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Training camp observations: Chris Hogan misses practice and Jacoby Brissett misses the mark
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FOXBORO – The Patriots held their annual in-stadium practice for season ticket holders on Monday, but were without 14 players.
Among those not practicing, the new additions were Chris Hogan and Jonathan Freeny.
Hogan left Sunday's practice after suffering an apparent shoulder injury during a blocking drill. Although he stayed on the field, he didn't participate after the incident. This was Freeny's first absence.
Julian Edelman, Dion Lewis, Danny Amendola, Nate Ebner (Olympcis), Tre' Jackson, Jonathan Cooper, Bryan Stork, Sebastian Vollmer, Keshawn Martin and Clay Harbor were also missing. Nate Washington and Alan Branch were at practice, but not participating.
The fans were loud throughout and after practice and the players soaked it in. They also said it was a good experience to get back inside Gillette Stadium.
"It's good. It's good for the team," Malcolm Butler said. "We come out here get a feel for the field, check out the turf, get used to the environment. There's a couple rookies here, they can get a look around for the play clock and things like that. It's a good idea."
"Greatest fans in the world - Patriot nation," Aaron Dobson added. "It's the greatest being out here with all the fans supporting us. It's a great time."
Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo both had strong practices, but you couldn't say the same for Jacoby Brissett. The rookie quarterback was off the mark going 16-for-34 with an interception. Brady went 12-for-14 and Garoppolo was 11-for-14 with an interception.
D.J. Foster made a really nice catch on a deep ball in traffic during full-team drills. Malcolm Mitchell then burnt Darryl Roberts and made a nice catch on a deep ball.
Logan Ryan tipped a Garoppolo pass and Devin McCourty intercepted it. Brock Vereen came away with another interception, this time off of Brissett. It's his second in two practices. He also deflected a pass. Roberts and Jamie Collins also came away with breakups.
The Patriots put an emphasis on special teams Monday. They practiced onside kicks and kick and punt returns. Practicing punt returns were Cyrus Jones, V'Angelo Bentley, Chris Harper and DeAndre Carter.
With Cooper out, Josh Kline was at right guard opposite Joe Thuney to start the practice. He also rotated in at center with the backups. Kline has been a limited participant before Monday.

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Mathematics occupies a core intellectual position at NISER, an institution that is striving to be recognized as a Center of Excellence in science education and research in basic sciences.The School of Mathematics was established as a core department of the NISER along with other three Schools from the very beginning of NISER in 2007. It is growing rapidly and is now functioning in full swing. Currently, the school offers masters programme (5yr integrated) [syllabus] in Mathematics along with Ph. D. programme [Syllabus].
The school aims to train people who are oriented towards research and teaching in both basic and advanced areas of Mathematical sciences. Moreover, as all basic sciences need mathematics, we enjoy a special responsibility to teach all these motivated bright students to appreciate the subject the way we do. The School of Mathematics aims to have a vibrant academic and research ambience for faculties, students, and visitors. To fulfill the vision of the NISER and it's School of Mathematics, we look forward to recruit people having excellent research contributions in Mathematical sciences and high motivation for teaching.
Along with teaching, research is a main goal of NISER. The School of Mathematics aims to have a vibrant academic and research ambience for faculties, students, and visitors. Currently, NISER library houses about 10-20 journals in hard copy and has access to more than 100 mathematics journals including MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, and JSTOR.
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This song (there is no actual video footage) sums up completely how I felt out there on the AT today. I only wish I had been carrying my camera so that I could have recorded footage of what was easily not only the best run I had in months, but the most profound and important as well.
This morning I got up at the pre-crack of dawn to meet up with Christian to hit up the Appalachian Trail and get in some good dirt time. Christian is an Atlanta area ultrarunner who I got connected to many months ago through our mutual networks of running friends and who I failed to run with the last time I was in Atlanta (how I have no idea). During my last stint here, he had connected me with lots of people and places to run and I am infinitely grateful. I was excited to finally get the opportunity to get out with him and have a great run. We were suppose to head out yesterday to do the "Meat Grinder" but work obligations kept me city bound and thanks to the wonder (or not) of technology, Christian still was at the meetup spot at 5:45am when he finally received my cancellation text from the previous evening (sorry!!). He was kind enough to reschedule for this am and instead and hit up Kennesaw instead and hammer out a fast 20 miler (color me jealous!).
We made it to the trailhead and set out. Victor (who also sparked another random reference in my head making me go "Hey Victor" everytime I thought his name in the vein of the movie Smoke Signals) explained the route and told me just to follow the white paint on the trees that denotated the AT. It was a chilly start and I was thankful that I had packed a pair of my bamboo Moeben sleeves to rock. They joked that I shouldn't worry about getting lost, just to run out to about 9.5 on the Suunto and then turn around. I objected and said I was sticking with them, so I wouldn't have to worry. Their response was, "yeah right this is about the only running we'll be doing with you" as we ran the first few 100 meters. I tried to get Christian to take the lead but that lasted about 200meters. I didn't want to just run off, but Christian put me in front and told me to set my own pace. I had no intention to hammer the run, especially with the promise of it being a grueling uphill grind. But within the first 1/2 mile, something magical happened. I came back into my own. This was my first trail run of any consequence (i.e. in terms of difficulty level, that is hills) since my injury and even after a good run at Hagg Lake, I still haven't really been "feeling it" much. It comes back in bit, flashes, pieces that are fleeting. "It" being that feeling of firing on all cylinders, feeling like you are highly trained machine that you are. When mind, body, spirit merge and you feel like there is nothing else in the world but you and the trail. Before I could even blink, I had floated uphill 5 miles and long abandoned the boys. I felt a moment of guilt since I never like to leave a very gracious and generous host, but I also knew that it was Christian's desire to be this way. We were all "getting ours", so it was all good. I had music float in and out of my brain, which was funny since this is the first run in a while where I did not listen to music at all.
I felt moved, I felt strong, I felt like I was flying or dancing. The uphills all felt runnable, my feet moving swiftly over the rooty trail. I passed many campsite of through hikers and soaked it all in. The sun started to peak out from behind the misty moisty clouds and illuminate the trail and amazing beauty of where I was running. I kept grinding, hitting each natural marker that Victor had said I would come to and confidently moved up the mountain. I ran past a campsite of a group of 7 hikers, one of which exclaimed, "wow, you go girl! You are flying. Do you run up the hills to? That is just amazing." I laughed, and said, "I certainly try, but I'll probably get around the corner and start walking" as I zoomed on through. But I didn't walk, I didn't need to. I hit the stone stair case and pushed up what I could tell (by mileage on my watch) was the final grind. I sipped my Nuun and felt the temperature drop as I climbed. I scrambled up and made it to the top where there is a shelter and an amazing outcrop of rocks that I am sure provide some of the most profound views from the AT. Unfortunately for me, it was fogged/clouded in and I couldn't do anything but stand there and try not to get flung off the rocks in the wind. I made it up to the top in 1:35 and was feeling awesome. I doddled a few minutes and then decided to indulge in my due reward which was the rocking downhill off Blood Mountain.
I flew down, carefully picking my way through the rocks, taking special care since I was rocking road shoes. About 3/4 mile down the trail, I ran into Christian who was looking strong and fresh and I about faced and ran back up to the top with him (bonus miles!) and had a good chat. It is always so amazing to me how genuine and generous the people I have met through ultrarunning (the majority at least), Christian and Victor were no exception. Christian and I made it back to the top and lamented that we didn't have a camera for the summit. What a spot! We turned around and headed back down. Within a few 100 meters, I did one of my more epic trips and stumbled about 25 yards downhill but managed to keep myself on my feet (thank goodness). We ran into Victor shortly thereafter and all headed back down. Christian told me I should take off and so I floated off down the trail, kicking into high gear in one of my fortes: technical downhill. Despite the tripping, I am a great downhiller.
I couldn't help smiling ear to ear and feeling my heart uplifted by the run. About 4.5 miles down, I realized how much uphill I had run on the way up. And I had run it! All of it! My confidence in myself as a trail ultrarunner resurrected in a way I haven't felt since Leona Divide or Tahoe Rim Trail. I was finally able to own that "my event" (my favorite, my talent, etc) is not just the road, not at all in fact, it is just as much the trail. Somewhere along the line, I bought into the idea that I should "just stick to the road" and despite having numerous trail victories of substance, still lacked confidence in my abilities therein. As I continued down the trail and back up and over the rolling ridges of the AT, for the first time I felt a bit of confidence in myself as a trail runner. It may seem strange to think that I haven't until now, I mean I have in glimmers, but I have in equal amounts wondered if I was just a flat and fast girl or that my trail victories ( &*cough* course records) were flukes. I admit it that last year, there was a part of me that was relieved when WS was canceled since I was at an all-time low of trail confidence at that point (how since I had a great Spring of trail victories, I am not sure. I think it is intertwined with my hypo-thyroid that was throwing off physical and mental chemistry). Subsequently, I decided to focus on the road a bit more since I was excelling there and because the 100k was an event in which I thrive. I have put off big trail races for the year and more and more bought into my own self doubt.
Until my feet hit the AT today. Back came the glimmers of confidence, full power came the reasons why I love the trail so much, and completely my body, mind and spirit converged in a way they rarely do in any other context. It was beautiful and profound. It was simple, but infinitely meaningful. With 1 mile to go, I hit a rocky outcrop that offered, the skies now clear, a breathe-taking view of the AT and the surrounding country as far as the eye could see (damnit where is my camera)I took a mental picture and zoomed back the way I came and sped back into the parking lot at the trailhead, averaging sub 10 min miles for a run that had about 4,500 feet of ascent. Christian came soon thereafter and Victor was along a bit after him. We hopped in the car and headed back to Victor and my cars, talking the whole way about restaurants and food (Victor lived in Seattle, so we chatted lots about the food scene there). Christian dropped me off at my car and I headed home still lost in my own little world. I felt supremely disconnected from the world going on around me. In my mind, I was still in the space I had found on the trail. In my heart, I was still floating and dancing along a thin dirt line heading northwards towards Maine. For this gift, I am eternally grateful.
Christian post run. A total rockstar who hammered out 40 miles this weekend. Thanks so much for everything Christian!
Christian and I post run.


