If your ceremony site is non-traditional (i.e. not a church) you may be looking for ways to make your ceremony pop! I found so many wonderful, creative ideas, this post could seriously have been 100 pictures long. But here are my faves for now!
This is fairly traditional and simple to pull off. A few pieces of fabric plus beautiful flowers is perfectly simple.
I'm loving these lanterns and pops of colors with the pillows.
If you can get your hands on a vintage fireplace (rental prop companies may have something similar), this mantel with frames is awesome.
I love these suspended window panes - so dramatic!
So these flowers and wine crate vignettes are amazing. Plus the petals on the aisle? Love. Might be my favorite set up!
These branches with hydrangeas are kind of a funky, modern look.
My friends Stephanie and Weston had a gorgeous outdoor ceremony. I loved their branches and beautiful flowers attached to the canopy.
I'm obsessed with ribbon and use it for everything. You'd need a lot to create a ribbon drape but the end result is SO worth it.
Ever" at a fun wedding ceremony?
This beautiful door makes a great backdrop.
If you're fortunate to have a beautiful tree as your backdrop, add some color coordinated poms for a simple decorative touch.
This yellow dresser is very Anthropologie.
For a nighttime ceremony, you can't go wrong with suspended candles and lighting. Simply gorgeous!
Are you overwhelmed with choices and just can't decide? Skip a traditional altar and do a circular ceremony! So cool!
In other news I found this on Pinterest and am considering getting it tattooed on me. JK. But seriously, who wrote this and did they read my mind?
Hope your Hump Day is fantastic!
Great ideas! I love non-traditional altars and ceremony backdrops. There are so many different directions to go in to fit any wedding style and location!
Ah Stephanie and Weston!!!! Love all these ideas Jackie!


