That's certainly what her New York label, Island Records, was telling her – and for good reason.
In April 2014, the Canadian singer/songwriter's smash hit Hideaway climbed to No.1 on the UK Singles Chart.
In the months before this feat, it had won influential backing from BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac, who made the then-independent track a staple of her on-air shows.
Hideaway went on to go multi-Platinum in Italy and Canada, Platinum in the UK and Germany, and Gold in the US – not to mention becoming one of Island's rosiest commercial triumphs of 2014.
Written entirely by Kiesza with her producer, Rami Samir Afuni, the track has now been streamed more than 700m times across YouTube and Spotify alone.
Kiesza, often cited as a streaming-first case study by Spotify at the time, had the world at her feet; she was forward-thinking, self-writing, hitmaking artist with the global backing of a $6bn-a-year corporation in Universal Music Group.
But then, the wind changed.
Despite bursting out of the blocks with one of 2014's smashes of the summer, and being backed as a priority global artist by a US major label, Kiesza's commercial stock soon began to slip.
Her follow-up to Hideaway, Giant In My Heart, was released four months later in August 2014.
It became a UK No.4, but promotion and radio support, especially in the States, noticeably tapered off.
In October 2014, the album from which both tracks were taken – Sound Of A Woman – arrived, but it underperformed, coming in at No.40 in the UK and No.42 on the Billboard 200.
Today, less than five years on, Kiesza is fresh out of her deal with Island Records, and fully independent. She is optimistic, too, having recently joined forces with Carl Hitchborn, founder of British independent label High Time Records, who is committing to the singer/songwriter like no-one has before.
Kiesza, then, finds herself in an unusual position.
She is full of positivity for the second phase of her career, but also free to tackle a difficult question – one which which major-signed acts typically never get to publicly answer: How did a bright new talent get so buried, so quickly, after contractually committing herself to the upper echelons of the music business?
The answer is a cautionary tale for any self-starting artist with a label contract in their hand – and/or any wisp of naivety about the hard-hearted expectations it may contain.
Initially, Kiesza created and released Hideaway – including its award-winning, one-shot video – entirely independently.
The record was signed to Lokal Legend, the indie label of her producer and collaborator, Rami Samir Afuni, who also happened to be an A&R at Island.
Once Annie Mac started backing the song, however, major labels started to circle.
A meeting was taken with Atlantic, but – at the behest of her producer and other team members, says Kiesza – "it was always going to be Island".
A deal was struck in early 2014 with Island, then run by David Massey. It was agreed that Hideaway would remain quasi-independent until it reached No.1 in the UK, at which point the global Island machine would engage.
The problem, according to Kiesza, was rooted in divergent ambitions: Island wanted "another Hideaway", to prime the EDM-hungry pump of US radio; Kiesza, in contrast, wanted to lay the pathway to becoming a varied career artist – one able to shift across, and indulge in, multiple genres.
This ability to flit between different styles had previously served her well in writing rooms, and caught the attention of Stellar Songs/Sony/ATV – where she signed for publishing in late 2013.
But in Island, she says, she found a label whose focus on US pop radio left little space for anything that wasn't "more of the same".
"Hideaway was like a unicorn – it wasn't a normal situation," she tells MBW.
"When things are successful in this business, people start to change – they start to grab, and they show their true colors. And when something goes as quick as Hideaway, they can change in an instant.
This growing tension between artist and label was made worse, says Kiesza, by a management company which was keen for her to plough a Hideaway-like dance-pop furrow.
When Kiesza presented follow-up single Giant In My Heart to her team, she observes, "everyone got terrified".
"Because Hideaway was still going so fast, the label was like, 'It needs to go straight to radio [in the US],' instead of building it organically and allowing some time for the sound to crossover," she says.
"I knew it was too soon to go that hard that quickly on radio, and different states would need time to adjust to a house song.
At this point, Kiesza started to suspect people within her label were deliberately passing responsibility for her campaign – particularly, making money available for videos – to one another, leading to a sense that nobody could sign off on the backing she required.
"They all freaked out because it wasn't Hideaway," she says. "I told them it was going to take longer, because we'd started to notice that it was gradually becoming a super-fan favorite; many of my fans connected with Giant in My Heart on a deeper and more personal level than Hideaway.
Kiesza says she and her choreographer, Ljuba Castot, began independently promoting the track at club nights in the UK and New York, attaching it to pop-up performances of Hideaway – a move she believes was instrumental in its Top 5 UK performance.
She adds: "I haven't met anyone in the music industry who isn't the nicest person I've ever met. They hug you, embrace you, and talk about all these plans.
Things went from bad to worse when Kiesza pressed for the label to promote Sound Of A Woman, a strings-led dramatic ballad, as her third single.
Sound Of A Woman was eventually released, with muted support, as Kiesza's fourth single on May 2015 – over a year after Hideaway had taken charts and dancefloors by storm.
The artist was in despair. She was beginning to feel her career slipping away from her – and had twigged that her record company now viewed her as a problem signing.
The lowest point came in the months following Sound Of A Woman's release.
There's no getting around the fact this is a pretty manipulative thing for someone to say to a young woman who, by nature of her career, holds a microscope up to her self-image more than your average Jane.
Yet, to her credit, Kiesza continues to see the argument from both sides.
"None of these people were bad people – I think they were completely ruled by fear when things were new or uncertain.
"It was the same for the label, my management and on tour: you start getting treated like a porcelain doll, or a baby. People don't want you to get upset, so they hide what's going on from you.
"It was really stressful, walking into rooms when there'd clearly been an argument going on – at which point it would fall silent. Once, on tour, I was even asked to leave a meeting which was about me. It's so strange.
"I think it's because, while everyone wants you to do what they want, they're also kind of afraid of you – there's this fear on every level.
Kiesza credits David Massey with introducing her to Stuart Price, who is now working with her on new material – including new single Phantom Of The Dancefloor, out August 10, which ambitiously mixes operatic trills, gothic meltdowns and a deep-wobble house chorus.
Massey's recent departure from Island to Arista, says Kiesza, enabled her to break away from the Universal label; there was a 'key man' clause in her original deal which permitted her to go when Massey did.
Eventually, Kiesza also decided to leave her second management company, after growing tired of "calls going unanswered".
After three-and-a-half years of working together, and having already presented a complete concept album, Kiesza terminated her agreement with Crush.
Today, however, Kiesza has good reason to believe in the future – and a new, effusive champion in Carl Hitchborn.
As per High Time's standard artist deals, Kiesza will now see her management, label, branding, sync and live activities all handled by a single global team.
Hitchborn and Kiesza are now working on an initial "two-year plan" which, in the first instance, focuses on re-engaging her social channels with just a slice of the millions of people who have downloaded, streamed or pirated her music over the years.
As for Kiesza's past? She's learned harsh lessons she says she'll never forget.
"If I could go back in time, I never would have signed to a major label," she comments.
She adds: "When you're Drake, you can do whatever you want: the big players are getting all the funding, and all the attention from everyone in the industry.
"But I worry about the other 99% – there are hundreds of those artists out there stuck in a system that isn't fair and doesn't listen to them.
"Here's what often gets forgotten: when you take an artist and you roadblock their creativity, you are destroying them – in essence you are suffocating their soul.


Start of the month means only one thing here at Netmatters - recognising the "Notable of Notable Employees" for January. This award is given to an employee who has excelled in their day to day role or has played a critical part in the company's success during the previous month.
Each of the department managers is asked to nominate an employee who they feel has particularly impressed during the course of the previous month. Each one of these employees is then considered as a candidate for this award.
The Notable of Notables is presented to a member of staff who has been recognised by clients in the positive feedback he recieves. This month's Notable of Notables is awarded to Dieter Harper.
Matt Hird – Providing excellent strategic guidance to our digital clients. He really shows he has a drive and passion to succeed. His efforts with new business pitches and client meetings have also been excellent, I have heard excellent feedback on him from a legal client to this accord. – Elliott Peacock.
As always, we'd like to show our appreciation to all of this month's nominees! A huge congratulations to all of those nominated this month, keep up the outstanding level of work! The Notable Employee Scheme is just one of many benefits that Netmatters offers to all employees.
If you would like to be a part of our fantastic team and be in the running for some extra treats, view our open job vacancies today; we're always on the scout for smart, talented individuals to join our fast expanding team! You can contact us via the form below, or ring us on 01603 515007 today.


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Q: Declaring an array at a specific memory address in MIPS How can I declare an array at memory location 100(Decimal) in a MIPS program?

A: The spim simulator supports the optional data directive argument as detailed here.

.data <addr>
The following data items should be stored in the data segment. If the optional argument  addr is present, the items are stored beginning at address addr.