The summer heat will never stop our fire within to share the gospel with the young people.
i-MOVE is a summer workshop for the high school students wherein they are taught to strengthen their talents in dancing, acting, singing, in playing musical instruments and above all else to share the gospel with them.
In their recital, 17 parents and 55 students received Jesus as their Lord and Savior. The gospel has been sown in their heart and they are now being followed up for discipleship. Praise God!
We are proud and excited to tell you that some of our student leaders had their final semester and will be graduating soon. We have no doubt that they will make a huge impact in their workplaces with the same passion to reach out to the lost and excellence as they take their board exams.
Our graduating students (incomplete) ready to face their new season as they attend their send-off part hosted by Adamson University.
We celebrate their milestone in finishing their college years. And surely God will use them mightily in the places He has called them.
Lastly, we are blessed to witness God's promise come to pass with His generational blessing to one of my classmates in school, Peter. Sharing with you his testimony, who has been a result from the obedience of his ancestors in the 1900's, who first preached the gospel in Africa.
The Lord has called me as a campus missionary in a full time capacity, one big factor that has led me to where I am is because of the lives my parents and their ancestors lived in obedience to God's word.
We are the new missioners who will share the gospel to the next generation in our cities and around the world.
We represents six nations, with diverse generation, personalities and culture but we serve for the glory of our God. United with one vision and mission that is; to Change the Campus and Change the World.
Thank you for sending us in the mission field. Together, we will change the campus and change the world.


The key person has a powerful impact on the child's well being, their mental health, and their opportunities to think and learn. Through a strong key person relationships and daily observations of the children we are able to plan appropriate activates which meet the children's interests and needs.
All children are individuals. They learn at different rates and in different ways. Because of this, each child will be assigned a keyworker who will form a bond with your child in order for it to make informed decisions when planning activities. The keyworker role will also involve developing close relationships with parents; after all, you know your child best and can give us the most detailed information in helping us to support your child in the best possible way.
We believe that children settle best when they have a key person to relate to, who knows them and their parents well, and who can meet their individual needs. Research shows that a key person approach benefits the child, the parents, the staff and the setting by providing secure relationships in which children thrive, parents have confidence, staff are committed and the setting is a happy and dedicated place to attend or work in. Within our practice we also promote tandem key worker system, ensuring a stable routine and environment for your child. Promoting confidence and reassurance when your child's key worker is absent from the setting.
We want children to feel safe, stimulated and happy in the setting and to feel secure and comfortable with staff. We also want parents to have confidence in both their children's well being and their role as active partners with the setting.


MySQL :: Re: Any plans to fix trigger bug relating to cascading foreign keys?
Re: Any plans to fix trigger bug relating to cascading foreign keys?
1. InnoDB allows non-unique foreign keys. If the parent key has duplicates, InnoDB permits deletion of none of them if there is a matching child row.
2. Some errors do not rollback the entire transaction they occur in. To fix that you have to use a HANDLER.
3. Self-referential ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON UPDATE SET NULL are not supported; recursion on them acts like RESTRICT. CASCADE may be nested only to 15 levels.
4. Checks on UNIQUE and FOREIGN KEY constraints cannot be deferred until the end of a statement; they are checked row by row, so it is impossible to delete a row which refers to itself via a foreign key.
Not sure what the fix priorities ought to be.
Any plans to fix trigger bug relating to cascading foreign keys?


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US, India launch task forces on Hydrogen, Biofuels to expand clean energy technologies use
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Washington : The US Department of Energy along with its Indian counterparts launched a new public-private Hydrogen Task Force as well as a Biofuels Task Force under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP).
"Under the SCEP, the Department of Energy together with Indian counterparts launched a new public-private Hydrogen Task Force as well as a Biofuels Task Force. These groups will help expand the use of clean energy technologies to decarbonize the energy sector," an official statement said on Friday (local time).
The United States and India are both committed to promoting a successful outcome at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow later this year. Toward that end, the US communicated an enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 per cent below 2005 levels in 2030.
"The United States is actively working with India to realize its ambitious goal of deploying 450 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030, including through the recently launched Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue, led by the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and the revamped Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP), led by the U.S. Secretary of Energy, the two tracks of the U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership. These tracks will help further catalyze India's clean energy transition," the statement said.
Over the last five years, USAID has contributed to the deployment of five gigawatts of renewable energy across India, which reduced 30 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, powered 3.3 million households, and helped mobilize 1.1 billion dollar in private-sector clean energy investments.
The statement further said that the US Trade and Development Agency launched the US-India Climate Technologies Action Group (CTAG). The CTAG will integrate private and public-sector inputs on initiatives that can contribute to global action on climate, facilitate US industry input on the latest climate-resilient technologies, share US business models with the Indian market to accelerate the development of the clean energy sector, and mobilize capital for climate-smart infrastructure projects in India.
Apart from it, the US invited India to participate in the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate), which will be launched at COP26 in November. AIM for Climate has the goal of increasing and accelerating global innovation on agriculture and food systems in support of climate action.
The United States looks forward to working with India to support the conclusion of a contract to build six Westinghouse Electric Company AP-1000 nuclear reactors in Kovvada, India, and looks forward to a completed techno-commercial offer soon. Once completed, the Westinghouse project will provide clean, reliable power to millions of Indians.
US firm First Solar has announced it will invest 684 million dollars in a fully integrated solar module manufacturing facility in southern India, directly supporting India's energy security and bilateral climate goals. This investment will involve exports of technology and expertise from the United States to eventually produce modules with 60 percent local value-added content, generating jobs in both countries.
In September, US firm 24M Technologies, Inc. announced the signing of a license and services agreement with Chennai-based Lucas TVS Ltd. to construct one of the first Giga factories in India using battery storage platform technology. The first plant will be set up near Chennai with additional plants expected to be built throughout India to support the growing market for energy storage solutions, the statement added.
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Washington : The US Department of Energy along with its Indian counterparts launched a new public-private Hydrogen Task Force as well as a Biofuels Task Force under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP). "Under the SCEP, the Department of Energy together with Indian counterparts launched a new public-private Hydrogen Task Force as well as a Biofuels Task Force. These groups will help expand the use of clean energy technologies to decarbonize the energy sector," an official statement said on Friday (local time). The United States and India are both committed to promoting a successful outcome at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow later this year. Toward that end, the US communicated an enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 per cent below 2005 levels in 2030. "The United States is actively working with India to realize its ambitious goal of deploying 450 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030, including through the recently launched Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue, led by the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and the revamped Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP), led by the U.S. Secretary of Energy, the two tracks of the U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership. These tracks will help further catalyze India's clean energy transition," the statement said. Over the last five years, USAID has contributed to the deployment of five gigawatts of renewable energy across India, which reduced 30 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, powered 3.3 million households, and helped mobilize 1.1 billion dollar in private-sector clean energy investments. The statement further said that the US Trade and Development Agency launched the US-India Climate Technologies Action Group (CTAG). The CTAG will integrate private and public-sector inputs on initiatives that can contribute to global action on climate, facilitate US industry input on the latest climate-resilient technologies, share US business models with the Indian market to accelerate the development of the clean energy sector, and mobilize capital for climate-smart infrastructure projects in India. Apart from it, the US invited India to participate in the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate), which will be launched at COP26 in November. AIM for Climate has the goal of increasing and accelerating global innovation on agriculture and food systems in support of climate action. The United States looks forward to working with India to support the conclusion of a contract to build six Westinghouse Electric Company AP-1000 nuclear reactors in Kovvada, India, and looks forward to a completed techno-commercial offer soon. Once completed, the Westinghouse project will provide clean, reliable power to millions of Indians. US firm First Solar has announced it will invest 684 million dollars in a fully integrated solar module manufacturing facility in southern India, directly supporting India's energy security and bilateral climate goals. This investment will involve exports of technology and expertise from the United States to eventually produce modules with 60 percent local value-added content, generating jobs in both countries. In September, US firm 24M Technologies, Inc. announced the signing of a license and services agreement with Chennai-based Lucas TVS Ltd. to construct one of the first Giga factories in India using battery storage platform technology. The first plant will be set up near Chennai with additional plants expected to be built throughout India to support the growing market for energy storage solutions, the statement added.


