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Healthy meals are provided to residents, the minimum allowable age of residents is 55, there is a doctor on call at all hours, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the property regularly, full-service medication administration is available, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
A visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, an occupational therapist visits and helps residents, this property has been built specifically for memory and dementia care, complimentary transportation is at the disposal of residents, hospice is an option available at this location, residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become, and this community was built in 2008.
Nurses are on staff, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, trained staff can assist with injectable medication, resident parking is available to residents who drive, this property provides complimentary transportation, respite care is offered, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
Speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, staff can help residents monitor their blood sugar, full-service medication administration is available, residents who drive will find parking available to them, complimentary transportation is handy for residents, hospice is an option available at this location, and this community was built in 2006.
Appetizing and nourishing meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, 65 is the minimum age allowed for residents, staff can help residents monitor their blood sugar, complimentary transportation is handy for residents, and hospice is an option available at this location.
Tasty and expertly prepared meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, caregivers at Grand Victorian - Sycamore are trained to spot potential disorientation presented by residents, resident parking is available to residents who drive, Grand Victorian - Sycamore is close to major bus lines, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and the community is licensed for 61 residents.
Healthy meals are provided to residents, 55 is the minimum age allowed for residents, professional nurses are on staff to help you, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this location, full-service medication administration is available, complimentary transportation is at the disposal of residents, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location.
Tasty meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, caregivers at Oakley Courts Assisted Living are trained to spot potential disorientation presented by residents, trained staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it's time to take them, this property provides complimentary transportation, full tubs are available, and the community is licensed for 50 residents.
Nourishing meals are provided to residents, 55 is the minimum age allowed for residents, residents who drive will find parking available to them, transportation is available for additional cost, hospice is an option available at this location, respite care is offered, and residents can arrange for a room at this property that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become.
Delicious and nourishing meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, the minimum allowable age of residents is 65, caring nurses are on staff to help you, residents who drive will find parking available to them, this community provides complimentary transportation, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and full tubs are available.
Delicious and expertly prepared meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, the minimum allowable age of residents is 55, nurses are on staff, and the community is secured for the safety of memory care residents that might be prone to wander.
Nutritious meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, there is a physician on call at all hours, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, a visiting dentist helps residents maintain their dental health, physical therapy can be done without leaving the community by a visiting physical therapist, and the property is secured for the safety of memory care residents that might be prone to wander.
A dentist visits this community regularly, the property is secured for the safety of memory care patients that might be exit seeking, Lincolnshire Place has the training to resolve any aggressive behavior that residents may present, this community administers patient medications, this community provides complimentary transportation, transportation is available for additional cost, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location.


Have you had a good week so far? Good news! It's down hill to the weekend :D. Phew, last nights zumba kicked my bum a bit. I am feeling rather tender this morning.
The size of this plate is exactly the same as any of the other or older Born pretty Store plates. The plate is divided into 4 and each quarter is basically one big image. This means that the images will fit nails of all shapes and sizes. One thing I do want to mention, which is an improvement in my opinion. The back of the plate.
The back of the plate now has a paper backing. I don't know if only the newer plates have this or if they are starting to implement this into all their plates but I think it's fantastic. It is so much easier to hurt or cut yourself on the sharp edges of the plates when it doesn't have this backing. I am a fan, great job Born pretty Store!
I decided to use OPI – Gargantuan green grape (the matte version). It's such a beautiful green and I thought it would be a great, unconventional base for a lace pattern. I started with 2 coats and when it was completely dry I stamped using the bottom left image using the black stamping polish from Born Pretty Store. I then topcoated and called it a day.
Even though the image I used stamped well and transferred beautifully, I did have a slight issue with the top left and bottom right images. It picked up the image perfectly but it either wouldn't transfer (no matter how fast I worked) or it only transferred half of the image. I by no means think this is an issue with the plate. I promised myself to try the image again at another time. At the time, I wasn't able to stamp onto my nails but I did do it on paper (I stamped on paper the first time as well so that I didn't have to redo my nails every time). This time around I managed to stamp each image perfectly. I did use another polish and this might've been the issue in the first place. My point? If you have the same issue with this – or any – plate, try a different polish or even a different stamper if you have one. There are so many factors that could influence different things so don't give up on the plate. I sometimes struggle to stamp well when it is super hot and humid. I can't explain it, it just is the way it is.
If you want to grab this plate for yourself (or any of the others) don't forget you can use my 10% off code as shown below. This code will always be in my sidebar as well as my affiliate link so click on "go buy" and save!
What do you think of this plate? And what do you think of what I did with it? Do you like it with the green? Of course, a swatch.
This is 2 coats with no topcoat. It's a light (but bright) green creme that dries matte. I know there are other version of this polish (a slightly different colour version and a non-matte version) but I really wanted this one. I've also seen many people say the formula is horrid. I didn't find it horrid. It isn't the best but only because it dries quite fast. So it has the tendency to be dry before you have finished applying. It is also quite a chalky matte, which personally, I like. I immediately noticed the quick drying problem so once I got the hang of it I found it quite decent to handle. It was also pretty opaque so 2 coats were more than enough. To be honest, I prefer this matte way more than I like it with topcoat. In fact I think adding the topcoat to this particular design made it lose some of it's appeal for me. I received this one as a gift so thank you SO much! It has been on my wishlist for a while and I really like it.
Do you have this polish? Or maybe another version of it? Let me know what your thoughts are.
Ah man this polish is gorgeous but yes, it looks best matte!
Thank you so much! Hahaha NOOO don't make it stop. Just go with it 😛 I LOVE stamping! yes I do buy my plates online. I am absolutely in love with the Bundle Monster and Pueen plates but Born Pretty Store plates are blowing me away at the moment. They are amazing!


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The Rundown: Cubs Harang-ed in Philly Finale, Chris Coghlan Falls a Double Shy of Cycle, Pelicans Win Game 1 of Championship
Evan AltmanSeptember 14, 2015
Bryan's out traipsing around Europe for a few days, so I'm going to be taking over Rundown duties until he can locate reliable wifi.
As good as sweeping Friday's double-header felt, dropping both weekend games in Philly felt just as bad. The Phillies are an absolute chemical spill of a team right now, to the point where I thought the Cubs might have to break out their throwback hazmat suits for the series.
There are some games you just know your team is going to win, and this was one of them. In this case, the Cubs were facing Aaron Harang, he of the 5.04 ERA and 1.41 WHIP and playing for his seventh different team in as many seasons. And then there's that soul patch. How the Cubs weren't able to just knock this guy all over the yard is beyond me.
With an off-day Monday, Joe Maddon will get the chance to get everyone ready for a four-game set in Pittsburgh. The series will open with another double-header, the Cubs' second in less than a week. They're really going to need to get some mileage out of Jason Hammel in the opener, as the bullpen actually handled the whole game Saturday and had to put in 5 innings Sunday.
Maddon has been trying to give Hammel some rest, so he should have plenty of gas in the tank as the Cubs try to gain ground on the Pirates and maybe grab home-field advantage for the coin-flip game. Jon Lester takes the bump in the second game, and he'll need to be on point as well.
Pittsburgh was able to pull out an extra-innings win over Milwaukee Sunday afternoon, which puts the Cubs 4 games behind them. This series, then, will go a very long way toward determining how the Cubs handle the rest of the season. Win 3 games and they can keep being aggressive in pursuit of the Bucs. A split or worse, and they're going to have to play defense and just hold onto their spot.
Cogs with a big day
Chris Coghlan ended up with 11 total bases after lashing triples in the 1st and 3rd innings, then blasting a home run in the 5th and capping it off with a single in the 9th. Despite the big effort, Cogs scored only 2 runs and had 1 RBI. Because he really can't hit lefties (.095 BA this season), he's only going to face right-handed pitchers, but he's been almost the perfect platoon player.
Pelicans take first step toward title
Myrtle Beach opened its quest for the Mills Cup in Wilmington against the Blue Rocks and came away 3-2 victors in 10 innings. Jorge Soler was 1-4 with a game-tying RBI double in the 6th and Jen-Ho Tseng went 6 innings, allowing a single run on only 3 hits, to fuel the win.
Game 2 is tonight at 6:35 pm ET and then the teams have a day off before heading back to Myrtle Beach for at least one game — and at most three — in what could possibly be a five-game series. It's nice to see potential future Cubs getting postseason experience, regardless of the level, and you like to see the organization experience success.
On a more personal level, I'm very happy for the members of the Pelicans staff who have worked so hard to make this a great part of Cubs baseball. I'm lucky to call some of them friends and they've made me feel like part of their little family. Classy enough to be Cardinals, these birds are providing a great experience to all the fans who attend their games and follow them on social media. From ownership on down to the ushers, they just get it.