Therefore, using spim, you can store any data at an exact address as long as it is within the range of the user data segment. In spim, the reserved range is 0x10000000 - 0x10040000.
So,  for example, if you wanted to store an array at address 0x10000030 you would write:
.data 0x10000030
list: .word 3, 0, 1, 2, 6, -2, 4, 9, 3, 7

However, address 100 is not within the acceptable range for the spim simulator's user data segment (or probably in any other circumstance since it would be part of the first page of memory).
I tried a .data 100 directive in spim, just to see what it would do when I tried to load from it, and the answer is a Memory address out of bounds error.

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Dubai Chamber of Commerce to conduct trade mission to Nairobi
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Trade mission aims to bolster bilateral trade and provide a platform for Dubai Chamber to expand its footprint to Kenya and other key markets in Africa.
Dubai Chamber of Commerce has today announced plans to conduct a two-day trade mission in Nairobi to enhance cooperation with Kenyan businesses.
The trade mission will take place from October 3rd to 5th, 2016, at the Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi and it is supported by the Kenyan National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It will include 20 Dubai businessmen from a variety of sectors, who will explore new opportunities with their counterparts.
Forums and sessions will see the participation of trade experts, government agencies and regional stakeholders, as well as business owners who will hold roundtable discussions on key sectors such as agriculture and agribusiness, construction, infrastructure and tourism.
Delegates attending the event include: Charles Kahuthu, CEO and Regional Coordinator of the East Africa Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Kiprono Kittony, National Chairman of the Kenyan National Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Admassu Tadesse, President and CEO, PTA Bank; and Amrote Abdella, Director, Startup Engagement & Partnerships, 4Afrika Initiatives at Microsoft.
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The initiative falls in line with Dubai Chamber's strategy to explore promising markets in Africa and make economic inroads in the lucrative investment areas within the continent. The Chamber has previously hosted a number of Global Business Forum events focusing on investment opportunities in Africa and plans to launch the next edition next year.
Commenting on the development, H.E. Majid Al Ghurair, Chairman of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry noted: "Nairobi is a key regional hub in the Sub-Saharan region and provides a strategic position and gateway to the entire East African Community with over 140 million people, as well as the larger Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) market with over 450 million people."
"We look forward to working closely with the Kenyan National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, government agencies, and other stakeholders as we deepen business and bilateral trade ties between the two countries," he added.
On October 6-7, Dubai Chamber will extend the mission to Ethiopia, where industry experts will hold roundtable forums with diverse partners to bolster bilateral trade ties.
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Lyft (LYFT) shares were on the move again on Friday, rising almost 4% to cap a volatile first week of trading.
The ridesharing company staged a successful IPO last week, closing its first day almost 9% above its $72 offer price, but subsequently ran into some turbulence, tumbling close to 12% on Monday and then moving sideways for a few days as its stock attracted plenty of short interest.
On Thursday, shares closed at exactly $72, but were getting a boost on Friday. Where will Lyft's stock price go from here, and what does that mean for the slew of money-losing tech companies slated to follow Lyft and go public later this year?
Eric Jhonsa, tech columnist for RealMoney and TheStreet, and Annie Gaus, TheStreet's tech reporter, discuss Lyft's mixed IPO and the stock's future prospects on the latest episode of Technically Speaking.


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Racing at Limerick cancelled due to waterlogging
Racing at Leopardstown, however, is set to go ahead as planned today.
By Press Association Sunday 27 Dec 2020, 11:16 AM
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LIMERICK'S CARD on Sunday was called off due to waterlogging while the meeting there on Monday must pass an 8am precautionary inspection following 18mm of overnight rain on already heavy ground.
Elsewhere, Chepstow's Coral Welsh Grand National meeting has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track.
The fixture has had no luck down the years on the weather front and once more course officials were forced to admit defeat.
Earlier in the week there had been optimism that the prestigious card, which also features the Grade One Coral Finale Juvenile Hurdle, would survive but a further downfall overnight from Storm Bella left the course with patches of false ground.
Clerk of the course Libby O'Flaherty inspected at 7.45am but was left with no choice but to call the meeting off.
"We've had another 27mm overnight and this morning, up to 7am when I was walking the track," said O'Flaherty.
"It's so annoying as there's just one area of false ground down the back straight and I was trying to find a way around it but there just isn't one."
Speaking later in the morning O'Flaherty confirmed that the meeting would now be run on January 9.
"We've rescheduled for January 9. It should be like-for-like but we are just waiting for official confirmation that the card will be exactly the same," she said.
Monday's meeting at Leicester was also abandoned due to a waterlogged track following an inspection at 9.30am on Sunday.
Heavy rain overnight had left false patches on already heavy ground.
Additional reporting by Paul Fennessy
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← P is for pattern!
Now, I look at collections wondering which ones should I buy the entire collection and the 6×6. Because you never know when you need the shrunken down version of that wonderful pattern. And yes people, you need the smaller version of the pattern- for die cutting or for busy patterns. I find this especially to be true with large chevron patterns. Ohh chevrons, why must you be so trendy when I so do not heart you? Ok, that is a scrapbook therapy session for another day.
This 6×6 addiction does create some issues. Besides being a pain in my wallet (or hubby's wallet if you ask him), it's a pain in the posterier because I find myself constantly thinking of new ways to use the 6x6s in my layouts. If you have seen a couple of my layouts, you may notice that I like to use about 4 6×6 papers on a layout, my pictures on top and then begins the tucking and layering with embellisments and a smattering of stamping.
Predictability is nice but getting into the creative danger zone is also a good thing. So I forced myself to do something different for this next layout as a form of weening myself off the 6×6 paper pad addiction. Umm, it didn't take but it was fun creating anyway.
Did you spot my poor attempt to sew ? When I decided to have these touches of gold I figured a little gold stiching around my 6×6 papers would be nice. And yes, I cheated. I did not sew them to the background paper. I sewed then I glued. I have sewing machine phobia. Again, therapy session for another day. Did you eye spy copic colored goodness? Well, you should have because I had lots of fun coloring the die cut flowers from a wonderful Stampin Up die cut and stamp set.
Title: love licks. Cardstock: Neenah (classic crest solar white). Patterned Paper: Basic Grey-knee highs (ring around the rosies, kissing tag, 6×6 paper pad) –Lucille (shift)-what'sup (6×6 pad), GCD Studies-Chianti collection (large pinwheels), American Crafts-Character (Times). Stamps: Stampin Up (Secret Garden), Technique Tuesday (Love Always Wins, Love This Memory), Papertrey Ink (Tag-Its #11), Hero Arts (envelope pattern), Office Depot (date stamp). Die Cut & Punches: Stampin Up Framelits (Secret Garden), Martha Stewart Crafts (heart confetti punch, double scallop border punch), Jenni Bowlin (file this), Sizzix (little leaves), Lifestyle Crafts (Arrows), Papertrey Ink (rectangular labels). Embellishments: Basic Grey- Fact & Fiction (woven labels)-Hey Girl (die cut shapes)- basics (enamel dots), October Afternoon-Woodland Park (tidbits, journal cards)-Midway (tidbits), Amy Tangerine (fabric brads, embroidered tag), American Crafts-Dear Lizzy- 5th & Frolic (brads, accent & phrase stickers, letter stickers, washi tape), Freckled Fawn (washi tape), American Crafts- glitter ribbon, Thickers (Paperback), Studio Calico- Darling Dear (chipboard stickers)- Snippets (frames)- Sundrfiter (frames), Tim Holtz-Ideology (clips), Misc- (Studio Calico kit- Basic Grey little letter stickers). Copics: BG0000,BG10,BG72,Y21,Y23,Y26,RV34. Inks: Hero Arts shadow ink (soft sand), Momento (tuxedo black), Stampin Up (island indigo).
As usual, I have listed above all of the product, tools, markers and ink colors used on my layout. I am also trying out inlinz in order to link my top 5 or so products that really made the layout pop (in my humble opinion). Most of the links are to Two Peas in a Bucket which I heart very much. Perfect place for scrapbookers to get new product and check out process videos and techniques. But I would not be who I am if I did not also say this- if you have a LSS (local scrapbook store) please also do your best to patronage there as well. My very much loved LSS closed but thank goodness there is a store about an hour away- Scrapdoodles.
I think it's pretty cute. Love it a lot.
I just love all of the layers here, it is so fun and dimensional! Thanks for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe.


