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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
define(['exports',
    '../../Core/_Global',
    '../../Core/_Base',
    '../../Core/_ErrorFromName',
    '../../Core/_Events',
    '../../ControlProcessor',
    '../../Utilities/_Control',
    '../../Utilities/_ElementUtilities',
    '../../Utilities/_KeyboardBehavior',
    '../AppBar/_Icon',
    'require-style!less/styles-splitviewcommand',
    'require-style!less/colors-splitviewcommand'
], function SplitViewCommandInit(exports, _Global, _Base, _ErrorFromName, _Events, ControlProcessor, _Control, _ElementUtilities, _KeyboardBehavior, _Icon) {
    "use strict";

    _Base.Namespace._moduleDefine(exports, "WinJS.UI", {
        _WinPressed: _Base.Namespace._lazy(function () {
            var WinPressed = _Base.Class.define(function _WinPressed_ctor(element) {
                // WinPressed is the combination of :hover:active
                // :hover is delayed by trident for touch by 300ms so if you want :hover:active to work quickly you need to
                // use this behavior.
                // :active does not bubble to its parent like :hover does so this is also useful for that scenario.
                this._element = element;
                _ElementUtilities._addEventListener(this._element, "pointerdown", this._MSPointerDownButtonHandler.bind(this));
            }, {
                _MSPointerDownButtonHandler: function _WinPressed_MSPointerDownButtonHandler(ev) {
                    if (!this._pointerUpBound) {
                        this._pointerUpBound = this._MSPointerUpHandler.bind(this);
                        this._pointerCancelBound = this._MSPointerCancelHandler.bind(this);
                        this._pointerOverBound = this._MSPointerOverHandler.bind(this);
                        this._pointerOutBound = this._MSPointerOutHandler.bind(this);
                    }

                    if (ev.isPrimary) {
                        if (this._pointerId) {
                            this._resetPointer();
                        }

                        if (!_ElementUtilities._matchesSelector(ev.target, ".win-interactive, .win-interactive *")) {
                            this._pointerId = ev.pointerId;

                            _ElementUtilities._addEventListener(_Global, "pointerup", this._pointerUpBound, true);
                            _ElementUtilities._addEventListener(_Global, "pointercancel", this._pointerCancelBound), true;
                            _ElementUtilities._addEventListener(this._element, "pointerover", this._pointerOverBound, true);
                            _ElementUtilities._addEventListener(this._element, "pointerout", this._pointerOutBound, true);

                            _ElementUtilities.addClass(this._element, WinPressed.winPressed);
                        }
                    }
                },

                _MSPointerOverHandler: function _WinPressed_MSPointerOverHandler(ev) {
                    if (this._pointerId === ev.pointerId) {
                        _ElementUtilities.addClass(this._element, WinPressed.winPressed);
                    }
                },

                _MSPointerOutHandler: function _WinPressed_MSPointerOutHandler(ev) {
                    if (this._pointerId === ev.pointerId) {
                        _ElementUtilities.removeClass(this._element, WinPressed.winPressed);
                    }
                },

                _MSPointerCancelHandler: function _WinPressed_MSPointerCancelHandler(ev) {
                    if (this._pointerId === ev.pointerId) {
                        this._resetPointer();
                    }
                },

                _MSPointerUpHandler: function _WinPressed_MSPointerUpHandler(ev) {
                    if (this._pointerId === ev.pointerId) {
                        this._resetPointer();
                    }
                },

                _resetPointer: function _WinPressed_resetPointer() {
                    this._pointerId = null;

                    _ElementUtilities._removeEventListener(_Global, "pointerup", this._pointerUpBound, true);
                    _ElementUtilities._removeEventListener(_Global, "pointercancel", this._pointerCancelBound, true);
                    _ElementUtilities._removeEventListener(this._element, "pointerover", this._pointerOverBound, true);
                    _ElementUtilities._removeEventListener(this._element, "pointerout", this._pointerOutBound, true);

                    _ElementUtilities.removeClass(this._element, WinPressed.winPressed);
                },

                dispose: function _WinPressed_dispose() {
                    if (this._disposed) {
                        return;
                    }
                    this._disposed = true;

                    this._resetPointer();
                }
            }, {
                winPressed: "win-pressed"
            });

            return WinPressed;
        }),
        /// <field>
        ///
        /// Represents a command in a SplitView.
        ///
        /// </field>
        /// <htmlSnippet><![CDATA[

]]></htmlSnippet>
        /// <part name="splitviewcommand" class="win-splitviewcommand" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand_part:splitviewcommand">Styles the entire SplitViewCommand control.</part>
        /// <part name="button" class="win-splitviewcommand-button" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand_part:button">Styles the button in a SplitViewCommand.</part>
        /// <part name="icon" class="win-splitviewcommand-icon" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand_part:icon">Styles the icon in the button of a SplitViewCommand.</part>
        /// <part name="label" class="win-splitviewcommand-label" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand_part:label">Styles the label in the button of a SplitViewCommand.</part>
        /// <resource type="javascript" src="//$(TARGET_DESTINATION)/js/WinJS.js" shared="true" />
        /// <resource type="css" src="//$(TARGET_DESTINATION)/css/ui-dark.css" shared="true" />
        SplitViewCommand: _Base.Namespace._lazy(function () {
            var Key = _ElementUtilities.Key;

            var strings = {
                get duplicateConstruction() { return "Invalid argument: Controls may only be instantiated one time for each DOM element"; }
            };

            var ClassNames = {
                command: "win-splitviewcommand",
                commandButton: "win-splitviewcommand-button",
                commandButtonContent: "win-splitviewcommand-button-content",
                commandSplitButton: "win-splitviewcommand-splitbutton",
                commandSplitButtonOpened: "win-splitviewcommand-splitbutton-opened",
                commandIcon: "win-splitviewcommand-icon",
                commandLabel: "win-splitviewcommand-label"
            };

            var EventNames = {
                invoked: "invoked",
                _splitToggle: "_splittoggle",

            };

            var createEvent = _Events._createEventProperty;

            var SplitViewCommand = _Base.Class.define(function SplitViewCommand_ctor(element, options) {
                /// <signature helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.SplitViewCommand">
                ///
                /// Creates a new SplitViewCommand.
                ///
                /// <param name="element" type="HTMLElement" domElement="true" isOptional="true" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.constructor_p:element">
                /// The DOM element that will host the new  SplitViewCommand control.
                /// </param>
                /// <param name="options" type="Object" isOptional="true" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.constructor_p:options">
                /// An object that contains one or more property/value pairs to apply to the new control.
                /// Each property of the options object corresponds to one of the control's properties or events.
                /// Event names must begin with "on".
                /// </param>
                /// <returns type="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.constructor_returnValue">
                /// The new SplitViewCommand.
                /// </returns>
                /// </signature>
                element = element || _Global.document.createElement("DIV");
                options = options || {};

                if (element.winControl) {
                    throw new _ErrorFromName("WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.DuplicateConstruction", strings.duplicateConstruction);
                }

                // Sign up for keyboard focus rect
                this._winKeyboard = new _KeyboardBehavior._WinKeyboard(element);

                this._baseConstructor(element, options);
            }, {

                _baseConstructor: function SplitViewCommand_baseConstructor(element, options, classNames) {
                    this._classNames = classNames || ClassNames;

                    // Attaching JS control to DOM element
                    element.winControl = this;
                    this._element = element;
                    _ElementUtilities.addClass(this.element, this._classNames.command);
                    _ElementUtilities.addClass(this.element, "win-disposable");

                    this._tooltip = null;
                    this._splitOpened = false;
                    this._buildDom();
                    element.addEventListener('keydown', this._keydownHandler.bind(this));

                    _Control.setOptions(this, options);
                },

                /// <field type="HTMLElement" domElement="true" hidden="true" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.element" helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.element">
                /// Gets the DOM element that hosts the SplitViewCommand.
                /// </field>
                element: {
                    get: function () {
                        return this._element;
                    }
                },

                /// <field type="String" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.label" helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.label">
                /// Gets or sets the label of the SplitViewCommand.
                /// </field>
                label: {
                    get: function () {
                        return this._label;
                    },
                    set: function (value) {
                        this._label = value;
                        this._labelEl.textContent = value;
                    }
                },

                /// <field type="String" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.tooltip" helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.tooltip">
                /// Gets or sets the tooltip of the SplitViewCommand.
                /// </field>
                tooltip: {
                    get: function () {
                        return this._tooltip;
                    },
                    set: function (value) {
                        this._tooltip = value;
                        if (this._tooltip || this._tooltip === "") {
                            this._element.setAttribute('title', this._tooltip);
                        } else {
                            this._element.removeAttribute('title');
                        }
                    }
                },

                /// <field type="String" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.icon" helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.icon">
                /// Gets or sets the icon of the SplitViewCommand. This value is either one of the values of the AppBarIcon enumeration or the path of a custom PNG file.
                /// </field>
                icon: {
                    get: function () {
                        return this._icon;
                    },
                    set: function (value) {
                        this._icon = (_Icon[value] || value);

