KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It's been a dry, dusty winter in Kansas City and windows are sure to be dusty and grim. Most people think that cleaning windows is a chore to be avoided, but there are several products on the market to make it fast and easy. FOX 4's Kathy Quinn met with Joe Blackshere of Westlake Ace Hardware to test out some of the products. Watch the video above to find out what works and what doesn't.


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ALE Property Group (LEP)
ALE Property Group (LEP) is a company engaged in property investment and property funds management. ALE Property Group is Australia's largest listed freehold owner of pubs, established in 2003. LEP was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on 12 November, 2003. The ALE Property Group consists of Australian Leisure and Entertainment Property Management Limited, Australian Leisure and Entertainment Property Trust and its controlled entities. The Company has a portfolio of more than 100 pubs sold by Fosters Group in 2003. The pubs are leased by the company to Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group Limited (ALH) for an initial term of 25 years (to 2028).
ALE Property owns ALH through a joint venture (ALH Group).The pubs are operated by ALH and it has the exclusive right to develop the properties. But ALH does not have the power or direct right to acquire land or property presently owned by ALE. Woolworths Limited, Australia's leading retailer controls ALH Group by 75%. The balance is maintained by the Bruce Mathieson Group which is a leading hotelier. ALH Group is Australia's leading pub operator via its ownership of ALH, MGW, BMG and Taverner. Woolworth's operations consist of Woolworths Liquor, Dan Murphy and BWS. The Company purchased Balmoral Hotel in Western Australia on July 26, 2007.
ALE Property Group (LEP) Products and Services
Leisure and hospitality property
ALE Property Group Competitors
ING Real Estate Entertainment Fund (IEF)
ALE Property Group (LEP) Locations and Subsidiaries
ALE Property Group Head Office
Level 7, 1 O'Connell St
Other ALE Property Group Details
ALE Property Group Year Established: 2003
ALE Property Group (LEP) Company Website
ALE Property Group (LEP) Share Price
ALE Property Group (LEP) Stock Price on ASX
ALE Property Group
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10 minutes to prepare and very easy!
Boil pasta as directed, drain and set to the side. Drain oysters and save liquid. In a separate pan add parsley, butter and sauté for about 5 minutes. Add garlic and oysters. Sauté 5-10 mins until you get your desired texture of the oyster. Just depends on the size. Do not over cook oysters. When done, add parmesan cheese, olive oil heat and add pasta. You can also add about 3-4 ounces of the oyster water if you'd like. Let it set for about 10 minutes. The pasta will soak up the flavor. Top with a little parmesan cheese when ready to eat.


Police were called to the 1900 block of sheriff road in seat pleasant, Maryland to find 7 members of the smith family slaughtered by 9 year old Damien Thorne.
Damien was adopted by the smiths last week and was angry because he had to share a room with his brother bobby.
He used a 38 caliber pistol and shot every member of the family while they lay asleep. He then calmly went to back his room laid down and went bank to bed.
He was there for 3 days until s neighbor came by because of the smell. He has been transported to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
The names of all the deceased have not yet been released. Stay tuned for updates.
Viral Message Verification – The website tmzbreaking.com claims itself as the most notorious fauxtire & satire entertainment website in the world. If it's trending on social media you'll find it here!.
If someone reading this information at the bottom of the page of this website he/she will easily come to know that one have to think twice before he believes the news published on this satire site.
However the images used in this site for the image representation purpose is from the doll house.
On the third floor of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Maryland, in Baltimore, the United States, the chief medical officer and his deputies deliver lectures to trainee police officers on the art and science of crime scene investigation. The medium of choice for such seminars is, of course, PowerPoint presentations, but the instructors have other tools in their arsenal. One one side is a series of 18 glass cases, each containing a dollhouse-like diorama depicting gruesome crime scenes. In one, a lady appears to have been shot dead on the bed while sleeping. A man lies sprawling on the floor next to her, his night clothes stained with blood. The room is in a disarray. Inside another glass case, a body has been violently shoved down into a bath tub with the water running. There is blood on the floor and tiny hand prints on the bathroom tiles.
Lee created these miniature crime scenes, on a scale of one inch to one foot, from actual police cases from the 1930s and 1940s, assembled through police reports and court records to depict the crime as it happened and the scene as it was discovered.
For more information visit the below page.


Welcome to the new Keene Disc Golf Club website. This will be the go to location for what is going on at Otter Brook DGC and other state and local happenings. Feel free to let us know about your disc golf adventures (Rob we want pics from Vegas!!!) or about your clubs event. Hit a big ace, let us know! Do well at tournament? We want to know that too. Want to write an article, let us know! You can send us pictures, press releases or whatever to knhdgc@gmail.com. And let us know what kind of content you want to see here. This website is here for you.


Class of '91 is the story of Roger and Diane Wagner who give new meaning to the term self-absorbed. Their 20th high school reunion is coming up and they can't wait to impress their classmates with their worldly success. Then the unthinkable happens. Roger loses his management job and the Wagner's empire comes tumbling down. When he's offered a job as a community center director, Roger and Diane must come to terms with their new life. Do they embrace or reject it?


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Culver CityBus is a public transport agency operating in Culver City, California, currently serving Culver City, the unincorporated community of Marina del Rey, and the adjacent Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Its regular fleet is painted bright green and its rapid fleet primarily a chrome gray, distinguishing it from Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus, orange-colored Metro Local buses, and red-colored Metro Rapid buses, whose coverage areas overlap on Los Angeles's Westside. In , the system had a ridership of , or about  per weekday as of .

History
Culver CityBus was founded on 3 March 1928, making it the second oldest municipal bus line in California and the oldest public transit bus system still operating in Los Angeles County. Big Blue Bus was founded on 14 April 1928, the San Francisco Municipal Railway began streetcar service 28 December 1912.

Service area
Within its service area of around 25.5 square miles, the Culver CityBus provides service to the communities of:
 Venice
 Westchester
 Westwood
 West Los Angeles
 Palms
 Playa Vista
 Marina del Rey
 Mar Vista
 Century City
 Culver City

Routes
Culver CityBus operates 3 daily routes, 3 weekday-only routes, and 2 Monday-Saturday routes within Los Angeles County.  Among its 3 weekday-only routes, Culver CityBus operates a Rapid route (Rapid 6).

 # Weekend service is provided on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Current fleet

Notes
Culver CityBus currently operates an all New Flyer fleet of 54 buses. All buses run on CNG. Culver CityBus has retired its old fleet, mostly made of buses by Flxible, TMC/RTS, and Gillig.

Culver CityBus is beginning to retire its C40LF fleet from 2001 and 2004. New XN40 buses were delivered in 2017, and are currently in service.

All buses are numbered 70—and 71--.

The buses were originally painted green and white, but all buses were repainted to all green in 2000.

In 2008, large decals honoring Culver CityBus's 80th year of service were affixed to buses. They were later removed in 2009.

Culver CityBus began operating six New Flyer C40LFR buses on the new Rapid 6 starting on 4 January 2010.

Rapid Buses are painted primarily a chrome gray to distinguish themselves from the regular bright green buses.

In 2012, Culver CityBus took delivery of 20 New Flyer Xcelsior XN40 buses and started operating some of them beginning in late May 2012 with the rest to be phased in by late June.