Depending on which route you would like to take, here are the three most popular websites to visit.
If you are thinking of visiting Cumbria and the Lake District, and would like to learn more about the area and enjoy some one to one personal expertise - this would be a good one to try.
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Home RV Advice Fired up!
What a busy month! Since I last shared my adventures with you a lot has happened – mostly good but one a bit scary.
The scary one was when I attended the 10th anniversary muster of the ACC Gippsland Gypsies at the lovely Glen Cromie Caravan Park on the banks of the Tarago River, Vic. The anniversary was going well, although we were near a big bushfire. During the Saturday night dinner, ACC member Derrick gave a fascinating talk on the formation of the branch at the Warragul Caravan Park and we all enjoyed a great catered dinner.
The next morning, the sky was full of the smoke from the fire and the owners of the park asked us all to leave. They had experienced a similar fire a few years back and lost cabins in the blaze. Fortunately it didn't reach the park this year but better safe than sorry.
The highway back to Melbourne was closed and we had to travel via Korumburra – a good thing from bad as I have friends there and was able to spend the rest of the day with them. Doug cooks a great barbecue, though he lets me cook my own steak!
Doug is a member of the Korumburra Showgrounds Committee and was partly responsible for getting a dump point installed in the showgrounds, helped by a subsidy from the CMCA.
Unfortunately, red tape has meant that the dump point has to be locked at night, although a notice tells you how to get a key. Numerous approaches to the council and the water board have failed to get this ridiculous decision reversed.
The following weekend saw me heading to Adelaide where I spent an enjoyable four days with my son and daughter-in-law. Saturday night saw us dining at a lovely Chinese restaurant with stunning views over a marina and surrounding fabulous homes by the waterside, while on Monday night we feasted on Indian cuisine at the famous Bombay Cycle Club.
Tuesday was different. I was elected chef and we had a gluten-free spaghetti bolognese – yes, there was a celiac in the house and hence no gluten.
Keeping up my walking regime, we went for a lovely long walk along the Semaphore beachfront but I was a tad worried when I saw this sign along the path!
I spent the next week in the Murray Bridge Caravan Park and Marina on the banks of the Murray River and what a great week it was.
Chugging along the mighty Murray.
One of the many highlights was a cruise on the Murray aboard a paddle wheeler. The trip included a beautiful two-course lunch as we chugged peacefully along the broad waters of the river.
Murphy was on board with us and took the opportunity to trip me up on one of the sills in the doorways. Only my pride was hurt but the lady who distracted my attention as I negotiated the doorway blamed herself for my trip and was quite concerned for my welfare for the rest of the muster.
Murph also had a hand in wrecking my telly and antenna! TV reception was very patchy in the caravan park and I got a few channels from my little interior antenna but none from my mast one.
Help from a few friends didn't solve the problem but by then the constant changing of the antenna broke the inlet on the telly. A visit to Big W saw a new, slightly larger set installed but by then the external antenna was tested and found wanting. Mr M was gloating by now but continued his nefarious activities by causing my van's 'through-the-wall' connection to fail as well!
It's now fixed and a plate made to support the bigger telly to the swivelling wall mount. A new antenna has arrived and, after a marathon struggle with a new cable with a short in it through the wall causing lots of angst, it all works. Thank you, Murphy!
Another highlight was a visit to 'The Bend' – a new motor-racing circuit at Tailem Bend, SA. It is a lovely track and I would have loved to have been able to drive a few laps in one of the fabulous historic racing cars on show.
We were given a guided tour, although I was stopped in my tracks when sneaking up the stairs for a better view from the hotel-type suites up there.
The week ended with a lovely farewell dinner at the Murray Bridge Club and the company on my table was great.
Back home and it was still eventful – a visit from Cheryl and Bruce, friends I'd made a couple of years back when they were broken down at my favourite caravan park in Walkamin, Qld.
They called in on their way home to Adelaide after a trip that included the Ballarat Boronia Festival.
The week concluded with a visit to my 'farm stay' by a cluster of four caravans: seven ACC members from Brisbane on tour. ACC Lone Trekker Di also called in for a night before heading off to Barcaldine for the world record attempt for the longest line of RVs.
They were lovely people and I shared happy hours with them and acted as a tour guide the day they visited the nearby Grampians and Horsham.
When my wife Vi and I lived in Harrogate, UK, our niece Linda was just a baby. That was a long time ago but recently Linda sent a photo of Vi and I on our wedding day.
Lionel and Vi on their wedding day.
It awakened a lot of memories – thanks Linda.
I'm currently exploring what further steps I can take.
Lionel Mussell has been RVing around Australia for decades, first in a caravan and nowadays in a motorhome. He is also one of the founders of the Australian Caravan Club (and still and active member!).


Teasing Out a Diagnosis: OCD or Eating Disorder?
We are grateful to Dr. Susan Bennett, PhD, CEDS for this wonderful guest post in recognition of OCD Awareness Week!
On numerous occasions over the 14 years that I have helped my clients with their psychological challenges, I have had many arrive at intake confused by what has been suggested as the problem area by well-meaning family, friends and other professionals. This has been especially true when symptoms overlap in multiple problem areas, looking like one thing and being quite another. After all, we are complex beings and everyone experiences their challenges differently. Feeling distress and immediately pointing to the cause isn't simple. There are many things to consider especially when there is more than one issue that challenges us. However, sometimes separate problems are missed because the symptoms may look very similar or the identified primary problem causing the individual more suffering is what commands the attention. I see this most frequently in the case of co-occurring Anorexia or Bulimia with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Making a diagnosis can be challenging because the symptoms and behaviors of both disorders can look very similar. In fact, some argue that eating disorders are a form of OCD because there is an excessive presence of obsessions, ruminative thinking, compulsive rituals that help manage anxiety and distress to prevent a dreaded event, and behaviors that consume unreasonable amounts of time, making it hard to participate meaningfully in other important areas of life. However, the American Psychiatric Association has historically separated Eating Disorders from Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders recognizing that motivations differ. To illustrate the difference, your therapist considers if you are counting the number of times you cut your food because there is some magical number that will ameliorate anxiety or whether time is merely being wasted to avoid eating with the goal of losing weight. Is an excessive amount of weight being lost due to rituals that demand large parts of the day, such as excessive cleaning and washing the same load of clothes three times due to contamination fears, where the rituals simply don't allow time to eat? Or are the obsessive-compulsive cleaning rituals a behavior to avoid eating due to an underlying fear of weight gain? While the answer to whether behaviors are related to OCD or an eating disorder lies in the motivation for the behavior, at times it isn't clear, especially when both are present. For instance, thoughts to restrict may be intrusive and unwanted as in the case of OCD but at the same time the individual negatively evaluates weight and shape as in the case of an eating disorder.
While eating disorders and OCD possibly share similar neurobiological, genetic and psychological mechanisms, this does not suggest that those with OCD will develop an eating disorder and vice versa. However, when they do co-occur, treatment interventions suggested for eating disorders may differ from those effective in treating OCD and Anorexia or OCD and Bulimia. Therapists are continually faced with difficult diagnostic decisions when a constellation of symptoms present that align with multiple diagnoses. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, helps us to differentiate between potential diagnostic categories. After all, diagnosing accurately by teasing out subtle differences helps the therapist understand one's struggles, history of the illness, risks and prognosis, which are all needed for a thorough conceptualization of what brings one to treatment and the development of a comprehensive treatment plan.
Therefore, diagnosing accurately and planning accordingly matter. As therapists we are often faced with complexity and integrating interventions to address multiple disorders. With proper diagnoses together with clinical experience, appropriate interventions and client-therapist collaboration, we work together compassionately to help our clients move away from the distress of co-occurring conditions and toward the quality of life they desire and deserve.


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Q: Semi-stable sheaves on quadric surface https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/346126.pdf
In this paper, Stable sheaves on a smooth quadric surface with linear Hilbert bipolynomials(E. Ballico and S.Huh), I have a question.
On the right down of the page 2 of this paper,

For every semistable 1-dimensional sheaf $F$ with $\chi_F(x, y)=mx+ny+t$, define $C_F:=\mathrm {Supp}(F)$ to be its scheme-theoretic support and then we have $C_F \in |O_Q(n, m)|$.

Question : In this sentence, how we conclude that  $C_F \in |O_Q(n, m)|$?


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WEBAPPS=/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/

BRANCH="dev"
if [ -n "$1" ]
then
    BRANCH="$1";
fi

SCRIPT_FOLDER=`dirname $0`
PROJECT_ROOT="$SCRIPT_FOLDER/../backend"
echo "Deploying $PROJECT_ROOT"
cd $PROJECT_ROOT
echo `pwd`

echo "Pulling branch $BRANCH from github.com"
git pull origin $BRANCH

echo "Running: mvn package war:war"
mvn package war:war > deploy.log

echo "Copying war files to tomcat"
cp target/*.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/

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Screen is a window manager or program that allows you to use multiple windows or in other words, multiplexes a physical terminal among several processes, typically interactive shells. Before we explain about screen command's usage or in other words screen tips, lets examine the advantages of using a screen session.
Initiate multiple shell windows from a single ssh connection.
Keep the session (shell) active even if there are network disruptions.
Disconnect and re-connect to an existing session from multiple locations.
Execute a program or a long running process without the need to actively monitor/maintain.
There are chances that screen might already been installed in the machine. You can verify it using the below command.
If the screen is not installed, please install it using yum. Please skip the installation if its already been installed.
Now you can start the screen session as below.
The screen uses "Ctrl+a" combination of keys as control keys to send commands to the screen session. Please run "Ctrl+a" and then"?". This will take you to the screen help page.
Key bindings are the commands the screen accepts after you enter "Ctrl+a" control command.
Create new window –> "Ctrl+a" "c"This will create a new window and keep your old window alive. You can create multiple such new windows and perform different actions of your choice in those windows.
The screen allows you to switch forward and back among opened windows. "Ctrl+a" "n" takes you to the next available window and "Ctrl+a" "p" to the previous window.
This is one powerful option available with the screen. You can detach from the screen and re-attach to it at a later point of time. This makes it easier to detach from one location and re-attach from another place. This will take you back to shell from you initiated the screen.
If there is only one screen session alive, it will re-attach to that session. You can check the list of active screen session by issuing the following command.
And then connect to the screen of your choice by mentioning the name of the screen as shown below.
Sometimes, it is very important to keep track of activities happening in a server. For occasions like server OS patching, we can perform the complete activities via a screen session after enabling session logging. Screen will then keep appending data to the file through multiple sessions. In critical upgrades, if something goes wrong, you can always look back through your logs. Enter "Ctrl+a" "H" again to stop screen logs being appended.
Once you have done with your work, you can kill the screen session using this. You will get a message if you want to kill your screen and it gets killed once you prompt it with a yes confirmation.


