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Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Vodka
By MaxTop10 on August 14, 2019
Vodka remains a global favorite. The drink features in countless cocktails, but life outside the bar is where things get interesting. Gather volunteers, give them vodka, and you will soon discover a mean drunk inside everyone and the benefits of exercise swirling down the drain.
Researchers also uncovered the disturbing danger of long-term consumption—but not as lethal as the fake vodka brands flooding the market. Then there were the bottles that committed arson and the circus that fed their elephants vodka by the bucket to rescue them.
10 Household Fridges Cannot Freeze Vodka
Need alcoholic Popsicles? Stick wine and beer into a fridge. Forget about vodka. After months in the freezer, the liquor remains liquid. This unusual quality boils down to the freezing point of alcohol. Beverages with zing do not share a single point. Instead, it depends on their individual water and alcohol percentage.
Beer and wine turn solid within hours because their alcohol is low compared to hard liquor like vodka. The Russian favorite packs 40 percent alcohol, placing its freezing point at -27 degrees Celsius (-16 °F).
The average freezer is too warm to make vodka lollies. Should you really crave alcoholic ice cubes from Smirnoff, then you must invest in an industrial freezer or liquid nitrogen. Both reach vodka's freezing point with ease.[1]
9 The Rotterdam Container
In 2019, Dutch customs officials became suspicious. A Chinese-owned ship called Nebula had docked at Rotterdam with a container full of vodka. All told, it bore the gift of 90,000 bottles.
The paperwork claimed that the Russian vodka was destined for China. However, Dutch intelligence had a strong suspicion that it was really meant for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
This made the shipment a problem. United Nations sanctions prohibit the importation of luxury goods into North Korea. When officers wanted a look for themselves, they found the container suspiciously tucked away behind an aircraft in the hull. Although removal could have damaged the plane, the order was duly given by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2]
Customs seized the shipment. When the news became public, they refused to reveal how they knew the haul was dodgy. Future smugglers might use that information to get luxury goods past Dutch ports. The suspicions about Kim are not far-fetched. He has imported billions' worth of luxury goods for himself since taking power in 2011.
8 The Mean Drunk Study
In 2018, 50 Australian men volunteered to play a game inside an MRI scanner. A few enjoyed vodka beforehand. Whether sober or tipsy, everyone was told that it was a reaction-time task and their opponent was a student playing in another room.
In truth, it was an aggression-inducing game and their opponent was a computer. The winner was the person who pushed a button first when a colored block appeared on the screen. The loser got blasted with a sound.
The men were under the impression that the "student" chose an annoying volume with which to punish them when they lost. It was enough to make anyone crabby.
The scans showed that the inebriated bunch experienced reduced brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. This nugget is responsible for moderating anger and social behavior. It also supports inhibition and memory.[3]
When they won and chose to react with an aggressive volume against their opponent, the dip was significant. Theoretically, this makes any drunk person less capable of tapping into etiquette and control—and more likely to respond aggressively when annoyed.
7 The Vodka Fire
Insurance companies get strange claims. The following would have tested the faith of the most salted company. In 2012, a liquor store in Minnesota experienced a fire that reached about 3.7 meters (12 ft) into the air.
The owner claimed that sunlight had set a bottle of vodka alight, which exploded and fueled the problem with its flammable contents. If that was not weird enough, the incident took place in a town called Burnsville. Thankfully, the store's security camera taped the whole thing.
Most people have scorched something by focusing the Sun's energy through a magnifying glass. In this case, a vodka bottle acted like a lens and caused the sunlight's heat to converge on a single point in the display case—which was made of cardboard. The resulting blaze caused several bottles to explode and fuel the flames.[4]
6 The LGBT Boycott
In 2013, new laws allowed Russian police to arrest foreign visitors to their country. The crime? Being homosexual or showing support for those who are. The country had already banned pride marches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and attacks on LGBT individuals were increasing.
Dan Savage took up the challenge to bring attention to the latest laws. This US sex writer once famously took on former US Senator Rick Santorum for the latter's criticism of gay marriage.
Savage started a campaign to boycott vodka. As the product has epic sales, this was meant to kick people where it hurt. LGBT organizations soon spread the word. Several bars in Chicago stopped serving vodka, and countless activists stopped buying it.[5]
One of the boycotted brands, Stolichnaya, responded. The company made it very clear that they supported the LGBT community and had no ties with Russia. Stolichnaya was produced in Latvia. Another brand targeted by Dan Savage was Russian Standard vodka, which was produced in Russia by a wealthy oligarch. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was no reaction.
5 An Elephant Remedy
In 2012, two circus elephants were loaded into their trailer. The circus was moving from Novosibirsk to Omsk in Siberia. As that night was one of the coldest of the year, their trailer's heating system was switched on.
While on the road, a glitch sparked a fire. The elephants' compartment was wood-lined, and the flames soon forced the circus group to a halt. There was no choice but to remove the two giants and let them hang out in the bitter cold, which was an estimated -41 degrees Celsius (-42 °F).
The animal handlers knew they had to do something to help Magda and Jenny. When the circus staff bolted for the nearest liquor store, witnesses thought that the shocked performers planned to get drunk to soothe their nerves. Instead, they poured two boxes of vodka into buckets, mixed them in warm water, and made their elephants inebriated.
The remedy kept them warm until a veterinarian could arrive and while the staff searched for shelter. Apart from a little frostbite on the ears, Magda and Jenny were described as otherwise unharmed and "merry."[6]
4 Alcohol Cancels Strength Training
In 2016, a study focused on the effects of alcohol on training. The team already knew that high alcohol levels inhibit the body's signal telling muscles to repair and grow. Strength training boosts that signal. The idea was to test whether alcohol or exercise would have a greater effect on the signal.
The volunteers included 10 men and nine women. After workouts, they were given either vodka or a glass of water where the rim was smeared with vodka. The latter would have no effect on the participants, but it tricked them into thinking that everyone received diluted vodka. Those earmarked for drunkenness were given the equivalent of up to eight alcoholic drinks within 10 minutes.
The results went both ways. The repair signal was reduced in men but not in women. The reason remains mysterious, but men's bigger post-workout testosterone surge could have something to do with it.[7]
3 Vodka Lowers Life Expectancy
Vodka lovers need not panic—unless you live in Russia. One study found that vodka shortens the lives of men. Researchers interviewed 151,000 men from three Russian cities to gauge their drinking habits.
After about 8,000 died, the study swung into its second phase. The team analyzed the causes of death and found something disturbing. The heavier vodka drinkers risked an early death. In fact, the drink was linked to 35 percent of those who died before age 55. In general, a quarter of Russian men perish before that age from all causes.[8]
This is very high, considering that deaths before age 55 count for only 10 percent of men in the United States and 7 percent in the United Kingdom. Worse, the dangerous limit was a mere three or more half-liter bottles a week. Russian life expectancy might not improve any time soon. Vodka is still heavily consumed, and villagers often make it at home.
2 Atomik Vodka
Chernobyl is the number one tourist attraction in Ukraine. In 2018, around 60,000 visitors trooped to the nuclear disaster area. For those who love the thrill, they can now buy vodka made from grain and water harvested from the exclusion zone.
This area was once forbidden. When the meltdown occurred in 1986, the contamination was so bad that 2,600 square kilometers (1,000 mi2) around Chernobyl was thought unfit for life for the next 24,000 years.
These days, the Ukrainian authorities claim that the danger may have been overrated. However, tourists cannot visit certain hot spots and the grain also tested positive for radiation.
As bad as that sounds, the distillation process removed the radioactive waste and subsequent tests declared the vodka safe. The brand, named Atomik, is the first consumer product to come from the region since the disaster. The bottles will be sold to Chernobyl tourists, and around 75 percent of the profits will go to the zone's villages.[9]
1 Deadly Fake Ingredients
The United Kingdom is facing a growing problem with fake vodka. Across the country, officers have seized and tested suspicious bottles. These included brand names like Smirnoff, Glen's, and Red Admiral.
The counterfeit vodka had higher alcohol levels than what was stated on the label. But that was the least of the authorities' problems. The analysis showed that the copycats contained lethal ingredients.