                        // If the icon's a single character, presume a glyph
                        if (this._icon && this._icon.length === 1) {
                            // Set the glyph
                            this._imageSpan.textContent = this._icon;
                            this._imageSpan.style.backgroundImage = "";
                            this._imageSpan.style.msHighContrastAdjust = "";
                            this._imageSpan.style.display = "";
                        } else if (this._icon && this._icon.length > 1) {
                            // Must be an image, set that
                            this._imageSpan.textContent = "";
                            this._imageSpan.style.backgroundImage = this._icon;
                            this._imageSpan.style.msHighContrastAdjust = "none";
                            this._imageSpan.style.display = "";
                        } else {
                            this._imageSpan.textContent = "";
                            this._imageSpan.style.backgroundImage = "";
                            this._imageSpan.style.msHighContrastAdjust = "";
                            this._imageSpan.style.display = "none";
                        }
                    }
                },

                /// <field type="Function" locid="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.oninvoked" helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.oninvoked">
                /// Raised when a SplitViewCommand has been invoked.
                /// </field>
                oninvoked: createEvent(EventNames.invoked),

                _toggleSplit: function SplitViewCommand_toggleSplit() {
                    this._splitOpened = !this._splitOpened;
                    if (this._splitOpened) {
                        _ElementUtilities.addClass(this._splitButtonEl, this._classNames.commandSplitButtonOpened);
                        this._splitButtonEl.setAttribute("aria-expanded", "true");
                    } else {
                        _ElementUtilities.removeClass(this._splitButtonEl, this._classNames.commandSplitButtonOpened);
                        this._splitButtonEl.setAttribute("aria-expanded", "false");
                    }
                    this._fireEvent(SplitViewCommand._EventName._splitToggle);
                },

                _rtl: {
                    get: function () {
                        return _ElementUtilities._getComputedStyle(this.element).direction === "rtl";
                    }
                },

                _keydownHandler: function SplitViewCommand_keydownHandler(ev) {
                    if (_ElementUtilities._matchesSelector(ev.target, ".win-interactive, .win-interactive *")) {
                        return;
                    }

                    var leftStr = this._rtl ? Key.rightArrow : Key.leftArrow;
                    var rightStr = this._rtl ? Key.leftArrow : Key.rightArrow;

                    if (!ev.altKey && (ev.keyCode === leftStr || ev.keyCode === Key.home || ev.keyCode === Key.end) && ev.target === this._splitButtonEl) {
                        _ElementUtilities._setActive(this._buttonEl);
                        if (ev.keyCode === leftStr) {
                            ev.stopPropagation();
                        }
                        ev.preventDefault();
                    } else if (!ev.altKey && ev.keyCode === rightStr && this.splitButton && (ev.target === this._buttonEl || this._buttonEl.contains(ev.target))) {
                        _ElementUtilities._setActive(this._splitButtonEl);
                        if (ev.keyCode === rightStr) {
                            ev.stopPropagation();
                        }
                        ev.preventDefault();
                    } else if ((ev.keyCode === Key.space || ev.keyCode === Key.enter) && (ev.target === this._buttonEl || this._buttonEl.contains(ev.target))) {
                        this._invoke();
                    } else if ((ev.keyCode === Key.space || ev.keyCode === Key.enter) && ev.target === this._splitButtonEl) {
                        this._toggleSplit();
                    }
                },

                _getFocusInto: function SplitViewCommand_getFocusInto(keyCode) {
                    var leftStr = this._rtl ? Key.rightArrow : Key.leftArrow;
                    if ((keyCode === leftStr) && this.splitButton) {
                        return this._splitButtonEl;
                    } else {
                        return this._buttonEl;
                    }
                },

                _buildDom: function SplitViewCommand_buildDom() {
                    var markup =
                        '
' +
                            '
' +
                                '

' +
                                '

' +
                            '
' +
                        '
' +
                        '

';
                    this.element.insertAdjacentHTML("afterBegin", markup);

                    this._buttonEl = this.element.firstElementChild;
                    this._buttonPressedBehavior = new exports._WinPressed(this._buttonEl);
                    this._contentEl = this._buttonEl.firstElementChild;
                    this._imageSpan = this._contentEl.firstElementChild;
                    this._imageSpan.style.display = "none";
                    this._labelEl = this._imageSpan.nextElementSibling;
                    this._splitButtonEl = this._buttonEl.nextElementSibling;
                    this._splitButtonPressedBehavior = new exports._WinPressed(this._splitButtonEl);
                    this._splitButtonEl.style.display = "none";

                    _ElementUtilities._ensureId(this._buttonEl);
                    this._splitButtonEl.setAttribute("aria-labelledby", this._buttonEl.id);

                    this._buttonEl.addEventListener("click", this._handleButtonClick.bind(this));

                    var mutationObserver = new _ElementUtilities._MutationObserver(this._splitButtonAriaExpandedPropertyChangeHandler.bind(this));
                    mutationObserver.observe(this._splitButtonEl, { attributes: true, attributeFilter: ["aria-expanded"] });
                    this._splitButtonEl.addEventListener("click", this._handleSplitButtonClick.bind(this));

                    // reparent any other elements.
                    var tempEl = this._splitButtonEl.nextSibling;
                    while (tempEl) {
                        this._buttonEl.insertBefore(tempEl, this._contentEl);
                        if (tempEl.nodeName !== "#text") {
                            ControlProcessor.processAll(tempEl);
                        }
                        tempEl = this._splitButtonEl.nextSibling;
                    }
                },

                _handleButtonClick: function SplitViewCommand_handleButtonClick(ev) {
                    var srcElement = ev.target;
                    if (!_ElementUtilities._matchesSelector(srcElement, ".win-interactive, .win-interactive *")) {
                        this._invoke();
                    }
                },

                _splitButtonAriaExpandedPropertyChangeHandler: function SplitViewCommand_splitButtonAriaExpandedPropertyChangeHandler() {
                    if ((this._splitButtonEl.getAttribute("aria-expanded") === "true") !== this._splitOpened) {
                        this._toggleSplit();
                    }
                },

                _handleSplitButtonClick: function SplitViewCommand_handleSplitButtonClick() {
                    this._toggleSplit();
                },

                _invoke: function SplitViewCommand_invoke() {
                    this._fireEvent(SplitViewCommand._EventName.invoked);
                },

                _fireEvent: function SplitViewCommand_fireEvent(type, detail) {
                    var event = _Global.document.createEvent("CustomEvent");
                    event.initCustomEvent(type, true, false, detail);
                    this.element.dispatchEvent(event);
                },

                dispose: function SplitViewCommand_dispose() {
                    /// <signature helpKeyword="WinJS.UI.SplitViewCommand.dispose">
                    ///
                    /// Disposes this control.
                    ///
                    /// </signature>
                    if (this._disposed) {
                        return;
                    }
                    this._disposed = true;

                    this._buttonPressedBehavior.dispose();
                    this._splitButtonPressedBehavior.dispose();
                }
            }, {
                _ClassName: ClassNames,
                _EventName: EventNames,
            });
            _Base.Class.mix(SplitViewCommand, _Control.DOMEventMixin);
            return SplitViewCommand;
        })
    });

});


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O Campeonato Mundial de Esqui Alpino de 1950 foi realizado em Aspen, Colorado, Estados Unidos, de 13 a 18 de fevereiro de 1950.

Este foi os primeiro Campeonato Mundial realizada fora da Europa, e a primeira vez Slalom Gigante participou de uma edição do Campeonato Mundial desde 1931, deslocando o combinado, que retornou em 1954.

Zeno Colò da Itália ganhou o downhill e o slalom gigante, e só perdeu uma varredura das medalhas de ouro, ele terminou 0,3 segundo atrás do slalom, levando a prata. A Áustria dominou as corridas femininas: Dagmar Rom venceu o slalom gigante e o slalom, Trude Jochum-Beiser ganhou o ouro no downhill e prata no slalom gigante, e Erika Mahringer levou duas medalhas de prata, no slalom e downhill.

