Kupenga means a Net which is a symbol of the "drawing together of intended people".
The Net is reflected in the logo design and our inclusive networking spirit.
The Te Kupenga stone sculpture society originated through New Zealand's Taranaki Festival of the Arts with the purpose of reviving and promoting the art of hard stone sculpture in the region using Taranaki andesite as the predominant medium. The name Te Kupenga translates to The Net in Maori and pays respect to the heritage and ancestors of the area. Over the ensuing biennial symposia The Net has been cast worldwide and has brought us many quality stone sculptors creating a platform with which to share ideas, knowledge and experience and has encouraged the standard of work to continue to rise over the duration of Te Kupenga's existence.Te Kupenga is a unique place in New Zealand and has grown and developed thru the hard work and passion of it's founding members and many local supporters.
Today Te Kupenga has a permanent working base on Centennial Drive under the watchful eye of Paritutu rock, accommodating it's thriving members who come far and wide to share their creative passion. Purpose build club rooms, storage areas and specialist equipment and tools provide the perfect place to sculpt.
On the first weekend of each month, members gather for two days of sculpting in the grounds, recreating the symposium atmosphere. Visitors are welcome to come and view the work in progress which for many is a unique experience, some of whom are even inspired to give it a go them selves. When the works are completed members are encouraged to display them in the clubs outdoor gallery area available for purchase.
New members are always welcome and workshops and tutoring are available for people to help develop skills and confidence.
BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL STONE SCULPTURE SYMPOSIA held on even numbered years on the Foreshore, New Plymouth featuring 25 selected international, national and local artists. Participation is competitively based on applications which close in June. Register your interest early and information will be sent to you.
CUT & POLISHED Small Stone Sculpture Exhibition held on alternate years. Open to all members. The first exhibition was held at Real TART Upstairs Gallery, New Plymouth, in November 2012.
The principal material used at Te Kupenga is Taranaki Andesite, a local stone perfect for sculptural work. The andesite is sourced from local quarries as large river-worn boulders. Taranaki Andesite originates from Mt Taranaki, the iconic volcano that dominates and signifies the Taranaki landscape. Mt Taranaki is a classic andesite stratovolcano having a steep conical form made up of layers andesite lava and volcanic debris, resting on an extensive ring plain of volcanic material. Taranaki Andesite is classified as a hard rock in terms of its sculptural properties, although hardness and color can vary considerably between individual stones.
Mt Taranaki is approximately 120,000 years old and has been through a number of phases of build-up and collapse. The present cone has been constructed over the last 7,000 years and last erupted in 1755AD. The moderately eroded remnant cone of Pouakai lies 7km northwest of Mt Taranaki, is about 250,000 years old and rises to 1399m. The Kaitaki range a further 10km northwest is a deeply eroded stratovolcano made up of a series of radial ridges and a central plateau at 684m, and dated to 575,000 years. The oldest and most deeply eroded center is represented by the nearshore islands of Ngamotu and the onshore volcanic spire of Paritutu which overlooks the Te Kupenga club rooms and Port Taranaki on the edge of New Plymouth. This center is dated at 1.7 million years and these remnants are thought to be part of the feeder system to now eroded vents.


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Columbia Country Club
Columbia, Missouri, United States
*photos by Dave Sansom
A major renovation in 2013 of Columbia Country Club, in Columbia, Mo., involved a team solution to resolve complex issues with local government and developers. A new highway access road was being constructed, affecting four of the club's holes. Columbia Country Club, a premier area club founded in 1921, faced the possibility of losing the property to eminent domain. The club selected Jason Straka to produce a redesign that would yield no loss in par or yardage and that would satisfy all parties. The club had been requested by the developer to accept 250,000 cubic yards of fill, most of which Straka used to create large, landscaped perimeter berming protecting the course from views of the new road and development.
The redesign included a complete rebuild/rerouting of ten holes and renovation of the remaining eight holes and the practice facility. Straka was able to maintain the par and even lengthen the course by 200 yards. Further, 2,000 feet of Army Corps of Engineers jurisdictional stream were restored on two holes, adding to the environmental benefits of the renovated golf course. Parts of the development fill were used to raise playing surfaces out of floodplains for improved drainage and maintenance of the course.
The new golf holes are a bit wider and more playable than the old holes, yet shots into the greens can be demanding. Stunning vistas of Hinkson Creek were opened by removing invasive vegetation. Stilling pools were created throughout the streams to control sedimentation, and hundreds of native riparian plants were installed along the streams. The overall result of the redesign work was a spectacular renovation showcasing the environmental attributes of Columbia Country Club, including Hinkson Creek and several of its tributaries.
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Renovation of the Year (Private) 2014 (#3)
American Society of Golf Course Architects: ASGCA Design Excellence Recognition Program (2013)

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Lying to a Dentist
He's a former bulldozer operator of an antiquated Caterpillar. In 2002 he was in his bulldozer working on the maintenance of a mountain gravel road under the heat of a tropical sun while his right molars were aching. The evening after work, he could not sleep because of the pain. In the morning he went to a government dentist. But he did not tell the dentist the truth when asked if it was aching. He lied, he said no, so the dentist went on in the extraction of his two molars. Because his work was on a no-work-no-pay job, the next day he was back in his bulldozer. Slowly swelling began. Nine years after that day at the dentist, that's how big his jaw has swelled.
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LAS VEGAS – What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home-security gates and beyond your reach?
Launch your personal, specially equipped WASP drone – short for Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform – to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
These are just a few of the uses of the unmanned aerial vehicle that security researchers Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference here Wednesday.
At a cost of about $6,000, the two converted a surplus FMQ-117B U.S. Army target drone into their personal remote-controlled spy plane, complete with Wi-Fi and hacking tools, such as an IMSI catcher and antenna to spoof a GSM cell tower and intercept calls. It also had a network-sniffing tool and a dictionary of 340 million words for brute-forcing network passwords.
The GSM hack was inspired by a talk given at last year's DefCon hacker conference by Chris Paget, who showed how to create a cellphone base station that tricks nearby handsets into routing their outbound calls through it instead of through commercial cell towers.
That routing allows someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks phones into disabling encryption, and records call details and content before they're routed to their intended receiver through voice-over-internet protocol or redirected to anywhere else the hacker wants to send them.
The drone takes that concept and gives it flight. The plane weighs 14 pounds and is 6 feet long. Per FAA regulations, it can legally fly only under 400 feet and within line of sight. But the height is sufficient to quiet any noise the drone might produce, which the researchers said is minimal, and still allow the plane to circle overhead unobtrusively.
It can be programmed with GPS coordinates and Google maps to fly a predetermined course, but requires remote control help to take off and land.
The two security researchers created the spy plane as a proof of concept to show what criminals, terrorists and others might also soon be using for their nefarious activities.
Tassey, a security consultant to Wall Street and the U.S. intelligence community, told the conference crowd that if the two of them could think up and build a personal spy drone, others were likely already thinking about it, too.
The spy drones have multiple uses, both good and bad. Hackers could use them to fly above corporations to steal intellectual property and other data from a network, as well as launch denial-of-service or man-in-the-middle attacks. They could also transmit a cellphone jamming signal to frustrate an enemy's communications.
"It's hard to keep something that's flying from getting over your facility," Tassey said.
A drone could also be used to single out a target, using the target's cellphone to identify him in a crowd, and then follow his movements. And it would be handy for drug smuggling, or for terrorists to trigger a dirty bomb.
But the drones don't just have malicious uses. The researchers point out that they would be great for providing emergency cellular access to regions hit by a disaster.
The drones could also be outfitted with infrared cameras and shape-recognition technology to run search-and-rescue missions for lost hikers. The military could use them for electronic countermeasures to jam enemy signals or as communication relays flown over remote areas to allow soldiers on two sides of a mountain, for example, to communicate.
"You don't need a PhD from MIT to do this," Perkins said.


Can someone guide me in the right direction with the code below?
I need to have 2 criteria verified at the same time.
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I'd suspect that WHERE "CompanyID" would select where the value of CompanyId was TRUE, then AND with the next part of the WHERE clause.
Edit: and perhaps select the specific field you want to match in the NOT IN queries, rather than a wildcard.
robleyd wrote: and perhaps select the specific field you want to match in the NOT IN queries, rather than a wildcard.
Yes, the sub query must return only one column.
FROM "vQuery8" LEFT JOIN "vQuery9"
Tried everything with NOT IN ().
Never thought about LEFT JOIN.
NOT IN (SELECT...) should work as well, possibly a little bit slower. Your mistake was that you try to compare one field of one record set with all fields of another record set.
The INNER keyword is optional. A JOIN B means the same.
... returns the same records as the inner join plus all the non-matching records of the left table with Null values for the columns of the right table.
The OUTER keyword is optional. A LEFT JOIN B means the same.
... returns the same records as the inner join plus all the non-matching records of the right table with Null values for the columns of the left table.
The OUTER keyword is optional. A RIGHT JOIN B means the same.
It should return the same records as the inner join plus all the non-matching records of the right table with Null values for the columns of the right table plus all the non-matching records of the left table with Null values for the columns of the left table.
Of course you knew that already.
Villeroy wrote: NOT IN (SELECT...) should work as well, possibly a little bit slower. Your mistake was that you try to compare one field of one record set with all fields of another record set.


