I once saw an April Fools or some other joke that suggested that some future version of Photoshop could paint your pictures for you using fancy algorithms or whatnot. Well, that day has actually arrived, though it's a bit more primitive than I'd have liked.
Lineart on the left, painted on the right… just like magic!
J pointed me to PaintsChainer some weeks ago, and from the moment I saw it I was hooked. PaintsChainer does exactly what I just described: you upload a lineart and it paints it for you. Machine Learning, Whatever, don't care how. The outputs are quite amazing even if you don't touch any of its knobs and dials, but they have some flaws and for now I think it's difficult to correct them.
This post is mainly a test. Justin has been playing around with pens lately, so I've jumped on the bandwagon.
This is from a few months ago; I think I'm using some felt pen and playing around with my pleb quality markers.


No, we won't call Toronto real estate a bubble today. Usually we shy away from using the B-word entirely. Canadians tend to look at you like you've insulted their mother when you say it. Instead we're going to discuss the phases of a real estate bubble, and let you make a decision for yourself. Understanding where you are in an asset cycle is a key difference between dumb luck, and calculated risk. It's also what separates the rich from the middle class.
Cyclical behavior is usually broken down into 4 main stages, and lucky for us that's what a prof did with bubbles. Today we're going to use Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue's infamous chart, which he published in 2008. During the Great Recession, this chart became legendary for capturing behavior, and viewed as a schedule for what's next. It became popular again last year, as the crypto bubble inflated and popped. The four phases are stealth, awareness, mania, and the blow-off. Let's touch on what's typically observed during each period.
The stealth phase is where you see smart money, and sometimes their buying seems a little crazy. This is when the general public couldn't care less about buying the asset. Usually because it's during a recession, or in such infancy it attracts no attention. Concord Pacific buying a sixth of downtown Toronto in 1996 is one of the best examples of this in my opinion. People thought they were crazy, because who wants to live in a downtown condo after what happened in 1990?
Prices are mostly flat during this period.
The awareness phase is when institutional money starts entering the market. Prices move a little higher, and the previous bubble's buyers spring into action to "cut" losses. This is called a "bear trap," because some bears claim it's the end of the world and you missed your opportunity. There were a few bear traps in Toronto around the Great Recession, right up to 2015.
Prices rapidly escalate, until the asset hits a "new paradigm." The world will now revolve around this limited product, that only a few people have. After all, they only make so many Beanie Babies. Cash is obsolete, now that we have Bitcoin and central banks can't devalue your holdings at will. There's only so much land in Vancouver, and everyone wants to live there. Everyone thinks their asset is the best in the world, and it'll never adjust for prices. Deal with it.
The blow-off phase is when prices start to fall – first a little, then a lot. After the initial fall, denial starts to occur. How can this be? The media parades "experts," a.k.a. sellers of the product, to explain things have stabilized. The denial brings a newer, smaller round of money, working on the assumption of relative value. "It's so much cheaper than last year," is usually what they're saying and it bumps prices a little higher. Traders call this a dumb money rotation – smart money's last chance to liquidate. Buyers here call it the "new normal," and think things have recovered. After all, it can't get worse – right?
Only so many people are sold on the new normal though, and once you run out of them – prices resume falling, except much faster. Everyone that "needed" to buy, has already bought. Worried owners worried about their excessive allocation panic sell, triggering larger sell offs. This capitulates prices lower than fair value, assuming the asset still has value.
Prices begin to fall very quickly here.
Smart money begins trawling through the mess, and determining if recovery is possible. Sometimes it's dead money, like Beanie Babies – which have a slim chance of hitting their old peak. Sometimes it's a gamble, like crypto. Smart money seems a little crazy here, like Mark Yusko raising money for an institutional crypto fund last week. If the asset still has legs, the cycle repeats as smart money starts scooping up more and more. It'll either be a huge payout when they sell it back to middle class people in a few years, or they'll lose a ton. The important thing is, they'll lose less than the bubble buyers.
Here's what those phases look like in the classic chart.
The phases of an asset pricing bubble.
Source: Prof. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University.


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To say we love robots would be an understatement! We love the creativity, the engineering and the technology behind robotics. So when Toyota Research Institute (TRI) contacted us to produce a 3D logo sign for the entrance on their brand new facilities we were stoked!
Moving to a new building in Palo Alto, they wanted to make sure their reception area displayed their logo in a professional way. After doing a walk-through of their space, we've decided to do an acrylic logo sign to be mounted onto the main wood wall behind the reception desk.
Their company colors are grey, red and black which we carefully matched on the materials used for the logo sign. We chose to use a back board to create support since the wood paneling was uneven and had gaps between panels.
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First draft of Eagle's cover
This is the only known draft of The Dial Press's cover of Eagle. It's a large poster, mounted on foamcore. Notice that the font is different than in the final version, and the words "A Novel" were dropped as well. Pauline's name was also moved to the middle of the text area, at the top.
When the novel was released Dial sent the cover draft as a poster to Pauline, who signed it and gave it to a friend. Her signature is visible in the ampersand. It was kept in storage for many years and recently returned to Pauline in conjunction with the Dillon covers poster project.
The Eagle and the Raven (1978)
The first four covers of Pauline's novels were created by Leo and Diane Dillon. Sadly, Leo passed away in 2012, but Diane and Pauline have agreed to make these covers available as posters and prints beginning with Child of the Morning on February 23rd. Details are at this page.
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The majority of women with moderate to severe tubal damage are unlikely to conceive spontaneously and IVF is generally accepted as the treatment of choice in these cases. In the absence of randomized trials, evidence to support this strategy is mainly derived from observational studies.
A number of techniques for surgical reconstruction of damaged or occluded tubes have been described. Higher pregnancy rates have been reported in women who underwent tubal surgery than in those who did not (29 versus 12%) over a period of 3 years (Wu and Gocial, 1988). The success of surgical treatment depends on the extent of tubal damage, age of the woman, experience and training of the operator and availability of suitable equipment. Surgery has been shown to be effective in minor or moderate tubal damage, but of no benefit to women with severe tubal disease (Akande et al. 2004). Data from a case series have suggested that pregnancy rates following surgical treatment of proximal occlusion, mild distal block and flimsy adhesions are comparable to those after IVF. However, greater access to assisted reproduction in recent years has significantly reduced the role of tubal surgery in these cases.
Uncontrolled data indicate that approximately 50% of women with proximal tubal block can achieve a term pregnancy after microsurgical tubocornual anastomosis (Maranna and Quagliarello, 1988). Proximal tubal obstruction can be treated by tubal catheterization or cannu-lation under radiological or hysteroscopic guidance. In the absence of any direct comparisons between the two approaches, data from observational studies suggest a higher pregnancy rate (49 versus 21%) with the latter. Tubal cannulation can lead to tubal perforation in 2-5% of cases and ectopic pregnancy is 3-9% (Honore et al. 1999).


WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The economy should expand at a "modest pace" through the fall, the Conference Board said Thursday as it reported that its index of leading economic indicators grew 0.5% in July.
"The economy is slow, with little momentum, and shows no indication of acceleration. The gains in the [leading economic index] are modest, especially the nonfinancial indicators," said Ken Goldstein, a Conference Board economist, in a statement.
Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a 0.4% gain for July. In June, the LEI rose 0.3%. See economic calendar.
The LEI is a weighted gauge of 10 indicators that are designed to signal business cycle peaks and troughs. Among the 10 indicators that make up the LEI, six made positive contributions in July, led by the real money supply. Other positive contributions came from the interest rate spread, average weekly initial claims for unemployment-insurance benefits, stock prices, manufacturers' new orders for nondefense capital goods, and manufacturers' new orders for consumer goods and materials.
The largest negative contribution came from the index of supplier deliveries. Other negative contributions came from the index of consumer expectations and building permits. Meanwhile, average weekly manufacturing hours were unchanged.
Longer-term gains are slowing down, with the index up 2.9% in the six months through July, compared with 3.2% in the prior period.
Elsewhere Thursday, the National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes fell 3.5% in July to an eight-month low amid a high cancellation rate again. Read more about home sales.
Also, the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose 0.5% in July, the biggest gain since March. Read more about inflation.


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AR Headsets from Apple to Launch in Second Quarter of 2020 after the Launch of New iPad Pro in First Quarter
New information about the upcoming products from Apple was revealed in a report from Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst at Apple. A new iPhone SE 2, Apple AR headsets and new iPad Pro models. The AR headsets from Apple will be launched in Q2 of 2020. The iPad Pro models and iPhone SE2 will be launched in the first quarter. According to the reports, the new models of MacBook will also be launched in the upcoming year, somewhere in the Q2 of 2020.
According to the analyst from Apple, the launch of iPhone SE 2 can be expected in the first quarter of 2020. The smartphone will have a similar model to iPhone 8 which will run on the latest A13 Chip. This information was mentioned in the report earlier this week from Kuo which was also available in the latest Chinese report. The launch of new iPad Pro models is expected in the first quarter which will have rear-facing a 3D Time of Flight Sensor. It is quite similar to the TrueDepth technology you can find on the iPhone camera.
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Q: Finding the equation of a rational function I have a formula for a rational fuction in the form $$\frac{1}{(a(x-b)^c)}=y$$ and I am given the points $(0,30.8493),(0.75,1.1392)$, and $(1,0.2838)$. When simplifying I always seem to reach a dead end with a no solution answer. I know that there is atleast one solution because I was able to find a very close graphical solution to the problem by manimulating $a, b$, and $c$ until it worked. With my current skill level in math, I am unable to figure out this problem.

A: Using Matti P.'s comment, use the equations
$$a\,b^c = \frac{1}{y_1}\tag 1$$
$$a \,\left(\frac{3}{4}-b\right)^c= \frac{1}{y_2}\tag 2$$
$$a \,\left(1-b\right)^c= \frac{1}{y_3}\tag 3$$
Use $(1)$ to eliminate $a$
$$a=\frac{b^{-c}}{y_1}$$ Replace in $(3)$ to get
$$\frac{(1-b)^c b^{-c}}{y_1}=\frac{1}{y_3} \implies c=\frac{\log \left(\frac{y_1}{y_3}\right)}{\log (1-b)-\log (b)}$$
Replace in $(2)$ to get an equation in $b$. Plot it for $0 < b < 1$ and zoom more and more to "see" a solution close to $b\approx0.215$ that you could refine  using Newton method (use numerical derivatives); it would coverge very fast.
When done, go back to $a$ and $c$ to get the final results.
Edit (for the fun of it)
If you work carefully, the last equation in $b$ can rewrite
$$\frac{\tanh ^{-1}\left(1-\frac{8}{3}b\right)}{\tanh ^{-1}(1-2 b)}=\frac{\log \left(\frac{y_1}{y_2}\right)}{\log \left(\frac{y_1}{y_3}\right)}$$
Since $y_1 > y_2 > y_3$, the rhs is $<1$ making the solution to be in $\left(0,\frac 12\right)$.
To make life easier, we can approximate the lhs building its simplest Padé approximant at $b=\frac 14$ that is to say
$$\frac{\tanh ^{-1}\left(1-\frac{8}{3}b\right)}{\tanh ^{-1}(1-2 b)}\sim \frac{\alpha_0+\alpha_1\left(b-\frac{1}{4}\right)} {1+ \alpha_2\left(b-\frac{1}{4}\right)}$$ where
$$\alpha_0=\frac{\tanh ^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{3}\right)}{\tanh ^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)}\approx 0.63093$$
$$\alpha_1=-\frac{2 \left(4 \log (2) (\log (4)-9)-27 \coth ^{-1}(2) \left(\coth
   ^{-1}(3)-3\right)\right)}{3 \log \left(\frac{19683}{256}\right) \coth ^{-1}(2)}\approx -5.09907$$
$$\alpha_2=-\frac{2 \left(8 \log (2) (\log (3)-4)+9 \left(8-3 \coth ^{-1}(2)\right) \coth
   ^{-1}(2)\right)}{3 \log \left(\frac{19683}{256}\right) \coth ^{-1}(2)}\approx -4.28028$$ Using your numbers, this would give $b\approx 0.215200$ which is almost the exact solution.

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Q: Robot Framework and SeleniumLibrary Simple Example *** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary
Suite Set Up  Start Selenium Server
Suite Tear Down  Stop Selenium Server

*** Test Cases ***
Opening
   Open browser  http://www.bbcnews.com googlechrome

I am using above code to run simple robot frame work script with selenium.. What am i doing wrong ?? It is stuck at opening.. but doesn't open anything browser..

A: The biggest problem is that you're using very old technology: the most recent release of SeleniumLibrary is from 2012. You should be using Selenium2Library rather than SeleniumLibrary.
From the SeleniumLibrary project page:

According to http://seleniumhq.org, the old Remote Controller API is
  officially deprecated in favor of the new WebDriver API. As a result
  also SeleniumLibrary is deprecated and no new releases are expected.
  New users should use the already mentioned Selenium2Library and
  existing users should start to plan migrating to it.