References

External links
 Culver City Bus

Transportation in Culver City, California
Public transportation in Los Angeles County, California
Bus rapid transit in California
Bus transportation in California
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Marina del Rey, California
Transit authorities with natural gas buses
Transit agencies in California
1928 establishments in California

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Q: c++ can't get selection sort to work properly I am trying to understand sorting algorithms, so based on googled examples/explanations I wrote the below code. Code works 80% of the time. Every once in a while it doesn't sort properly and I can not see why.
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

void setArray( int *, const int & );
void selectionSorting( int *, const int & );

int main()
{
    int numOfElem;
    cout << "Num of array elements: ";
    cin >> numOfElem;
    cout << '\n';

    int array[numOfElem];
    setArray(array, numOfElem);

    selectionSorting(array, numOfElem);

    cout << '\n';
    return 0;
}

void setArray( int *array, const int & numOfElem ){
    srand(time(0));
    cout << "Original array: " << '\n';
    for (int i=0; i<numOfElem; i++){
        array[i] = rand()%30;
        cout << array[i] << ' ';
    }
    cout << '\n';
}

void selectionSorting( int *array, const int &numOfElem ){
    int eff_size, swap;
    int maxpos = 0;
    for (eff_size = numOfElem; eff_size>1; eff_size--){
        // loop searching for a position of largest number in the array
        for (int i=0; i<eff_size; i++){
            maxpos = array[i] > array[maxpos] ? i : maxpos;
        }
        swap = array[maxpos];
        array[maxpos] = array[eff_size-1];
        array[eff_size-1] = swap;
    }
    cout << "Selection Sorting: " << '\n';
    for (int i=0; i<numOfElem; i++){
        cout << array[i] << ' ';
    }
}

Example output:
Num of array elements: 5

Original array:
7 17 1 12 25
Selection Sorting:
1 7 17 25 12

I can't see any pattern to the sorting failing - it fails in different places, weather there are repeated numbers, regardless of how many numbers I provide etc...

A: On each iteration of the outer loop(over eff_size) you should re-set maxpos to 0. Otherwise you have the chance that maxpos goes out of the effective portion being sorted(this happens if the maximum element is last in the effective portion i.e. if maxpos==effsize).

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I was super excited after seeing the glimpses of the ships coming, but after reading all the once per account items which have no reason not to be, especially since things have been changing to account wide across the game this pack has gone from a must buy to a never buy. I'm not going to sit picking and choosing which captains I'm going to have these items on, only to have to fork out over and over again for others. Grossly disappointed.
I love that kdf is finally getting another bird of prey but I hope there is some kind of options because it looks horrible. It's not cryptic's fault its just that is what it looks like on discovery. I don't mind the way the other one looks but geeze they should call that one a turtle of prey.
I'm glad it's not just me being picky, reading these responses. The BOFFs and combat tardigrade being one character instead of account wide is no good. Especially for the cost of the overall package. And I also agree that there's nothing mentioned for a discount and/or compensation for those who already have the Discovery Starter Pack. That's a good way to keep people from buying starter packs, etc. in the future.
Although it's pricey for me I was very interested in this pack. But after reading the restrictions and all I'll probably end up going without if it doesn't change.
No thanks. Once per account BOFFs is genuinely stupid and disrespectful.
I like most of the things in the pack, but there's not enough ships in there for me to justify 12k Zen on them.
To add my voice to the chorus, yes the pack is too much. I will buy the items I want individually.
This is pretty much the first time a new anniversary pack doesn't at all interest me.
I was waiting for a new T6 BoP, too. Why they don't give a modernized version is beyond me. I like the Walker skin, but they're going to discover that my wallet won't open to purchase the bundle at this price. The one time use boffs and combat pet are curious. I thought they said they were working towards making unlock account wide unlocks for C-Store items.
I think it should be added to the existing DSC uniform package. And yes, certain items being 'one per account' as opposed to 'one per character' is a thing for which an explanation would be wise.
STOP your money grabbing ways. It;'s just embarrassing.
But that would mean dropping TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT as the only "Real Star Trek Universe" is the original (1966-1969) "Star Trek" (hence "Star Trek" Universe ). <--- Not that I'd have a problem with that mind you.
Is there a discount (either before or after the 30% above) for those of us that already bought the AoD Starter Pack that is now included in this set?
So they are weaker then the ships in the regular mega bundles.
Once per Account would be ok, when you can transfer the Items. Pre 2015 you had to give your Boff to friends to train them. Using this, you could Transfer Boff from 1 Char to another. Would be a good feature for Account Bank.
No, it would not mean dropping TNG, DS9 and VOY at all, the games timeline is specifically set after VOY.
> Well, thanks for the launch sale, it is pretty generous. But unless the BOff's and combat pet are made to be account unlocks, still no sale.
That's still too much for what it is, either change the price or improve the quality of the product.
Keep chopping. 8400 for 4 & 2/3rds ships isn't a particularly impressive bundle.
Gamma large bundle at the 13000 Zen introductory price had 7 Tier 6 and 3 Tier 5-U ships, with all of them fleet grade. That's 10 end game ready ships, just dividing into those comes to 1300 Zen each, before factoring in the extra bundled. So, 2100 per end game ship seems a comparatively poor deal, and I don't think the 10 Master Keys sweetens the deal to be remotely close.
We wanted a mega bundle of ships, not something priced like one with little in it.
I would say 6000 is an appropriate price (if they make the once per account unlocks, once per character instead).
wait till the next bundle sale for 35% off or the, once in blue moon 50% off sale for packs if your really interested... BO and pet is once per account... totally fubar there. Once per character should be the norm for those. worse bundle evar. But I guess that matches with the show.
While this is a nice gesture and "kinda" tackles the overpriced issue, I still won't be getting this pack unless the Boffs and Combat Pet are made "Account Wide"!! Delta Pack, Account Wide Boffs, Temporal Pack, Account Wide Boffs, Gamma Pack, Account Wide Boffs, Just sayin!!
Just not seeing a lot of value here, especially if you already bought the Discovery Starter Pack. Maybe if you regularly play both feds and klinks or are new to the game, but with them only being 10 console ships (even if you already have some FSMs from T6 Reps), if you only play one or the other like most people do, the math just doesn't work for me, even at 8400 Zen.
I wish that Nimitz/Europa-class Heavy Battlecruiser was held back for the Discovery Operations Pack, with a Klingon ship (I don't know if the ram-prow ship would be it's equivalent or something else would be. That way there would have been a better reason to get this pack. (That and account-wide unlock for the BOffs).
Unfortunately, I had already bought the Starter Pack (I should have known better to hold off on it, considering it was a 'starter pack') and the Nimitz/Europa-class, but having another Klingon ship (even if the KDF ships of Discovery leave much to be desired) would help offset this.
Having a combat pet is something different from the other full packs. I don't even remember just non-combat pets included in earlier packs, so that's something to be considered in the price of the bundle.
Well, I know that non-feds have been getting ripped off by these packs since the LOR pack, but I don't think ripping off players on both sides is the way we saw them going with it next.


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Vladislav Skobelev, né le , est un fondeur russe actif depuis 2007. Il est spécialiste des épreuves de distance et a participé à sa première épreuve de Coupe du monde en . Il est quatre fois médaillé d'or aux Universiades et champion du monde des moins des 23 ans du 15 kilomètres classique en 2010.

Palmarès

Coupe du monde
 Meilleur classement général :  en 2015.
 Meilleur résultat individuel : .

Différents classements en Coupe du monde

Universiades
 4 médailles d'or : 10 km classique, 15 km poursuite et 30 km libre en 2011 et 30 km classique en 2013.
 1 médaille d'argent : relais en 2013.

Championnats du monde des moins de 23 ans
 1 médaille d'or : 15 km classique en 2010 à Hinterzarten.

Championnats de Russie
 Champion du 15 km classique en 2014.