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Diubahsuai pada tahun 2011, Peermont Metcourt - Francistown memberi jaminan kepada tetamu penginapan yang menyeronokkan di Francistown sama ada untuk perniagaan atau berseronok. Hanya sejauh 3.8 Km, hotel 3-bintang ini boleh diakses dengan mudah dari lapangan terbang. Dengan tarikan utama di bandar ini seperti Francistown Airport berada pada jarak yang dekat, pengunjung hotel pasti akan menyukai lokasinya.
Di Peermont Metcourt - Francistown, segala usaha dilakukan untuk membuatkan tetamu berasa selesa. Oleh yang demikian, hotel ini menyediakan perkhidmatan dan kemudahan yang terbaik. Wi-Fi percuma semua bilik, pengawal keselamatan 24 jam, pengemasan harian, khidmat teksi, Wi-Fi di tempat awam merupakan beberapa kemudahan yang membezakan Peermont Metcourt - Francistown daripada hotel-hotel lain di bandar.
Tetamu boleh memilih dari 53 bilik, semuanya yang akan memberikan suasana ketenangan dan keharmonian. Sepanjang hari anda boleh menikmati suasana yang santai dengan taman. Dengan lokasi yang ideal dan kemudahan sepadan, Peermont Metcourt - Francistown sangat memuaskan hati.
Provides adequate accommodation for the short stay. The new secure car park to the side of the Metcourt is a welcome addition. The rooms are on the decline, particularly the air-conditioning units which are noisy (rattle and vibration) and the bathrooms (toilet seat damaged and loose).
I stayed at Peermont with my family and the experience was wonderful. Safe car parking site and the Spurs restaurant is strategically situated. The rooms are clean and the wifi is good. The staff is excellent and the hotel's location is very central to all the important places in Francistown. I will definitely go back.
The worst thing about Peermount is that they do not have any secured parking. The best things are the rooms they are lovely .
We have stayed at Peermont Metcourt Francistown before.our last stay was excellent. This time sadly it did not measure up! Firstly the aircon didn't work & it was a very hot night. Secondly even though we booked two rooms for two couples there was only one bath towel in each. Thirdly.....there were some very inconsiderate clients who partied in the hotel courtyard from 12:30am-till well beyond 2:30am!!!!! At 2:30am I rang reception & asked for the people to be moved on....this didnt happen quickly. Fourthly....the toilet door in our bathroom (Room 205) was a CLEAR solid glass panel-THERE WAS NO PRIVACY!!! This is not acceptable. Should we choose to stay there again we will definitely be asking to NOT stay in room 205.
big rooms, clean and close to town.
The stay was comfortable, close to town and very convenient for us.
The hotel is near shopping mall, the rooms are clean & comfortable. The staff performance is good.
Excellent....we have booked to go back in December on our way through to Vic Falls. Looking forward to seeing all the friendly/helpful staff again!
Location next to the main A3 road, security and clean room.
Staff friendly. Unfortunately no towels in bedroom and Restaurant under renovation and could not be used.Were directed to the restaurant across the road for a buffet supper which had the worst cooked (tuff)meat that I have ever experienced in my life.


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Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraq War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.
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For decades there's been a war between zealous users of various editors. The truth is, though, that it is completely unfair to compare editors such as vi, Textmate, or BBedit with Emacs. Why is it unfair? Emacs isn't an editor, it is a programming environment. Today I want to share an example just how powerful this distinction is.
It's better to compare Emacs to Smalltalk. It has a very small core written in C, but almost all of the functionality you think of as Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp. Emacs is really just a Lisp interpreter with a lot of primitives built in for shuffling text around on the screen. This has a lot of awesome implications for people who want to build tools for programming.
For example, some people like to have a window pane that shows them the file structure of their project. Textmate does this. With nav you can have that in Emacs. However, it always puts the navigation on the left-hand side of the frame.
One of my co-workers wanted his nav to show up on the right-hand side. So I started by typing C-h k nav RET and that brought up the help for the function nav which puts the navigation buffer on the screen.
"Run nav-mode in a narrow window on the left side."
A quick terminology note. In Emacs-speak, operating-system windows are called frames. A frame can be split into multiple windows.
Doing the same for some of the other functions (split-window-horizontally, other-window, pop-to-buffer), I was able to determine what this function was doing. The call to split-window-horizontally leaves the right-hand window active, so the call to other-window hops back to the left-hand window (but only because all windows were deleted before the split). Then from there on out, everything assumes that it's in that left-hand window and alters its behavior.
So, all we need to do is delete the line I bolded above and it should work. Because this is Lisp, I just copy the whole function into a buffer called *scratch*, make my edit, and evaluate the code. So, now when I type M-x nav RET I call my new function that does not call other-window. Sure enough, it shows up on the right-hand side.
However, I do not want to duplicate all the rest of that code. Emacs has an awesome facility to assist me, and it's called defadvice.
This is essentially monkey-patching by another name. When I activate this advice it gets called instead of the function it's advising, then at the point I call ad-do-it, the original function (and any previously defined advice) gets called. In the above code, I have two pieces of advice. One simply turns other-window into a no-op, and the other turns that on and off, but only if you use the universal prefix.
You can do this for any function in the system. Even the functions that get called when you hit individual keys. That is why Emacs is so powerful. It's not an editor, it's an environment.