In Surrey county, a batch of Glen's vodka was spiked with 235 times the allowed amount of methanol. This chemical is used to make antifreeze and can cause blindness. In West Sussex, four brands contained a dangerous industrial solvent called Propan-2-ol. Another frightening ingredient, chloroform, turned up in 700 bottles of Drop vodka in Wokingham.[10]
Shoppers were warned to be on the lookout for vodka that is too cheap, has badly printed labels or spelling mistakes, or is not filled to the same level as other bottles. Making a safe choice could be a challenge. The number of places selling the fake liquor is seemingly on the rise.
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What is ESG and why is it so important for modern organisations?
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are an increasing concern for socially responsible investors. Here's why demonstrating your business meets ESG criteria should be a priority.
Environment, social and governance (ESG) factors are some of the most important considerations for every modern business – everything from sustainability to human rights, ethics, culture and regulatory compliance fall under the ESG umbrella.
To help examine how ESG influences – or should influence – corporate decision-making, we sat down with Jenny Cutri, Legal and Compliance expert. Here, she shares insights on why ESG should be front-of-mind for all corporations and senior management.
So what is ESG?
ESG refers to how a business manages itself/performs in three dimensions – Environment, Social and Governance – and are the three areas of interest for 'socially responsible investors'. These are investors who consider it important to assess a corporation's performance not just in terms of financial sustainability and performance, but in terms of these other non-financial factors:
Environment: This concerns conservation of the natural world and includes pressing issues such as climate change, energy and water use and environmental responsibility.
Social: This captures people and relationships and essentially how the business manages relationships/interacts with everyone from employees to customers, stakeholders, suppliers and even their local community. It also covers employee engagement, human rights and labour standards, data protection, diversity and customer satisfaction.
Governance: This involves the standards of running the business, such as how the organisation deals with shareholder rights, executive salaries and bonuses, anti-money laundering practices, whistleblowers, internal controls, audits and the overall company leadership.
ESG factors are often interlinked, and an issue may fall under more than one area. For example, payment of minimum award rates for employees, or the employment process itself, fall under both social and governance.
Why should ESG be a priority for an organisation?
First and foremost, your commitment to ESG ensures that your business is socially responsible – you mitigate risks and generate sustainable long-term outcomes.
Importantly for the C-suite and key decision-makers, ESG is becoming a critical influencer for both investors and financial institutions. In fact, a study by Ernst & Young conducted during COVID-19 found that 91% of investors considered non-financial performance when deciding whether or not to invest in an organisation.
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Having the right ESG framework is not just a matter of ethics, it can have a clear impact on the organisation's revenues, financial performance and long-term competitive success,.
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"As highly regarded McKinsey & Company noted in a recent report, there are five ways that ESG creates value: top-line growth, cost reduction, regulatory and legal interventions, productivity uplift, and investment and asset optimisation."
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Meeting your responsibilities and ESG expectations
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Publish your commitment to ESG on your website
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Moon, Durkan struggle to stand apart in Seattle mayoral debate
By Daniel DeMay, SeattlePI
Updated 11:55 am PDT, Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Mayoral candidates Jenny Durkan, left, and Cary Moon ask each other questions during a debate, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 at Seattle University.
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In their first meeting since August's primary, Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon struggled to differentiate themselves on issues of housing affordability and homelessness.
The two might best be regarded as left and further left on the two issues, and in a debate Tuesday night at Seattle University's Pigott Auditorium, the candidates ultimately landed on the same side, saying both are huge issues in Seattle and need to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Produced by Seattle U's Project on Family Homelessness and Solid Ground in partnership with Housing Development Consortium, Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness and Washington Housing Alliance, the debate dwelled on those issues in questions asked by Seattle Times reporter Vernal Coleman, Stranger reporter Heidi Groover, and Crosscut reporter David Kroman. The Seattle Times and Crosscut were media co-sponsors for the event.
KCTS/9 Senior Correspondent Enrique Cerna moderated the evening but led off with a question of his own about incumbent Mayor Ed Murray and the resignation he announced earlier in the day on the heels of a fifth accusation of sexual abuse.
"Was his decision to resign the correct decision?" and should he have done it sooner, Cerna asked at the outset of the debate.
Moon reiterated that she had called on Murray to resign in May and said she was "sorry it took so long."
"His defending his actions resulted in demeaning and victim blaming for his accusers" and his use of the bully pulpit was a "misuse of public trust," she said.
Durkan, who hadn't called for Murray to resign until Tuesday and then only minutes before he did so, said it was the right decision and called for the city to move forward.
"I'm glad we can put those issues behind us," she said.
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Despite a day that seemed filled with news of Murray and the allegations against him, that opening salvo was the only mention of the issue during the 90-minute debate.
The rest of the night became a showing of who could outfox whom as Groover, Coleman and Kroman asked tough questions about city policies and future responses to housing and homelessness.
Moon, an urban planner and activist, responded off the cuff to many questions, once answering honestly about a proposal to allow tenants collective-bargaining rights, "I don't know if it's legal."
Durkan stayed out of the weeds where she could and sounded off with more rehearsed answers and ready-made anecdotes to many questions.
Despite the similarity of many of their positions, the candidates stood apart on several issues, not the least of which was unsanctioned homeless camps.
Asked if the city should continue camp cleanups and what they would change about the approach, Durkan said people need to be relocated out of unsafe camps — and most of them are unsafe, she added — into permanent housing.
"They're no place for anybody to be living," she said of the camps. Very few of those camps are safe for people to live in, she added later.
Moon struck out on her own, and said she is against sweeps of camps, authorized or otherwise.
"(We need to) go to them with help, support and access to the services they need and bring them to a place that is safer," Moon said. "We need to be super mindful ... respect people's dignity."
She would rethink the city's "navigation teams" to make their approach more social services-oriented than about public safety, she said.
Durkan took a shot at Moon later, after Groover asked about Moon's plans to look into a tax on foreign real estate deals in Seattle.
Moon's plan is based on a tax put in place in Vancouver, British Columbia, aimed at deterring deals by absentee foreign buyers to speculate in local real estate. Vancouver enacted a 15 percent tax on such deals and saw a huge dip in its supercharged housing market that nonetheless rebounded less than a year later.
Some have said similar foreign investment may be driving up Seattle's market, though hard data on the issue are hard to pin down. Moon would try to measure the impact before coming up with a tax or other solution, and that's where Durkan struck.
"I think whoever the next mayor is is going to have enough real crises and issues without making some up," Durkan said.
Durkan has continued to call Moon out on the plan, suggesting Tuesday that — whether she meant it or not — the idea of the tax was discriminatory.
Moon didn't stand for the accusations, though, and pointed out that her plan wouldn't target any specific country of origin or race, and that the idea that people in the Chinese-American community felt as much may have come from "malicious" misinformation.
In their closing statements, both candidates shared their concern over the city's inability to respond to the growing need for housing and economic equity in the Seattle.
"We have to do better," Moon said. "We have this incredible potential that we're not living up to."
Durkan followed suit.
"We haven't provided economic empowerment," Durkan said, "the ability for everybody to have a shot at it, no matter where they live in this city."
Durkan and Moon will have until Nov. 7 to convince the voters who is the better pick for the city's top job. And that job will go to the winner sooner than under normal circumstances.
With Murray stepping down, an interim mayor will serve only until the results of the election are certified — scheduled for Nov. 28 — when the winner will assume the job, a little more than a month ahead of a normal schedule.
Daniel DeMay covers Seattle culture, city hall, and transportation for seattlepi.com. He can be reached at 206-448-8362 or danieldemay@seattlepi.com. Follow him on Twitter: @Daniel_DeMay.


