Located in Patterson, Calif., for carnival operator Teaco, it's all about family fun. In business for 23 years, owner Tom Eachus was joined by partner Hugo Dominguez two years ago, and the pair have a distinctive niche in the carnival business. The company started with a single fiberglass slide in 1998, and has evolved and grown from there.
According to Eachus – whose name the carnival company's moniker is based on – "We do 99% of our business in California. Our niche is one and two day events and company rentals. We do city carnivals, festivals, church carnivals, and private events, such as weddings, corporate parties, and just private parties of all kinds," he notes.
At Oakhurst, the carnival was a centerpiece of a weekend that included food trucks, a scavenger hunt, and local wine and beer tasting. The 26th annual event was sponsored by the Oakhurst Chamber of Commerce and Visit Yosemite Madera County. The Ukiah Pumpkin Festival, billed as the largest street fair in Mendocino County, included a large pumpkin weigh-off, live music, and a community haunted house along with Eachus' carnival rides.
His top rides have been consistent in recent years. "Our Ferris wheels are always number one, followed by the Super Slides, and Paratrooper. The Mind Winder is another popular ride," he explains, adding that kiddie rides continue to have a strong draw as well.
"In the kiddie ride category, we added the Jalopy Junction this year, which is doing very well for us. We also upgraded our lighting on all of our rides this year," Eachus says. The new lighting has resulted in "much stronger business," he relates.
LEDs overall save on the cost of illuminating the rides, as well.
Eachus offers wrist bands at $25, and tickets at $1 a piece or 10 for $12 dollars. "Ticket prices have not gone up in four years," he states. The carnival tries to keep pricing reasonable for families, and he adds that the carnival has stayed to the tried and true formula of inexpensive pricing and rides the whole family can enjoy.
As far as promotion goes, Eachus says "We rely on the venue to promote the carnival, primarily. But we do have corporate sponsors at some events that promote the carnival as well." The company doesn't use social media often, although it does maintain a Facebook page and promoted their new LED lights in short video posts, which show the bright colors and attractive, up-to-date look of the rides.
Despite the draw of the new lighting in the evening hours, Eachus says that the company has not seen any major increases in guest attendance in the last year; rather, attendance has remained flat. "Honestly, we have had to work extra hard to get what we had last year," he says.
Next year, however, Eachus is looking forward to a big event the company has never worked with before: the Lake Havasu Hot Air Balloon Festival. The carnival will be an adjunct to tethered and untethered balloon rides and musical entertainment at the Arizona lakefront event.
Annually, the company handles approximately 60 events, but Eachus notes that some of these events are small. Regardless of the event size, Eachus stresses that he's devoted to offering guests an experience that's both "exciting and enjoyable," and he staffs his events to focus on courtesy to his customers – and maintaining that all-important family atmosphere.
Among the attractions Eachus has available are an Eli Bridg Ferris Wheel, described as one of the safest Ferris Wheels available; the Superslide he first purchased 22 years ago, and the 32-foot-tall Paratrooper, a spin ride that sends riders sailing through the air, feet dangling for a thrill. The Mind Winder, his latest carnival addition, has rotating seats that make it an immersive, popular thrill. Created by Amusement Masters, it seats up to 16 riders who individually control the spinning within their own cars, similar to the Disneyland tea cups ride.
Tubs of Fun is another spinning ride that Eachus offers, in which four tubs circle a central point within a larger circle. The tubs rotate independently from other tubs and are operator controlled to spin slowly or quickly.
On the kiddie ride side, Teaco's jeep ride is a safe-for-all-kids umbrella style ride. His new Jalopy Junction attraction features steering wheels and horns, giving little ones a real sensation of driving. He also offers an inflatable fun zone for ages 8 and under, with slides, punching bags, and plenty of crawl and bounce space, which makes a popular attraction at smaller events.
Overall, Eachus says his attractions are all about offering safe, fun, family carnival rides at events of any size.


After you complete the initial thinking about your project's objectives, it's time to put together a schedule.
When you start a new schedule, you add tasks and organize them efficiently so that the project end date occurs as soon as possible.
Make sure you're starting at the right place. If you're early in the planning process, you might not want to use Project at all. Perhaps you have a simple list on a SharePoint site, or in Excel, or on a paper napkin. Share those ideas with other people first before you start Project and put a schedule together. Learn more about the early stages of project planning.
Make sure you know what a project is and what it isn't. In the early phases of project creation, your project might lack clarity or be too broadly defined. Here a few examples to help you narrow down the objectives of your project.
Project to upgrade a manufacturing plant to increase efficiency.
Project to locate maintenance plant closer to manufacturing facilities.
Project to replace security software.
Project to recruit risk specialists from related industry.
OK, everybody has bought off on your great idea. Now what? Start Microsoft Project and get going. Add tasks, organize them into an outline, and set up a project calendar so you know what the working hours are. You could also start adding people at this point, but this typically happens later. Learn more about adding people to your project.
Base a new project on a template pre-populated with tasks from projects similar to yours. Many of these templates have been created by industry experts to help you get started.
Start with a clean slate and then populate it with tasks, people, and other schedule information.
Open a project you already set up and base your current project on it.
Open a project you made in an earlier version of Project.
Add tasks to a schedule to break the work down into manageable pieces.
Set the time span (or calendar time) a task should take. You can enter a number or just type in a placeholder duration like "TBD" or "Talk to Sarah first".
Set the amount of time (or person-hours) for a task to be completed. This is the amount of time regardless of the number of people on the task.
If your tasks are already in Excel, you can copy them from Excel into Project. Project will keep the formatting and organizational structure of the task list.
Mark the end of major portions or phases of your project with milestones to show progress toward major deliverables.
You can cancel a task but keep a record of it in the project plan. This is a useful way to test how changes could affect your project.
Link any two tasks in a project to show their relationship (also called a task dependency). Linked tasks reflect project realities. When one task changes, so does the other.
Show task hierarchy by creating an outline with the Indent and Outdent buttons.
When there are interruptions in a task, you can split it into sections to show when it stops and starts.
Use Work Breakdown Structure (or WBS) codes to outline tasks numerically so that work matches your business's accounting practices.
Set up the major phases first and then break them down into individual tasks.
Learn more about how Project works with tasks and their relationships to help calculate the schedule.
Set the standard work days for everyone on your project, such as Monday through Friday, 8 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Change people's work schedules by adding holidays and vacations.
Identify working and nonworking time for only one task, such as a computer process that runs by itself during a 24-hour schedule with one day off for maintenance.
Learn more about how resource and project calendars work together to help Project calculate the schedule.
Save a local copy of your project as an MPP file.
Save a project to the PDF format that can be read with a PDF reader or on a web page.


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Desperate Mom Goes Viral Making Her Kids "Water Popsicles"
A desperate mom is going viral on TikTok after coming up with a hilarious way to keep her two young sons occupied: She's making ice in popsicle molds and telling them they're "water popsicles." "Introducing my kids favorite treat that they constantly beg for... WATER POPSICLES," 27-year-old Erin Bachman wrote alongside a clip that shows her filling up the molds at her kitchen sink. She also lip-syncs along to an infamous clip from "Cash Me Outside" girl Danielle Bregoli, which seems to hint at how she's duped her kids: "That's what I always do and they never catch me. Ain't nobody gonna catch me," she says. Bachman also tells BuzzFeed that her kids realize they're just made from water, but they don't care. "Both of my kids always say they're yummy, but they also think that every flavor of real popsicles tastes the same, so I think it's more that they're excited about having something frozen on a popsicle stick than it is about the actual taste," she said. Even better, clear popsicles don't stain and leave sticky messes behind like the real ones!

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Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland, the legendary songwriting trio and principal creators of the early Motown sound, will be honored as the 2003 BMI ICON recipients, it was announced today. They will receive their awards at the 51st annual BMI Pop Awards dinner on May 13 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. BMI President & CEO Frances W. Preston will present the honor at the black-tie affair.
The BMI ICON award is given to songwriters who have been unique and indelible influences on generations of music makers. First awarded last year, the initial honorees were Bill Anderson, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Bo Diddley and Little Richard. As part of the Pop Awards ceremony, a musical salute will be performed for Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland are revered as the architects of the 'Sound of Young America' or 'Motown Sound.' Having created the songs that turned a fledgling Detroit record company into an industry groundbreaker and powerhouse, the trio wrote "You Can't Hurry Love," "Reach Out I'll Be There," "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You," "You Keep Me Hanging On," "Stop! In The Name of Love" and many more. Such artists as Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, the Isley Brothers, Kim Weston, and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas recorded their songs while the three were at Motown, with artists such as Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Charlotte Church and the Dixie Chicks covering their songs today. Their catalog, represented for performing rights by BMI, adds up to nearly 100 million radio and television airplays.
Longtime BMI songwriters, Brian Holland affiliated with the performing rights organization in 1960, followed by Lamont Dozier in 1961 and Eddie Holland in 1963. They were inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) Trustees Award in 1998. They have won countless BMI Awards in the past, including BMI Pop Awards and Million-Air citations.
The annual BMI Pop Awards is an invitation-only event that recognizes the most performed songs of the past year. Preston, along with Barbara Cane, Vice President & General Manager, Writer/Publisher Relations, Los Angeles, will present BMI Citations of Achievement to the writers and publishers of the 50 top songs.


