibits and displays used during presentations. The Captains bring their messages of safety and essentiality to students, community groups, lawmakers and government official.
The Volvo VNL model is equipped with Volvo advanced safety technologies, including adaptive cruise control with integrated collision avoidance, Volvo Enhanced Stability Control and the Volvo I-Shift automated manual transmission.
The Captains serve two-year terms. The 2017-2018 America's Road Team Captains will soon be announced.
"We thank the 2015-2016 Captains for their dedicated service and their exemplary safety record," Nyberg said.
Volvo Trucks will continue to be the exclusive sponsor of the America's Road Team safety outreach program for 2017. (left) The 2015-2016 America's Road Team Captains pose with their Volvo VNL 780. (right) The Captains drive a Volvo VNL 780 model to haul the ATA's Image Trailer, which includes interactive exhibits and displays used during presentations.


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A borgundi fatemplom Norvégiában található, Lærdal közigazgatási területén. A több mint ezer középkori keresztény norvég fatemplomból mára már csak 28 maradt ránk eredeti középkori állapotában. A borgundi templom a heddali mellett a legrégebbi ilyen templom. A fatemplomot először 1342-ben említették írásos forrásokban, valószínűleg azonban a 12. század végén épülhetett. Dendrokronológiai vizsgálatok arra az eredményre jutottak, hogy a templom faanyagát 1180 telén vágták ki.

Források
 Roar Hauglid: Norske stavkirker. Dreyer Verl., Oslo (Norwegen) 1977, .
 Erich Burger: Norwegische Stabkirchen. Geschichte, Bauweise, Schmuck. Erstveröff., DuMont, Köln 1978 (= DuMont-Kunst-Taschenbücher; 69), .

Külső hivatkozások
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Skandináv fatemplomok
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È stata la prima vincitrice del titolo di fede non cristiana, dato che era buddista.  In seguito ha rappresentato il Venezuela a Miss Universo 2001, dove si è classificata al quarto posto.

Eva Ekvall-Johnson ottenne una laurea in comunicazione presso l'università Santa Maria di Caracas. Parlava fluentemente sia spagnolo che inglese, avendo vissuto negli Stati Uniti; suo padre, Eric Ekvall, è uno statunitense che ha vissuto a Caracas per vent'anni lavorandovi come "consulente politico". Nel settembre 2007 ha sposato il produttore radiofonico John Fabio Bermúdez, dal quale ha avuto una figlia, Miranda, a luglio 2009.

Ha anche lavorato come modella ed è comparsa sulle copertine di varie riviste come Ocean Drive e Sambil. Ha inoltre condotto numerose trasmissioni per il canale Televen, fra cui Las Rottenmayer.

A febbraio 2010, le è stato diagnosticato un cancro al seno in stato piuttosto avanzato ed è stata costretta a sottoporsi ad otto mesi di trattamenti che hanno incluso chemioterapia, radioterapia ed una mastectomia. Queste esperienze sono state raccontate da lei stessa in un libro fotografico intitolato Fuera de Foco (Fuori fuoco), pubblicato nel 2011. Infine il 17 dicembre 2011, all'età di ventotto anni, Eva Ekvall è morta a Houston negli Stati Uniti, lasciando una figlia di due anni.

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Collegamenti esterni
Sito ufficiale di Miss Venezuela

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Q: Trouble Linking when compiling a MEX file I am trying to compile a mex file that I wrote in order to run a pre-existing C program in MATLAB.  I am getting the following errors:
>> mex src/main.c -Iinclude -I/Users/my_name/mpfr-3.1.1/src/ -I/Users/my_name/gmp-5.0.5 -Lsrc0 -output cpdetect_c
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_binomial_main", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_gaussian1_main", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_gaussianU_main", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_mpfr_clears", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_mpfr_exp10", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_mpfr_inits2", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_mpfr_set_d", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
  "_poisson_main", referenced from:
      _cpdetect in main.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I am confused because these functions are all part of files that I #Include in my code.  How do I get the compiler to find them?
I am running MATLAB R2013a on Mac OS X 10.8 with Xcode version 4.6.3.
Thanks for any advice!
UPDATE1:
@Shai:  Contents of my src0 folder:
>> ls src0
Makefile            gaussian1.o         test_gaussian1.c        test_tools.c
Makefile.am         loadtraj.c          test_gaussian1_point_calc.c test_tools.o
Makefile.in         loadtraj.o          test_load           tools.c
binomial.c          main.c              test_load.c         tools.o
binomial.o          main.o              test_load.o
cpdetect            poisson.c           test_poisson.c
gaussian1.c         poisson.o           test_tools

This C program (originally meant to run on the command line) came from a friend and already had the src0 folder present.  I modified the code files in the 'src' folder when writing the mex function, but I didn't touch the src0 folder.
UPDATE 2:
I realized I was pointing to the wrong location for mpfr.   I am now using the following compile command:
>> mex src/main.c src/binomial.c src/gaussian1.c src/gaussianU.c src/poisson.c -Iinclude -I/usr/local/include -lmpfr -output cpdetect_c

and it is giving the following errors:
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_mpfr_mul_d", referenced from:
      _gaussian1_calc_constant_part in gaussian1.o
      _gaussianU_calc_constant_part in gaussianU.o
  "_mpfr_printf", referenced from:
      _find_gaussian1_change_point in gaussian1.o
      _gaussian1_point_calc in gaussian1.o
      _gaussianU_calc_constant_part in gaussianU.o
      _find_gaussianU_change_point in gaussianU.o
      _find_poisson_change_point in poisson.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    mex: link of ' "cpdetect_c.mexmaci64"' failed.

This is strange. It's not like the compiler can't find any of the mpfr functions - there are lots of others that it seems to be finding without any trouble (and if I deliberately omit the -lmpfr flag, I get a much longer list of undefined symbols).  I did confirm that mpfr_mul_d and mpfr_printf are part of the mpfr distribution I installed. Any ideas? Thanks.

A: The answer was provided by Amro - it is necessary to both point to the location of the library (using the flag -L/usr/local/lib in this case) and to tell the compiler to link to it (using the flag -lmpfr).  Thanks also to Shai for help troubleshooting this.