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The reason for this two-fold, says Jim Nelson, vice president of sales and marketing for TherabathPro/WR Medical Electronics in Stillwater, Minn. Firstly, the moment a hand or foot is placed in the bath, the paraffin solidifies and any dead skin or pathogens (disease-causing organisms) are instantly encapsulated. "Sometimes we demonstrate this at trade shows by setting up a paraffin bath and challenging people to contaminate it with a bit of lotion we place on their fingertip," says Nelson. "No matter how fast you dip it into the bath, the skin and anything on it is instantly encapsulated in the wax." Of course, he notes, in the salon you must discard any used wax to keep the bath free of potential contaminants.
The second reason paraffin poses an extremely low risk of contamination if used properly is that it doesn't contain any water, which is a requirement for bacteria, fungi, and viruses to grow. Paraffin is a petroleum derivative and, as the saying goes, oil and water don't mix.
"Paraffin floats," says Nelson. "And anything water-based will not mix with it. It will sink to the bottom." This is why residue such as dirt and hair will be found only at the bottom of the bath.
In 1996, at the request of the Oregon Board of Barbers and Hairdressers, researchers at Oregon State University studied whether paraffin baths can become contaminated with pathogenic organisms. The researchers rounded up some bacteria (Pseudumonas aeruginos and Staphylococcus aureus) and some fungus (Trichophyton rubrum and Epidermophyton floccusum) common to the skin to see how they fared in the environment of a paraffin bath. They also took samples of wax from 22 salons in western Oregon and tested them for bacterial and fungal contamination.
Their laboratory tests of intentionally contaminated paraffin confirmed that "It appears that bacteria and fungi do not survive a long time in paraffin wax." However, traces of bacteria and fungi were found in several of the salon samples tested, leading researchers to conclude that wax may be contaminated if used in the following manner: "1) sanitation procedures are not followed, 2) wax is replaced [re-used] in the bath after use, and 3) the wax is used often without replacement with new wax." If hands and feet are properly sanitized before the service and good sanitation is used, the baths are safe, they told the Oregon board.
Real world experience bears out the safety of paraffin as well. Not only has it been used in salons since the mid-1980s to soften and hydrate skin, it has had medical applications dating back to World War I when it was used for orthopedic injuries. It has been used by doctors, physical therapists, and rehabilitation specialists for decades to treat a variety of ailments including arthritis, tendonitis, muscle stiffness, and joint pain.
While salons may occasionally be sited by their state boards for unsanitary conditions with respect to the paraffin bath, no one NAILS spoke to is aware of any reports of disease being transmitted via paraffin. So far, only a handful of state boards have issued guidelines for paraffin use. Most recommend taking similar precautions: 1) Perform paraffin treatments only on healthy skin; 2) Sanitize the skin before dipping; and 3) Never reuse wax. Check with your board for specific requirements, since they can differ from state to state.
"There are always a few clients who say, 'I'm not going to put my feet in there with every else's'" says Lorna Nehme, a former salon owner who is national director of education for Miami-based Divi International. As a salon owner, Nehme maintained three paraffin units at once: one for hands, one for feet, and one solely for clients who were reluctant to dip in a bath anyone had used before them. "I would take a quarter-cup of paraffin from the bath that no one had used and pour it into a plastic liner, then place the client's hand loosely inside while the paraffin settled in the bottom of the liner," explains Nehme. "Then I'd knot the liner around the client's wrist and start a reflexology massage gently molding the paraffin around the hand." This alternative paraffin treatment offers additional pampering to the client since the tech maintains physical contact with the client after the wax is applied.
Similarly you could adapt the instructions for paraffin body treatments: Ladle a small amount of melted wax from the bath into a smaller container and brush it on to hands or feet with a paraffin application brush. Alternately, fabric strips can be dipped in a warm paraffin and wrapped around the body part in question. Apply several layers then cover the paraffin with a plastic liner and insulated mitts or boots. A new company, Escondido, Calif.-based SpaSoft, has introduced a single-use, disposable paraffin treatment called the SpaSoft Experience that even offers an aromatherapy component.
No matter the paraffin services you offer, the key is to perform them with the utmost professionalism—both to keep the bath safe and to put patrons' minds at ease. Given the public and media attention to salon sanitation in recent years, the perception of scrupulous hygiene is almost as important as the reality of it. By spending a few extra moments and a few extra dollars to do things right, we can keep the service safe.
There is no hard-and-fast rule as to how often to clean your paraffin unit. Some companies recommend cleaning after every 25 uses, while others recommend cleaning it two or three times a year. All agree it's essential to clean it when any debris becomes visible in the bottom of the unit.
Here are general, step-by-step directions for cleaning your paraffin bath. Check the manufacturer's instructions for your specific unit before proceeding.
Unplug the unit. Remove the lid (andgrille, if there is one). Allow the paraffin to solidify overnight.
Press down firmly on one end of the paraffin, tipping the opposite end up. Then lift out the cake and place it on paper towels.
If you wish to reuse the paraffin, carefully shave off the bottom layers that contain accumulated sediment.
Blot up any remaining paraffin in the tank with paper towels. If any solidified paraffin remains inside or on the outside of the unit, soften it carefully with a blow dryer and blot it with a paper towel.
Clean the inside and outside of the unit with an all-purpose cleaner. Thoroughly wipe the unit dry.
If you are reusing the paraffin, place the cake back in the unit. Replace the grille and lid, and plug the bath in.
Add additional paraffin as necessary to bring the amount up to the required level.
Follow these recommendations to maintain a sanitary paraffin unit.
Don't reuse wax that has been applied to another client—under any circumstances.
Cleanse hands/feet thoroughly with soap and water or an antiseptic spray before dipping.
Don't service if client has open cuts or sores.
Clean the unit regularly (how often depends on use, but certainly when any sediment is visible on the bottom).
Keep the unit covered when not in use.