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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030
In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion.
The 20-year-old fusion energy technology developer TAE Technologies said its reactors could be operating at commercial scale by the end of the decade, thanks to its newfound ability to produce stable plasma at temperatures over 50 million degrees (nearly twice as hot as the sun).
The promise of fusion energy, a near limitless energy source with few emissions and no carbon footprint, has been 10 years out for the nearly 70 years since humanity first harnessed the power of nuclear energy. But a slew of companies — including TAE, General Fusion, Commonwealth Fusion Systems and a host of others across North America and around the world — are making rapid advancements that look to bring the technology from the realm of science fiction into the real world.
For TAE Technologies, the achievement serves as a validation of the life's work of Norman Rostoker, one of the company's co-founders who had devoted his life to fusion energy research and died before he could see the company he helped create reach its latest milestone.
"This is an incredibly rewarding milestone and an apt tribute to the vision of my late mentor, Norman Rostoker," said TAE's current chief executive officer, Michl Binderbauer, in a statement announcing the company's achievement. "Norman and I wrote a paper in the 1990s theorizing that a certain plasma dominated by highly energetic particles should become increasingly better confined and stable as temperatures increase. We have now been able to demonstrate this plasma behavior with overwhelming evidence. It is a powerful validation of our work over the last three decades, and a very critical milestone for TAE that proves the laws of physics are on our side."
Rostoker's legacy lives on inside TAE through the company's technology platform, called, appropriately, "Norman." In the last 18 months that technology has demonstrated consistent performance, reaching over 50 million degrees in several hundred test cycles.
Six years ago, the company had proved that its reactor design could sustain plasma indefinitely — meaning that once the switch is flipped on a reaction, that fusion reaction can continue indefinitely. Now, the company said, it has achieved the necessary temperatures to make its reactors commercially viable.
It's with these milestones behind it that TAE was able to raise an additional $280 million in financing, bringing its total up to $880 million and making it one of the best financed private nuclear fusion endeavors in the world.
"The Norman milestone gives us a high degree of confidence that our unique approach brings fusion within grasp technologically and, more important, economically," Binderbauer said. "As we shift out of the scientific validation phase into engineering commercial-scale solutions for both our fusion and power management technologies, TAE will become a significant contributor in modernizing the entire energy grid."
The company isn't generating energy yet, and won't for the foreseeable future. The next goal for the company, according to Binderbauer, is to develop the technology to the point where it can create the conditions necessary for making energy from a fusion reaction.
"The energy is super tiny. It's immaterial. It's a needle in the haystack," Binderbauer said. "In terms of its energy discernability, we can use it for diagnostics."
It took $150 million and five iterations for TAE Technologies to get to Norman, its national laboratory scale fusion device. The company said it conducted over 25,000 fully integrated fusion reactor core experiments, optimized using machine learning programs developed in collaboration with Google and processing power from the Department of Energy's INCITE program, which leverages exascale-level computing, TAE Technologies said.
The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017. Before it could even be constructed TAE Technologies went through a decade of experimentation to even begin approaching the construction of a physical prototype. By 2008, the first construction began on integrated experiments to make a plasma core and infuse it with some energetic particles. The feeder technology and beams alone cost $100 million, Binderbauer said. Then the company needed to develop other technologies like vacuum conditioning. Power control mechanisms also needed to be put in place to ensure that the company's 3 megawatt power supply could be stored in enough containment systems to power a 750 megawatt energy reaction.
Finally, machine learning capabilities needed to be tapped from companies like Google and compute power from the Department of Energy had to be harnessed to manage computations that could take what had been the theorems that defined Rostoker's life's work, and prove that they could be made real.
"By the time Norman became an operating machine we had four generations of devices preceding it. Out of those there were two fully integrated ones and two generations of incremental machines that could do some of it but not all of it."
Fusion energy's burning problems
While fusion has a lot of promise as a zero-carbon source of energy, it's not without some serious limitations, as Daniel Jassby, the former principal physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab noted in a 2017 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article.
TAE Technologies is aware of the problems, according to a spokesperson for the firm, and the company has noted the issues Jassby raised in its product development, the spokesperson said.
"All the callouts to tritium is exactly why TAE has been focused on pB-11 as its feedstock from the very beginning (early 90's). TAE will reach D-T conditions as a natural stepping stone to pB-11, cause it cooks at 'only' 100M c, whereas pB-11 is upwards of 1B c," the spokesperson wrote in a response. "It would seem like a much harder accomplishment to then scale to 1B, but what this milestone proves is the 'Scaling law' for the kind of fusion TAE is generating — in an FRC (the linear design of "Norman", unlike the donut Tokamaks) the hotter the plasma, the more stable it becomes. It's the opposite of a [Tokamak]. The milestone gives them scientific confidence they can increase temps beyond DT to pB11 and realize fusion with boron — cheap, aneutronic, abundant — the ideal terrestrial feedstock."
As for power concerns, the TAE fusion reactor can convert a 2MW grid feed into 750MW shots on the machine without taking down Orange County's grid (and needing to prove it to SCE), and scale power demand in microseconds to mold and course-correct plasmas in real-time, the spokesperson wrote.
In fact, TAE is going to spin off its power management technology into a separate business focused on peak shaving, energy storage and battery management on the grid and in electric vehicles.
A "safer" fusion technology?
The Hydrogen-Boron, or p-B11, fuel cycle is, according to the company, the most abundant fuel source on earth, and will be the ultimate feedstock for TAE Technologies' reactor, according to the company. But initially, TAE, like most of the other companies currently developing fusion technologies, will be working with Deuterium-Tritium as its fuel source.
The demonstration facility "Copernicus," which will be built using some of the new capital the company has announced raising, will start off on the DT fuel cycle and eventually make the switch. Over time, TAE hopes to license the DT technology while building up to its ultimate goal.
Funding the company's "money by milestone" approach are some of the world's wealthiest families, firms and companies. Vulcan, Venrock, NEA, Wellcome Trust, Google and the Kuwait Investment Authority are all backers. So too, are the family offices of Addison Fischer, Art Samberg and Charles Schwab.
"TAE is providing the miracles the 21st century needs," said Addison Fischer, TAE board director and longtime investor who has been involved with conservation and environmental issues for decades. Fischer also founded VeriSign and is a pioneer in defining and implementing security technology underlying modern electronic commerce. "TAE's most recent funding positions the company to undertake their penultimate step in implementing sustainable aneutronic nuclear fusion and power management solutions that will benefit the planet."
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Mantra Health raises $22M to scale its digital mental health clinic for young adults


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Syrian conflict has 'erased' children's dreams: new UN report
16 January 2020 - Nearly nine years of conflict in Syria have robbed boys and girls of their childhood and subjected them to "unabated violations of their rights", including being killed, maimed, displaced, forced to fight or subjected to torture, rape and sexual slavery.
The findings come in the latest report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, released on Thursday.
"I am appalled by the flagrant disregard for the laws of war and the Convention on the Rights of the Child by all parties involved in the conflict", said Commission chair Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro.
"While the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has the primary responsibility for the protection of boys and girls in the country, all of the actors in this conflict must do more to protect children and preserve the country's future generation."
Dreams erased
The three-member Commission was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate and record all violations of international law related to the Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011.
Its latest report is entitled: They have erased the dreams of my children - a quote taken from a 2012 interview with a woman discussing attacks on her village in Idlib.
The study is based on approximately 5,000 interviews conducted between September 2011 and October 2019 with Syrian children, but also eyewitnesses, survivors, relatives of survivors, medical professionals, defectors, members of armed groups, healthcare professionals, lawyers and other affected communities.
The Commission said the use of cluster munitions, so-called thermobaric bombs and chemical weapons by pro-Government forces, have caused scores of child casualties.
Additionally, children's experiences in the conflict "have been deeply gendered."
Women and girls worst affected
Women and girls are "disproportionally affected" by sexual violence, and the threat of rape has led to restrictions in their movements. Girls have been confined to their homes, removed from school or faced obstacles to access health care.
Meanwhile, boys, particularly those 12 and over, have been arrested and kept in detention facilities, and targeted for recruitment by armed groups and militia.
"The younger ones are very good fighters. They fight with enthusiasm and are fearless. Fighters who are 14 -17 years old are on the frontline", a person associated with an armed group told the authors.
The war has also had an impact on access to education, with more than 2.1 million children not regularly attending classes of any form.
"Urgent efforts are required by the Syrian Government to support as many children as possible to return to education. Armed groups holding territory also need to act with haste to facilitate access to education," said Karen AbuZayd, one of the commissioners.
Commit to protecting children
The report also expresses concern over the severe impact the conflict has had on children's long-term physical and mental health.
Large numbers of young Syrians now have disabilities as well as devastating psychological and development issues. Additionally, fighting has displaced some five million children.
As the mother in Idlib stated: "They have erased the dreams of my children. They have destroyed what we have built during our whole life; my daughter was so depressed when she found out that our house was burnt down. My other child, a three-year-old boy, is traumatized by the crisis. He is continuously drawing tanks."
The Commission members called on all sides to "commit in writing" to granting children special protection during wartime, in line with international law.
Other recommendations include ending child recruitment and taking child rights into consideration during military planning.
They stressed that displaced children also require protection, which includes the obligation to repatriate children with family ties to ISIL extremist fighters.
"States have well defined obligations to protect children, including from statelessness. Failing to abide by such fundamental principles would be a clear derogation of duty," said Commissioner Hanny Megally.