Masculino

Downhill

Data: 18 de Fevereiro

Slalom Gigante

Data: 14 de Fevereiro

Slalom

Data: 16 de Fevereiro

Feminino

Downhill

Data: 17 de Fevereiro

Slalom Gigante

Data: 13 de Fevereiro

Slalom

Data: 15 de Fevereiro

Quadro de medalhas

</div>

Ligações externas
 FIS-ski.com - results - 1950 World Championships - Aspen, CO, USA
 FIS-ski.com - results - World Championships
 Aspen History Society - 1950 World Championships

1950 no esqui alpino
Desporto nos Estados Unidos em 1950
1950

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The CSOs website and database project is premised in the understanding that civil society and community responses to HIV are essential to ending the AIDS epidemic. Communities support health systems and reach those most vulnerable to HIV where public health facilities cannot. The evolution of the HIV epidemic is changing the landscape of HIV response and work. CSOs have an important role to play in ending AIDS. They are operating in a changing landscape and need to find ways to remain relevant and to participate more effectively in the response. An important role is to support interventions to reduce human rights and gender-related barriers to HIV, TB and health services.
With support from UNDP, UNAIDS and the UN Joint Team; CSOs in Zimbabwe had a chance to review their strategic direction, and developed the CSO Strategic Priority Action Plan, which detailed activities and indicators to assess progress towards strategic priorities. The CSOs identified a key priority to improve the knowledge of CSOs in human rights and health and contribute to reduction in health inequalities and improve access to health services for the communities they serve.
As government provides the majority of treatment for HIV, the CSO strategic priority actions include the need to assess what is their role in supporting adherence to treatment, supporting marginalised and key populations to enable access to both prevention and treatment, and advocating for strategy and policy change to reach Universal Health Coverage.
About the ZimHealth CSOs Website and Database
The CSOs website/database is a hub of registered and validated community based and civil society organisations responding to HIV & AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), non- communicable diseases (NCDs) and general health in Zimbabwe. The project was supported by UNDP under Capacity Development; as part of the Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) Strategic Action Plan which:
Defined the future role and mandate of civil society in supporting the achievement of 90-90-90 (and then 95-95-95); developed the Civil Society's Charter to share CSOs' role and mandate in the response with key stakeholder and partners.
Disseminate an Engagement and Accountability Framework on how civil society can support the move to more comprehensive health programming, integrating HIV within the broader health agenda, to help achieve Universal Health Coverage.
Exploring the ZimHealthCSOs Website/Database
The website and database information structure enables user to identify and search for HIV, SRH and Health Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe by exploring the services offered by these CSOs. Services offered have been placed in the following specialties that include; Advocacy, Clinical services, Health Promotion, Research, Economic empowerment and livelihoods.
The database was also mapped by GSI coordinates and this enables users to locate CSOs in their exact locations from Provinces, down to exact districts and can provide CSOs physical addresses using either satellites or maps. CSOs profiled in the database are mapped down to the extent that when users click any province on the map; a list of CSOs operating in that particular province pops up.
Users of the website/database can also search CSOs by key words aligned to HIV and SRHR programming that include word like; Key populations, PLHIV, OVCs, MSM, Women and Gender, Youth, AGYW, LGBTIQ, Drug users.
The website/database also functions as an e-directory; offering contact details for CSOs that include organization email address, telephone numbers as well as names of contact persons. An efficient, effective and sustainable HIV, TB and health response system in any country requires full protection of fundamental human rights as a basic practice. This is only possible where a country has an enabling legal and policy environment for people living with and impacted by HIV and TB as well as vulnerable and key populations, including young key populations.
The website has a resources section that feature key strategic documents in the HIV and AIDS, SRHR response can be downloaded for further reference. These key documents include the Zimbabwe National AIDS Strategic Plan, Legal Environment Assessment, HIV Communication Strategy as well as other regional and international frameworks on human rights, sustainable development goals, global commitments to achieve Universal Health Coverage as well as guidelines on how to register as a PVO in Zimbabwe; to benefit those who wish to be part of the health civil society sector.
This online HIV & AIDS, SRH and Health CSOs database makes it easy for users to identify who is doing what, where and with who? Since the system helps to improve CSOs coordination; the website/database also features a detailed profile of Zimbabwe AIDS Network; the civil society coordinating platform on HIV and AIDS, SRHR and Health
With support from UNDP, UNAIDS, UN Joint Team and the Global Fund
Mapping of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe This is the final report of the mapping of current and existing Civil Society Organizations and Community Based Organizations working on HIV/AIDS and Health in Zimbabwe.
CSOs Website and Database Write Up Documentation CSO Website and Database Documentation
ZAN Website

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Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire (Hardcover)
By Pankaj Mishra
A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.
In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America.
In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines the politics and culture of this hysteria, challenging the dominant establishment discourses of our times. In essays that grapple with the meaning and content of Anglo-American liberalism and its relations with colonialism, the global South, Islam, and "humanitarian" war, Mishra confronts writers such as Jordan Peterson, Niall Ferguson, and Salman Rushdie. He describes the doubling down of an intelligentsia against a background of weakening Anglo-American hegemony, and he explores the commitments of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the ideological determinations of The Economist. These essays provide a vantage point from which to understand the current crisis and its deep origins.
Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire, Age of Anger, and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
"There's enough truth in Mishra's alternative history for it to stand as a useful corrective to the Grand Narrative that still maintains a firm grip on the imagination of many in the West . . . As a goad to liberal self-criticism, Mishra is well worth reading."
—Damon Linker, The New York Times
"Mishra excels at calling out intellectual vapidities, what he calls "pseudo-scholarship" . . . This is a writer with a clearer sense of what he is up against, who veers into the personal only to draw a larger political point. In a post-truth world, you read Mishra to clear the air, to make sense of our bewildering moment."
—Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The Guardian
"It remains a dazzling display of what close analysis and precise polemic can achieve . . . this collection does a whole lot more than simply kick against the pricks. It's an extraordinarily powerful argument, by a writer of powerful and perhaps even remorseless conviction, for the case that we need first to rethink our past in order to reshape our future. And never more so than in the times of present stress."
—Mark Rappolt, Art Review
"This erudite and dryly witty collection will help readers to make sense of the current age of discontent."
"Mishra offers a sharp rebuke of Western neoliberalism. In this wide-ranging and eviscerating collection of essays, Mishra pillories the imperialistic dogmas that are still alive and well and having a ruinous impact on domestic and foreign policy. Tactics once exclusively used on colonial populations have been brought home and the West's relationship with the global south is still dictated by imperialist interventionism and massive resource transfer. Bland Fanatics opens the gates to deeper intellectual analysis of the fundamental assumptions that undergird Western society."
—Powell's Books Best Nonfiction of 2020
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Political Science / Essays
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Paperback (October 5th, 2021): $17.00
MP3 CD (October 6th, 2020): $24.99
Compact Disc (October 6th, 2020): $37.99


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import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;

/**
 *
 * A representation of the model object 'Add Primary Key Type'.
 *
 *
 *

 * The following features are supported:
 *

 *
{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getCatalogName Catalog Name}

 *
{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getColumnNames Column Names}

 *
{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getConstraintName Constraint Name}

 *
{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getSchemaName Schema Name}

 *
{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getTableName Table Name}

 *
{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getTablespace Tablespace}

 *

 *

 *
 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType()
 * @model extendedMetaData="name='addPrimaryKey_._type' kind='empty'"
 * @generated
 */
public interface AddPrimaryKeyType extends EObject {
	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Catalog Name' attribute.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of the 'Catalog Name' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Catalog Name' attribute.
	 * @see #setCatalogName(String)
	 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType_CatalogName()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='attribute' name='catalogName'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getCatalogName();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getCatalogName Catalog Name}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Catalog Name' attribute.
	 * @see #getCatalogName()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setCatalogName(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Column Names' attribute.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of the 'Column Names' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Column Names' attribute.
	 * @see #setColumnNames(String)
	 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType_ColumnNames()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String" required="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='attribute' name='columnNames'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getColumnNames();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getColumnNames Column Names}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Column Names' attribute.
	 * @see #getColumnNames()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setColumnNames(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Constraint Name' attribute.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of the 'Constraint Name' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Constraint Name' attribute.
	 * @see #setConstraintName(String)
	 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType_ConstraintName()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='attribute' name='constraintName'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getConstraintName();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getConstraintName Constraint Name}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Constraint Name' attribute.
	 * @see #getConstraintName()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setConstraintName(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Schema Name' attribute.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of the 'Schema Name' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Schema Name' attribute.
	 * @see #setSchemaName(String)
	 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType_SchemaName()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='attribute' name='schemaName'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getSchemaName();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getSchemaName Schema Name}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Schema Name' attribute.
	 * @see #getSchemaName()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setSchemaName(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Table Name' attribute.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of the 'Table Name' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Table Name' attribute.
	 * @see #setTableName(String)
	 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType_TableName()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String" required="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='attribute' name='tableName'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getTableName();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getTableName Table Name}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Table Name' attribute.
	 * @see #getTableName()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setTableName(String value);

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the 'Tablespace' attribute.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of the 'Tablespace' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @return the value of the 'Tablespace' attribute.
	 * @see #setTablespace(String)
	 * @see org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.DbchangelogPackage#getAddPrimaryKeyType_Tablespace()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xml.type.String"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='attribute' name='tablespace'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	String getTablespace();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.liquibase.xml.ns.dbchangelog.AddPrimaryKeyType#getTablespace Tablespace}' attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param value the new value of the 'Tablespace' attribute.
	 * @see #getTablespace()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setTablespace(String value);