Here's an example of a working test (in pipe-separated format)
*** Variables ***
| ${BROWSER} | chrome

*** Settings ***
| Library | Selenium2Library
| Suite Teardown | Close all browsers

*** Test Cases ***
| Example
| | Open browser | http://bbcnews.com | ${BROWSER}

By using a variable for the browser, you can run against any browser by using a command line argument. For example, to run with firefox you can do:
pybot --variable BROWSER:firefox myTest.robot

Note that drivers for chrome and ie need to be downloaded and installed separately.


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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to Unveil Recently Acquired Painting by Edward Hopper
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will soon debut a new acquisition of a major work by American Modernist painter Edward Hopper (1882–1967). The work, titled Blackwell's Island, offers a view of what is now known as Roosevelt Island, located off Manhattan in the East River. The work will be exhibited in the museum's Early Twentieth-Century Art Gallery, among works by other modern American masters such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler and George Bellows. Painted in 1928, Blackwell's Island is among the largest of Hopper's oil paintings, measuring 34-1/2 inches by 59-1/2 inches.
The painting features a wide expanse of blue sky above and turbulent cobalt blue water below, bisected by a shadowed, brooding skyline of buildings along the island's waterfront. In classic Hopper style, there is a sense of distance between the viewer and the remote, impersonal architectural subject, and evidence of humanity is almost non-existent except for a single dark figure that pilots a power boat cruising away from the viewer toward the right-hand edge of the frame.
"This is a most ambitious composition for Hopper," explained Crystal Bridges President Don Bacigalupi. "He painted this work at the height of his powers and it exemplifies some of the best of Hopper's style: a complex architectural composition with a full range of light and shadow, few people and the drama of the past colliding with the present in the form of historic architecture meeting modern."
Hopper is known for creating a sense of loneliness or isolation in his work, and he was particularly interested in capturing the older, vanishing architecture of the city. Water was also a major compositional element in Hopper's work, and Blackwell's Island brings all of these elements together in a large and immersive painting. The acquisition fills an important place in the Crystal Bridges collection of post-World War I artwork.
"We have a very strong collection of American art from the 1930s," Bacigalupi said. "Hopper is among the most highly regarded artists of his generation. We have several of Hopper's works on paper, but as those are light sensitive, they can't be on view year-round. It is a pleasure to add this major oil painting to our collection, so that it can be exhibited on a long-term basis. Hopper is one of those must-see artists, and I am sure our guests will be thrilled to be able to view this work in person."
Blackwell's Island, which was previously owned by a private collector, has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute; as well as the Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions. More recently, the painting was included in the first major retrospective of the artist's work at the Grand Palais in Paris from October 2012 through February 2013.
General admission to Crystal Bridges is sponsored by Walmart; there is never any fee to view the museum's permanent collection. The museum has welcomed more than one million visitors since its opening on 11/11/11. For more information about Crystal Bridges, visit CrystalBridges.org.
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APL has expanded its trans-Pacific network with the launch of the Central China – Loop 3 service and two additional port calls to its South China – Loop 3 service.
According to APL, the new CC3 service will provide direct connectivity from the Chinese ports of Lianyungang, Ningbo and Shanghai to the US West Coast ports of Long Beach and Seattle.
The weekly service will offer a transit time of 13 days from Ningbo to Long Beach.
Port rotation will be: Lianyungang – Shanghai – Ningbo – Long Beach – Seattle – Lianyungang. The first sailing will depart from Lianyungang on April 30.
The weekly SC3 service will be making additional calls at the ports of Haiphong and Oakland as part of its rotation.
The new SC3 service will have a port rotation of: Haiphong – Nansha – Hong Kong – Yantian – Long Beach – Oakland – Yantian – Haiphong.
The first sailing will also depart from Haiphong on April 30.
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import praw
import time
from requests.exceptions import HTTPError

# Number of seconds to sleep between each check
SLEEP_TIME = 1200

class NotifierBot:
  def __init__(self, user_name, password, complaints_uname):
    self.user_name = user_name
    self.complaints_uname = complaints_uname
    self.password = password

    self.reddit = praw.Reddit(user_agent="lolfanart notifier bot")
    self.reddit.login(self.user_name, self.password)

    self.subr = self.reddit.get_subreddit('lolfanart')
    self.subscriptions = {}

    # this is purely for optimization
    self.users = []

    # need to keep track of posts so we don't double notify
    self.notified = []

    self.log_file = open('log_file.txt', 'a')

  def notify_user(self, user, post):
    message_subject = "A champion/artist you're following has been posted to LolFanArt!"
    message_text = '''
Hi %s,

A new post matches your notification queries! Check it out [here](%s).
\n_____\n
[Private Message](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=%s&subject=Notify Me) | [Source](http://github.com/shikib/reddit-notifier-bot) | [Feedback](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=%s&subject=Feedback)
    ''' % (user.name, post.permalink, self.user_name, self.complaints_uname)

    self.reddit.send_message(user, message_subject, message_text)

  # get list of users we need to notify
  def get_users_to_notify(self, title):
    user_pos_list = []
    for subscription, users in self.subscriptions.items():
      if subscription in title.lower():
        user_pos_list += users

    users = [ self.users[pos] for pos in list(set(user_pos_list)) ]
    return users

  def process_new_post(self, post):
    users = self.get_users_to_notify(post.title)
    for user in users:
      if user != post.author:
        self.notify_user(user, post)

  # check new posts and send out alerts accordingly
  def process_new_posts(self):
    for post in self.subr.get_new():
      if post.id not in self.notified:
        self.process_new_post(post)
        self.notified.append(post.id)

  # get the appropriate pos (used as id here) for a user
  def get_user_pos(self, user):
    if user not in self.users:
      self.users.append(user)
      user_pos = len(self.users) - 1
    else:
      user_pos = self.users.index(user)

    return user_pos

  # given the text and the user, subscribe the user to posts that have the text in them
  def add_subscription(self, text, user):
    if not text:
      return

    user_pos = self.get_user_pos(user)

    if text in self.subscriptions and user_pos not in self.subscriptions[text]:
      self.subscriptions[text].append(user_pos)
    else:
      self.subscriptions[text] = [user_pos]

  # given the text and the user, unsubscribe the user to posts that have the text in them
  def remove_subscription(self, text, user):
    if not text:
      return

    user_pos = self.get_user_pos(user)

    if text in self.subscriptions and user_pos in self.subscriptions[text]:
      self.subscriptions[text].remove(user_pos)

  # given relevant line in message, log it just in case of program failure
  def log_line(self, author, line):
     self.log_file.write("%s: %s\n" % (author.name, line))
     print("%s: %s" % (author.name, line))

  # given author and body of comment, subscribe author to everything they asked for
  def process_subscriptions(self, author, body):
    for line in body.split("\n"):
      if line[:9] == "!notifyme":
        for text in line[9:].split(","):
          self.log_line(author, text.strip())
          self.add_subscription(text.strip(), author)