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This is the first UNFCCC Conference of the Parties since Russias ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, which will enable the treaty to go into effect on February 16, 2005.
CEI is an officially-accredited NGO to the UNFCCC and one of the few accredited groups opposed to the Kyoto agreement.
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The zero sum game in Washington D.C
"This is a zero-sum game," the Hamas supporter said. When PLO moves closer to Israel, there will be no unity among "Palestinians". Its interesting to read what Ynetnews has reported, speaking to a Hamas supporter: "As long as the PA walks the path toward a peace process with Israel, it is moving further away from… Read More The zero sum game in Washington D.C
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Germany: Fresh whitewash of Nazi party's armed wing
"People in Waffen SS were thugs and murderers who almost brought down Western civilisation." These are the words of Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Centre. An American Jewish group has demanded that the German government take action against a magazine that is said to have whitewashed the history of the Waffen-SS – the… Read More Germany: Fresh whitewash of Nazi party's armed wing
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The Old and the New Covenant
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TRAVEL BAN: Europeans on Astrazeneca will be able to travel to the United States in November
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by Kosta Papadopoulos
Europeans vaccinated against Covid-19 with the AstraZeneca drug will be able to travel to the United States in November even though the vaccine is not yet recognized by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton told AFP last night in Washington.
Breton's claims come following an announcement by the White House yesterday the lifting of the travel ban from "early November" for all foreigners provided they have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
"This concerns all people who have been vaccinated with FDA-approved vaccines," explained Breton, who coordinates the EU supply of vaccines against Covid, and who met with White House's pandemic coordinator Jeff Zayenz.
"He told me that for the other vaccines, for AstraZeneca in particular, it is up to the health service to decide but he seemed to be positive and optimistic," said Breton.
"What I understood from the discussions we had was that he was convinced that it was the responsibility of the health service but based on the data available (for vaccines recognized by the European health authorities), there was no concern," the European Commissioner explained.
Thierry Breton asked Zayenz about the timetable, and specifically if this permission can be given by November 1, the date of the lifting of the restrictions, as was given a positive indication he said.
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What happened to the Swiss franc?
PUBLISHED: January 16, 2015 at 5:41 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 2:15 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world's safest investments — the Swiss franc — has swung wildly this week after the central bank in Switzerland announced it would scrap its policy of limiting the rise of the currency.
It may seem like an arcane move, but it's not. The Swiss National Bank's surprise decision on Thursday caused the franc to surge against the euro and dollar, sending shockwaves through the global financial system.
Holders of Swiss francs profited handsomely, but many investors and brokerage firms, were pounded with losses. Two brokerage firms in London and New Zealand have announced huge losses and will have to close. A New York-based currency broker said clients suffered significant losses, and it needed an emergency loan to stay in business.
The turmoil is all the more unsettling because, like U.S. bonds, the dollar and gold, the Swiss franc has been viewed as a haven for investors, thanks to the stability and wealth of the Swiss government.
Here's what happened to the franc and why it matters:
Since 2011, the Swiss National Bank has had a program to keep its franc from appreciating too much against other currencies — most importantly the euro.
The franc's rapid rise makes goods and products produced in Switzerland more expensive and less competitive in other countries. The bank set a limit of 1.20 francs to the euro to keep its rise in check.
After several years, it became untenable for the SNB to keep up its program. The euro is continuing to weaken against other currencies, notably the dollar, and the European Central Bank is likely to start stimulus programs that would weaken the European currency even further.
The SNB decided to allow the market to re-price the franc Thursday. This caused a massive re-pricing of the currency that led to the franc to gain more than 20 percent against the euro.
Reserve currencies do not move like this, so a 20 percent move in the franc was considered historic, investors said.
How did the Swiss bank's move hurt banks and traders?
Because currencies don't usually move much in a single day, traders often use significant leverage to boost their returns. Leverage of 50:1 is not unheard of in the currency market.
Because the franc is heavily traded, the SNB's decision reverberated throughout other currency markets and caused abnormal moves. This left traders exposed to massive losses. Anyone who had bet against the franc, even just a little bit, was hit.
Where the losses likely happened were in euro. Here's an example: A trader invested $100,000 in euros and borrowed 19 times that amount as leverage, or $1.9 million, for a total investment of $2 million in euros. The 5 percent decline of the euro against the dollar Thursday would have created a $5,000 loss for the investor's money and a $95,000 loss in the leveraged money. The investor would have lost everything.
Reports also emerged that the SNB's move inflicted large losses on the some of the world's biggest banks. The Wall Street Journal reported Citigroup and Deutsche Bank had lost more than $150 million in the turmoil following the bank's decision.
Mark Costiglio, a spokesman for Citi declined to comment on the report, as did Deutsche Bank spokeswoman Renee Calabro.
Why are some brokerages folding?
When investors borrow money as leverage, that leveraged money has to come from somewhere. In this case, it came from the brokers where these clients had accounts. Any losses that exceed a client's balance would have left brokerage firms exposed.
New York-firm FXCM said Thursday that the movement of the Swiss franc generated "negative equity balances" of $225 million, meaning its clients owed the firm $225 million. It is likely that FXCM will have difficulty getting back most of that money. FXCM had to get an emergency $300 million investment from Leucadia National to stay in business.
Other brokers said similar things. New Zealand brokerage firm Excel Markets said, "when a client cannot cover their losses it is passed onto us," which left Excel without the capital they needed to operate.
Does it matter to stocks and bonds?
Swiss stocks were hit hard by the currency moves. When a country's currency gains in value, it makes goods made in that country more expensive on the global market. Swiss manufacturers now have products that are 15 to 20 percent more expensive than they were three days ago — making it more difficult for Swiss companies to compete.