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Big Sean: Why He Apologized To Naya Rivera After Ariana Grande Split
It's never too late to say sorry, right? Rapper Big Sean cruelly cut off his ex, Naya Rivera, after he dumped her for Ariana Grande. Now that Sean and Ariana are no longer together, he's reached back out to Naya in an attempt for forgiveness. Think an apology from Big Sean, 27, to Naya Rivera, 28, is too little, too late? The "Blessings" rapper certainly hopes not! After publicly humiliating her, Sean is feeling major remorse and would like to repair his relationship with Naya even though she is expecting a baby with hubby, Ryan Dorsey, 31. A source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY about Sean's plan to make up with Naya after breaking up with Ariana Grande, 21.
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Naya Rivera & Big Sean Relationship — Why He's Sorry After Ariana Grande Split
Sean wasn't exactly a gentleman when he broke up with Naya. He wrote the song "I Don't F— With You" about her, if that tells you anything. Now he's realizing what a huge mistake he made in how he handled his split with the Latina beauty.
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"Sean has reached out to Naya since his split with Ariana. He has some regrets about how everything went down with her, as well as publicly dissing her, and is now trying to make amends," a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "Unfortunately she doesn't seem interested in hearing it."
Well, we can't blame her!
"Despite his bad boy image, Sean has a very big heart and he really wants to find the perfect love to spend the rest of his life with and have children," the source adds.
Too bad he lost his chance with Miss Rivera.
Ariana Grande & Big Sean: Why They Refuse To Talk To Each Other After Breakup
Wow! No one wants to talk to Sean, it seems. Ariana wants nothing to do with him either.
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"[Ariana and Sean] haven't talked or texted since the breakup, its over and they are both bitter and busy and don't want to get ahold of each other," a source close to the exes told us.
The drama doesn't end there. Our insider says that the former couple are doing a whole lot of smack-talking behind each other's backs, too!
Big Sean & Ariana Grande: They Will Never Speak Again
"When they think about each other or talk about each other, it's often negative and to the person that is in the room with them," the source says. "[Ariana] pretty much told Big Sean that she's the one who wanted to break up."
Sean — he just can't catch a break!
HollywoodLifers — what do YOU think about Sean wanting to say sorry to Naya?
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5 Dividend Stocks For January 2022
Should investors be considering these top dividend-paying stocks now?
The post 5 Dividend Stocks For January 2022 appeared first on Stock Market News, Quotes, Charts and Financial Information | StockMarket.com.
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5 Top Dividend Stocks Worth Watching In The Stock Market Today
Even with the fourth-quarter earnings season set to begin, investors may be looking out for the top dividend stocks. By and large, this could be due to the volatility seen in the stock market this week. Accordingly, this reaction is not all that surprising given the uncertainty around the current direction of markets. On one hand, you have the Federal Reserve's fast-approaching plans to raise interest rates. According to big banks like JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), we could see upwards of four hikes in 2022. On the other hand, rising coronavirus concerns continue to weigh in on the overall reopening trade. In theory, all this could deter investors from riskier high-growth names in the stock market today. This is where dividend stocks come into play.
After all, dividend stocks offer a more consistent means of generating gains in the form of, well, dividends. The likes of which would appeal to investors looking to take a more defensive approach to build their portfolios right now. Take Ford (NYSE: F) for instance, it just declared a $0.10 dividend yesterday, bringing its annual dividend yield to 1.68%. At the same time, investors could also be looking at ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) given its annual dividend yield of 5.14%. If anything, the company continues to make bold plays, buying a 49.9% stake in Norwegian biofuels producer Biojet earlier today. All in all, there are plenty of dividend-paying firms to consider in the stock market now. Here are five to watch right now.
Best Dividend Stocks To Watch In January 2022
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE: TSM)
CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS)
Bank of America Corporation
Starting us off, we have Bank of America, a multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. The company is regarded as one of the world's leading financial institutions and serves a wide range of customers. This ranges from individual consumers to small and middle-market businesses, and also large corporations. Also, it currently offers a $0.21 quarterly dividend per share, resulting in a 1.72% annual yield. BAC stock is up by over 45% in the past year alone.
The company will report its fourth-quarter financials on January 19, 2022, before the market opens. Today, the company announced significant changes to its overdraft services, including plans to eliminate non-sufficient funds fees beginning in February. It will also reduce overdraft fees from $35 to $10 beginning in May. This could play well for the company in the long term as these steps will further support its client base and empower them to create long-term financial wellness. It could also be a sign of the times as the company ups its game to compete with the various fintech companies that are in the market today. Given this piece of news, is BAC stock worth investing in right now?
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Intel is an industry-leading semiconductor company that continues to create life-changing technologies. In essence, it advances the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address its customers' greatest challenges. Furthermore, the company embeds intelligence in the cloud, network, and edge to unleash the potential of data to transform businesses and society for the better. The company's latest dividend was announced in November 2021, at $0.35 per share.
On Monday, the company announced that David Zinsner has been appointed as the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective January 17, 2022. Zinsner has more than 20 years of financial and operational experience in semiconductors and manufacturing, including most recently as executive vice president and CFO at Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU). He will report directly to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and will oversee Intel's global finance organization. With that being said, is INTC stock a dividend stock to add to your portfolio?
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Next, we have Apple, a tech company that designs and manufactures a wide variety of products and services. From innovative apps to premium products and transformative experiences, the company's world-class portfolio of services proved essential in 2021. This comes as more people all over the world are seeking new ways to stay connected, informed, and entertained. With over 745 million paid subscriptions, Apple continues to connect the world's developers, artists, and storytellers with more than 1 billion devices.
Last week, the company announced that its Apple Fitness+ is introducing new ways to motivate people toward their goals with Collections, Time to Run, and more. "At the beginning of a new year, we know many people are looking for new ways to go after their goals. With these new additions, Fitness+ makes it easy to get motivated and stay active anywhere, with the most complete library of high-quality and diverse content to train your mind and body, no matter where you are on your fitness journey," said Jay Blahnik, Apple's vice president of Fitness Technologies. "We can't wait for people to get motivated to reach their goals with Collections, and inspired by Time to Run's exploration of iconic cities with rich running history." All things considered, is AAPL stock a top stock to watch?
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Another major name to consider among dividend stocks now would be the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Overall, TSM is one of, if not the largest manufacturer of semiconductor chips worldwide. The company offers a $0.47 quarterly dividend that adds up to an annual yield of about 1.5%. Not to mention, the company is actively planning to invest $100 billion towards growing its manufacturing capacity through 2024. After pairing all this with the ongoing chip shortages, I could understand the appeal of TSM stock.
As it stands, TSM stock currently trades at $129.17 as of Tuesday's close. This would be after gains of over 8% in the past month alone. Despite its current momentum, TSM does not appear to be slowing down anytime soon. Notably, the company continues to see persistent strength in demand for its offerings. This is evident from its record quarterly sales figures posted yesterday. For reference, TSM raked in a total revenue of about $5.6 billion in December, marking a new high for monthly revenue. As strong chip demands worldwide persist, would you consider TSM stock a top watch now?
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CVS Health Corporation
Next up, we will be taking a look at CVS Health. The company is a goliath in the health care industry today. Evidently, it operates via a massive portfolio of health care services. This includes but is not limited to its retail pharmacy chain CVS Pharmacy, pharmacy benefits manager CVS Caremark, and Aetna health insurance provider, among others. In terms of dividends, CVS offers a $0.55 quarterly dividend, making for a 2.09% annual yield.
Now, CVS stock currently trades at $106.04 as of Tuesday's closing bell. Today, the company could be turning heads in the stock market thanks to its latest announcement. Namely, CVS is raising its guidance for its current fiscal year ahead of its investor conference later today. Firstly, the company is increasing its earnings per share outlook for the year to a range of $5.87 to $5.92. This is versus previous estimates of $5.50 to $5.61. As such, will you be keeping an eye on CVS stock today?
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Rick Herrick is mayor pro tem on the Big Bear Lake City Council. His current term on the City Council ends in 2022.
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Big Bear Lake councilman makes bid for California State Assembly
Rick Herrick is a name well known to most of Big Bear. He's served as the mayor of Big Bear Lake, and on the boards of several other Valley agencies. He is the man behind the microphone at KBHR 93.3 FM and 102.5 FM. And now, Herrick is tossing his hat in another political arena. He is running for the California State Assembly 33rd District seat.
Herrick formally announced his candidacy at the end of October. The primary election takes place in March 2020 with the top two candidates moving on to the general election in November. Herrick is running for the seat occupied by Jay Obernolte, who is running for Congress. Obernolte is also from Big Bear Lake, and the two men served on the Big Bear Lake City Council together.
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"I love the communities I serve and with determination, sweat and hard work our voices will be heard in Sacramento."
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The bonehead called me something unmentionable, and threatened me, said I would soon be arrested for my "heinous crimes." Hey, listen here. I'm a tough guy like the rest of youse, but don't try to pin no crime on me you got evidence for like you wined and dined Bacall last night. That don't fly, unless I made somebody in high places hot around the collar, which I ain't done. So it don't move, see? It just lays there like you would in Sodom that hot Canaan night, right Looney Tunes? You just wasted your time, fathead, and forced me to pray, which is a good thing in the long run 'cause it'd been a good while since I had a chat with the Big Man, and it felt real fine for a change. Better than snappin' my cap, I bet, which you wouldn't too much care for, I don't think. I didn't even have to hit the hooch after I studied your poor excuse for communication from an even poorer excuse for a man. A real man faces his foe and says Toe-to-toe, jackass. Let's see what you got. A real man don't write a letter to a man's dead wife with a threat about as scary as a one-winged housefly.
Funny thing what a woman scorned will do, eh? Even if she ain't really been scorned. The knucklehead's wife was in my own arms two long decades ago, and she really had a thing for me. I mean, I knew she was khaki-wacky, but I believed her when she said one day we'd get hitched. I was doll-dizzy myself, but I waited for her for a good long while. Then one day, when it looked like it just wasn't gonna happen, I found out she married either for convenience or a shotgun. So I tripped the light fantastic and headed for the City of Angels. Not long after, I met Aggie and we started to cook with gas, only to have it all cut short one night at the behest of a speeding bullet. One of Bugsy's boys bending his elbow a bit too much, they told me. Why not me? I was standing right there with her. We had just strolled out of the Pantages Theater—I forget what picture show we saw. Shock does that to the head. I heard one time about a dog called Highball who witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. It's said that just a little while later the poor animal lost its mind because it seen so many men lose their lives with such quick, vengeful violence.
So anyways, like I was saying, funny what a devious female will do. It's pretty obvious my old flame used me as a knight-errant in her little game of intrigue against her mousy spouse who gave her too many Good Catholic mouths to feed and a life she never really wanted, but felt pushed into somehow. I would of gave her the poet's life, the rover's life, the free-and-easy life, and then another one altogether—better than she ever dreamed. But she picked a Marine with a Bulge under his belt. Guess he looked like a roughhouse version of Jesus to her or something, I don't know. Or maybe she was sorry for what her priests did to the Jews all them years ago. You can't be too sure with these kind of things. But what you can be sure of—I mean if you've been unlucky enough to dip your roll in the sauce once or twice and got the essence of the dish—is whether a dame is a Jezebel or not. Of that you can be certain, and about this chick I'm friggin' damn certain. She'd throw Ahab to the dogs so fast his head would spin. Glad me and ol' Elijah was always good buddies, ya know?
So Jezebel there used me, her old torch, to get back at her ex-Marine hubby for whatever she imagined he did or maybe didn't do. Sweet one, that Tilda. It's just that I didn't too much appreciate being used like her seven-day rag. But like I said, I prayed, and never heard another word. Well, I prayed and then sent the idiot a note of my own. Tilda must of not told him. Funny. Maybe she didn't know some poets have justice in their souls. She could of done more research before she sent in the wolves.