  # given author and body of comment, unsubscribe author to everything they ask for
  def process_unsubscriptions(self, author, body):
    for line in body.split("\n"):
      if line[:9] == "!unnotifyme":
        for text in line[:9].split(","):
          self.log_line(author, text)
          self.remove_subscription(text.strip(), author)

  # check comments for new subscriptions
  def process_new_comments(self):
    for c in self.subr.get_comments():
      if '!notifyme' in c.body.lower():
        self.process_subscriptions(c.author, c.body.lower())
      if '!unnotifyme' in c.body.lower():
        self.process_unsubscriptions(c.author, c.body.lower())

  # check comments for new subscriptions
  def process_new_messages(self):
    for m in self.reddit.get_unread():
      if '!notifyme' in m.body.lower():
        self.process_subscriptions(m.author, m.body.lower())
      if '!unnotifyme' in m.body.lower():
        self.process_unsubscriptions(m.author, m.body.lower())
      m.mark_as_read()

  # clear notified list
  def clear_notified_list(self):
    if len(self.notified) >= 250:
      self.notified = self.notified[-250:]

  def parse_automod(self, file_name):
    f = open(file_name, 'r')
    alltext = f.read()
    sections = alltext.split("---")
    for section in sections:
      try:
        text = section.split('"')[1].lower()
        users = []
        for word in section.split():
          if word[:3] == "/u/":
            self.add_subscription(text, self.reddit.get_redditor(word[3:]))
            self.log_line(self.reddit.get_redditor(word[3:]), "!notifyme %s" % text)
      except praw.errors.NotFound:
        continue
    print("DONE")

  def parse_log_file(self):
    f = open('log_file.txt', 'r')
    alltext = f.readlines()
    for line in alltext:
      try:
        username, text = line.split(":")
        if "!notifyme" in text.lower():
          notify_text = text[text.index("!notifyme") + len("!notifyme"):]
          self.add_subscription(notify_text, self.reddit.get_redditor(username))
          print(line)
      except praw.errors.NotFound:
        continue

# First arg: bot user name
# Second arg: bot password
# Third arg: user name for complaints account
nb = NotifierBot('', '', '')

nb.parse_log_file()
nb.parse_automod('automod.txt')

while True:
  try:
    nb.process_new_comments()
    nb.process_new_messages()
    nb.process_new_posts()
    nb.clear_notified_list()
  except HTTPError:
    continue
  time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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A doctor struggles to stay alive after nearly drowning. An intern studies for hours on end because if he fails the test, he loses his career. A chief physician has to chose between his job and his wife.
Well, they are all stories on Grey's Anatomy. But, more importantly, they have all stakes.
A woman fights for a life. A man struggles to keep his career. A man must choose between purpose and romance.
All of these things deeply matter. If a character fails, he or she will lose something important. These characters aren't going to lose something minor; the situations are often life and death (this is a hospital show after all). You can't get higher stakes than that.
How important are high stakes?
Stakes are what makes the reader/viewer care about the character. If the character has nothing to lose or will lose only something trivial, the reader won't be engaged or care. However, if the characters has something of significance to lose, then the reader won't be able to look away.
Don't believe me? Grey's Anatomy is heading into its fifteenth season.
When you are creating your plots or revising your book, ask yourself: What are the stakes here? What do my characters have to lose? Are the stakes high enough to engage the reader?
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Q: What technology is used to serve HTTP requests compatible with Python I'm building an application on AWS and well, this world is new to me.
I expose the problem
I have experience with Apache / PHP, Apache is the one who helps me serve HTTP requests and PHP is the language of Backend.
The backend language that I am using in this new project is Python, but my question is, what is the technology that helps me serve the requests?
Can I install Apache / Python, or what would be the perfect duo?
I know this can have many variants depending on each experience and needs of the project, but honestly I am lost in what to install and what not.
Thanks for your guidance

A: I would recommend to look at uWSGI:

*

*https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/WebServers.html
mod_wsgi for Apache:

*

*https://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/develop/
For simple pages you still have CGI:

*

*https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/cgi.html
There exists also mod_python for Apache, but it isn't modern way to embed Python interpreter within the webserver (don't use it, here only for information purposes!).

*

*http://modpython.org/

A: Your best course of action if just learning how to do web programming in Python is to not worry about how you host it. Start out with one of the major Python web frameworks and work through their tutorials. The best options are:

*

*Flask - http://flask.pocoo.org/

*Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/
They will explain the basics of building your web application. They use a development server to host your application. Only once you understand programming basics, then worry about a production grade web server.