Sometimes our love for someone can blind us to their true face. It is at these times God will darken our skies just a little. This is not a test for us but for them, a test to see if they can stand the rain or if it was just words. It is God's way of washing away those who are not good enough to be in our lives. We may not always understand this and their loss may be painful, but it is only temporary and when our skies begin to brighten again our true soulmate will be waiting for us at the end of the rainbow.
This entry was posted in Love Lost and tagged soulmates, starting over, true love on May 17, 2015 by Carl A. Cooke.


A SID is an economic development tool that allows private property owners in a self-defined area to establish a program for services or improvements aimed at the economic enhancement of the area. The area can be any size, as long as it is contiguous.
The SID enables a community, neighborhood, or business district to tax itself for specific improvements and services. Property owners can pay for the program with assessments on all properties in the given area.
The concept originated in the 1970s and are also known as Business Improvement Districts, Special Services Areas, and Community Improvement Districts. SIDs are governed by private, nonprofit corporations created by the private property owners. The board that runs the corporation is made up of the property owners as well.
Since their inception, many studies have been conducted on SIDs, by both nonprofit and academic organizations. These studies show that SIDs increase tourism, increase quality of life for residents, reduce crime, and raise property values within their designated areas.
To create a SID, private property owners must make a petition to their City Council who will in turn create the SID.
To pass in Ohio, the petition must include signatures from owners that represent at least 60% of the front footage along all public streets of the given district, OR owners representing 75% of the land area. After meeting this criteria, the petition must be approved by City Council.
At that point, all eligible property owners will be assessed and provided improvement services. The only exemptions from SID assessments are government-owned properties and churches. These properties can however, contribute voluntarily.
The property owners that make up the board of trustees are in complete control of decisions made about the SID. They guide the implementation of a plan for public services and improvements that benefit the SID, which is typically submitted with the petition to create the SID. The plan may describe how the SID will hire employees and professional services, contract for insurance, and purchase or lease office space and office equipment.
The improvements and public services described in the plan may range from lighting, signage, and parking lots, to capital improvements, landscaping, and snow removal. Other potential services include communication with local police, graffiti removal, homeless outreach case workers, litter removal, safety vigilance, special duty police, sidewalk sweeping, and visitor ambassadors.
In Ohio, a SID is required to hold both a meeting and an election every year. Additionally, written reports must be provided to member property owners annually. After 10 years, a SID is automatically terminated. In order for a SID to continue, property owners must repeat the process of circulating and signing another petition.
Currently, there are over 1,000 SIDs in the United States. 23 of which exist in Ohio, a state relatively new to the game. With that said, only 2 SIDs in the state have chosen not to reauthorize their organization at the end of their Plan for Services. This shows just how valuable property owners throughout the state are finding their SID. Of the 23 SIDs in Ohio, 6 are found in Columbus: Capital Crossroads, Discovery District, Morse Road, University District, Short North, and East Main Street.
Interested in establishing your own special improvement district? Contact sfergus@msconsultants.com for additional information and to learn more about how a SID can benefit your community.


Graeme Kirk is the senior partner and head of the immigration department of Gross & Co, with its main office in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and with an office in London W1 for meetings with international clients. His practice aims to provide a highly personal and cost-effective service of the highest quality to business clients.
He has specialised in business immigration law since 1981, founding and developing the immigration practice of Gross & Co primarily through recommendations from clients and other professionals.
Since 1981, he has acted for clients from all over the world, and his current client immigration list includes major listed corporations, international banks, substantial British and foreign companies, and smaller companies and entrepreneurs. He also acts as consultant in immigration law to many UK solicitors and foreign law firms.
He deals with all aspects of business and private client immigration (other than asylum) including all aspects of the UK points-based system, and family immigration. A particular niche involves acting for high net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs.
He acted as chairman of the immigration and nationality law committee of the International Bar Association from 2000 to 2004, and has co-chaired the biennial IBA Global Immigration conferences since 2003. He is also a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association, and has lectured for ILPA on business immigration. He has spoken on UK immigration matters at AILA and ABA conferences. He is the immediate past co-chair of the IBA Global Employment Institute, and the UK contributor to Carswell's Global Business Immigration Handbook. He is a trustee of the IBA HRI Trust.
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State Film Commissions Guide: California
What are some of the greatest financial perks of filming in your state? In addition to our tax credit program, we offer 315 days of sunshine, the most diverse locations, the most skilled crews, the best and largest selection of local on-screen talent, access to the finest equipment and the world's best production infrastructure. Shooting in California affords any production the resources and tools needed to save both time and money.
What tax credits are available for productions in your state? California's Film & TV Tax Credit Program provides $100 million in tax credits annually. A minimum of $10 million of the annual funding is available for independent films. The following is a brief description of the program parameters.
Qualified taxpayers are allowed a credit against income and/or sales and use taxes, based on qualified expenditures. Credits applied to income tax liability are not refundable. Only tax credits issued to an "independent film" may be transferred or sold to an unrelated party. Other qualified taxpayers may carryover tax credits for 5 years and transfer tax credits to an affiliate.
To apply for the California Film and Television Incentive Program, a "qualified motion picture" must be one of the following:
Eligible for a 20% Tax Credit:
– Feature Films ($1 million minimum – $75 million maximum production budget)
– Movies-of-the-Week or Miniseries ($500,000 minimum production budget)
– New television series licensed for original distribution on basic cable ($1 million minimum budget; one-half hour shows and other exclusions apply)
Eligible for 25% Tax Credit:
– A television series, without regard to episode length, that filmed all of its prior seasons outside of California.
– An "independent film" ($1 million total production budget – $10 million qualified expenditure budget that is produced by a company that is not publicly traded and that publicly traded companies do not own more than 25% of the producing company.)
A "qualified motion picture" must also meet the following conditions:
– 75% test (production days or total production budget) in California
– Application must be submitted at least 30 days prior to commencement of principal photography
– Once an application is approved, principal photography must begin within 180 days
In addition, San Francisco offers qualified productions a refund of all payroll tax and city fees up to $600,000 per production. And the San Francisco Vendor Discount Program provides an opportunity for production companies and their crew members to receive discounts while shopping locally at participating businesses. Santa Clarita offers refunds of basic film permit fees and portions of hotel occupancy taxes to qualifying productions (subsidies capped at $50,000 per fiscal year). They also provide savings to productions assigned LA County Sheriff Deputies for traffic control and safety during filming within City limits.
What are some of the locations in your state that filmmakers should know about? California offers the world in one place: 800 miles of dramatic coastline, the Golden Gate Bridge, urban city centers, farmland, mountains, deserts, redwood forests, rolling hills, waterfalls, ski resorts, vineyards, Victorian villages, gold mines and historic downtown centers. Our locations have doubled for the Himalayas, Iraqi villages, quaint Pennsylvania towns, New York City and the terrain of other planets.
Are there studios and soundstages that the state hosts that filmmakers should know about? California offers over 500 stage facilities throughout the state. A list can be found here. Abundant stage facilities can be found in Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego.
What can you tell us about talented labor in your state? Do you have robust union representation? California is home to the most talented cast and crew base in the world, both union and non-union. And our crew base is 100 deep.
Are there deals that you have with equipment, craft service or other suppliers to make these services more affordable? Having so many vendors to choose from, productions can negotiate great deals for everything they need.
What are some of the recent productions that produced films in your state? "Star Trek: Into Darkness," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Argo," "The Bling Ring," "After Earth," "The Artist," "Horrible Bosses," "Savages," "Behind The Candelabra," "NCIS" and "NCIS Los Angeles," "Dexter," "Sons of Anarchy," "Castle," "Justified," "Rizzoli and Isles," and many more.
What cities have their own film commissions in your state? Access to California's statewide network of more than 60 Regional Film Offices can be found here.
How many productions shot in your state last year? California hosts nearly 200 feature films each year and countless TV series, commercials and documentaries.
What should filmmakers do if they're interested in shooting a film in your state? Who should they contact if they have more questions? Go to: www.film.ca.gov for information on filming in California.