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Race world mashup on road ahead
By Newsroom ⋅ August 18, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment
Filed Under Michael Waltrip Racing, Nascar
By Dave Yochum. Is part of the Michael Waltrip Raceworld complex at Chartwell Drive and Liverpool Parkway in Cornelius up for grabs? People close to the operation say the racing entrepreneur has shown the property to more than one race-related company currently located in the "Golden Crescent" between Mooresville and Concord.
Officials at Michael Waltrip Raceworld would not comment on the record.
Waltrip himself is not exactly in the driver's seat when it comes to the race shop and fan attraction, which has more than 200 employees. An investor with considerable wealth on an international scale—Rob Kaufman—is a substantial owner of the enterprise.
Kaufman addressed MWR employees Aug. 4 and gave a rough outline of what looks like a deal where one of MWR's race teams moves over to Concord-based Chip Ganassi Racing.
Although it leaves some employees at the Cornelius operation up in the air, when layoffs occurred after the notorious MWR cheating incident, those who were let go were said to be well-treated.
Kaufman is purchasing an ownership piece of Ganassi, which was a surprise to some employees. In the world of motorsports, owning two separate racing operations that compete against each other is not how it works, just like the owner of the Yankees doesn't also own the Atlanta Braves.
WALTRIP
"What we're really doing is integrating the businesses, trying to get the most competitive product on track, do the best for all of our partners. It's a competitive business. … It's competitive on track as well as off track," Kauffman said.
Kauffman, a car and racing buff on a grand scale, invested on the order of $50 million in Michael Waltrip Raceworld during tough times in 2007.
Kaufman is a founder of Fortress Investment Group; at one time Forbes magazine pegged his wealth at $1.8 billion.
Given the massive cost of mounting serious race teams, consolidation efforts are inevitable. With buildings, equipment and massive duplication from shop to shop, the value of the enterprise is in sponsor contracts. If those deals are shaky, there's a lot at stake, from morale to cash flow.
Both Ganassi and MWR are two-car teams. There has been speculation that one of the MWR teams, namely Clint Bowyer, would move to Ganassi.
MWR has not renewed the Toyota contract, sources said. Sponsors Maxwell House and 5Hour would stick with Bowyer, leaving MWR short on sponsor fuel. The Aaron's Inc. sponsorship is said to be up in the air right now.
"Every one knows the teams are under quite a bit of pressure. … On the business side, it is very difficult for the teams to maintain a sensible business model," Kauffman said.
NASCAR, meanwhile, is looking at a different way to build long-term value in the teams that run deep. Franchises and licenses—comparable in some ways to a tax medallion in New York City—have been discussed. Kauffman has played a major role in the discussions as head of a coalition of race team owners. The Race Team Alliance was formed last year to advance the long-term interests of race team owners. Kauffman is the chairman.
Meanwhile, employees at the big racing operation and tourist attraction across from the U.S. Post Office in Cornelius are dusting off their resumes and calling friends at other shops.
Commercial brokers in Cornelius say the MWR property—an old cinema multiplex—is not officially listed for sale.
The county wide 2011 revaluation pegs MWR's property at $17.8 million.
In a statement, MWR said the companies will continue to operate separately and compete against each other for the remainder of the 2015 season. "They are also currently evaluating ways to field the most competitive race teams possible to provide an excellent platform for their partners and employees for the 2016 season and beyond. More details will follow in due course."
Waltrip himself said his focus is on 2015 and "fulfilling the commitment we have made to our partners and Toyota which is placing our teams in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. There are a lot of details yet to be sorted regarding 2016. I will work closely with Rob Kauffman and our sponsors to formulate the best way forward."


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Q: bash: alias: =: not found error upon opening Git Bash Every time I start Git Bash I'm running into this error (see screenshot)
I setup Sublime for Git Bash https://www.udacity.com/wiki/ud775/sublime
Instead of using the "C:/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 2/sublime_text.exe" extension I used "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" the first time around. It now works properly to open Sublime using 'subl' but I receive the bash: alias: =: not found everytime I open up Git Bash.

A: it seems that in your ~/.bashrc you have two similar, but slightly different lines:
alias subl='C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe'
alias subl = 'C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe'

Look at the second one, it has spaces around an equal sign, so it is interpreted as not aliasing, but listing aliases for space separeted arguments subl, =, and 'C:\ ...'.
Make sure you have only one appropriate line in your ~/.bashrc file.

A: I was having the same issue. You need to escape every white space with "\".
So change your commando to:
alias subl='C:/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 3/sublime_text.exe'

A: On a Mac, with OSX, I use:
alias edit="open -a '.../Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text' '$@'"

note: ... is just for brevity here

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namespace base {
class MessageLoopProxy;
}  // namespace base

namespace gpu {
struct MailboxHolder;
}  // namespace gpu

namespace content {

class CONTENT_EXPORT VideoCaptureImpl
    : public media::VideoCapture, public VideoCaptureMessageFilter::Delegate {
 public:
  VideoCaptureImpl(media::VideoCaptureSessionId session_id,
                   VideoCaptureMessageFilter* filter);
  virtual ~VideoCaptureImpl();

  // Start listening to IPC messages.
  void Init();

  // Stop listening to IPC messages. Call |done_cb| when done.
  void DeInit(base::Closure done_cb);

  // Stop/resume delivering video frames to clients, based on flag |suspend|.
  void SuspendCapture(bool suspend);

  // media::VideoCapture interface.
  virtual void StartCapture(
      media::VideoCapture::EventHandler* handler,
      const media::VideoCaptureParams& params) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void StopCapture(media::VideoCapture::EventHandler* handler) OVERRIDE;
  virtual bool CaptureStarted() OVERRIDE;
  virtual int CaptureFrameRate() OVERRIDE;
  virtual void GetDeviceSupportedFormats(
      const DeviceFormatsCallback& callback) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void GetDeviceFormatsInUse(
      const DeviceFormatsInUseCallback& callback) OVERRIDE;

  media::VideoCaptureSessionId session_id() const { return session_id_; }

 private:
  friend class VideoCaptureImplTest;
  friend class MockVideoCaptureImpl;

  class ClientBuffer;
  typedef std::map<media::VideoCapture::EventHandler*,
                   media::VideoCaptureParams> ClientInfo;

  void InitOnIOThread();
  void DeInitOnIOThread(base::Closure done_cb);
  void SuspendCaptureOnIOThread(bool suspend);
  void StartCaptureOnIOThread(
      media::VideoCapture::EventHandler* handler,
      const media::VideoCaptureParams& params);
  void StopCaptureOnIOThread(media::VideoCapture::EventHandler* handler);
  void GetDeviceSupportedFormatsOnIOThread(
      const DeviceFormatsCallback& callback);
  void GetDeviceFormatsInUseOnIOThread(
      const DeviceFormatsInUseCallback& callback);

  // VideoCaptureMessageFilter::Delegate interface.
  virtual void OnBufferCreated(base::SharedMemoryHandle handle,
                               int length,
                               int buffer_id) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnBufferDestroyed(int buffer_id) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnBufferReceived(int buffer_id,
                                const media::VideoCaptureFormat& format,
                                base::TimeTicks) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnMailboxBufferReceived(int buffer_id,
                                       const gpu::MailboxHolder& mailbox_holder,
                                       const media::VideoCaptureFormat& format,
                                       base::TimeTicks timestamp) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnStateChanged(VideoCaptureState state) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnDeviceSupportedFormatsEnumerated(
      const media::VideoCaptureFormats& supported_formats) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnDeviceFormatsInUseReceived(
      const media::VideoCaptureFormats& formats_in_use) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void OnDelegateAdded(int32 device_id) OVERRIDE;

  // Sends an IPC message to browser process when all clients are done with the
  // buffer.
  void OnClientBufferFinished(int buffer_id,
                              const scoped_refptr<ClientBuffer>& buffer,
                              scoped_ptr<gpu::MailboxHolder> mailbox_holder);

  void StopDevice();
  void RestartCapture();
  void StartCaptureInternal();

  virtual void Send(IPC::Message* message);

  // Helpers.
  bool RemoveClient(media::VideoCapture::EventHandler* handler,
                    ClientInfo* clients);

  const scoped_refptr<VideoCaptureMessageFilter> message_filter_;
  const scoped_refptr<base::MessageLoopProxy> io_message_loop_proxy_;
  int device_id_;
  const int session_id_;

  // Vector of callbacks to be notified of device format enumerations, used only
  // on IO Thread.
  std::vector<DeviceFormatsCallback> device_formats_callback_queue_;
  // Vector of callbacks to be notified of a device's in use capture format(s),
  // used only on IO Thread.
  std::vector<DeviceFormatsInUseCallback> device_formats_in_use_callback_queue_;

  // Buffers available for sending to the client.
  typedef std::map<int32, scoped_refptr<ClientBuffer> > ClientBufferMap;
  ClientBufferMap client_buffers_;

  ClientInfo clients_;
  ClientInfo clients_pending_on_filter_;
  ClientInfo clients_pending_on_restart_;

  // Member params_ represents the video format requested by the
  // client to this class via StartCapture().
  media::VideoCaptureParams params_;

  // The device's video capture format sent from browser process side.
  media::VideoCaptureFormat last_frame_format_;

  // The device's first captured frame timestamp sent from browser process side.
  base::TimeTicks first_frame_timestamp_;

  bool suspended_;
  VideoCaptureState state_;

  // WeakPtrFactory pointing back to |this| object, for use with
  // media::VideoFrames constructed in OnBufferReceived() from buffers cached
  // in |client_buffers_|.
  // NOTE: Weak pointers must be invalidated before all other member variables.
  base::WeakPtrFactory<VideoCaptureImpl> weak_factory_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(VideoCaptureImpl);
};

}  // namespace content

#endif  // CONTENT_RENDERER_MEDIA_VIDEO_CAPTURE_IMPL_H_

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Southport is a shop belonging to Debenhams group. It is open on: Monday 09:00 - 17:30, Tuesday 09:00 - 17:30, Wednesday 09:00 - 17:30, Thursday 09:00 - 17:30, Friday 09:00 - 17:30. At weekends its working hours are: on Saturday 09:00 - 17:30, on Sunday 11:00 - 17:00. This shop's address is: Debenhams, 535-563 Lord Street, PR9 0BB, Southport. In order to contact the customer service directly please dial the number 0344 800 8877. Southport is attended by many people living in neighbouring towns like Banks, Churchtown, Crossens, Marshside.