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New England is well known for rocky ground (with New Hampshire called the "Granite State") and historically, farming in this part of the country involved clearing lots of rocks before you could begin tilling. Hence the thousands of stone walls around fields across the region. Over the last 100 years or so, as farms were increasingly abandoned and people moved to towns and cities or to better farmlands in the Midwest, a lot of agricultural land here reverted to forest, or ... if it was occasionally bush-hogged (mowed), to weedy pastures. And during those decades, rocks that were once buried gradually worked their way to the surface through frost-heaves and other natural forces. With no farmer still working the fields to pull them out, the once cleared land became rocky again.
This was painfully evident when we began trying to till an old pasture about a month ago. My goal was to turn it into a new farm field for a corn crop. We are short of level, dry and well drained land for crops, and this field was all that and more, with great exposure. There had been a few trees on it that were logged before we moved here, but it looked like tilling with the tractor wouldn't be too much of a problem. I've tilled "virgin ground" here before in different parts of the farm and this field looked better than what I had already plowed.
But every time I put the plow in the ground and started moving forward, I'd get 10 to 20 yards and suddenly the shear pin on the plow would snap and the plow would rotate up and out of the ground. This is a safety feature designed to protect the plow and tractor from damage. Yet I wasn't hitting rocks -- indeed, in other fields the plow could actually handle decent sized rocks and not bust a shear pin. In fact, I'd never broken the shear pin before! But on this field, I wouldn't feel a thing in the tractor -- I'd just be gliding along and suddenly the plow had popped up in the back.
It turned out the problem was tree roots -- masses of tree roots just below the surface of the ground. Even though the stumps had been pulled and the land looked relatively clean, one particular type of tree seemed to have left a network of roots snaking through the ground, just under the surface. The plow would make no sound as it encountered the roots, but it couldn't slice through them, so it slowly gathered the roots along the front of the blade as I drove forward until the pressure was too much -- and the shear pin would break.
A rototiller on the tractor couldn't handle it either, which meant calling in our neighbor Jim, who has a small excavator. So Jim went to work pulling up the roots with the teeth on the excavator bucket. As the roots came up ... so did the rocks. It seems the roots had actually been holding the rocks in place, keeping many of them from making it to the surface.
Thus what started out as a root project became a rock project, too. In the photo above, you can see the new stone wall on the left of the cleared field that Jim was building with the rocks he pulled. (Click on photo for larger image.) I joked that he's probably the first person in at least 50 years to build a new stone wall in New England. It's taken a few weeks to get the major clearing done -- that was because of lots of rain delays, since you can't work the ground when the soil is wet.
Now what's left is for Kate and me to pull the remaining smaller rocks -- the ones too small for an excavator bucket -- by hand, and then I will use the tractor-mounted rototiller to work the soil into a seedbed. We are probably too late now for a corn crop, so this year I may just plant it to a good clover/timothy mix as a ground cover, get an early hay crop off it next year, then till it in and plant other crops.
That wall is three to four feet high. We have stone walls like this all across the farm. Our ancestors not only pulled those rocks by hand but loaded them on to sleds (called, appropriately enough, stoneboats) that oxen or horses dragged to the fenceline, then built the walls by hand, too. It's amazing to me what they accomplished. Some of our favorite books about this era are the illustrated ones by Eric Sloane, like Once Upon A Time: The Way America Was and The Seasons of America Past.
For now, though, we are very grateful to have a neighor with an excavator!
Please Vote for the Farm!
The latest Shelter Challenge started Monday, July 9 and ends at midnight on September 16. Grand prize in this round is $5,000, plus $1,000 for weekly winners and $1,000 for state winners. There are also other categories ... please see the Shelter Challenge website for details.
We just won $1,000 as a weekly winner in the last contest, and thousands more in the previous contests. The Shelter Challenge really does bring in a lot of money for the animals here!
I love these posts because you all do so many different things at the farm that I would never have thought of or known anything about and I enjoy being informed and learning something new!
I cannot imagine the amount of physical labor the early settlers had to do to create a new home. When you factor in the mental fortitude they must have had, I am even more amazed by the accomplishments. Today, I am amazed at all Rolling Dog Farm gets accomplished. Kudos all around (including neighbor Jim)!
Reading this entry, I flashed back to our visit in '04---Cynthia and I using the tractor to clear rocks from the paddock area for the blind horses.
A great visit and time spent with you, Alayne and all the animals! Rolling Dog continues to amaze and inspire!!!
Hummmm. I presume Bill and Bob were supervising all this saying Go Team Go!! (And boy are we glad we're hangin' out looking at those humans work.) Great job and blessings for a bumper crop next year.
YOU KNOW THEY(LANDSCAPERS)GET TOP DOLLAR AROUND HERE FOR ROCKS LIKE THAT(N-CENTRAL IL). MAYBE YOU COULD START A SIDE BUSINESS FOR SOME EXTRA INCOME FOR YOUR FURRY FAMILY - HA!
Your blog posts are always informative!
I too am impressed thinking of the farmers in years past. Man and beast alone breaking the land (and their backs). Our country grew by the strength of such individuals. Your job didn't sound all that easy either, thanks Jim for helping out.
The walls are a beautiful side product of such farming. Oh, and good luck with your crop(s).
It's nice to see everything still so green in your area. I guess the lack of rain affecting so much of the country hasn't been a issue for you if you have to wait until the ground dries so you can use the plow! You guys are very lucky. This post was very interesting and informative. Good luck with your crops!
Rolling Dog Farm Rocks! Yes, thank goodness for the help (mechanical and personal) we have in 2012 compared to 100 years ago. You guys must have the patience of saints and backbones of steel. All very interesting stuff!
Isn't it great to have such a wonderful neighbor? Way to go Jim!!!!!
That's some good lookin' dirt you have there. I wonder how deep it goes. Do you understand what I mean?
Too bad the animals can't eat rocks!
You know what they say: the biggest crop farmers grow in New Hampshire is rocks.


i took a marriage prep class in college and one of the tokens i took from it had to do with creating a peaceful, calm bedroom. my professor told us to never have a tv in the bedroom and to keep your sleeping space clean and serene, a retreat of sorts.
we live in a tiny bungalow by the beach and space is limited, but we love it here and we've managed to create a little getaway of our own.
be consistent with your color palette. choose to use either clear colors or muddy colors. muddy colors have tiny touches of brown or grey in them, clear colors do not. don't mix the two for this particular look. i like to stay in the same color family, and i wanted a muted, soft, neutral palette. however, if you wanted a pop of color, you could add a flashy pillow or a bit of glitzy trim.
look for details. see the pretty buttons on the pillow and the fun pink piping on the other? these details add dimension and a designer element to an otherwise bland pillow. these were purchased at homegoods, for not very much money. their high quality is showing loud and clear with the fabric used and even the stitching detail.
use a tray on your bedside tables. it makes all your knick-knacks look put together and like they are supposed to be there, kind of on display. i put my jewelry in an antique crystal tray used by my great-grandma, probably for pickles and olives on thanksgiving. instead i use it as a designated spot for my valuable jewelry. no more missing earrings or jewelry which gets accidentally tossed on the floor.
use a pillow spray. this is my favorite. it adds a touch of pretty scent when your head hits the pillow, and especially nice to spray on a bed which is ready to receive house guests. it's a blend of lavender and chamomille and i guess it's clinically proven to help you sleep better. i don't know if that's true for us, but it smells gooooood.