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Esoteric: Psychology
Psychology: General
Psychology: Jungian Studies
Studies in Imagination Series
Archetypal Imagination
Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art
Noel Cobb
Introduction by Thomas Moore
This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul scientifically or medically, behaviorally or in terms of inner development, all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context, as something personal. In this book, however, we are asked to consider psychology from a truly transpersonal perspective as a cultural, universal-human phenomenon.
Cobb teaches us to look at the world as a record of the soul's struggles to awaken and as the soul's poetry. From this perspective, the real basis of the mind is poetic. Beauty, love, and creativity are as much instincts of the soul as sexuality or hunger. Cobb shows us how artists and mystics can teach us the meaning of love, death, and beauty, if only we can awaken to their creations. The exemplars here are Dante, Rumi, Rilke, Munch, Lorca, Schumann, and Tarkovsky.
1. Echoes of an Imaginal Bell:
— Reverberations of Andrei Tarkofsky's Anrei Rublev
2. The Morbid and the Beautiful:
— Edvard Munch – Painter of the Modern Soul Life
3. Dionysos and Duende:
— Federico García Lorca – Torero of the Imagination
4. The Cast of Masks in the Life and Work of Robert Schumann:
— Part I: The Genius of Culture and the Culture of Genius
— Part II: Butterflies and Sphinxes
5. The Fires of Eros and the Alchemy of Seduction:
— Notes toward a Poetics of Love – A Sonata in Five Movements
6. Persephone:
— Midwife and muse of Metempsychosis: An Undertaking in Psychopoetics
7. Who Is behind Archetypal Psychology?
— An Imaginary Inquiry
Noel Cobb (1938–2015) traveled widely in his early years, both geographically and intellectually, in search of a way of thinking adequate to his own rich and abounding imagination. His odyssey brought him to working with R. D Laing, becoming a Jungian analyst, and developing, with other contemporary thinkers, the re-visioning of psychology and culture through archetypal psychology. With his partner Eva Loewe, he cofounded The London Convivium for Archetypal Studies and published numerous books, including Prospero's Island: The Secret Alchemy at the Heart of The Tempest.
Dark Light of the Soul
Facing the World with Soul
The Reimagination of Modern Life
Jung and Steiner
The Birth of a New Psychology
THE ONE of the Emerald Tablet
Illuminating Ancient Cryptic Truths
The Planets Within
The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino
An Unknown Destiny
Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiation
Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner


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Members of the Council
L.G. "Larry" Campbell, Jr.
Current Term: July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2024
Member of Council since 2008
L.G. "Larry" Campbell Jr. was first elected to City Council in May 2008 and has served as Co-Assistant Pastor at Bible Way Cathedral Church since 1994. The Reverend Campbell received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Averett University and his Masters degree in Guidance from North Carolina A & T University. He serves as a board member for Goodwill, Daden, Rotary Club, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the Boys and Girls Club, the Ministers Alliance, Head Start and Neighbors Helping Neighbors.
The Reverend Campbell is Vice President of the NAACP and serves on Staunton River RIFA and the Community Health Coalition. He also founded the Wisdom in Networking Program (an ex-offender back-to-work initiative).
Email Larry Campbell
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where my homemade brewery pumps out beers to improve my writing. It's manned by Friday, my wizened Tibetan guru who has spent his life on the island alone.
Fakt time: In a Buddhist monastery, after a monk completes his 25 years of study on the five major subjects (the perfection of wisdom, philosophy of the Middle Way, valid cognition, phenomenology and monastic discipline), he has up to six years of examinations before receiving the degree of geishe. Then he can choose to continue his studies, teach younger monks, go into the world to spread Dharma (the truth) or disappear from the world completely to live out the rest of his life in seclusion, praying for all sentient beings.
2. Catch-22 - my Dad made a vow with a friend to read this every year for the rest of his life which he managed to keep for quite awhile. I already read it twice on my first trip to India and Nepal five years ago and a few times since then. The funniest book I have ever read.
3. The Complete Works of Isaac Babel - the bespectacled Jew who rode with the hard drinking and hard living Cossacks as they invaded Poland after the Russian Revolution. In writing, he's like Hemingway. In life, he was a misfit with the Cossacks like Hunter S Thompson with the Hell's Angels (who seem to be same people as the Cossacks, just 50 years later and with motorcycles).
Feel free to add your five books in the comments. I'll post them on the main page.
PS: Sorry to be away so long. We've been sitting by a river for days because there's a few hundred policeman waiting up the road for us. The Internet is three hours away but I decided to come back to this town for convalesce.
i'm only going to do three because that's what most people get on deserted islands and i'm not spoiled like some of you.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". It confirms all my ultra-romanticized views on love and relationships.
"Closer". It crushes all my ultra-romanticized views on love and relationships.
5 books in no order, because who needs order?


Empire Bolt hires for character and trains for competence. Our employees are highly motivated to perform and ensure the best possible experience for our customers.
Everyone on the team contributes and carries their own weight. Plainly, we have a hard-working team and we all expect the best from our new-hires. If you are creative, ethical, attentive to detail, creative and adaptive, you might just fit our team.
Entry and mid-level positions are recruited through Humanix Staffing or through Worksource. Sales and Management positions are recruited directly on this page.
All positions are currently full.
Email your cover letter, resume and contact information to: hr@empirebolt.com No phone calls please.
Applicants are encouraged to obtain training through the Fastener Training Institute.
Please include any certificates from relevant training in your resume packet.
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title: Secure flask-admin using flask-basicauth
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I could not find a way to protect my flask-admin installation at `/admin` using `Flask-BasicAuth`, so I decided to write this for future explorers!

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The flask-admin docs praise the simplicity and awesomeness of using HTTP basic authentication, and also point the user towards a small extenstion which makes this easy process even easier.

> The simplest form of authentication is HTTP Basic Auth. It doesn't interfere with your database models, and it doesn't require you to write any new view logic or template code.
> Have a look at Flask-BasicAuth to see just how easy it is to put your whole application behind HTTP Basic Auth.

and then they drop the bomb saying:

> Unfortunately, there is no easy way of applying HTTP Basic Auth just to your admin interface.

Oh well. I definitely do not want people to log in when they land on my index page, so that rules the above option out.

Thankfully, it's rather quite easy to extend admin views to support `flask-BasicAuth`. We just need to override two functions in our admin `ModelView` class.

```python
class ModelView(sqla.ModelView):
    def is_accessible(self):
        if not basic_auth.authenticate():
            raise AuthException('Not authenticated.')
        else:
            return True

    def inaccessible_callback(self, name, **kwargs):
        return redirect(basic_auth.challenge())
```

Here `basic_auth` is defined as `basic_auth = BasicAuth(app)` directly borrowed from the quickstart section of BasicAuth docs.

If `BasicAuth` can't authenticate the user, it will raise an exception which inturn will call the `inaccessible_callback` which will challenge the user to provide authentication details.

The exception, `AuthException`, is nothing but a simple `HTTPException` provided by `werkzeug`:

```python
from werkzeug.exceptions import HTTPException

class AuthException(HTTPException):
    def __init__(self, message):
        super().__init__(message, Response(
            "You could not be authenticated. Please refresh the page.", 401,
            {'WWW-Authenticate': 'Basic realm="Login Required"'}
        ))
```

Now we can call our admin views normally like this:

```python
admin = Admin(app, name='ninjas-nest')
admin.add_view(ModelView(Post, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(PostFiles, db.session))
```

TADA! All the urls prefixed with `/admin` now require authentication before you can proceed.

WARNING: Please note that this is not secure on it's own. It will send username and password without any encryption. Only use it with HTTPS (SSL/TLS). Also, this does not block ips which have a lot of failed attempts which could lead to security concerns. I will deal with this in a later post.

Let me know if you have any better way of protecting only `flask-admin` in the comments below.