There are no words to describe this….
Fans, this is a rant and a call to action. Please read and spread the word.
Every so often, something rises up that I did not foresee, but which is so compelling, I must act. This week, we were asked by a small rescue in the South to take a couple of dogs which is not unusual. I almost passed it by until I stopped to view the video they included in their email to me. That video showed footage of a government-run animal facility that was so appalling that there was no way in hell that Big Fluffy Dog Rescue was going to not act.
The link to the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC9uZ1o0Xg0 and you need to watch it. The incredible suffering of these dogs is so intense and palpable that I was left burning with righteous anger.
At this "shelter", roughly 60 dogs are crowded into open kennel runs all together. Old, young. Sick and healthy. They are starving, they are disease ridden and they have been left to die in conditions so grim that it's a wonder anything is still alive. There are dead dogs waiting to be disposed of on the property and the stench of death in the air is overpowering in 95 degree heat. The fact that any animal should be handled this way is outrageous. The fact that these dogs are in the care of a local government and specifically, law enforcement, is so far beyond the pale that words are inadequate. The animals in their care lack voices to be heard, but I am here now to stand up and scream at the too of my lungs. If this is what our so-called nation of principles has become, I weep for us.
Starting yesterday, with the help of some local vets and two very committed women, the first 15 dogs left that place and are in the care of vets right now. We have 45 to go and we need to get them out to care and safety. There is no HSUS or ASPCA to come running to the rescue here. It's just us and a couple of concerned people in one town and the people who have caused this misery are law enforcement. The immediate goal is to get the dogs out and into care. The secondary goal is to ensure that this catastrophe never happens again. We will be reaching out to other rescues to work to find homes for these guys, but it is all about getting the dogs out to safety first. The city in all its majesty has given us until Friday to remove all remaining dogs or they will kill them.
You are all going to be clamoring for details I can't give out yet. Until these dogs are out of there and I can ensure their safety, I do not want the world screaming at the elected officials of this place. Until the extent of the atrocity is documented and the dogs are out, I will withhold that information. As soon as that last dog is out, I will allow you to join me at the metaphorical gates with the proverbial pitchforks and torches so we can demand change. It will be very important that we collectively stand our grand and support the local people in any way we can to make sure the city atones for this and takes steps to ensure it does not ever happen again.
Right now what we need is money for vetting and supplies. A local person has offered up her 50,000 square foot building to house them while they are triaged and moved out, but we need to buy kennel runs and supplies to hold them. Cases like this are exceptionally expensive and soul-wrenching because the suffering of the dogs is so extreme and their medical needs are high. I estimate the total cost of this project will exceed $25,000 based on the costs we incurred in a similar hoarding case last year. We are not the SPCA and I confess I am tired of having to pretend I am the animal control facility, but the day I leave dogs to die like this is the day I hang it up and stop calling ourselves a rescue. I make my solemn vow to all of you that I will ensure that the city that did this is very, very sorry by the time this is over.
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El Acer sieboldianum es una especie de arce nativo de Japón y común en los bosques de Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku y las islas Kyūshū;. en el sur la distribución se limita a los bosques de montaña. Su nombre se debe a Philipp Franz von Siebold.

Descripción
Se trata de un árbol de crecimiento lento, de hoja caduca de pequeño y mediano, creciendo de 10 a 15 m de altura, con suave corteza de color gris-marrón. Los brotes jóvenes son de color verde a rojo, finamente cubiertos de pelos blancos en su primer año. Las hojas son de color verde oscuro, de 4 a 8 cm de largo y 5 a 10 cm de ancho con un pecíolo de 3 a 7 cm, y palmatilobadas con nueve a once (en ocasiones sólo siete) lóbulos. Las hojas jóvenes en primavera son pilosas con pelos blancos, con el pecíolo y las venas en el envés de las hojas peludas restantes durante todo el verano, una característica útil para diferenciarla de la relación con la Acer palmatum. En otoño, las hojas se tornan de color naranja brillante a rojo. Las flores son de color amarillo pálido, producidas en corimbos de 10 a 15 en conjunto, es andromonoica, con inflorescencias que contienen flores, ya sea con los dos sexos, o sólo masculino. El fruto es una pareja de sámaras, el cual se extiende de forma horizontal, en cada semilla con un ala de 15 a 20 mm. La floración es en primavera, con la maduración del fruto a principios de otoño.

La corteza es lisa y las flores amarillas ayudan a distinguirlo de la estrecha relación con la Acer japonicum, que tiene una corteza áspera, escamosa y de flores rojas, mientras que los tallos vellosos y con flores de color amarillo lo distinguen de la Acer shirasawanum (con tallo lampiño y flores de color rojo).

Cultivo
El Acer sieboldianum no es tan raro en el cultivo de lo que parece. Las muestras se confunden a menudo y son mal etiquetados como especies similares en la serie Palmata, tales como la Acer japonicum, la Acer shirasawanum y la Acer palmatum, también se confunde a veces con la Acer pseudosieboldianum, una especie vecina de la parte continental adyacente en el noreste de Asia.

Varios cultivares han sido seleccionados, la mayoría sólo se ven raramente fuera de Japón. Los cultivares son "Kinugasa yama", "Mi yama nishiki", "Ogura yama", "Sode no uchi" y "Osiris".

Taxonomía
Acer sieboldianum fue descrita por Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel y publicado en Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 2: 87 1865.
Etimología
Acer: nombre genérico que procede del latín ǎcěr, -ĕris = (afilado), referido a las puntas características de las hojas o a la dureza de la madera que, supuestamente, se utilizaría para fabricar lanzas. Ya citado en, entre otros, Plinio el Viejo, 16, XXVI/XXVII, refiriéndose a unas cuantas especies de Arce.

sieboldianum: epíteto otorgado en honor del botánico alemán Philipp Franz von Siebold.
Sinonimia
 Acer japonicum var. sieboldianum (Miq.) Franch. & Sav.
 Acer polymorphum var. kaempferi Späth

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan .
 Joseph Aronson (1965). The encyclopedia of furniture. Random House, Inc.. pp. 300–. .
 Philips, Roger (1979). Trees of North America and Europe. New York: Random House, Inc.. .
 Phillips, D. H. & Burdekin, D. A. (1992). Diseases of Forest and Ornamental Trees. Macmillan. .

Enlaces externos

sieboldianum
Flora de Japón
Plantas descritas en 1865

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What does local cocktail and spirits mastermind Derek Brown have in store for DC's drinking pleasure this summer? For starters, the Drink Company president at the helm of Columbia Room, Southern Efficiency, Eat the Rich and Mockingbird Hill – all in the city's Shaw neighborhood – is inviting the entire District to join him at summer camp.
The price of admission to Camp Iwannawhiskey is $12 per drink, and invitees are eligible to attend through September at Southern Efficiency.
So, Counselor Derek, what's being offered on the camp's menu?
All visiting campers are encouraged to try one of nine new cocktails, such as the Last of the Firewood, with rye, green chartreuse, toasted coconut syrup, lemon and allspice dram, the Parents' Weekend, with bourbon, Strega, Don Ciccio & Figli Concerto coffee liqueur, cane sugar, lemon and egg white, and the Wet Hot American Sazerac, with rye, pineau des Charentes, dark rum, pineapple gomme syrup, Peychaud's bitters and absinthe.
With a conceptualized and fun menu theme, it's easy to encourage guests to escape their comfort zone.
And for Brown, the experience of trying something new is one that he seeks out personally, while also aiming to provide the same thing for his guests.
Summer is also in full swing at Columbia Room, where a bounty of Latin American staples are shining through.
Brown and Fetherston were most interested in what other staff liked to drink from home, whether it was a bar assistant from Mexico, an El Salvadorian line cook or CEO Angie Fetherston, who hails from Ecuador.
He revels at the wonders of Refresco de Ensalada, essentially a fruit and vegetable maceration, used as an ingredient and served up with rum at Columbia Room. There's also an herbal tea consisting of chopped up flowers and herbs that Brown's team pairs with gin, as well as other menu add-ons such as chicha, singani, tropical fruits and Chilean wine, all offered in an array of concoctions in Columbia Room's tasting room, spirits library and punch garden.
And although it's still summer, Brown and his team are already working on the fall menu.
"Our process to make a menu takes about three months at this point," he says.
Yet it's a labor of love, not a chore.
While nobody besides the mad cocktail scientists at Columbia Room really want to look past the summer, the good news is that Brown has more fun in store. At the top of that docket is the revamp of Mockingbird Hill (closed for the summer), which he says will become more cocktail-driven and geared more toward the community.
Despite the remodeling, the core principle is still in place – enjoying sherry.
And it's one that has always been enjoyed first and foremost in cocktail form in this country.
One of Brown's favorite developments across the city is the sheer diversity of different places where great drinks are being served.
"It's like, let a thousand flowers bloom," he says, offering that excellent cocktails can be found in DC at tiki bars, fine dining restaurants, dive bars and beyond.
From Brown's own bevy of bars, to so many others, it is indeed a good time to be a bon vivant around the District. Just don't say it's a brand new trend.
Learn more about Derek Brown and Drink Company at www.drinkcompany.com.