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Universal Pictures has just launched an announcement video and poster heralding the 2018 Valentine's Day opening of Fifty Shades Freed.
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades Freed, the third chapter based on the worldwide bestselling Fifty Shades phenomenon. Expanding upon events set in motion in 2015 and 2017's blockbuster films that grossed almost $950 million globally, the new installment arrives for Valentine's Day 2018.


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Disney's new Christmas celebrations include Toy Story Land in 2018
July 9, 2018 Marc N. Kleinhenz0
July 9, 2018 Marc N. Kleinhenz
With Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party starting right around the corner (it kicks off this year on Friday, August 17), it's time for Disney and all good vacation-planners alike to look ahead to the next big seasonal event: Christmas, which begins this year at Walt Disney World Resort on Thursday, November 8.
After the success of last year's expanded holiday offerings, Disney has decided to plus this festive season a little further, adding in a few new offerings at such locations as Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios (including a Christmas overlay for the just-opened Toy Story Land!). There's actually so much going on for 2018, we're just going to get right to it, listing everything out according to theme park or section of the resort.
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom
As has been the custom for many years now, the center of holiday activities at Magic Kingdom is Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, a hard-ticketed event that is held on select nights (more on those in just a moment). In addition to seeing a "scintillating" Cinderella Castle and enjoying complimentary cookies and cocoa, guests will also get to experience Mickey's Once upon a Christmastime Parade, A Totally Tomorrowland Christmas and Mickey's Most Merriest Celebration stage shows, and a special showing of the Holiday Wishes fireworks spectacular.
Event dates are:
Nov. 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 25, 27, 29, and 30
Dec. 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, and 21
Christmas at Epcot
The Epcot International Festival of the Holidays is returning for a return appearance, and it'll once again include Holiday Kitchens (where guests can experience some seasonal treats at the 11 participating World Showcase nations), Chip & Dale's Christmas Tree Spree (an add-on scavenger hunt that takes place all over World Showcase), the Candlelight Processional (which runs from November 22 through December 30), and, of course, the Christmas edition of IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.
(Note: the International Festival of the Holidays starts a little later than Disney World's other festivities, beginning on Sunday, November 18.)
Did you enjoy last year's first-ever Flurry of Fun at Hollywood Studios? Good – so did Disney, and the company is eager to expand on the seasonal platform with even more goodies for 2018.
First up is Sunset Seasons Greetings, the projection-mapping show that transforms the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror into various festive scenes; expect to see new laser effects and, even, snow added this time 'round. Also returning are the Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM nighttime spectacular and Santa Claus himself, who will meet-'n-greet festive guests at the Once upon a Time shop from November 10 through December 24. (If you miss Santa, you can always catch his replacement, Santa Goofy, from Christmas Day onwards [hey – ol' Kris Kringle has to get back to the North Pole, right?].)
But the real excitement for this year's Christmas will be located over at the still-brand-new Toy Story Land, which will be getting into the spirit with a still-unspecified range of "special seasonal fun." Disney did manage to announce one specific in this regard, however: Alien Swirling Saucers will feature Christmas music, which should hopefully be just as eclectic and fun as its normal, everyday soundtrack.
Diwali, the holiday Festival of Lights in India
As part of the theme park's 20th anniversary this summer, Disney threw a major party and rolled out some new experiences, such as the Up! Great Bird Adventure stage show. A special Christmas overlay of this production will be on-hand for this year, and – perhaps most intriguingly of all – it'll include, for the first time ever, Diwali, India's holiday Festival of Lights. If Disney's version looks anything like the real-world celebration, audiences should be in for a real treat here.
In addition to shopping and eating – the two greatest time-honored traditions of Christmas, right? – Walt Disney World's entertainment complex will also host a slew of returning favorites from last year: the Christmas Tree Trail, a collection of various trees themed to various characters, ranging from Minnie Mouse to Mary Poppins; Santa's Chalet, where patrons can meet Old Saint Nick (and Santa Goofy), of course; and Stitch's Holiday Gift Hunt, a scavenger hunt staring the mischievous Experiment 626.
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Marc N. Kleinhenz Marc N. Kleinhenz's first dream in life was to be an astronaut. His second was an Imagineer. While neither completely worked out, he now works exclusively for Orlando Informer as a writer, editor, and podcast co-host. He's also written for 32 other sites (including Screen Rant, IGN, The Escapist, and California Informer [OI's sister site]), has had his fiction featured in several publications, and has even taught English in Japan. Imagineering school won't be too far behind.
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It is true, what John Lennon wrote, about life being about what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. As I type, a tiny, feisty kitten is trying to attack my fingers and my keyboard because he is so playful he can hardly contain himself. You've never seen a cuter kitten, even if all kittens are cute. Keyboard mistakes are his.
El Diablo, aka Tom, aka the Little Dude came into our lives while I was away at Cannes. My sister was housesitting for me and watching my 11 year-old. O!ne day she was driving up Laurel Canyon blvd. and reached the top, where it crosses Mulholland. She saw a tiny little animal on the road and assumed it was roadkill, but then it moved! There were many cars driving by indifferently, as they do all of the time here in LA, when they aren't assholes, but she stopped, scooped =]ihim up and then panicked. Now what?
On her lap was a flea-riddled, nearly dead, certainly in shock one month old kitten. Tiny Tom. She drove back down to our place and retrieved my daughter. They both drove around looking for a vet hospital, or a shelter, or something. They ended up finding one in Van Nuys but they wanted the money up front or they wouldn't take him in. Apparently, so the story goes, my daughter burst into hysterical tears right then and there. A little drama never hurts. They decided to do the right thing and take him in.
I know that it is easy to get hysterical when a girl's life is at stake. Indeed, many of us were worried that the 16 year-old Sunderland was put in harm's way. There was even talk of child abuse charges for her parents. But of course, Abby is the second girl of 16 to attempt this. Another Australian girl had done it already at the same age. Moreover, Abby's brother accomplished the feat at just 17. I feel sure that in the same scenario, if it were a boy feared lost at sea, there wouldn't have been such widespread panic.
But she's a girl, right?
Sunderland's boat was damaged in the storm – something that could have happened to any sailor of any age. I will admit that I was worried for her yes, because she's a girl. As the mother of a 12 year-old I WAY too overprotective. My own ideas about the abilities of girls were challenged. Is a girl more vulnerable out at sea alone? Or can a girl do what a boy can do?
Now that she's been found alive and very much okay – plenty of food, in good spirits – it's easier to be supportive of a girl and her dream. Happy endings are few and far between. I'll take this one, thank you.