Liens externes

Fondeur russe
Naissance en janvier 1987


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Kenema Plaza Suffers Endless Blackout
Mohamed Massaquoi
The recent sacking by President Ernest Bai Koroma of three top management officials at the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) generated huge debate among Sierra Leoneans, many of whom are of the conviction that the decision was long overdue, especially when NASSIT investments across the country have been less than successful.
NASSIT has been saddled with numerous controversies ranging from mismanagement, bad investment, poor services among others, but those charged with the responsibility of supervising the efficient management of the institution had kept silent until the recent decision by the president to axe Sam Bangura Jr., Gibril Saccoh and Idrissa Kamara, Director-General, Deputy Director-General and Head of Investments respectively.
This development has caused people to open up and express their frustrations about the state and status of much trumpeted NASSIT investments in Sierra Leone.
Traders occupying the NASSIT shopping plaza in Kenema have bitterly complained that officials of the Trust charge huge sums of money for occupancy without providing the required services; a development which forces them to close their businesses at night.
The building, according to one Fatmata Sannoh, has gone out of electricity and water supply for a considerable period and the management has not been able to address both issues, despite pleas from business owners.
In Makeni also, reports have it that traders are not using the shopping centre because of the high cost of the facility.
Mohamed Kamara, a teacher at Christ the King College (CKC) in Bo, said that since the scheme constructed three houses along the Bo-Kenema highway, the buildings are yet to be occupied.
"NASSIT is just misusing our money simply because they have government support. How can you construct only four houses for the entire people in the southern region," he questioned.
Mohamed Suma, a business consultant, said it is important for government to take a close look at NASSIT investments and address some of the gaps that currently exist within the organisation.
The scheme is a statutory public trust established by the National Social Security and Insurance Trust Act No.5 of 2001 to administer Sierra Leone's National Pension Scheme. The Trust was established to provide retirement and incidental benefits to meet the contingency needs of workers and their dependants with core functions of registering of employers and employees, collection and recording of contributions, maintenance of records on contributions and insured earnings, compliance and enforcement procedures and reception and assessment of benefits claims, among others.
However, most investments undertaken by the scheme have been less than satisfactory.
The Auditor-General of Sierra Leone, Mrs. Lara Taylor-Pearce, while presenting the 2012 annual report to Parliament, made special reference to NASSIT and raised the "red flag" over investments by the Trust.
"There are fundamental problems in processing and paying retirement benefits that need to be addressed….We also noted the following: would-be retirees were not notified by NASSIT prior to their retirement….Members were not well sensitised on how to apply for their benefits before retirement," she reported, adding that "NASSIT had only validated 13,638 out of 59,442 eligible employees of the Government of Sierra Leone whose past services NASSIT should have validated by 2011.
However, in his response, Project Officer at NASSIT, Khalifa Tejan-Kellah, said the Kenema city shopping centre is managed by the Kamboi Proper Holdings which serves as a link between NASSIT and the Kenema City Council, adding that when the Bo-Kenema Power Services BKPS) was providing electricity for the facility, traders were willing to pay their electricity bills, but the situation became fluid when the building started depending on generators for power supply.
"We only started to get problems with the traders when BKPS shutdown its operations and the shopping centre now heavily relies on the two 500KVA generators installed by NASSIT," explained Mr. Tejan-Kellah. "The traders were not paying their bills and when the system developed some technical problems, we needed money to fix it and they were not ready to comply."
He said the appropriate authorities were informed about the continuous power outage but because of the resignation and sacking of some senior officers of NASSIT, they were unable to address the electricity problem at the shopping centre in Kenema.
"The Board of NASSIT approved 250 housing units to be constructed in Bo, Kenema, Makeni and Waterloo in 2010. The buildings were constructed but they were unoccupied until recently when some business enterprises applied to occupy the ones in Makeni and Bo respectively. Though it was a good investment, yet we have got a lot of experience from the previous NASSIT investments. We will now put those experiences into good use for the benefit of Sierra Leoneans," he said in relation to housing estates in the three provincial capitals.
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While I enjoy eating fish (especially sashimi & sushi!) I am not much of a fisherman – ten minutes on the water and I am about ready to head home again, although I do like the saying by Henry David Thoreau: "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." (And of course, the other funny but presumably untrue fishing quote: 'the best two days of a boat owners life are the day he buys a boat, and the day he sells it!') and while the idea of night fishing is intriguing, in my case it wasn't fish I was after. And I also wasn't on the water.
The first night when I arrived in Little Huia I was struck by a beautiful sound I hadn't heard in years; the melancholic call of the Ruru/Morepork. The Morepork is an owl, native to New Zealand and as a night bird it is rarely seen, and generally only heard when you are in a quiet rural location.
The other aspect of the Ruru that amazes me is a sound you will never hear: its silent wings. Other native birds such as the Tui and the Wood Pigeon have beautifully audible wings, flitting through the trees they remind me of the sound of a Japanese fan being (very) rapidly waved – I have recorded some of these while in Huia and will post them in a future post. But the Ruru is a highly evolved night hunter, its incredible eye sight and silent wings means its prey don't know to hide until its too late!
That video doesn't feature the morepork at night nor its call, but as I had heard them in the trees behind my house in Little Huia, I decided my first mission would be to try & record a Morepork close up. So here started my night fishing missions!
My first attempt was a dismal failure, and in hindsight laughable. I put together a portable record kit and prepared to head out into the night.
My night fishing rig included a Sound Devices 744 recorder & 302 preamp, a Telinga parabolic dish with MKH8020 and a pair of MKH8040s. I jumped in my 4WD and headed up the hill a bit, following the road to Whatipu and stopping every so often to listen. When I thought I was close to some Moreporks I would jump out, grab my backpack & start walking towards where I thought they were. But here was the problem: just as I started to get close to one, it would stop calling. And even if I waited, it would not start again. In hindsight, with its silent wings it had more than likely flown away without me realising. So after a couple of hours of this sort of behaviour I headed home with what I thought was only three single calls – a start but hardly what I was hoping for!
I suspect I will do more of the set up the mics and leave it recording approach, and one idea I had help protect the gear incase of a sudden shower was to somehow rig up a small umbrella. After doing a quick search I found & ordered this handy device, the UC-6 umbrella and clamp made by Velbon.
While checking out other Velbon products I also came across their ultra compact tripod: the Velbon UT series looks like a more compact AND more sturdy tripod than what I am currently using as a mic stand for my MKH8040s!
I put my mixer/recorder in a drybag, no problem so far in northland downpours! Mics? The windjammer & high windcover combo seems to solve any issue, so far.. They've been thoroughly soaked overnight in torrential rain and the biggest hassle is drying them out for the next days recording. Neutrik waterproof XLRs help too, they really work.
48 volt phantom power + a sensitive diaphragm + thoroughly soaked??
Hello, I have been searching for information on an urban bird that calls at night. It is similar to the morepork's secondary (kiwi-like) call but isn't trilling upward but more an "eeeOW" flat (or slightly arched) call. This in Auckland (Birkenhead, and I do see raptors sometes as Kauri bush isnt far). Any thoughts? Do ruru have different secondary calls? I hear their primary ("more-pork") calls sometimes around here, too. Thank you.
Maybe you should check out WhangaRURU where the birdsong is not only heard frequently and the locals are visited regularly. Ruru up here are very curious and even check out campers or overnight.