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import React, { Component } from 'react'

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    constructor(props) {
      super(props)

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        long: ''
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      this.GetLongitude = this.GetLongitude.bind(this)
      this.GetLatitude()
      this.GetLongitude()
    }

    GetLatitude() {

    var _this = this

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Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens est un zoologiste allemand, né le  à Saint-Pétersbourg et mort le  à Francfort-sur-le-Main.

Biographie
Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens est le fils de Robert Mertens, prospère marchand de fourrure, et d'Eugenie née Brunst. Très tôt intéressé par les reptiles, son père l'encourage dans cette voie. Robert Mertens commence ses études au gymnasium de Saint-Pétersbourg mais il doit quitter la Russie à cause des événements révolutionnaires. Il part étudier en Allemagne pour y étudier la médecine et l'histoire naturelle. Il obtient son doctorat de médecine à l'université de Leipzig sous la direction de Carl Chun (1852-1914). Sa thèse est consacré aux variations géographiques dans le genre Lacerta.

Mertens sert brièvement dans l'armée et devient assistant au Muséum Senckenberg de Francfort-sur-le-Main à partir de 1919. C'est alors Richard Sternfeld (1884-1943) qui a la charge de l'herpétologie, connu pour ses travaux sur la faune africaine et du Pacifique, mais celui-ci est renvoyé en 1920. Il se marie avec Karline Bergmann le , union dont il aura une fille.

Les collections herpétologiques du Muséum Senckenberg avaient été, après la mort de Oskar Boettger (1844-1910), laissées dans un quasi abandon. Mertens les réorganisent complètement et les enrichit considérablement, au point de rivaliser avec les collections des muséums de Londres et de Paris. Outre les amphibiens et les reptiles, il s'occupe des mammifères (de 1919 à 1953), des oiseaux (de 1923 à 1947) et des poissons (de 1920 à 1954). Outre ces nombreuses charges, il dirige la section de zoologie de 1935 à 1955 et dirige le muséum de 1940 à 1960, date de son départ à la retraite. Il est nommé directeur émérite après son départ à la retraite. Parallèlement à ces fonctions, il est instructeur à l'université de Francfort de 1932 à 1939 puis professeur à partir de 1939.

Il a publié plus de 800 ouvrages en systématique et en biogéographie des reptiles et des amphibiens ainsi que treize livres. Il enrichit les collections par un efficace réseau de correspondants. Même durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des soldats lui envoient des spécimens du front grâce au réseau postal de l'armée. Pour protéger les collections de la guerre, Mertens les envoie dans différentes villes autour de Francfort. Seul le tiers d'entre elles reste dans l'enceinte du Muséum et celui-ci est gravement endommagé en 1944. Mertens fait de nombreux voyages, le premier l'emmène en 1913 en Tunisie.

Il est mordu à 80 ans par un serpent, un Thelotornis, qu'il conservait chez lui comme animal domestique. Il meurt après dix-huit jours de douleurs.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles : 202 p.
 Allen G. Debus (dir.) (1968). World Who's Who in Science. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis-Who's Who (Chicago) : xvi + 1855 p.
 Jean Lescure et Bernard Le Garff, L'étymologie des noms d'amphibiens et de reptiles. Éditions Belin, 2006.

Liens externes

Herpétologiste allemand
Zoologiste du XXe siècle
Naissance en décembre 1894
Naissance à Saint-Pétersbourg
Naissance dans le gouvernement de Saint-Pétersbourg
Décès en août 1975
Décès à Francfort-sur-le-Main
Décès à 80 ans
Mort causée par une morsure de serpent


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Why do frogs play leap frog?
This is a question that comes up from time to time for our subject matter specialists. Today, we have the full, extensive explanation as well as the answer for everyone who is interested!
The capacity of frogs to leap and jump is one of their most recognizable traits. Frogs with long legs are able to evade their enemies with powerful leaps that are rapid. A jumping frog may escape danger in an instant by leaping into the water, where it can conceal itself safely.
What does playing LeapFrog mean?
: a children's game in which one player bends down so that another player can leap over the back of the first player. verb for students of English as a Second Language To move ahead of or past (someone or something) in an extremely rapid and unexpected manner is the second definition of the word leapfrog, which can be found here.
Is LeapFrog a game of some kind?
The children's game known as "leapfrog" involves players jumping over one other's bent backs as they play.
What exactly does "LeapFrog strategy" entail?
"Leapfrogging is the belief that areas who have poorly-developed technical or economic underpinnings can move themselves forward swiftly through the adoption of new methods without passing through intermediary phases."
Is it spelled LeapFrog or Frog Leap?
To make a jump over (a person or thing) in the manner of or as if one were leapfrogging: He climbed over the fence in order to get to the child who was screaming. to move in a leapfrog fashion, or to generate movement in this manner: Manufacturers are leapfrogging prices since the cost of raw materials has increased.
CoComelon presents a collection of nursery rhymes and children's songs, including "Five Tiny Froggies Jumping on the Bed."
Do Leap Frogs really exist?
Since the 1970s, the United States Navy Parachute Team, also known as the Leap Frogs, has been the face of the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) community, all the while slowly but surely honing their skills. The team formed in 1969, when Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) and Underwater Demolition Team personnel began volunteering at weekend airshows.
What is meant by the term "leapfrog score"?
What it is: The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a composite number that is made up of as many as 27 national performance metrics of patient safety measures. This score indicates how successfully hospitals safeguard patients from preventable errors, accidents, and infections.
What exactly does "bypass strategy" mean?
With the Bypass Attack Strategy, sometimes referred to as the Leapfrog Attack Strategy, you take an indirect strategy to confronting a competitor by expanding your reach into their weaker or undeveloped markets. This tactic is also known as the Bypass Attack Strategy.
What's the story behind the name "LeapFrog"?
The concept of making enormous leaps forward inspired the naming of our company. The rate of change in the health care industry is often comparable to that of an iceberg, but here at Leapfrog, we're all about big change—change that has the potential to affect thousands, if not millions, of people.
How much does a monthly membership to LeapFrog Academy cost?
Pricing structure: Free to try (One-month free trial; .99/mo.; .99/6 mo.; .99/12 mo.)
Where can I download Leappad games for free?
One choice available is to search for LeapFrog coupon codes that, if not free games, then significant price reductions. You can find some great offers by searching the internet on websites such as Retail Me Not and Giving Helper. Downloading free games from a source other than the LeapFrog app store is yet another method that can be utilized to occupy your children for a period of time.
What exactly is the function of a leapfrog tablet?
LeapPad Academy is preloaded with 20 programs that have been authorized by educators and are designed to enhance reading, arithmetic, and science skills, as well as creativity and other important talents. The tablet comes with features that enable parents to establish time limits for their children, authorize websites that are appropriate for children, and expand content as their children get older.
What do u mean by privilege?
1 : a privilege or liberty that is given as a favor or benefit particularly to some and not to others and is not transferable or inheritable. 2 : an opportunity that is distinctive and enjoyable I was honored to shake hands with the President of the United States. privilege. noun. priv·i·lege.
Explain the concept of leapfrogging using an example.
The impact of mobile phones on economies in poor nations is yet another compelling illustration of the leapfrogging phenomenon… The usage of mobile phones frees the government from the obligation of spending money on the development of the infrastructure necessary for landlines, allowing it to redirect those resources toward the achievement of other development goals.
What exactly is a strategy for the long term?
In point of fact, the shift toward economies that are climate resilient and have net-zero emissions requires the utilization of long-term solutions. These strategies lay out long-term goals for climate and development and direct short-term decision-making to promote the transformations that are necessary to limit global warming and elevate people out of poverty. Also, these strategies define long-term goals for climate and development.
What exactly does "flanker strategy" entail?
A new brand that is brought into the market by a corporation that already has an established brand in the same product category is referred to as a flanker brand…. This tactic, which is also known as fighter branding or multibranding, is utilized with the goal of achieving a higher overall market share than a single product is capable of achieving on its own.
What does do not bypass mean?
: to get around (someone or something) by going around or avoiding (a place or area); to get around or ignore (someone or something) in order to get something done more quickly. Look up the complete definition of bypass in the dictionary designed for English Language Learners.
What exactly is meant by "Hospital Grade" from Leapfrog?
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a letter grade ranking that indicates how safe hospitals are for patients. This goal led to the creation of this grade. The Safety Grade gives customers vital information about the likelihood that they will be involved in incidents such as accidents, injuries, errors, or other forms of harm while they are in the hospital.
The data that leapfrog uses comes from where exactly?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide the vast majority of the data that is utilized in the process of calculating the Safety Grade. Which hospitals are off limits and why? The majority of the data used to determine the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Rating comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which provides information that is subject to certain restrictions.
What exactly does "hospital grade" mean?
In spite of the fact that the phrase "hospital grade" is used to imply that a pump is a closed system, the majority of manufacturers do sell their toughest and most long-lasting pumps as being hospital grade. There are many single-user pumps with closed systems, but the manufacturer does not label any of them as being hospital grade.
Are Leap Frogs comparable to the Navy SEALs?
The Leap Frogs are a team that represents the highest level of training that the Navy Special Warfare community has to offer. They are made up of active-duty Navy SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC), Divers (ND), Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians (EOD), and Aircrew Survival Equipmentmen (PR). Every day is a new and exciting experience for the Leap Frogs.
Why do frogs jump over each other when they see each other?
At night, if you are walking by a body of water like a pond, river, or large puddle, you might spot two frogs clinging to each other. Amplexus is the name given to this behavior, which enables the male frog to fertilize the eggs of the female by positioning his cloaca in close proximity to the female's.
What exactly is a tattoo of a bone frog?
One of the most recognizable symbols used to honor a deceased member of the United States Navy SEAL team is the bone frog. Navy SEALs have a time-honored custom of paying tribute to a dead comrade by getting a tattoo in the shape of a bone frog after they return from a deployment that involved combat. It serves as a daily reminder of the supreme sacrifices that have been made to defend the liberty and freedom of our land.
Does townhouse have basement?
Is trachyte a mineral or a rock?


