The Mental Welfare Commission would like to talk to people in Scotland who are over 18 years of age and have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
BPD is sometimes also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). If you have this diagnosis or if you are a relative or carer of someone with BPD, we would like to hear from you.
Earlier this year the Commission had an opportunity to speak to people with BPD and they told them about some of difficulties they face, including stigma associated with the diagnosis, difficulty in accessing treatment and support and getting the right help in a crisis.
The Commission now aims to explore these and other issues further with more people who have this diagnosis. This will help the Commission to produce a report it is looking to publish in early 2018. The report, as well as highlighting the difficulties people face, will also give examples of good practice and make recommendations for improvement. The report will be anonymous, so no-one will be identifiable.
The Commission plans to talk to people about their experiences of BPD throughout October and November 2017.
If you think you would like to give them your views please e-mail them on [email protected] or call 0131 313 8777.
They don't need to take any of your personal details if you don't want them to. They can then make arrangements about the best way we can capture your views.
I've not been diagnosed yet but known since a very young age that something was wrong.I am now a single mum of three suffering severely with this disorder.My husband left me and his entire family think I'm evil.They think it's deliberate and I punish myself everyday because of this.Im 47 years old and can't bear the lack of support.
I have been diagnosed with BDP I have suffered what was mistaken for anxiety and depression since the age of 15. The lack of resources and help is utterly shocking to be told to read a book about a parrot and with a sucide prevention plan in place through occupational therapists DOES NOT WORK. My family have declared to the local mental health team and doctors that they cannot control me after several hospital visits after my parents repeatedly telling CPNS and doctors they cannot longer control me yet I still have to wait 5 weeks for ONE CPN session and EIGHT weeks to see pshcyatsitst. This is a completely distressing time for my family and after being recommended I require inpatient therapy I'm still a prisoner in my own home at the age of 20. WHY can I not receive the help I need in Scotland even private facilities have months waiting lists. How much does it take to get help? Before you harm yourself or someone else. I have emailed the government board of mental health, my MP and the first minister of Scotland!!! My chances at what's suppose to be the best days of my life have been ruined I cannot work or further my education due to this chronic illness, standing on 500ft bridges, overdoses, stabbing myself, intense periods of anger causing me to physically hurt my younger sibling and lashing out to other family members and others that have hurt me. I strongly believe BPD is ignored and doctors and CPNS are educated enough to treat this disorder if you aren't branded 'bi polar or schizophrenic ' you are ignored. WHY CAN I NOT RECIEVE THE CORRCT TREAMTMENT FOR THIS DISORDER UNDER THE NHS???
I have just been officially diagnosed at the age of 59!
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What I. Meant to say is bpd can b a very challenging disorder to live with, not just for the sufferer, but all my family and friends find it difficult to deal with me, so I lock my self away!


SHARES in bingo and casino group Rank rose nearly 2% on Wednesday on expectations it would demerge its Deluxe film unit later this month, and industry sources confirmed the group was nearing a decision.
'Deliberations are close to a conclusion,' said one source. A company spokesman also said it expected to make a statement at its results presentation on 25 February.
Rank Group's shares rose to 290p, valuing the group at around £1.8bn.
Analysts said the plans to separate Deluxe Film, which has manufactured films such as 'The Passion of the Christ', and Deluxe Media, which makes and distributes videos and DVDs, would leave a more stable company that could become a takeover target.
'This should be an important catalyst to realise value,' said analyst Nigel Parson at brokerage Williams de Broe. 'Without Deluxe, New Rank becomes a stable, cash-generative business centered on bingo, with its loyal customer base and casinos enjoying high barriers to entry,' he added.
One of the main issues that Rank has been trying to resolve is how to unravel contracts with the major film studios and switch them to a separated Deluxe. There have also been questions over the appeal of Deluxe Media, which is experiencing difficult trading conditions.
The group is likely to sell off Deluxe Media and float the film unit with a value of around 600 million pounds, analysts say.
In the past, Rank has shed Pinewood film studios, Odeon cinemas and Butlins holiday camps -- all household names in British.


Epic Waters' opening day of Jan. 12, 2018, and The Epic, a mega recreation and lifestyle center opening May 2018, have brought a game-changer to the City of Grand Prairie!
The resort-quality indoor waterpark is municipally-owned and affordable. Its' central location between Dallas and Fort Worth adds to the appeal.
The retractable roof allows the waterpark to adapt to Texas weather and remain open year-round.
The outdoor water wave pool and double-surf simulator will operate during the warmer times for extra seasonal entertainment.
The water park features 11 slides, three of which are the first of their kind.
Epic Waterpark also has the longest lazy river in Texas, at 650 feet, a 6,000 square-foot arcade, and a complete restaurant and bar area.
In addition to the thrill rides, there are kids areas as well.
Guests will also love all the interactive play areas for all ages.
Highlights include the nation's tallest Aqualoop, standing 70 feet tall.
Another first is an enclosed slide that an inner-tube rider will travel through to an open drop, which then sails high on a wall, providing a sense of zero gravity.
The Aquanaut is the first indoor double-rider Aquasphere inner-tube ride.
The slide takes riders up high banking domes.
Workers have undergone extensive training to make sure the thrilling water park is both safe and fun.
If you are looking for another good reason to visit, try their prices! Surprisingly, daily admission prices are quite reasonable. Under 48 inches tall resident: $14/non-resident $24; over 48 inches tall resident: $19/non-resident $29. There are other prices for spectators and year-round annual passes. Children 3 and under are free. The park is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Save yourself some time and buy your admission tickets here. Epic Waters is located at 2970 Epic Place, Grand Prairie, 75052.


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Q: Rails Controller - param is missing or the value is empty: booking (Stripe Integration) I'm trying to complete a Stripe.js integration into my Rails app for an event booking site and I'm getting the error above. I've looked at lots of similar issues on here and none of the solutions seem to work.
Here's my code -
Bookings Controller
class BookingsController < ApplicationController
before_action :booking_params, only: [:create]
before_action :authenticate_user!

def new
    # booking form
    # I need to find the event that we're making a booking on
    @event = Event.find(params[:event_id])
    # and because the event "has_many :bookings"
    @booking = @event.bookings.new
    # which person is booking the event?
    @booking.user = current_user
end

def create
    # actually process the booking
    @event = Event.find(params[:event_id])
    @booking = @event.bookings.new(booking_params)
    @booking.user = current_user

    if @booking.save

        # CHARGE THE USER WHO'S BOOKED
        # #{} == puts a variable into a string
        Stripe::Charge.create(amount: @event.price, currency: "gbp",
            card: @booking.stripe_token, description: "Booking number #{@booking.id}")

        flash[:success] = "Your place on our event has been booked"
        redirect_to event_path(@event)
    else
        flash[:error] = "Payment unsuccessful"
        render "new"
    end
end

private

def booking_params
    params.require(:booking).permit(:stripe_token)
end

end
booking model
class Booking < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :event
belongs_to :user

end
Booking view -
    <%= simple_form_for [@event, @booking] do |form| %>

      Card Number
      <input type="text" size="20" data-stripe="number"/>

      CVC
      <input type="text" size="4" data-stripe="cvc"/>

      Expiration (MM/YYYY)
      <input type="text" size="2" data-stripe="exp-month"/>

     /
    <input type="text" size="4" data-stripe="exp-year"/>

      <%= form.button :submit %>

<% end %>

For some reason its not capturing the booking_params. Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.

A: Change the line:
$form.append($('<input type="hidden" name="order[stripe_token]"     />').val(token));

To:
$form.append($('<input type="hidden" name="booking[stripe_token]"     />').val(token));

And also remove the line:
before_action :booking_params, only: [:create]

It is not necessary at all.

A: Try putting the function stripeResponseHandler before the call that submits the form.
E.G.

Also, change this
$form.append($('<input type="hidden" name="order[stripe_token]"     />').val(token));

to
$form.append($('<input type="hidden" name="booking[stripe_token]"     />').val(token));

Alos, give the form an id, like this
<%= simple_form_for [@event, @booking], id: "new_order" do |form| %>

it should match the ids in your javascript.