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National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics and CVS Health Foundation Announce the 2018 Safety Net Health Care Champion Awardees
Home > >National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics and CVS Health Foundation Announce the 2018 Safety Net Health Care Champion Awardees
To highlight the important work being done across the country to provide affordable, accessible health care to the medically underserved, the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) has partnered with the CVS Health Foundation, a private charitable organization created by CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), to present the Safety Net Health Care Champion Awards.
These awards recognize individuals and organizations who through their actions have made an extraordinary impact in the Free and Charitable Clinic and Charitable Pharmacy community.
"The CVS Health Foundation applauds the 2018 Safety Net Health Care Champion awardees. Because of the work done by these champions, and so many free and charitable clinics across the country, more Americans are able to get access to the quality, convenient and affordable healthcare they deserve," said Eileen Howard Boone, President of the CVS Health Foundation. "We are proud to be a longtime supporter of NAFC, who is helping us deliver on our purpose of helping people on their path to better health."
The winners of the 2018 Safety Net Health Care Champion Awards are:
Stephanie Garris – Stephanie Garris is the CEO of Grace Medical Home in Orlando, Florida. Stephanie is a constant advocate for the medically underserved at a local, state and national level. Under Stephanie's leadership, Grace has been able to grow from a small, start-up medical home with a handful of staff to an organization with 31 staff and hundreds of physician and student volunteers who have served 4,000 of their uninsured neighbors with more than 11,000 patient visits annually, totaling an offered value of care of more than $20,000,000.
Martin Hiller – Martin (Marty) Hiller has devoted over 40 years to serving Free and Charitable Clinics, as a volunteer, program director, executive director and consultant. Marty worked at the Cleveland Free Clinic in Ohio for 27 years, 20 as the Executive Director. During his tenure, the clinic tripled in size, moving from a counter-culture organization to a fully functioning primary care clinic. Marty was one of the initial creative forces that led to the establishment of the NAFC. He served as one of the founding board members and was elected as the first President of the Board of Directors.
UCSD Student-Run Free ClinicProject – The UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic Project (SRFCP) was initiated in San Diego, California in 1997 by founder and current Director, Dr. Ellen Beck, a group of committed, motivated students, and dedicated community partners. The SRFCP addresses one of San Diego County's most pressing needs by providing accessible, comprehensive, high-quality, ongoing medical, pharmacy, dental care and social services free of charge to more than 2,000 individuals each year who are without or cannot afford access to private or government insurance programs. Since its inception, the SRFCP has provided healthcare services with more than 100,000 visits for more than 10,000 patients. The SRFCP provides licensed health professionals an opportunity to give back and be role models by directly supervising care. Each year over 250 UCSD medical, pharmacy, and pre-dental students and PCOM acupuncture students provide 17,000 volunteer hours annually under the supervision of licensed health professionals.
Texas Association of Charitable Clinics (TXACC) – As the state organization for Texas, which has the distinction of having the highest rate of uninsured individuals, TXACC, under the direction of its Executive Director Jody Hopkins, has the challenging job of supporting over 75-member clinics with minimal staff and as of yet, no state funding. TXACC does an outstanding job of navigating these changing and challenging times for health care and providing meaningful support to the TXACC clinics that are working the front lines. In addition to advocacy, networking, education, training and capacity building efforts that benefit virtually every Texas clinic, TXACC is able to respond quickly and effectively when disaster strikes. Never was this more evident than when Hurricane Harvey struck last August. Through daily phone calls with community partners and the NAFC, TXACC facilitated the communication process and helped get much-needed supplies and resources to where they were needed most – the hard-hit areas along the Texas coast that had area charitable clinics working 24×7.
"Through their commitment to health care access, Free and Charitable Clinics and Charitable Pharmacies (and the individuals and organizations who support them) serve as an inspiration to others in an effort to improve the quality and accessibility of health care and discover new ways to assist those in need," said Nicole Lamoureux, NAFC President and CEO. "We are beyond grateful that the CVS Health Foundation continues to show their support for the work of our members and that they joined with our organization to recognize these amazing individuals and organizations."
About the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics
The National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) is the only nonprofit 501c(3) organization whose mission is solely focused on the issues and needs of the medically underserved throughout the nation and the more than 1,200 Free and Charitable Clinics that serve them. Founded in 2001 and headquartered near Washington, D.C., the NAFC is working to ensure that the medically underserved have access to affordable quality health care and strives to be a national voice promoting quality health care for all. The NAFC has earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar and a Four Star Ranking with Charity Navigator.
For more information about the NAFC, please visit www.nafcclinics.org. Follow the NAFC on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NAFClinics and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NAFCClinics.
About the CVS Health Foundation
The CVS Health Foundation is a private charitable organization created by CVS Health that works to build healthier communities, enabling people of all ages to lead healthy, productive lives. The Foundation provides strategic investments to nonprofit partners throughout the U.S. who help increase community-based access to health care for underserved populations, create innovative approaches to chronic disease management and provide tobacco cessation and youth prevention programming. We also invest in scholarship programs that open the pathways to careers in pharmacy to support the academic aspirations of the best and brightest talent in the industry. Our philanthropy also extends to supporting our colleagues' spirit of volunteerism through Volunteer Challenge grants to nonprofits where they donate their time and fundraising efforts. To learn more about the CVS Health Foundation and its giving, visit www.cvshealth.com/social-responsibility.