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Death of Ahmaud Arbery Trial
'I want to get his mindset' | Ahmaud Arbery's mother says she wants defendant Gregory McMichael to take the stand
Tuesday, an officer with the Glynn County Police Department who responded to the scene, and a detective took the stand.
Author: Kailey Tracy
Published: 11:51 PM EST November 9, 2021
Updated: 11:51 PM EST November 9, 2021
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Tuesday marked the third day of testimony in the trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Glynn County Police Officer Jeff Brandeberry was the first to take the stand Tuesday. He was a patrol officer at the time of the shooting. Brandeberry said as he tried to get Gregory McMichael's statement, he was interrupted several times.
Brandeberry testified Gregory was confident Arbery was the man he'd seen on surveillance video going into a home under construction in the neighborhood several times.
He said Gregory told him, "I've seen the videos, so I know what the guy looks like ... Black guy ... he has these little short dreads. I don't know what the hell you call them."
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Brandeberry also said he was the lead officer on scene handling writing up the report.
Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, was overheard in the courtroom saying he did a horrible job writing up the report. She was also overheard sounding frustrated when Brandeberry testified that he was interrupted several times while trying to get Gregory's statement.
Brandeberry described Gregory as a little upset and amped up when he arrived at the scene. He also overheard Gregory talking to an unknown man saying Arbery "tried to get the damn shotgun away."
The defense attorneys showed parts of Brandeberry's body camera video to show, they said, that Travis McMichael was compliant with law enforcement. In one segment, he tells an officer, "just do whatever you have to do" when she explains they need to take pictures of him before he can wash Arbery's blood off of him.
Cooper-Jones was overheard saying, "just sit down. They don't have anything," when the defense attorneys made that argument.
Prosecutors focused Tuesday on whether Gregory ever told responding officers he was making a citizen's arrest, one of the defense's key arguments. When prosecutors asked both Brandeberry and the second witness of the day, Detective Parker Marcy, if Gregory said he was attempting to make a citizen's arrest, they both testified that he did not.
Former Officer Ricky Minshew testified Monday that defendant William Roddie Bryan didn't tell him he was trying to make a citizen's arrest either.
Marcy testified that Gregory didn't use the words arrest or detain. Instead, he told Marcy he was going "to hold him 'til, you know, and call county police ... check him out ... I mean, you know, there was no doubt in my mind as to who this guy was. None. Having seen the videos prior."
Gregory also told Marcy he recognized Arbery from surveillance videos from the home under construction. Those videos were shown in court Tuesday. Marcy asked Gregory if Arbery took anything from the home.
"He said, and I'm quoting, 'You know, not that I recall. I don't think the guy has actually stolen anything out of there or if he did, it was early in this process, but he keeps going back there over and over again. He keeps going back to the damn house,'" Marcy said.
Marcy also said Gregory told him he has "no reason to think" Arbery stole Travis' pistol from his truck, other than "he's been doing this crap over and over," Gregory said, assuming Arbery was the suspect in neighborhood property crimes.
Marcy was on the stand for most of the day Tuesday. He said he took pictures of Travis McMichael at police headquarters with Arbery's blood still on him. Marcy also interviewed Gregory McMichael.
Marcy testified that Gregory told him he said to Arbery during the chase, "I said 'stop,' you know, 'I'll blow your f***ing head off,' or something. I was trying to indicate to this guy we're not playing around."
For the second time since Friday, Bryan's attorney, Kevin Gough, asked the judge to declare a mistrial. It came after prosecutors asked a witness about the relationship between the McMichaels and Bryan when both sides, Gough said, agreed they wouldn't discuss it. The judge denied his motion.
Cooper-Jones said hearing the testimony from officers and investigators over the past few days has made her even more upset that no arrests were made until nearly three months after the shooting.
"What's so disturbing is that they did their investigation, but they didn't seem to find enough evidence to make an arrest," she said. "Very, very disturbing."
Testimony has been stopped several time over the past few days as the judge resolves arguments between attorneys, prolonging things. Cooper-Jones said she thinks this is delaying justice for her son.
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A Regina man made his first court appearance Wednesday morning in a Grand Forks, N.D. courthouse, charged in connection with a human smuggling ring.
A Regina man made his first court appearance Wednesday morning in a Grand Forks, N.D., courthouse, charged in connection with a human smuggling ring.
Victor Omoruyi is the second person charged in connection with an organization that allegedly transported asylum seekers from the United States into Saskatchewan.
On April 14, Omoruyi was arrested after crossing into North Dakota. He has now been charged with harbouring and transporting an alien in the United States.
Last week, Sheriff Jeremy Grohs, based in Bowbells, N.D., told CBC News that the U.S. Border Patrol tipped off his department about a potential suspect involved in illegal border crossings earlier this year.
Grohs said deputies had taken positions to keep an eye on the suspect vehicle, which he said was a white Ford Explorer, while U.S. Border Patrol tailed the vehicle to Minot, N.D.
Grohs said Omoruyi told border officials he was going to Minot to visit friends and family. Grohs said his department holed up near the border and waited for word from the border patrol.
He estimates it was seven hours later when the border patrol said the same vehicle was leaving Minot with "numerous individuals," a change from earlier in the day.
The vehicle travelled approximately four kilometres west of the Portal border crossing when the driver cut all lights to the vehicle, according to Grohs.
That same night, Omoruyi's wife, Michelle Omoruyi, was stopped and arrested by RCMP on the Canadian side of the border. She was driving a vehicle in an isolated area with nine West Africans inside.
Michelle has been charged with one count of human smuggling under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and one count of conspiracy to commit human smuggling.
Officials said the nine West Africans had been processed by Canada Border Services agents and released.
RCMP said a significant amount of cash was seized from a house connected to Michelle.


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Q: finding out if user used for DirectoryEntry connection is an administrator I have an existing DirectoryEntry connection and I want to check if the user that was used for the creation of this DirectoryEntry belongs to a specific group.
anyone knows how to achieve this?
Thanks,
Shuky

A: I don't think there's any magic, easy way to do this....
On the DirectoryEntry object, you do have a UserName property which should hold the name of the user that was used to create this entry, if a specific user was supplied. Using that user name, you could do a directory lookup and find that user and check whether that user belongs to the Administrators group (or any other group) - but it's not exactly a one-liner.