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ENGLISH VERSION: The Valkyrians – Disorder, in the style from Joy Division
von manfred mai
Back in 2002, Angster, Moonhead, Big Deal, Letku Leroy and Gladiator met at a familiar watering hole in Helsinki, Finland. These musicians had known each other for years and on this night they decided to make a shared dream a reality. They were going to start a band that played the sweet, smoky rhythms that had for decades emanated from the island of Jamaica.
The first gig was set up for Big Deal's and Leroy's birthday party. Ska, rocksteady and reggae, as well as 2Tone and punk classics had the crowd dancing like crazy. The gig was a success and the party exceeded all expectations. The Valkyrians were born.
Disorder: The original Words in english
I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
These sensations barely interest me for another day,
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away.
It's getting faster, moving faster now, it's getting out of hand,
On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, it's a no man's land,
Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now,
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow.
What means to you, what means to me, and we will meet again,
I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I'll take no pity from you friends,
Who is right, who can tell, and who gives a damn right now,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling,
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling.
Die ganze Geschichte in drei Teilen
The Valkyrians: Disorder, in the Style of Ska
The Valkyrians: Disorder, in the style from Joy Division
Disorder: Die deutsche Übersetzung – feeling, feeling, feeling…
The Valkyrians
http://www.reverbnation.com/thevalkyrians – Band-Bio:
Back in 2002, Angster, Moonhead, Big Deal, Letku Leroy and Gladiator met at a familiar watering hole in Helsinki, Finland. These musicians had known each other for years and on this night they decided to make a shared dream a reality. They were going to start a band that played the sweet, smoky rhythms that had for decades emanated from the island of Jamaica. The first gig was set up for Big Deal's and Leroy's birthday party. Ska, rocksteady and reggae, as well as 2Tone and punk classics had the crowd dancing like crazy. The gig was a success and the party exceeded all expectations.
The Valkyrians were born.
Their first release, an EP called Miracle (Fat Belt Records), came out in 2004. It featured I Don't Wanna Go Home, a real dance floor burner loved by audiences everywhere. The band started to seriously consider making an album.
High and Mighty was released in 2006 (BALE/Fat Belt). With the crowd, as well as critics, going wild for the Jamaican sound, the band decided it was time to take the show on the road. They toured all around Finland and Scandinavia. They toured in central Europe. The album rose up to number 24 in the Finnish charts.
The band won a slew of awards that year: a Femma (which is a kind of alternative to the Finnish Grammy Emma) for most danceable act of 2006. Finland's premier alternative rock paper Rumba agreed and gave them an award for setting the floor on fire, too. Do You Really Wanna Know was named song of the year by Funky Elephant, an association of Finnish lovers of the almighty groove.
Stupido Records released the band's second album, The Beat of Our Street, in 2009. It climbed up to number 29 in the charts. The band went on a tour that lasted the best part of a year: Finland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Holland, Belgium, and Sweden all received the gospel of skanking to the beat.
Album number three
Come late 2010 and the band started thinking about album number three. They wanted to try something different and decided to approach the songs they'd loved in their youth from a different perspective. A Valkyrian perspective. Eventually it boiled down to covering punk and new wave classics from the late-70s and the early-80s and infusing them with some rhythmic Caribbean magic. After some fairly brutal arranging sessions, the band retired to Seawolf Studios on the fortress island of Suomenlinna. It was a very snowy and cold December. The Valkyrians, mixing engineer Petri Majuri and recording engineer Pasi Hartikainen worked until June of 2011.
It's all about punk dressed in rudeboy garb, with rocksteady, ska and reggae rhythms. The album is an homage to the classics of past decades and the people who created them. They've all had a major impact on the musical and spiritual development The Valkyrians and its constituent parts. The roots of the band are in punk.
Some artists worth mentioning: The Clash, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, 999, Devo, The Only Ones, Misfits, Sham 69, Wire… And many more.
The future sure is bright. And the band is now thinking about what to do for album number four.
The Valkyrians – Disorder, in the Style of Ska
The Valkyrians – Disorder, die deutsche Übersetzung
Janis Joplin: Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches
Neil Young – Cortez The Killer: He came dancing across the water…
Immer wenn es traurig wird – Junip: Step back from the line of fire
Kategorien Musik The Valkyrians
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Vorheriger Beitrag #Sharknado – Wenn blutiges Trash-Kino Kult wirdVorheriger Beitrag
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Bringing the World Together through a Truly International Connection
By Paige Tepping
It's not often that you come across a real estate brand where the founder is still president and 100-percent involved in making decisions to fulfill a vision of providing real estate service of the highest quality in the industry. In fact, it's completely rare. But for Engel & Völkers, it's a reality, as Co-CEO and Founder Christian Völkers' unwavering leadership and dedication have enabled the firm to capitalize on its solid Hamburg, Germany roots and continue to expand throughout the world and into North America. With a U.S. presence that's been consistently growing since 2013, Völkers and his entire team are setting their sights even higher, while staying true to their core values of competence, exclusivity and passion.
International Expansion: An Eye on North America
Engel & Völkers heightened its focus on North America expansion in 2013. "In light of the economic recovery and the expanding real estate market, this was a good time for us to drive forward our expansion," says Völkers.
Recognizing the need for domestic expertise of the U.S. real estate industry to lead the effort on the continent, Völkers appointed Anthony Hitt as CEO of Engel & Völkers North America in 2014. Before being named CEO, Hitt was the chief operating officer and was responsible for the management of the brand's premium-level client service standards among its existing brokerage network in the U.S. As CEO, Hitt leads a real estate industry "Dream Team" that includes Tom Kunz, former CEO of CENTURY 21 Real Estate; Stuart Siegel, former CEO of Sotheby's International Realty; Jim Ramsay, former SVP of sales and operations for both Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and CENTURY 21 Real Estate; and Jacob Stepan, formerly a senior executive at Cendant Corporation. "These are seasoned industry leaders who have all recognized what makes this brand so unique and have made the decision to join us to help build our presence in North America," says Hitt.
Serving as Engel & Völkers North America's headquarters team, the group has fast-tracked the brand's successes with strategies based on years of experience that have shaped and reshaped the U.S. real estate industry over the past 20 years.
"The strategy that Anthony and his team have put into place has shown results that have met and exceeded our expectations," says Völkers. "It's clear the brand fills a void by being a truly international real estate company with strong brand consistency and an active network," he adds. "We have been successful in attracting the right partners to grow our presence and maintaining the consistency of quality we are known for worldwide."
Völkers explains that the firm's expansion activities target existing and emerging premium markets. "In the U.S., this includes desirable first-home markets such as New York City, Miami and Los Angeles, in addition to prestigious second-home markets. We also look at emerging markets in each state in order to identify the top brokerages and agents as a measure of our potential growth, for example."
And Völkers' growth plan is paying off, as a number of real estate professionals—some from leading companies such as Sotheby's and Christie's International Real Estate—continue to put their trust in the Engel & Völkers brand. Engel & Völkers brokerages have opened most recently in Houston, Dallas and Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Ga.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Charlotte, N.C.; Hilton Head Island, S.C., and Richmond, Va.
For Doug Dorsey, a former Christie's affiliate and now broker/owner of Engel & Völkers Richmond, the decision to join Engel & Völkers was an easy one. "When the opportunity arises to work with a firm that has substantial marketshare in Europe and is bringing their experience, tools and systems to North America, there's no reason not to be on the front end of that kind of curve," says Dorsey, whose office opened on September 30.
As one of the newest shops to begin working under the Engel & Völkers banner, Dorsey is most looking forward to watching the brand continue to grow. "In the last 12 months, Engel & Völkers has added close to 40 license partners, providing a dynamic presence in each and every market that chooses to associate with them."
Carol Sollak, private office advisor and license partner at Engel & Völkers Wellington and Palm Beach in Wellington, Fla., echoes Dorsey's sentiments. "What I love most about the past two-and-a-half years is not only how much we've grown, but how the company has grown together while remaining a step ahead of everyone else," says Sollak, the No. 1 agent in the Engel & Völkers International network. "The company has not let me down at all with their growth. They're doing it the Engel & Völkers way…and making it very successful for all of us."
With a name that resonates among buyers and sellers throughout Europe, the Engel & Völkers brand is bringing the world closer together one shop at a time—a necessity as real estate boundaries continue to expand globally.
Successfully representing clients on an international stage was one of the motivating factors behind Steve and Michele Turnquist's decision to join Engel & Völkers six months ago. "Engel & Völkers brings the world together by providing an international connection," says Michele Turnquist, private office advisor and license partner at Engel & Völkers Austin. "As the local Austin market became increasingly international, we saw the need to become an international brokerage so that we could represent our clients on the international stage.
"Today, we have a true international connection, as well as a global reach, that exceeds our competitors in all parts of the global market."
For Sollak, who's been in the business for 21 years, it's this international presence that has most benefited her business. "I've been at the top of the market ever since I got my license, and I ultimately decided to leave Illustrated Properties and become an Engel & Völkers license partner because I was so intrigued with the international aspect. In addition, everything about Engel & Völkers was far and above any other company out there."
The benefits associated with cross-border relationships haven't been lost on Siegel, either. "Having originated in Europe, Engel & Völkers is incredibly skilled at facilitating cross-border transactions and relationships," says Siegel, head of Engel & Völkers New York City. "They have built a global platform that handles different business cultures, languages and currencies seamlessly."
A Leadership Team Like No Other
Taking a real estate brand from inception and successfully traversing global boundaries is no easy feat, but with Völkers at the helm, the process has been seamless for everyone involved.
"One thing that impressed us right off the bat was the fact that the leadership team at Engel & Völkers has experienced what agents do on a daily basis, which is extremely helpful when it comes to determining what to introduce to their franchisees," says Dorsey.
"In addition, Engel & Völkers is a privately held company, so they aren't answering to any Wall Street figures, allowing them to truly listen to what we need."
"There's a difference between working for a publicly traded company and one that's owned and managed by the individual who created it," says Paul Benson, private office advisor and license partner for Engel & Völkers Park City. "And the two individuals most in charge of the brand—Christian Völkers and Anthony Hitt—have been in the trenches with us, so their leadership is very hands-on.
"I believe Engel & Völkers understands how not to dilute the brand," adds Benson. "They understand how important the people, image and exclusivity are and because I have a passion for that myself, I can see that passion in others."
For Siegel, joining Engel & Völkers was an easy decision after years of living and working overseas and regularly encountering Engel & Völkers shops in his travels.
"I've known Christian Völkers since 1987 and have followed the dramatic growth of Engel & Völkers around the world," says Siegel. "I couldn't resist the opportunity to launch such a strong global brand in New York City. With Christian at the helm from day one, the values and objectives that we're managing to are consistent and clear."
Future-Focused Growth
What's in store for Engel & Völkers now? According to Völkers, expanding the network.
"We are building our network with each new shop we open and at the same time, increasing our brand awareness and establishing our reputation as a luxury-level service provider," says Völkers. "Our goal is to firmly establish our brand in North America as the leading international real estate company."
With a bright future ahead, the level of excitement among those who've already joined forces with Engel & Völkers is palpable.
"Christian has been strategic in making sure the first places he opened in the U.S. were choice destinations," says Benson. "The more we grow in those areas, the more we're sending a solid, consistent message about what our mission statement is, who we're going to be and how our growth is going to occur."
For Siegel, networking among offices will continue to be instrumental to his firm's success. "Like most New Yorkers, I believe that all roads lead to NYC, so I see every market that Engel & Völkers enters as another great source of referrals for us. It also means that my agents have more opportunities to refer our clients with second and third homes to Engel & Völkers colleagues."
"The Engel & Völkers name is strong in Europe, and it's a well-known name now in the U.S.," adds Sollak. "If you want to buy real estate today, you go to Engel & Völkers."
Setting the Stage for Continued Success
While Völkers is focused on the strategy and expansion of the Engel & Völkers Group today, the core of the business remains the same. "Our strategy centers around systems and tools based on our successful services to elevate the standard of real estate in such a way that brokers, owners, advisors and brokerage staff can use the system to effectively represent properties wherever they are in the world," says Völkers, who goes on to explain that the foundation for the firm's global expansion rests on the standardized system that's been in place from the get-go.
"We turned our service concept into a standardized system very early on," says Völkers, "which resulted in the introduction of our shop system in the early '90s, as well as a consistent corporate identity, setting the stage for our global expansion."
Beyond real estate, Engel & Völkers has evolved into a lifestyle brand for individuals who aspire to greater heights both professionally and personally. The brokerage publishes a quarterly lifestyle magazine called "GG," which is available in six languages, distributed internationally and focuses on innovators, celebrities and influencers of the most recent cultural trends. Each year, Engel & Völkers holds an annual Polo Cup event at Völkers' private estate in Mallorca. Special guests, VIPs and Engel & Völkers representatives are invited to gather and network at this international White Party event. And to meet the needs of its exclusive clientele, the brand—which has a yachting business segment—announced its newest division, Engel & Völkers Aviation, offering specialized services in the brokerage and use of private jets.
Behind the Scenes with Michele Turnquist
Private Office Advisor and License Partner at Engel & Völkers Austin takes us back to her Texas roots
Paige Tepping: Please describe where you were before joining Engel & Völkers.
Michele Turnquist: Before joining Engel & Völkers, I was a luxury boutique local brand, Turnquist Partners—a company I built with my husband over a 20-year period, beginning in 1995. Our local Austin, Texas, market was becoming increasingly international as the F1 Race Track was completed, which brought people into the area from all over the world. In addition, our Austin Bergstrom International Airport was continuing to expand with the addition of more international flights, both of which facilitated our decision to join Engel & Völkers so that we could truly represent our clients on an international stage.
PT: You have a long history and deep roots in Texas. What was the motivation for choosing to join a brand with European roots?
MT: Engel & Völkers is bringing the world together. We thought it was a great blend of an international brand like Engel & Völkers and a local brand like Turnquist Partners to bring the best of both worlds to Austin.
PT: How does the partnership allow you to continue thriving in today's market while maintaining your core philosophies as a family-run business?
MT: Because both companies have the same core principles, that's what was so beautiful about the union. The core value of Engel & Völkers revolves around integrity and the fact that the client comes first, and that's exactly what we believe. It's about the client and the service, not the money, and that's a powerful combination that we wholeheartedly believe in.
PT: What are some of the biggest benefits of being associated with Engel & Völkers?
MT: The tools and platforms that Engel & Völkers provides for their license partners are unprecedented. Not only is it a very well-funded company, it's highly respected in the European market. In addition, the storefronts are glamorous, beautiful and inviting. With clean lines, the Engel & Völkers shop design resembles the Apple concept in the real estate industry.
PT: What does the brand's continued expansion into North America mean to you as a real estate professional in the Austin area?
MT: It's exciting because with the expansion of more offices across North America, we'll gain more exposure and connectivity for our clients and advisors globally. Competitors in our market do not have the resources that we now have with Engel & Völkers.
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I met artist, curator and writer Max Guy when he included my work in Minku, Are You Here? at Springsteen Gallery in October 2013. The exhibition was dedicated to Minku Kim, an artist whom Max had met but mostly admired from afar (and a pun on the concurrent exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, Mingei are you here?). My initial resistance to Max's proposal—thinking my work would be shoe-horned into someone else's practice—dissipated as I realized the genius in the constraints of the curatorial conceit. In 2013, Max opened Rock512Devil, an anarchic artist-run storefront and bookstore in Baltimore, with two others. These experimental curatorial projects are but one facet of Max's practice; recently he's been creating images by scanning metronomes and clocks, alluding to the slipperiness of virtual time.
Max Guy lives in Baltimore, MD. He graduated with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Max co-runs the gallery and bookstore Rock512Devil. He co-founded the apartment gallery Szechuan Best, and Spiral Cinema, a project that organizes film screenings, lectures and panel discussions. He is a contributing writer to ACRES magazine. Max will be attending the Art Theory and Practice MFA at Northwestern Univeristy in the fall of 2014.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. I'm 25, Jamaican, grew up in New York City. Maybe being a Capricorn means that if you're worried about what you're doing then you're doing okay. I have a pet tarantula named Madonna. I work as collection advisor to Shawn Carter (Jay-Z).
I curate, write and make artwork; indulging indiscriminately and whole-heartedly in the creative, social and critical freedoms afforded to each discipline. I begin with questions like, how do I…curate a sitcom, portrait or omelet? How do I write a piece of criticism that is a fan fiction and also reads as Socratic dialogue? How do I make a free standing, 3-dimensional silhouette? To answer such nonsensical—even stupid—questions, I like to reverse-engineer an image, subject or object with the tools inherent to a specific medium. It's both dumbfounding and empowering to deconstruct and rebuild things that are on my cultural radar.
Recently I have been using an Epson Perfection 1650, scanning objects to see how the machine reads potential and kinetic energy. Stuff like clocks, metronomes, baseballs, fire, but really anything; maybe it's to relate physics and semantics.
How has living in Baltimore affected your art practice? Baltimore is a small, post-industrial city, where many artists and organizations have a real sense of obligation. The creative energy is very wild, tribal in a way. A history of economic depression has afforded artists with thriving live/work spaces. House galleries in two-bedroom apartments or large loft spaces have a very strong presence. When I was a junior in college I interned for Alex Ebstein and Seth Adelsberger at Nudashank, a gallery located in a loft building called the H&H. They were able to gain a wide audience from out of their house. I also learned from them that advancing the work of your peers is equally important to personal development. When I graduated from MICA in 2011, the cultural climate seemed the closest I had ever been to socialism…I was really attentive to the word "community," didn't know what it meant, yet felt an urgency in contributing to it. In the last few years local developers and real estate agencies have worked with and along side of artists to renovate depressed buildings. It creates a really familial, but political dynamic where you are good friends with say, the director of an arts and entertainment district. It's a confusing and beautiful thing for 20-something fresh out of school to come into contact with. You can rent a storefront for under $500 and run whatever type of art-space you want.
I don't have many other experiences to compare Baltimore too, and I don't know how my work would have developed anywhere else. Maybe in spite of the global context that many are often for the advancement of, being in Baltimore has made me interested in the possibility of a provincial aesthetic. If you are interested in a sort of post-capital, highly social art practice, this is a great incubator. There are so many young people working to advance art and culture here, everyone kind of takes care of each other. More local heroes: The Contemporary, a nomadic, non-collecting art museum, and Springsteen, a gallery run by Hunter Bradley and Amelia Szpiech.
What kinds of things are influencing your work right now? I'm influenced by the desire to identify my craft and use it to be more mobile, adaptive and self-sustaining (professionalism?). Friendships, peers, news feeds. I read a lot of Marshall McLuhan and Niccolo Machiavelli. Standing on my fire escape. I want most art-objects I make to be gifts, or to gift-wrap objects as art.
Shoegaze Album art, check this out.
What are some recent, upcoming or current projects you are working on? I co-run a bookstore and project space called Rock512Devil with artists Chloe Maratta and Flannery Silva. Rock is the bookstore, Devil is the gallery, and "512" is the storefront, 512 W. Franklin St. Baltimore MD. I was telling people that the name Devil is inspired by the antagonist in the Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulkagov, who visits Moscow in order to wreak havoc during a critical juncture in Soviet Russia. Really I took the name from the Pokemon card club my friends had in elementary school. I'm not wreaking havoc by any means but enjoy communicating with new artists and using the space as a studio for curating. Through running an experimental space with a very loose program, liberal gallery hours and minimal web presence, I've become pretty comfortable exercising my own creative license with respect to exhibiting artists and work. We've hosted movie screenings, performances, and have treated the space as a clubhouse. The storefront has a lot of character to it, and yet the atmosphere changes drastically for every event, and always brings out a unique crowd.
I had a book club that met every two weeks. Chicago Artist Writers, a project in Chicago run by Sofia Leiby and Jason Lazarus, inspired the book club; we were researching the range and history of critical and theoretical texts written by artists. We read A Brief History of Cahiers du Cinema by Emilie Bickerton, with supplemental readings from Cahiers du Cinema. Cahiers is an influential French film journal started by some of the heavy hitting directors of the New Wave and earlier. My friend Kate Ewald who co-founded an experimental film series called Sight Unseen lead this first reading group, and I'm looking for suggestions on any other texts.
Currently on view is a two-person show called Impossible Eye, with work by Miranda Pfeiffer and Ginevra Shay. Next, I am curating a two-part show with my friend John-Elio Reitman. This will be the final "Devil" show in the space.
How did your interest in art begin? I grew up in a neighborhood that was home to many artists and creative people throughout the 1960s and on. I spent a lot of time in artist's studios because they were the parents of my best friends. When I was little, my mom and I lived next door to the artist Rammellzee, and I spent a lot of time in his studio, The Battle Station. He is my hero and probably the best rapper I know. Also, when my mom and I moved in with my dad there was a monumental sculpture of an iguana installed on a pier across the street from our house. My mom works for a media research company and used to bring me home a lot of television show pilots episodes.
What artists are you interested in right now? Miranda Pfeiffer, Peggy Chiang, Ginevra Shay, Marisa Takal, Erin Nelson, John Elio Reitman, Devin Kenny, Martine Syms, June Culp, Harrison Tyler, AndrewMehall, Takahiko Iimura, Lucie Stahl, Nina Perlman, Minku Kim, Amber Moyles, Jana Euler.
What past trends in art do you think should never come back? Everyone has a right to make what he or she does. But I'm curious about some of Kelley Walker's pieces that approach the black-American "diaspora" somewhat playfully. I'm talking about his prints where he has appropriated images from King Magazine, scrawled toothpaste on them and scanned them, or pieces like the Whitney Houston work. In spite of innovations in the treatment of images, I think he trivializes the people behind the image and treats them as instrumental.
Who would you ideally like to collaborate with? Mike Ladd, Sydney Shen or Epson.
What's your absolute favorite place in the city/the world to be? Maybe two places…the Meoto Iwa off the coast of Mie Japan and Crawle River in Jamaica, both places hold a lot of personal-meaning to me without having ever been. The Meoto Iwa are two stones, which have been tied together in matrimony by the Japanese; tied together with a gigantic shimenawa (ceremonial straw rope) and the larger stone is crowned with a torii (a wooden gate). The two stones are identified as the primordial Shinto gods, Izanagi and Izanami. Supposedly at the coast of Mie you can see the sun rise between them.
Crawle River is a small creek in Jamaica where my mother's family was raised, which is now remote, uninhabited, and difficult to find. Apparently my great-aunt went looking for it with family one day to no avail. I was really lucky to visit Jamaica this winter with almost my entire family, being there with multiple generations, we all seemed very free and comfortable. That really meant a lot to me.