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Q: How can I resize icons on the system tray? My system tray now :

Zeal, Spotify, google notifications, skype and many more apps that they have a app indicator by default, has a horror icons with over size.
I searched on google, ask ubuntu and others, but nothing.
I want the icons to display like below:
Perfect result, but how? :

How I can configure for get this result?
I'm at ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Unity.
I tried with dconf as well without result.
Please, help me and thanks for all!

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Hewlett Packard released its fourth-quarter financial results ahead of schedule Tuesday morning, including a charge for $8.8 billion related to its acquisition of U.K. software firm Autonomy. HP says the bulk of the charge, for impairment of goodwill and intangible assets, is "linked to serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to HP's acquisition of Autonomy."
HP shares dropped 11 percent to $11.84 in premarket trading Tuesday morning.


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SpaceX CEO Tweets Picture of Falcon 9 Fairing Packed with 60 Starlink Satellites
Andrew Parsonson
Image credit: SpaceX/Elon Musk
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk shared an image of a stack of 60 Starlink satellites packed into a Falcon 9 fairing on Twitter yesterday. The satellites will be launched from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 at 02:30 UTC on May 16.
Speaking at the Satellite 2019 conference earlier this month, SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell revealed that the company planned to launch "dozens of satellites" on May 15. However, the exact number of the company's Starlink satellites that would be aboard the Falcon 9 rocket had been a mystery. Late last night, Elon Musk tweeted an image of a packed Falcon 9 fairing stating, "First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon Fairing. Tight fit."
First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit. pic.twitter.com/gZq8gHg9uK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2019
Although Thursday's launch will be a significant first step towards the Starlink constellation, several more missions will be required to create a functioning network. In a follow-up tweet, Musk revealed that a minimum of six 60-satellite launches would be required for "minor coverage" and twelve for "moderate coverage".
According to Shotwell, the 60 satellites set to be launched are still prototypes. The company hopes to glean valuable information from the launch of this batch of satellites, information that will be used to plan future missions. She explained that if all goes well, SpaceX would look to launch an additional seven 60-satellite missions this year.
Currently, the weather is 70% favourable for a May 16 launch and 80% favourable for the mission's backup window. A static fire test of the Falcon 9 is expected either later today or tomorrow.
Andrew Parsonson is a space enthusiast and the founder of Rocket Rundown. He has worked as a journalist and blogger for various industries for over 5 years and has a passion for both fictional and real-life space travel. Currently, Andrew is the primary writer for Rocket Rundown as we look to expand our reach and credibility.
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TARGET AND ENGAGE HARD-TO-REACH OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS WITH MEDIA LODGE
May 17, 2018 By Claudia Bircu In Press Releases No Comments
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Brands, Media Buyers, and Agencies Enjoy Unprecedented Access
With Authentic Content and Precision
May 17, 2018 (Atlanta, GA) — With American consumers spending $887 billion annually on outdoor recreation[1], the industry is a formidable force in the U.S. economy. However, due to the continuing decline in reach and effectiveness of traditional outdoor broadcast and print media, and with the shift to online fueling increased fragmentation, consumers are harder than ever to reach. Media Lodge solves those issues for brands, media buyers, and agencies through their arsenal of digital properties. As the premier content creation studio, digital distribution platform, and sales representation company dedicated to outdoor enthusiasts, Media Lodge engages the loyal, consumer audience with authentic content and tactical precision.
Media Lodge offers a targeted, authentic audience at scale, delivering the industry's most engaged outdoor enthusiasts across a digital landscape delivering more than 40 million unique monthly web visitors across 300+ exclusive websites, and over 250 million monthly impressions across their expansive social media and email platforms.
To reach these hunting, shooting sports, camping, fishing, motorsports, and related active outdoor audience segments, Media Lodge works closely with brand partners to create authentic content and custom marketing programs that support their brand campaigns and accomplish strategic goals. The resulting partnerships create 1-to-1 consumer brand engagement through Media Lodge's social media, email, video, display, and sponsored content offerings.
In addition to authoritative content from its Emmy Award-winning content creators, Media Lodge possesses unparalleled expertise in commerce and affinity marketing. Access to terabytes of consumer transactional data in the outdoors markets ensures Media Lodge reaches these enthusiasts at all stages of the purchase funnel, from awareness through purchase and brand loyalty.
Jeff Siegel, CEO of Media Lodge, knows that reaching the outdoors recreation audience can often be frustrating and wasteful, but it can't be ignored. "Brands can harness the power of Media Lodge's expertise in speaking to this high-spending segment in an authentic voice to capture this difficult-to-reach, but highly sought-after consumers," he said.
"Cord cutting is accelerating. Many niche outdoor television channels are unrated by Nielsen. The time-buy-centric model creates shows that resemble infomercials, and are barely indistinguishable from one another," lamented Siegel. "On the print side, magazine circulations and revenues continue to freefall, while some companies are ceasing operations altogether. The line between editorial and advertising is so blurred that readers' trust in the content is gone. Consumers now flock to digital outlets for their content although lack of quality, subject restrictions, and penalties on some outdoor content from Facebook, Google, and YouTube, plus overall fragmentation still exist. A simple, indisputable fact is that people consume content differently now," he said.
According to Siegel, "Media buyers consistently tell us that this audience, the classic Middle America, country music fan, outdoor enthusiast, and motorsports fan is extremely difficult to reach, and no one is doing it well, until now. Media Lodge offers a turnkey solution to marketing directors, media buyers, and strategic planners."
Investment in digital content rose to unprecedented levels in 2016, as, for the first time, digital ad revenue ($72.5 billion) surpassed TV ad revenue ($71.3 billion) domestically.[2]This marked a 22 percent surge in digital ad revenue, and although it marks eight consecutive record-breaking years, it's the first time mobile has overtaken desktop spending, and the first time digital as a whole has surpassed television advertising spending.
Additionally, according to the same IAB report, digital video hit a record $9.1 billion in 2016 (a 53 percent year-over-year increase). On mobile, video revenue jumped to $4.2 billion (a 145 percent YoY increase). Desktop video is the only segment seeing growth on desktop, increasing 16 percent to $4.9 billion from 2015. In 2018, mobile video ad spending is expected to grow to nearly $18 billion.[3]
"This is what consumers demand, so brands must adapt and evolve," says Siegel. Digital video is central in the consumer entertainment and commerce experience: 92 percent of potential prospects consume online video; 4 billion videos are watched on YouTube every day; 1/3 of shoppers purchase products after viewing video ads; 52 percent of people say watching a video makes them more confident in online purchases, and online video is nearly 60 percent of all internet traffic.