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The Pentagon Has a Plan to Use Robots to Patrol Cities
May 20, 2018 Topic: Security Region: North America Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: DARPAMilitaryTechnologyDroneRobotWarConflictArmyMarines
Could this work?
by Michael Peck
Mao Zedong famously advised guerrillas "to move among the people as a fish swims in the sea."
DARPA thinks it has the answer: use robots to spot the bad guys.
After all, one of the most dangerous tasks U.S. soldiers face is foot patrols in a hostile city. Enemies can hide in buildings and lurk in shadows. And just who is an enemy, and who is an innocent civilian, when everyone looks and dresses alike?
So, DARPA has unveiled The Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA) project, which envisions a network of sensors and drones that not just monitors a city, but can also automatically determines which inhabitants are hostile or friendly. Once hostile forces are identified, U.S. ground troops can be called in to finish them off.
DARPA shows how complex this task is and what it has in mind in the following example:
A static sensor located near an overseas military installation detects an individual moving across an urban intersection and towards the installation outside of normal pedestrian pathways. An unmanned aerial system (UAS) equipped with a loudspeaker delivers a warning message. The person is then observed running into a neighboring building. Later, URSA detects an individual emerging from a different door at the opposite end of the building, but confirms it is the same person and sends a different UAS to investigate. This second UAS determines that the individual has resumed movement toward a restricted area. It releases a non- lethal flash-bang device at a safe distance to ensure the individual attends to the second message and delivers a sterner warning. This second UAS takes video of the subject and determines that the person's gait and direction are unchanged even when a third UAS flies directly in front of the person and illuminates him with an eye-safe laser dot. URSA then alerts the human supervisor and provides a summary of these observations, warning actions, and the person's responses and current location.
Recommended: This Is How China Would Invade Taiwan (And How to Stop It).
Recommended: North Korea's Most Lethal Weapon Isn't Nukes.
Recommended: 5 Worst Guns Ever Made.
For the first phase of the project, the goal is to detect hostiles in a patch of urban terrain about the size of a football field. The area contains twenty enemy combatants and twenty civilians, with the goal of identifying twelve out of the twenty combatants.
DARPA admits that URSA "requires significant advances in active sensing, behavior understanding, and autonomous decision making to determine intent." This is likely an understatement. An automated urban monitoring and threat detection system—that also tries to determine which inhabitants are hostile—would seem vulnerable to false alarms and spoofing.
Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the National Interest. He can be found on Twitter and Facebook.


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The world's largest Ferris wheel, which stood over 100 feet high, could carry 100 persons at one time. Gravity roads (roller coasters) were scattered in four different areas in the park. The Shoot-the-Chute featured boats carrying twelve passengers down a greased chute, landing in a lake with a tremendous splash and shrieks of laughter. (Shades of "Great Adventure" a century ago!)
Thompson built a special 1800 – foot pier into the Delaware Rover to accommodate the thousands who poured into Washington Park from Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania. The end of the pier was such a distance from the center of the park that he built an aerial gravity road and trolley line from the park to the end of the pier to facilitate transportation.
The hub of the park was the old Howell Mansion, the residence of the Howell family of Fancy Hill for many years. The mansion contained a cafe and restaurant. The second-floor dining room overlooked the two-story band pavilion which seated approximately 1,000 persons.
The park was handsomely landscaped and the mid-way, which was made of cobblestones, was replete with amusements of every kind. Balloon ascensions, firework displays, and bicycle races were special attractions for the farmers' annual picnics and the several merry-go-rounds in the park were always enjoyed by young and old alike.


This week Mideco is presenting the Bat Booth™ at the Queensland Mining and Engineering (QME) exhibition, the largest regional mining and engineering event in Australia.
It begins in Mackay tomorrow, 24 of July and over the next few days hundreds of companies from around Australia and the world will showcase the latest mining and engineering technical solutions available on the market.
It's a perfect stage to introduce our Bat Booth™ to the mining industry. Its innovative but simple design allows to permanently remove up to 80% of dust from staff's clothing in seconds, using only compressed air.
We already have a connection with Queensland mining. In 2017 Glencore Mount Isa Mines acquired their first Bat Booth™. We have received excellent feedback from a very happy client. Participating at the QME in Mackay gives us an opportunity to introduce Bat Booth™ to more Queensland mines, where it can positively contribute to protecting the miners' health from the harmful effects of silica dust.
In Queensland with almost 30,000 staff working across 50 operating mines this is a particularly relevant issue. The well-known Report No. 2, issued by the 55th Parliament Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Select Committee on re-identification of CWP in Queensland, confirmed 21 coal mine workers in the state have been diagnosed with Pneumoconiosis or 'black lung' disease as of 29 May 2017.
However, this terrible disease can be prevented through appropriate dust control, adequate ventilation or personal respiratory protection.
Mideco's Bat Booth™ was created specifically to deal even with the smallest dust particles such as silica, and it will help you protect your staff.
Will you be attending the QME? Come and talk to us about your dust removal needs at stand #OS500. Or call our sales representative today.


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Ellis Martin grew up in a violent and drug-filled neighborhood on the South-side of Chicago with his Italian mother and black father who wanted to shield their son from the rapidly growing Rap and Hip-Hop movements. Therefore inducing the limitations on Martin's listening selections to music from the 50's and 60's, particularly Motown, Rock N' Roll and Doo-Wop. With the different shades of the oldies continuously breaking through, and contributing to the development of his distinctive sound, Martin essentially makes music that is a bold cry for revolution, not just musically but as well as in the world in general.
The Mad Mr. Martin took us to church during this interview. He touched on many things, that we too, have the same perception of the world being a "plastic city". Click below to listen to him talk about some real s%&t.


So 2012 is in the books now and we can certainly say that it was the best year ever for the U.S. p2p lending industry. Total loan volume between Prosper and Lending Club in December was $103.7 million and for the year the total was $871.1 million. To put that in perspective in 2011 total loan volume was just $332.5 million, so this year we saw a 162% increase. Although the vast majority of that volume came from Lending Club as they went from strength to strength in 2012.
Lending Club ended December like they have done every month this year, with record loan originations. The December total was $94.1 million and they ended the year with $714.7 million in total loans. There was only good news for Lending Club all year as every month of 2012 saw record loan originations.
Lending Club crossed $500 million in total loans in February and then the $1 billion mark in November. They finished the year with $1.178 billion in loans issued since they started in 2007, with $717.9 million of that total issued in 2012. This compares to just $257.4 million in total loans issued in 2011, a staggering 179% year over year increase.
If you dig into the numbers a little December was an unusual month for Lending Club. Total number of loans originated was actually down this month for the first time since February. In fact, Lending Club issued more loans in September (6,087) than they did in December (6,066). But thanks to the highest ever average loan size of $15,511 they still easily managed a record month. It will be interesting to see if that trend continues into 2013 but that average was well above the previous record monthly average of $14,196 set in February.
Below is the Lending Club 18-month chart. The black line is the three-month moving average.
December was a month that Prosper would rather soon forget. With just $9.6 million in new loans it was the worst month of the year for Prosper and the third consecutive month of significant volume declines. Two of the top three Prosper institutional investors, Worth-Blanket2 and MI2 had no lending activity whatsoever in December according to Prosper Stats and the number two investor Index_Plus had a lower than average month investing.
What made matters worse in December was the problem that Prosper investors encountered the week before Christmas. For several days no payments were credited to investor accounts due to a software problem. It has now been resolved but it left some investors feeling a bit disillusioned and it certainly didn't help Prosper's loan volume this month. You can follow the conversation about this issue on the forum.
When you look at 2012 as a whole Prosper's numbers look much better. They originated a total of $153.2 million up over 100% from 2011 when their total was $75.1 million. If Prosper can rebound from their bad fourth quarter and have a really good first quarter of 2013 most investors will forgive and forget. But they need to start out the year strong.
I had a conversation with senior management at Prosper last week and while they are disappointed with their performance in December they did say that January will come with some more positive news for Prosper. Part of this news will be the fact that the SEC has approved the Prosper Funding LLC registration, their bankruptcy remote vehicle. This became effective on December 27th and I will have a more detailed write-up about it later this week.
Below is the 18-month chart for Prosper, as you can see the downward trend has become steep in the last quarter.
I really hope to see Prosper come out of this slump in Jan. They have an excellent platform in terms of UI, functionality, and investor returns. IMHO they are ahead of LendingClub in some areas… But the slump in loan originations has me worried.
Charlie, Prosper needs a big January and a record quarter in the first quarter. There are many investors who prefer them for a variety of reasons but they need to show some growth to win back investor confidence.
With Prosper forming this limited liability company (LLC), and now approved by the SEC, I'm confident they will generate a lot of new money in 2013.
I've been with Prosper (and Lending Club) 17 months now. Prosper always had me a little worried because of how far they were from being profitable, or more specifically, I worried about them going out of business and who would have legal claim to the notes (Prosper assets) I was invested in. Now that worry is gone and I feel very safe adding new money to my account in 2013. This is a very smart move by Prosper.
Dennis, Prosper has taken a different approach to Lending Club as far as large investors go – there is no equivalent of LC Advisors at Prosper. So I think large investors demanded a bankruptcy remote vehicle at Prosper because they have that luxury at Lending Club. The good news is that the Prosper vehicle is for everyone.
In my opinion, Prosper's software problem pretty much sums up 2012 for Prosper. I am still of the opinion that it would not have been an issue had the proper protocols been in place. As I said previously, I don't work in IT. But I'm fairly confident that with any new release you have a plan in place in case the software upgrades cause problems you can roll back the system to how it was prior to the release–if you can't (and I really don't know how you can't), then you better damn well be sure the upgrade is flawless in execution (i.e. test the damn thing). I don't think there is any excuse for this mistake. It does, however, highlight Prosper's overall lack of execution.
LC focused on expanding their lending base, while Prosper seemed more than content to cater to a few large institutional investors at the expense of the small lenders. I would be interested in seeing a chart of the new active investors by month for both Prosper and LC. I'm fairly confident in saying that LC experienced greater growth in both new investors and average amount of cash transfers by existing investors. But either way, when you take out the 3 biggest investors at Prosper, you can see the results above. I am coming to the conclusion that Prosper's platform is more for the institutional investors while LC's platform is more for the retail investors.
I REALLY hope that Prosper's "positive news for 2013" is not another round of VC funding. Or another large institutional investor coming on board. If that is all they have, then that will be a HUGE disappointment. I'm hoping more for a shake-up within the company or at the very least a new strategy. Doing something (ANYTHING!) that will make them actually competitive with LC would be nice so that they don't need to use their bankruptcy remote vehicle.
Sorry to be a negative Nelly, Peter, but I have become rather sour on Prosper over the last year. Here's to hoping 2013 will be a better year for them.
Roy…………….By the same token what do you suspect would happen to Lending Club monthly volume if you suddenly eliminated their top 3 institutional investors? Well, I don't know exactly…………but I'm confident that it wouldn't be pretty.
I am not sure it makes any practical difference to the smaller fish even if LC implements a similar protection for retail investors. Back in August through October, I found at least several loans (D-G) per day that fit my criteria. However, especially since December, I have had to go for days before being able to pick up one or two. It seems to me that the best loans are already scooped up by the big investors before they have a chance to hit the open platform. LC seems to increasingly cater toward institutional investors.
But for Prosper, at least, if you've got fast trigger fingers, you can still compete with the likes of worth_blanket2. They don't set aside a percentage of loans for the big investors to pick first.
If LC keeps doing that, they might push the smaller investors to Prosper. That's why I continue to play both platforms. With no viable third competitor on the horizon and with p2p lending continuing to grow, I don't see why we shouldn't invest in the two platforms to take advantage of the strength of each.
That is my sentiment exactly. I invest in both platforms, trying to take advantage of the strengths of each one. But it would be great to have a strong third or even fourth competitor.
Investforfreedom………..I'm not sure if I'm ready to make the leap that connects the (perhaps temporary) inability of certain individual investors to find notes to their liking at LC to the conclusion that LC is now favoring institutional investors.
It was just several months ago that right here on this blog, this exact line of thinking was used on Prosper when certain investors found that they weren't able to find enough loans that fit their tastes & subsequently suggested that Prosper was catering to the institutional investors at the expense of retail investors.
Roy, It is clear that LC has the momentum and I would guess they did better than Prosper at attracting both retail and institutional investors in the last year. And I think it is completely understandable for you to be negative about Prosper given their fourth quarter, you are certainly not alone there. But I am keeping on open mind and will watch their moves carefully this year.