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Woman Minister of Sport and Youth Alisa Marić visited Zrenjanin
Today the Woman Minister of Youth and Sport in the Government of the Republic...
Mayor's reception for the winner of ''Spartak'' award Milan Kovačević
Karate referee Milan Kovačević from Zrenjanin is the winner of this year's...
Zrenjanin at 4th Fair of local governments
Today the Woman Minister of Regional Development and Local Government...
Solving of problems in village administrative offices
City Administration decided to visit village and city local administrative offices to get...
Regional Conference on traffic safety in Zrenjanin
The City of Zrenjanin hosted the regional conference named "Traffic safety on roads...
Works on Tisa mound reconstruction
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Goran Knežević visited the building site of Tisa mound reconstruction...
Prime Minister Dačić in Zrenjanin
Day of Fireman Rescue Units was marked in the City Hall with the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Affair, Ivica Dačić...
City Day
Laying of a wreath at the memorial dedicated to the participants of the First World War in u Zrenjanin today marked the 94th...
In ''Draexlmaier'' 800 new jobs
Today the German Company "Draexlmaier" (Draexlmaier Automotive) opened a new plant in Zrenjanin for the...
Karan: By-pass Protocol Signed
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Mayor at Kosovo
During the weekend on the North of Kosovo the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija started the action of twinning of...
Melenci Daily Clinic reconstructed
Today the Mayor of Zrenjanin, Ivan Bošnjak, M.Sc. together with the Director of Health Center "Dr Boško Vrebalov", dr Biljana...
International conference on Internet and Internet technologies
The Mayor of Zrenjanin, Ivan Bošnjak, M.Sci. opened a conference named "International...
Nikola Tesla's monument in Klek
The monument of Nikola Tesla in the Park of important people near the Primary School "Jovan Dučić" was the main event of Klek...
Solving citizens' problems is a common interest of business and leading people of Zrenjanin
Today in the City Council Hall city heads had...
Logistic Center for Fruit and Vegetable in Mužlja
Today the Chairman of Vojvodina Parliament, Ištvan Pastor, opened the Logistic Center...
Reconstructed building of Magistrates Court in Zrenjanin
Today the Minister of Justice and State Administration, Nikola Selaković, together...
Reception for Minister of Culture
Minister of culture and information in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Bratislav Petković, was an honoured...
City of Zrenjanin presentation at the biggest European Investment Fair
This year, for the sixth time, the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion...
Mayor Bošnjak in Brussels
As a part of the the programe "Support to local self-governments in the EU integrations process" the delegation of the Standing...
Cooperation of School ''9 maj'' and ''Maštalište''
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Small LED Offices heading to big success
Department of LED and rural development and investments of Zrenjanin City hosted for...
Visit of delegation of Czech Office for Youth
The Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and National Agency for Youth...
''Back to the Future'' one of the most successful projects of cross border cooperation
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Vanja Grbić received by the City's head officials
Today Vanja Grbić was received at the City Hall and talked to the City's head officials...