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Honda CB Unicorn 160: Review
Honda Unicorn is a very well known name in the Indian two-wheeler industry. Launched a decade ago in 2005, the Unicorn was a very good product offering for its time. Being one of the first bikes in the segment to come equipped with a monoshock rear suspension, the Unicorn was an instant hit. The super refined engine, the halo of owning the Honda badge, a decent looker; the Unicorn ticked almost all boxes for a potential buyer. But then, it went on to stay on sale in the Indian market for a decade. Too much! No? For a 10 year old product, the Unicorn still manages to sell in decent numbers. Dealers even report waiting periods on the old Unicorn when new products are just gathering dust in the showrooms. But what is so great about the Unicorn in today's date? Honestly, nothing! The competition has moved much ahead of what Honda is imagining and offers more competent products by 2015 standards. Unlike Honda milking the Unicorn as a cash cow for 10 years now.
Well, we have to mention that Honda did try their luck with other motorcycle models in the 150cc class. The CB Dazzler & CB Trigger were the best examples of lackluster products just trying to cash in on the Honda badge, but the customer gave both the products a cold shoulder. Why? Well, the Dazzler & Trigger looked much better than the old Unicorn, but then, offered almost similar riding dynamics. The Unicorn had been a tried and tested product with new buyers eventually opting for the older product and Honda had to pull the plug off the new models. Honda then realised that rather than launching another bike with a new brand name, it was a safe bet to bring back the Unicorn nomenclature. The new Unicorn, or the CB Unicorn 160 as the company likes to call it is a decade apart from the first generation Unicorn. Surprisingly, when we spoke to a dealership, he mentioned that there were only 150 bookings for the new model while the old Unicorn had a waiting period. So what does Honda have to offer this time? Is it any good? Or is Honda simply playing it safe by calling it a 'Unicorn'? We took the bike for a spin to find out…
Honda Unicorn, what has changed in a decade?
Styling:
First things first, the new CB Unicorn 160 costs Rs. 80,000 (on-road Delhi) for the standard model. On the other hand, the latest segment benchmark, the Suzuki Gixxer costs Rs. 83,500 (on-road Delhi). Although this makes the Unicorn a cheaper buy, the bike is by no means even close to what Suzuki has to offer. When we say that the competition has zoomed ahead of Honda, we mean it. The CB Unicorn 160 cannot hold a candle in front of the Suzuki Gixxer or the Yamaha FZ Version 2.0. If we have to be realistic, the nearest competitor to the Unicorn 160 would be the likes of Hero Xtreme, Bajaj Discover 150, etc.
In the styling department, the CB Unicorn 160 is very average to look at. It is not bad, but it has absolutely no flare to attract customers except for the Honda badge on the tank. At the front, the Unicorn gets a conventional clear lens headlamp with a bikini fairing. Honda is clearly not interested in fighting it up in the features department. The motorcycle still does not get pilot / position lamps and uses a conventionally placed parking bulb within the headlamp enclosure. Why Honda? Don't you benchmark products with competition? Above the headlamp, you have a small gloss black wind deflector with a Honda sticker on it. The bikini fairing on either side of the headlamp is body coloured and the turn indicators protrude from here. The telescopic front fork is painted in black and holds the body coloured front mud guard, half of which is black plastic. The combi-brake equipped model has a 'combi brake' decal on the front mud guard. Old school 6-spoke black alloy wheels are identical to the decade old Unicorn and house the 240mm front disc brake. For lateral visibility at night, Honda provides an amber reflector on the front suspension fork.
Coming to the side profile, things are the same – boring. There is nothing exciting in the styling department at all. Honda has made use of the body colour, silver & black in the right quantity to break the monotony. The fuel tank made out of metal is mildly sculpted to accommodate your knees while playing around corners. The bike gets a old-school fuel filler cap which comes out completely when you twist the key. Tank gets sharp shrouds on either side where the Honda badge in chrome is slapped. These tank shrouds aren't too big and do not flow all the way down near the engine compartment. Below the tank you get a silver & black plastic side panel which covers up the frame neatly. A small 'HET' (Honda Eco Technology) badge is slapped here. Engine is painted in black and the casing has Honda etched in red paint. Long & contoured seat is a single piece and will offer decent room for the slim as well as heavy riders.
At the back, the new Unicorn gets a 'H' shaped tail lamp which is unique amongst other Honda products. You get a silver grab rail above the tail lamp which comes in handy for the pillion rider. The rear body panel are one piece bolted from the side panel all the way up to the tail lamp. The 'CB Unicorn 160' badge is slapped over here. Honda makes use of a conventional long exhaust pipe, in all-black. It gets a small chrome heat shield to prevent the matte black end can from scratching. Rear mud guard is a full size unit and covers up majority of the rear tyre. Clear lens turn indicators are mounted over here. On the LHS, the saree guard unit is probably the only place where designers spent most time. It looks very classy with a plastic piece covering up the open areas nicely not to allow anything to get stuck in the wheels. Chain also gets a full cover, top & bottom. Rear wheels do not get a disc brake, even as an option. The bike gets a 130mm drum brake with CBS (combi brake) as an option.
The CB Unicorn 160 rides on 80/100/R17 front tyre & 110/80/R17 rear tyre.
Instrumentation & ergonomics:
The new Honda CB Unicorn 160 gets an all-digital instrument cluster, different from the Trigger. The cluster displays the RPM in horizontal bars on top and the speed at the centre, below. Other information displayed includes digital fuel gauge, time, odometer & two trip meters. A couple of tell tale lights are placed above the digital display. When switched off, you can still see the redline markings from 9,700 RPM to 11,300 RPM. Keyhole is conventionally placed under the instrument cluster. And yes, no engine kill-switch being offered till date. The choke switch is oddly placed over the engine casing, on the LHS.
Honda is also known for offering poor quality switchgear, and the story continues with the CB Unicorn 160. Quality of plastic used for the switchgear is very poor. Also, the layout is of bikes from the 90s and not at all in sync with the bikes of today's generation. On the right, you only have the self-start switch while all other controls are placed on the LHS switch. The sliding headlamp on / off switch, press button for high beam are very distasteful for this segment. Conventional handlebar is painted in black and the rear view mirrors offer decent viewing range, although your elbows do eat up some space here.
Riding position of the CB Unicorn 160 is commuter centric. Although the bike slots in the premium performance category based on the price, the seating position is a segment below, almost at par with the Discover 150 & the likes. The rider sits upright with the footpegs placed forward. While this will suit the commuting purpose, it simply won't be liked much by the youth. If me must say, this is a very 'Uncle' seating position. Although focused on the commuter side, the seat isn't very soft. It can tire you after sometime. On the flipside, it is long and very accommodating. Those on the heavier side will also find enough room while riding along with a pillion. For the pillion, there is ample seat room and the grab rail behind is easily accessible. Height of the motorcycle will suit riders of all height. Even for the pillion, hopping on & off is an easy task. Although the tank has been sculpted to accommodate your knees, the seat is raised towards the front not allowing you to make full use of the available knee room.
Overall, the CB Unicorn is a mixed bag. It gets a bigger engine to boast better performance, but wants to deliver only commuter friendly riding dynamics.
Engine, performance & handling:
Powering the CB Unicorn 160 is an all-new single cylinder motor. The engine is now bigger in capacity and boasts 162.71cc compared to the previous 149cc. The new 160cc motor now develops 14.5 BHP of power @ 8,000 RPM & 14.61 Nm of torque @ 6,000 RPM. Engine is matched to a 5-speed gearbox and Honda claims a top speed of 106 kmph for the new Unicorn. There are multiple other changes to the new engine including new sleeve design, new bearings, etc. To keep vibrations under control, Honda has also added a counter balancer on the new Unicorn.
Fire up the motorcycle and this is where the CB Unicorn 160 shines. The engine is very smooth and refined. At idle, it is difficult to tell if the engine is running. The electric starter isn't too loud either and the bike remains calm at idle RPM. The exhaust note on idle is also very, very muted. This is what the old Unicorn owners will connect with while riding this new model.
Slot it in first, wring the throttle and the Unicorn moves ahead with no drama. A noteworthy mention, the clutch of the new Unicorn is super light. One will actually need to get used to this light clutch when new to the bike. This will surely ease up city commuting. Even with two up, the bike moves ahead with very little throttle input. The increase in torque is surely helping the motorcycle in its city rideability. Gearing however is on the taller side. In first gear, if you revv hard, the bike will zoom well ahead of the 45 kmph mark, almost near to 50 kmph. Second gear is good for 80+ kmph which is not very commuter-like if you ask us. The bike has decent mid-range punch and overtaking within the city is an easy task. The gearing is tall, but still, one can ride in top gear at as low as 40 kmph without any engine knocking. City rideability of the new Unicorn is really good.
Move to the highway and the taller gear ratios initially let you have decent amount of fun. However, the 4th & 5th gears are very short and the bike struggles at speeds over 100 kmph. The Unicorn 160 is no mile muncher and sedate riding style is what it suits best for. Power delivery is very linear. The bike lacks top end punch, but clearly, it isn't built for that purpose. On the highways, it is best to ride the Unicorn at about 70 – 80 kmph when the engine is at almost 5,000 – 6,000 RPM. Engine remains smooth at such cruising speeds.
Honda claims a fuel efficiency figure of 62 kmpl for the CB Unicorn 160.
NVH levels are very well maintained. The handlebar remains smooth at all times. Although there are some vibes felt on the footpegs while working your way up with the throttle wide open, we would let this pass. The exhaust note remains very composed while riding under 5,000 RPM and gets a bit throaty as soon as you cross the 6,000 – 7,000 RPM mark. Honda offers an old-school toe & heel gear shifter with the Unicorn 160 which the uncles would like, but younger boys won't. Gearbox is smooth and it did not false shift even once. Finding neutral is also fairly easy.
Dynamically, the Unicorn is again very average. It suits city commuting the most and not meant for being thrown around in the twisties. Suspension setup is soft and soaks up bad roads well. Broken roads are tackled well. But on very bad roads, the bike will result in slightly unwanted vertical movement transmitting jerks to the rider & pillion. Handlebar position is perfect and it is easy to direct the bike out of city traffic. The bike remains stable on city & highway speeds but is a bit nervous during corners, thanks to the soft suspension. Also, the riding position is a giveaway that one must not expect too much fun during corners. The bike rides on MRF Zappers which offer decent grip by segment standards. Tyres have been kept on the narrower side to optimize fuel efficiency. Braking performance is more than adequate and thanks to the CBS (combi brakes), the bike stops in a straight line without drama. A rear disc brake would have rounded off the Unicorn 160 well.
If you're in the market to spend around Rs. 80,000 on a motorcycle, would we recommend the CB Unicorn 160? Well it depends. If you want to have fun, the answer is NO. The Unicorn is a rather boring, commuter centric motorcycle and has no edge over competition. It simply carries forward the no nonsense characteristics and conservative styling to appeal to those looking at function over form. But if you want a punchy & reliable commuter and you care less about riding posture and what the competition offers, sure, the CB Unicorn 160 will pass the test of time. The older CB Trigger gets more equipment in the form of a rear disc brake, but the new Unicorn 160 gets more juice from the engine. Will the new CB Unicorn 160 shine in the sales department? Or will it die a slow death like the CB Dazzler & CB Trigger, only time will tell. Meanwhile, we are sure that if Honda continues with the old Unicorn, that will still be a hot favourite amongst commuters.
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У статистици, табела контингенције (такође позната као унакрсна табела) је тип табеле у матричном формату која приказује (мултиваријантну) дистрибуцију фреквенција варијабли. У великој мери се користе у истраживању с анкетама, пословној интелигенцији, инжењерингу и научним истраживањима. Оне пружају основну слику међуодноса између две варијабле и могу помоћи у проналажењу интеракција између њих. Термин табела контигенције први је употребио Карл Пирсон у "О теорији контингенције и њеној вези са асоцијацијом и нормалном корелацијом", делу биометријске серије истраживачких мемоара  објављеној 1904. године.