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Udang Goreng Berempah Pulau Mutiara is an original recipe from Pulau Pinang, best eaten together with nasi kandar which is also a traditional food from Indian Muslim in Pulau Pinang known as 'mamak'.
Another must try, Nasi Minyak Jentayan which is formally from Sumatra Selatan and used to be served only for the royal.
Delectable kuih-muih to put a sweet end to the evening.


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You Give Please Money for my Squeezebox
Agricultural subsidies everywhere are generally misguided. In the EU, the CAP is so far beyond ridicule, that it's mawkish to even mention them to anyone with a weak stomach.
Other curious beneficiaries include a Swedish accordion club that won €59,585 from the EU farming programme; a Danish billiards club with €31,515; an Estonian school almuni society on €44,884; a Dutch ice-skating club with €162,444; a Dutch amateur football club on €354,567; and the Netherland's Schiphol Airport with €98,864.
I do not believe the funds were intended for the composting of those accordions either. There is, however, a kind of social Nomenclatura style access in these kind of things.
Galina Dimitrova Peicheva-Miteva, the 27-year-old daughter of Dimitar Peichev, Bulgaria's deputy agriculture minister until July 2009, who was responsible for handling EU funds, got €700,000 from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) last year, according to the Danish and British-based pro-transparency NGO Farmsubsidy.org.
Elsewhere in the bucolic idyll of duhistan:
Commenting on the grant for Ms Peicheva-Miteva in Bulgaria, an EU commission official said: "That would be a case for the Bulgarian authorities to look at, or, at a push, [EU anti-fraud agency] Olaf. If she's got a load of land, there may be nothing wrong with it. But it's more a problem of potential conflict of interest for [her father] the junior minister."
You don't say!?
Галина Димитрова Пейчева-Митева,
Resplendent in shit-kickers and charming traditional farm regalia
"In things racial we are a nation of cowards"? No, Mr. Holder, it is in things relating to radical Islam that too many of us are a nation of cowards
…"in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." No, Eric Holder: it is in things politically correct (notably, but not only, radical Islam) that too many of us are browbeaten by the PC police — at least, they do their best to try doing so — into becoming a nation of cowards.
You got it wrong, Mr. Holder; it is not "we average Americans [who] simply do not talk enough with each other about race." It is — certainly in this day and age — we average Americans who do not talk enough with each other about radical Islam.
In fact, I would add that at times it seems perhaps less true that "to get to the heart of this country one must examine its racial soul" than that to get to the heart of this country one must examine its political correctness as well as the fairy tales its liberal components.
…"if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us." Mr. Holder, frank conversations about radical Islam — whether it continues to divide us or not (it really shouldn't) — is what we need to feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to do.
Update — Real Clear Politics says the same thing:
Who's the Coward Now, Mr. Holder?
That is a gun that fires only once...
The dark financial clouds over Europe continue to swirl:
The markets were initially unsettled by news that the French president had threatened to pull France out of the eurozone. The startling threat was made at a Brussels summit of EU leaders last Friday, at which the deal to bail out Greece was agreed, according to a report in El País newspaper quoting Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
The tab for years decades of profligate governmental spending, the "everything is free" mindset and the lack of anyone ever being held responsible for anything, continues starts to come due.
Posted by Georges at 13:52 No comments:
"Tax is a good thing!"
At least our favourite statist touchstone is consistent about one thing, being inconsistent. Now it seems that individuals paying more tax is a bad thing:
Because let's be clear what tax increases of this order mean. About 30 million people pay tax in the UK. Every single one is going to be asked to pay an average of £2,000 more.
That's what this is all going to be about. this is the price we'll pay for bakers folly – and putting their friends in charge of the bail out.
Afterall:
Posted by Georges at 12:12
Simple solutions for simple minds, a continuing series
A European data protection group on Wednesday penned a letter to Facebook in which it told the social networking site that its recent privacy changes are "unacceptable".
That Article 29 Working Party, a collection of European data groups, sent letters to 20 social networking sites overall, but singled out Facebook for "fundamentally chang[ing] the default settings on its social-networking platform to the detriment of a user."
If one is that concerned about the privacy policies of Facebook, don't join.
A Curious Amalgam
I recently came across a rather fevered blog which featured the collection of linked graphics you see below. In and of themselves, none of them are interesting. It's the appeal of all of them that are ponderable.
Discuss among yourselves, should you be so inspired.
Our European Betters
A florist and his unemployed petit pote bff kidnap a teenage girl, drown her, and then eat her.
Florist Maxim Glavatsky has been sentenced to 19 years in prison, while his unemployed friend Yury Mozhnov has been sentenced to 18 years.
The United States is a sovereign country with laws, and everyone should abide by them, whether you are here visiting or plan to immigrate
Great Merciful Zeus: If you are a fan of awesome, then get a load of Hispanic (legal) immigrant Gabriella Sesito
Related: It So Happens That Every Illegal Alien in America Already Does Have Papers
Mark Steyn: The coastal frothers denouncing Arizona as the Third Reich seem entirely relaxed about the ludicrous sight of camp storm troopers in Quincy, Illinois
Why So Many Europeans Gloated is Beyond Me
A gentle reminder to all of those comment authors who seemed to think the previously strong € was some sign of übermenschliche superiority: it ain't in your genes, it's in your jeans. Committing €920.500.000 buoyed economic confidence in Europe for exactly ONE business day.
And it's largely a stimulus, by the way - not a bank backstop. The people screamed, and the ECB finally delivered: what they want is their nanny states funded beyond the means of the population's ability or willingness to pay.
You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
- Geddy Lee, market sage.
A Coalition of the Tripping
UK, with its' mother of Parliaments is rotting from the neck up. The Conservatives won the most votes and the most Parliamentary seats, and yet the buzz of the blogsphere seems to be limited to pretending that this does not matter. The LDP, the Provisional Wing of disaffected Labour party voters, is inclined to support a proportional representation arrangements that guarantees in perpetuity to let whoever got the LEAST votes has the king-maker's power to declare themselves Líder Máximo.
Then again, that might be what these clucks wondering how to dispossess the winner of the most votes of any access to government: to construct a "rainbow coalition" (a puzzling metaphor in a nation that's 92% white,) of single issue nutballs, greens, separatists who can't seem to separate enough to not run as MPs,
Due to their refusal to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen, the five Sinn Fein MPs do not take their seats in the House of Commons, meaning that the "rainbow coalition" needs 323 MPs for a majority, only eight more than the Liberal Democrat and Labour votes combined.
and anyone who can be bought off with unequal and superior treatment under the law.
Both the Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties have indicated that they would support a Lib-Lab coalition and have MPs in London ready to negotiate a deal. The parties are likely to insist that Scotland and Wales are protected from spending cuts.
That notwithstanding, the love-train ritual must go on, even thought:
This so-called "coalition of losers" would only just be able to get enough votes for a Commons majority. Labour has 258 MPs, while the Lib Dems have 57, so a coalition of just these two parties would have only 315 seats.
Much dress up is also required, but I think they're used to this kind of thing, at least for a night:
There are six SNP MPs and three Plaid Cymru MPs in Westminster. The votes from these nine MPs would be just enough for the coalition to reach a majority provided that the Sinn Fein MPs do not vote.
SO. Should it actually get that far, the formation of the British Government will depend on 6 IRA sympathizers with a predisposed hatred of a place in which they can, by merely raising their hands, bring into a state of further chaos, to fighting the temptation to vote even just once.
Someone, quite clearly, has been drinking the bong water.
Reality rudely interrupts
Meet the new fix, same as the old fix:
The euro halted a two-day gain and stocks fell, with Chinese equities entering a bear market, amid concern Europe's indebted nations will struggle to cut deficits even after an almost $1 trillion emergency loan package.