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Wallace F. Gabler III (born June 9, 1944) is a retired professional American football player.  He was the starting quarterback for the 1965 Michigan Wolverines football team and played seven seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as the starting quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts (1966–1969), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1969–1970), and Hamilton Tiger-Cats (1970–1972). In seven years in the CFL, Gabler passed for 13,080 yards and 61 touchdowns.

Early years
Gabler was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and attended Kimball High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. He attended the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) after graduating from high school, with the hopes of qualifying for the United States Naval Academy the following year. At NMMI, Gabler broke Roger Staubach's school records for most passing touchdowns in a game and completion percentage and was selected as a junior college All-American.

University of Michigan
Gabler transferred to the University of Michigan in 1963 without a scholarship and played for the freshman football team.  As a junior, Gabler received a tuition-only scholarship, and appeared as a backup to Bob Timberlake on the 1964 Michigan team that won the Big Ten Conference championship.

As a senior in 1965, Gabler began the season as a backup to Dick Vidmer.  Gabler got his first start in the second game of the season against Cal.  Gabler started five games for the 1965 Wolverines and completed 58 of 126 passes for 825 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions.  He also gained 149 rushing yards.

Following his senior year, Gabler played in the 1965 Blue–Gray Football Classic.

Gabler's younger brother, John H. Gabler, also played football at Michigan, as a halfback from 1966 to 1969.

Canadian Football League
Gabler played seven years in the Canadian Football League after graduating from Michigan in 1966.  He began his professional football career as the starting quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts.  As a rookie, he passed for 1,659 yards and rushed for another 373 yards.  In his history of the Argonauts, Craig Wallace wrote: "In 1966, the offence was based on Wally Gabler running around the backfield looking for open receivers -- and when he couldn't find one, running for his life."  Gabler remained with the Argonauts for three years.  He had his best year in 1968 when he completed 205 of 365 passes for 3,242 yards and 18 touchdowns.  He also rushed for 458 yards and four touchdowns for the 1968 Argonauts.

Interviewed in 1968, Gabler described his adjustment to the Canadian rules: "Of course, changing to three downs makes some difference.  You have to be accustomed to putting the ball in the air more in Canada but the rules compensate."

In August 1969, Gabler was traded to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in exchange for Dave Raimey.  Gabler gained 2,288 passing yards for the Blue Bombers in 1969.

During the 1970 season, Gabler was traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.  He passed for 1,908 yards for the Tiger-Cats in 1970.  He led the team to the Eastern regular season championship in 1970.  In November 1970, the Canadian Press published a feature story about Gabler's role in leading the Tiger-Cats.  The article described Gabler as "scholarly" and "soft-spoken" and noted:

Wally Gabler's shoulders will be carrying the lion's share of the load Sunday when he directs the Tiger-Cats in the first game of the Eastern Football Conference final against the Montreal Alouettes.  And it's ironic in view of the nomadic life the 26-year-old Royal Oak, Mich. native has experienced in his short career in the Canadian Football League. ... Arriving in late September to fill in at quarterback for injured Joe Zuger, Gabler quickly picked up the intricate Hamilton offence and was one of the instruments in the Tiger-Cats' first place finish.

During the off-seasons from 1967 to 1971, Gabler sold securities for Richardson Securities of Canada.

In August 1972, Gabler returned to the Toronto Argonauts, who lost their quarterback Joe Theismann in the season opener.  Gabler concluded his playing career in Toronto during the 1972 season, passing for 1,689 yards in 10 games.

In seven years in the CFL, Gabler completed 848 of 1,690 passes for 13,080 yards, 61 touchdowns and 118 interceptions.

Later years
Gabler was a colour commentator on CTV in 1974.

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The Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897 (sometimes called the Rodd Treaty) was an agreement negotiated between diplomat Sir Rennell Rodd of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia primarily involving border issues between Ethiopia and British Somaliland. It was signed on 14 May 1897 in order to "strengthen and render more effective and profitable the friendship between the two kingdoms", according to its preamble.

The treaty consisted of several articles, including:
 Article I: allowed subjects from Ethiopia and British Somaliland to have full liberties in regards to commerce with each other.
 Article II: defined the geographical boundaries between Ethiopia and British Somaliland.
 Article III: specified keeping open the caravan route between Harar and the colonial port of Zeila.
 Article IV: Ethiopia granted Great Britain favoured rights in respect to import duties and taxes.
 Article V: allowed Ethiopian import of military equipment through British Somaliland.
 Article VI: dealt with problems concerning Sudanese Mahdists.

This treaty was one of several concerning the borders of Ethiopia which were negotiated and signed in the ten years that followed the Ethiopian victory at the Battle of Adwa.

The boundary defined in this treaty was not demarcated until 1932, in response to Ras Tafari Makonnen's desire, which he expressed during his visit to Europe in 1924, to demarcate all of the boundaries of Ethiopia. E.H.M. Clifford explains that "negotiations to this end proceeded slowly but on the whole surely, and at the end of 1930 reached the stage of definite preparations; but the Boundary Commission did not actually meet until 8 January 1932, at Berbera." Clifford afterwards participated in the subsequent demarcation, which extended from the Italian-British boundary demarcated in 1929–1930 at , west to the trijunction point where the boundaries of French Somaliland met Ethiopia and British Somaliland. Clifford describes the terrain and work of demarcation, with a map, in a paper he presented to the Geographical Society in 1935, although he omitted any mention of the most significant event of this project—the Italo-Ethiopian Walwal Incident.