} // AddPrimaryKeyType

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Inclement weather has forced a rare snow day for Houston Baptist University. As I sit, drinking some hot chocolate and reading, I can listen to music at reference volume instead of the quiet "background music" that office etiquette requires. Suddenly this morning, I recognized that the opening track of Captain Beefheart album "Safe as Milk" is actually an instantiation of "Rollin' and Tumblin'" but with different words. Here was a song I had heard in many forms, now refreshed and remade. But it was still the blues classic I loved. It occurred to me that Rollin' and Tumblin' was a universal.
A universal is not simply a category of things, like a label or sorting box. It's something real that governs the particulars that instantiate or embody it. When Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck, Bob Dylan, the Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, R. L. Burnside, or Canned Heat perform Rollin' and Tumblin' they bring the universal, which is ineffable and abstract, into concrete reality. This process of causing the universal to appear in specific places and materials (or in the case of the song, specific sounds at specific times) is one of the great mysteries of reality – one of the great mysteries about which philosophy seeks and wonders.
Think of how magical this process is. There is no one perfect version of the song. As each performer uses their skill at their instrument and poetry, nuances of the song are revealed. Jeff Beck's angry, frenzied recording shows the self-laceration of the song's lyrics. Guy and Wells' contemplative acoustic performance highlights its regret. Captain Beefheart latches onto the macho posturing of singing the blues by replacing the lyrics with "come with me, girl" phrases more common to rock and roll. Each one reveals more of the universal, but no one version could show everything. We need not become Platonists about universals – and, in fact, unlike a Platonic Form for the song, Rollin' and Tumblin' must be heard and experienced. Watching it performed live, one has the impression that the song is here and not merely a copy of something else. It's not that the song Form has to have various things subtracted in order to fit into a single performance (as in Platonism), but that the song leaves much unspecified. What instruments are used, how fast it is played, exactly what words are used, the various qualities of the singer's voice, the emotion of the performers – all these are left for the instantiation to add. In each performance the universal is present, as glorious as the performers can reveal it to be. In the end, Rollin' and Tumblin' is not exhausted by its many versions. It is neither worn out nor has it shown us everything it can.
It is this last point that fills me with optimism about the world of art. Universals have more to give, whether they be songs, stories, images, or objects.


Here at Amuse Bouche Catering we cater for just about any event; from 10 people to 150, from Weddings and Birthdays, to Christenings and Corprate Events. We can provide a sit down meal cooked by one of our expert chefs, a gourmet bbq, or simply pre prepare canap�s so you can claim all the glory. Our team consists of young and talented individuals with bags of experience hailing from in and around South West London, all joined together by one passion: food. The difference comes in the fact that we will always work with our clients to ensure you not only get what you are looking for, but something special in return. We know that there are alot of catering companies out there. So why us? Our philosophy is simple- Food should be an affordable, enjoyable and sociable experience. Colectively we have over 10 years experience in events and weddings and, are experts in our field.
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Confession time. I was raised on Little Debbie snacks.
Don't get me wrong – I had a super healthy childhood. We ate egg whites and vegetables and snacks from the co-op, rather than the supermarket. My parents did a great job, but something happened in my teen years. I was growing faster than I could handle. Always a late bloomer, I went from 4'11" to 5'6″ rather quickly. And I've always been underweight. The amount of food I used to eat! My sister will tell you about me eating boxes of Little Debbie Nutty Bars or Cosmic Brownies, plus polishing off a bowl of microwave popcorn, and sometimes all at once. I'm more about balance these days.
Or rather, I mostly always was, but teenage growth spurts are rough.
I LOVE Cosmic Brownies. They're fudgy and full or rainbows. What more could you want? I'm not into the million ingredients, though. And this is not preachy – holy cow it isn't. I love junk food and I love healthy food, and personally I don't believe there are good and bad foods. There's just balance. That said, I'm a supertaster and when something has too many ingredients or chemicals, it doesn't taste right to me. Enter this recipe. I added brownie mix to the recipe, but only because I know this will work and isn't difficult. I generally make mine from scratch. If you know how to make super fudgy brownies from scratch, then I first recommend that. Do whatever it takes to get yourself some fudgy cosmic brownies! And FAST!
These "homemade" cosmic brownies are easy to make and kids will love helping you in the kitchen!
1 – Prepare brownies according to directions, or make from scratch if you know a fudgy recipe!
What was your favorite childhood Little Debbie snack?


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"""
homeassistant.components.ifttt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This component enable you to trigger Maker IFTTT recipes.
Check https://ifttt.com/maker for details.

Configuration:

To use Maker IFTTT you will need to add something like the following to your
config/configuration.yaml.

ifttt:
  key: xxxxx-x-xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Variables:

key
*Required
Your api key

"""
import logging
import requests

from homeassistant.helpers import validate_config

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

DOMAIN = "ifttt"

SERVICE_TRIGGER = 'trigger'

ATTR_EVENT = 'event'
ATTR_VALUE1 = 'value1'
ATTR_VALUE2 = 'value2'
ATTR_VALUE3 = 'value3'

DEPENDENCIES = []

REQUIREMENTS = ['pyfttt==0.3']

def trigger(hass, event, value1=None, value2=None, value3=None):
    """ Trigger a Maker IFTTT recipe """
    data = {
        ATTR_EVENT: event,
        ATTR_VALUE1: value1,
        ATTR_VALUE2: value2,
        ATTR_VALUE3: value3,
    }
    hass.services.call(DOMAIN, SERVICE_TRIGGER, data)

def setup(hass, config):
    """ Setup the ifttt service component """

    if not validate_config(config, {DOMAIN: ['key']}, _LOGGER):
        return False

    key = config[DOMAIN]['key']

    def trigger_service(call):
        """ Handle ifttt trigger service calls. """
        event = call.data.get(ATTR_EVENT)
        value1 = call.data.get(ATTR_VALUE1)
        value2 = call.data.get(ATTR_VALUE2)
        value3 = call.data.get(ATTR_VALUE3)
        if event is None:
            return

        try:
            import pyfttt as pyfttt
            pyfttt.send_event(key, event, value1, value2, value3)
        except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
            _LOGGER.exception("Error communicating with IFTTT")

    hass.services.register(DOMAIN, SERVICE_TRIGGER, trigger_service)

    return True


I was dissapointed in this product only because it did not match the dye lot I had at all. I cant use it. The colors are dull but the yarn itself is great.
Hi Lillie, So sorry to hear the dye lots don't match. In hand dyed yarns, they can vary substantially. Temperature, humidity, the individual doing the dyeing, all effect the final outcome. Some diers have even abandoned lots, as each hank can vary even within the same dye job.


Photo shows RMT-4744 BETH STEEL #40-Sparrows Point, MD Plant. A Special Custom Run Limited Edition in 2006 for EMERY DISTRIBUTORS, Easton, PA.
Realistic BETHLEHEM STEEL inter-plant railroad switching locomotive colors of orange and black painting and lettering. Available in 4 different BETHLEHEM STEEL plant location numbers as RMT-4741 BS #10, RMT-4742 BS #20, RMT-4743 BS #30 and RMT-4744 BS #40.


it will snow later this morning and when I left my kitchen with its morning fragrant comforts to feed the birds, the imprints of many bird visitors were plain to see in the snow. have a wonderful saturday.
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Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association is pleased to report that the federal Open Fields Initiative is now in effect and grant money is available through the United States Department of Agriculture for state and tribal governments interested in enrolling in the program or expanding their existing Open Fields program. The NRA has been working on this effort to increase opportunities for hunters and compensate private landowners on the national level for more than a decade.
The Open Fields Initiative is already utilized with great success in 26 states. The new, federal program will provide resources to fund state efforts to develop voluntary, incentive-based programs that expand public access to private lands for hunting, fishing and other recreational purposes. The initiative amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm, ranch, and forest lands to voluntarily make their lands accessible to the public, and is expected to open up more than 10 million new acres of private land to the public each year. Landowners are compensated through rental payments and other types of incentives such as technical and conservation services.
There are more than 13 million hunters in America, creating an indispensable economic power. The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies reports that hunters generate more than $67 billion in economic output and more than one million jobs in the United States. Hunting and fishing licenses, permits, stamps and excise taxes on hunting and fishing goods have generated billions of dollars for wildlife conservation, research and management over the years. By any measure, sportsmen are the single largest contributors to conservation and this initiative will only expand the benefits that hunters bring to wildlife and viable habitat.
The NRA would like to thank U.S. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Pat Roberts (R-KS) and John Thune (R-SD), as well as Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), and Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) for their instrumental support to include the NRA-backed Open Fields Initiative language into the House and Senate passed 2008 Farm Bill. The original bills, SB 1502 and HR 2473, make up the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program to increase public access to private hunting grounds.
Massachusetts: Governor Patrick's Anti-Gun Bill Could be Voted on Soon!