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Is The Situation Still Excellent?
Excerpts from the author's new book, Heaven In Disorder
by Slavoj Žižek
One of Mao Zedong's best-known sayings is: "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent." It is easy to understand what Mao meant here: when the existing social order is disintegrating, the ensuing chaos offers revolutionary forces a great chance to act deci-sively and take political power. Today, there certainly is great disorder under heaven, with the Covid-19 pandemic, global warming, signs of a new Cold War, and the eruption of popular protests and social antago-nisms worldwide naming but a few of the crises that beset us. But does this chaos still make the situation excellent, or is the danger of self-de-struction too high? The difference between the situation that Mao had in mind and our own situation can be best rendered by a tiny termino-logical distinction. Mao speaks about disorder under heaven, wherein "heaven," or the big Other in whatever form—the inexorable logic of historical processes, the laws of social development—still exists and discreetly regulates social chaos. Today, we should talk about heaven itself as being in disorder. What do I mean by this?
In Divided Heaven (1963), Christa Wolf 's classic GDR novel about the subjective impact of divided Germany, Manfred (who has chosen the West) says to his love, Rita, when they meet for the last time: "But even if our land is divided, we still share the same heaven." Rita (who has chosen to remain in the East) bitterly replies: "No, they first divided the heaven." Apologetic (of the East) as the novel is, it offers the right insight into how our "earthly" divisions and fights are ultimately always grounded in a "divided heaven"; that is, in a much more radical and exclusive division of the very (symbolic) universe in which we dwell. The bearer and instrument of this "division of heaven" is language as the medium that sustains the way we experience reality—language, not primitive egotistic interests, is the first and greatest divider. It is because of language that we (can) "live in different worlds" to our neighbors, even when they live on the same street.
Today, the situation is not one in which heaven is divided into two spheres, as was the case in the Cold War period when two global world-views confronted each other. The divisions of heaven today appear increasingly drawn within each particular country. In the United States, for instance, there is an ideological and political civil war between the alt-Right and the liberal-democratic establishment, while in the United Kingdom there are similarly deep divisions, as were recently expressed in the opposition between Brexiteers and anti-Brexiteers . . . Spaces for common ground are ever diminishing, mirroring the ongoing enclo-sure of physical public space, and this is happening at a time when multiple intersecting crises mean that global solidarity and interna-tional cooperation are more needed than ever.
In recent months, the often alarming ways in which the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic is intertwined with ongoing social, polit-ical, ecological, and economic crises are increasingly apparent. The pandemic must be treated together with global warming, erupting class antagonisms, patriarchy and misogyny, and the many other ongoing crises that resonate with it, and with each other, in a complex interplay. This interplay is uncontrollable and full of dangers, and we cannot count on any guarantee in heaven to make the solution clearly imaginable. Such a risky situation makes our moment an eminently political one: the situation is decidedly not excellent, and that's why one has to act.
What, then, is to be done? Lenin's demand for a "concrete analysis of the concrete situation" is today more actual than ever. No simple universal formula can provide the answer—there are moments in which pragmatic support for modest progressive measures is needed; there are moments when a radical confrontation is the only way; and there are moments when a sobering silence (and a cute pair of mittens) speak more than a thousand words.
Was The Drone Attack On Saudi Arabia Really A Game Changer?
When, in September of 2019, the Houthi rebels from Yemen launched a drone attack on Saudi Aramco's crude-oil processing facilities, our media repeatedly characterized this event as a "game changer"—but was it really? In some common sense yes, since it perturbed the global oil supply and increased the likelihood of a large armed conflict in the Middle East. However, one should be careful not to miss the cruel irony of this claim.
Houthi rebels in Yemen have been in an open war with Saudi Arabia for years, and Saudi armed forces (supplied by the United States and the United Kingdom) have practically destroyed the entire country, indiscriminately bombing civilian objects. The Saudi interven-tion led to one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes, with tens of thousands of children dead. But, as was the case with Libya and Syria, destroying an entire country is here obviously not a game changer but part of the normal geopolitical game.
Even if we condemn the Houthi act, should we really be surprised to see the Houthis, cornered and in a desperate situation, striking back in whatever way they can? Far from changing the game, their act is its logical culmination. To paraphrase one of Donald Trump's unspeak-able vulgarities, they finally found the way to grab Saudi Arabia by its p****, where it really hurts. Or, to paraphrase the famous line from
Brecht's Beggar's Opera, "What is robbing a bank compared to founding a new bank": what is destroying a country compared to slightly disturbing the reproduction of capital?
The media attention grabbed by the "game-changing" Houthi attack also conveniently distracted us from other truly game-changing projects, like the Israeli plan to annex large fertile chunks of the West Bank.1 What this meant is that all the talk about the two-state solution was just that, empty talk meant to obfuscate the ruthless realization of a modern-day colonization project in which what awaits the West Bank Palestinians will be, in the best case scenario, a couple of tightly controlled Bantustans. One should also note that Israel is doing this with the silent connivance of Saudi Arabia—a further proof that a new axis of evil is emerging in the Middle East composed of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. It is here that the rules of the game are truly changing!
And, to broaden the scope of our analysis, one should also be attentive to how the game is changing with the Hong Kong protests. A dimension that is as a rule ignored in our media is the class struggle which sustains the Hong Kong protests against China's efforts to constrain its autonomy. The Hong Kong protests first erupted in poor districts; the rich were prospering under Chinese control. Then a new voice was heard. On September 8, 2019, protesters marched to the US consulate in Hong Kong, with CNN reporting that "One banner carried at the march read 'President Trump, please liberate Hong Kong' in English, [while] some marchers sang the US national anthem."2 Thirty-year-old banker David Wong was reported as saying:
"We share the same US values of liberty and democracy." Every serious analysis of the Hong Kong protests has to focus on how a social protest, potentially a true game changer, was recuperated into the standard narrative of the democratic revolt against totalitarian rule.
And the same goes for analysis of Mainland China itself, with our media reporting on how the Unirule Institute of Economics, one of China's few remaining outposts of liberal thought, has been ordered to shut down, in what is seen as another sign of the dramatically shrinking space for public debate under the government of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. However, this is far from the police intimidation, beat-ings, and arrests to which leftist students in China are being submitted. Ironically taking the official return to Marxism more seriously than it was meant, groups of students have organized links with workers who suffer extreme exploitation in factories around Beijing. In chem-ical factories especially, pollution is extreme, largely uncontrolled, and ignored by state power, and students help workers to organize themselves and formulate their demands. Such links between students and workers pose the true challenge to the regime, while the struggle between the new hard line of Xi Jinping and the pro-capitalist liberals is ultimately part of the dominant game. It expresses the dominant tension between the two versions of unbridled capitalist development: authoritarian and liberal.
In all these cases, from Yemen to China, one should thus learn to distinguish between the conflicts which are part of the game and the true game changers which are either ominous turns for the worse masked as the continuation of the normal state of things (Israel annexing large parts of the West Bank), or hopeful signs of something really new emerging. The predominant liberal view is obsessed by the first and largely ignores the second.
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Isn't it simply amazing how many different ways cereal maker can configure their product to get kids to eat it? Now, that bastion of children's cereal, Froot Loops, has introduced Cereal Straws which make eating cereal fun to "dip, sip and munch" not to mention its potential use as a coke snorting device.
I have to say, as a parent of a three year old ... these straws really work to get a kid to finish the leftover milk in a bowl of cereal (talk about filling a need). Your other use idea just proves Froot Loops have a long term strategy for the product. It's useful for kids and teenagers.


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New COVID-19 Test from Turkey Can Be A Game-Changer
A team of Turkish scientists has developed an ultra-rapid coronavirus test with 99% accuracy that can be used to detect the Covid-19 / SARS Cov2.
The new nanotechnology-based diagnostic system can detect the COVID-19 virus within 10 seconds with a swab taken from the mouth.
The system, is called Diagnovir and developed within the infrastructure of Bilkent UNAM, the joint work of Dr. Bülend Ortaç and his team, Bilkent Holding and E-A Technology operating in Bilkent Cyberpark Technology Development Zone.
It is an optically based diagnostic and identification system that changes the color of the glow in the presence of the virus, thus detecting viruses with high selectivity.
In this system, pathogens are detected within 10 seconds by dynamically receiving a fluorescent signal via a pathogen detection chip developed specifically for a biosensor device.
Physiologist Dr. Ali Aytaç Seymen, the researcher at Bilkent UNAM, said that after saliva sample taken from the mouth. If the sample is positive, the system shows it in about 10 seconds and if it is negative, it analyzes longer and shows results in 20 – 30 seconds.
After the sample taken from the patient, it is mixed with a special solution, dropped on the pathogen detection chip, and if there is a pathogen in the environment by the biosensor device, the presence of pathogens with high accuracy is detected by taking the fluorescent signal.
Taking saliva samples from the mouth instead of taking swab samples from deep areas such as the oropharynx and nasopharynx will also make the use of the system preferable.
Unlike the commonly used PCR tests, the system is not based on sample replication, but on detecting the presence or absence of the virus with advanced optical methods.
In the system, optical and electronic modules that provide both precise virus detection and high selectivity in detection, as well as high-level biotechnology and material science knowledge are used. The system has shown 99% success in virus detection in pre-clinical studies conducted so far.
We believe that the system will be widely used in Turkey and in the world as a fast and reliable virus detection method. Therefore, the necessary infrastructure investments for the mass production of this biosensor system have already started. The mass production phase is planned to start within an estimated 2 months, right after completing the necessary permissions from Ethics Committee Turkey Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (TİTCK) within the shortest time. Accordingly, it will be possible to contribute to the control of the pandemic and to significantly relieve social life.
In order to protect the intellectual rights of this innovation, patent applications of the system have been made recently.
The system has high export potential. All marking, certification, and accreditation steps that will pave the way for domestic and international sales have also started.
Tags: COVID-19 test
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Q: php, sql individual links for Group_concat I have three table, movies, artist, and role_table. The role_table holds only movieCode from movies and artistID from artist which are the primary keys of movies and artist table. i used join to get the values and Group_concat. here is my sql code
SELECT m.Title, m.MovieDesc, m.image, m.catagory, a.ID, a.FullName,
GROUP_CONCAT(a.FullName )
FROM movies m
JOIN role_table r ON m.movieCode =r.movieCode_FK
JOIN artist a ON r.artistID_FK = a.ID
where
movieCode = '$movieCode

This code is perfect fine and it works. what i want is to get the individual links for those artist which gets the values from The group_concat.
i am stuck here and any kind of help will be great.
Thanks :)

A: Doing it in php (assiming you are using a database class):-
<?php

$sql = "SELECT m.Title, m.MovieDesc, m.image, m.catagory, a.ID, a.FullName,
        GROUP_CONCAT(a.FullName ) AS ConcatFullName
        FROM movies m
        JOIN role_table r ON m.movieCode =r.movieCode_FK
        JOIN artist a ON r.artistID_FK = a.ID
        where movieCode = '$movieCode'";

$db->query($sql) or die($db->error());

while($row = $db->fetch_assoc())
{
    $fullnames = explode(',', $row['ConcatFullName']);
    foreach($fullnames AS $aFullName)
    {
        echo "".htmlspecialchars($aFullName)."";
    }
}