As we headed south out of Virginia, the warmth of the southern sun and the allure of real home cooking got us off the interstate. Ivan was hungry and not particular, but I wanted him to experience The South. As we passed fast food joints one after another, I explained that we were on a mission to find real southern food. And then I saw it.
The square 1950's plastic sign by the road said "MARY'S DINER". The building looked like an old shut-down business of some sort, but I saw what I was looking for...lots of cars parked out front. As we ambled in, past the gum ball machines in the front entryway, I knew we had found heaven. The smell of real southern fried chicken mixed with the clink of forks on real plates instantly set my mind at ease and my stomach into overdrive.
You've met my new Ukrainian friend, Dr. Ivan Sopushynskyy, as we took short trips here in Pennsylvania to a logging site and to a truss and beam operation. But in March and April, we got serious and really hit the road. The next few posts will hit the highlights of our waypoints.
We headed south to Florida and back in March, and to the Great Lakes in April. I discovered that as interesting as our Pennsylvania timber industries and forests are, they are in many ways similar to those of western Ukraine where Ivan is from. So, in order to help him get a fuller experience of the diversity of the American forest industries, I knew we had to hit the road. And hit it, we did.


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John Verdieck is the Director of International Climate Policy at The Nature Conservancy. In this role he works to improve policy coherence between international climate change rulesets and national-level action in the land sector. John formerly worked at the U.S. State Department where he negotiated workstreams related to forests, carbon markets, and the Paris Agreement's rulesets for Nationally Determined Contributions and greenhouse gas accounting. John also manages TNC's work related to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Carbon Offset Protocol, and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, a $1 billion fund for reducing deforestation.