Do you want your child to take more responsibility around the house?
Or are you struggling with behaviour and need an incentive for your child to be good?
This excellent value, reward system encourages both of those things.
It is a positive and consistent approach to dealing with behaviour at home and is a long-term solution that will bring tranquillity to the house and encourage more quality family time.
This is the Lite version of the Super Stars full version app. For an additional price you can switch over to using the full version app at any time, with all its great features, and all your data will be there automatically. Your logon will work the same. No fuss.
This app is designed to teach your child (or your husband/wife) the value of earning rewards from carrying out chores. It allows you to set tasks, such as 'Clean your teeth every night at bedtime', 'Finish your homework by 5pm' or 'Clear the table after dinner every day'.
You can also get daily reminder notifications every morning.
The parent and the child users have their own logon, avatar and theme. All data is held securely in the cloud so everyone sees the same data instantly, across all phones and tablets.
When your child completes the task, they confirm in the app and, after you have approved, their own Star Points or virtual Money balance will be credited.
You can also use it to monitor and manage virtual pocket money.
Once downloaded this is fully functional, with NO ADVERTS and NO IN-APP PURCHASES.
Although this is the Lite version of the Super Stars app, you can still create any task and assign it to your child; your child can then log in on their phone and tablet and say when done; they can then receive Star Points or virtual Money. It is still full of great features at a very low cost.
- It will only allow the creation of one parent user and one child user.
- The choice of avatars are limited to the four free ones.
- There is no Rewards library, or Reward Store screen, allowing the Star points to be 'spent'.
- There is no approvals screen, allowing the parent to approve tasks or reward purchases.
- No more need for piggy banks. Kids can easily buy things when they are out, by you 'removing' the money from the Bank screen.
- See your tasks each day, along with what you need to do to complete.
- View your Star points or Money balances.
- Each task allows a text conversation thread, if you wanted to include messages, such as why it's not approved.
- Admins (Mum/Dad) can also scroll through their family members to see how everyone is doing.
- When a task is completed, or when a completed task is approved, the childs Start points or Money balance is credited.
- Admins can also manually debit or credit, both Start points and Money from the account. This allows Super Stars Lite to also be great for managing pocket money and allowances.
- The Parent user can easily assign tasks to your child from their task library.
- Tasks can be assigned on a very flexible set of time deadlines and frequencies, such as 'by Bedtime every day', or 'Every Sunday'.
Fixed defects in many screens where double-tapping on buttons and links would cause errors.
The financial markets are in the palm of your hand with the HotForex App!


The simple_query method is a simplified version of the $this->db->query() method. It DOES NOT return a database result set, nor does it set the query timer, or compile bind data, or store your query for debugging. It simply lets you submit a query. Most users will rarely use this function.
It returns whatever the database drivers' "execute" function returns. That typically is TRUE/FALSE on success or failure for write type queries such as INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE statements (which is what it really should be used for) and a resource/object on success for queries with fetchable results.
PostgreSQL's pg_exec() function (for example) always returns a resource on success, even for write type queries. So take that in mind if you're looking for a boolean value.
Although the Query Builder will try its best to properly quote any field and table names that you feed it, note that it is NOT designed to work with arbitrary user input. DO NOT feed it with unsanitized user data.
$this->db->escape_like_str() This method should be used when strings are to be used in LIKE conditions so that LIKE wildcards ('%', '_') in the string are also properly escaped.
The question marks in the query are automatically replaced with the values in the array in the second parameter of the query function.
The secondary benefit of using binds is that the values are automatically escaped, producing safer queries. You don't have to remember to manually escape data; the engine does it automatically for you.


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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
IEEE Spectrum October 19, 2011
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot cars as it raced around a closed course. Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged more than 190,000 miles (about 300,000 kilometers), driving in city traffic, busy highways, and mountainous roads with only occasional human intervention. The project is still far from becoming commercially viable, but Google has set up a demonstration system on its campus, using...
Loss Of California HOV-Lane 'Prius Perk' Slows All Traffic, Study Says
Many California drivers silently cheered on July 1, when the yellow stickers on 85,000 hybrid cars expired--meaning their drivers were no longer allowed to travel solo in the carpool lane. According to a new study released Monday at the University of California-Berkeley, though the loss of the...
John Voelcker October 14, 2011
Facing Tough Competition, Toyota Doubles Down On Prius Hybrids
Fuel efficiency is on every automaker's mind, and will be through at least 2025. Toyota sells the most fuel-efficient gasoline vehicle on the U.S. market, the 2012 Prius hybrid. It's rated at 51 mpg city, 48 mpg highway, and a combined 50 mpg by the EPA. Tougher competitors But the competition is...
John Voelcker September 30, 2011
Behind The Disturbing Ad Campaign For The 2012 Toyota Prius
To make its new ad for the 2012 Toyota Prius family, Toyota tapped some of the same talent that made its previous "Harmony" campaign a success. But as intriguing as the behind-the-scenes footage may be, we're not entirely sold on the new "People Person" clip. You might recall that when Toyota...
Richard Read September 23, 2011
2012 Toyota Prius, Prius V, Prius Plug-in Hybrid: Now With Spaceship Sound
When the original Toyota Prius launched over ten years ago in the U.S. as a nerdy sedan, it wooed many buyers with its low-speed, near-silent operation. Now the days of the whispering Prius are over, thanks to U.S. legislation requiring every single electric vehicle and hybrid car to fit an active...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield September 23, 2011
Why Toyota Will Sell 2012 Prius Plug-Ins: It's The Sticker, Stupid
Despite wrangling among electric-car fans over whether the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid's 9 to 14 miles of electric range are sufficient, one factor will make the car a success, at least in California: the valued sticker that gives drivers solo access to the HOV lane.
2012 Toyota Prius Improves With Subtle Changes
Kurt Ernst September 20, 2011
Toyota has upped 2012 Prius content across most trim levels, but has made only minor changes to the car's styling.
Cheapest Electric Car In The U.S.? It Depends How You Ask
So what's the least expensive plug-in car in the U.S.? That ought to be pretty simple to figure out, right? Just compare the base price for every electric car, add in mandatory delivery fees, and see which comes in lowest. Which is why we got confused this morning when we read Toyota's Bob Carter...
3 Best-Selling Hybrids: Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Sonata Hybrid
For a few years now, hybrid sales have been stalled at 2 to 3 percent of the U.S. market. But for the first seven months of this year, the total is at the low end of the scale: Hybrids represented 2.06 percent of sales from January through August, and just 1.98 percent of sales in August alone. The...
John Voelcker September 9, 2011
Hippie Alert: Mother Nature Wants To Drive Your Prius Hybrid Too
The Toyota Prius is not only the quintessential hybrid-electric vehicle, but the automaker's third best-selling car line in the United States. Last year, the redesigned 2010 Prius launched with the ad tagline, "Harmony between man, nature, and machine." Tell that to the McCarthy family of Homewood...
Buying A Used Toyota Prius? Here's What You Need To Know
The venerable Toyota Prius hybrid is generally accepted as the car which changed consumer's attitude toward hybrid-electric drivetrains. While the Prius wasn't the very first hybrid to be sold in the U.S. (the original Honda Insight beat it by a few months), it has proven by far the...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield August 29, 2011
2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show Preview
You might have just one week left to register your interest in buying a 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid, but we still haven't yet seen a production version of Toyota's first plug-in hybrid yet. That will all change in Frankfurt in just under a month, when Toyota will unveil the official production...
Five Things You Shouldn't Do To A Toyota Prius...Ever
The venerable Toyota Prius has been around for over a decade now, first as an awkward but fuel-efficient sedan, then a geeky hatchback and soon a platform in its own right. But while Toyota is now putting the Hybrid Synergy Drive technology from the Prius into a whole range of vehicles from tiny city hatchbacks to full-sized luxury SUVs, there are some things that the Toyota Prius is not meant to be. If you dare, here are five increasingly bizarre things we've seen the humble Toyota Prius turned into: The convertible Prius, the Prius limousine, the "Pimus", the Prius Pickup and the...
2011 Nissan Leaf Generates Constant Buzz: Musicians Beware!
The Leaf generates massively more and constant high frequency sound feedback
George Parrott July 1, 2011
Toyota Adds Prius Plus Performance Package To Hot Up Hybrid Handling
Pretty much every Toyota Prius hybrid you see on the streets looks the same. Wild customization is generally limited to personalized plates that promote the driver's green credentials, solar panels, eco-living, or general hybrid luv-luv-LUV. That's about to change. Toyota announced today it will...
John Voelcker June 30, 2011
CA To Hybrid Drivers: Sorry, We're Just Not That Into You--Any More
Spare a thought, if you will, a momentary tear, for 85,000 doomed drivers of three models of hybrid car in California. They are the unlucky losers of a privilege that saved them time, raised the value of their vehicle, and undoubtedly increased their karmic contentment, all because of a set of tiny...
Never Fear, More Priuses Will Be Here! Or Not. It Depends
If you want to buy a new 2011 Toyota Prius hybrid these days, you may have to scramble. Supplies are down to 3,000 units, which is less than 10 days' worth of sales. In auto industry terms, that means "sold out," and dealers are charging higher markups on the few precious Priuses they still have...
How Does A Hybrid Car Really Work? This Infographic Explains It
As we've said before, we love infographics. Some of our favorites come from AutoMD, which did the one we ran two weeks ago on rising gas prices and simple ways to boost your gas mileage. Now they've tackled the perennial question: How does a hybrid car work? Specifically, they dissect the third...
Whole Foods Plus Prius Equals New Westside LA Hybrid Rap
Jonathan McGrew June 18, 2011
The phrase "west side of LA" conjures images of the surf at Malibu, high-dollar real estate and, on the grittier side, the gangs from the bad old days of Venice Beach. Park those images next to the little video below from Smog and Fog Films. On the west side, apparently even mock-gangster rappers have a green consciousness. Where once you might rep your 'hood in a long, low Cadillac (think Snoop DeVille), now you'd better have your eyes on a Prius with blacked-out windows. "Gettin' Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot," says a lot about today's world…or at least...
After 11 Years, Two-Millionth Hybrid Car Sold In United States
Sometime early last week, someone somewhere in the U.S. bought a hybrid car. And while we may never know exactly who that person was, the car was the 2-millionth hybrid-electric vehicle sold here since the very first Honda Insight went on sale in late 1999. Industry trade journal Ward's Auto...
2012 Toyota Prius V Wagon: Hybrid Success, More To Be Built
The 2012 Toyota Prius V wagon hasn't even reached U.S. dealers--it'll arrive this fall--but surging global demand has already convinced Toyota to raise production. The world's largest maker of hybrid-electric vehicles will boost Prius wagon production from 3,000 to 5,000 per month by September...
John Voelcker June 7, 2011
Making Music With A Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid & Unattended Baggage
About a year and a half ago, Scion launched a new webmagazine called ScionAV. The goal? To engage potential Scion shoppers (i.e. Millennials) on lifestyle topics like music, film, and fashion. It's the way marketing works in the Social Media Age: you don't just talk to customers in showrooms, you...
Toyota Prius Gas Mileage
The 2011 Toyota Prius hybrid gets the best gas mileage rating of any car for sale in the U.S. market today. It's rated at 51 mpg city, 48 mpg highway, for a combined rating of 50 mpg--and that's a number no other car can match. At least, no other car that doesn't plug into the wall for some (2011...
Why Haven't Hybrid Sales Been Higher, And Should They Be?
Hybrid cars seem to bring out strong beliefs among car buyers, both pro and con. On the pro side, they get better gas mileage, offer some small degree of all-electric running, and let buyers display (to varying degrees) their green credentials. On the con side, they're usually pricier than...