?>

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Turns out that Americans are a bit overly optimistic about the role that renewable energy plays in the U.S. The average American believes that 20 percent of the country's energy use comes from renewables—11 percent from solar and 9 percent from wind.
When I began my career 37 years ago, the main use of solar panels was on satellites — almost no one on Earth used solar energy. Oddly enough, the best place to be a solar engineer in the 1970s was at a large O&G company.
In 1984, when this year's POWER-GEN 2015 Woman of the Year Kim Greene started engineering school, about 16 percent of her class was made up of women. Today, more than 30 years later, that number has jumped to just 18 percent.
Greene, the Chief Operating Office of Southern Company was one of three finalists for the 2015 Woman of the Year award during Power Generation Week and on Tuesday December 8, she took part in a panel discussion with her co-finalists: Terry Jester, CEO and Chairman of Silicor Materials and Roxann Laird, Director of the National Carbon Capture Center, during the Women in Power luncheon.
The fact that women only make up 18 percent of engineering students is an alarming statistic and was the topic of discussion for much of the panel. To combat it, Greene believes that everyone should be encouraging young women to study engineering. "Fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, school teachers," she said, explaining that it should be important to all of us to encourage girls to pursue education in technical fields that will (hopefully) ultimately lead to careers in the energy industry. Laird explained that she does simple things in her household, such as conducting science experiments at birthday parties for her daughter.
Also important is persistence, said Greene. Girls may need a bit of extra encouragement when they do poorly on a test or fail a class. If a mentor can offer words of encouragement like "keep your chin up" and "you can do this," that may be all that is needed to keep a girl motivated who may otherwise have become discouraged.
As far as rising through the ranks of an organization, Jester believes it isn't about being the smartest person in the room or always making the right decisions. Women just need to believe that they are capable of being charge. If you make a mistake, own it and move on, said Greene. It's ok to admit you are wrong, don't dig in your heels.
Panelists were also asked for tips on how to re-enter the workplace after a hiatus or after switching careers and all agreed on one thing: "don't apologize for the gap." Jester believes that someone who has re-dedicated herself to the workplace makes for an excellent employee.
At the end of the day "engineers solve problems," said Laird adding, "it's a fun industry." Jester said that there are misperceptions in the industry that engineers are stuck in a cube or an office doing very boring jobs but it is not like that. Those of us in the industry know its fun.
Robynn Andracsek, an engineer with Burns & McDonnell and member of the Women in Power committee led the panel discussion during the luncheon.
The purpose of the Women in Power committee is to provide role models to inspire young women to pursue careers in energy. Anyone in the energy industry can nominate a woman for the Woman of the year award. Nominations are open from April to August each year.
Coal is having a hard time lately. U.S. power plants are switching to natural gas, environmental restrictions are kicking in, and the industry is being derided as the world's No. 1 climate criminal. Prices have crashed, sure, but for a real sense of coal's diminishing prospects, check out what's happening in the bond market.
The process of sowing the seeds of electric vehicle infrastructure — and thereby creating a backbone of charging stations that can support these vehicles — is still in its infancy. A new report outlines the technologies and business models necessary to ramp up growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market in the United States. It also explores the relationship between charging stations and consumer purchases of EVs.
A new government analysis of President Barack Obama's signature effort to fight climate change affirms what critics suspected: the proposal could further weaken an already battered coal industry.
City councilors want to learn more about a potential multi-million dollar hydroelectric project at the South Saskatchewan River Weir in Saskatoon, a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada.
European Union negotiators are endorsing an accelerated overhaul of the bloc's carbon market after the price of emission rights fell to levels that fail to deter polluters.
Just over a decade ago, the state of California faced serious concerns about whether its utilities could generate and/or buy enough power to assure that the world's seventh-largest economy could keep the lights on. The infamous California energy crisis, which affected several other western states as well, was a complex tangle of poorly structured deregulation, significant market manipulation (remember Enron?), and other causes. Along with rolling blackouts, California endured an official state of emergency that lasted 34 months, led to the recall and replacement of Gov. Gray Davis, and cost the state and its ratepayers billions of dollars — a cautionary tale for all states of electricity supply unable to meet demand.
Europe's utilities are re-evaluating their business models due to the energy transition. Members of POWER-GEN Europe's Advisory Board consider how a reliance on fossil fuels is no longer politically desirable, forcing utilities to transform their portfolios to adapt to radical change.


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The invention of a business model that Warren Buffett would later buy
n 1984 Richard Santulli bought a small loss-making private jet hire company called Executive Jet Aviation, EJA. He thought it might be useful as a dumping ground for aircraft coming off leasing deals, his main business. Little did he know that he would soon invent a completely new type of business, one that was so successful that Warren Buffett would pay $725m to buy it only 14 years later.
As the new owner of an airplane company Santulli thought he ought to buy himself a private jet – it seemed only fitting - and EJA could look after it for him.
But being a mathematician he sat down and worked through the numbers on outright ownership. Taking into account the limited hours he'd actually be flying – less than 50 per year – it just didn't make any sense at all. He'd be better off chartering a plane each time he needed one.
But then he thought of better option: buy a plane with a group of friends. Three friends joined Santulli to discuss the plan. It made good financial sense to share the one plane; they could all see that and were willing.
But then the trouble started. One said that if they got a plane then he would insist on having it every Tuesday and Thursday. Another said he wanted it when he needed it, which might well be a Tuesday or Thursday. Deadlock.
After the failed meeting Santulli pondered the problem: shared ownership combined with guaranteed access when you wanted your airplane. If he could crack that he would have it made.
An intellectual challenge
It was a mathematical puzzle. The key input needed to solve it was to use the extensive database containing every trip EJA had taken over the previous 20 years (the military types that previous ran EJA kept good records). Looking at flying patterns he found a high degree of predictability in terms of origin, destination, day of the week, time of day, mechanical breakdowns, etc.
It took nearly six months to figure it out, but the solution turned out to be for every 20 planes sold in fractions NetJets had to buy for itself five and one-quarter planes to put in its corporate fleet to fill gaps where two or more co-owners wanted to use their plane at the same time. NetJets could then supply a substitute plane of the same or better specification at only a few hours notice. This would allow a 98% availability (There are economies of scale here. So if 800 planes are sold to clients the core fleet need only be 80, i.e. 10%.). NetJets could charter planes for the remaining 2% of occasions.
NetJets would take care of everything from maintenance to pilot training. All the client had to do was tell the customer service people where they wanted to go when.
EJA launched the NetJets programme in 1986. Initially, potential clients were sceptical, thinking there are bound to be numerous occasions when they needed a plane but none were available. Santulli simply told them it was all worked out and NetJets could indeed guarantee availability. If they still didn't believe it worked then after six months they would be entitled to all their money back.
Santulli says he realised that unless NetJets were "absolutely perfect for the first 10, 15, or 20 customers, the whole deal was going to blow".
To make sure it didn't blow he bought eight Cessnas. These were not to be sold on to clients but were the back-up planes for the 25 he expected to sell in fractions of in one-sixteenths (50 hours of flight time), one-eighths, one-quarters, one-halfs (400 hours). Thus, if the selling effort was successful, the fleet would amount to 33 planes.
But it took time. Only four planes were sold in the first year.
It didn't pick up – only four were sold in the second, and in the third.
Then the 1989 recession struck, and no fractions were sold.
Santulli lost $35m - $40m because he ha
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We are sharing our recent interview with music artist Joey Flats .
Joey Flats : Hey, my name's Joey Flats, I have been doing this music stuff for almost 10 years now. I'm from Staten Island, NY , I'll be 23 on the 19th of June (Gemini) and I won't do anything else with my life as far as a career goes if it doesn't involve musical creation.
Joey Flats : So I have always loved music and always loved to write random stories as a kid, so as I grew into my teenage years I began to develop my skills as a songwriter. When I was about 14/15 years old, my younger brother used to rap all of the time for fun and one day I decided I could do that to and started writing. I haven't stopped since.
Twist Online : Tell us about your recent release ?
Joey Flats : So far from this release the feedback has been great, I was skeptical about releasing it due to the nature of the music being a little more emotional and vulnerable but I am glad every one that has listened to it has enjoyed it so much.
Joey Flats : My absolute favorite music genre would have to be hip hop/rnb. It's hard for me to pick a favorite I listen to so much of all different forms of music and genres.
Joey Flats : The best part about being a music artist in my opinion is being able to express yourself through different sound and words, the arrangement of your music can invoke feelings in anyone if it's done correctly. Powerful music can save lives and change the world. That's what I love about it. How people sometimes tell me it helps them and they can relate and all those things just make me feel good about what I do.
Joey Flats : I set new goals all the time, I'm a goal oriented thinker. You have to be in this industry because if you don't you will never have any solid work done. I create ideas, and once they are in motion I set a deadline for myself. Goals are important.
Joey Flats : I am intact working on a new project right now set to release in the summer time. I'm constantly working on new music nearly every day that I am free.


We remember the first time we ever tried Dauphinoise potatoes.
It's one of those outrageously satisfying dishes you'll simply never forget.
Traditionally made using milk and cream, we wanted to show that you can still enjoy it being vegan.
And it's only 5 ingredients, making it super quick and easy to create. We use cashews and nutritional yeast for that cheesy flavour and creamy texture.
On the topic of super easy and delicious recipes, don't forget our debut cookbook So Vegan in 5 is out now.
The book features over 100 simple 5-ingredient recipes, making it easier than ever before to cook delicious vegan food.
Transfer the cashews to a bowl and cover them with hot water straight from the kettle. Leave to sit for at least 20 minutes.
If needed, cut the large potatoes in half so that they're roughly 5cm wide and add them to a saucepan of cold water on a high heat. Cover with a lid and bring the water to the boil, then boil gently for 25 minutes until the potatoes are parboiled. It's important they're not too soft so you can slice them later.
Drain the cashews and add them to a blender. Peel the garlic and add it to the blender along with the nutritional yeast, generous pinches of salt and pepper, and 500ml (17fl.oz / 2 cups) of water. Blend until smooth and set to one side for later.
Preheat the oven to 200ºC / 390ºF fan-assisted.
Drain the potatoes and slice them as thinly as possible (around 1-2mm thick).
Arrange 1/3rd of the potato slices in a swirl in the base of a round ovenproof dish. Then pour 1/3 of the sauce on top and sprinkle with the leaves from 1 sprig of rosemary. Repeat this step for another 2 layers placing the potatoes in a swirl and topping with sauce and rosemary leaves each time. Bake the swirl in the oven for 20 minutes.
Remove the dauphinoise swirl from the oven. Check the potato has cooked fully (return it to the oven for another 5-10 minutes if not) and top with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Et voila!