Кључни проблем мултиваријантне статистике је проналажење структуре (директне) зависности која лежи у основи варијабли садржаних у високодимензионалним табелама контингенције. Ако се открију неке од условних независности, онда се чак и складиштење података може обавити на паметнији начин. Да би се ово урадило, могу се користити концепти теорије информација, који добијају информације само из дистрибуције вероватноће, која се може лако изразити из табеле контингенције релативним фреквенцијама.

Пивот табела је начин за креирање табела контигенције помоћу софтвера за прорачунске табеле.

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Претпоставимо да постоје две варијабле, пол (мушки или женски) и рукост (десноруки или леворуки). Даље претпоставимо да је 100 појединаца насумично узето из веома велике популације као део студије полних разлика у руковању. Може се креирати табела за непредвиђене ситуације да би се приказао број појединаца који су мушкарци десноруки и леворуки, жене дешњаци и леворуки. Таква табела непредвиђених ситуација је приказана у наставку.

Број мушкараца, жена и дешњака и леворуких појединаца назива се маргинални укупни збир. Укупан збир (укупан број појединаца представљених у табели за непредвиђене ситуације) је број у доњем десном углу.

Табела омогућава корисницима да на први поглед виде да је проценат мушкараца који су дешњаци отприлике исти као и проценат жена које су дешњаци, иако пропорције нису идентичне. Јачина асоцијације се може мерити односом шансе, а однос шансе популације процењен односом шансе узорка. Значај разлике између ове две пропорције може се проценити помоћу различитих статистичких тестова укључујући Пирсонов хи-квадрат тест, Г-тест, Фишеров егзактни тест, Бошлуов тест и Барнардов тест, под условом да уноси у табели представљају појединце насумично узоркованих из популације о чему се изводе закључци. Ако се пропорције појединаца у различитим колонама значајно разликују између редова (или обрнуто), каже се да постоји контингентност између две варијабле. Другим речима, две варијабле нису независне. Ако не постоји контингентност, каже се да су две варијабле независне.

Горњи пример је најједноставнија врста табеле контингентности, табела у којој свака променљива има само два нивоа; ово се зове табела за контигенцију ситуација 2 × 2. У принципу, може се користити било који број редова и колона. Такође може постојати више од две варијабле, али табеле контингентности вишег реда је тешко визуелно представити. Однос између редних варијабли, или између редних и категоричких варијабли, такође може бити представљен у табелама контингентности, иако је таква пракса ретка.

Хи квадрат тест
Хи квадрат тест се може спровести на табелама контигенције да би се проверило да ли постоји или не постоји веза између варијабли. Ови ефекти су дефинисани као односи између редова и колона. Мала вредност хи квадрата значи да постоји мали однос између категоричких варијабли. Велика хи вредност значи да постоји дефинитивна корелација између две варијабле.