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Carpark Press
Baldi/Gerycz Duo
Ed Schrader's Music Beat
Laumė (fka MADEIRA)
Dan Deacon	Meetle Mice
1. BJI Aii Hmhp #14
2. Never Do That (Mars)
3. Biggle Hat Was Ice Cream Time (Card Shark Nose Nose) (Live)
4. 30 (from 21 through 35) (Live)
5. Electronics With Clarinet and Bari Sax
6. Song For Dina
7. My own face is F word
8. Drinking Out of Cups
9. sdahgsfdgh3frgha3wffhjdvbjs4uh
10. The Adventures of Mr Bumbershine Featuring Doctor Witherbean
11. That's A Nice Shirt (Dad)
12. Aerosmith Permanent Vacation 24162-2
13. Plums
14. I'm So Gay with The Boner
15. Aw Ah Ah Ah (Party Cakes)
16. My Weasle Is Married Worm Married
17. I Have AIDS
18. 005 September 22 BE
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The music contained on these albums I wrote while in college (and a few while in high school) when I was just discovering computer music. I wrote them for fun, never planning on doing anything with them at that the time or expecting them to be heard outside of my circle of friends. When I was asked to play a show on campus I thought it might be a good idea to burn some CD-Rs and try to sell them at the show.
Going through my files, I found the pieces that I liked the most, grouped them into two different collections and gave them the most appropriate/absurd titles I could think of. The organization of the songs was somewhat thoughtout but mostly chaotic: make sure the granular synth pieces are far from each other; keep the songs with beats spread out; sound collages placed amongst sine wave drone pieces. They were more like compilations of my experiments than albums of compositions.
I made only 8 CD-R copies of each in photocopied sleeves with contact paper on the discs. I sold all but 1 of each for $7 or two for $10. Explosions were going off in my head, dollar signs appearing in my eyes. Making $70 from selling CD-Rs was blowing my mind. I started selling them at every show, even though the music contained on them didn't represent what I ever performed live, since the music on Meetle Mice and Silly Hat was never meant to be performed live (except for the acoustic ensemble pieces).
The CD-Rs and artwork are riddled with mistakes. There's digital clipping on many of the tracks; 'Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat' was meant to be 'Silly Hat vs. Eagle Hat'; "copy write" should have been 'copyright', etc., but I thought the typos were funny and kept it with each batch of the CD-Rs. Since I was only selling them on campus or a few shows in NYC it didn't really matter. I hated stuff that took itself too seriously so keeping my spelling mistakes glaring was important to me. And considering the music was made in a vacuum with no intention of it ever seeing the light of day, it made sense to keep all the errors in their original state (true of this reissue as well the artwork for this reissue was scanned from the original run of 8.)
I was a very different musician back then trying to figure out how to interact with sound, what could be done with it, where it could go, learning music software for the first time. Since then my aesthetic has shifted, my absurdist mindset subdued. At times I feel like these albums are skeletons in my musical closet. Many of the song titles are absurd or toy with the idea of what is offensive and what is not, many of them created as a commentary on the super politically correct atmosphere that was Purchase College in the early 2000s.
These albums are like seeds. They sound, look and feel very different from the fruit that they've grown but they are still of the same tree.
Standing in a Greyhound Bus station, wearing a Sylvester t-shirt and huge duct-tape-covered glasses, Baltimore's Dan Deacon doesn't invoke the image of a composer to the other bus riders. The two suitcases he loads under the bus, which accompany him from city to city, hold the sweat-and-grime-soaked electronics that he uses to craft his raging, maxed-out party music and light show. After 12 tours and 300+ shows in little over 2 years, the gear is beaten and battered, but the show and the energy it produces is anything but.
Dan Deacon has garnered a reputation in the underground as an intense performer and classic showman. The table top full of pedals, a sine wave generator, vocoder and casio blasting through the PA, joined by a makeshift light board with various bulbs and green skull strobe light, make his all out dance-til-you-drop performance a complete experience.
But it isn't all fancy feet and bouncy beats. Deacon is a classically trained composer with a Masters degree in electro-acoustic composition. He has released 7 albums from 2003 to 2006, but those self-produced recordings do not contain the vocal-based experimental pop that he has fine-tuned in live performance. His latest full length, Spiderman of the Rings is the first album bridging the gap between party performer and genuine composer. A mixture of his live show dance anthems, intricate instrumentals and humorous monologues, Spiderman of the Rings establishes Dan Deacon as a new type of entertainer in the contemporary underground.


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'Til death do us part
Kamissa Camara
Ali Bongo image via Wikimedia
The Bongo family has ruled the central African country of Gabon uninterrupted for 49 years. This past August, President Ali Bongo – whose father, Omar, was in power from 1967 to 2009 when Ali took over – secured a second seven-year term in presidential elections. Since the announcement of official election results, violent clashes have erupted between Gabonese opposition supporters and police forces.
Gabon is the third richest country in Africa and one of the most stable countries in the central Africa region. It is strategically important to France, a former colonizer, as an oil producer and the site of a permanent military base since 1960.
In this year's election, according the official results published by the Interior Ministry, President Bongo won with 49.8 percent of the vote, while his main challenger Jean Ping received 48.2 percent. Bongo defeated Jean Ping by a meager 5,594 voters. The victory included a bizarre 99.93 percent voter turnout in the President's family stronghold in Haut Ogooué in the south of Gabon, while the national average was 59 percent.
Following the results, Ping said that the vote was "stolen" by Bongo. Separately, Ping wrote in the New York Times: "We have seen "results" like these before, but only from sham elections, most often in dictatorships."
Normally, Bongo would get away with it (he still has some enthusiastic supporters in the West), but this time France and the European Union both echoed Ping's doubts over the integrity of the results in Bongo's hometown. They recommended a recount of the vote. Bongo refused, so Ping filed a voter fraud complaint with the constitutional court, hoping for a recount.
With the exception of seven years immediately following independence, Gabon has been governed by the Bongo family. During this time, government has been characterized by corruption, kleptocracy and widespread patronage.
Ali Bongo's path to power was smoothed by a constitutional amendment in 1997 by Omar Bongo that removed the country's run-off system, replacing it with a single round of voting in presidential, legislative and senatorial elections. Omar Bongo won that 1998 election before he was elected in 2005 to a sixth term. All these elections were marred by irregularities and violence, which allowed Omar Bongo to stay in office even while he was losing ground to the opposition.
One-round electoral systems are seemingly less challenging for incumbent presidents and their designated successors. A divided opposition spreads out votes, while an incumbent president's patronage system can guarantee an immediate victory in a one-round voting system. One-round electoral systems also make unity among opposition political parties an ultimate requisite for a potential victory. For the 2016 Gabonese presidential election, the three main opposition parties decided to pool resources and support Jean Ping.
Such electoral systems are exceptional on the continent. Out of 54 African countries, only seven hold presidential elections using it. But, the results are clear: Togo has been ruled by the same family for more than 40 years, Cameroon has been ruled by Paul Biya since 1982 and the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been entrenched since he came to power in 2001.
However, while one-round presidential elections can sometimes explain long presidential rules on the African continent, more than half of current presidents have been elected in first rounds of despite the existence of two-round systems. As such, it is not so much that one-round systems are favoring one candidate, but that electoral systems may be biased from the get-go, and may make it virtually impossible to defeat the incumbent.
Gabonese don't trust the electoral system. Two days before the publication of official results for the 2016 presidential elections, Ali Bongo tweeted that he was awaiting his victory "with serenity and confidence." Meanwhile, the president of the supreme court, who makes the final decision on the election, is Bongo's stepmother.
By many measures, Jean Ping is a surprising choice as a democratic reformer in Gabon. He is very much part of Gabon's political establishment and served in Omar Bongo's cabinet for more than a decade, including as foreign minister. He was also related by marriage to the Bongo family – he has two children with Pascaline Bongo, also a government minister. Ping's popularity, however, reflects frustration with the Bongos, and reflects a political landscape that is changing. For the first time in the country's history, a united opposition has had a realistic chance of unseating an incumbent president and to end a family dynasty. This was achieved because of the opposition's unity around a consensual candidate.
Change is what Gabonese seem to be looking for. They have little interest in a president 'til death do us part.
Kamissa Camara is the senior program officer for West and Central Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy.
The Bongo family has ruled the central African country of Gabon uninterrupted for 49 years. This