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	namespace WPKit\Models\SoftDeletes;

	use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes as BaseSoftDeletes;

	trait SoftDeletes {

	    use BaseSoftDeletes;

	    /**
	     * Boot the soft deleting trait for a model.
	     *
	     * @return void
	     */
	    public static function bootSoftDeletes()
	    {
	        static::addGlobalScope(new SoftDeletingScope);
	    }

	    /**
	     * Perform the actual delete query on this model instance.
	     *
	     * @return void
	     */
	    protected function runSoftDelete()
	    {
	        $query = $this->newQuery()->where($this->getKeyName(), $this->getKey());

	        $this->{$this->getDeletedAtColumn()} = 'trash';

	        $query->update([$this->getDeletedAtColumn() => 'trash']);
	    }

	    /**
	     * Restore a soft-deleted model instance.
	     *
	     * @return bool|null
	     */
	    public function restore()
	    {
	        // If the restoring event does not return false, we will proceed with this
	        // restore operation. Otherwise, we bail out so the developer will stop
	        // the restore totally. We will clear the deleted timestamp and save.
	        if ($this->fireModelEvent('restoring') === false) {
	            return false;
	        }

	        $this->{$this->getDeletedAtColumn()} = 'publish';

	        // Once we have saved the model, we will fire the "restored" event so this
	        // developer will do anything they need to after a restore operation is
	        // totally finished. Then we will return the result of the save call.
	        $this->exists = true;

	        $result = $this->save();

	        $this->fireModelEvent('restored', false);

	        return $result;
	    }

	    /**
	     * Determine if the model instance has been soft-deleted.
	     *
	     * @return bool
	     */
	    public function trashed()
	    {
	        return $this->{$this->getDeletedAtColumn()} === 'trash';
	    }

	    /**
	     * Get a new query builder that includes soft deletes.
	     *
	     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder|static
	     */
	    public static function withTrashed()
	    {
	        return (new static)->newQueryWithoutScope(new SoftDeletingScope)->withTrashed();
	    }

	    /**
	     * Get a new query builder that only includes soft deletes.
	     *
	     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder|static
	     */
	    public static function onlyTrashed()
	    {
	        $instance = new static;

	        $column = $instance->getQualifiedDeletedAtColumn();

	        return $instance->newQueryWithoutScope(new SoftDeletingScope)->onlyTrashed();
	    }

	}

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Atlantean Legends: General Sevalis and the Chests of the Sea
When the God of the Sea forbade the use of the Eye of Poseidon and the Scepter of Ampheres, the priests at the Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis forged two sacred chests, which they called the Chests of the Sea in which to store the treasures. Upon their completion, Poseidon was pleased and he offered the Atlanteans solace. If any one were to use his treasures, they need only return them to the chests and their curse would be lifted. For this gift, the Atlanteans were grateful and the Chests of the Sea became just as renowned as the treasures they bore. As time passed by, only few remembered the importance of Poseidon's treasures and the chests that bore them.
Two-hundred years before the destruction of Atlantis, a great war raged between the Atlanteans and their enemy to the east, the Athenians. What they were fighting for, how long the war lasted, and who won, no one person can be certain. What is known are the feats of one general and a band of warriors that secretly
infiltrated the City of Atlantis.
Deep in the shadow of night beneath the pale half-moon, the Athenian general Sevalis of Haros and his several dozen warriors quietly and one by one made their way into the City of Atlantis, disguised as beggars and merchants. Over the course of several hours, they made their way through the city and to the canal that surrounds the central island of the city. Discretely, they waded through the water until they came to the western-most edge, which was closest to the Palace of the Kings. Sevalis knew that if they passed through the ten gardens and past the palace, he would reach the Temple of Poseidon and fulfill his goal.
Several months earlier, the Athenian king heard reference to the treasures that Poseidon had placed in the care of the priests at his temple in Atlantis. The possession of these treasures would give Athens immediate leverage over Atlantis and might even end the war with their quick surrender. For the purpose of obtaining these artifacts, the Athenian king sent Sevalis to Atlantis.
With the utmost skill, Sevalis and his men quietly broke away a small section of the wall; a hole big enough for one man to get through. Silently they filtered through and slinked around the Palace of the Kings and its surrounding gardens and made their way to the Temple of Poseidon at the city's center. With five men, Sevalis sneaked into the temple and made his way to the top-most tier of structure and stole the two Chests of the Sea.
As he and his men made their way back to the break in the wall, they met the resistance of the Atlantean guard. Most of the general's men were killed during this altercation, but Sevalis and a few of his men made it back to the wall and escaped the city. What Sevalis did not know, was that as he and his band of warriors made their way toward the Temple of Poseidon, the arch priest saw their shadows in the moon light and hid the Eye of Poseidon and the Scepter of Ampheres in an underground chamber. The priest intentionally left the Chests of the Sea for Sevalis to find, though he later regretted it.
It was not until Sevalis returned to his ship and set sail for Athens that he bothered to look inside of the chests. He was most displeased with their vacancy, and now unable to re-penetrate the City of Atlantis, he faced his fate and returned to the king in Athens. The king, although quite furious, was not as mad as Sevalis would have expected. The king reasoned that Poseidon did not wish the removal of these treasures and therefore made them disappear. As a consolation for his efforts, the king gave one chest to Sevalis and kept the other at the Temple of Zeus in Athens, assuming that they held no real value.
As time passed, the Athenian king learned of the importance of the Chests of the Sea and sent for Sevalis to return the chest he had given him. The king promised that the two chests would ensure the safety of the Athenians if they were to ever be attacked by Atlantis. Sevalis, unfortunately, no longer possessed the second chest. During his travels, he had bartered it away for goods in a city far south of Athens, on the other side of the sea in the Realm of Saїs. Threatened with the death and dismemberment of his family, Sevalis left for Saїs and never returned to Athens. After the months of his absence turned into a year, the Athenian king assumed Sevalis could not find the chest and dared not return without it. Sevalis' family was executed in the king's anger. No one outside of the general's crew knew the location of Saїs at that time. The king's ambitions to find the second chest died with him and it was not spoken of again.
In truth, Sevalis did arrive in the Realm of Saїs, but the Saitians refused to return him the chest, no matter their price. The general grew angry and in this blunder, he attacked the Saitians, to which they quickly killed him in their own defense. The few of his men who survived left Saїs immediately, but found they could not sail their ship effectively with so few men and were soon shipwrecked. None survived.
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Rayney family still wondering how Corryn died a year after Lloyd Rayney was cleared of murder
EMILY MOULTONPerthNow
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IT has been more than six years since Corryn Rayney was murdered yet to this day her two daughters Caitlyn and Sarah, as well as the rest of her family still do not know who is responsible.
This beautiful, intelligent, vivacious woman, who was a well-respected Supreme Court registrar disappeared after a boot scooting class on August 7, 2007.
Tragically, her body was found buried in a shallow grave at Kings Park nine days later.
Initially police had thought her husband, Lloyd, was involved.
Their marriage had broken down, they were sleeping in separate rooms and on the night she disappeared the pair were meant to discuss their impending divorce.
In the weeks following the discovery of her body police identified Mr Rayney as a suspect
but it took more than three years before they charged him with murder.
Last November Mr Rayney was acquitted following a three-month judge only trial.
A subsequent appeal by the state against the verdict was dismissed in September this year with the three appeal judges upholding former Northern Territory chief justice Brian Martin's original verdict that Mr Rayney was not guilty.
Then last month the state revealed it would not seek to appeal the decision in the High Court, therefore dropping further legal challenges.
One of the main failings in the prosecution case highlighted by Justice Martin in his verdict was not only did the state fail to prove its own case but it failed to disprove an alternative scenario.
Justice Martin found Mrs Rayney was attacked outside her home.
He also said it was possible Mrs Rayney was the victim of a sexually motivated attack which may suggest more than one person being involved.
A SEXUAL ASSAULT?
What exactly happened to Corryn Rayney in the hours after she left her boot scooting class in Bentley still remains a mystery.
Fellow boot scooters testified that she left at the usual time and according to Mr Rayney was expected to be home by 9.30/9.45pm to meet up to discuss their impending divorce.
Their eldest daughter Caitlyn was at a Gwen Stefani concert and was expected home around the same time but didn't arrive until 10.45pm that night.
But Mrs Rayney never made it through her front door.
Justice Martin found Mrs Rayney did drive home and that she was attacked outside the front of the house or on the verge based on the forensic evidence.
Tests on two seed pods found in Mrs Rayney's hair were confirmed as coming from liquidambar trees in Como.
And they way in which these prickly golf ball sized pods were positioned - they were found at the back of her head - as well as the soil found in her hair led the judge to conclude Mrs Rayney was knocked to the ground and involved in a struggle.
Material such as soil and brick and paint fragments found on her boots, clothing and body also came from Como and her injuries - a blow to the back of her head and damage to the discs in her spine - were consistent with being attacked from behind.
No one heard any noises coming from the Rayney home the night she disappeared and Justice Martin said it was possible the Supreme Court registrar was unable to cry out for help or defend herself because she was attacked from behind.
He said it was then possible that she could have been the victim of a sexually motivated attack. The evidence did not exclude this theory and the state did not disprove it either.
Adding weight to this alternative scenario was the discovery Mrs Rayney's fly was undone, the zipper stuck, her belt removed and her boots taken off.
Her shirt had been torn and pushed up beyond the level of her bra and saliva had been found on her neck and the entrance to her vagina.
One of the police officers involved in the case testified investigators did consider she might have been the victim of a sexual assault but said it was only considered at the start of the murder inquiry.
And a pathologist who conducted the post mortem examination also conceded that Mrs Rayney could have been the victim of a sexual assault.
All of these factors led Justice Martin to offer this alternative theory and was scathing of the state in its inability to disprove it.
HER CAR
Corryn Rayney's car was used to transport her unconscious body to Kings Park before she was buried in a shallow grave.
After she was attacked the silver Ford Fairmont was abandoned in Kershaw St, Subiaco after it began losing power. The attacker had driven over a bollard causing transmission fluid to leak.
The discovery of the car on August 14, 2007 and the subsequent leak led investigators to Mrs Rayney's bush grave.
A thorough examination of the vehicle uncovered no fingerprints on the outside of the car but dozens were found inside. 120 people connected to the family were fingerprinted and were eliminated leaving 26 unidentified prints.
These prints were found on a David Jones bag and a street directory in the rear of Mrs Rayney's car. They were also found on the right rear window, left rear quarter window, left rear window, right rear door handle, front left door armrest and a CD in the CD unit.
To date those fingerprints have yet to be identified.
Orange fabric
A piece of orange fabric belonging to Mrs Rayney's shirt was also found among debris in the back seat which Mr Rayney's defence team suggested pointed to an attack.
They also claimed an unidentified dirt footprint located on the rear middle console pointed to the involvement of another person.
During the trial a written statement from an RAC patrolman was read out which said he saw two or three people "pushing or shoving" in one of two cars travelling in convoy on Albany Highway on the night Mrs Rayney disappeared. This evidence was not explored during the trial.
A former police officer also testified he saw a woman matching Mrs Rayney's description with friends in Victoria Park the night she disappeared. But Justice Martin later dismissed this saying if she had been out with friends they would have come forward.
During the trial it emerged fibres uncovered along the path to the gravesite, in the grave, in Mrs Rayney's car and on her shirt did not match any samples taken from the Rayney's Como home.
Justice Martin said it was not surprising that fibres from the gravesite were found on the deceased's shirt and that it was also not surprising the area of the gravesite would produce fibres that did not correspond with any other fibres.
But he did think it was "of note" that a fibre found along the entry path matched a fibre found from vacuumings from the driver's seat of Mrs Rayney's car.
This fibre did not match any fibre linked to Mr or Mrs Rayney.
Mr Rayney's defence team suggested that not only did the fibre evidence not implicate Mr Rayney it suggested the involvement of another person.
After being attacked outside her home Corryn Rayney was driven to Kings Park and buried.
A post-mortem examination revealed she took her last breaths near the gravesite quashing the state's contention that Mrs Rayney was killed in Como.
Besides unidentified fibres being found near the gravesite, DNA was also found on a branch on top of the grave.
Testing confirmed it did not come from Mr or Mrs Rayney and appeared to be a mixture of at least two people.
A blonde hair was also found in leaf litter within the gravesite but no DNA testing was carried out.
DNA that didn't belong to Mrs Rayney was found on her credit cards in car as well as the CD button.
A mixed DNA profile was also found on her wallet and the street directory.
A cigarette butt found on the verge outside the Rayneys' Como home contained DNA from a man who had been pulled over by police in the vicinity of the Rayney home on the night Mrs Rayney disappeared.
During the trial it also emerged this man had lived in the area with one of WA's worst sex offenders who now lives in Victoria.
A forensic scientist told the trial a full DNA profile was found on the butt which he said also had not been on the verge "for a great deal of time".
But no specific time frame was given and Justice Martin made no mention of it in his judgment.