"Media Lodge's data-driven approach to content creation and distribution allows delivery to millions of targeted views across video and interactive content while providing detailed metrics that provide consistent delivery of more viewers than many cable networks," says Siegel. Original shows such as Petco and Brett Favre's 4Outdoors Present: Dogs2DogTags, The Good Fight, American Nomads, Finding Fearless, Ruger's American New Shooter Academy, Ruger Range Drills, New Gear and Guns, Influencer interview Series, and Realtree's Not Seen on TV Fishing Show are leading the charge.
For further details on how Media Lodge can increase your brand's visibility, enhance customer engagement, and drive revenues, please visit www.medialodge.com.
About Media Lodge
Media Lodge has assembled a unique set of assets to engage with over 40 million outdoor enthusiasts per month in authentic and powerful ways. In addition to fishing, camping, hunting, boating, and power sports, Media Lodge has built a powerful media platform that helps brands engage with enthusiasts across the best websites and exclusive, leading e-commerce engines. Additionally, Media Lodge has invested heavily to ensure partners understand their customers, research their competitors, and realize manufacturing efficiencies. For more information, please visit www.medialodge.com.
For information about advertising options please contact:
Christen Everly, Vice President of Sales, Christen@medialodge.com, 612.306.2274
David Grant, Director of Sales, David@medialodge.com, 415.254.2152
Shirley Steffen Director of Sales, Shirley@medialodge.com, 516.729.6920
Karin Levine, Director of Sales, Karin@medialodge.com690.1222
Interviews available upon request.
[1] Outdoor Industry Association 'Outdoor Recreation Economy Report' (April, 2017)
[2] Interactive Advertising Bureau annual report (2017)
[3] Zenith Media forecast (2018)
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Aryanism (n.)
1858, "characteristic Aryan principles," from Aryan + -ism. As a belief in cultural or racial superiority of Aryans, from 1905.
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c. 1600, as a term in classical history, from Latin Arianus, Ariana, from Greek Aria, Areia, names applied in classical times to the eastern part of ancient Persia and to its inhabitants. Ancient Persians used the name in reference to themselves (Old Persian ariya-), hence Iran. Ultimately from Sanskrit arya- "compatriot;" in later language "noble, of good family."
Also the name Sanskrit-speaking invaders of India gave themselves in the ancient texts. Thus it was the word early 19c. European philologists (Friedrich Schlegel, 1819, who linked it with German Ehre "honor") applied to the ancient people we now call Indo-Europeans, suspecting that this is what they called themselves. This use is attested in English from 1851. In German from 1845 it was specifically contrasted to Semitic (Lassen).
German philologist Max Müller (1823-1900) popularized Aryan in his writings on comparative linguistics, recommending it as the name (replacing Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Caucasian, Japhetic) for the group of related, inflected languages connected with these peoples, mostly found in Europe but also including Sanskrit and Persian. The spelling Arian was used in this sense from 1839 (and is more philologically correct), but it caused confusion with Arian, the term in ecclesiastical history.
The terms for God, for house, for father, mother, son, daughter, for dog and cow, for heart and tears, for axe and tree, identical in all the Indo-European idioms, are like the watchwords of soldiers. We challenge the seeming stranger; and whether he answer with the lips of a Greek, a German, or an Indian, we recognize him as one of ourselves. [Müller, "History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature," 1859]
Aryan was gradually replaced in comparative linguistics c. 1900 by Indo-European, except when used to distinguish Indo-European languages of India from non-Indo-European ones. From the 1920s Aryan began to be used in Nazi ideology to mean "member of a Caucasian Gentile race of Nordic type." As an ethnic designation, however, it is properly limited to Indo-Iranians (most justly to the latter) and has fallen from general academic use since the Nazis adopted it.
word-forming element making nouns implying a practice, system, doctrine, etc., from French -isme or directly from Latin -isma, -ismus (source also of Italian, Spanish -ismo, Dutch, German -ismus), from Greek -ismos, noun ending signifying the practice or teaching of a thing, from the stem of verbs in -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached. For distinction of use, see -ity. The related Greek suffix -isma(t)- affects some forms.
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Staff Spotlight: Web Content Developer Brings Multimedia Talents to the Role
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Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021
Dave Carson, web content developer and multimedia producer for Johnson County Library, brings a passion for storytelling, public speaking, movies, researching and writing to all his communication roles, which helps him thrive in the demanding job.
He cultivated those skills throughout his education and early career, first on the Olathe South High School forensics team in the late 1980s. (He fondly remembers seeing actor Paul Rudd shine in tournament improvisations as a Shawnee Mission West student).
Carson's abilities in humorous and dramatic interpretation helped him earn a scholarship to Kansas State University, where he continued competing in forensics.
"By my senior year we took fourth in the nation," Carson recalls. "I'm pretty proud of that."
He got a master's degree in rhetoric from K-State and taught at a Wichita college and then at Longview Community College. He also worked part-time for several years at Westport's beloved Tivoli independent movie theater, where he befriended owner Jerry Harrington and saw countless great movies.
In the late 1990s, Carson got a second master's degree in educational technology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he helped create multi-media products to assist literacy teachers with their instruction.
From there, he went to work for Iowa Public Television for six years.
"We produced educational multimedia products. They were aired on Iowa Public Television and on National PBS," Carson says. He also helped produce web content, plus educational products on CD-ROMS and DVDs that went to libraries and schools.
By then his own daughter, Hazel, was in elementary school and Carson wanted to return to Johnson County to be closer to family. He saw a Johnson County Library job posting that was a great fit for his skillset.
Carson has been with JCL since February 2007 and has had a big role in three website redesigns, including configuring Library web pages for smartphones. He and colleague Amy Field write a lot of the web content and he's also involved in podcast creation and other initiatives.
He believes strongly in the Library's mission, promoting literacy and lifelong learning and making a positive difference in the community.
"On a personal level," he added, "I enjoy variety and the challenge of learning new things and adapting." Keeping web content current and correct has been particularly urgent and important during the COVID pandemic.
"We are responsible for adding alerts to the website. We had to stay on top of that important messaging, for sure," Carson explained.
Carson produces the "Did You Hear?" monthly podcast, which he co-hosts with Charles Hower. The podcasts share compelling behind-the-scenes interviews and stories about Library staffers, patrons and services.
He's also creating short YouTube video tutorials, introducing young learners to what the Library has to offer. The first videos will soon be released in both English and Spanish, and more will be released over time.
A third initiative involves producing science videos and other educational materials for children living in a Johnson County domestic violence shelter.
Carson lives near downtown Overland Park and enjoys gardening and spending time with his wife, Staci Carson. His daughter Hazel is now 21 and in her senior year at Bard College in New York.
His father, Charles, lives in Gardner and is a loyal Gardner Library patron.
Carson says the work continues to be really engaging and fulfilling.
"The challenge is to reach more audiences as more and more content is available from so many sources," he said. "I enjoy that. It's a puzzle and I think we do a really good job of it."