A number of grids are hosting Easter events including Easter Egg hunts and contests this Easter season.
That includes two events on OSgrid.
OSgrid's Easter Egg contest began last Monday and will go through Friday, April 14. The Event Plaza has been re-decorated for the occasion.
Participants are competing to create the best decorative egg from the day the event started, and these entries will be voted by other people. The contests run until Thursday, April 13 when voting also stops, and the winner will be announced at the Easter Friday Party that takes place on April 14. Live performing musicians will entertain at the party.
Participants of the Egg Hunt will win freebies created by the grid team.
The hypergrid address is hg.osgrid.org:80:Event Plaza.
There is also going to be a dinosaur Egg Hunt on Teraphosa region to celebrate its grand opening. The hunt will start on Thursday, April 13 and run through Sunday, April 23.
The hypergrid address is hg.osgrid.org:80:Teraphosa.
Island Oasis Grid will also host two Easter Egg Hunts, at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday, April 23, and the Easter celebration will continue for a whole week.
The reason for starting the event at different times is to accommodate different time zones. The event will be held at the Holiday Oasis sim, which is already decorated for the event and is already open for visitors. The event will be open to local account residents as well as hypergrid visitors, Island Oasis grid director Liz Harrington, also known as Sophia Paolino, in-world told Hypergrid Business.
The hypergrid address is islandoasisgrid.biz:8002.
Littlefield Grid will also host its fourth annual Restrained Life Viewer Easter Egg Hunt at 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. Pacific time on Sunday, April 16 at the Stone Haven region. You must have the Restrained Life Viewer turned on to participate.
The hypergrid address is lfgrid.com:8002:Stonehaven.
The grid will also host a Easter dance party involving live music, DJ and dancing at 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Pacific time on Friday, April 14 at the Speakeasy Dance Club.
The hypergrid address is lfgrid.com:8002:Speakeasy.
The KiWo Easter Egg Hunt at KiWo Grid kicked off last Saturday at the Ostersim region and will go on until Sunday, April 23. The Kroatan Grid is co-sponsoring the event.
Participants are to search for 22 eggs, 11 of which breaks after touch to give out a gift when clicked, while others are decoys and a little chicken shows up when they are touched.
The hypergrid address is kikiandwollex.de:8002:Ostersim.


Yeah, not fair, is it. Merlin is so greedy, grabs all that sunshine for himself. But mdm tell me what phase are you in right now. I remember some time ago you said that you sometimes have too much of green 😀. If you are in a green-OK phase now, I have a lots-of-green batch that I want to start extra for you after we are done with the winter theme here, which I presume will be soon. But I am away for a week so you guys have to keep it alive till I come back.
Most of the green in the landscapes is from conifers. The deciduous trees and shrubs have not yet begun leafing out. But we had more snow and other moisture this winter than in the past 10 years! However, with the intense sunlight at 7000 feet of elevation it disappears fairly quickly.
That landscape was taken on equinox day, a few hours before the change of seasons. Here's another.
That is one wicked good picture.
jerryy started pulling my leg and sneaking pictures of old mattresses into this thread. I´d say it´s time to call it quits, what say you. It is springtime in the meantime.
The last one, from Slovakia.
The last one is beautiful, jerryy.
Thank you, If I get the chance too pass along your kind words to the folks that do the upkeep on that old fence I shall do that. Did you leave any mountains for next season?
Please do, they are doing a great job. For summer I have got a few, for next winter I hope I will get some new ones. Cheers !


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Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets
Mallard, Grégoire
Sgard, Jérôme
Barnes, Victoria
Published by EH.Net (August 2017)
Grégoire Mallard and Jérôme Sgard, editors, Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix + 403 pp. $125 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-13091-3.
Reviewed for EH.Net by Victoria Barnes, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
This book aims to trace the meaning of the term "contract." A contract, as it is traditionally understood, is an agreement among parties that comes with a set of expectations about the parties' performance as well as creating certain legal obligations and rights. These expectations naturally vary. In their edited collection, Grégoire Mallard (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva) and Jérôme Sgard (Sciences Po, Paris) demonstrate how the legal and social construction of a contract has developed over the last hundred years. In doing so, they place a particular emphasis on transactions that take place internationally in global markets. To trace these changes across a number of case studies, Mallard and Sgard create the notion of "contractual knowledge." This is an unashamedly interdisciplinary and socio-legal concept as the chapters focus on explaining the thoughts of those who made contracts rather than simply those who enforced them in legal proceedings. The edited collection, therefore, considers the views of economists, politicians, diplomats, businesses, lobbyists and investors much more than those in the legal profession or with legal training.
The book begins with an introduction written by the editors and this is where they expound the theory which underpins the entire collection. The explanation here is unusually lengthy and Mallard and Sgard consider their aims, objectives and findings in considerable depth. Since it is tends to be difficult to unite groups of scholars from different jurisdictions — let alone different disciplines — to work in a common legal framework with shared concepts and language, this approach should be commended. The explicit discussion of the theory helps the reader to understand the book's contribution and it pulls together what could have easily become disparate chapters which were related somewhat distantly.
The edited collection is divided into three parts which consider sovereign debt agreements, the role of international organizations, and the structuring of fields. The variety of subjects and case studies on offer here is exceptional. Chapter 2 is the first substantive analytical chapter and this is an excellent starting point. Juan H. Flores Zendejas takes a long-term perspective of sovereign debt contracts and provides background information and draws parallels between different periods. This imparts a good deal of the historical content needed to appreciate the later chapters of this section. In Chapter 3, W. Mark C. Weidemaier, Mitu Gulati, and Anna Gelpern investigate what happens when governments write contracts by focusing on the construction of modification clauses in sovereign debt contracts. Stephen C. Nelson closes this section with a chapter examining the pari passu clause and also currency denomination.
The second part is led by Sgard's chapter and this is one of the strongest pieces of the book. Sgard considers the choice of courts for international arbitration. He notes the declining power of national groups and the reasons behind the political choice to eventually establish the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris after short-lived rivals were founded in London and New York. In the next chapter, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth add to this discussion by examining the corporate and commercial lawyers attached to the International Chamber of Commerce and their national and transnational battles. Chapter 7, by Ariel Colonomos and Mallard, is another excellent contribution which is entitled "The Duty to Repair in Practice: The Hundred Years History of a Legal Concept." This title is perhaps misleading. It does not cover the provisions about the seller's duty to repair, replace or refund the value of goods under the Sales of Goods Act or the Uniform Commercial Code as scholars of the United States, Great Britain and the commonwealth countries would probably expect. Rather, it considers divisions over agreements about war reparations from World War I to the Cold War. In Chapter 8, Marco Bertilorenzi and Giuseppe Telesca examine informal modes of regulation as mechanisms which kept prices artificially high. This chapter is highly innovative and it takes a form of prosopography to explore the social capital of financial elites in Italy and France.
Several themes and issues overlap in the final section. Chapter 9, written by Gregory Shaffer and Michael Waibel, investigates money orders and the International Monetary Fund. They dismiss the assumption that soft law or informal rules strengthen as they become clearer over time. Bruce Carruthers in Chapter 10 considers the way investors and regulations use knowledge to value assets. The last chapter returns to the long-run historical analysis drawing the essays together. Susan Block-Lieb and Terence Halliday trace developments in international private and public law using ecology theory with particular emphasis on the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (later known as UNIDROIT) and the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
Altogether, the chapters in this book provide a set of valuable and interesting findings. When taken as a whole, they show the international convergence and then fragmentation of contractual knowledge over the course of the twentieth century. They further our understanding of the chronology of this process, while avoiding grand theorizing about when this occurred. They show that in some instances, the fragmentation began much earlier than expected but, in others, divergence began only twenty years ago. Mallard and Sgard do not draw these microstudies together by turning points or periodization but by the scientific framework being developed. In furthering the theoretical concept of contractual knowledge, they demonstrate the multiplicity of actors but also the role of nations in this process of generating beliefs and interpretations. Contractual knowledge was, as these twelve chapters show, not derived from one state or group — despite the power of the United States in the twentieth century and Great Britain in the late nineteenth century.
Overall, this book offers a set of insightful and convincing arguments which explain how governments and other international actors created and shared their interpretations of contracts. These ideas were often disputed by other groups. With a broad coverage of jurisdictions and legal systems, it provides much for those with an interest in globalization, international transactions and the decline of national bargaining power. It will interest readers who are looking beyond the traditional courtroom accounts to see how international commercial practice and understandings developed. The index is also particularly useful for those interested in locating the discussion of people and/or organizations.
Victoria Barnes is a Senior Researcher Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She previously held posts at Georgetown University and the University of Reading and has worked in the facilities of law, business, and history. She has recently published an article in the Journal of Legal History which considers how English courts reacted to the contractual rights which were given to shareholders and company managers.
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How the polarizing effect of social media is speeding up
By Ari Shapiro,
Michael Levitt, Christopher Intagliata
Published September 9, 2022 at 5:01 AM EDT
The YouTube algorithm has been criticized for pushing content that radicalizes users rather than keeping them informed.
For many, checking social media has become a routine of logging on, seeing something that makes them angry or upset, and repeating that cycle ad infinitum.
If that feels true to you, it's not your imagination.
Max Fisher is a journalist who focuses on the impact of social media on global conflicts and our daily lives, and has covered it extensively for The New York Times.
In his new book, The Chaos Machine, Fisher details how the polarizing effect of social media is speeding up. He joined All Things Considered to talk about why tech companies benefit from this outrage, and the danger it could pose to society.
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imagine, for instance, that your network produces 200 posts a day of which you have time to read about 100. Because of the platform's tilt, you will see the most outraged half of your feed. Next year, when 200 doubles to 400, you will see the most outraged quarter, the year after that the most outraged eighth. Over time, your impression of your own community becomes radically more moralizing, aggrandizing, and outraged, and so do you, at the same time, less innately engaging forms of content. Truth appeals to the greater good, appeals to tolerance, become more and more outmatched, like stars over Times Square."
— An excerpt from The Chaos Machine
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
On why social media algorithms steer users toward outrage
When you log on to Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, you think that what you are seeing is a neutral reflection of your community, and what [your community] is talking about. When you interact with it, you think that you are getting feedback from your peers, from other people online. But in fact, what you were seeing, and what you were experiencing, are choices made by these incredibly sophisticated automated systems that are designed to figure out exactly what combination of posts, what way to sequence those posts, how to present them to you will most engage certain very specific cognitive triggers and cognitive weak points that are meant to get certain emotions going. They are meant to trigger certain impulses and instincts that will make you feel really compelled to come back to the platform to spend a lot of time on it.
Those [upsetting posts] are the things that are most engaging to us, because they speak to a sense of social compulsion, of a group identity that is "under threat." Moral outrage, specifically, is probably the most powerful form of content online. And it's the kind of content that engages your eyeball, and most engages your emotions, because it taps into these deeply evolved instincts that we have as social animals, as group animals, for basically self preservation.
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Meta, formerly known as The Facebook company, owns Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram.
On how this ties into social media platforms reaching viewership goals
So what the systems that govern YouTube and govern what you see realized, was that to serve that [viewership] goal, they would need to be providing new content that would create some sort of a sense of crisis, and some sort of a sense that you and your identity were under threat.
So what that might mean is that if you're looking for, let's say, health tips, information about vaccines, the best thing for YouTube to show you isn't straightforward health information. The best thing for YouTube to show you is something that gives you a sense that you are part of some community, let's say moms who are concerned about their kids, and that community is under threat from some outside danger. And that that will trigger a sense of alarm, that will make you want to come back and spend more and more time watching.
On how so many are able to use social media without becoming radicalized
For the overwhelming majority of us, the effect is subtle. Spending more time on social media will make you significantly more polarized, it will make you have a much sharper view of people in the other party, or maybe people who just support another figure within the political party that you support, it will make you have harsher views towards outgroups generally, and it will make you more prone to internally feeling in your in your own self outrage and moral outrage. That is something that I think we do all feel. And that might ring true to those of us who spend time on social media, who don't become crazy conspiracy theorists, but will feel that pull on us.
On possible solutions
Whenever I would ask the experts who study this, what do they think? It's always some version of turning it off. Not turning off the entire platform, not shuttering the website. But turning off the algorithm. Turning off likes, the little counter at the bottom of the post that shows you how many people liked it or retweeted it. That's something that even Jack Dorsey, the former head of Twitter, floated as an idea, because he came to see that it is so harmful.
But turning off these engagement maximizing features is something that we have actually experimented with. And a version of social media like that, I think could potentially bring a lot of the good that [social media] brings, which is real, and mitigate some of the harms.
Ari Shapiro
Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.
See stories by Ari Shapiro
Christopher Intagliata
Christopher Intagliata is an editor at All Things Considered, where he writes news and edits interviews with politicians, musicians, restaurant owners, scientists and many of the other voices heard on the air.