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Q: c++ time.h, clock_gettime(), semantic error, how to link real-time library in Eclipse? I have some problem using the clock_gettime() function.
#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>

timespec timer_start;
timespec timer_end;

clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &timer_start);
// sleep for 5 seconds
boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::milliseconds(5000));
clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &timer_end);

std::cout << (timer_end.tv_sec - timer_start.tv_sec) << ":" << (timer_end.tv_nsec - timer_start.tv_nsec) << std::endl;

The output I get is this
0:6934599
It seems that the timer only elapsed 693 milliseconds or so.
I compile the program with g++ -lrt on Linux gnu gcc 4.6. I also received a Semantic Error, says
Symbol 'CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID' could not be resolved
Thanks.

A: Leaving aside the impossibility of running a program that fails to compile, sleeping is typically a system call: a kernel function is called, the kernel sends the thread to sleep, schedules other threads and processes to run (or the CPU to enter a power saving mode) and wakes the original thread up again at the requested time. During this time, the sleeping thread will not consume CPU time. The (real) time that elapses is typically referred to as wall time.
Contrast this to a live wait of a while loop in your code that repeatedly checks the clock and only terminates after 5 seconds have elapsed. This kind of wait will rack up CPU time it takes away from other processes.
Note also that 6934599 nanoseconds are about 6.93 milliseconds, not 693.


To the 100 million Windows XP users out there, Microsoft has a message for you: It's time to move on. Seriously.
In fact, the countdown to the end of the Age of XP is on. In just under two years – on Apr. 8, 2014 to be exact – Microsoft will dump support for its once-ubiquitous OS and its faithful sidekick, Office 2003.
In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft spokeswoman Stella Chernyak said it's time for corporate users to let go of the past. "If you still have some PCs running Windows XP and Office 2003 in your organization, now would be a good time to start migrating them to Windows 7 and Office 2010," she wrote.
The end of Windows XP still matters to business users, who blew off Windows Vista and hung on to its predecessor a lot longer than Microsoft expected. Research firm Gartner guesses that there are about 103 million XP users out there today – more than 72 million of them using the business version. But by the time the decade-old XP finally winds down in 2014, Gartner reckons that this number will have dwindled to about 7 million business users.
But if your company has already blown off Windows Vista and Windows 7, why not just wait another year and upgrade to Microsoft's newest OS, Windows 8, which is expected sometime in the fall? Well, not surprisingly Chernyak doesn't like this idea, and here's her reason: "We don't recommend waiting. Not only is it important for companies to complete deployment before support runs out, but they should also be aware that by upgrading to Windows 7 and Office 2010 today they can gain substantial results today while laying the foundation for future versions of these products."
Good reasons to move to Mac OS X, too, come to think of it.


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The Mourning After
All the small things prove Bucks' strike for Jacob Blake was not in vain
Sam Fels
Remember the day hoops stopped in MIlwaukee?
Image: Getty Images
The pain from the news of charges not being filed by the Wisconsin DA against the police officers that shot Jacob Blake stemmed from how familiar it all felt. By this point, we all know that prosecutors and police work hand in hand, and it takes something truly perverse for the former to go against the latter. We've seen it too many times. Give prosecutors any kind of rope to haul themselves out of having to put cops on trial, and they'll grab it. While our souls deflate every time it happens, it's hardly a surprise.
It seems so long ago now, given that we've still had to navigate a pandemic and then an interminable election, but it was Jacob Blake's shooting that spurred the first ever cross-sport general strike that we've ever seen. Did it result in massive, immediate change? No, it didn't. But things like this so rarely if ever do.
It can feel like it accomplished nothing, given that the cops will walk after all of it. It can feel like sports, mostly, stopped once again for no reason. We all so badly want massive and instant change.
But there's a reason that those cops' acquittal is showing up on ESPN.com. There's a reason that it simply isn't passing in a news ticker, but that everyone sees it. The Bucks aren't solely responsible for the awareness, but they have a major part in it. These things move more slowly than we like, sometimes much more slowly, but simply the amount of eyes on something like this versus the amount that would have been even three or five years ago? The Bucks and everyone who followed them have a claim to that. It's a step, just not a leap.
Maybe even one year ago, Marquette's basketball team doesn't decide to wear black over a non-filing like this. Media isn't running to Donovan Mitchell to see what he has to say, or LeBron isn't tweeting about it. It's perhaps infinitesimal movement, but it's movement. It'll feel like more than that down the line, when real change takes place. And we have to believe it will, even if it won't come soon enough to save so many.
But look what happened in Georgia in the presidential election and in last night's senate runoffs. Which state first decided to make its NBA arena a polling place in an effort to address rampant voter suppression in Black communities? It was Georgia, a state that voted for a Democratic president for the first time in decades. And the activism of WNBA players against one of the league's owners, Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, worked to unseat her in the Senate and possibly control of the Senate.
So while the protest of athletes in the wake of Blake's shooting may not have led to charges being filed, it certainly had an impact on the nation.
So it turns out Alex Morgan might just be a total dipshit.
The USWNT star announced she tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, and it's truly a mystery how that came about. Yes, a true mystery how a woman — with a newborn child keep in mind — who had been plying her trade in London, a city that is currently a total wildfire amongst a new strain of the virus, who then decided to travel to California, another hotspot, to spend the holidays amongst a big group of family, contracted the virus. Oh, and she posted this picture while doing so on Instagram. It's just a math problem that only a supercomputer could figure out, isn't it?
This is the same Morgan who once got tossed from Disneyworld for being that drunk. Turns out, that somehow isn't the dumbest thing she's done. Which is kind of impressive, in one way.
The U.S. claimed the World Junior Championships last night 2-0 over Canada, grabbing a lead and then letting goalie Spencer Knight dismissively turn away any hint of a Canadian comeback for the last period and a half.
When the U.S. took the lead late in the 1st period, it was the first time Canada had trailed the whole tournament and the first 5-on-5 goal they had surrendered. Canada looked especially lost in its own end for the game's first 30 minutes, simply because it had spent any time there in its first five games. Its comeback never got off the ground thanks to Knight.
It will make for some interesting viewing in the next couple years as Knight becomes ready to take over the Florida Panthers' net, and yet Sergei Bobrovsky is still there pulling down eight figures. But that's a question for another time.
The coup-de-fuck-you took place after the game. Too bad Don Cherry isn't still on the CBC, as that picture would certainly be enough to kill him.
Let's end with this.
We can't be too careful. Two guys in an airport...talking? It's a little fishy.