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Frost Review
Chris Durston - No Longer Writes for Bonus Stage No Comments
Frost is many things, for something so deceptively simple. It's melancholy and bleak, an effective representation of a cycle of survival spiralling ever closer to hopelessness. It's also just a few simple card-based mechanics in a screen filled with negative space, a whiteness that at times feels like it's closing in like the ever-encroaching threat of an icy demise.
In Frost's world, the only hope of surviving a malevolent advancing wall of snow and ice is to make it to the Refuge, an almost mythical safe haven for those who can outrun the freeze. Frost does its best to represent the distant hope of the Refuge and the starkness that is the approaching Frost: every screen is carefully crafted to be as white and as empty as possible, and against that background are contrasted simple, blockish elements which make up the interactive elements of gameplay.
Visually, it's quite a striking effect. Frost is nothing if not distinctive (you'd never mistake it for anything else), and it's extremely committed to maintaining its consistent, thematically-appropriate aesthetic. It's sparing, making great use of negative space, and each of its icons and graphics is distinctive, making it easy to see the state of play at a glance. I'm not totally sold on all of the graphics, with human faces in particular looking a little… odd at times, albeit still in a very consistently Frost-like way, but some of the little touches are really nice.
The audio, too, is sparse and haunting. There's very little in the way of music, in the usual sense, and I think that's to Frost's benefit: a more traditional ditty plonking away in the background would take away from the ambience and harshness that every element of the game tries so hard to create. Instead, there are swishing, cold winds and eerie drones fading gently in and out: less is more in Frost's design philosophy, and I think it works for the most part. There's a mood evoked by every element, with nothing feeling out of place.
Well, except for the occasional loud sound effect that feels really jarring against the otherwise near-silent backdrop, but they're few and far between.
The gameplay, too, feels consistent with the overall feel of Frost. At its heart, Frost is a deckbuilding card game requiring the player to manage resources and make what they hope will turn out to be the least terrible decisions (for no decision in the frostbitten world is going to be completely 'good'): as the leader of a wandering tribe of nomads with an eight-day head start on the impending Frost, you must guide your people through the regions of this icy world, trying to outrun the Frost and reach the safety of the Refuge.
You'll start with a small deck of resources including a negligible count of materials and foodstuffs plus a few survivors (members of your tribe). Each turn presents you with a demand for payment: you might have to present two 'food', two 'material', and three 'survivor' cards, for example. Upon meeting the cost, you get to take one step away from the Frost and towards the Refuge.
You're unlikely to have everything you need in your hand at the start of each turn, but (fortunately, else it would be a terribly dull concept) there are ways to increase the resources available to you, or through variously obscure strategies find ways to trade one resource for another, or for more. 'Idea' and 'Event' cards allow you to swap one thing for another: a pickaxe, for example, might cost one material card to purchase, and another to activate once in-hand, but yield two food cards. There are also Ideas which allow you to draw a number of cards from your deck, which doesn't increase the number you have available overall but does give you access to more of your resources in the same turn. Managing your stock of available resources to ensure that you have enough of each type of card to cover all situations is the real brain-tester in Frost, requiring a bit of long-term learning and thinking about how to balance your deck through short-term reactions and adaptations. Besides using cards on Ideas or Events, you can make use of survivor cards to 'scavenge' for food or materials, although they might just as easily bring back another survivor (effectively a net gain/loss of zero) or a 'fatigue' card – or worse, 'terror'. Fatigue is a useless resource which clutters your hand, making it less likely that you'll have the resources you need, and terror is a souped-up version of the same thing with the delightful added benefit of being an instant game over if you have three in hand at once.
Finally, you can also opt to take your turn without meeting the cost requirement. This swaps out the cards in your hand for another set freshly drawn from your deck, but beware; each time you end a turn without travelling, the Frost closes in. You'll start each game with an eight-step lead on the Frost, and gain a day on it each time you travel (only up to the maximum of eight), but this number is much more likely to creep towards zero than it is to climb back up again.
This is the core of the gameplay cycle in each round of Frost: manage your resources to make your way through each area of the game's bleak world, outrunning the chasing Frost in order to reach the Refuge before being caught and succumbing to the cold.
There are complications, of course. Events might allow you to gain useful resources, but they can also be dangerous: wolves or cannibals might block the way between one area and the next, requiring the player to source a solution (a weapon, generally) to remove the problem before progressing. This can be costly, and so it's not always feasible to find a suitable weapon without allowing the Frost to catch up; heading through danger without dealing with it first will hurt, as you'll either have to sacrifice one of your survivor cards (or some other special cards that can be used in their place) or take a hit point loss to the tribe's leader. Needless to say, losing all your hit points is another immediate way to lose the game.
Still, most of the many rounds of Frost I played ended in death by frozen wasteland.
Losses are to be expected, though, given the tone of the game. Frost is one of those games that's played not as one continuous experience but as many short rounds, and I must have played a dozen or more rounds of 'Easy' mode before actually winning one. Every so often I'd gain some benefit from a loss to be used in the next game – a new Idea card to draw upon, for example – but every time I'd learn something new about how to approach surviving just a little longer, keeping my tribe alive.
The standard game mode's objective is simply to reach the Refuge, or else die trying, but as you progress you'll also unlock different scenarios with slightly different modes of play. There's one in which you must ensure that none of your family are killed on the way to the Refuge, for example, which ups the desperation already inherent in Frost's mechanics by restricting the risks you feel able to take with your survivor cards (since using your nameless tribe members to scavenge is usually a key part of gameplay, but in this mode sending your family on hunts risks their lives, and thus the game). I really like these modes, actually; they add an extra layer to the storytelling that can happen through emergent gameplay when mechanics interact in ways you might not have foreseen.
I think Frost picks a mood, a white deathly silence, to communicate, and each of its elements coheres with that strongly. At its best it can be intense and even a little gruelling, as you desperately try to accumulate just one more of a particular type of resource before being overwhelmed, and you can get immersed in the cyclical loop of struggling to stay ahead of the storm. It feels as if Frost would be very well-suited to portable play on the Switch or on mobile; I have read from one source that Frost was in fact originally a mobile game now ported to consoles (I played on PS4), and while I haven't been able to corroborate that – although there is another game of the same name on mobile – I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was at least designed with mobile interaction in mind. Graphics are large, easily interpreted at a distance, and the gameplay all takes place on a single screen (well, one and a half if you count the small area containing your deck and discard pile, which you can scroll down to take a peek at) and could be easily controlled with a single finger.
In fact, I reckon Frost would work really nicely as an actual physical tabletop game. Some of its rules are probably more easily implemented with the benefit of behind-the-scenes programming doing some of the work that a player would have to manually work out, but I think I've played card games with a similar vibe: more of a setting than a narrative, simple enough gameplay involving use and management of card types, fairly short rounds, and the unlockable scenarios feel like expansions that could be easily added to the base game purely with a few tweaks to the rules, or perhaps a couple of special extra cards.
If you've enjoyed card-based games in the past, or deckbuilders, or really anything survival-ish where the tone is much more 'try not to die for as long as possible, but inevitably die at some point' than 'everything will be OK eventually', then Frost is worth a gander. It's thoroughly engaging at turns, and even when the repetition of 'struggle-succeed-struggle-fail' gets a little tedious it feels like a thematically appropriate sort of tediousness. If nothing else, Frost is extremely committed to its tone and themes, and I'll always appreciate a game that does that.
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Frost is melancholy and bleak, a deckbuilder for those who want to feel all the pain and terror of surviving a deadly winter.
Chris Durston - No Longer Writes for Bonus Stage
Chris Durston no longer writes for Bonus Stage. We would like to thank him for contributing 7 Reviews during his trial period with us. Reviewers are an essential part of Bonus Stage and therefore we sincerely appreciate all contributions from reviewers/writers who in-turn help to contribute to Bonus Stage's success. We wish him every success with his next venture.
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As we mentioned last month, the market is changing a little, but listings are still moving and selling for high prices in general. Interest rates came down again so that spurred some new activity in the market. Right now we're noticing that different neighborhoods are getting different reactions depending on their location, condition, and their price point. Something that we've also been noticing is the fact that home sales are going down, while inventory is slowly growing. Since January of this year, inventory has increased every month, and closed sales have been consistently below year ago levels. While one would think that this is due to new inventory hitting the market, our opinion is that there are more listings sitting on the market and(or) not selling. In other words, if listings are staying on the market longer or aren't selling, and home sales are going down, then that results in a net increase of housing inventory (i.e. More Supply and less Demand).
Currently month's supply in Queens is at 5.4 months. This is higher than April's 5.1 months, which was higher than March's 4.9 months, which was higher than February's 4.3 months, which was the same as January's 4.3 months. Month's supply is the number that measures supply and demand in our industry, and the fact that it has been slowly rising every month this year is very interesting. Rule of thumb is month's supply over 6 months = Buyer's Market, Under 6 months = Seller's Market, and 5-6 months = Balanced Market. So, as you can see we are still in a seller's market, however, it does seem to be balancing out a bit. It will be interesting to see where it goes during the next few months and throughout the year. In our opinion, it will most likely continue to feel like a seller's market until month's supply reaches 7-8 months.
Mortgage rates decreased this week. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 7 basis points to 4.15 percent. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 9 basis points to 3.35 percent.
The Long Island Board of REALTORS® reported 586 home sales during the month of April. This was a decrease of 12.5% percent from March, but an increase of 3.2 percent from April of last year. Something important to note is the fact that the rate of sales (i.e. avg homes sold per month) has been decreasing every month this year. What that means is that home sales are declining, and when you couple that with the fact that inventory is slowly growing this year, it signals a shift in market dynamics.
Specifically, Residential 1-3 family Queens home sales were DOWN about 5.6%, Queens Condo sales were UP 4.8%, and Queens Coop sales were UP 8.6% compared to this time last year. Over the last 12 months, Queens home sales are DOWN 2.7%.
The Long Island Board of REALTORS® reported a median Queens home price of $475,000 in April, this was DOWN 3.1% from March and UP 5.4% from April of last year. April's median home price marked the lowest year over year increase in more than one year.
Specifically, Residential 1-3 family Queens home prices were UP 7.9%, Queens Condo prices were UP 1.1%, and Queens Coop prices were UP 18.3% compared to this time last year. Over the last 12 months, Queens home prices are UP 11.2%.
There is currently a 5.4-month supply of housing inventory in Queens, this is up from the 5.1 month supply that we had last month and the 4.9 month supply we had in March. Month's Supply is the figure that measures supply and demand in real estate. Month's supply over 6 months is said to be a buyer's market, month's supply below 6 month's is said to be a seller's market, and month's supply of 6 months is said to be a balanced market. The total number of homes for sale increased by 2.8% compared to last month, and more importantly, inventory has been slowly growing every month this year. In my opinion, this is not a result of new homes for sale, as much as it is a result of homes sitting on the market longer and(or) not selling. The fact that month's supply is increasing every month this year is very significant. It will be good to monitor this number because once it hits 7-8 months, we will likely see a shift in prices and(or) days on market.
Specifically, there are currently 2,422 residential 1-3 family homes for sale, 355 Condos for sale, and 801 Coops for sale in Queens county. Total: 3,584 Queens homes for sale.