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Big Brother 12 is the twelfth season of various versions of Big Brother and may refer to:

 Big Brother 12 (U.S.), the 2010 edition of the U.S. version
 Gran Hermano 12 (Spain), the 2010 edition of the Spanish version
 Big Brother 12 (UK), the 2011 edition of the UK version
 Grande Fratello (season 12), the 2011-2012 edition of Big Brother in Italy
 Big Brother Brasil 12, the 2012 edition of the Brazil version
 Big Brother (Australian season 12) the 2020 reboot of the Australian version

See also
 Big Brother (franchise)
 Big Brother (disambiguation)


Amanda, the work-at-home-mom (WAHM) at Boody's Bottoms, sent me one of her cloth diapers to test and share my experiences with you.
A mother of four, including 7-month old twins, Amanda was looking for something to do that she was passionate about after being laid off from her job. As a result, she started making diapers and blankets for her kids.
"This quickly grew to be a passion of mine. I take the highest level of pride in my diapers and blankets. I love taking on a challenge whether it be looking for a specific fabric or creating something unique.
At Boody's Bottoms, you can find two sizes of diapers- the traditional hybrid fitted and a "big baby" diaper.
I received the big baby diaper, which is sized for babies 15 to more than 40 lbs. The waist can be adjusted by using the row of snaps to make the diaper more snug or looser.
The diaper is made of a very, very soft cotton knit in a "galaxy" print. I loved both the print and how squishy this diaper is!
The main soaker of this diaper is made of both hemp and bamboo fleece. These fabrics are covered with a coordinating cotton velour. When folded as it is in the below photo, the insert makes six layers of absorbency.
In case you have a heavy wetter, the additional lay-in soaker is made of a bamboo and poly fleece combination.
Baby J was just a little over 22 lbs. at his 18 months appointment (a few weeks ago), so he's not chunky at all for his age. As you can see, the diaper is big on him. The traditional hybrid fitted would probably fit him better right now.
The bulkiness of the big baby diaper means the diaper is very absorbent, and it works perfectly as a nighttime diaper. Because of the size though, it's not the easiest diaper for him to run around in during the day. I think it's probably perfect for chunky or older babies.
I did notice that the snaps weren't placed completely evenly across the top of the diaper. Also, the stitching around the "Boody's Bottoms" tag is also uneven. These are both aesthetic issues that don't affect the functionality of the diaper. Having made a few cloth diapers myself, I would guess the thickness of the diaper makes it difficult to topstitch and apply snaps evenly.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the absorbency and how cute this diaper is! Because it's not completely waterproof, I have to check Baby J for dampness if I'm not using a cover. I definitely use a waterproof diaper cover at night or during longer periods during the day.
You can check out Boody's Bottoms HERE to learn more and see what prints are available.
Note- I was not compensated for this post, but received a complimentary cloth diaper to review. The opinions stated above are my own and may differ from yours.
Thanks for mentioning that this is bulky, but makes a good nighttime diaper.
These look super absorbent. I love the available prints especially Star Wars.
i like how absorbent these diapers can be.
There are so many cute cloth diapers out there. Love the striped pattern that kind of looks like reflections of christmas lights.
This looks like it would be a great nightime diaper for my son! I love the print.
This is really cute! Now it makes me wonder if I should have just used cloth diapers!
Very cute. Love the print and color.
I love that this is a "bigger baby" diaper! I have a 26 pound 9 month old and we love fitteds for night time!
I love the galaxy print!
I like that these come in a larger size for bigger babies. My kid is 25 lbs at 9 months and so we often have trouble with WAHM diapers in that they are often sized a little too small.
i love the snap in soakers!
I was thinking the exact same thing!!
I've been looking for good nighttime diapers. I love how this one is bulky and absorbent enough for that. Some mornings my little ones diapers are soooo full!!
My favorite print is the Comic Book Heros – Cotton.
I'm amazed that this mom has time to run a business. I'd love to know how does she do it?
I like that this diaper also comes in a big baby. and I adore this print. love the colors with the gray!
I liked how you informed the readers that the diaper is bulky, but good for heavy wetters. I like to read honest reviews.
I love this print. It's nice to see cute boy prints!
i like how absorbent this diaper seems!
I like that there is a "big baby" size!
I would love to try this for overnight. It also looks super soft.
I like the big baby option. It's hard to find cloth diapers for chunky babies.
Call me a new soon to be mother, but I learned what a prefold exactly is!
This looks like it would be a good nighttime diaper for a toddler who hasn't trained through the night as of yet. The velour inside looks scrumptious.
Hi Holly, the velour really is super soft!
I like the galaxy print and the multiple layer insert so it could be a good overnight diaper.


In 1999, accompanied by the slogan "infinite possibilities",RITTAL launched its TS 8 enclosure system. Today, with over ten million enclosures manufactured so far, the company says its TS 8 bayed enclosure has become established as the standard for many industries worldwide.
Rittal says key success factors of its TS 8 include its high level of flexibility and efficiency, high quality and safety standards, as well as its availability worldwide. The TS 8 enclosure is reportedly used in 92 % of the world's 1,005 branches of industry and is said to have conquered nearly every industrial market within 15 years.
Industries include mechanical engineering, panel building and switchgear production, the automotive industry, energy, as well as information technology and telecommunications.