Annex
English version of the treaty:

Her Majesty Victoria, by the grace of God, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty Menelek II, by the grace of God, King of Kings of Ethiopia, being desirous of strengthening and rendering more effective and profitable the ancient friendship which has existed between their respective kingdoms;
Her Majesty Queen Victoria having appointed as her Special Envoy and Representative to His Majesty the Emperor Menelek II, James Rennell Rodd, Esq., Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, whose full powers have been found in due and proper form, and His Majesty the Emperor Menelek, negotiating in his own name as King of Kings of Ethiopia, they have agreed upon and do conclude the following Articles, which shall be binding on themselves, their heirs and successors:

Article I.
The subjects of or persons protected by each of the Contracting Parties shall have full liberty to come and go and engage in commerce in the territories of the other, enjoying the protection of the Government within whose jurisdiction they are; but it is forbidden for armed bands from either side to cross the frontier of the other on any pretext whatever without previous authorization from the competent authorities.

Article II.
The frontiers of the British Protectorate on the Somali Coast recognized by the Emperor Menelek shall be determined subsequently by exchange of notes between James Rennell Rodd, Esq., as Representative of Her Majesty the Queen, and Ras Maconen, as Representative of His Majesty the Emperor Menelek, at Harrar. These notes shall be annexed to the present Treaty, of which they will form an integral part, so soon as they have received the approval of the High Contracting Parties, pending which the status quo shall be maintained.

Article III.
The caravan route between Zeyla and Harrar by way of Gildessa shall remain open throughout its whole extent to the commerce of both nations.

Article IV.
His Majesty the Emperor of Ethiopia, on the one hand, accords to Great Britain and her Colonies in respect of import duties and local taxation, every advantage which he may accord to the subjects of other nations.

On the other hand, all material destined exclusively for the service of the Ethiopian State shall, on application from His Majesty the Emperor, be allowed to pass through the port of Zeyla into Ethiopia free of duty.

Article V.
The transit of fire-arms and ammunition destined for His Majesty the Emperor of Ethiopia through the territories depending on the Government of Her Britannic Majesty is authorized, subject to the conditions prescribed by the General Act of the Brussels Conference, signed the 2nd July, 1890.

Article VI.
His Majesty the Emperor Menelek II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, engages himself towards the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to do all in his power to prevent the passage through his dominions of arms and ammunition to the Mahdists, whom he declares to be the enemies of his Empire.
The present Treaty shall come into force as soon as its ratification by Her Britannic Majesty shall have been notified to the Emperor of Ethiopia, but it is understood that the prescriptions of Article VI shall be put into force from the date of its signature.

In faith of which His Majesty Menelek II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, in his own name, and James Rennell Rodd, Esq., on behalf of Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, have signed the present Treaty, in duplicate, written in the English and Amharic languages identically, both texts being considered as official, and have thereto affixed their seals.

Done at Adis Abbaba, the 14th day of May, 1897.

(Signed) James Rennell Rodd.

(Seal of His Majesty the Emperor Menelek II.)

Notes

Sources
 Excerpts from the "British Embassy, Addis Ababa" by Richard Pankhurst

1897 in Ethiopia
1897 in the United Kingdom
Treaties of the Ethiopian Empire
Treaties of the United Kingdom (1801–1922)
Treaties concluded in 1897
Ethiopia–United Kingdom relations
Treaties extended to British Somaliland
Ethiopia–Somalia border
May 1897 events
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The Rottweiler with its black and tan markings and powerful body is often considered to be one of the most well known police and military dogs. The head is very broad and somewhat rounded in appearance with a thick, heavy muzzle and small forward folded ears. They eyes are somewhat small for the head and may appear to be slightly pronounced. The tail is usually docked very short unless docking is prohibited. The body coat is thick and short with black covering most of the body and dark tan coloring on the lower legs, chest, cheeks and muzzle. The inside of the Rottweiler's mouth is also a dark color. The body of the Rottweiler is nothing short of solid. They tend to have a slightly sloping stance with the powerful hindquarters slightly lower than the withers. The chest is deep and powerful looking and the legs are heavy and sturdy.
As with most breeds there are variations in temperament, but Rottweilers that are well socialized, handled consistently and trained from an early age make loyal, loving and highly affectionate pets. They are great with children and animals with the proper training and socialization. They do require a firm trainer and positive rewards and attention for a job well done. They are loyal dogs and are very naturally protective of their property and people. They will bark as watchdogs but will also attack as guard dogs if the situation calls for aggression. They are very obedient and are often used as police dogs, military dogs and even as customs dogs.
In some areas the breed has been banned due to irresponsible owners not training and caring for the dog properly. Be sure to see the mother and father when choosing a puppy, and only buy from a reputable breeder to ensure a calm disposition and temperament.
The short, dense coat requires twice a week grooming with a stiff bristle brush or pin brush. They do not need to be clipped or trimmed but they will need some additional brushing in the spring and fall when they tend to shed more. Overall Rottweilers are average shedders and are naturally clean dogs. They should only be bathed when necessary.
The breed likely was bred by crossing Italian Mastiffs with black and tan mastiffs or hounds. The breed was used as a herding dog in the Middle Ages and then became more of a protector or guard and watchdog. The name Rottweiler comes from the German town Rottweil, where the breed was centered. Almost extinct by the 1800's, breeder in Germany worked to save the breed by using it as a military dog and police dog. It is now one of the most popular of the large breeds.