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Update On Vince McMahon's New WWE Wild Card Rule And A Potential Issue For The Company
By Marc Middleton | May 07, 2019
Vince McMahon's new WWE Wild Card Rule could end up leading to issues for the company, as described on Wrestling Observer Radio today.
As noted, the rule will see four RAW Superstars appear on SmackDown each week while four SmackDown Superstars appear on RAW each week. The gimmick was created as a response to ratings pressure from NBCUniversal (USA Network) and Fox. Vince did not want to give up the idea of separate brands, but the networks want star power on both shows and there has been a feeling that the brands don't have enough star power individually. Furthermore, it was also reported that Fox wants RAW and SmackDown storylines on the blue brand show when it goes to their network on Friday nights in October. There has been pressure from both networks to have the top WWE Superstars work both shows.
The Wild Card Rule will potentially cause issues for WWE live events, such as false advertising. Due to the way WWE creative operates these days, WWE likely won't plan out these weekly Wild Card Rule appearances in advance, which could lead to incidents where Superstars have been advertised for live events, for weeks or even months, but they're pulled from those live events to appear on TV at the last minute.
While WWE likely won't plan out the Wild Card Rule appearances in advance, it was noted that Roman Reigns is expected to appear on both RAW and SmackDown often. We noted before how NBCU recently asked questions about why WWE gave up a star like Reigns to SmackDown in the 2019 Superstar Shakeup.
Backstage News On Why Vince McMahon Introduced The WWE Wild Card Rule, Pressure From TV Networks
We've reported on how WWE has made recent hires to help bring live event business back up, and they noted during the Q1 2019 earnings call that they are focused on bringing that part of the business back to where it should be. The WWE Wild Card Rule could create more of a decline in live event business, at a time where they're focused on getting it back up. There's no word yet on if the Wild Card Rule really will help with the TV ratings, but we should know within the next few weeks. It's believed that the gimmick could bring a small increase in the numbers, but likely not a huge turn around.
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The 'Specials' at Gettysburg, more from Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and a little learning wherever we can: newsletter, July 16, 2021
July 18, 2021 | By Jim Stovall | Filed in: books, Civil War, history, newsletter, writers, writing.
This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim's email list (2,303) on Friday, July 16, 2021.
More and more, the sentiment showing in mainstream news outlets is that online learning during our year of Covid was a bust and we ought to abandon it as quickly as possible for the glorious education environment of the in-person classroom. To that, I would say: Not so fast.
I hope that sentiment does not seep too deeply into the popular thinking.
It is far too early in the life of online education to declare it a success or failure. And, in fact, neither declaration is helpful or particularly relevant. Online education is here to stay, and our job for the immediate future is to try to assure that it works and to make it available to more people. Our technological environment is too new and too filled with potential to say that online learning is inferior to other types of educational experiences.
We should teach our children to learn whenever they can, whatever they can, and with whatever tools are available. We should also practice what we teach.
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Two 'Specials'—combat artists—at Gettysburg
The Fourth of July always seems to slip by before I can remember that the first week in July was a seminal time in American history.
Two great battles of the Civil War concluded just as America was about to celebrate her 87th birthday: Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
Of these two, Vicksburg was probably the more important one militarily, but it is Gettysburg that most people remember. Gettysburg was Robert E. Lee's last-gasp invasion of the Northern states, leading his rebel army on a campaign that he hoped would break the American spirit and force the Union to sue for peace. Gettysburg was a set-piece battle that took place over three days and involved the classic movements of armies, while Vicksburg was a seven-week-long siege.
Gettysburg was much closer to the media centers of Washington, Philadelphia, and most importantly New York, and newspapers and magazines of the time could cover that battle more thoroughly.
Another reason we are more likely to think about Gettysburg than Vicksburg is because of the "Specials."
The Specials were special correspondents sent out by newspapers and magazines— mostly from the North—to draw scenes from the battles they witnessed. They were artists rather than traditional reporters. Their job was to draw and sketch anything they saw from camp life, to troop movements, to picket-line skirmishes, to full-blown battles.
Today, many of the original sketches made by these Specials are housed in the Library of Congress.
As it happened, there were no Specials at Vicksburg, but there were two, Alfred Waud and Edwin Forbes, at Gettysburg.
Waud (photo) was an Englishman who had immigrated to America in 1850. He had trained as an artist and worked for a time in Boston before coming to New York. There, he was hired by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and when war broke out between the North and the South, he was sent to the Virginia theater to cover the conflict. He produced some of the only images we have of the Battle of Bull Run, the first major encounter between Union and Confederate forces.
Waud's work was so impressive that he was hired away by Harper's Weekly during the first six months of the war.
Waud found that he loved the war, he loved the Army, and he loved drawing on location. He enjoyed being in the Army camp and making friends with the soldiers. Whenever he heard cannon fire, he jumped onto his horse and rode in that direction. The drawings he produced are quick, vivid images that place the viewer in the center of the action—the place that Waud enjoyed being.
Forbes was of a different temperament. Forbes pictured himself sitting on a hillside overlooking a battle and serenely sketching the scenes of lines of troops as they clashed into one another. He found the real battlefield to be quite different. Rarely did he get a panoramic view. More often, he found the lines of battle shifting every few minutes, and often they were heading toward him. Forbes learned that the safest place to view a battle was from behind the lines, and the best time to view it was after it was over.
Still, Forbes was a first-rate artist, and the scenes that he drew for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper are realistic and accurate—sometimes to the point of being heart-breaking.
The drawings of these two men at Gettysburg were gathered together in a book I published several years ago. Below is a press release about the book:
Battlelines: Gettysburg: Civil War Sketch Artists and the First Draft of War, a book of many never-before-published drawings by Civil War combat artists, has just been released by First Inning Press.
This first volume features the drawings of Alfred Waud and Edwin Forbes, the two artists present at the battle of Gettysburg. Waud worked for Harper's Weekly, and Forbes drew for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The book contains more than 70 drawings, many of which were executed on the spot as the battle was in progress or in the evenings during the lulls in the fighting.
Many of the drawings have never been published before.
The book's author is Jim Stovall, a journalism professor at the University of Tennessee.
"These drawings are rarely viewed, except when a few are used as illustrations for magazine articles of books," Stovall said.
"That is an oversight among those interested in the Civil War that I hope we can correct with the series Battlelines."
Stovall said these drawings constitute an extraordinary form of journalism for the time and a one-of-a-kind record to some of the most important events in American history. During the Civil War, the public craved news of the fighting, but oddly—because of a lack of space and march of events—few of these drawings were converted for publication.
"As the events of the war moved on—and then as the war ended—these drawings were largely forgotten," Stovall said. "Many of these were unfortunately discarded. We are very lucky that a few people recognized their value and made efforts to preserve them."
About 3,000 of these drawings have been collected in the Library of Congress. A few more are scattered in library collections around the United States.
During the war, the publications referred to their artists as Special Artists, and they became known as the Specials.
This first volume covers the drawings made during the Gettysburg campaign, beginning with Robert E. Lee's move northward in the summer of 1863 and ending with his retreat back across the Potomac River in mid-July. The focus of the book, however, is on the three days of the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863.
The high cost of hanging onto erroneous opinions
How often are you wrong? Once a day? Once a week? Once a month?
And, more importantly, how often do you admit it—first to yourself and then to others?
We are wrong far more often than we think we are, and we are willing to admit our errors far less often than we should. In not admitting that we are wrong—clinging to the opinions we hold in the face of opposition and evidence—prevents us from achieving the happiness and peace of mind that we seek.
That's the argument of Arthur Brooks in a recent article in The Atlantic:
. . . being closed off to being proved wrong or to having our beliefs challenged has huge costs. Leaders who surround themselves with yes-men have been shown to make costly—and sometimes catastrophic—mistakes. One classic example is the Bay of Pigs debacle, in which President John F. Kennedy's insular cabinet failed to challenge his misguided instincts. Or consider the political punditocracy that assumed Donald Trump couldn't possibly be a serious threat to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and never revised those assumptions. If your goal is to find the truth, admitting you are wrong and changing your beliefs based on new facts makes you better off in the end. This is a primary feature of what philosophers call "epistemic humility." Source: How to Get Better at Admitting You're Wrong – The Atlantic
So, how can we avoid the high costs of defending erroneous beliefs?
Brooks has practical suggestions that can help you achieve the humility that will increase your psychological well-being.
The Prolific Reader. Kill the Quarterback is listed there along with some other great mysteries. https://theprolificreader.com/mystery"
Edward Gibbon: giving voice to the Enlightenment view of history (part 2)
If you read any part of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—and you should if you have never done so—prepare to slow your reading speed down and enjoy the scenery. With just about every sentence, you will be on a journey through Gibbon's intellect, his massive research, and his unique writing style.
Gibbon constructs sentences that begin in one location, dip in and out of opinions and conclusions, travel around theories and hypotheses, recede to the past and look toward the future, and then end often with a punchline.
Here's a sample:
A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire. While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigor from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol. Nor was the influence of Christianity confined to the period or to the limits of the Roman empire. After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed by the nations of Europe, the most distinguished portion of human kind in arts and learning as well as in arms. By the industry and zeal of the Europeans, it has been widely diffused to the most distant shores of Asia and Africa; and by the means of their colonies has been firmly established from Canada to Chili, in a world unknown to the ancients.
But this inquiry, however useful or entertaining, is attended with two peculiar difficulties. The scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church. The great law of impartiality too often obliges us to reveal the imperfections of the uninspired teachers and believers of the gospel; and, to a careless observer, their faults may seem to cast a shade on the faith which they professed. But the scandal of the pious Christian, and the fallacious triumph of the Infidel, should cease as soon as they recollect not only by whom, but likewise to whom, the Divine Revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
The above passage constitutes the first two paragraphs of the infamous Chapter 15 of volume 1, which, along with Chapter 16, traced the rise of Christianity within the Roman empire in secular and not very complimentary terms. (You can read both of these chapters at this link: https://gutenberg.org/files/25717/25717-h/25717-h.htm#chap15.1.)
Reaction to the publication of the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776 was generally favorable from the critics and enthusiastic from the reading public. It became an "instant best-seller," in modern jargon. The publisher had to authorize additional print runs, and Gibbon ended up making a lot of money.
One group of readers was definitely not enthusiastic. Those within the Church of England had closely committed to an idealized version of the early church and its development attacked Gibbon with particular vehemence. Gibbon, they argued, had disparaged Christianity. Gibbon initially ignored these attacks but finally, in 1779, issued a tract that defended his scholarship and its conclusions. The tract, A Vindication … of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was his final word on the topic until later in life when he began writing his unfinished memoirs.
Volumes 2 and 3 of Gibbon's tome were published in 1781, and the last three volumes were in print by 1789.
On the whole, Gibbon seemed to be saying that the Roman empire fell because of a decline of civic virtue and that the rise of Christianity, in an odd way, precipitated that decline. But Gibbon's conclusions are rarely conclusive. They are always qualified, and Gibbon always seems open to new evidence should it come along.
Gibbon spent the last years of writing his history in Switzerland, largely because it was cheaper to live there than in England. He never married and died in 1794, barely five years after the last volume was published. He was 56 years old.
The Devil's Dictionary (continued)
A few weeks ago, we took a look at The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, a book you should know more about. Bierce was a Civil War combat veteran who became one of the nation's foremost writers and cynics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are some more of the dictionary's entries:
HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of Othello is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day—an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.
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Sarah W.: I agree with you that there is a prevalence in the media towards portraying teenagers as sullen, angry, and disinterested, and it's a shame because many young people aren't this way. Everyone has their moments, but teenagers seem to get a bad rap on the whole and lumped into a "difficult" category simply because of their age. I wonder if this is because it's an easy out for screenwriters and directors to cast a stock character "sullen teenager," but it does a disservice to young people. They are the ones who will grow up to be leaders and creators in the world, and if the media keeps portraying them as negative and angry, what does that say about our hope for their future and our faith in them? Many young people are engaging and interesting, and young people deserve to see some positive images and examples of themselves in the media because "teenager" is not a one-size fits all category.
I read a lot of young adult fiction, and the portrayal of teenagers is better there since the authors write specifically for that target audience. And since the authors want readers to connect with the characters, there is more depth paid to these teenage main characters for readers to see themselves in, and empathize with. Maybe directors and screenwriters should take a page out of the young adult authors' books to see how varied, intelligent, and caring young people can be.
Finally . . .
This week's watercolor: European cup
Best quote of the week:
We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer (1933-2015)
Helping those in need
Fires in California, freezing weather in Texas, hurricanes on the Atlantic Coast, tornados in Tennessee, and now coronavirus — disasters occur everywhere. They have spread untold misery and disruption. The people affected by them need our help.
It's not complicated. Things happen to people, and we should be ready to do all the good we can in all of the ways we can. (Some will recognize that I am paraphrasing John Wesley here).
When is the last time you gave to your favorite charity? The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR.org) is my favorite charity. Please make a contribution to this one or to yours.
Keep reading, keep writing (especially to me), and have a great weekend.
Jim Stovall
www.jprof.com
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Q: How much experience does a guild get per person for a boss kill? How much xp does one get for a guild boss kill in cataclysm?  I can't find a guide for this anywhere.
To be more specific: How much guild xp would be gained given the following circumstances?  It makes more sense to record the amount of xp given per person.  That way the amount of guild xp can be extrapolated exactly based on the number of guildies in the run.