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Labour dispute between federal government and workers heats up
Submitted by Blackburn News Tue, 2023-01-24 11:05
Saying contract talks with the federal government are stuck in neutral over wages, the union that represents workers at the Treasury Board Secretariat plans to ask 120,000 members if they're willing to walk off the job to back their demands.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada will launch nationwide strike votes for workers in its Program and Administrative Services, Operational Services, Technical Services, and Education and Library Science bargaining groups on February 22. It ends on April 19.
The bargaining groups are part of the Treasury Board Secretariat, a central government agency crucial to the continued operation of the federal government. It could impact many of the services on which Canadians rely.
PSAC announced strike votes for 35,000 members at the Canada Revenue Agency earlier this month. Those votes start on January 31 and finish on April 7, just as Canadians file their income taxes.
The union declared an impasse with the federal government last May after more than a year of negotiations. The government offered a 2.06 per cent increase in wages, but PSAC said it was "completely out of touch with record high inflation over the past two years."
Mediation in September failed to reach an agreement, and Public Interest Commission hearings last month went nowhere.
Now the union is waiting for the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board to release a report this winter with non-binding recommendations to break the impasse. Once it does, and if the members vote yes, PSAC will be in a legal strike position.
"Everyone deserves fair pay and safer workplaces," said PSAC national president Chris Aylward. "Wages are stalled, the cost of living is rising, and workers are being left behind. Workers can't wait."
The union is also seeking protection in the workplace from harassment, racism and discrimination, ends the practice of outsourcing public sector jobs, and offers better work-life balance.
"Federal public service workers have been here when Canadians needed them most — seeing us through one crisis after another," added Aylward. "Now the government needs to be here for workers because while they stall on making things right, we all pay the price."
PSAC represents nearly 230,000 workers across Canada.
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> the idea of enabling it by default.
> it will also get other static libraries gone.
> Any obejctions (from devs and TUs)?
pacman package with !staticlibs in makepkg.conf to [testing].
build environment.  Can you make a release with that?


Sandy, you are a special friend! I know that Jan, her daughter and grandaughter will have many things to share and this quilt will be high on the list.
Great job, Sandy. Jan's reaction was priceless, and we're all relieved we don't have to worry about winning anymore of that Coke fabric.
That was the best surprise at retreat!! Thanks for making us all laugh.
What wonderful pictures! This was like reading a delightful children's book. The dialog carries you along from "page to page" as you wonder what will happen next. The pictures draw you in and make you feel like you're part of the story. The quilt is darling - Love It!! Sandy - you are very talented on so many levels. Thanks for sharing. Jan - Congratulations!! You will be a fun Grandma.
It was so funny when she opened it! She couldn't stop laughing! The quilt is adorable!
Sandy, you are so sweet to do that, and those are priceless pictures of the new grandma! Big smile here. And Jan, how perfect that "Fun at Grandma's" is going to be AT Grandma's!