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Four in Five Regard Internet Access as a Fundamental Right: Global Poll
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Crimes by Code Section
California Health and Safety Code Section 11370.9 HSC: Money Laundering In Connection With Drug Sales
1. Definition and Elements of the Crime
When dealing with the proceeds of criminal activity, one often tries to conceal the illegal source or origin of these funds. This action, also known as money laundering, is a serious criminal offense under California Penal Code Section 186.10 PC. However, when the underlying illegal activity is the sale of a controlled substance, the defendant can prosecuted for money laundering pursuant to California Health & Safety Code Section 11370.9 HSC.
Laundering the proceeds of drug sales under California Health & Safety Code Section 11370.9 HSC is similar to money laundering under California Penal Code Section 186.10 PC with the following key differences:
The money has to be related to a drug crime
Unlike money laundering under California Penal Code Section 186.10 PC, the money in question does not need to pass through a bank or other financial institution. One can be charged with money laundering of drug proceeds even where the money was never converted from cash.
The money laundering transaction must have been committed with the intention to conceal the illegal source of the money. Thus, unlike California Penal Code Section 186.10 PC, buying high ticket items would not, by itself, be enough to prove money laundering.
The total amount of money laundered must be over $25,000 within a 30 day period.
2. Related Offenses
Other similar or related offenses include:
Money Laundering – California Penal Code Section 186.10 PC
Possession for Sale of a Controlled Substance - California Health & Safety Code Section 11351 HSC
Sale or Transportation of a Controlled Substance - California Health & Safety Code Section 11352 HSC
A drug dealer is bringing in large amounts of cash selling drugs but wants to conceal the illegal origins of these funds. The man opens up a convenience store and uses this store's books to disguise the illegal origins of his drug proceeds. The man could be charged with money laundering in violation of California Health & Safety Code Section 11370.9 HSC. In another example, a drug dealer brings in large sums of cash as part of his operation. He uses the cash to buy high ticket items such as boats and cars. He is doing this because he wants these items, and not to conceal the illegal origins of his money. The man would not be criminally liable under California Health & Safety Code Section 11370.9 HSC because unlike money laundering under California Penal Code Section 186.10 PC, a defendant could use the proceeds to buy certain items without violating the statute.
4. Defenses to Money Laundering in Connection with Drug Sales
If the defendant did not have knowledge of the illicit source of the money in question, he or she would not be criminally liable for money laundering. In addition, if the amount laundered was less than $25,000 the defendant would not be guilty under the statute.
5. Penalties
Money laundering in connection with drug sales is considered a "wobbler" offense that can be filed as either a felony or a misdemeanor. If filed as a felony and ultimately convicted, the maximum penalty one could receive is three years in prison. If charged and convicted of the misdemeanor offense, the maximum penalty is a year in jail.
6. Criminal Defense for Money Laundering in Connection with Drug Sales Cases
Money laundering in violation of California Health & Safety Code Section 11370.9 HSC is a serious criminal offense that could result in a felony conviction on a person's record and a lengthy jail or prison sentence. If you or a loved one are facing charges for this offense, it is absolutely critical that you consult with a Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer to discuss your case as soon as possible. Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Michael Kraut is a former Deputy District Attorney with over 14 years of prosecutorial experience who was formerly assigned to prosecute white collar crimes as part of the elite Major Fraud Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Mr. Kraut knows how best to defend these types of charges and works tirelessly to ensure the best results possible for his clients.
For more information about money laundering in connection with drug sales, and to schedule your free consultation, contact Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Michael Kraut at the Kraut Law Group located at 6255 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1480, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Mr. Kraut can be reached 24/7 at 888-334-6344 or 323-464-6453.