We caught up with the man behind one of Shoreditch's best known fashion brands.
Just up the road from Space Station you'll find one of Shoreditch's best known shops – Mr. Start. Full of beautifully designed menswear, it's run by Phillip Start, founder of Woodhouse and lover of the sharpest clothing. We caught up with the man himself to find out what it's like to run a boutique brand in the heart of Shoreditch.
What do you love about the Shoreditch area?
It's like a village, despite being in the middle of London. I've lived in West London most of my life, which I love, but the whole feel is different here. It's constantly changing and moving, with a rich history that is totally unique. But despite the constant development and shifting character, there's a strong sense of community. Some people complain about the development, the hotels and the fact that it's becoming a tourist place, but I don't feel nostalgic for the past. Having had a shop here for the past twenty years, I understand that it's important to embrace change.
Our shirts, which are well-made and good value. We're also known for our tailoring and knitwear.
Someone creative who likes to dress well. He might be 18 or 70. We don't overthink it. People get to know us and keep coming back. We don't sell through concessions, so the shop is the only place to come to in London if you want to buy Mr.Start.


text:
package k8sTest

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	. "github.com/cilium/cilium/test/ginkgo-ext"
	"github.com/cilium/cilium/test/helpers"

	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)

var _ = Describe("K8sKafkaPolicyTest", func() {

	var (
		kubectl          *helpers.Kubectl
		backgroundCancel context.CancelFunc = func() {}
		backgroundError  error

		// these two are set in BeforeAll
		l7Policy       string
		demoPath       string
		ciliumFilename string

		kafkaApp            = "kafka"
		backupApp           = "empire-backup"
		empireHqApp         = "empire-hq"
		outpostApp          = "empire-outpost"
		apps                = []string{kafkaApp, backupApp, empireHqApp, outpostApp}
		appPods             = map[string]string{}
		topicEmpireAnnounce = "empire-announce"
		topicDeathstarPlans = "deathstar-plans"
		topicTest           = "test-topic"

		prodHqAnnounce    = `sh -c "echo 'Happy 40th Birthday to General Tagge' | ./kafka-produce.sh --topic empire-announce"`
		conOutpostAnnoune = `sh -c "./kafka-consume.sh --topic empire-announce --from-beginning --max-messages 1"`
		prodHqDeathStar   = `sh -c "echo 'deathstar reactor design v3' | ./kafka-produce.sh --topic deathstar-plans"`
		conOutDeathStar   = `sh -c "./kafka-consume.sh --topic deathstar-plans --from-beginning --max-messages 1"`
		prodBackAnnounce  = `sh -c "echo 'Happy 40th Birthday to General Tagge' | ./kafka-produce.sh --topic empire-announce"`
		prodOutAnnounce   = `sh -c "echo 'Vader Booed at Empire Karaoke Party' | ./kafka-produce.sh --topic empire-announce"`
	)

	AfterFailed(func() {
		kubectl.CiliumReport("cilium service list", "cilium endpoint list")
	})

	AfterAll(func() {
		UninstallCiliumFromManifest(kubectl, ciliumFilename)
		kubectl.CloseSSHClient()
	})

	Context("Kafka Policy Tests", func() {
		createTopicCmd := func(topic string) string {
			return fmt.Sprintf("/opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-topics.sh --create "+
				"--zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 "+
				"--partitions 1 --topic %s", topic)
		}

		createTopic := func(topic string, pod string) error {
			return kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(helpers.DefaultNamespace, pod, createTopicCmd(topic))
		}

		// WaitKafkaBroker waits for the broker to be ready, by executing
		// a command repeatedly until it succeeds, or a timeout occurs
		waitForKafkaBroker := func(pod string, cmd string) error {
			body := func() bool {
				err := kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(helpers.DefaultNamespace, pod, cmd)
				if err != nil {
					return false
				}
				return true
			}
			err := helpers.WithTimeout(body, "Kafka Broker not ready", &helpers.TimeoutConfig{Timeout: helpers.HelperTimeout})
			return err
		}

		waitForDNSResolution := func(pod, service string) error {
			body := func() bool {
				dnsLookupCmd := fmt.Sprintf("nslookup %s", service)
				res := kubectl.ExecPodCmd(helpers.DefaultNamespace, pod, dnsLookupCmd)

				if !res.WasSuccessful() {
					return false
				}
				return true
			}
			err := helpers.WithTimeout(body, fmt.Sprintf("unable to resolve DNS for service %s in pod %s", service, pod), &helpers.TimeoutConfig{Timeout: 30 * time.Second})
			return err
		}

		JustBeforeEach(func() {
			backgroundCancel, backgroundError = kubectl.BackgroundReport("uptime")
			Expect(backgroundError).To(BeNil(), "Cannot start background report process")
		})

		JustAfterEach(func() {
			kubectl.ValidateNoErrorsInLogs(CurrentGinkgoTestDescription().Duration)
			backgroundCancel()
		})

		AfterEach(func() {
			// On aftereach don't make assertions to delete all.
			_ = kubectl.Delete(demoPath)
			_ = kubectl.Delete(l7Policy)

			ExpectAllPodsTerminated(kubectl)
		})

		BeforeAll(func() {
			kubectl = helpers.CreateKubectl(helpers.K8s1VMName(), logger)

			l7Policy = helpers.ManifestGet(kubectl.BasePath(), "kafka-sw-security-policy.yaml")
			demoPath = helpers.ManifestGet(kubectl.BasePath(), "kafka-sw-app.yaml")

			ciliumFilename = helpers.TimestampFilename("cilium.yaml")
			DeployCiliumAndDNS(kubectl, ciliumFilename)

			kubectl.ApplyDefault(demoPath)
			err := kubectl.WaitforPods(helpers.DefaultNamespace, "-l zgroup=kafkaTestApp", helpers.HelperTimeout)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Kafka Pods are not ready after timeout")

			err = kubectl.WaitForKubeDNSEntry("kafka-service", helpers.DefaultNamespace)
			Expect(err).To(BeNil(), "DNS entry of kafka-service is not ready after timeout")

			err = kubectl.CiliumEndpointWaitReady()
			Expect(err).To(BeNil(), "Endpoints are not ready after timeout")

			appPods = helpers.GetAppPods(apps, helpers.DefaultNamespace, kubectl, "app")

			By("Wait for Kafka broker to be up")
			err = waitForKafkaBroker(appPods[kafkaApp], createTopicCmd(topicTest))
			Expect(err).To(BeNil(), "Timeout: Kafka cluster failed to come up correctly")
		})

		It("KafkaPolicies", func() {
			By("Creating new kafka topic %s", topicEmpireAnnounce)
			err := createTopic(topicEmpireAnnounce, appPods[kafkaApp])
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to create topic empire-announce")

			By("Creating new kafka topic %s", topicDeathstarPlans)
			err = createTopic(topicDeathstarPlans, appPods[kafkaApp])
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to create topic deathstar-plans")

			By("Waiting for DNS to resolve within pods for kafka-service")
			err = waitForDNSResolution(appPods[empireHqApp], "kafka-service")
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to resolve kafka-service DNS entry in pod %s", appPods[empireHqApp])
			err = waitForDNSResolution(appPods[outpostApp], "kafka-service")
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to resolve kafka-service DNS entry in pod %s", appPods[outpostApp])

			By("Testing basic Kafka Produce and Consume")
			// We need to produce first, since consumer script waits for
			// some messages to be already there by the producer.

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[empireHqApp], prodHqAnnounce)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to produce from empire-hq on topic empire-announce")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], conOutpostAnnoune)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to consume from outpost on topic empire-announce")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[empireHqApp], prodHqDeathStar)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to produce from empire-hq on topic deathstar-plans")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], conOutDeathStar)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to consume from outpost on topic deathstar-plans")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[backupApp], prodBackAnnounce)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to produce to backup on topic empire-announce")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], prodOutAnnounce)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to produce to outpost on topic empire-announce")

			By("Apply L7 kafka policy and wait")

			_, err = kubectl.CiliumPolicyAction(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, l7Policy,
				helpers.KubectlApply, helpers.HelperTimeout)
			Expect(err).To(BeNil(), "L7 policy cannot be imported correctly")

			By("Testing Kafka L7 policy enforcement status")
			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[empireHqApp], prodHqAnnounce)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to produce from empire-hq on topic empire-announce")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], conOutpostAnnoune)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to consume from outpost on topic empire-announce")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[empireHqApp], prodHqDeathStar)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to produce from empire-hq on topic deathstar-plans")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], conOutpostAnnoune)
			Expect(err).Should(BeNil(), "Failed to consume from outpost on topic empire-announce")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[backupApp], prodBackAnnounce)
			Expect(err).Should(HaveOccurred(), "Produce from backup on topic empire-announce should have been denied by egress policy")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], conOutDeathStar)
			Expect(err).Should(HaveOccurred(), "Consume from outpost on topic deathstar-plans should have been denied")

			err = kubectl.ExecKafkaPodCmd(
				helpers.DefaultNamespace, appPods[outpostApp], prodOutAnnounce)
			Expect(err).Should(HaveOccurred(), "Produce from outpost on topic empire-announce should have been denied")
		})
	})
})


Objective: Psychotic symptoms frequently occur in veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a major role in neurodevelopment, neuro-regeneration, neurotransmission, learning, regulation of mood and stress responses. The Met allele of the functional polymorphism, BDNF Val66Met, is associated with psychotic disorders. This study intended to assess whether the Met allele is overrepresented in unrelated Caucasian male veterans with psychotic PTSD compared to veteran controls. Method: The BDNF Val66Met variants were genotyped in 576 veterans: 206 veterans without PTSD and 370 veterans with PTSD subdivided into groups with or without psychotic features. Results: Veterans with psychotic PTSD were more frequently carriers of one or two Met alleles of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism than veterans with PTSD without psychotic features and veterans without PTSD. Conclusions: The study shows that veterans with psychotic PTSD carried more Met alleles of the BDNF Val66Met than non-psychotic veterans with PTSD or veterans without PTSD. The results might add further support to the hypothesis that psychotic PTSD is a more severe subtype of PTSD.