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Q: How to think about the octohedral axiom for triangulated categories? I am currently learning about triangulated categories and came across the following diagram in Gelfand & Manin:

Here the triangles with a star inside are distinguished while the triangles with the curved arrow inside are just commutative. Gelfand & Manin then claims that the octohedral axiom can be stated as: Any diagram of the form (upper cap) can be extended to an octohedral diagram, where this includes some other commutative requirements.
He then goes on to claim that a diagram of the form (upper) cap can be thought of as a morphism of triangles where the second vertical arrow is the identity on $Y$. I am having trouble seeing how or why this is true.
Say we have the diagram (upper cap) above. This gives us the two triangles
$$
X \stackrel{u}{\longrightarrow} Y \stackrel{v}{\longrightarrow} Z' \stackrel{w}{\longrightarrow} \Sigma X
$$
and
$$
Y \stackrel{u'}{\longrightarrow} Z \stackrel{v'}{\longrightarrow} X' \stackrel{w'}{\longrightarrow} \Sigma Y
$$
Now we can rotate the second triangle to get a distinguished triangle
$$
\Sigma^{-1} X' \stackrel{-\Sigma^{-1}w'}{\longrightarrow} Y \stackrel{u}{\longrightarrow} Z \stackrel{v'}{\longrightarrow} X'
$$
I am assuming these are the two triangles that we can get the morphism between with the second arrow being the identity on $Y$. But what are the morphisms here? I'm not able to see that.

A: I fought with motivation for the octahedral axiom for a long time, but then I saw this explanation.
Suppose you have a map of spaces $f : X\to Y$; a simple and yet remarkable fact is that every such map can be replaced, up to a homotopy equivalence, by a cofibration. More precisely, you can define the mapping cylinder $M_f$ of $f$ and the mapping cone of $f$ by $C_f = M_f / X$ (this is well-defined as $X$ embeds in the cylinder of $f$): somehow, this reflects the fact that when you are interested in homotopy theory of spaces, you can take any map to be a certain kind of well-behaved inclusion, by replacing the codomain $Y$ by an homotopy equivalent space, and the map  $f$ by an homotopic one.
Once you have done this, you can now define a sequence
$$X \to Y \overset{i_f}\to C_f\to C_{i_f}\to\dots$$
and the universal property of the quotients you performed entails that, given $X \overset{f}\to Y\overset{g}\to Z$, there exists a canonical map $\varphi : C_f \to C_{gf}$. Now,

Octahedral axiom: $C_g \simeq C_\varphi$.

In spaces, this is something you can prove by hand. When you move to chain complexes, the mapping cone construction makes sense also for co/chain maps. If $X \overset{f}\to Y\overset{g}\to Z$ are two composable co/chain maps, you can still prove that $C_g\simeq C_\varphi$ for these chain maps. That's it.


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Dave Hall – Yes. Langley City would appear to be supportive of both refugee and immigrant integration along with language skills training. Community grants are supportive of cultural events and international celebrations.
Nathan Pachal – No. I believe that we are missing an Arts & Cultural Centre. I would support such a centre in Downtown Langley. It would help revitalize Downtown Langley which would, in turn, help reduce crime.
Carla Robin – No, there is always room for increasing cultural services as they are at the heart of any community. They enrich people's lives, provide social interaction and increase prosperity. Exploring and providing new opportunities for residents should be an ongoing investment of time and funding. This includes pushing for an actual Arts and Culture Centre.


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What's wrong with coronavirus or why Ukraine goes against world standards?
Author : Anatoliy Amelin
You've probably seen Ukraine's statistics that the number of new diseases, and new deaths, and the percentage of occupancy of Covid-beds in the hospital are decreasing
14:00, 11 January 2021
You've probably seen Ukraine's statistics that the number of new diseases, and new deaths, and the percentage of occupancy of Covid-beds in the hospital are falling. All this can be attributed to incorrect statistics, so as not to raise a panic before the new year, but...
All the polls that I conducted earlier and that were carried out on the network by other people show that more than 20-30% of Ukrainians have been ill. Some show more than 50% with official statistics just over 2%. Is it a lot or a little? And how does this relate to herd immunity?
1.1. There is a direct mathematical formula for the definition of herd immunity:
- epidemiologists estimate the proportion of the population that needs to gain immunity before herd immunity is triggered;
- this threshold depends on the main number of reproductive, R 0 - the number of cases, on average, generated by one infected person in a fully susceptible, well-mixed population;
- the formula for calculating the herd immunity threshold: 1-1 / R 0 - this means that the more people become infected by each person who has the virus, the higher the proportion of the population that must have immunity to achieve herd immunity;
Related: Covid-19: London police and firefighters drafted in to drive ambulances
- herd immunity figures for Covid-19 range from 85% in Bahrain, with an Rt of 6.64, to 5.66% in Kuwait, where the Rt was 1.06.
Kuwait's low performance reflects the fact that it is taking many measures to combat the virus, such as imposing local curfews and banning commercial flights from many countries.
For example, to overcome the flu, a herd immunity of at least 40% is needed. Covid is more dangerous than influenza due to its higher spread.
1.2. If in January-February, without the introduction of quarantine, the number of cases continues to decline, it can be assumed that collective immunity is already forming in Ukraine and many more people have been ill than is reflected in the statistics.
But the most interesting thing is WHO (!)
If earlier WHO removed the concept of "pandemic" from its terminology (Covid did not fall under the previous definitions), today WHO has changed the definition of herd immunity.
2.1. From a new WHO text: "Herd immunity," also known as "population immunity," is indirect protection against an infectious disease that occurs when a population has immunity either through vaccination (!) or through immunity developed as a result of a previous infection...
Related: Iran bans Covid-19 vaccines from UK and US
WHO supports the achievement of "herd immunity" through vaccination (!) and not by spreading the disease (!) among any segment of the population, as this can lead to unnecessary cases of illness and death.
2.2 So, back to old questions about WHO engagement:
- What role do donors play in WHO's policy setting?
- What is the role of WHO specialists in imposing mandatory vaccination?
Think of the old swine flu scandal and conflict of interest at WHO.
Then the responsible WHO officer who recommended a number of measures turned out to be a contract employee of one of the pharmaceutical companies.
What has changed today?
Passport of the vaccinated. Do you already have it?
A new restriction on people's freedoms is being introduced. If you want to move around freely, whether you are ill or not, you need it! It is issued by the WHO.
Related: 42 countries rolling out safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines, most of them high-income, - WHO
The Yellow Card, or Carte Jaune, is a medical passport issued by the World Health Organization. It is an official document that is required to enter some countries and can document vaccinations against diseases (formerly from cholera and yellow fever to childhood diseases such as rubella, today from Covid-19).
In October 2020, WHO signed an agreement with Estonia to create a digital vaccination certificate.
In particular, the Australian airline Qantas has already announced that it will start requiring coronavirus vaccinations for all passengers on its international flights.
In the United States, vaccine recipients receive a small white card, the Covid-19 vaccination card, which documents the vaccination.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is promoting a vaccine passport called the IATA Travel Pass.
Related: Ukraine to receive first batch of Covid-19 vaccine in February, - Health Minister
The World Economic Forum and the Swiss non-profit group Commons Project Foundation are testing a digital passport of immunity called CommonPass. This is a system that will allow travelers to access laboratory results and vaccination records, as well as consent to the use of this information to confirm their Covid-19 status.
In late 2020, IDEMIA, an online identity management company, unveiled a broader technology solution called Augmented Borders that will allow you to scan a chip in your passport and use your mobile phone as a proxy passport.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his support Tuesday for Democrat Bill Daley in the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial race, citing Daley's stance on the billionaire's signature issue of gun control.
Bloomberg revealed the endorsement in a 90-second video ad.
"Why is the New York mayor talking to you about the next governor of Illinois? Because I feel strongly that Bill Daley is uniquely qualified to lead Illinois in these challenging times," Bloomberg says.
"I know him as a strong leader, who tells it like it is and gets things done. He'll be a tireless leader for honest budgets, better schools, and an improved job climate for every part of Illinois."
Bloomberg lauds Daley's background as President Barack Obama's chief of staff, President Bill Clinton's Commerce secretary, and the son and brother of two Chicago mayors.
But he makes it clear it is Daley's stance on gun control that is the deciding issue. "As someone who is proud to have helped lead the fight against illegal guns, I can tell you Bill Daley will be a governor who will fight for common-sense gun safety laws, background checks for all gun purchases, a ban on high capacity ammo magazines, respecting the rights of local communities to decide what gun laws work for them," the New York mayor says.
Bloomberg has pledged to spend millions from his personal fortune to get pro-control candidates elected. He has already been successful in Chicago, where he forced state Sen. Toi Henderson out of the Democratic primary for a House seat to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. The seat was eventually won by Robin Kelly, Bloomberg's preferred candidate.
Daley will face incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn in the Democratic primary. Perhaps feeling the heat on gun control, Quinn planned to toughen concealed-gun-carrying legislation in the state, the Chicago Tribune reports.