TIS-100 is an open-ended programming puzzler by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It's the assembly language programming game nobody asked for, as the developers themselves advertise.
The game area as shown below, comprises of different nodes which allow you to perform calculations and input / output values to full fill a task list. The game is not visually stunning, but the mechanic is pretty interesting and does a good job at capturing the essence of working with an assembly language.
A note of caution, this game is pretty niche and not for your average Flappy Bird gamer. But if you are a nerd who loves puzzle games, this may just be for you.
In the game you will come across manuals for operating the system, which includes system commands, explanations of purpose, as well has hiding traces of a backstory which eludes to a secret government project.
The game is pretty unique and not what you would usually find on the iOS app stores, it's well at home on steam thoough. It is clearly a game by nerds for nerds. A lot of though has gone into the mechanics of this game, which gets pretty interesting (and challenging) once you learn the basics of the TIS-100 system.
Print and explore the TIS-100 reference manual, which details the inner-workings of the TIS-100 while evoking the aesthetics of a 1980's computer manual!
Solve more than 45 puzzles, competing against your friends and the world to minimize your cycle, instruction, and node counts.
Design your own challenges in the TIS-100's 3 sandboxes, including a "visual console" that lets you create your own games within the game!
Uncover the mysteries of the TIS-100… who created it, and for what purpose?
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Danielle (Dani) Cutler
McCain Declares Victory In Iraq: De-Baathification Law Means �We�re Succeeding Politically�
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeatedly and misleadingly labels any gains in Iraq as breathtaking victories. As early as November, he said that �we�ve succeeded militarily.� Last week, he declared that �the surge worked.�
After the Iraqi government this weekend passed its new de-Baathification law � which �would allow thousands of former Baathists who were not involved in past crimes against Iraqis to fill posts in the Shiite-dominated government� � McCain added �political reconciliation� to his victory list. At a campaign stop today, McCain said that the new law is evidence that �we�re succeeding politically�:
Now, six months ago, the Democrats were saying we�ve lost the war militarily. [�]
My friends, you would have to suspend disbelief to believe that it�s not. So then they said, after we succeeded militarily, Well, you can�t succeed politically. You�re not moving forward politically. Well, now we�re succeeding politically.
The right wing is now echoing McCain�s victory celebration. The National Review writes: �Yesterday we were losing in Iraq, today we are winning.� The law has �shown us what real political reconciliation looks like.�
The law�s language hardly guarantees true political reconciliation. Juan Cole observed that legislation was actually spearheaded by the most anti-Baathist groups, and opposed by former Baathists:
If the new law was good for ex-Baathists, then the ex-Baathists in parliament will have voted for it and praised it, right? And likely the Sadrists (hard line anti-Baath Shiites) and Kurds would be a little upset.
Instead, parliament�s version of this law was spearheaded by Sadrists, and the ex-Baathists in parliament criticized it.
Additionally, barely 150 members of the 275-seat parliament attended the session. The New York Times also notes that the law may actually end up undermining the U.S. strategy of incorporating Sunnis into security forces, as it may exclude more former Baathists than it lets back in, particularly in security ministries.
The U.S. embassy in Iraq was �notably cautious,� refusing to comment a full day after the legislation was passed.
UPDATE: Spencer Ackerman has more.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/14/mccain-debaathification/
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Why aren't gift card sales automatically included in the sales report?
Gift Cards are technically a liability/loan on the store from the customer. No revenue or profit is recorded until a product or service are provided to the customer.
The sales reports include the sales where the gift card is redeemed as that is actually when the store makes revenue. If the sales where the gift card is sold and the gift card is redeemed are both included in the sales reports it will give inflated revenue numbers.
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Primeur weekly 2013-01-29
Exascale supercomputing
Guang Gao and ETI participate in $60 million Department of Energy computing initiative ...
Why European Telcos are turning to the Cloud for an eHealth strategy ...
Microsoft advances the Cloud OS with new management solutions ...
Oracle announces Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Templates for rapid provisioning of Oracle Applications ...
Alumnus and Microsoft inventor tapping Cloud computing potential ...
EuroFlash
Let's get connected: F35 panorama projector deployed by Cyviz in entry-level collaborative telepresence product ...
DAS Workshop to issue Call for Participation ...
ADVA Optical Networking and HEP Group pioneer 100G high-speed optical transmission network in Croatia ...
Graphene and Human Brain Project win largest research excellence award in history, as battle for sustained science funding continues ...
CWI develops application for continuous analysis of big streams of data ...
NLeSC expands its project portfolio ...
Quantum communication: Each photon counts ...
USFlash
AMD Open 3.0 brings simplicity, power efficiency and cost-effectiveness to the data centre ...
AMD reports 2012 fourth quarter and annual results ...
New 2D material for next generation high-speed electronics ...
KishHealth System chooses HP Converged Storage to speed delivery of medical records ...
Greenville Utilities Commission selects Oracle applications and technology to revamp IT infrastructure and improve customer service initiatives ...
Hotelbeds selects Oracle Fusion Middleware to drive company growth ...
Oracle VM 3.2 now available ...
New supercomputer coming to EMSL this summer, supplied by Atipa Technologies ...
UT Dallas researchers awarded $4.3 million to create next-generation technologies ...
SGI announces OEM partnership with Scality for scale-out storage solution ...
SGI announces new Chief Operating Officer Cassio Conceicao ...
Mellanox wins data centre interconnect awards for Ethernet switching and virtual protocol interconnect technology ...
Stanford researchers break million-core supercomputer barrier ...
Edition: weekly - Issue: 2013-01-28
Guang Gao and ETI participate in $60 million Department of Energy computing initiative
Two teams with University of Delaware (UD) connections were among just eight selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to receive funding under a supercomputing programme called "2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems and Tools". Guang Gao, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is part of an Intel-led team selected to address extreme-scale computing issues in scalability, programmability, portability, resilience, energy efficiency and interoperability. ET International Inc. (ETI), a UD spin-off company founded by Guang Gao, also was awarded funding under the programme. Read further...
Why European Telcos are turning to the Cloud for an eHealth strategy
Research and Markets has added the "Why European Telcos Are Turning to the Cloud for an eHealth Strategy - Europe Telecom Insider / Vol. 5, No 1, Edition 1" report to their offering. Read further...
Microsoft advances the Cloud OS with new management solutions
Microsoft Corp. has made available new solutions to help enterprise customers manage hybrid Cloud services and connected devices with greater agility and cost-efficiency. System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the enhanced Windows Intune, Windows Azure services for Windows Server and other new offerings deliver against the Microsoft Cloud OS vision to provide customers and partners with the platform to address their top IT challenges. Read further...
Oracle announces Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Templates for rapid provisioning of Oracle Applications
Oracle has introduced new Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Oracle VM Templates for several Oracle Applications, which encapsulate the best application deployment practices based on years of expertise with more than 70,000 Oracle Applications customers. Read further...
Alumnus and Microsoft inventor tapping Cloud computing potential
When his head isn't in the clouds, what does one of Microsoft's top inventors do to blow off steam? Christian Belady MA'90 slides into a bright yellow tricked-out Porsche and hits the racetrack. Christian Belady says it's not about speed. It's about how you take the turns, especially the first one. It's like life, where every decision you make today impacts every decision you make in the future. "It may be perceived as a dangerous thing, but that's what I do, and it's what clears my mind and energizes me", he explained. Read further...
Let's get connected: F35 panorama projector deployed by Cyviz in entry-level collaborative telepresence product
Already benefiting the telepresence and collaborative working supply chain, the projectiondesign F35 panorama projector is deployed as part of the brand-new Cyviz C1 Panorama entry-level visual collaboration solution by display specialists Cyviz. It will make its public debut on the projectiondesign stand 1M27 at ISE 2013 alongside a C1 7.6 megapixel-resolution display that uses two F35 wqxga ultra-high-resolution projectors for advanced visualization and critical analysis. Read further...
DAS Workshop to issue Call for Participation
The ASCI research school is organizing a 1-day workshop at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands on Wednesday 13 February 2013 on the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) project, which so far produced four generations of systems in 16 years. Read further...
ADVA Optical Networking and HEP Group pioneer 100G high-speed optical transmission network in Croatia
ADVA Optical Networking and the Croatian government's national electricity company, Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP Group), have installed the country's first deployment of 100G technology. The two companies - in collaboration with their regional partner ITeRATIO - conducted a successful 100G deployment over a distance of more than 400km between the Croatian cities of Zagreb and Split. This success highlights the government's commitment to developing the country's network infrastructure and will significantly boost HEP's network capacity and performance. Read further...
Graphene and Human Brain Project win largest research excellence award in history, as battle for sustained science funding continues
The European Commission has announced the winners of a multi-billion euro competition of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET). The winning Graphene and Human Brain initiatives are set to receive one billion euros each, to deliver 10 years of world-beating science at the crossroads of science and technology. Each initiative involves researchers from at least 15 EU Member States and nearly 200 research institutes. Read further...
CWI develops application for continuous analysis of big streams of data
Researchers of the Database Architectures group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed a database system that can quickly analyze continuously streaming big data. The researchers combined a streaming engine and a database system, thus exploiting and merging both technologies. Researcher Erietta Liarou defended her thesis on this new technology on Tuesday 22 January at the University of Amsterdam. Read further...
NLeSC expands its project portfolio
The Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) will fund five new projects in early 2013 resulting from the "eScience Open Call for Converging Sciences (eSOCCS)" that was conducted during 2012. The eSOCCS proposal received a total of 55 pre-proposals whose primary applicant represent 13 Universities/Medical Centers and 3 NWO institutes. The 5 highest quality proposals have been prioritized by NLeSC's external scientific advisory committee and approved for funding by the board of directors. Each project will be funded to approximately 500K euro, including the collaboration of an NLeSC eScience engineer. Read further...
Quantum communication: Each photon counts
Ultrafast, efficient, and reliable single-photon detectors are among the most sought-after components in photonics and quantum communication, which have not yet reached maturity for practical application. Physicist Dr. Wolfram Pernice of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in co-operation with colleagues at Yale University, Boston University, and Moscow State Pedagogical University, achieved the decisive breakthrough by integrating single-photon detectors with nanophotonic chips. The detector combines near-unity detection efficiency with high timing resolution and has a very low error rate. The results have been published byNature Communications(doi:10.1038/ncomms2307). Read further...
AMD Open 3.0 brings simplicity, power efficiency and cost-effectiveness to the data centre
AMD has launched the AMD Open 3.0 platform - formerly codenamed "Roadrunner", a radical rethinking of the server motherboard designed to the standards developed by the Open Compute Project. AMD Open 3.0 enables substantial gains in computing flexibility, efficiency and operating cost by simplifying motherboard design with a single base product to address multiple enterprise workloads, including high-performance computing, Cloud infrastructure and storage. This innovative design is optimized to eliminate features typically over-provisioned in traditional server offerings. Read further...
AMD reports 2012 fourth quarter and annual results
AMD has issued revenue for the fourth quarter of 2012 of $1.16 billion, an operating loss of $422 million, and a net loss of $473 million, or $0.63 per share. The company reported a non-GAAP operating loss of $55 million and a non-GAAP net loss of $102 million, or $0.14 per share. For the year ended December 29, 2012, AMD reported revenue of $5.42 billion, an operating loss of $1.06 billion and a net loss of $1.18 billion, or $1.60 per share. The full year non-GAAP operating income was $45 million and non-GAAP net loss was $114 million, or $0.16 per share. Read further...
New 2D material for next generation high-speed electronics
Scientists at CSIRO and RMIT University have produced a new two-dimensional material that could revolutionise the electronics market, making "nano" more than just a marketing term. The material - made up of layers of crystal known as molybdenum oxides - has unique properties that encourage the free flow of electrons at ultra-high speeds. In a paper published in the January issue of materials science journalAdvanced Materials, the researchers explain how they adapted a revolutionary material known as graphene to create a new conductive nano-material. Read further...
KishHealth System chooses HP Converged Storage to speed delivery of medical records
KishHealth System, a community health provider, has selected HP Converged Storage to improve patient care by accelerating medical record delivery. DeKalb, Illinois-based KishHealth System provides outpatient services in 13 facilities across Northern Illinois. To speed medical record delivery and eliminate hand-written errors, KishHealth wanted to transition from hard copy to digital records. This required a scalable platform that could support the capacity demands for storing medical images on its Agfa Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). KishHealth also sought to increase data centre performance to improve response time of its MEDITECH electronic medical records (EMR) system. Read further...
Greenville Utilities Commission selects Oracle applications and technology to revamp IT infrastructure and improve customer service initiatives
North Carolina-based Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC), an electric, water, sewer and natural gas service provider to the City of Greenville and 75 percent of Pitt County, selected a broad footprint of Oracle applications and technology solutions to help reduce costs and improve customer service. GUC is working with Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Lucidity Consulting Group on the implementation. Read further...
Hotelbeds selects Oracle Fusion Middleware to drive company growth
Hotelbeds, an accommodation wholesaler servicing over 50,000 hotels across 183 countries, has selected Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies including Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Coherence to help fuel sustained company growth. Read further...
Oracle VM 3.2 now available
Oracle has made available Oracle VM Release 3.2, a key component in Oracle's desktop to data centre virtualization portfolio, providing greater operational efficiency with improved ease-of-use, and more automated processes including full command-line support. Oracle VM Manager now offers unified virtualization management for Oracle SPARC T-Series Servers running Oracle VM Server for SPARC as well as x86-based servers running Oracle VM Server for x86. Read further...
New supercomputer coming to EMSL this summer, supplied by Atipa Technologies
A new supercomputer expected to rank among the world's fastest machines will be ready to run computationally intense climate and biological simulations along with other scientific programmes this summer. This computational work will aid research in climate and environmental science, chemical processes, biology-based fuels that can replace fossil fuels, new materials for energy applications and more. Read further...
UT Dallas researchers awarded $4.3 million to create next-generation technologies
Two teams of researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas have been chosen to help a $194 million national network create the technologies of the next generation. One UT Dallas team will evaluate materials to replace silicon in integrated circuits, with the goal of creating faster electronics that use dramatically less power. The other team will help design a computer architecture that allows the many types of computers used in everyday life to seamlessly communicate with one another, making it possible to build systems to avoid traffic accidents or to lock down an area in the case of an emergency. Read further...
SGI announces OEM partnership with Scality for scale-out storage solution
SGI has signed a strategic OEM agreement with Scality, an expert in software-defined storage, to provide a unified scale-out storage solution that offers both extreme scale and high performance allowing customers to manage massive unstructured data sprawl. Read further...
SGI announces new Chief Operating Officer Cassio Conceicao
SGI has appointed Cassio Conceicao as SGI's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, a newly created position in the company. Mr. Conceicao, 49, brings more than 25 years of technology industry experience to his new role, having most recently served as General Manager and Corporate Vice-President, Service Products at Applied Materials Inc. Read further...
Mellanox wins data centre interconnect awards for Ethernet switching and virtual protocol interconnect technology
Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has been presented with two data centre interconnect awards: the ZDNet China Best Network Switch awarded to Mellanox's SX1024 non-blocking Top-of-Rack (ToR) 10/40Gb/s Ethernet Switch and the China Network World 2012 Innovative Converged Network Solution for Cloud awarded to Mellanox's Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) end-to end solution including ConnectX-3 adapters and SwitchX-2 switches for both FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40Gb/s Ethernet based interconnect solutions. Read further...
Stanford researchers break million-core supercomputer barrier
Stanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem - the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Read further...