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*5 man regular dungeon (24800 xp per person, with guild lvl2)

*5 man heroic dungeon (37800 xp per person, with guild lvl6)

*10 man regular raid (27800 xp per person, with guild lvl6)

*10 man heroic raid

*25 man regular raid

*25 man heroic raid

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Guild xp for boss kills is scaled on a few factors.

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*Amount of guild members present (more xp for raids, since they are limited to once a week)

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*20/25 - 25 player raid

*8/10 - 10 player raid,

*3/5 - dungeons

*8/25 - Old 25 and 40 man raids (Vanilla, TBC, and WOTLK)

Straight from Blizzard's Mouth (Source)

The amount of experience gained scales, with 3/5 guild members granting 50% normal guild xp, 4/5 giving 100%, and 5/5 giving 125% guild xp. The amount gained from each boss scales with your level relative to the boss's level, with Heroic bosses worth even more (1.5x). It pays off to have a full group of guild members!

A: All of these assume you were in a guild group. The comp of the guild group doesn't matter (4 or 5 guildies)

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*5 man regular dungeon (24800 xp per person, with guild lvl2)

*5 man heroic dungeon (37800 xp per person, with guild lvl6)

*10 man regular raid (27800 xp per person, with guild lvl6)

*10 man heroic raid

*25 man regular raid

*25 man heroic raid

I realize this is incomplete, but it's the best answer so far.  It's from my own in-game experience.  Feel free to comment with your findings and I'll add them here.

A: It varies by level of boss and yourself, just like xp.
You will get level 25 in a about a honest year, just like everyone else. Adding more people to the guild helps with days where people might not all be online. That's about it.

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2023 / 1 / 12
New documentary traces the life and career of pianist Dave McKenna
By Adam Feibel
A new documentary film tells the life story of jazz pianist Dave McKenna.
Directed by Greg Mallozzi, The Key Man: Dave McKenna is currently streaming on Quincy Jones's Qwest TV.
Born and raised in Rhode Island, McKenna began his career in Charlie Ventura's orchestra and over the years played with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Zoot Sims, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa and Stan Getz.
Throughout his career, McKenna was largely known as a solo pianist with superlative improvisational technique and a signature style known as "three-handed swing." He recorded 15 albums as a leader, plus more as a side player with Ed Bickert, Urbie Green, Zoot Sims and others.
"It is because the documentary subtly sketches the enigmatic side of the personality of Dave McKenna that we understand why his modesty, his shyness, his fondness for drink, his desire to play in clubs rather than on long tours meant that he never achieved the notoriety he deserved," reads a synopsis of the film.
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Joe Huddleston of Ernst & Young and former Executive Director of the Multistate Tax Commission and Former Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Revenue, speaks on the potential impact of Federal tax reform on the States.
Joe Huddleston is Executive Director at Ernst & Young. Formerly he served as the Executive Director of the Multistate Tax Commission and the Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Revenue.


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Q: Running .jar in Linux terminal I have a .jar file which is console based. I would like to run it in Linux via SSH. So far I am able to run it and see the output.
However, after disconnecting and then reconnecting to the terminal, how can I access the output from the Java program again?

A: Do you want to leave the Java application running, even after you disconnect? If so, install screen. screen allows you to create persistent sessions allowing you to keep programs/scripts running in their own session even after you log out of SSH.
If you're on Ubuntu or any Debian-based distro, installing screen is easy:
# apt-get install screen

To create a session:
$ screen -R sessionName

Start your Java application in the session and then when you are ready to detach and let it run in the background, type Ctrl+A and then D. You can then safely disconnect from the SSH session.
To re-attach to the screen session, execute:
$ screen -r sessionName

The Screen man pages describe all of the other arguments and flags if you want to learn more.

If you simply want to save the output of the application for later reading, redirect stdout to a file:
$ java -jar my.jar > output.txt