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Q: How to query the vertices connected to a vertex in igraph? With the python-igraph package I am creating e.g. a simple graph with 4 vertices:
g = igraph.Graph()
g.add_vertices(4)
g.add_edges([(0,1),(0,2),(0,3),(1,2),(1,3)])

How can I figure out, to which vertices a vertex i is connected directly? Vertex 0 is, for example, connected to all other 3 vertices, while vertex 2 is not connected to vertex 3?
I read the tutorial and took a look at the manual, but I cannot find an appropriate function to do that. So, how to find out which verices are connected directly to a vertex?

A: I think you can use neighbors which returns the adjacent vertices of a given vertex.
>>> print(g.neighbors(0))
[1, 2, 3]

I hope this will help you.

A: If you just need the vertex ids connected to a specific vertex neighbors is the function you need. There is a more general function called neighborhood. It returns a list or list of lists of vertices at a distance from the specific vertex. Order parameter in this function is used as a distance from the specific vertex. Note that the returned list contains the specific vertex.
>>> print g.neighborhood(0, order=1)
[0, 1, 2, 3]


This is all very nice, but why haven't they used this club ranking to seed the teams from the group stage draw?
I've placed Western Sydney Wanderes in pot 1 as holders.
Unless AFC use this ranking for the 2016 AFC Champions League draw, it's pretty much useless.