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reluctant student who says he will not do well on design projects because he is "colorblind" can be a challenge; it requires the patience of both the instructor and the student.
techniques to work with color both in and out of the classroom. There is no reason why the colordeficient student cannot learn to design for the theatre.
twelve men and one out of two hundred women has some form of color deficiency.


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Yogi Adityanath Biography
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Yogi Adityanath Biography, Early Life, Achievements, Quotes
Yogi Adityanath biography. Ajay Singh Bisht is Yogi Adityanath's actual name. On June 5, 1972, he was born. At the age of 26, he was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha as the youngest member. Let us take a closer look at Yogi Adityanath's biography, which includes information on his childhood, family, education, political career, and more.
CM Yogi Adityanath biography is a politician and the Mahant (Chief Priest) of Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth organization. He is the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh at the moment.
On April 20, 2020, his father, Anand Kumar Bhist, died in the morning at AIIMS in Delhi. He conveyed his sorrow at his father's passing. He did not attend the final rites on April 21, 2020, due to the effectiveness of lockdown and the plan to destroy COVID-19.
CM Yogi Adityanath Early Years
Ajay Singh Bisht is his actual name. He was born in Uttarakhand on June 5, 1972, to a Gharwali Rajput family. Anand Singh Bisht, his father, was a forest ranger. He had his elementary education at Pauri and Rishikesh's local schools. He graduated from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
Around 1990, he joined the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and became the chief priest follower of Gorakhnath Math Mahant Avaidyanath. After that, he was known as 'Yogi Adityanath,' and he replaced Mahant Avaidyanath.
In roughly 1994, Mahant Avaidyanath appointed Yogi Adityanath as his successor, and he became the chief priest of the Gorakhnath Math. Then it was his responsibility to oversee the Gorakhnath Trust Fund's schools, colleges, and hospitals. As a result, he was also appointed Gorakhnath Math's successor.
Yogi Adityanath Education
In 1977, he began studying at the local school in Gaja, Tehri, and graduated in 1987 with a Class X diploma. In 1989, he graduated from Rishikesh's Sri Bharat Mandir Inter College with an intermediate diploma. While studying for his degree, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in 1990. He graduated from Srinagar's Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992.
His things, including his certificate, were taken from his room during his stay in Kotdwar. His quest to get a scientific job in Gorakhpur was thwarted as a result of this. After that, he enrolled in a postgraduate scientific program in Rishikesh, but his focus was drawn to the opposite side due to the Ram temple movement's effect and the challenge of admittance.
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During his time in Gorakhpur, he met Mahant Avaidyanath, a resident of his nearby village and an old friend of the family. He arrived in Gorakhpur in 1993 to perform research on Guru Gorakhnath while pursuing MSc in Mathematics. In 1994, he became a full monk and was given Yogi Adityanath by Ajay Singh Bisht. He eventually accepted initiation at the Mahanta's sanctuary. He was appointed a Mahant here after the death of Avaidyanath, the previous Mahant of Gorakhnath Temple, on September 12, 2014. According to the Nath cult's customary rite, he was made the temple's Peetadheeshwar two days later.
Yogi Adityanath Achievements
In the 1990s, he made his first appearance as a student leader. Some students from the Inter College, which operates out of Gorakhnath Temple in Golghar, Gorakhpur's central bazaar, went to purchase garments and argued with the merchant. The merchant pulled out his handgun when he was assaulted. Two days later, the students demonstrated against the merchant, demanding action, and also scaled the wall of the SSP mansion, headed by a young yogi. He then embarked on his adventure.
At the age of 22, Yogi Adityanath gave up his family life and became a monk. Instead of worshipping God in a single location, he chose to go across the area and raise awareness.
Yogi Adityanath biography Political Journey
Gorakhnath Math's chief priest, Yogi Adityanath, was appointed in 1994. He was elected to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament after four years. He was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha. For the last five years, he has been elected to the Gorakhpur Legislative Assembly. He also founded Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth wing.
At 26, he was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha, making him the youngest member ever elected.
In 1998-99, he served on the Committee on Food, Civil Supplies, and Public Distribution and its Sub-Committee-B on Sugar and Edible Oils. A member of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee.
Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee. In 1999-2000, he was re-elected to the 13th Lok Sabha for a second term. He also served on the Food, Civil Supplies, and Public Distribution Committee.
2004: He was re-elected to his third term in the 14th Lok Sabha. He was also a member of the Committee on Government Assurances, the Committee on External Affairs, and the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee.
2009: He was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha for a fourth term. He was also a member of the Transportation, Tourism, and Culture Committee.
He was re-elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur seat for a fifth term in 2014.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, he was a key BJP campaigner. In 2017, he became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh after the BJP won the legislative elections. He outlawed cow smuggling, tobacco, pan, and gutka in Uttar Pradesh's government buildings when he took control. In the state, he also organized anti-Romeo squads. More than a hundred cops were also put on leave.
Who is Yogi Adityanath?
As the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath is responsible for several other ministries, totaling around 36, including Home, Housing, Revenue, Food, and Civil Supplies, Food Security and Drug Administration, Stamp and Registry, Town and Country Planning Department, Economics and Statistics, Mines and Minerals, Flood control, vigilance, prison, general administration, secretarial administration, personnel and appointment, information, institutional finance, and more.
Yogi Adityanath Quotes
Social and Cultural Activities of Yogi Adityanath
– He runs a dormitory for children who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
– He increases awareness about religious and societal norms, as well as their negative effects.
– He also oversees the operations of more than two dozen educational institutions and strives to expand health services to rural regions.
– He is also the head of several spiritual and cultural organizations, including India's oldest meditation system and the Nath Panth, a major philosophical group.
Yogi Adityanath Special Interests
Yoga and spirituality are two of his passions. He is a proponent of cow-protection campaigns. He also oversees the Rashtra Raksha Abhiyan, which focuses on social and national security, gardening, religious discourses, Bhajans, and religious site tours.
He is a diligent worker with a solid commitment to his job. He continued the meeting with the authorities of the core group on COVID-19 even after learning of his father's death, and after finishing it in roughly 45 minutes, he stood up.
How did Yogi Aditynath become Gorakhnath's chief priest?
Yogi left his family at the age of 20 and joined the Ayodhya Ram temple campaign. He met Mahant Avaidyanath in 1993. GroakhnathMath's chief priest was Spiritual Man Mahant Avaidyanath. Yogi Adityanath was the moniker given to him by this spiritual guru.
Yogi was influenced mainly by Mahant Avaidyanath. Yogi Aditynath followed mahant Avaidyanath's precepts. Mahant Avaidyanath died on September 12, 2014. Yogi is allowed to become the primary priest of GrokhnathMath after his death. Yogi has been the head of GrokhnathMath from that period.
Yogi Adityanath of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a long and illustrious political career.
Yogi used to be involved in Hindutva politics. In 1991, he joined the BJP. In 1994, he was chosen as GrokhnathMath's chief priest. In the 12th Loksabha Gorakhpur Election in 1998, he was elected. At the age of 26, Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha. From 1998 to 2014, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms. When he was initially elected, he established Hindu Yuva Vahini.
Yogi AdityaNath was elected Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2017 State Assembly elections.
On March 19, 2017, he was sworn in. On April 4, 2017, he had his first cabinet meeting.
He surrounded himself with 36 ministers as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He has taken action in this area.
Slaughterhouses, cattle smugglers, and a variety of other locations.
The Hindu Yuva Vahini was founded by Yogi Ji
Yogi Adityanath founded the Hindu Yuva Vahini after entering politics. Yogi then went on a crusade against his conversion. He made some contentious remarks as a result of his ardent Hindutva image. Yogi has been involved in several issues as a result of his words. Yogi was detained as the primary suspect after riots erupted in Gorakhpur in 2007. However, there was a lot of confusion following that, and numerous lawsuits were filed against Yogi as a result. Yogi's strength, on the other hand, constantly rose following these battles.
Many criminal charges have been filed against Yogi Adityanath. There are accusations of instigating riots, attempting to kill, having dangerous weapons, unlawful assembly, and so on in these instances. Aside from that, they were infected with other ailments.