As we welcome in 2019, the preparations for the Flowton in Flower event being held on 22nd/23rd June this summer are in progress.
Get in touch with Rob or Debbie Clements in the village or email flowton.suffolk@gmail.com if you are interested in helping, or visiting.
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It is great to see yet another EAT crew piece on this exclusive wall on the side of Domestic Drain Services. Their last piece has been over sprayed in what feels like the blink of an eye because it had suffered from being getting rasined on, and the paint had not stuck to the wall leaving behind a bit of a mess (one that I liked incidentally, but there we go).
EAT are of course SPZero76 and Kid Crayon who have formed a joyous partnership bringing together their contrasting styles in a seemingly effortless way. SPZero76 has a sharp clean and highly detailed style and Kid Crayon a much softer, rounded and organic style, each one exemplified by the writing in the middle of the piece.
On the left of the collaboration are a couple of characters chilling out to some music and using some spray paint – SPZero76 has replaced the '94' on the spray can with a '76'. I am guessing that the 76 in SPZero's name relates to the year of his birth, it would kind of make sense.
On the right is a character (is it a self-portrait?) also spraying and in his rucksack along with his roller and spray can is a fish. I do very much like Kid Crayon's obsession with fish…it is something I can relate to. All in all this is a fun piece and more than makes up for the loss of its predecessor.
Her piece for Upfest of course appeals to me because it is centered on a fish, and some readers might know that fish hold considerable significance for me. I love her sketch style and there are some interesting concepts to the piece, the bones in the mouth of the fish and a hand emerging by the tail and a skyline along the base of the piece, I would love to know the back-story to this one. Great work from Rosie McLay.
I thought I'd kick off Upfest 2018 with one of the highlight walls of the festival which speaks volumes to me (a marine biologist by training), and really brightened things up.
One of the less celebrated, but nonetheless special, walls at Upfest is this side street, Mount Pleasant Terrace, just off North Street. Previous occupiers of this wall have been Sokar Uno (2016) and My Dog Sighs and Snub 23 (2017), so it has a great pedigree. This year the mural went big, spreading beyond the first floor and covering the entire end of row wall.
At first glance it might not be obvious that this is a Louis Masai piece, but a closer inspection gives away some of the tell tale signs, such as a patchwork turtle, and of course a signature!
I was pretty spaced out at the festival, absorbing so much visual information but not really seeing things right in front of me – sensory overload if you like. I didn't take a proper look at the wall until the scaffolding was down a couple of days later and then it hit me, this is a brilliant piece by Louis Masai.
There is so much to look at in this coral reef scene, but of course it comes with an environmental message, and there floating around the reef are a couple of Tesco bags, which once seen can't be unseen.
I love the way that he entered into the spirit of the Simpsons theme of the festival and presented us with a cartoon mutant fish with three eyes gawkily cruising across the reef. Some serious messages interspersed with a bit of fun. A great piece to start with. Hats off to Louis Masai.
In recent months I have become aware of a tag appearing all over the place, that is better than your average tag, and of course being a fish it gets my seal of approval. I have no idea who it is by, but I think they might belong to DBK crew, as those letters are never too far away.
The first of four tags was in The Bearpit not too long ago. Lots of drug references here.
I am not too sure what the letters spell, but to me it looks like 'SOA' and then I guess it is possible that the tail fin is also a letter.
As with all tags, the graffiti artist has got the consistency down to a T and can probably run one off pretty swiftly.
As I am writing this, It occurs to me that the whole thing says SOAK, and that the fish tail does form a letter, the letter K. Soak is a graffiti artist in Bristol who I featured not too long ago. It all makes sense now.
Once again I find myself in unfamiliar territory presenting a beautiful collaboration in Barcelona without knowing a single thing about it. Writing about street art away from home is a challenging enterprise and one that requires research time that I have difficulty freeing up. I seem to be much happier improvising my copy when writing about Bristol street art. What I am clumsily saying is that I am way out of my comfort zone with this one.
Firstly I goofed taking pictures of this collaboration between 'Bumble and Worm' and Meisone – I don't have an image with both of the fish side by side. My bad.
The fish on the left is by Bumble and Worm who are Sarah Charlotte Watson and and David Goode Hill, who I think are a couple and collaborate as B&W. They are from Mallorca, although they sound like expats to me.
The fish on the right is by Meisone, a Chilean artist living in Barcelona. Regular readers will know that I am particularly partial to fish street art, tapping into my marine biologist roots, and this collaboration ticks all my boxes.
There were many fine collaborations at Upfest last year, but few of them were finer than that between Hannah Adamasek and Saroj. I have written many times about Hannah's work, but don't believe I have come across Saroj before.
Saroj is a designer and artist whose practice encompasses illustration, painting, graphic design, typography and art direction. Nature is a compelling part of her work which incorporates decorative arrangements of organic forms, flora, and wildlife, creating a distinctive hand drawn style which displays a fluidity of movement through the use of patterns, lines and colour.
Saroj draws inspiration from exploring the natural and built environments around her, from wandering city streets to hiking in forests and mountains, capturing moments of stillness and chaos, embracing and absorbing the beauty in every moment.
I like this aquatic piece that places a swimmer in a setting of plants and fish, resulting in a rather atmospheric and fresh piece.
I was lucky enough to visit this piece, which was in the beer garden of the Steam Crane, several times over the festival and it is interesting to see how it developed. I am hoping that both will return this year.