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It can run for days without overheating and crashing.
Other products are intented to be used as toys for a few hours.
They usually overheat and fail if you try to run them for a whole day.
then any other available levitation display.
making it hard to see that your product is floating at all.
If you display a product like a watch or shoes with the S-45, the amount of customers that notice your product will increase instantly.
You will sell more and your investment of 249,- will be returned soon.
The S-45 is very energy efficient: It uses permament magnets for the main lifting force and power is only used for small electromagnets to keep the carrier-disc in the center.
Business economist Felix Ripken (35) and his brother, the 3D-Artist, Video-Producer and Developer Tammo (42), are the founders of "Umsatz-Magnet UG".
Its the only device suitable for shopping windows or in a store because it can run for days without overheating.
The main idea of this new company is to develop and produce devices for the retail industry that increase the amount of attention and sales.
Caution: This device is not a toy!
We designed the S-45 Levitation-Display for deployment in shop windows, display cabinets, for serious home collectors or other protected areas.
Its made to draw attention to your product, enrich the shopping experience of your customers and make them stay longer to increase your sales.
At those places it is protected from beeing misused by people who dont know how to use the device properly.
Otherwise make sure that it can not be reached by protecting it with an acrylic box, a cabinet, or placing it on a shelf behind a counter.
Take special care that the carrier disc can not be accessed by children.
If the carrier disc is pulled out of its center position it will fall down on to the base and the exhibits placed on it might get damaged.
We strongly advise to keep unauthorised persons, especially children, away from the levitated disc.
We can not be hold liabel by any misuse of the device.
Wir haben ein Display im Schaufenster auf Augenhöhe positioniert und präsentieren damit einen "high-tech" Lauf-Schuh.
Wenn jemand sieht das der frei in der Luft schwebt, bleibt eigentlich jeder stehen und sieht sich das an.
Auf jeden Fall ist das Teil ein echter Hingucker!
aber jetzt steht es auf meinem Schreibtisch mit und ich kann mich davon nicht trennen.
Ich muss jetzt wohl noch eins bestellen.
Vor meinem Schaufenster bleiben oft Passanten stehen und versuchen herauszufinden warum sich das Mobiltelefon freischwebend in der Luft dreht.
Ich sage dann immer, das funktioniert magisch!
Ich habe die Basis des Geräts mit Stoff versteckt und lasse eine Diamantbesetzte Uhr in meiner Schaufenster-Vitrine schweben.
Durch die langsame Drehung und helle Halogen-Spots strahlen die Steine und kommen wunderschön zur geltung.
Ich kann nur jedem raten, sich so ein Teil mal ins Schaufenster zu stellen. Wir verkaufen Damen-Schuhe, und sehen neuerdings auch Männer, die sich die Nase an unserer Schaufensterscheibe plattdrücken.
Ich habe die Schwebe-Platte in ein Star-Wars Modell eingeklebt. Sieht einfach nur geil aus, besten Dank!


As might be expected, I have a huge collection of amazingly unique and different photographs shot by me here in Palm Springs and around the area. People, places, landscapes, events, tourist spots, museums, restaurants, models, bodybuilders, fashion and more being added all the time. From anywhere from downtown Palm Springs to the Salton Sea and Joshua Tree, the entire region. My photographs have been featured in magazine travel features, advertising, fitness magazines and so much more here in the USA and around the world. Very soon I will be making these photographs available for immediate use and licensing in a searchable and viewable archive resource online. If you are the art director, photo editor, editor, publisher, public relations person or advertising creator please check back or send me an e-mail to SecondFocus@mac.com to be updated when these photographs will go live and available. I think you will all be very pleased with what you will be seeing. I am also available for your special assignments within the region and elsewhere of course. I must say that I am very excited about this and additionally I must say, Thank You!


In the Fall of 2018 the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) announced that John Brown University was one of 52 providers from 27 states and Puerto Rico to receive accreditation for their educator preparation program. According to CAEP president Dr. Christopher A. Koch "These institutions meet high standards so that their students receive an education that prepares them to succeed in a diverse range of classrooms after they graduate. Seeking CAEP Accreditation is a significant commitment on the part of an educator preparation provider." http://caepnet.org, (202) 223-0077.
Successful completion of an Education program at John Brown University prepares the student for certification in the state of Arkansas.
While the teacher education program at John Brown University fulfills Arkansas teacher licensure requirements, John Brown University does not guarantee nor can it confirm that programs that fulfill Arkansas teacher licensure requirements will satisfy the criteria of professional licensure boards in other states. Students interested in obtaining a teaching license in a state other than Arkansas, need to contact the appropriate licensing agency in the state where they expect to teach before beginning a course of study. Certification officials in the majority of the states automatically grant initial certification to graduates of NCATE accredited Education programs. In addition, most states will grant initial certification to individuals certified in the state of Arkansas. Click here to see if the state you want to teach in has a reciprocity agreement: NASDTEC Interstate Agreements for Teacher Licensure.


Is Snapchat the future of the virtual college tour?
Several colleges and universities are joining an initiative to use Snapchat as a digital marketing tool for their respective campus touring seasons.
Get Schooled, a college access advocacy organization, is promoting the Snapchat tours, which now include Howard University, Spelman College, UCLA, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania among its dozen participating institutions.
The tour is organized in recognition of College Application Month.
More colleges are catching on to the reality of social and digital marketing as the primary resource of reaching potential students, but still must be cognizant of what content students see as authentic, and which content will repel or reduce their interest in an institution.
One of the ways for-profit education was able to explode its enrollment was by targeting working adults with television advertising, and for millennials, the same is true in the digital space. Any content which shows activity and relatable student experiences in real time will resonate with potential students.


Houses for sale in Bridgeport, CT!
So how does the Bridgeport CT real estate market look these days? Currently Bridgeport has a average listing price for homes for sale of $155,828. The Fairfield county average currently is $822,236.
The current number of properties on the market in Bridgeport is 9. The Bridgeport median listing price is $144,750.
For Fairfield county real estate the total listings are 93 and a median listing price of $309,900. This compares to Connecticut real estate data, which this week shows a total number of listing properties as 332 with a median listing price of $264,900.


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Peribonio ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Roko Peribonio (* 1991), kroatischer Handballspieler
 Tonči Peribonio (* 1960), kroatischer Handballspieler und -trainer

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