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Spotlight On Jay-Z's Disruptive And Ever-Evolving Company, Roc Nation
Written by Dana Sanchez
One of the best-selling musicians of all time, Jay-Z has an against-the-odds story that helped garner him a "Jay-Z for president" shoutout last weekend at the Grammy Awards.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter may not be the richest hip-hop artist in the world, but with a net worth of $810 million in 2017, he's been named the second richest and he didn't get there by having all his eggs in one basket.
"What's fascinating is the way a drug dealer-turned-rapper-turned-mogul and family man became the cultural force he is today—by claiming his past, and all it taught him," Vanity Fair interviewer Lisa Robinson wrote in 2013.
The entrepreneur Jay-Z has founded or owned a clothing company, a restaurant chain, a sports management firm, two record labels, and the streaming service Tidal.
"Everyone's supposed to stay in their lines and be neat,"Jay Z told Robinson. "You're a rapper. You're supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club—that's all you do. What are you doing collecting art? What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you're getting out of the zone. People hate when people cross lines."
But they love it too.
We're taking a closer look at the success of Jay Z's continually expanding, ever-evolving entertainment company, Roc Nation, which spans the worlds of recording artists and producers, songwriters and athletes.
As of September 2017, Forbes reported that Roc Nation had $906 million worth of contracts under management with 33 clients.
Roc Nation claims on its website to be redefining the business of entertainment. On Saturday, Jay Z's peers honored him for doing just that.
Pictures of #JAYZ being celebrated at #CliveDavis' #PreGRAMMYGala with #Beyonce, #AliciaKeys, #CardiB, #RemyMa and many more: https://t.co/jpDgcVmvZK
— Rickey Smiley (@RickeySmiley) January 28, 2018
The Recording Academy, an organization of musicians, producers and recording professionals, honored Jay Z Saturday at a pre-Grammys dinner. He got the Grammy Salute to Industry Icons for not only reshaping rap but also for entrepreneurship, including reshaping the music business with his streaming service Tidal.
The next day at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, all eyes were on Jay Z, Beyonce, and their daughter Blue Ivy, when the hip-hop artist failed to win an award for his "4:44" album despite eight nominations.
We not rewarding him for cheating on bey lol
— Lips 'n Fro (@lessied83) January 29, 2018
Kendrick Lamar made a shoutout to Jay-Z during his acceptance speech for Best Rap Album, saying, "Jay for President." Lamar beat out Jay-Z in the category. Lamar also honored Jay-Z as one of the "guys in this building right now that I still idolize to this day."
Vanity Fair's Robinson described Jay-Z in 2013 as "a thoughtful, guarded, reticent man. Not aloof—just cool."
Five years later, Jay-Z appears to be increasingly comfortable speaking publicly, opening up most recently to CNN's Van Jones for the debut of "The Van Jones Show."
Towards the end of that interview, Jay Z appeared to speak with compassion about President Donald Trump when he reflected on Trump's racist remarks about immigrants.
"Donald Trump is a human being, too," Jay-Z told Jones. "Somewhere along his lineage, something happened to him. Something happened to him and he's in pain and he's expressing it in this sort of way."
Jay-Z makes headlines whatever he says, does and doesn't do. So far this year, Roc Nation has commanded a lot of those headlines in the world of sports.
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Quick Timeline of Roc Nation
2008: Jay-Z founded Roc Nation with a multi-year partnership with live event company Live Nation.
2009: Roc Nation signed a four-year distribution deal with Sony Music.
2010: Roc Nation partnered with London-based entertainment company Three Six Zero Group.
2013: Roc Nation signed a worldwide music publishing administration deal with Warner/Chappell Music.
2013: Roc Nation formed a new sports management division, Roc Nation Sports, a subsidiary dedicated to sports representation for professional athletes, and a boxing promotion division. After the Sony deal expired, Roc Nation signed a multi-year partnership with Universal Music.
2015: Roc Nation and Three Six Zero Group announced the formation of Three Six Zero Entertainment, a division representing clients in film, TV and the literary arts.
2016: the administrator of Prince's estate authorized a copyright lawsuit against Roc Nation for putting 15 Prince albums up on the streaming service Tidal.
2017: Roc Nation announced the formation of Arrive, a new division of the company that will focus on investing and nurturing promising startups. Roc Nation collaborated with art collective MSFTSrep.
In its sports representation business, Roc Nation has managed to score big names by picking out a select few players to try to land in each class, ESPN reported.
In sports, Roc Nation takes a holistic approach. The company says it focuses on elevating athletes' career on a global scale both on and off the field. It does this with marketing and endorsement deals, community outreach, charity tie-ins, media relations and brand strategy.
Roc Nation's boxing and sports clients include Miguel Cotto and Andre Ward, Robinson Cano, Skylar Diggins, Kevin Durant, Geno Smith, Victor Cruz, CC Sabathia, James Young, Dez Bryant, Ndamukong Suh, Rusney Castillo, Yoenis Cespedes, Jaelen Strong, Todd Gurley, Wilson Chandler, Erick Aybar, Justise Winslow, Willie Cauley-Stein, Jerome Boateng, Miguel Sano, CJ Prosise, Ronnie Stanley, Henry Ellenson, Caris LeVert and Mike Gbinije.
It was that holistic approach to on-and-off-the-field career elevation that appealed to Saquon Barkley, who announced on Jan. 3 that he would go from being a college football star to Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports agency.
"A lot of people came around my way, but (Roc Nation) were focused on me and they did a great job at selling my family on setting me up for life, bringing value outside of football," Barkley told ESPN. "I felt like it was harder for other agencies to pitch that family feel when they were working with 30 or 40 guys."
Scoring Barkley means Jay Z's sports agency has nabbed one of the top running backs in three of the past four draft classes, ESPN reported. In 2015, the agency signed Todd Gurley, who went 10th to the Rams, and C.J. Prosise, who was picked 90th by the Seattle Seahawks. Last year, Roc Nation Sports signed LSU running back Leonard Fournette, who was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the fourth pick."
Roc Nation's musical client list includes some of the world's most recognizable names from Rihanna, Shakira, J. Cole, and Big Sean to Yoenis Cespedes, Kevin Durant, Dez Bryant, and Robinson Cano.
The Roc Nation deals can be interesting for athlete and label alike, KultureHub reported. Players get the chance to occupy the entertainment sphere like never before. They get their image in relevant ad campaigns and placements:
The effect sports and music has on culture has many similarities, so it only makes sense to combine the two, KultureHub reported. As for the labels themselves, sports make sense because, well, there's a shit ton of money in them. According to Forbes, the industry will be worth $73.5 billion by 2019. The music industry can be a fickle business but attaching your name to a valuable sports commodity can mean steady and guaranteed income for the remainder of that player's career and beyond."
'Greatness is a process'
In 2014, Jay-Z picked former Florida Panthers executive Michael Yormark to be president of Roc Nation Sports.
Yormark described what it's like to work there in a 2015 Complex interview. "We work late here," he said. "You know, the Roc Nation DNA is really going 100 percent every day. It's all about hard work and passion and helping to drive a business forward."
What is the legacy of Roc Nation?
BET asked that question to Victory, a folk- and gospel-inspired singer-songwriter signed to the label. "It's always evolving," Victory said. "But I feel like everyone is working very hard to become something excellent, whether it's the staff or artists, everyone is always working very hard. It's a passion. That's the theme, passion and greatness. (Roc Nation's) slogan is 'Greatness is a Process.' Everyone is about that process."
#jayz talks about Therapy and stigma. Very powerful and important. pic.twitter.com/wj5fmVKDmV
— Diane M Cartwright (@TherapistDMC) January 28, 2018
Jay-Z on Jan. 28, 2018, during an appearance on CNN 'The Van Jones Show.' Photo: WENN
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A Visa is REQUIRED for any travel to Nigeria.
Original, signed U. S. Passport with at least 6 months of remaining validity beyond stay in Nigeria, with adequate unused visa pages to allow for entry and exit stamps upon arrival and departure from Nigeria. Note* Amendment pages in the back of your passport are NOT to be used for entry and exit stamps or visa issuance.
Letter of Invitation from host accepting full immigration responsibility. If the host is an expatriate, copy of resident permit attached to the letter of invite.
Passport information page of host.
State the nature of the business to be conducted (ie. business meetings, contract negotiations, etc.) and the names and addresses of companies to be contacted in Nigeria.
TWP Cable Nigeria. Copy of the Comptroller general of Immigration Approval of Cable Visa that lists the applicant's name.
4 Recent Passport-type photograph (2″ x 2″) in color, front view with white background.
4 Copies of Employment Offer Letter.
4 Copies of Acceptance of Employment Letter.
Quota. 4 Copies of Nigerian Immigration Approval Quota. Quota should be at least valid for 6 months.
4 Copies of Resume, Diploma, Degrees, Certificates Earned. High School Diploma if there is no College Degree only for non-high skilled position.
4 copies of Certificate of Incorporation of the Nigerian Company.
4 copies of Company Memorandum & Article of Association.
CAC Forms 2 & 7. 4 copies of Corporate Affairs Particulars of directors and their shear holdings thereof.
4 Copies of Business Permit. Business permit issued by the Ministry of Interior (for companies that have foreign shareholders).
4 Copies of monthly quota utilization returns as endorsed by the Immigration Service.