"The euphoria of 24 hours ago has passed," Derek Halpenny, European head of global currency research at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in London, wrote in a report today. "We are in little doubt that steps taken will offer the euro little support and the aid package does not change the fact that Spain and Portugal in particular will still have to undergo further painful austerity measures."
To paraphrase the Boss, "you can ignore economics, but economics will not ignore you".
Yeah right.........
Just Because you don't Believe in Yourself, it doesn't Mean that you aren't Right
Walter Laqueur on Europe's Crisis of Wishes:
The idea that economics would trump politics supposed, implicitly for the most part, that morale could flow from affluence and social security alone. It does not seem to have worked out that way. Europe has been affluent and its population socially secure for the most part, but it has been suffering a subacute case of Abulia—a psychological term first used in the 19th century to connote listlessness and apathy. No one has as yet provided a satisfactory explanation for this condition, either regarding individuals or societies. It has been connected, of course, with a decline in Europe's self-confidence, but that just begs the question of why Europe's self-confidence has been declining.
It seems to have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with beliefs—specifically, belief in the values for which the society stands. Many Europeans cannot figure out for sure what those values are, for the Euro-elites seem to have been struck dumb in this sphere as in no other. The sense of involvement in a great mission, of preaching the virtues of a better world, has vanished. The closest thing to a shared noble cause is now an anodyne, lowest-common-denominator environmentalism. It is hard to generate much enthusiasm for the commandment to separate green glass from brown. The European model has thus approached that of Latin America, whose countries have a common ancestral culture, generally live in peace with each other, and fail to cause the rest of the world much trouble.
Somewhere between the apathy and the tacit desire to "rule the world" lies a ugly truth: their weakness remains a point of risk for US and Asia, beyond bum loans and passivity in the face of dictators flexing their muscles.
The widely held idea remains that it's all okay, because in their VERY unique historical and geographic circumstances, that they have lessons to teach the rest of the world. Hardly. The idea is that they need to believe that they have something to illuminate the world with.
It is not, therefore, unfair to ask what pieces of Europe's "promise" should America and others look to for guidance? To Spain's nearly 20 percent unemployment rate? To Italy's surreal political melodramas under Silvio Berlusconi? To near bankrupt Greece, Portugal or Ireland? To the para-democratic Balkans or still struggling Eastern Europe? Surely not to Britain, which does not belong to the Eurozone. That seems to leave us with perhaps France and Germany, but their present leaders wouldn't recommend their own present models for their want of far-reaching reforms.
Call it a never-ending conversation about the never-ending reformatorium. My sense is that even the talk of reform of this or that is undertaken to reinforce the illusion of their own intellectual facility and depth, which, objectively speaking, is no better developed than any other mature, marginally successful society on earth.
Even that kind of dialogue just makes THEM better at BEING THEM than everyone else, and that's supposed to be the special thing they have to teach the rest of us. That aside, one has to look at the uglier alternatives. To quote Walter Russell Mead:
"A peaceful, prosperous and geopolitically boring continent that exports tedious platitudes about global governance is a far better place than any other Europe we have seen in modern times and American national interests are in no way enhanced by economic and political instability in the Mediterranean — to say nothing of Ukraine and Turkey.
Europe's problems end up in the American in-box."
Which is to say: "take it or leave it".
Carrying on like Peasants, Part MLVXII
Don't get all surprised now.
Germany, in French public debate, has become the scapegoat for the decline of Europe, and France in particular
In other words, success is a cause of failure, and any idiotic explanatory theory will do.
The general view in France is that this Rhe[i]nish mercantilist model, based as it is on strong exports, slows internal consumption and therefore the economic development of the Union.
Let's see now, they're MORE likely to be employed, MORE likely to have higher earnings that their typical French counterpart, and THAT is why they're consuming less, and THEREFORE exporting more.
Germans are notoriously cheap. They are notorious savers, especially in a downturn, but that doesn't, for a million years, explain how RISING exports, which by virtue of numerical comparison, will comparatively lower the percentage of goods NOT exported. The idea that they are consuming less using as evidence a rising export quotient is simply insane, and only plausible if you fume de shit, start your day with a big glass of penis envy.
BBC Allows Bolivian Vice-President to Claim that Forces Opposed to the Evo Morales Government Include "Officials From the U.S. Embassy"
So how's that new diplomacy working for you, Mr. Apologizer-in-Chief?
The BBC's Tim Allman reiterates, without voicing the slightest amount of doubt or skepticism, Bolivian government claims (01:00) that the forces behind the controversial opening of a Bolivian… fruit processing factory (!!) include "some officials from the U.S. Embassy" in La Paz!
In Love with Europe's Sclerotic Charm
It's not really a philosophy, it's a deranged collection of irreverent impulses.
Many of President Obama's advisers want America to emulate Europe. That is, after all, where health care is free, where taxes are high but no one seems to complain, and where the brightest students go to work for the government because the private sector is simply disappearing.
The president's advisers are seeing their wishes come true. While the government is hiring, the private sector is losing millions of jobs rather than creating them.
You were warned – by decades of adolescents yelling "crash the system". Well – there you have it.
Reality does have a price tag
On the Greeek situ:
The crisis is so perilous for Europe that the leaders of the 16 countries that use the euro worked into the early morning Saturday on a proposal to create a so-called stabilization mechanism intended to reassure the markets. On Sunday, finance ministers from all 27 European Union states are expected to gather in Brussels to discuss and possibly approve the proposal.
The mechanism would probably be a way for the states, and possibly the European Central Bank, to guarantee loans taken out by the European Commission, the bloc's executive body, to support ailing economies. European leaders including the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said Saturday morning that the union should be ready to activate the mechanism by Monday morning if needed.
Will the mechanism get at the root of the problem? Put aside boom-n-bust, rating agencies, financial markets, et al, the real problem which created our current embroglio is still firmly in place, statism and those who adhere to its principles. The hack political cycle of governmental promising and spending, followed by governmental spending and promising, capped off by extra doses of governmental promising/spending and governmetal spending/promising, has sent Europe tumbling into the economic abyss. Right now it just feels like your flying, wait until the landing.
Of course, those of us banshees who have been warning of the consequences of this kind of governmental behaviour for years should not rest easily on our "shrill europhobe" sobriquet. Afterall, the same people (statists) and mindset (statism) which caused the problem, are busy setting out to "fix" the problem. In other words, our betters are answering the call to do something. Precisly what go us here in the first place.
Anyone know the odds on what the outcome of the latest "fix" will be?
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Q: How to print the information of each person and count the average age and numbers of people listed in the file I am having trouble reading into a structure from a file. I am confused about how to print the information of each person and count the average age and numbers of people listed in the file.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
/*
The content of the file:
John
male
19
Bill
male
20
Mary
Female
20
*/
struct person
{
    char name[50];
    char sex;
    int age;
};

int main()
{
    struct person coll;
    FILE *fp;
    fp=fopen("person.txt","r");
    if(fp==NULL)
    {
        printf("Cannot open");
        return 1;
    }
    fscanf(fp,"%c %c %d",&coll.name[50],&coll.sex,&coll.age);
    printf("%c",coll.name[50]);
    printf("%c",coll.sex);
    printf("%d",coll.age);
    return 0;
}

A: change
 fscanf(fp,"%c %c %d",&coll.name[50],&coll.sex,&coll.age);

to
fscanf(fp,"%s %c %d",coll.name,&coll.sex,&coll.age);

and,
printf("%c",coll.name[50]);

to
printf("%s\n",coll.name);

It is recommended to check the return value of fscanf() [or, for that, every library function, mostly] to ensure the successful execution.
Next, to count the average age and numbers of people listed in the file. you need to define an array of struct person and read the contents of the file using a loop. Then, as per the logic, you need to calculate the average and print that.