What majestic nonsense will come up next? Nobody knows!
Q: What is the best conditions for rabbit hunting?
A: The best time to hunt is very early in the morning or just before dark & having a trained K9 is even better.
Q: I am gay and going out with my best friend. Any tips?
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: Try this one: Why do gorillas have big nostrils? Because they have big fingers. Want more? Text us again. thx.
How old is the youngest recorded mum?
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Q: How does a head injury cause epilepsy?
A: Post-traumatic epilepsy is most likely to occur after an open or penetrating wound due to a head injury. thx!
"Q: Necastle genral hospitak number"
LETS ASK THEM SOME STUPID QUESTIONS!
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Q: phone number for the jag phone shop in totnes devon please?
A: JAG Communications (Plymouth) Ltd is on 01803840804. Text us again. thx.
Q if i have 43 grapes in my left hand, and an alarm clock set to 2:43pm in the right. what time should i put the rice on?
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Titanic's chain of errors
A TV programme this week unravelled the amazing chain of errors that led to the supposedly unsinkable Titanic sinking.
It's still often assumed that the collision with the iceberg was just an unlucky accident that nobody could have prevented.
Far from it. A long string of entirely human cock-ups made the loss of the ship and 1517 lives on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912 inevitable. It was a typical tale of carelessness, incompetence, obstinacy and misunderstandings.
The list of failings is mind-boggling:
* Low-grade iron rivets were used instead of tougher ones.
* Iceberg warnings from other ships were either ignored or not seen by senior crew.
* Despite the iceberg warnings, on a poor-visibility, moonless night, the ship didn't stop but continued at its top speed of 21½ knots.
* This was because the captain was determined to reach New York in 6 days.
* The lookouts in the crow's nest had no binoculars.
* The radio operator told the nearest ship, the Californian, not to send any more messages as he was too busy sending messages for passengers.
* When the iceberg was spotted, the ship steered away from it and hit it side-on. If the collision had been head-on, the reinforced bow would have kept it afloat.
* The bulkhead (the height of the watertight lower compartments above the water line) was reduced by four feet to allow for a grander central staircase.
Further human failings led to the huge number of deaths:
* There were only 16 lifeboats because more than that were seen as "too much clutter".
* The lifeboat drill was cancelled so the captain could attend a religious service.
* The order "Women and children first" was misunderstood as "Women and children only".
* Lifeboats were launched although they weren't full.
* There were enough life jackets but they weren't all given out.
* Because of the loss of radio contact with the Californian, the closest ship, many more people died.
How vital it is, when so many human lives are at stake, to make sure everyone does their job properly and conscientiously. It only takes a few foolish mistakes to cause utter carnage.
PS: Sooner or later the Titanic would probably have sunk anyway.
The programme was "The Unsinkable Titanic", Channel 4, November 3 2008. It was repeated on Channel 4 on April 18 2009.
Labels: avoidable disasters, human error, icebergs, Titanic
The Titanic has always fascinated me, Nick and it was a serious of catastrophic errors and oversights that caused such an incredible loss of life.
My ex-husband's great aunt was a passenger who lost her life, heading to New York in steerage with a dream of bettering her life.
I think the best movie on it is the Kenneth More "A Night to Remember" far superior in my mind to Cameron's blowout effort.
I also saw the Imax on the wreck itself.
It is a haunting episode of history, like the Lusitania.
Here in NL we have two museums dedicated to artifacts and the last radio call which was received here.
Quickroute said...
I still suspect Celion Dion had a part in it. She bored everyone to death with that god awful rendering "My Heart Will Go On" - I'm not surprised they were jumping overboard.
On a serious note - horrible avoidable accident and shame about the number of people that died a horrible death
www - The more I read about all the human errors and how avoidable the tragedy was, the more fascinated I become too. It's a very long time since I saw "A Night To Remember"! And though "Titanic" was fun to watch it bore little relation to what actually happened.
Quicky - Completely preventable, like a lot of other disasters we hear about. We all put a lot of trust in behind-the-scenes competence.
Baino said...
I think I've seen the same progam or similar. The defining factor was the gap above the bulkheads, they just filled with water . .fete accompli. The saddest thing was allowing the wealthy passengers off before steerage immigrants. That bit was true! Of course, most were Irish. It's nice that they've left it where it fell as a memorial. They can only salvage what was scattered beyond the hull. Take a look at James Cameron's doco if you can get it. He took mini subs down there. And actually, I hate Celine Dion's music but I thought THAT song worked really well . .I know, I'm a romantic fool . .'wake up ...wake up . ." *sob*
Baino - I didn't know about the wealthy passengers being taken off first, but I'm hardly surprised. A lot of passengers didn't even realise the ship had struck an iceberg as the collision was so gentle. Quite a few were still asleep.
A romantic fool? Nothing wrong with that. Jenny says I'm a bit of a slopbag too.
Too bad that the book "Deadly Decisions," by Chris Burns wasn't available for the engineers of the ship to read before building the ship, and setting it loose to set sail. I am confident that if this book had been around, and it had been read, the Titanic never would have sunk :).
Thanks for that, Becky, that not only sheds more light on the Titanic's sinking but includes a brilliant analysis of "false knowledge" and how in today's complex society it's easy to misunderstand so many things.
I recommend the first chapter (readable online) to anyone interested in how so-called experts make so many fatal decisions and cause so many unncecessary tragedies.
Lou said...
The titanic was designed, built, passengered and operated to be sunk. She was sunk while she carried many of the opponents of the US Federal Reserve Bank which was aborning with much controversy and opposition; opposition by rich powerful people; many of those opponents died on the Titanic.
Please get a detailed description of the design. Look at all the "mistakes" that were made. These were no mistakes but the cold calculated execution of a plan to eliminate most opposition to the Rothschild et al FED.
9/11 was the same type of political mass murder by the richest most powerful people running this sorry world.
Many more "Titanics" and 9/11s are in store for us if we do not wake up; evil is running this poor world and there is NOTHING, think WWIII, that is politically off limits to these evil people.
Innocent victims
Wandering minds
Girls at risk
Misery memoirs
Pees and queues
Cut and run
In the closet
The child within
Veronica lets rip


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New -80C High Efficiency Ultr...
New -80C High Efficiency Ultra-Low Freezer Uses 100% Natural Refrigerants
Tue Jun 03 2014
By Stirling Ultracold
Global Cooling, Inc., has introduced a Stirling Ultracold -80°C ultra-low temperature freezer using 100% natural refrigerant cooling system. No other freezer for sale in the United States offers 100% natural refrigerants in its cooling system
Global Cooling, Inc., has introduced a Stirling Ultracold -80°C ultra-low temperature freezer using 100% natural refrigerant cooling system. No other freezer for sale in the United States offers 100% natural refrigerants in its cooling system.
According to Stirling Ultracold President Neill Lane, use of the Model SU780UE upright freezer will increase money available for basic medical research by reducing ultra-low storage operating costs by more than half.
"This milestone dramatically enhances Stirling Ultracold's commitment to offer users the best freezer performance on the market, with the lowest total cost of ownership and a dramatically better environmental sustainability profile than possible from the competition," said Lane.
"The financial implications on medical research are enormous. For example, the average ultra-low freezer uses as much energy in a year as an average American household. Facilities often have hundreds and even thousands of freezers in operation to protect critical research specimens. Because our freezer cuts energy consumption more than in half, scarce financial resources can instead be allocated to basic research instead of to operate energy-inefficient freezers," Lane emphasized.
Shipments of the Model SU780UE began in March 2014. The company is now scaling up production to meet a growing demand from pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical research institutions worldwide.
The 27.5 cubic feet SU780UE uses about 10 grams of helium in its Stirling engine and about 90 grams of ethane in the thermosiphon. The freezer is UL listed. The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program has found the company's submission to use ethane in this application complete; therefore Global Cooling is able to sell freezers containing ethane.
Helium has no global warming potential (GWP). Ethane has a GWP of 5.5. In contrast, a typical ultra-low freezer sold in the United States uses HFC refrigerants in its cooling system – around 300 to 400 grams of R407D (GWP 1,627) and 600 to 700 grams of R508B (GWP 13,396). The net effect is that these refrigerants are up to 17,000 times more damaging to the environment than those in the Model SU780UE cooling system.
Compared to any competing freezer, the Model SU780UE delivers the best pull-down from ambient, the best recovery following door opening and best temperature stability, all while using less than half the energy and rejecting less than half the heat into the room.
A 7-year engine warranty based on fewer moving parts and lower maintenance potential is included with each freezer at no additional cost.
The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) awarded the original Stirling Ultracold -80°C SU780U freezer the 2013 Outstanding New Product Award at their annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.
The SU780UE is now the standard 27.5 cubic feet freezer from Stirling Ultracold. The R508B version is available by special order, and performance in the ethane version is unchanged. Both the cabinet and Stirling cooling engine are manufactured in the United States at Global Cooling's Athens, Ohio, facility.


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Byron E Hukee is a retired USAF fighter pilot who flew not only the A-1 Skyraider but also the F-100, A-7D, F-5, and F-16. His 'virtual' book, the A-1 Combat Journal, on that website chronicles his one year tour flying the Skyraider in combat with the 1st Special Operations Squadron (SOS) 'Hobos'. This work contains details and introspective insights of each of his 138 combat sorties flown during that year. He has also written an article about a particularly interesting double search and rescue mission entitled Down There Amongst Them that first appeared in the October 2010 issue of Flight Journal Magazine.Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000 and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes.