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Home News Female Police officer praised shielding man during fight
Female Police officer praised shielding man during fight
A female Police Constable has been praised after she shielded a man during a fight who said he was afraid.
The Cleveland Police officer Lauren Somerville aged 29, shielded the man's body as the fight broke out at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium
She then lead him to a nearby bus stop so he could catch his bus home after the football match.
The detective constable was approached by a man when i fight broke out, he informed her he was scared and she acted to protect him and sheild him from the fight.
When they got to the bus stop the man remained afraid so she invited him back to the police station for a hot drink.
Credit: Incidents On Teesside & County Durham
A picture has now gone viral on social media which has called the DC out as a hero.
DC Somerville said "I immediately realised this was a vulnerable man, so I told him to stay behind me and to hang on to me, which he certainly did."
"We walked with the crowd along Windward Way but I realised he wouldn't be able to keep up so we held back and I reassured him he had done exactly the right thing by identifying someone who could help him."
"He was asking me about the helicopter which was overhead so I told him they were keeping an eye on us and keeping us safe."


Helibras has delivered the 33rd H225M military helicopter for the Brazilian Army's H-XBR programme, the company announced on 9 October.
The H-XBR programme was signed in 2008 with the Ministry of Defence to supply 50 aircraft of the model to the armed forces of Brazil.
The aircraft will be based with the 1st Aviation Battalion in Taubaté, joining another ten H225M aircraft already delivered.


When we read news about successful businessmen or famous actors, we don't think about how the Oscar nominee once worked in a diner or how the CEO of a famous company once bought clothes in a flea market. But photos from "previous lives" don't lie: many people had to go a long way before they got on the cover of Forbes.
We invite you to take a look at moments from celebrities' lives before they achieved their remarkable successes. However, they were probably already doing a lot to try and achieve it!