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What does the worklight plugin do, and how do you use it? Seems to do nothing on tis end.
Am I the only one with this plugin?
// to work with the new paradigm in LW9.
// in the scene editor for the purpose of rendering.
Newtek want to chime in? Anybody?
Toby Thanks! We must have posted at the same time.


A beautiful pair of leggings featuring cute Geeky Munchkin Cats wearing glasses.
I love the amazing quality of leggings from this shop. This is my sixth pair of leggings I bought from here I think. The leggings are always comfortable, and cute.


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It's a Gay Disease
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 @ 3:38 PM
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In a feature story on the Washington Post, the paper admits that HIV/AIDS is essentially a gay disease, especially among black males.
"Black Americans make up a bigger share of people living with HIV than any other ethnic group. That gap will only continue to widen because black Americans also have the highest rates of new HIV diagnoses. Nearly half of all new cases of HIV are among black Americans."
While just 12 percent of the American population is black, blacks account for 44 percent of all those living with HIV and 49 percent of all HIV-related deaths.
According to the Post, black males are an astonishing "8.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white Americans." The Post correctly calls this a "black HIV epidemic." A watershed CDC study published in 2001 found that, alarmingly, "nearly one third of black gay men between 23-29 were found to be HIV-positive."
The Post draws heavily on the work of a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control, Greg Millett. Says the Post:
Millett, who is himself black and gay, was well aware that black men tend to have sex with other black men, almost exclusively. What if that behavior was putting them in danger?
Millett claims that the "safe sex" message, which is supposed to be the solution, had in fact permeated the black community. They were using condoms and were reducing the number of sexual partners.
Ah, but not so fast. The Post also shows a graph which reveals that 56% of black homosexuals had unprotected sex in the previous year, and 43% of them had unprotected sex with a "casual partner" (read: "total stranger"). So obviously black homosexuals are not using condoms as often as the Post wants you to believe.
The primary mode of HIV transmission is still male to male sexual activity, three to four times higher than male to female. And even then many male to female transmissions come from bisexual males who contract HIV from a male partner then infect subsequent female partners.
Now 80% of black homosexual males have sex with other black males. To anyone thinking logically and objectively, the compassionate, loving solution to reducing the black AIDS epidemic is simple, obvious and straightforward: convince young black men not to have sex with other black men. Or any other males, for that matter.
But that solution, as much sense as it makes, would be politically incorrect in a society which would rather let black men die than affront their moral sensibilities with the truth about unhealthy and unnatural sexual behavior.
Eric Holder, who is all about "disparate impact" when it comes to hiring, school discipline, arrests and incarceration rates, is shamefully silent about the disproportionate destruction HIV is wreaking among young black men.
The Post's lame solution is diagnosis and medication, while it tiptoes around the obvious solution:
"It's a touchy subject. If scientists showed with experimental clarity that black men were putting themselves at risk by dating each other, what advice could they give? That black men should avoid each other?"
Well, actually, when it comes to sex, the answer is "Yes." But abstinence as a possible course of action is laughed to scorn. As logical as it may seem, that's the one course of action liberals will not countenance.
Bottom line: the AIDS epidemic has one primary cause in the black community: homosexual sex. And it has one primary solution: refraining from homosexual sex. That's the one message young black males will never hear from the Washington Post.