I fell in love with the new Starbucks Kentucky mug in their series, "Been There Series"... & my Starbucks buddy at work went on vacation & when she came back, she had picked me up two from where she went. This made me so excited. & has since made me want to get all the mugs. I'm obviously getting the one in Indiana & still need to get the one in Tennessee too - but I have a cousin that is sending me one up from Texas & an old high school friend sending me one from Seattle!!! - this is just fun now. I cant wait to see how the collection grows. & when I use the cup from people that have sent them to me from afar, it'll be like I'm having a drink of coffee with my far off friends.
Dad's birthday was last week & on the morning of day, I woke up with that heavy reminder he's not with us. & then driving into work, I saw a semi next to me. The name drew my attention because there's a lot of things named "Winkler" in the town my dad grew up in - the town that we would always travel to to visit his aunt & go on walks down memory lane with dad. Then I took a double take at the semi & lo & behold, it was from Dale, Indiana. The town I'm talking about. This town is so small, you literally cant get it from the expressway. It's like a little forgotten town. Blink & you're through it. I'm shocked they even have something with a semi.... but I just had to laugh because I knew how much dad would have loved seeing this semi with Dale, Indiana on it... & I just knew my daddy was close to me on his birthday at that moment. Brought a smile to my face.
If you saw my IG Story last week, you saw me post videos of me sitting at work, watching Ernie with ANOTHER mole - it was his 3rd of the week. He was tossing that thing, playing with it - batting it around like a cat - right there in my kitchen floor. I was a nervous wreck he was going to try & eat it, or tear it in shreds - RIGHT THERE ON MY KITCHEN FLOOR. Whew... it was all in one piece - yes, one STIFF piece when I got home, but Ernie brought it to me & dropped it at my feet as my welcome home present. That's a welcome home.
I went to drop off all my stash from the Readathon & had no intentions to pick up another book. Except they had a WHOLE DISPLAY of knitting books. WHAT? You know I had to stop there. & then I turn around & find the area with the New Releases & right there is one of the books I keep seeing everyone talk about. So yeah, they sucked me back in & I had to check these books out. The never ending cycle of the library. I love it.
Coming home from work on Friday, I just had this massive craving for the little cookies that the grocery makes up with the icing in between. Like MAJOR CRAVING. & I go in & they didnt have a single one. I was so bummed. & then my friend that works there saw me & we got to talking & I told her how badly I was craving that cookie. Do you know she had them make me some up? Now that's a friend!!!! Craving fulfilled!
Like I mentioned the other day, it was just a tough week for me on missing my dad & it was so nice to meet up with some people I just love so much & got to chat & talk & just enjoy the beautiful summer night.
Some days, the iced coffee is just made perfectly... & the cake pops are fresh & the best tasting things ever. This past Sunday was that day it struck gold again. Delicious!


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Q: Get the caret position for Blazor text input I am working on a Blazor textarea input. What I want to achieve is whenever user types "@" character, I am going to popup a small window and they can select something from it. Whatever they select, I will insert that text into the textarea, right after where they typed the "@".
I got this HTML:
<textarea rows="10" class="form-control" id="CSTemplate" @bind="original" @oninput="(e => InputHandler(e.Value))" @onkeypress="@(e => KeyWasPressed(e))"></textarea>

And the codes are:
protected void InputHandler(object value)
{
    original = value.ToString();
}

private void KeyWasPressed(KeyboardEventArgs args)
{
    if (args.Key == "@")
    {
        showVariables = true;
    }
}

protected void AddVariable(string v)
{
    original += v + " ";
    showVariables = false;
}

This worked very well. The showVariables boolean is how I control the pop-up window and AddVariable function is how I add the selected text back to the textarea.
However, there is one small problem. If I've already typed certain text and then I go back to any previous position and typed "@", menu will still pop-up no problem, but when user selects the text and the insert is of course only appended to the end of the text. I am having trouble trying to get the exact caret position of when the "@" was so I only append the text right after the "@", not to the end of the input.
Thanks a lot!

A: I got it - I was able to use JSInterop to obtain the cursor position $('#CSTemplate').prop("selectionStart") and save the value in a variable. Then use this value later in the AddVariable function.

A: I did fast demo app, check it https://github.com/Lupusa87/BlazorDisplayMenuAtCaret

A: you can set your condition in InputHandler and when you are checking for the @   to see if it's inputed you can also get the length to see that if it's just an @ or it has some characters before or after it obviously when the length is 1 and value is @ it means there is just an @ and if length is more than one then ...