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The Effects of Wetland Mitigation Banking on People
National Wetlands Newsletter, Vol 28, No. 2, 2006
FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 179
7 Pages Posted: 26 Jan 2006 Last revised: 28 Dec 2014
See all articles by J. B. Ruhl
J. B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt University - Law School
James E. Salzman
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Date Written: January 1, 2006
In the decade since the Corps of Engineers (Corps) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially blessed wetland mitigation banking for purposes of satisfying mitigation requirements under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the practice has fueled an ongoing debate about its pros and cons. For the most part, however, the debate has focused on the relative advantages and disadvantages of banking programs in terms of administrative efficiency and ecological impact, with little attention being paid to the effects of wetland mitigation banking on people. This article presents the first comprehensive empirical study of the demographics of wetland mitigation banking, revealing what has long been suspected - that banking facilitates the redistribution of wetland resources from urban to rural areas, taking with them the important ecosystem service values wetlands provide to human communities.
After an overview of the economic service values wetlands provide, the structural biases inherent in the wetland mitigation banking program, and the lack of information about the effects of wetland banking in general, we present the results of an empirical study of 24 wetland mitigation banks in Florida accounting for over 95 percent of all bank activity. By comparing the demographic attributes of the area around each bank to the areas around the development projects that purchase mitigation bank credits to satisfy their mitigation requirements, we show that the loss of wetland resources is concentrated in urban areas, whereas the compensatory mitigation provided by wetland banks is concentrated in rural areas, and that the composition of the project area and bank area populations is significantly different. We examine the policy implications of this effect and suggest several steps that can be taken to better understand and respond to its impact on the distribution of ecosystem services associated with wetland resources.
Ruhl, J. B. and Salzman, James E., The Effects of Wetland Mitigation Banking on People (January 1, 2006). National Wetlands Newsletter, Vol 28, No. 2, 2006, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 179, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=878331
J. B. Ruhl (Contact Author)
Vanderbilt University - Law School ( email )
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University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management ( email )
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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law ( email )
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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts," will be hosting a workshop as a guest speaker at Colorado State University.
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It's no longer easy to buy the best players – Barca boss Josep Maria Bartomeu
February 21, 2018 by meziesblog.com, posted in Sports
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has squashed rumors making rounds in the media that Lionel Messi will quit the club after his current contract.
Image: Josep Maria Bartomeu
The 55-year-old football boss spoke to newsmen from his London home, where he's currently enjoying vacation.
Messi was offered a new contract last November after a prolonged negotiation between his agents and the club although his previous deal ends in June 2018.
The Argentina international football and 5-time Ballon d'Or winner had his contract extended until 2021, which marks 17 years of his trophy-laden career as a first team player at Camp Nou.
"We make history," said Bartomeu to Bloomberg during the interview.
"We are a club that bets on good football, and we have a unique style of play dictated by Messi, who is the world's best player and our key player."
Mr. Bartomeu also made reference to Andres Iniesta, who he said, is an example of a good footballer with rare quality and great reputation on and off the pitch.
In his words: "We want him [Iniesta] here not as a player, but as a legend in the future.
"And with Messi I hope it's the same," he added. "Now he's got a four-year contract, but I don't think it will be his last with Los Blancos."
Image: Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta celebrate a goal against Chelsea in their Champions League Round of 16 game which ended 2-2 on Tuesday 20/02/2018
With Neymar's exit from Barcelona last summer, price tags on footballers around major leagues seem to have skyrocketed, forcing a gloomy feeling in the club director. He expressed sadness for the resultant inflation in the transfer market, saying he's unsure if there will be price stability later.
"I really wish trades in the football market will stabilize soon, but I am not sure if it's right to hope," said the Barcelona president and Spanish entrepreneur.
The Catalonia-born football administrator also emphasized that the influx of wealthy businessmen and oil-rich states has complicated sales.
"They are purchasing football clubs and making huge investments in the sport with so much ease," he said.
"It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to go to the market and sign the best players."
Bartomeu revealed that Barca's strategy is to sign young players, teach them the rudiments of football and provide them with a chance to showcase their talents in the first team, adding that the club's new signings in the upcoming summer transfer window will be facilitated by cash scooped from sale of "match rusty" players.
Barcelona invested more in new players to strengthen the team after Neymar's departure to Paris Saint-Germain, and Bartomeu said La Blaugranas have a strategic plan to invest a further 60 million euros in the summer.
"The money will be generated by player sales, including our expectations to secure naming rights for the Camp Nou," he said, also making reference to their sale of marketing rights to Beko.
"The total investment [by Beko in training shirt sponsorship] will be 600m euros," he explained, "the highest contract deal any club has ever completed in the city of Barcelona.
"We are working with two or three companies and probably the agreement can contribute to half of the investment."
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When it comes to music and music lovers, Blitzr is one of the famous music apps. It provides you instant access to around forty million tracks that include old songs, latest songs belonging to the great artists. It can be easily downloaded on your Android or iOS as well as Window Phone… read more
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AudioBoom is one of those platforms that provide you all in one opportunity through which you can not only listen to the songs but can also share. It allows its users to record the song of their choice, and they can upload the song or can also edit it before uploading. If you are looking ways to improve you music skills, it is one of the best options for you that let you share your voice with others and listening to others voice as well. AudioBoom has several technical features like Tyler Oakley, Russell Brand, TIME, NPR, ABC, Sports News and other great sounds. The app has around six thousand active partners and aims at the creation of the first audio content syndication that is aggregated as well as the first advertising network all around the world.
Using audioBoom, you can have access to the best content regarding news, business, current affairs, sports as well as entertainment. You can use this music streaming app free of cost by installing it on your Android or iOS. Besides the listening, you can also record your song and share your songs with your friends. Earlier it was optional for the users to get registered but not the upgraded version in which every user has to get registered. About uploading, you can upload an unlimited number of music tracks that has added to its popularity.
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#6 Mixcloud.com
MixCloud is a music streaming website that is created by the world's renowned DJs and also artists. MixCloud deals with two kinds of music activities namely listening as well as submission. Come and sign up for an independent community of DJs and greatest radio presenters all over the world that are re-shaping the music world of MixCloud. MixCloud allows the music activity lovers to create their unique radio stations and build playlists also. They are able to explore the music from the giant music category of MixCloud which includes the background, bass, beats, chillout, classical, deep house, hip-hop, EDM, electronica, garage, dubstep, dub, funk, pop, rap, reggae, RnB, indie, rock, soul, techno, trap and many more. The available functions in MixCloud are stream limitless audio content, upload limitless audio music, upload radio DJ mixes/podcasts, promote and distribute the information, get a user specific social networking widget, etc. The MixCloud service is also available for the Android and iOS mobile phones.
#7 8tracks.com
8tracks.com is another web-based radio and social networking website revolving across the concept of streaming user-curated playlists consisting of at least 8 tracks. Users create totally free accounts and can either browse the website as well as listen to other user-created mixes, you can create their unique mixes. The website also has a subscription-based service called 8 tracks plus, although its functions are still evolving. Presently, a $25 payment purchases a 6-month membership, during which period advertisements are removed from the website user interface while subscribers are logged in. 8tracks website that enables users to share and find out music in a simple, legal, as well as free way. Listeners are able to search through current mixes and create their personal mixes. Member must include a least eight songs, uploaded using their personal music library or directly accessed through a SoundCloud bridge, per playlist.
#8 Spotifymusic.com
This is a music platform that is a great web music player with a music library of its own. With the help of Spotify Music, you can get free access to millions of music tracks that may be old or latest instantly, and you can stream an incredibly large range of song or music tracks. You can find the tracks depending upon artists, albums, genre, or playlists. All you need to do is to click on the hit or play button, and your streaming goes like wild in speed. However this app is not available in every country and this is the only one setback of Spotify Music.
Spotify is becoming one of the most popular apps for music streaming that is based on subscription. To become a user of Spotify, all you have to do is download the app on your Android or iOS and sign up for free. It can also be used from the web on desktop applications. The services provided by Spotify are not time bound, and you can upgrade your account any time you want to listen to specific tracks or build the latest playlist. It is considered to be a commercial streaming service that provides you digital rights management-restricted content that belongs to several record labels like Sony, Universal, Warner Music Group, EMI, etc. The features including offline listening as well as ad-free play back are provided to premium subscribers of the app.
#9 Shazam.com
Shazam is usually referred to as a music discovery channel. You can easily install it on you Android, Window Phone or iOS and get connected with your favorite music in no time. The music streaming software is available on Macs and PCs as well. With the help of Shazam, you can not only listen to the music but can also explore TV near you with the recent expansion of its music streaming abilities that have integrated it with cinema, advertising, and retail environment. You are also allowed to share the music you love via this app with others. The new features of the app include lyric viewing, easy and rapid access to music videos, along with unique recommendations. There are new and improved discographies and biographies of the artists and their albums.
This app was found by Shazam Entertainment Limited in 1999. It uses the built-in microphone that helps to gather the audio sample that is to be played. The acoustic fingerprints of the sample are saved and compared with the database in Shazam. After finding the match, it delivers all the related information of the song like artist name, the title of the song or album. Shazam possesses two types of apps that include paid one, Shazam Encore and a free app called Shazam. It has been ranked among the top ten music app al around the world. It has around 100 million active users along with its widest collection of music tracks that has reached up to fifteen billion in number.
#10 Mixvibes.com
Another best platform for music lovers is Cross DJ Pro. Along with the beautiful music listening experience, it also provides you the option to mix your favorite tracks. With the help of Cross DJ Pro, you can make perfect combinations of your songs that may be new or old, using it powerful audio engine. It is basically as digital DJ and vinyl mixing software that was launched by MixVibes, a French company and was released in 2008. This app is workable with both platforms PC and Mac as well as with around all MIDI controllers and Apple devices. Cross DJ Pro offers its users all effects, locators, samplers, and loops that are present in any controller. Along with that, the beat matching features helps to correct any human error and provide a smooth transition.
The app provides you several other features like complete customizability and beat making. Automix, stable synchronization, split mono, smart seek and beat grid editing along with many others, are the notable features of Cross DJ Pro to enhance the experience of music listening. The recent version was released in 2014 that provide its users with specific features like a 4 channel mixer, 8 pad samplers, and 4 Band EQs. There are choices to use many different effects and seamless looping beat matching as well as automatic beat-gridding. The application gained its popularity owing to its features and easy integration of music tracks.
#11 Musicfx.com
MusicFX is such a music platform that helps you create your music according to your taste. It utilizes the sound effects or audio effects of your mobile phone, and you can add these effects in your track to make it like an official or professional track. This feature is unique to MusicFX and is a 3D system that works best with headphones, equalizer or bass boost providing you a divine experience of music. This can only be installed on your Android phone and unlocks the unlimited audio effects that have been released lately.
After you have installed this music streaming app, you are allowed to do changes in the sound effects according to your choice using the 'sound effect' option in the menu of the of this music player. The audio enhancing would automatically be activated after you have installed the app. However, the customization options are always available for the user to set the effects depending on their personal preferences along with the equalizer that supports a rich number of presets including dance, rock, classical, pop and much more. You are also provided with the five band user selectable equalization. You can say that MusicFX is a modified version Android Music Player with advanced features and functions. However, it requires the configuration using Bluetooth for Bluetooth headsets and also needs internet access to retrieve help as well as developer information pages.
#12 Soundclick.com
SoundClick.com is a socially constructed music-based worldwide community for music lovers. Visiting SoundClick.com gives you the chance of streaming online music and download your favorite music in MP3 format for free. The music available on this site is sold through the store or licenses to others. SoundClick.com has a big library of music of all genres that would likely suit your taste anytime. This platform was launched in 1997 and for the past 20 years it has been providing latest and classic music collection to music listeners.
#13 Applemusic.com
This is one of the music platforms that provide its users easy access to millions of music tracks. The music can belong to any artist whether of latest times or old times. Apple Music is one of the ways to make the music world better. It brings for its users a wide collection of music tracks, much more than ever brought to you by music streaming app. Using Apple Music, you can also recommend songs to your friends and get the recommendation from the people who know and love music. The connection through recommendation can build a strong connection between music artist and fans.
With the Apple Music app downloaded and installed, you can listen to the radio any time of day with the help of global station. All these services of Apple Music are offered in $9.99 rates for a month. You can also go for family plans that are just for $14.99 per month. This fee is to make you a member of Apple Music; however, you can also use this app without any membership. It provides the services to listen to Beats 1 Radio along with that you can also see what any artist has posted. Ad supported stations are also provided to the users without membership.
More About Blitzr.com
When it comes to music and music lovers, Blitzr is one of the famous music apps. It provides you instant access to around forty million tracks that include old songs, latest songs belonging to the great artists. It can be easily downloaded on your Android or iOS as well as Window Phone. Also, you need no fee to join Blitzr. It allows you to search your music arranged properly according to the name of artist or album or genre. This is the best app for you if you are bored of such apps that do not allow you the music services of Radiohead and also Led Zeppelin. With the help of Blitzer, you can not only enjoy these music services but also, you would not miss any of the show of your favorite band.
This app, Blitzr is free of cost, and it comes with no ads. It is said that this app is specially made for music addicts to enjoy the divine experience of endless music tracks ranging from oldest to the latest. You can search your favorite songs by the name of artist, genre, album or label. There are full discographies of various artists, and you can enjoy listening to the whole album as well. The option of enjoying live music is always available on Blitzr, all you have to do is to keep in touch or updated about the latest performance and live music show of your favorite artists, and you can find these easily on Blitzr.