[Challenge]Express your logic without heated debate.
Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by Personalrumor, May 8, 2011.
First off, this community is full of intelligent and well rounded users which makes the topic I'm introducing possible. Before linking threads similar to this lets please assume somewhere things became heated and everyone put up their mental walls on certain ideas.
If your idea is positive to the question/topic, text color your comment green, negative to the question/topic, red.
1. Do you believe high end portable computers, Macbook pros specifically can perform tasks outside operating system limitations (meaning not apple applications) dramatically more efficiently?
2. While cosmetically appealing, high production quality apparent and enforced; what to you justifies the high price on an item which (compared to other materialistic wants/needs) has a short life time before upgrades are implemented?
3. Do you feel that Apple markets efficiently enough for you to buy a refreshed product before you have seen your entire payments worth?
Feel free to PM me suggestions or additional topics, thanks and looking forward to reading!
How can a macbook (or anything else for that matter) perform outside it's limitations more efficiently? I guess I don't understand.
Steve Ballmer... you're a hoot. Do you know what day this is? Why aren't you with your mother?
First off, this community is full of intelligent and well rounded users which makes the topic I'm introducing possible.
That green is painful to read.
Motion to abolish green as a color used in this poll, especially against a gray background. Do you dislike readability, or you want to try and make it impossible for any color blind person to participate? This color has raised my ire!
When did they let THEM in? There goes the neighborhood!
Let's have a heated debate about using font colors in threads!
our lives our poor, nasty, brutish, and short. i prefer to spend my time working with stuff i enjoy, and the mac has already helped me get more done, so the price is justified in terms of pleasure and productivity.
i don't understand the question. what does it mean to get your "entire payments worth"? as for apple's marketing, i have no complaints. in fact, they are the only company i know that updates their products with new software throughout the product life cycle (in the case of ipods and ipads). thanks to the OS updates to my ipod1, i feel like i get a new device every few months. knowing about their commitment to after sale support, i bought the ipad1, and i will surely purchase another ipod in the future. i am not even considering any of the honeycomb swarms until i hear from someone that they intend to provide the same level of support.
In fact, they are the only company i know that updates their products with new software throughout the product life cycle (in the case of ipods and ipads). thanks to the OS updates to my ipod1, i feel like i get a new device every few months. knowing about their commitment to after sale support, i bought the ipad1, and i will surely purchase another ipod in the future. i am not even considering any of the honeycomb swarms until i hear from someone that they intend to provide the same level of support.
So therefore i buy from Apple because of the way they retain its customers so well.
I assume you're referring to any application not developed by Apple. My answer to that is yes. Adobe products are a good starting example, I could elaborate on others, if necessary.
I would have to say that most PC manufacturers give you more frequent updates to product lines. I think that there are several reasons that the price of a Mac is justified. Personally, the OS and trackpad (MacBook Pros) make up for most of the price differential.
Do you think it's their intent to try to get present Mac users to upgrade with every refresh?
I don't really see the point of this debate other than to start a flame war. I prefer Mac's over PC's due to my involvement in the IT field over 10 years, it's a personal preference. Yes I feel they are more reliable but it comes down to what you are using them for.
I unfortunately need win7 on my MBP due to a few programs used at work that have not developed software compatible with apple.
Well in this sense I think it depends on the specs of the system. The major difference (I believe) between Macs and PCs is obviously the OS. I love the OS X, so much more than Windows, because of how... finely tuned it is to help me be more efficient. It seems as if, compared to Windows, it's made to be very easy and simple to use and pick up, however to us more experienced users it is very, very efficient and allows you to do whatever you need in amazing time.
The high price of the Macs? The overall experience. The build quality is amazing. After having my Blackbook for about 2 months now, I still sit back from time to time and marvel at its beauty. The trackpad is amazing, the keys are perfectly spaced apart, the display is great, and the battery life is great as well.
The experience is the best around too, if something were to go wrong. Opposed to other computers made by other companies, you have the luxury and ability to go to an actual Apple store where you can get the computer fixed somewhat quicker than if you took it to Best Buy or something where they had to order the part and fix it over some length of time.
Overall, I think they make their products very appealing and I see many people buying newer products while still owning very powerful, somewhat new past products.
Personally I'd never really just buy the new thing because I just don't feel that it's rational to do taking money into account. I'm a college student so I don't have money to burn. I scored my Mac online at a great price and love it that much more because of this. I plan on keeping mine until it breaks and then will think about upgrading.
All this from a 14 year old.
I don't understand the question. But generally speaking, the more powerful the computer, the more efficiently it will do anything.
I don't understand this either. Whether buying a Mac or an iOS device, they will last you 4-6 years easily. Upgrading is a matter of choice. It's not like the older devices stop working.
Very few people upgrade their computers at that kind of interval. Personally, I work from my computer, so if upgrades are worth the price of admission, I'll sell my computer and buy a new one. Those kinds of upgrades are pretty rare. Something like an IPS or Adobe RGB display would get me to upgrade from my current MBP. Very few other things could make me want to upgrade anytime soon.
I think Macbook Pro's perform excellent at what they do, and other outside apps.
When you buy a Mac, you know your probably not getting the best hardware out there , but you know your getting the best OS out there , which comes backed up by Apple's Support Team. To me , that makes my purchase justified and I don't feel I have to jump on the next big product to come out because I know the product I bought will last me for a long time, as quality of the product is good and durable.
I don't understand this question, sorry.
This topic is troll bait.
I'm going go ahead and have to get new eyes. Cones are popping like corn.
I am mesmerized by the largeness of your font. The typos look magnificent in that size. I am also impressed by the vigorous waving of your age banner.
I think that Mozart wrote his first symphony at 8, so ranting in big letters with typos and insulting our eyes doesn't seem like that big of an accomplishment for a 14 year old.
1. Yeah, my machine runs all of my apps well. Aside from utilities, I don't use any actual Apple applications.
2. Good stuff costs more.
3. How do you quantify the value of the "entire payment's worth"? Unless you're using 3 year depreciation as a fixed asset for your business I don't know how that would work.
I agree with you but I don't think he was implying he was a prodigy, as was Mozart. It does hurt his argument that there is an over abundance of typos throughout his rant.
Yeah, I know, but he states his age either as an excuse or as evidence of wisdom beyond his years in his various postings.
i'll bite, except i'm modifying your color code scheme. Black is neutral. Red is good. Green is bad. For context, I'm a grad student.
1. The answer is no. It has the same intel + nvidia/amd components that any pc has. There is no logical reason why those components would run any faster than a pc from a pure power standpoint with the same parts.
2. Well, you're paying for a few more things than the typical pc. First, apple has really really good customer service. I can go to any apple store in the world and they can fix most hardware problems while I wait. Second, according to consumer report's statistics, apples have some of the lowest failure rates according to their statistics, so there is better component testing involved to ensure less problems down the road. Next, the case of the computer is really well put together. Rather than the usual plastic of PCs, the macbook pros are made of a metal composite of some sort. In addition, apples are generally a bit lighter than their PC counterparts and have better battery life compared to similarly speced PCs. Also the apple keyboards and trackpads, in my opinion, are far superior to their pc counterparts. The lack of esata and usb 3, though, are unfortunate. Firewire 800 is good, but needlessly expensive for an external hard drive compared to esata. Also, esata is faster anyway.
Finally, many people on this forum will probably say that OSX is superior to windows 7. Perhaps that alone is a good enough reason to pay the premium. Perhaps not. That is completely subjective. Personally, I own a windows 7 desktop and a macbook pro. I find both osx and windows 7 to be pretty good. Windows 7 has a few annoyances like the way the taskbar works..if you have more than one thing open for a program, you have to click the icon and then click up to the correct window. In osx, you save a second or so because clicking defaults to the last used window of that application. Holding and then clicking the window switches windows. This is a much more efficient solution, as I am usually just using the same window of an application over and over again. That's just one example, but there are definitely a few usability improvements in OSX. At the same time, windows microsoft office is better and has more programs than OSX. The lack of onenote, in particular, in osx is a big disappointment. As someone who is pretty much consistently using some MS office program at all times, that's a big decision factor alone. So, software-wise, the answer is completely subjective based on usage patterns and personal taste.
3. This question makes no sense the way you wrote it. Assuming you're asking if I would just go out and buy a refreshed apple product without doing research...generally I would do research on any electronic product that I buy before purchase, and I only buy something electronic if I actually need it. So, I wouldn't just go out any buy a new macbook pro unless 1) the reviews are generally favorable 2) I go and look at it at an apple store 3) I actually need to for some reason.
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I believe high end portable such as MBP will continue to evade where the current desktop is. The Sandy Bridge is a good example of this, and we will continue to see that in Ivy Bridge with 3D transistor migration.
I doubt it'll ever evade the server market, but for a desktop usage? I totally think so..
I actually don't. I'd not pay nearly $3000 on the MBP that I currently use if I were to purchase it myself. This is bought from my work, and I find it very difficult to justify the 2x cost compare to other vendors. Aside from cosmetic and other quality issues (but then, I also think Apple's QA has gotten worse over time as well), of course.
They definitely do, and I fell for that.. But then, I am starting to think that Apple has its own set of issues, instead of fixing all the issues in Windows or Linux world.


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