A: alternately you could also use Tmux, a more modern alternative to screen


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Home » D'Angelo Russell Is Poetry on the Court. Take It From a Poet.
D'Angelo Russell Is Poetry on the Court. Take It From a Poet.
by Lightlynews.com · On February 16, 2019 · In Basketball / Sports
The poet and the purpose guard have by no means met. But they see the parallels of their crafts — the push-pull between creativity and pragmatism, between daring and secure.
Before this season, Mikko Harvey, an award-winning poet lengthy enamored of the taking part in model of D'Angelo Russell, puzzled if the Nets would ever discover a place for his or her new level guard, whose imaginative play can vacillate between the attractive and the boneheaded.
Do you throw the no-look cross for magnificence's sake when a sensible cross would do?
Do you write poetry or paint portraits when nearly another profession is the extra prudent selection?
"Rooting for D'Angelo looks as if a vote for artwork and a vote for creativeness and a vote for whimsy," Harvey mentioned. If that's the case, whimsy is successful. At 22, Russell will play in his first N.B.A. All-Star sport on Sunday.
Harvey started rooting for Russell after they had been at Ohio State 5 years in the past — Harvey as a graduate scholar, Russell as a freshman for the Buckeyes. Harvey fell in love with the artistry of the purpose guard's play.
Watching Russell is like seeing a skateboarder midair, hovering by means of a collection of dizzying flips and twists, Harvey mentioned. "You maintain your breath questioning whether or not or not he's going to land it."
When advised of the analogy, Russell nodded. "I can relate," he mentioned. "It's threat versus reward. I play freely, nearly with an edge taking what the protection offers, but additionally taking what I need. And that's both a tricky shot that goes in or a tricky cross that will get by means of. It can both be a turnover or an air ball.
"There's a stability. I feel that's the place my success has come from, discovering that stability this season. But for coaches, it may be hair-pulling, turning it over too many instances or attempting to make a house run cross or shot too many instances."
So far, the chance is paying off. Russell has change into the chief of a staff that has exceeded expectations. At 30-29, the Nets have surpassed final season's victory complete with lower than a 3rd of the regular-season schedule remaining.
The award-winning poet Mikko Harvey, who attended Ohio State concurrently Russell, mentioned that "rooting for D'Angelo looks as if a vote for artwork and a vote for creativeness and a vote for whimsy."CreditMaija Harvey
In his fourth season within the league, Russell his discovered success by staying true to his interior artist whereas working throughout the Nets system. Through 58 video games, he has averaged profession highs in factors (20.Three), assists (6.6), area objective proportion (43.6), Three-point area objective proportion (37.2) and free throw proportion (82.four).
"There is a artistic gene that he has," Nets Coach Kenny Atkinson mentioned. "Artists drive you loopy typically as a result of they need to maintain increasing, and there must be a self-discipline. Sometimes, he will get too artistic. His greatest strengths generally is a weak point, however his creativity and our construction have change into marriage. The extra I've gotten to know him, the extra I let him be extra artistic. Sure, I can get upset at instances, however I'm going in direction of giving that child extra freedom."
Though Russell's artful performs have outweighed the knuckleheaded ones this season, there are occasions when Atkinson desires to drag out fistfuls of hair. In October in opposition to New Orleans, with the Nets forward by a degree with 7.5 seconds left, Russell glanced left, figuring out Caris LeVert was to his proper. His no-look cross sailed far past LeVert's attain and out of bounds, and the Pelicans went on to win.
"I wasn't no-looking simply to no-look," Russell mentioned, including that he miscalculated the pace of the minimize. "But I ought to have been trying."
More lately in opposition to Boston, with the Nets behind by 7, Atkinson sat Russell for the ultimate eight minutes 42 seconds, regardless that the purpose guard had scored 25 factors in 24 minutes. After Russell loafed on two rebound makes an attempt and turned the ball over twice, Atkinson pulled him for what he known as a "teachable second."
After the loss, Russell accepted duty with out criticism, an indication of his progress since coming to the Nets.
Russell's management abilities now are miles from the immaturity that plagued his rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers, who drafted him because the second general choose in 2015. That yr, he made a secret recording of his teammate Nick Young admitting to dishonest on his fiancée on the time, the rapper Iggy Azalea. The video grew to become public, Young and Azalea broke up, and locker room dysfunction adopted. After two seasons, the Lakers traded Russell to the Nets.
"D'Angelo is a wonderful participant," Magic Johnson, the Lakers' president, advised reporters in 2017 after introducing Russell's alternative, Lonzo Ball. "He has the expertise to be an All-Star. We need to thank him for what he did for us. But what I wanted was a frontrunner. I wanted someone additionally that may make the opposite gamers higher and likewise that gamers need to play with."
Russell has change into exactly what Johnson desired: an All-Star, a frontrunner and somebody who makes these round him higher.
"He makes it enjoyable to play as a result of he makes sport lots simpler," ahead Joe Harris mentioned. "He's a cerebral participant. If somebody doesn't get a contact, he's enthusiastic about find out how to get them in rhythm."
Russell, proper. placing up a shot in opposition to the Warriors' Quinn Cook in November. Nets Coach Kenny Atkinson mentioned that Russell's "creativity and our construction have change into marriage."Credit scoreKyle Terada/USA Today Sports, by way of Reuters
On a current journey, whereas the remainder of the staff was napping on the airplane, Atkinson tapped Russell on the shoulder and advised him that he had been named an All-Star — Russell can be a reserve, changing the injured Victor Oladipo. Russell held again tears.
"Going into the season, I don't suppose anybody, myself included, thought I'd be an All-Star," Russell mentioned. "I really feel like what I've been by means of within the league, I've discovered once you focus and purchase into your craft, unexpectedly you search for and good issues occur."
And with the great comes one thing else: stress.
Like most Nets followers, Harvey, the poet, is thrilled with the staff's success but additionally crammed with other-shoe-drop nervousness. As the Nets inch nearer to a playoff spot, what if the lure door opens and so they fall nearer to the cellar? Or what if Russell regresses?
"Even when issues are going properly, I'm so used to them falling aside," mentioned Harvey, 26, who beforehand lived in Brooklyn, the place he taught artistic writing and labored as an editorial fellow at Poets & Writers Magazine.
The poet's fandom left the confines of his creativeness final yr when in an interview with a Canadian literary weblog, he was requested to explain his secret web obsession. He confessed: "I watch his video games, learn suppose items about him on the NetsDay by day fan web site, sustain along with his Instagram, and so on. He often seems in my desires."
If discovering a stability between the daring play and the restrained one is what Russell has discovered this season, Harvey after all sees a parallel to poetry.
"It's not straightforward to mix his sort of unpredictable power right into a set system," Harvey mentioned. "And but that's one of many lovely challenges of artmaking: discovering methods to innovate inside construction. A poem could be wildly creative even whereas following an 18th-century rhyme scheme. His creativity actually shines when he has system to both fall again on or react in opposition to — his creativeness has change into way more coherent."
Harvey depends on an essay, "The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, to explain the artistic course of. It takes exhausting work to change into an excellent artist, however it additionally requires one thing mysterious and intuitive.
"Like a chunk of ice on a sizzling range, the poem should experience by itself melting," Frost wrote. "A poem could also be labored over as soon as it's in being, however will not be fearful into being. Its most valuable high quality will stay its having run itself and carried away the poet with it. Read it 100 instances: It will perpetually maintain its freshness as a petal retains its perfume. It can by no means lose its sense of a which means that after unfolded abruptly because it went."
When the phrases are learn to Russell, his eyes develop extensive. "I went to Robert Frost Middle School," mentioned Russell, who's from Louisville, Ky. "That's fascinating. I like the best way he did that. I get it.
"Just so far as the psychological course of goes, once you put phrases in a poem, it's a must to suppose what number of outcomes the reader will give you. Like Robert Frost mentioned, it by no means will get previous, you may learn it 100 instances and it retains its freshness. You can take that over to basketball. Your thoughts can take your sport to so many various ranges. It completely relates."
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Roger Federer Chases 100 Titles, Then Connors


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Q: Focus first UserControl child inside LayoutControl when it gets focus via tab I have a UserControl (MyControl) that contains a LayoutControl which contains multiple editors (e.g. textedit). I put that Usercontrol inside a Layoutcontrol, that has multiple editors itself. So basically my hierarchy becomes as follows (names for further reference in quotations - "")
BaseControl{
    LayoutControl{ "OutsideLayout"
        ... multiple Controls "OutsideControls"
        UserControl{ "MyControl"
            LayoutControl{ "InsideLayout"
                TextEdit "StreetEdit"
                ...multiple Controls "InsideControls"
                TextEdit "LandEdit"
            }
        }
    }
}

When I tab through the OutsideControls, everything is fine. Once I've reached the last in line, the next tab will bring me to MyControl and by that directly to StreetEdit. I tab further, through the InsideControls and reach LandEdit. When I tab out of LandEdit, I reach the first OutsideControl, so basically where I started.
Everything as expected so far, here comes my problem:
If I tab through again, and tab into MyControl, this time, instead of focusing StreetEdit, it will focus LandEdit.
My question becomes: is it possible to focus StreetEdit when MyControl gets stepped into via tab?
I tried the Enter-Event but there are two problems with it. First, I don't want it to fire when I click a specific control and Enter-Event doesn't take EventArgs that would tell me the cause to differentiate. Second, somehow using something like StreetEdit.Focus() does not work. Can anyone explain why that is?
Update (semi-solution)
I found a solution myself, but it is neither what I hoped, nor what I was looking for.
The LayoutControl has OptionsFocus, which has a property called EnableAutoTabOrder. All I did was set it to false. Now everything works as I wanted but not exactly the way I wanted. LayoutControl seems to provide a feature where it automatically manages tab order, which would be a nice thing to have, but with the solution I came up with now, that feature is disabled and I need to manage the tab order manually.
So I am still looking for a solution where this feature is not disabled and I get my desired result.