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Q: How can I set an rgba background-color from Redux Framework color_rgba-type? I'm trying to add an options in my theme settings to set the background-color of my mobile-menu using Redux Framework.
I used the color_rgba type so I can pick a color with opacity.
I see my background-color set on my menu with class 'mobile-menu', but only a HEX value.
Redux::setSection( $opt_name, array(
    'title'      => __( 'Mobile menu', 'redux-framework-demo' ),
    'id'         => 'header-mobile-menu',
    'subsection' => true,
    'fields'     => array(
            'id'       => 'header-mobile-menu-background',
            'type'     => 'color_rgba',
            'title'    => __('Mobile menu background Color', 'redux-framework-demo'),
            'subtitle' => __('Background color for mobile menu overlay', 'redux-framework-demo'),
            'default'  => array(
                'color'     => '#E2E2E2',
                'alpha'     => 1
            ),
            'transparent' => false,
            'output'   => array(
                'background-color' => '.mobile-menu',
            ),
        ),

) );

How can I make sure I get the rgba color instead of the HEX color?

A: I am not using output to generate my style as I am handling my styles in a separate PHP file. But I will show you how I have done it and hopefully it can help you.
I think it is also possibly because you are not using a default RGBA value in your setting.
Here is my Field Array:
array(
            'id' => 'the-id-of-my-field-is-here',
            'type' => 'color_rgba',
            'title' => 'my title of my field setting',
            'subtitle' => esc_html__('My subtitle of my field setting', 'redux-framework-demo'),
            'transparent' => false,
            'default'  => array(
                'color'     => '#E2E2E2',
                'alpha'     => 1
            ),

        ),

in my seperate php file I am calling my option name like so:
//This sets my redux settings in a variable called options
$options = get_my_theme_options();

Then I am checking if there is a value in my options and if there is, use it in my style like so:
if(!empty($options['the-id-of-my-field-is-here'])) {
    echo'.mobile-menu {
        background-color: '.$options["the-id-of-my-field-is-here"]['rgba'].';
    }';
}

As you can see I am calling the other array at the end like so [rgba]
MY guess would be to perhaps try my way or perhaps add an RGBA value in your default array like so:
'default'  => array(
                'color'     => '#E2E2E2',
                'alpha'     => 1,
                'rgba'      => 'RGBA VALUE HERE'
            ),

I hope this helps in any way.

A: Based on this reference link :
https://docsv3.redux.io/core/fields/color-rgba/index.html
suppose you want to output a color as a background-color, instead of color. The following output array in key/pair format would accomplish this:
'output' => array('background-color' => '.site-header')

Alternatively, multiple elements could be specified for different selectors.
'output' => array(
'background-color' => '.site-header',
'color'            => '.site-footer')

Multiple selectors are also supported. Separate them with commas.
'output' => array('background-color' => '.site-header, .site-footer')

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