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Live Nation has been identified as the preferred bidder to deliver a new 15,000-capacity indoor arena in Cardiff Bay.
The planned new venue will cost around £150m to build and will attract more than one million visitors and an estimated £100m into the local economy every year. It will also deliver new jobs for local people, with over 2000 jobs created during its three-year build programme and, once up and running, another 1000 direct jobs and a further 600 jobs supported in the local economy.
Since December last year the Council has progressed a procurement process to secure a private-sector partner and received two offers to deliver a top tier UK venue that will enable events of all sizes to be hosted in the city. Also in the Live Nation led consortium is Robertson.
Cardiff Council Leader, Cllr Huw Thomas, said: "We remain committed to delivering a new indoor arena and today we have taken a big step forwards. We believe the new arena will have a similar impact on Cardiff Bay, as St David's 2 had on the city centre. It will act as a major catalyst for the next-phase regeneration of Cardiff Bay delivering new jobs and opportunities where they are most needed. It will also help with the case to improve public transport links to Cardiff Bay and will provide the impetus for a complete re-imagining of the Red Dragon Centre area. It's an incredibly exciting opportunity for Cardiff, especially as we look to emerge from the economic damage of the pandemic.
"I know there will be voices asking "how can the council afford to be involved in a project like this at this time", that's why it's important they know that this is a private-sector led proposal which the council is supporting. That means the private sector will be covering the lion's share of the costs and taking the vast majority of risk associated with delivering this project. The Council's capital commitment will be less than 15% and could be significantly lower by the end of the process, and instead we will use the strength of our covenant to enable our partner to access funding at a more affordable rate."
Cardiff Council's Cabinet has approved a report yesterday (November 26th) which authorises the preparation of the final detailed designs and costs before entering into a development contract in the summer.
Cabinet Member for Investment and Development, Cllr Russell Goodway, said: "The Arena will be located in close proximity to many of Cardiff's most disadvantaged communities and we want those communities to benefit from the job opportunities which will become available. The council has secured commitments that jobs and training will be available for local people throughout the construction of the arena and also when it is open for business. There will be a key focus on helping the unemployed into work and engaging school leavers through new entrant, apprenticeship and graduate employment opportunities. It's really important residents benefit from this project."
Despite the effect COVID-19 has had on live music and entertainment, Live Nation which runs over 237 venues in 12 countries across the world, showcasing over 35,000 shows is extremely confident of the long-term resilience of the sector. The sector continues to show confidence for the future with new arena developments continuing to be announced and tickets still being sold for future events.
Cllr Goodway said: "The city's strategy is to establish the Cardiff Arena as a top tier UK arena and to make it the premier arena in the south west region of England and Wales.
"Sound Diplomacy - the internationally-renowned advisors on the music industry - believe the arena will also become a fundamental component of Cardiff's 'Music City' strategy. They say it will have 'a positive impact at all levels of the live music ecosystem from the grassroots venues to our major spaces" and it will support the development of a home-grown industry."
The new Cardiff Indoor Arena will also have a strong focus on sustainability and will aim to become one of the greenest venues of its type in the UK. Initially it will benefit from low-carbon heat produced through the planned District Heat Network and further work will be undertaken to achieve the aim of a net carbon zero development across the wider Atlantic Wharf regeneration area.
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Photo Credit: Maria Banks/WAIS Divide The WAIS Divide Ice Core field camp in West Antarctica under a cloudy sky during the 2009-10 field season. While the site is ideal for recovering an ice core with a high-resolution record of past climate, horrendous weather makes it a difficult place to work.
WAIS Divide ice records past environmental changes with implications for the future
Twenty years ago, Kendrick Taylor and his colleagues first conceived of drilling for a deep ice core in the middle of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) while working to extract one in Greenland.
Ten years ago, he wrote the science plan for the WAIS Divide Ice Core project.
"And now we're halfway through the ice sheet 10 years later after finding the perfect spot to take an ice core, building a highly advanced drill, and constructing a camp to support the work," said Taylor, ruefully shaking his head, during an interview at the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) in the Denver Federal Center where processing sections of the ice core is under way. [See related story: On the line.]
"I'll feel really good when we get to the bottom and can fully focus on to the next phase — cranking through the data," added Taylor, a research scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and the chief scientist for the WAIS Divide project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation .
Ice cores contain a wealth of information about regional and global climate, from the bubbles of gas trapped in the ice to microscopic particles of dust and perhaps even bits of biological material. From ice cores, scientists have been able to draw a correlation between carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere with the rise and fall of temperature.
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An ice core pokes out of the end of a drill barrel.
The WAIS Divide ice core is particularly special because of the high-resolution climatic and atmospheric record Taylor and others believe exists in the first 40,000 years of history contained in the ice. The final 3,330-meter-long core is expected to yield a climate record covering about 100,000 years — the entirety of the last glacial period when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were much lower than they are today. [See previous article: Deep into WAIS Divide.]
"The project is not studying Antarctica; it just happens WAIS Divide is the best place on the planet to get a record of how greenhouse gases have influenced climate over the last 100,000 years," Taylor said. "It is like going to a library, but this library is cold, and makes it difficult to read the books that contain the old climate records."
The upcoming 2010-11 field season in Antarctica is scheduled to be the last for the deep-coring phase of the project. Last year, the team reached a depth of 2,564 meters using the Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) drill designed and built at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . Drilling with the DISC drill began during the 2006-07 season. [See related story: Core of drilling.]
Taylor said to reach this year's goal, about 100 meters above where the ice meets bedrock, everything must fall into place. "The schedule is really tight. We will stop before we reach the bottom of ice, because we don't want to contaminate the thin water layer that is under the ice and which has never been exposed to the rest of the planet," he said.
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Tractors buried in snow after sitting at the WAIS Divide field camp over the winter.
The main menace is weather. What makes the WAIS Divide site so appealing — lots of snow every year, which produces thick annual layers of climate history — also makes it a notoriously difficult place to reach.
"It's exciting and frustrating to work on the project," said Mark Twickler, manager of the WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (SCO), based at the University of New Hampshire , which manages the day-to-day operations of the project. "The weather controls what happens and you can't control the weather."
The scientists and engineers in the project have been able to control to a large extent the quality of the core that's emerged from the borehole once they reach the field camp. That was especially significant two years ago when the drill team hit a zone of about 700 meters of so-called brittle ice. The air bubbles in brittle ice are so compressed that pressure is intense enough to shatter the core once it reaches the surface.
Using a technique first developed by the British Antarctic Survey , the ice curatorial team at NICL, which oversees the handling of the core, employed the green plastic netting used to protect wine bottles. The webbing helped maintain the integrity of the brittle ice as it was pushed out of the drill tube at the surface. It served as a sort of cast to keep the ice intact.
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Science technician Gifford Wong marks the azimuth of an ice core section encased in the green webbing that helped secure the brittle ice during the 2008-09 field season.
"That trick worked really well. We didn't have any problems with the brittle ice," Taylor said. "It was pretty easy to work with, and we're going to be able to get good records out of it because it was in such good shape."
Added Logan Mitchell , a PhD student at Oregon State University with principal investigator Ed Brook , whose work involves studying the gases trapped in the core's tiny bubbles: "This core is going to make a huge contribution to brittle ice core records."
That's a stark change to how the brittle ice emerged from a related but different ice-coring project in Antarctica at Siple Dome more than 10 years ago when the cores shattered and cracked. "A lot of It came out looking like ice cubes," Taylor recalled.
Taylor credits not only the green netting but also improvements in drilling technology and technique with the success on the WAIS Divide brittle ice. For instance, the drill is able to cleanly fracture the core into convenient 1-meter-long lengths while under high pressure deep in the hole. The old method used a saw on the surface that would shatter the brittle ice.
In addition, the room temperature where the core comes to the surface is kept at a chilling minus 25 degrees Celsius.
"It was so cold that people would go outside, to the middle of Antarctica, to warm up. That minimized the thermal shock to the ice, but maximized the thermal shock on the field staff," Taylor said.1 2 Next


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The Kingdom of Banggai was a petty kingdom in present-day Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was based around the Banggai Islands and the eastern coast of Sulawesi, centered at the island of Banggai. For a significant part of its history, the kingdom was under the overlordship of the Sultanate of Ternate.

History

Ternate
The island of Banggai was named in a Chinese document dating from 1304 and the 14th century Negarakertagama as a Majapahit tributary. In the 16th century, four small states located in Banggai were conquered by the Sultanate of Ternate under Sultan Babullah, with Java-born Ternatean general Adi Cokro expanding the polity in the 1580s to include parts of mainland Sulawesi. Adi Cokro's son Mandapar was recorded to rule between 1600 and 1625. It was recorded that the king of Banggai sent his son to Ternate in 1564 to examine Christianity and Islam, eventually selecting the former.

Between 1536 and 1539, Portuguese administrator António Galvão recorded contemporary oral tales of the kings of Banggai, along with Bacan, Papua, and Butung, being descended from hatchlings of four serpent eggs found by an elder in Bacan. The myth associated the states with the Maluku Islands – centered around Ternate and Tidore – placing them in the peripheries. A Dutch report from 1682 noted the Banggai Kingdom as having control over the relatively large islands of Banggai and Peleng, "a hundred" little islands – mostly uninhabited – in addition to parts of Southeast Sulawesi such as Balantak. Inhabitants of Peleng were subjected to slavery. Banggai also had dependencies in the eastern parts of Sulawesi's East Peninsula.

During this time, the island of Banggai was central to trade in foodstuffs in the area. Another Dutch figure from 1679 gave the kingdom's population as "10,000 able-bodied men", mostly non-Muslims. A later estimate from 1706 noted that some 90 percent of the population lived in Peleng – the total population estimate being as high as 21,560.
During this time, Banggai was located between the powerful states of Ternate and Gowa, though Banggai later came under influence of Ternate following the Treaty of Bongaya in 1667, with Ternate receiving annual tribute from Banggai and appointing its ruler. During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Dutch East India Company attempted to spread its influence to Banggai with little success. During this time, Banggai was also subjected to raids from Papuans and routinely fought with the Tambuku and Buton polities.

Dutch East Indies and Indonesia
In 1907, Ternate ceded territories including Banggai to the Dutch East Indies, and the following year the king of Banggai signed a treaty with the Dutch putting the kingdom under Dutch control. Banggai's territories were administered through two Onderafdeling – the islands and the mainland.

After the independence of Indonesia, territories that comprised the Banggai kingdom was reorganized into the Central Sulawesi province, with an administrative reorganization in 1952 removing any legal powers of the kingdom. Today, the former territories of the kingdom are divided into the regencies of Banggai, Banggai Islands and Banggai Laut.

Government
Although the position is hereditary, the king of Banggai is ultimately appointed by the Sultan of Ternate, and acts as the polity's chief executive. The king is aided by four advisers, who also help in monitoring four autonomous local chiefs known as the basalo sangkap. As an example, the 1706 Dutch estimate noted that Banggai had a population of 1,450, with the king of Banggai only having 150 men and the rest under the 4 local chiefs.

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Bibliography

Further reading

Former countries in Indonesian history
States and territories established in the 16th century
States and territories disestablished in the 20th century
Central Sulawesi

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