It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered—a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.
This is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.
Once upon a time, in far-off England, there was a small village surrounded by a mighty forest, where a dark stranger, one Francis Fairfax, arrived to build a stately home. Fairfax Manor was renowned throughout the land for its feudal pleasures, its visit from the Queen, and the mysterious beauty of Lady Fairfax, who one day cursed the Fairfax name and vanished into the forest, never to be seen again except in a ghostly haze. Fast-forward to 1960…Over the centuries the forest has been destroyed, and the Fairfaxes have dwindled, too; now they are the local grocers to their suburb of Glebelands, a family as disintegrated as its ancestral home. It is here that young Isobel Fairfax awakens on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, a day that will change everything she knows and understands about her past and her future. Helping celebrate if one could call it that are the members of her strange and distracted family: There is Vinny, Maiden Aunt from Hell; Gordon, Isobel's father, who disappeared for seven years; and Charles, her elder brother, who divides his time between searching for aliens and waiting for the return of their long-gone mother, Eliza. And back again…As her day progresses, Isobel is pulled into brief time warps and extended periods of omniscience, from the days of the first Fairfax to the roaring twenties to World War II, through which she learns the truth about her family and about her mother, whose disappearance is part of the secret that remains at the heart of the forest.
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a "J." Soon, Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home, her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not: With the woman's identity papers in hand, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret.
On exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents form the fabric of an epic story – complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.
I always feel that when reading about this period of our history, the Holocaust and its accompanying literature should be taken in small pieces due to its intensity and the emotions it can bring out in the reader. This is one small piece that was worth reading but it wasn't as mind-blowing as other true accounts I have read. I actually feel a little guilt at only giving 3 thumbs to a book written about a holocaust survivor, as each survival story is remarkable in and of itself, but this book didn't capture me in the way others have, and I found the Author really hard to connect with.
With that said, this book opened my eyes to a part of the Holocaust I had heard of, but never really read anything about; the story of a Jew in Nazi Germany living as a non-Jew, or as they were known a 'U-boat'. This book gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'living with the enemy'. I was totally immersed in the paperwork and rationing involved in Germany at this time, and along with the presence of mind required by the Author to remember who she was at any given moment, and to keep her cool when questioned I found myself pulled more into the era and life then, than I was towards the Author herself.
The evidence of how the Author had to harden her emotions to everyday events, something that she still carries with her today, was apparent in the way in which this book was written. Events were put on the page in a very matter of fact manner and with very little emotion, this also spilled over to others mentioned in the book, as they came across as one-dimensional and with little to no depth. This made it very hard to figure out their personalities and the motivation behind their actions; but maybe I was looking for too much in what is an account of an extraordinary life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Holocaust fiction as they might find a viewpoint on this period they had not read before.


CYPECAD is software for the analysis and design of reinforced concrete and steel structures, subject to horizontal and vertical loads, for homes, buildings and civil work projects. Has the ability to create design drawings.
The geometry of the structure can be introduced automatically. The user can customize the design and edit the elements that have been introduced, with the on-screen support provided: numerous help options and error and warning texts. Provides very complete and precise construction drawings of the structure. CYPECAD incorporates the latest national and international construction codes.


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Raúl Castro's daughter first lawmaker to vote 'no' in Cuban parliament
Mariela Castro felt labour code against workplace discrimination based on gender, race and sexual orientation did not go far enough
Associated Press in Havana
Tue 19 Aug 2014 11.11 EDT First published on Tue 19 Aug 2014 11.11 EDT
Mariela Castro's 'no' vote has caused surprise in Cuba, where even widely criticised measures pass unanimously. Photograph: Franklin Reyes/AP
Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, has given an unprecedented "no" vote in the Cuban parliament to a workers' rights bill she felt didn't go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.
None of the experts contacted by Associated Press could recall another "no" vote in the 612-seat national assembly, which meets briefly twice a year and usually approves laws by a unanimous show of hands.
"This is the first time, without a doubt," said Carlos Alzugaray, a historian and former Cuban diplomat. He said even measures that were widely criticised in grassroots public meetings, such as a law raising the retirement age, had passed unanimously in the assembly.
Few in Cuba were even aware of the vote, which took place on 20 Decmber last year, until after the measure was enacted into law this summer, at which point gay activists publicised the vote by Mariela Castro, who is the island's most prominent advocate for gay rights.
Arturo Lopez-Levy, a Cuban analyst who lectures at the University of Denver, suggested it might "open doors for other important initiatives". Mariela Castro herself seemed to hint there could be more debate in the assembly.
"There have been advances in the way things are discussed, above all the way things are discussed at the grassroots level, in workplaces, unions and party groupings," she said in an interview posted in late July on the blog of Francisco Rodriguez, a pro-government gay rights activist. "I think we still need to perfect the democratic participation of the representatives within the assembly."
Others are sceptical about whether Castro's no vote will set a precedent. "I would say that this is more a sign of what Mariela can get away with than a sign of what your everyday parliamentarian can get away with," said Ted Henken, a professor of Latin American studies at Baruch college in New York.
Castro has often taken stands that challenge the social status quo, while firmly supporting the Communist government.
The new labour code bans workplace discrimination based on gender, race and sexual orientation. But it has no mention of HIV status or gender identity. "I could not vote in favor without the certainty that the labour rights of people with different gender identity would be explicitly recognised," Castro said in the blog interview.
Raúl Castro himself has been slowly shaking up Cuba's system by allowing some limited private-sector activity and scrapping a much-loathed exit visa requirement. He has made it clear, though, that the Communist party will continue to be the only one permitted.
The vast majority of assembly members keep their regular jobs and are not professional lawmakers. Laws are generally drafted by a handful of legislators and are discussed with Cubans before being presented to parliament.
There was no response to requests for an interview with Mariela Castro, who heads Cuba's National Centre for Sex Education, an entity under the umbrella of the health ministry.
She has spoken in the past about wanting to legalise same-sex unions, though concrete legislation to that effect has not materialised. That LGBT rights is even a matter of debate is a sign that much has changed since the 1960s and 70s, when gay islanders were routinely harassed and sent to labour camps along with others considered socially suspect.
In recent years, Fidel Castro expressed regret about past treatment of gays, and today Cuba's free and universal health care system covers gender reassignment surgery. But activists say old attitudes and prejudices die hard, meaning the LGBT community needs more legal protection.
Rodriguez and about 20 others from Project Rainbow, a group that advocates for sexual diversity, recently sent a public letter urging Mariela Castro to introduce legislation to amend the labour code. "These are not minor details," Rodriguez said. "They are social problems we have in contemporary Cuba."
Aids and HIV
Cuba imposes restrictions on goods in travellers' luggage
Government clamps down on large amounts of foreign-bought merchandise brought into the island
Published: 1 Sep 2014
Cuban photographer asks world: 'Do you recognise this girl?'
Twenty years after taking a photo of a girl on a makeshift raft, William Castellanos seeks to identify those he saw fleeing the island


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import org.consumersunion.stories.common.client.event.StateSearchEvent;
import org.consumersunion.stories.common.client.service.RpcMetricsServiceAsync;
import org.consumersunion.stories.common.client.service.response.DatumResponse;
import org.consumersunion.stories.common.client.util.ResponseHandler;
import org.consumersunion.stories.common.shared.dto.StoriesCountByState;
import org.consumersunion.stories.common.shared.service.datatransferobject.CollectionData;

import com.google.inject.assistedinject.Assisted;
import com.google.inject.assistedinject.AssistedInject;
import com.google.web.bindery.event.shared.EventBus;
import com.gwtplatform.mvp.client.HasUiHandlers;
import com.gwtplatform.mvp.client.PresenterWidget;
import com.gwtplatform.mvp.client.View;

public class MapPresenter extends PresenterWidget<MapPresenter.MyView> implements MapUiHandlers {
    interface MyView extends View, HasUiHandlers<MapUiHandlers> {
        void displayData(StoriesCountByState countByState);

        void remove();
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