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Team Honeywell turns in some good performances in 2008 season
Team Honeywell turned in good performances at several meetings, in the Uniroyal World Cup this season.
Team Honeywell has been delivering winning performances in the world-cup events of the Uniroyal Fun Cup series this year. The cars have bodies styled like a VW Beetle but are real racing cars with a tubular chassis, PR body, central driving position and mid-mounted engine with rear-wheel drive. Races usually last three to six hours, with an hour qualifying beforehand. Grid positions are normally made up from a ballot. At the Nürburgring in Germany, the team was outright winner of the 14-lap sprint race on the Nordschleife — the old 25 km grand prix circuit. The team came second in a field of 95 cars in the six-hour endurance race on the new grand prix circuit — the GP-Strecke. Neil Plimmer, the Yorkshire heating installer who shares the driving with Geoff Fawcett, says, 'It was a great end to our 2008 season, coming soon after our win in the final round of the UK Uniroyal Fun Cup series at Oulton Park.' Following consecutive wins in 2006 and 2007, Team Honeywell had to be content with fourth place in the 2008 season after accident damage left its car well down the field in two races over a single weekend early in the season.
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Q: Brother Printer Visual Basic 10 Hello everyone and thank you for being such great and helpful community. I am currently working on Visual Basic App (using 10 express version) to print labels by using Brother Printer QL-500. For some reason samples provided by Brother don't work.... any of them and worst part there is no Errors any kind.... now Brother P-Touch Editor 5.1 works and prints fine. I am using b-PAC3 Client Component(64 Bit), running on Windows 7 64 bit. I know some people suggested to target x86 and I did that with no luck its a same thing nothing is happening please see Brother Code I am using below. Thanks!
  b-PAC 3.0 Component Sample (Badge)
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'       (C)Copyright Brother Industries, Ltd. 2009
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'*******************************************************************
Option Explicit On

Public Class Badge
    Const sPath = "C:\Program Files\Brother bPAC3 SDK\Templates\Badge.lbx"

    '********************************************************
    '   Open and Print a spcified file.
    '********************************************************
    Public Sub DoPrint()
        Dim bRet As Boolean
        Dim ObjDoc As bpac.Document
        ObjDoc = CreateObject("bpac.Document")
        'Open lbx file
        bRet = ObjDoc.Open(sPath)
        If (bRet <> False) Then
            ObjDoc.GetObject("objName").Text = txtName.Text
            ObjDoc.GetObject("objCompany").Text = txtCompany.Text

            'objDoc.SetMediaByName(objDoc.Printer.GetMediaName, True)
            ObjDoc.StartPrint("", bpac.PrintOptionConstants.bpoDefault)
            ObjDoc.PrintOut(1, bpac.PrintOptionConstants.bpoDefault)
            ObjDoc.EndPrint()
            ObjDoc.Close()
        End If
End Sub

    Private Sub btnPrint_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPrint.Click
        DoPrint()
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnClose_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnClose.Click
        Me.Close()
    End Sub
End Class

A: After trying to contact Brother technical for 2 weeks resolved nothing still waiting for their response but everything is working now... Not this Badge code but my program if anyone has same issue try installing  b-PAC3 Client Component non 64 as well and re-install brother drivers  somehow this fixes the issue still wonder what is the problem would be nice to know to avoid it on other systems.

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Conrad and Catherine Bloch House
The historic residential dwelling of Conrad and Catherine Bloch, owners of a thriving shoe business, was built in 1873. In 1923, the home was leased to Dr. Harvey Cook, who transformed the building into the last privately owned hospital in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Harvey Samuel Cook was born in Illinois in 1888. He began his medical education at Valparaiso University and later attended the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Shortly after opening a practice in Illinois, Cook joined WWI as a medic. During his time in the war, he came to understand the need to quickly get anesthetic to wounded victims. From this knowledge, Cook invented the hypodermic syringe, a medical device that drastically changed the world of medicine.
Following the war, Cook established his own laboratory in Chicago to create the syringes. Later, he moved to Valparaiso and opened the Valparaiso Hospital and Sanitarium. Over twenty-five thousand dollars was spent furnishing the hospital with the most up-to-date and modern equipment. The fully functional hospital offered operations and x-rays, in addition to handling emergencies. Because of his failing health, Cook ceased working and the hospital shuttered its doors around 1934.
Today, the Conrad and Catherine Bloch House and Valparaiso Hospital and Sanitarium building remain standing and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Conrad and Catherine Bloch House tif / 9.68 MB Download
608 Academy Street, Valparaiso, IN
Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, "Conrad and Catherine Bloch House," Discover Indiana, accessed February 1, 2023, https://publichistory.iupui.edu/items/show/191.
Indiana Medical History
Published on Dec 19, 2017. Last updated on Apr 2, 2019.


Thousands of Star Wars fans gathered at McCormick Place in the Windy City to fearless the wind one day and the snow another (we're going to call that "Hoth Appreciation Day").
After dangling little more than a title before us for months, EA and Respawn Entertainment finally revealed more about their new Star Wars game, Jedi: Fallen Order over the weekend.
In a series of tweets, Jay Ingram, Community Engagement Specialist at Electronic Arts, revealed some new details about the upcoming Star Wars game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. She mentions that Jedi: Fallen Order was likely in development before EA acquired Respawn, thus giving the studio a leg up on creative decisions.
"It's testing an enemy, finding their weakness, figuring out how to exploit it". A New Jedi Story BeginsAs a former Padawan on the run from the Empire, you must complete your training before Imperial Inquisitors discover your plan to revive the Jedi Order. There are areas where it's hacking stuff, because that is the fantasy where you can just mow through Stormtroopers.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Hennig opens up about the Star Wars project she joined Visceral to create-codenamed "Ragtag"- and how it was inspired by the original Star Wars films. You can check out ALL the different outfits in the gallery below.
But that's just the start of what players are in for, teases Douglas Reilly, vice president of Lucasfilm Games. After hearing about an upcoming Star Wars game again in 2019, it's understandably hard to let yourself be excited, but despite the doubt and disappointment that hovers over the Star Wars game franchise, perhaps not all hope is lost.
The game is now scheduled for a November 15th release! "No microtransactions. It's a story game".
She would go on to state that during the hiatus they plan to map out the next decade of storytelling, "And we're taking the time to really look at where this is going from the standpoint of a saga".
"We want to show you enough for you to be invested and want to play it", Zampella says.