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The Electric Vehicle Revolution Is About To Get Messy
|In General Interest
|By AEadmin
August 21st, 2019 by Zachary Shahan at CleanTecnica
Those of us who have followed the electric vehicle market for several years (or, for some of you, decades) can easily get complacent about where the EV revolution is and where it's headed. We can be lulled into a semi-sleeping state by monthly sales reports, by routinely seeing EV market share of 1–2% in some markets, 5–10% in others, and 50% in Norway. We can be blown away by the Tesla Model 3's success, while at the same time underestimating what it means.
As Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently mused, it's super hard for humans to comprehend exponential growth. Indeed, we are not good at thinking in exponential rather than linear ways. It's one reason why there are popular riddles or tricks related to exponential growth. I'd argue that, in general, we are not good at forecasting, at processing changes that take more than a day to occur. Just think about some major changes in your life that you knew were coming — your brain probably couldn't digest them, could absorb them until the changes occurred, and even then you might have needed a while to mentally adjust.
Getting practical for a minute, much has changed in the electric vehicle industry — beyond Tesla — that has gone under-noticed for various reasons. A new Nissan LEAF today is not much different in price from a new Nissan LEAF 7 years ago, in 2012. The big difference, the big evidence of change, is that the car now has much more range, more than double the range of a 2012 LEAF. The battery inside the Nissan LEAF is much better and holds considerably more energy despite coming at essentially the same price. The same thing has happened for other models or types of vehicles.
The thing that I think we get complacent about is that we inherently assume the battery technology is now settled and static. Of course, if we think about it, we know that's not true, but we don't think about it much. Our brains just accept today as reality. Just as the 73 mile LEAF of 2011 wouldn't last long and range would more than double in 7 years, EV technology of today won't last long. In 7 years, a LEAF could have much more range or be much cheaper.
While the LEAF has gotten much better in the past 7 years, Tesla has developed and rolled out the Model 3, a car that is much better than a 2012 Model S in many regards while also being significantly cheaper. In another 7 years, imagine what continued battery improvement will do for Tesla.
In 3–7 years, the Model 3 won't be the only EV in its class that crushes any gasoline competitor. Nissan should have a model that does so, Volkswagen certainly will, Ford should, GM should, everyone should. If the don't, they will struggle to stay in business.
Tesla's vehicles will keep improving and Tesla will make more money on them as underlying prices come down. Elon has said they don't plan to bring the Model 3 any lower than $35,000. That means reduced costs will put more money into Tesla's piggy bank for additional investments/projects. Additionally, Tesla could end up rolling out a "Model 2" for $25,000–30,000. If the Model 3 looks like a disruptive top seller, imagine the Model 2! Who could sell a gasoline car at that point?
In general, much more of the public will soon find out that you can't buy a gas car in most classes that can hold a candle to its electric competitors, and automakers still trying to push gasmobiles onto consumers will get burnt. Tesla will still be setting the pace for the industry, but that won't be nearly as necessary. Other automakers will have mass-market electric vehicles that regularly rank at or near the top of sales charts (like they do in Norway today), because automakers know the technology is ready and they know that if they don't sell the cars, a competitor will, and they will die.
Of course, we can assume some automakers are still not prepared, some continue to stick their heads in the sand, and they will be punished for it. Perhaps some of them will get bailed out by their respective governments. Others won't.
Gasoline/diesel cars that come off lease or hit the used car market will struggle, since consumers won't want to adopt cars that are costly to fuel, polluting, and expensive to maintain. Automakers that try to hold onto the gas/diesel era will file for bankruptcy or beg for government support. Tesla will continue seeing word-of-mouth sales light its future, while other electric vehicles will offer traditional options to go electric without compromise or worry.
And then there's autonomy.
We see growing EV sales right now, and dropping gasmobile sales in some countries and globally, but what we don't appreciate is that multipliers come into effect as the market changes. All of a sudden, an engine factory closes, an EV factory opens, a company folds, EV leaders gobble much more of the pie. As these things occur, more people find out about the revolution, and the revolution grows. As people's preferred brands enter crisis mode, they look for new brands, and many find Tesla. Others catchword of VW's hot new ID lineup, or Nissan's electric crossover and sedan, or the new & improved Jaguar I-PACE. Of course, the automakers that evolve fast and intelligently will have a lot of opportunities to grow their market share.
The change is not just coming — it's underway. The battery evolution that brought us the Model 3, a Nissan LEAF with 2–3 times more range than a 2011 LEAF, the Hyundai Kona EV, and the coming VW ID.3 will not stop. Batteries will keep evolving. We've already entered the crossover point where an EV beats its competitors in about 10 ways and doesn't lose in any significant ways. We've already entered the vortex. As word of mouth blows around and awareness rises, the forces pushing us from 1% to 2% EV market share will become much more powerful and demand will start to skyrocket. At that point, things get messy.
A CleanTechnica Tesla Model 3 at Volkswagen HQ in California.
I wrote last night about Volkswagen's opportunity to actually gain market share from the EV revolution. I knew it would be a controversial, divisive article, and it was. But there's an underlying point, which is indeed still a question. Well, let me present it as a series of questions and answers:
Is it clear electric vehicles are the future? Yes. Does Volkswagen Group agree with that? Yes, I think it does.
Is it clear that it's a big financial challenge for traditional automakers to switch to EVs? Yes.
Is it clear that battery supplies are critical to competing in the electric revolution, if that is indeed what it is? Yes. Is Volkswagen Group working to address that problem? It seems like it, but that's not entirely clear.
Does Volkswagen Group realize that being able to thread these needles carefully and ramp up EV production quicker than the competition (other traditional automakers) gives it the best chance of survival and financial success? I think so, and I think that's exactly what it's aiming to do.
What do other automakers think that they need to try to aggressively thread this needle? Which automakers think there's a bigger threat to slow-walking the EV transition than there is to accelerating into it? That's the big fundamental question. Some are convinced Renault is intent on being a leader (or remaining a leader). I hope so, but I'd like to see a bit more evidence of that. Some are convinced Hyundai–Kia is intent on being a leader. I know they have done a great job building competitive EVs, but I haven't seen strong evidence they are working hard to secure the battery supplies needed (in fact, they have been really bad at this so far) or that they have a solid EV platform for quickly rolling out EVs of various classes in a financially efficient manner. PSA Group, GM, and Ford all have their supporters, but solid evidence that they are focused more on ramping up than PR is limited and scattered. There was some hope Nissan would be intent on retaining its hold on the "top-selling EV in history" title, and adding some other titles to that one, but then it apparently committed corporate self-sabotage and seems to have abetted the illogical jailing of its #1 spokesperson and one-time corporate savior. It's hard to have much hope for Nissan these days.
Looking at that long paragraph in total, who's likely to jump into the messy transition most enthusiastically and come out on top? Who is looking at the pace of technological change and calculating that EVs will soon be so much more competitive than gasmobiles that the early majority will be driving millions of them home from European and US dealers year after year? Feel free to place your bets, and be sure to watch closely. I've got my own hunch, but I'm not yet placing any bets (beyond my bet on Tesla/TSLA).
John Bullough
22nd August 2019, 8:08 am
The greatest mess will not necessarily be around corporate positioning and battery supply. We see the largest disruption within grid infrastructure. Case in point being Dundee's aspiration to have EV charging points available for every home in its city region. The existing infrastructure has neither the capacity or the quality of power for optimal fast charging. Almost every street, in every city is going to have to be dug up for new power infrastructure. This is comes at a significant cost, but gives them the opportunity to install (at low additional cost) district heating infrastructure that will be necessary if we are to achieve our Governments decarbonisation targets (Net Zero 2050).
AEadmin
Good comments John – What if we imagine a grid system that is fully decentralised and where every home has an electric battery, a heat battery, solar panels and a couple of EV's parked outside. Then the grid infrastructure will not be stressed in the way that we imagine it right now with our centralised power generation and national-level grid infrastructure perspective. We will see the problems emerge at first hand when we look at how to deliver our DH system infrastructure. On-street parking is not conducive to EV charging infrastructure anyway, so even if Dundee wants it they will have to think hard about how they think they can have it.
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Brands Keep Pace by Eliminating Racist Packaging Imagery
Many brands are retiring controversial brand mascots in order to better reflect the consumers they serve. Here's a glimpse into their calculus.
Sterling Anthony
The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd is powering a tsunami movement against racism, along with its symbols, including those on packaging. According to press releases, the brands, Mrs. Butterworth's, Cream of Wheat, Uncle Ben's, Aunt Jemima, and Eskimo Pie, will undergo packaging changes.
Matt Reynolds' 6/23/2020 article "Packaging No Spectator in the Social Movement" (pwgo.to/5680) provides an industry insider's perspective. He reminds that packaging, through its imagery, communicates societal/cultural norms and that, therefore, packaging imagery should keep pace with changes in those norms.
There's another perspective: that of what kinds of changes are feasible. Beset brands variously have described forthcoming efforts as review, retire, and evolve. Even without additional details, it's safe to say that the brands face different options, in reflection of the nature and extent of their racial insensitivity. What the brands face in common, however, is a new type of package research and design, wherein names and mascots are liabilities and expendable.
Months prior, Land O'Lakes' packaging was revised with the removal of the Native American woman. Yet to be seen is whether other brands, such as Red Man tobacco and sports teams from the professional ranks on down ,will abandon the mascoting of tribes who collectively were driven to the brink of genocide. The Land O'Lakes approach, nonetheless, doesn't lend itself to all brands faced with removing racist imaging from their packaging.
Cream of Wheat (founded in 1893) has as its mascot a toothsomely smiling black man in servant-white attire, holding a steaming bowl of cereal. The mascot should be removed because there is no revamping that can rewrite its racist origins. The decision of whether to retain the brand name rests on whether the mascot is regarded as the lone offender. Uncle Ben's (dating back to the 1940s) also has as its mascot a black man. Different here is that the mascot doubles as the brand name. Over the decades, the mascot has received makeovers meant to be less antebellum. Those efforts are unacceptable in this era that clamors for the mascot's removal. Question: are brand and mascot inextricably linked, such that the former can't survive separation from the latter?
Mrs. Butterworth's (introduced in 1961) gained prominence due to being marketed in an amber bottle shaped as a matronly, full-figured, apron-wearing woman. Of late, critics claim that the bottle is remindful of "mammy" imagery. I was not aware of that association at the time of my 12/9/13 article, "Lifetime achievement awards for packages," in which, I made Mrs. Butterworth's an awardee. My unchanged opinion notwithstanding, all packages are subject to the manta, "Perception is reality."
Aunt Jemima (introduced in 1889) likely is the most cited example of racist imaging. The mascot's original depictions inarguably were of a mammy slave, and none of the subsequent "airbrushing" has divorced her from her roots. Unlike other mascots, Aunt Jemima is an adjective; for example, a black female would bristle if called an "Aunt Jemima;" its servile connotations evident. Even if the mascot were retired, the brand name would remain a thorny issue.
Eskimo Pie (introduced in 1921) has a name and mascot that, in combination, cast the brand's future in doubt. "Eskimo" is a term disowned by the indigenous peoples of the Artic; furthermore, the mascot is a cartoonish stereotype of those peoples. If the brand proves unsalvageable, the owner might find solace in the fact that the concept of a frozen delight lends itself to other expressions. Polar Pie, maybe?
And of certain brands that have not issued press releases, a reckoning might nevertheless await. Chiquita brand individually stickered bananas are an example. The name is Spanish, having among its definitions petite, cutie, and little girl—not inherently racist. Some argue that those definitions demean the mascot, a shapely, overtly-Latina adult wearing a fruit-loaded headdress. A companion argument is that the mascot stereotypes Latinas in addition to stoking unflattering thoughts of a "banana republic."
A takeaway for corporations going forward: avoid brand names and mascots that are based on minorities when allegations of racism are reasonably foreseeable. While such advice these days qualifies as common sense, it is vulnerable to the blind spots of otherwise well-intentioned non-minority decision makers.
Lastly, corporations should not take a piecemeal approach; corrections must be adequate at launch. And corrections must come relatively soon, otherwise corporations could be accused of procrastinating. The movement sweeping the globe can't be thwarted. Brands have a choice: be part of the solution or be swept aside.
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