Thank you and congratulations on your purchase of the The Omega Concern's Dual Sig Sauer P229 handgun set. This set is designed to allow the user to use it in a combat or role-play setting and look good while doing so, and is designed for seamless compatibility with the Omega Combat System, the premier combat simulation system in Second Life.
Please read this manual before using your new handguns.
THERE IS A TECHNICAL SUPPORT PASSPHRASE IN THIS MANUAL, WHICH YOU MUST USE WHEN FIRST CONTACTING YOUR TECHNICAL CONTACT ABOUT THIS PRODUCT. We just do this to make sure you've read the instructions so that we can assist people with truly vexing problems not already answered within.
These handguns can be abused and used to annoy and harass others. Don't do that. By purchasing and using them, you agree to use them with willing and consenting participants. No other application is intended or endorsed.
1.2 Added: NP Push and NP PushObj ammo; 'LG' models, 50% larger handguns for you giants out there. Changed: Now using weighted off-axis selection algorithm for more precise non-physical bullet targeting.
1.3 Added: New Rounds: OCS Tracer, OCS Damage, Push, Push Tracer, NP Damage. New Animation Suite - Single Pistol animations. Gesture/Chat Commands. New user configurable velocity system. Changed: New holsters, sound effects completely remixed and updated. NP Destabil reworked and tweaked for additional lethality. Dual pistol animations completely reworked.
The P229's come with both a 'regular' scale model set, and a 'large' model set (for bigger than average avatars.) Only one version needs to be worn. Also, the holsters come with a 'Strap' and 'No Strap' version. If you don't feel like sizing the holsters, or if you don't care for the straps, the 'NoStrap' version should be worn.
P229 HUD: By default, this Heads Up Display attaches to the center screen point, but it may be attached anywhere on the screen.
Note: The guns will not function with only the Left SIG P229 attached.
The handgun set will auto-detect when you are using single or dual mode. When detaching the left pistol and leaving the right for single mode operation, it may take the system a few seconds to register that the left gun has been detached.
Right Holster SIG P229 1.3/ Right Holster SIG P229 NoStrap 1.3: Either version you choose to use will attach to your Right Upper Leg attachment point. While you may attach it to another point, keep in mind that the animations work with the assumptioni that it is attached there. You are encouraged but not required to use a holster with your SIG P229 system.
Left Holster SIG P2291.3/Left Hoster SIG P229 NoStrap 1.3: Either version you choose to use will attach to your Left Upper Leg attachment point. While you may attach it to another point, keep in mind that the animations work with the assumptioni that it is attached there. Optimally, you should wear a Left Sigg P229 1.3 or a Left SIG P229 1.3 LG when wearing a Left Holster. This is suggested, but not required.
Main Display: This is the default display, which allows you to perform all operations with the gun set.
Color Chooser: This is the display shown when you are choosing a color for the laser/sight dots, holster or trim. If you are comfortable editing, you may edit the linked parts of the color palette, and set your own color by setting the color of the entire button to that which you desire. The color that the button is is the color that is sent to the gun set. This allows you to save your favourite colors on the palette.
Ammo Display: A graphical mode for easy reference to how much ammo you have in the current clip. This display can be shown by clicking the HUD frame from the main display. To get back to the main display, click the frame again. Do note that the guns fire in unison, so if the display shows you have 6 rounds left, that means 6 rounds in each gun.
Minimized Display: This is to neatly tuck the display out of the way, giving you a numeric display of the rounds remaining in your current clip, and the ability to draw the weapons, reload, and change ammo.
Options Menu: The options menu will give you a blue drop down menu which will allow you to tweak the velocity of your bullets, and to toggle Shell Ejection on and off. For those of you wishing to use the SIG P229's for a combat system other than OCS, tweaking the velocity of your bullets may result in more damage. However, The Omega Concern guarantees compatibility only with OCS and the Second Life damage model.
In OCS mode, the selection of ammunition is limited to a pre-selected list of OCS-compatible ammunition.
As a general rule, all bullets described as "physical" may be stopped by shields or deflected by interceptors. Push ammunition will work only in non-push-restricted areas. All of the NP rounds now use our newly developed weighted off-axis selection algorithm. This causes the bullet while travelling forward to give preference to targets on or nearest its forward axis, and to a lesser degree, targets that are closer to its position. Closer targets that are more off-axis than a further target receive less "weight" and are not chosen unless the distance between the two is great enough to weight that target more than the on-axis one. This does result in moving targets being a bit harder to hit, but it also allows for much greater target discrimination. Besides, it makes it more like the real thing.
OCS 229: These rounds will be loaded by default when in an OCS Enabled area, when you are wearing your OCS HUD. These rounds inflict traumatic damage on their target. Accuracy will be dependent on your OCS level and skill set.
OCS TRC 229: These rounds are indentical to the OCS 229 round, but will utilize a Tracer Bullet. Again, accuracy will be dependent on your OCS level and skill set.
DMG 229: Delivers a fatal blow in damage-enabled areas to the unlucky avatar it makes impact with, harmless in non-damage areas.
DMG-TRC 229: Same effect as the damage round above, but with a tracer effect.
NP PSHO:A non-physical shield-breaking bullet which delivers a strong push in the direction of travel to physical objects.
NP DMG: A non-physical shield-breaking bullet which delivers 100% damage to an avatar in damage-enabled combat areas. Note, these rounds will not 'push' your target, and are designed for use within damage enabled areas of Second Life.
SMOKE: Bursts Omega Orange smoke upon impact with objects, land, friends or opponents alike. Blinding and annoying to those with particles on, otherwise harmless.
GRAV: Upon impact with an avatar, causes them to undergo complete gravitational reversal, sending them high into the sky and out of your face. Works in no-push zones.
PSH 229: Similar to NP PUSH above, but will not by pass shields or other objects. Will most likely be fatal in damage enabled areas.
PSH-TRC 229: Indentical to PUSH 229 except utilizes a 'Tracer' bullet.
NUKE: The Omega Concern's infamous nuclear warheads, compressed with exclusive Shoehorn(tm) technology into .357 sized rounds. Explodes on contact, kills in a 96m radius in damage-enabled areas, and makes for pretty, though harmless effects in others.
FLARE: Launches a pair of harmless flares 20 meters above the point of impact to illuminate the subject.
Included in the gun kit is a set of gestures bound to F-keys. These gestures simply send the given command to the guns on channel 24, so you don't have to click the buttons on the HUD itself. You DO need to keep the HUD on, however, as it is what parses the commands as they come in. Also, you may say commands directly on channel 24, for example typing "/24 draw" would draw the handgun(s).
Q: Will the SIG P229s work with my Roleplay Combat System?
A: They may. To date, we have not heard of any systems that the SIG P229's will not work with. However, The Omega Concern does not guarentee compatibility with any other system but OCS and the Second Life damage model.
Q: Why do I seem to miss with my SIG P229s in OCS?
In short, these guns are meant to deliver devastating fun, and work as a strong statement of your excellent taste for wielding a quality Omega Concern product. The Omega Concern promises to support your P229s for the lifetime of the product, with free upgrades for all of 1.x, and lifetime bug fixes.
The Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG)-Sauer P226 is a full-sized, service type pistol originally chambered for 9 mm Luger. Its design is based on the venerable SIG-Sauer P220. The P226 has come to be known as one of the most distinguished combat pistols in existence because of its reliability and durability.
The P226 was designed for entry into the XM9 Service Pistol Trials, which were held by the US Army in 1984 on behalf of the US armed forces to find a replacement for the M1911A1. Only the Beretta 92F and the P226 satisfactorily completed the trials; however, Beretta was ultimately awarded the contract for the 92F due to overall cost.
The SIG P229 is a compact firearm, often used for concealed carry purposes. The standard version features a DA/SA trigger, but it is also available with a DAO trigger.
Recently, the pistol has also been made available in a DAK (Double Action Kellerman) model, which is a DAO system with two trigger reset points, and a lighter, smoother pull than that of traditional DAO handguns.
The P229 differs from its cousin, the P226 in several respects. The P226 is a "full size" pistol, while the P229 is considered compact. The P226 originally was manufactured using a stamped-steel slide on an aluminum alloy frame. The P229 consists of a milled stainless steel slide, typically colored black with a Nitron finish. The P226 and P229 are both available with optional accessory rails and optional forged stainless steel frames.
The P229 can be chambered in 9 mm, .40 S&W or .357 SIG. Changing between .40 S&W and .357 SIG is as simple as switching out the barrel. Conversion barrels, from companies such as [Bar-Sto Precision Machine], will also allow your P229 or P226 to change between a .40 S&W/.357 SIG to a 9mm caliber. The magazine can accommodate ammunition of either caliber. The 9 mm model cannot be converted to another caliber.
SIG firearms are manufactured both in Germany and in Exeter, New Hampshire. Although Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft is a Swiss company, Swiss law is highly restrictive when it comes to the export of firearms. Consequently, SIG entered into an agreement with German gun manufacturer J.P. Sauer & Sohn to facilitate an export market for their products.