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Parent and Educator Websites and Apps
Both an app and a website, Anchor makes it easy to create high quality podcasts with their free and easy to use creation tools and hosting service. With a library of a variety of sound effects and audio clips, transitions can be included before and after audio recordings to create a professional mix of audio. Anchor makes it easy to share saved podcasts directly to social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. Anchor also generates a link and an embed code for each episode.
Boostrapworld.org consists of curricular modules that integrate computational thinking in algebra, physics and coding. This resource enables non-computer science teachers to deliver computer science instruction within math, science, and even stand-alone computer science courses. Backed by research and inspired by courses taught at reputable universities, the content aligns with state and national math standards. Leveraging creativity, such as video game design to integrate mathematical concepts in coding, students are inspired to advance to the next level of computational thinking building a solid foundation within the framework of computer science. Bootstrap World offers virtual office hours as an added tool for teacher support.
Brush Ninja
Brush Ninja is a free and simple application for making animated GIFs. The site indicates that "Brush Ninja is free to use with no accounts, login, or tracking done." The app will run on any Web browser and work with desktop and mobile devices. To make an animated GIF it is as simple as drawing on a blank scene editor. After drawing multiple scenes to create the gif, the user presses play to preview the animation with the ability to easily make edits.
CS First
Teach computer programming and coding to students with the free CS First curriculum. Instructional videos guide students through theme-based projects such as sports, art, fashion, digital storytelling, and more. Projects involve block-based coding using Scratch and no experience is needed for educators or students. Students will enjoy the fun, interactive projects and can earn badges along the way.
Deck.Toys
Teachers use Deck.Toys to create interactive lessons for their students. A deck is created by the teacher with paths and activities for students to follow. Media may be included in the deck with options to assess students along the path using apps that allow for varied types of responses offering a fun learning experience. Easily integrates into Google Classroom or share a link with the class. Can be used with all different age groups.
Make any video your lesson. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding. Edpuzzle utilizes videos that are readily available and is a fantastic resource for flipped classroom learning.
Create and share Interactive stories for free! Elementari promotes arts and literacy through their platform that allows users to easily write, collaborate, and publish interactive stories for free. Educators can create a free classroom of up to 30 students and have access to Elementari's curriculum guide. Students can write and illustrate digital stories that allow for voice recorded narration. In addition, students can also animate their stories using basic coding functions.
Empatico
Empatico is a free tool connecting classrooms around the world through live video exchanges and activities designed to spark empathy, curiosity, and kindness. A three step approach of prepare, interact, and reflect encourages deeper learning, meaningful connections, and helps students practice social skills such as respectful communication, perspective taking, cooperation, and critical thinking, as they experience positive connections with peers around the world.
Explore.org hosts live streaming videos from all over the world allowing learners to observe a variety of animals in their natural habitats. The learning extends beyond the classroom offering a portal into the natural world with authentic exposure to a variety of species. Applications of explore.org can include creating a center activity in which students observe animals in their natural settings to gather and record data as citizen scientists. As the introduction to an animal research project, this resource can ignite curiosity and encourage further investigation. Additionally, explore.org can serve as a gateway to compare and contrast different animals among diverse habitats.
Genially
This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more. It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive. Content can be shared through a link or downloaded. Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment.
Knightlab Storytelling
Although designed with journalists in mind, this suite of online tools will prove useful to high school students looking to infuse a degree of professionalism into projects. Features such as Juxtapose, Scene, Soundcite, Storyline, and StoryMap leverage online content in a way that will enhance online storytelling and journalistic efforts. Step-by-step tutorials will assist students and educators in making the most of this robust collection of resources.
GeoGuessr is a game for students to challenge themselves in geography. The user, with or without an account, must place the picture seen on the screen on its location on a map. Results show if user has made the correct guess. Play can be set on a world map or instead, a specific region, country, or even city can be selected. Games can easily be integrated into a social studies classroom either with the teacher projecting pictures on the board for the whole class or individually such as using as a bell ringer.
National Geographic is a trusted resource for all aspects of geographic education. This site has resources for grades K-higher education and the breadth of the resources available cover a wide variety of activities, interactive material, mapping (of course), and guides for instructors. The scope of the site is such that subjects such as arts and music, English language arts, and biology are options along with -ology topics that one would expect to find in a site from National Geographic. The indexing of the site by grades, content types, and subjects allow easy searching through the website.
Libraries Ready to Code
Taking up the mantel for helping students learn coding, the Libraries Ready to Code project is an initiative of the American Library Association and sponsored by Google. The Ready to Code Collection provides resources for librarians based on their own expertise. Resources can be browsed by different topics and include such support as lesson plans and professional development on topics as diverse as design thinking, robotics and storyline.
NowComment
NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions in both large and small groups. This online discussion platform allows students to converse about documents, videos, and images in a way that supports students' enjoyment of social media. The ability to handle multiple, simultaneous conversations ensures that students can comment on what they find interesting, without disrupting the flow of other conversation threads. This resource can be used in a variety of ways to spark thought exchange and in-depth learning.
NCMA Learn
NCMALearn brought to you by the North Carolina Museum of Art is designed for educators, students, and anyone interested in learning through works of art. Explore resources for exhibitions and the collection. Teachers and students can explore works of art along with videos that discuss specific works. Teachers can also find lesson plans that include activities, assessments, and resources.
Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting promotes in depth engagement with critical global issues by sponsoring quality international journalists and newsrooms. Stories by Pulitzer Center grantees are freely available on their website and span thousands of print, video, photo, and digital stories published in 150 media outlets; including The New York Times , PBS NewsHour, The New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, and National Geographic. Stories as well as accompanying lesson plans, are searchable by issue, date, author, region and grade level. In addition, the Pulitzer Center offers in person and Skype journalist visits to classrooms, workshops and professional development opportunities.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's award-winning children's literacy website, Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Betty White and dozens more. Each book includes supplemental curriculum as well. Videos can be viewed in YouTube or SchoolTube.
Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use Learning for Justice materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants. With a focus on social justice and anti-bias education, this site offers something for every educator including lesson plans, teaching strategies, printable posters, and frameworks for teaching difficult topics, webinars, podcasts, and more.
Thunkable
Thunkable enables anyone to build their own beautiful mobile apps. Using drag and drop code, students can start from scratch or remix a sample app. Created app projects are accessible on both iOS and Android platforms. Thunkable has an active community with regular design challenges to keep students thinking outside the box with their app creations.
Tour Creator
Tour Creator makes it easy to build immersive, 360 tours right from your computer. Students and teachers can include photos, points of interest, image overlays, boxes with informational text, and "did you know?" points of interest. It is easy to share and can take students places they have never been. Utilizes Google sign in and can be used with Google Expeditions.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy pictures a world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures. With a goal of cultivating a lifelong love of reading, Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages.
Wakelet is a robust curation and storytelling tool, offering educators and their students a multitude of possible uses Links, images, notes, titles, PDFs, YouTube and Vimeo videos, Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts, Google or Dropbox Documents, Soundcloud tracks, Spotify playlists, Google Maps, Flipgrid responses, Screencastify recordings and more can be added to user created "collection"s via browser extension, dashboard or directly from synced applications. Users can edit, embed, change privacy settings, customize the appearance, and invite contributors to add to their collections. Wakelet may be used to create newsletters and playlists, collect learning experience resources, present research artifacts or create an annotated bibliography- it's potential is endless!
Chatterpix Kids
Give your photos a voice with ChatterPix! Chatterpix can make anything talk — pets, friends, doodles, and more! Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Use ChatterPix whenever you're doing a video project with students on the "no photo" list. They can take a picture of whatever they want, record their voice and still participate.
EarthViewer
EarthViewer allows students to visualize changes to Earth's surface over its four billion year history. Students can interact with a moveable globe, similar to Google Earth, and animate four time scales – modern, ice age, paleo, and ancient Earth. Overlays can be added to show the locations of current borders and cities, important fossil finds, and impact craters. Animated charts comparing temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, day length, luminosity, and biodiversity allow students to investigate relationships between these variables over geologic time. EarthViewer also features in depth articles and videos as well as a detailed list of external references and a teacher quick guide are also included.
Figment AR
With Figment AR you can "turn your world into an augmented funhouse" as the developers share in the description on the App Store. This fun app lets you create scenes filled with imaginative objects out of the world around you. You can add interactive animals, objects and emoji's to make your scene come to life. One of my favorite things about this app is that you can create "portals" to step into another dimension while adding environmental effects like rain, fireworks, snow and more.
Green Screen by Do Ink
Green Screen by Do Ink makes it easy to create incredible green screen videos and photos. The green screen effect works by combining images from multiple sources into a single video. These images can come from photos or videos in your camera roll, or from the live video camera. With Green Screen by Do Ink, you can tell a story, explain an idea, and express yourself in truly creative and unique ways.
Students can choose between animal, bacteria, or plant cell from the main screen. Explanatory text has three options: basic, intermediate, or advanced. Students can zoom in or out and can rotate cells for a 360-degree view of the cell. Basic text typically gives one or two short sentence descriptions of structures, intermediate gives longer descriptions with additional vocabulary, and advanced gives very detailed descriptions with challenging vocabulary.
Khan Academy Kids
This interactive app allows kids to manipulate shapes, letters and numbers throughout. Kids can learn reading, language, writing, math, social-emotional development, problem-solving skills, and motor development. Open-ended activities like drawing, storytelling, and coloring encourage creativity and self-expression.
Nearpod is an app that helps you create interactive lessons in a 1:1 setting. Save prep time by easily importing existing lessons (pdfs, jpegs, ppts) and adding interactive features such as Virtual Field Trips, 3D Objects, Quizzes, Polls, Open Ended Questions, etc. Customize every lesson to meet the needs of your students.
Novel Effect
Novel Effect uses voice recognition to compliment read alouds with sound effects and music. Novel Effect features a catalog of over 200 popular and well-loved titles for children, with new titles regularly being added. Parents, teachers, and librarians can use it to spice up their read alouds or revisit old favorites by adding a new soundscape. Students can practice their reading fluency as the app responds to their voice.
Object Viewer for Merge Cube
With Object Viewer from Merge Cube, students and teachers can convert their 3D designs into augmented reality (virtual) objects they can hold and preview on the MERGE Cube. Students can also preview their creations prior to 3D printing to ensure accuracy. Teachers can use Object Viewer to convert 3D models from popular libraries such as Google Poly and Remix 3D into virtual objects to illustrate complex topics and bring lesson plans to life.
Quizlet is a free app which enables teachers and students to create digital flashcards. Quizlet can also automatically generate interactive games and even tests of the material you enter into it. Five or ten minutes of typing (or pasting=) up front can yield literally hours' worth of automatically-assessed activities inside and outside of the classroom.
Sites in VR
Sites in VR is an interactive virtual reality experience where learners can immerse themselves in places around the world! From tourist attractions to landmarks to cultural and religious centers, there are SO many options that learners can explore.
Stop Motion Studio
Stop Motion Studio helps you to create terrific stop action movies with a whole host of unique features. Like the frame-by-frame editor, the never get lost timeline and the sound editor. Add backgrounds, foregrounds, sound effects, use paint brushes, and more to make your stop motion video.
Wakelet is a one stop shop for curating resources for your school library. As an app on your mobile device you can send links directly into a Wakelet collection for personal or public use. You can create a collection of resources together with teaching teams for students to use for reference on projects. Collections can be made up of websites, links, notes, tweets, pictures from your device and more.