EDIT:
as per the input from the file, you should modify your structure to
struct person
{
    char name[50];
    char sex[7];  //to hold "male" or "female", not "m" or "f"
    int age;
};

and the corresponding read and print statements.
fscanf(fp,"%s %s %d",coll.name,coll.sex,&coll.age);   //should check the return value ==3

and
printf("%s\n",coll.name);
printf("%s\n",coll.sex);

A: The answers given already are correct.
You are using the "%c" (character) specifier for the name. This should be the "%s" (string of characters) specifier. For more info on the specifiers see the table on this page link
Note that in your file content that sex is a word and in your code a char. Reading the first letter should work fine but maybe not want you want to see in your terminal.
I'm not sure if fscanf reads over an end of line so I can't help you there. but you will need to implement some sort of loop to read the rest of the file.
My first post :-) hope it helps.


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Sometimes I like to revel in the oldest prehistoric animals, put aside the great saurian to which we are accustomed to seeing and who are better known and delve me at the beginning of life, dive into the origin of evolution. When existing evolutionary branches were more diverse and where we find primitive animals and, in a way, awaken our imagination.
The Jaekelopterus is a good example. If we read a book of science fiction, books describing other worlds and invented creatures living in it, we could find a Jaekeloptero swimming in its waters.
Brief description of the animal: this prehistoric animal, it is the order of the eurypterids, namely Scorpions sea. Among all species of these ancient scorpions, the bigger the Jaekelopterus.
Together with those dimensions, hunting is the most amazing of all. The Jaekelopterus had two pincers of no less than about 50 cm (16 ft.) in two of its appendages that could extend to grab its prey tightly. Close and personal with a rapid expansion of its appendices remained motionless at predated while it was eating it.
This last detail makes us think one thing. We have said that could reach 2.5 meters long (82 ft.). But when his paws and claws extended, the length of this increased to one meter, reaching measuring 3.5 meters long (115 ft.).
However, no one seems to ensure that it was a true predator, and it seems that this animal could get most of their food from the carrion of other dead animals.
He lived in the Devonian, 390 million years ago, when many of the mainland were still together.
Finally, these animals are a bit in no man's land. It is not known exactly whether they are really related to scorpions, with arachnids or the horseshoe crab.
Etiquetas: Devonian, Jaekeopterus., predator., prehistoric animals., Scorpion giant.
As its name suggests, (Camarasaurus) comes from camera .... but not the camera taking pictures. It refers to the camera as room as hollow, or internal and covered space. This refers to two bone peculiarities: the vertebrae, though robust, are quite hollow inside, and on the other hand, the skull was square and its huge nostrilsgiving the sense of having a very hollow or empty skull.
But what was a Camarasaurus?
It was a herbivore, a great vegetarian 18 meters long and 18 tons. It was a long sauropod like Diplodocus or Argentinosaurus. It was not as big as them, even for a sauropod, had a rather short neck and tail. However, the body was very strong, so experts estimate that could reach 18 tons.
It lived 150 million years ago in what is now North America.
Another curiosity is that when paleontologists mounted their bones, found a lump of hip bones. It has been speculated about this, and apparently could be that it was another brain, hip, not in the head ... I repeat: another brain in the hip. Finally, another brain or nerve plexus great about it .... still no full consensus.
The other curiosity we can emphasize is the domed shape of its skull. The experts believe that this will served as a sounding board to create a sound effect that could be used to communicate with other Camarasaurus. I imagine a Camarasaurus, warning of the attack by a group of Allosaurus, with a sort of nasal sound, similar to today's large ships when they enter port.
The Camarasaurus could not be applied on its hind legs.
Its front legs have claws capable of giving a good blow to their attackers.
Analyzed his teeth, thought to eat vegetables harder than Diplodocus.
It lived in the Jurassic.
To facilitate digestion, it could swallow stones, as is currently done some birds and other herbivores.
Etiquetas: Camarasaurus., Jurassic, North America., prehistoric animals, Sauropod.
The most famous of the Sloths, we all know more or less, is the Megatherium. A ground sloth sturdy-looking, with more than 3000 kg (6.600 lb) . But there is another Sloths, thalassocnus, which has the peculiarity of being prehistoric and water.
The thalassocnus moved slowly and peaceful, sometimes snorkelling hunting dangerous algae and mosses with bladed teeth.
Like the Megatherium, the thalassocnus also had big, strong arms, but not to grab the branches of trees, but to cling to the seafloor, holding well to the underwater rocks while feeding.
This Sloths was not as big or heavy as its cousin the prehistoric ground sloth, in fact, could be bigger for being aquatic as it can better withstand the weight ... but no. The thalassocnus could measure about 2 meters long (40 ft.), and weighs 120 kg (264 lb.). Sometimes he could leave the water and feed on land plants, but not a large as its cousin, it could easily fall prey to predators such as Sparassodonta or Amphicyon.
Anyway, you do not think that it is rare to see a sloth in the water. Sometimes, amazon overflows, and the only way to move from tree to tree is swimming. Here you can see a sloths, swimming ... it does very well.
It existed between the Miocene and Pliocene (between 25,000 and 2.5 million years ago) in what is now known as South America.
The epanterias Amplexus was probably the greatest of all Allosaurus. I say probably because many experts do not consider the rest found, the rest of a different species to allosauros. But this confusion is normal, the only bones that have been found are, 3 vertebrae a coracoid (a part of the body near the shoulder) and a metatarsal (a finger). Of these fossils, after analyzing the experts, it has concluded that they were Allosaurus, which were quite large, even more than the Saurophaganax or Allosaurus fragilis.
The epanterias Amplexus was a theropod (like almost all theropods, bipedal carnivores) allosaurid North America who lived around 150 million years ago ... in the Jurassic.
As to its dimensionsthe measures vary between 12 (39 ft) and 16 meters (52 ft.). Respectively, the first estimate corresponds to those who think that it was only a large Allosaurus fragilis. The measurements between 14 and 16 meters are estimates of those who believe that are treated rather of a different species.
Take for example the case of T. Rex. The Rex measures 12.5 (42 ft.)meters in length. Instead the epanterias Amplexus can reach 14 (45 ft.) meters according to some estimates, however, the most conservative support could reach 12 meters (39 ft.).
The height of one and the other is about 4 meters (13 ft.)high to the hips. If set upright likely it reaches 6 meters. And if we calculate the weight, this would approach between 4 and 5 tonnes (2250 lb.).
Only seeing the data we get an idea of their proportions. In fact, it is considered the longest of all allosáuridos, and larger and heavier than the Allosaurus fragilis ... if he really is a different species allosaurido.
If we saw to it quickly, clearly we would see the differences between epanterias Amplexus the T.Rex. For example, the first has smaller than the second head. Another characteristic feature is that the T.Rex has little arms, however the epanterias Amplexus has a longer and arms with huge claws.
If we had X-ray eyes, we would see that the T. Rex skull is more compact, its bite was stronger. Instead, the epanterias Amplexus had a lighter skull, but the top of his skull was secure with a powerful neck and would aim a bite with the upper teeth as an ax.
Among its favorite foods we would find Camptosaurus, Diplodocus and Stegosaurus ... of the greatest of all herbivores.
Etiquetas: Epanterias amplexus., Jurassic, prehistoric animals., T.Rex., theropods.
Dimorphodon name comes from Greek and literally translate as di "two", morphe, "shape" and odon, "tooth"; "teeth in two forms." I have always liked those names because they are easy to remember, and give us clues about some of its features found.
The Dimorphodon, was a small prehistoric saurian . Although it should be noted that small size at that time was 1.5 meters( 5 ft) . But compared with the Quetzalcoatlus nearly 10 meters wide (32 ft), the Dimosphodon, it was like a dove for a condor.
In short, this size is curious, or maybe not so much .... But while the scientific literature this flying lizard remained in the aforementioned 1.5 meters (5ft) , in the film "Jurassic World" comes to 3 meter size (10 ft). What do not you believe it? Do you think that the film is made in strict compliance accredited science discoveries, or that there is no intention of exaggerating to surprise more and sell more? ... Because here you have proof.
Well, but let's not cruel, the truth is that thanks to films how are you, many young children and adults started to be interested and dive into the world of dinosaurs. It is a kind of social work ..... but hey, let the film we talked about it a while and have not been released.
What was the Dimorphodon? As for the evidence and representations that I have observed, I could say that would be a kind of flying lizard .... a kind of crocodile with wings and the face of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Even still flying, its body and especially the neck, was robust and strong. So it is conceivable that flying was not doing marathons. The sturdy neck responded to a pattern (in nature nothing is wasted) Dimorphodon head was large and heavy for a flying animal. Still, the skull had large openings reducías weight.
Had no peak, but a mouth full of teeth, and this would introduce the topic of the teeth and their name. And in the front was elongated teeth, as long fangs run out, those teeth were prepared to hunt prey in flight (you think mostly fish). Then in the innermost part, the fangs were shorter and robust, not so ready to catch in flight, but to tear flesh from their prey.
"Dimorphodon mount" by Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA - Dinosaur skeleton at the Rainbow Forest Museum.
Etiquetas: Dimorphodon., Jurassic., prehistoric animals., Quetzalcoatlus.