2007 Mercury Grand Marquis - Grand Marquis are built to last.
We really love the feel of this car. When you get in and shut the door, you can feel the "protection" that you have in this car. It is very heavy and makes you feel safe. My sons were in a fairly bad accident in it. The cops said that they would not be here today if they had been in most any other car. Our Marquis has been with us since 37,000 miles were on the odometer, and we just passed 120,000 miles. We love this vehicle. We haven't had many issues with it either. For the most part, we haven't had to put it in the shop much. Normal, everyday repairs and preventative maintenance. The performance of the car is untouchable, especially in this day and age. You never know when one of these poorly made fiberglass jobs are going to fall apart in an accident. Not a Grand Marquis. I always felt safe when my twin sons would go out in our Marquis. I always knew they would return safely. Our Marquis made a great first car for my sons also. The Marquis has a huge trunk. We have moved a small one bedroom apt (minus the furniture and appliances) in our Marquis. I have never had one shopping trip that wouldn't fit in the trunk very, very easily.
We were moving a friend out of her one-bedroom apartment. She rented this little dolly for her appliances and furniture and filled it up with these things. She looks around and says what the heck it is full now, and I haven't even begun to put the boxes and miscellaneous junk in. I spoke up and said we can fit it in my car. She didn't believe me, but we got it done. One of our other friends was so surprised by it, that he went out the very next day to get himself one.
Solid steel car. Great braking ability. Sturdy turns and twists. Huge trunk. Very comfy seats.
Gas mileage—approx. 18 mpg. A/C could be better—needs a back temperature control. Too much space for just one.
The Mercury Grand Marquis has always been one of my favorite cars, I always admired the quality of these cars and their sturdy construction. The build quality of this car is exceptional. It's like riding on a cloud. The steering is smooth and the suspension makes most bumps and holes unnoticeable. The interior is very spacious in the front and back and has supple leather seats. The dashboard is trimmed with wood grain.


The difference between MOT testing and servicing can confuse newly qualified drivers - and even the experienced have to have their vehicles serviced properly to ensure any warranty remains valid.
The MOT test ensures a vehicle meets safety and environmental standards. The majority legally require a test three years after registration, then annually thereafter. Some are exempt, such as vehicles registered prior to 1960. The technician examines a range of parts including the bodywork, fuel system, brakes, seatbelts, lights, suspension, steering, bonnet catch, tyres, and registration plates. If any component falls below standard the vehicle fails.
The MOT test is an examination rather than an opportunity for repair and maintenance. If a vehicle fails, its owner receives a certificate to explain why. If it is financially viable, the motorist can then pay an additional fee to bring the vehicle to standard. It is then retested – typically for free - and passes.
Servicing is the process of maintaining and replacing certain components. Every vehicle has a service schedule that might, for example, say it requires a basic service at ten-thousand miles, a medium at twenty thousand and a full at thirty. Refer to the manual or manufacturer for confirmation - but a reasonable benchmark is to have some form of service every twelve months/ten thousand miles.
A typical service includes: changing the engine oil, filters, spark plugs and topping up coolant and washer fluid. Furthermore, the technician might grease the door hinges, inflate the tyres, clean the distributor, remove rust from the brake discs, adjust the handbrake, tighten the drive belts and replace blown light bulbs.
The technician might also ensure that less consumable components such as the alternator and starter motor work properly. If not, they can be replaced – for a cost – before they cause a breakdown.
A new vehicle is supplied with a warranty that might be invalidated if it is not maintained to the manufacturer's satisfaction. On this basis, it might be easiest to have it serviced at a branded dealer.
However, European Block Exemption rules ensure a vehicle can be serviced by an independent dealer without invalidating the warranty (if procedures are followed). The dealer must only use manufacturer parts and follow the service schedule, for example. Comprehensive documentation is required as proof. This ensures that if the vehicle develops a fault, the manufacturer has no concerns that it was caused by improper servicing - so the warranty remains valid.


Many times, even for people far from gambling, heard the word "Bingo". They often symbolize any victory, it is actually a synonym for "Eureka." However, not everyone knows that Bingo - this type of lottery. Bingo , in fact, is a gamble where the participants on a special card or ticket, cross out the number. If a player has closed all the numbers of one series, he wins. However, play continues on, and win, and the following players, but a much smaller amount, as the modern big lottery. The figures for the game are taken from a special device called the lotto. It is nothing like a rotating drum with balls placed inside, which are numbered by those same numbers that are used in the tickets.
The game is old enough. It is believed that it is the unification of the Italian game, which in turn appeared already in 1530. Later bingo game just started calling the word "bean". The whole point is that the numbers do not line through it and closed dried beans. The game received widespread among older retirement age who spent the evening playing this game of chance.
Today Bingo also has widespread. This is due to the fact that at a low cost of the ticket, you can very quickly become a millionaire by winning the lottery . The game itself runs very fast, so it can not be called boring. Another feature of the game that is and dignity, is that playing it does not need to be in constant tension, considering the combinations, or memorizing the cards and so on. Here you simply rely on your luck and wait for your finest hour.


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Home DIASPORA Ghanaian comedian arrested in US over terrorist prank
US-based Ghanaian comedian and internet sensation, Kelvin Asiedu, popularly known as Mr Cocoyam, has been arrested and processed for court on May 30 over a prank that went wrong.
Mr Cocoyam, 25, who lives in Bronx, has been charged with making a 'terroristic threat' in connection with a backpack he left inside the Culinary Institute of America during a Marist College musical performance, Hyde Park police told Poughkeepsiejournal.com
According to a press release by Chief Robert Benson, the police were alerted on Sunday over a "dangerous situation" at the CIA, adding that Mr Cocoyam had entered the CIA's Marriott Pavilion and was acting suspiciously.
The school was reportedly hosting Marist College's Harmony on the Hudson event when the incident happened.
Marist spokesperson Julia Fishman said in a press statement that the event consisted of two concerts at the CIA's Ecolab Auditorium in the Marriott Pavilion and the incident occurred at the end of the first concert, which began at noon.
The police said Mr Cocoyam was carrying a backpack and walked to the front of the venue, sat down, remained seated, got up and left the backpack on the seat, exited the row and stood in the aisle staring at the stage.
He reportedly refused to sit down when the CIA security and members of the audience who were retired or off-duty law enforcement officers approached him.
The crowd grew nervous and began to evacuate.
Mr Cocoyam, in his defence, told the police that his "actions were intended to cause alarm". He was nabbed following his statement alongside two other people. They were detained and questioned but not charged. The backpack was later found to contain only paper.
In addition to the felony terrorist charge, he was charged with criminal nuisance, a misdemeanour; and disorderly conduct, a violation. He was sent to Dutchess County Jail on $1,000 bail or $2,000 bond and released early Monday morning on bail.
Mr Cocoyam was scheduled to appear in Hyde Park Court on Wednesday. But Court Clerk Jessica Edwards said that court appearance was adjourned because he posted bail and was released.
CIA spokesman Jeff Levine said Mr Cocoyam has never been a student at the school.
"Both Marist and the CIA are cooperating with the police in this matter as they investigate," read a message to the Marist community from Deborah DiCaprio, Marist's vice president of student affairs, and John Blaisdell, Marist's director of security. "We greatly appreciate the coordinated efforts of the Hyde Park Police Department and the CIA security office."
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