November 6, 2006 KANSAS CITY, Mo.
As a way to thank the men and women of the Armed Forces for their dedication and service, this Veteran's Day several Pioneer Services offices will be giving away a total of 700 tickets to Flags of Our Fathers, a film USA Today called "perhaps the finest modern film about World War II." The offices in Oceanside, Calif., Fayetteville, N.C., and Norfolk, Va., will be participating in the giveaway.
"We're always looking for new and unique ways to give back to the military communities we serve," said Karen Von Der Bruegge, chief marketing officer for Pioneer Services. "Whether it's sponsoring events, providing numerous scholarships, or even giving them a free night at the movies, we do everything we can to show our appreciation for all that they do for our country."
Each office has custom-tailored the ticket giveaway to its unique market. In Oceanside (which serves Camp Pendleton, Naval Base San Diego, and Miramar Marine Corps Air Station), the first 200 service members to come by the office on Nov. 10 and 11, will receive the tickets. At the Norfolk office, all 286 officers and crew of the USS Winston Churchill will receive tickets. And at Fort Bragg, 200 tickets will be distributed to Soldiers from XVIII Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division, and United States Army Special Operations Command.
In addition, each office will have additional tickets set aside for Family Support Groups, military chaplains, and other groups who help improve the quality of life for service members.
Pioneer Services will also provide coupons for a free credit report review from a Certified Credit Report Reviewer, and for a free Break the Debt Cycle consultation. These financial education offerings are designed to help service members understand their credit report and how to better manage their money.
"Thank you for thinking of our Sailors on this Veteran's Day with the offer of the free movie tickets," said Sheri Clark, president of the USS Winston Churchill's Family Support Group. "More importantly, your organization also thinks of our Sailors on most other days as well. Your 'Break the Debt Cycle' program is eye opening and the services you provide for saving and investing on a military budget are incredible. I hope more people take advantage of the free training."


Pointing out that schools that willingly embrace the challenge of serving disadvantaged students are doing well, but not exceptionally well is hardly the most generous, kind or empathetic hobby. It is a necessary task in today's policy environment, however.
Because the simple "charters are better" argument is rapidly collapsing -- the data just doesn't support it. So now you have the much more sophisticated "the better charters" -- in particular the best "no excuses" CMO's -- are better" variant. Aside from being an obviously unfair comparison, the burden of proof is pushed onto a small set of schools. There is not a lot of room to winnow that set down longer before you're just left with a handful of exceptions and outliers, not a strategy. And there is a firehose of public and private money being plowed into this group of CMO's. So we can and must put a microscope on their claims and performance.
If only half of KIPP's schools in NYC are in the top 25%, that's important. If none of Achievement First's are, that's important. If neither of the HCZ's are, that's incredibly important. If "no excuses" charters have, over time, the same ups and downs as every other kind of school or, for that matter, human institution, that's not surprising, but that's not what's being sold.
It isn't my fault; I'm not the one that made such grandiose claims and placed so much importance on such a small number of schools.
In the local context, the argument for importing "no excuses" schools as Mayoral Academies has been that not only are they good schools, really qualitatively different than even the successful local charters, like Paul Cuffee, that we already have. I'm not the one who made those claims, but I'll be watching to see if they prove out. It isn't a fair comparison, but it wasn't my idea.
Firehose was a major improvement. Fromohio was another solid set; it seemed to be cut from the same cloth rather than a true progression.
Wait, am I on the right thread? I was supposed to be commenting on the Ironandwine version of Flaminglips.
The Valerie Strauss article, which was a nuanced analysis, said that HCZ was on the right track. I'm wondering if there is a problem of lumping different "standards" reformers together as "right wing" as a sort of defence of "progressivism", rather than a real sorting out of what represents progress?
Something similar is being tried by Noel Pearson in Cape York - extremely disadvantaged area. From his perspective there is no other real option but to sit back and watch the kids be destroyed by welfare dependency, drug abuse etc. Hence, some "progressives" label him as right wing because he does make alliances with the devil to achieve progress for the most disadvantaged indigenous - australians. Whereas the progressives are better on the rhetoric but don't achieve much in practice.


The planned increase of the consumption tax to 10% in fall of 2019 is expected to make the use of ¥1 coins even less common.
Electronic money usage is on the rise in Japan. Being able to make a payment at the touch of a card frees purchasers at convenience stores and kiosks from having to fish around for small coins or wait to receive change. This in turn reduces lines at the checkout counter.
Consequently, the use of ¥1 coins has been gradually decreasing. In 1989, the introduction of the 3% consumption tax was expected to increase demand for small change, so the government issued ¥2 billion in ¥1 coins each year for three years. The rise in circulation can be seen in the graph below.
When the consumption tax was raised to the rounder figure of 5% in 1997, the production of ¥1 coins dropped dramatically. The overall value of ¥1 coins in circulation, which had exceeded ¥40 billion between 1997 and 2009, began to decrease thereafter, and by 2017 was around ¥37.7 billion.
The further increase of the consumption tax in 2014 to 8% resulted in a tendency toward prices with less rounded sums, but production of ¥1 coins remained low. Apart from in coin sets, it had all but ceased by 2016. Only 448,000 ¥1 coins were produced in 2018 (so near to zero that it is not displayed in the above graph).
Prices requiring the use of ¥1 coins will be less likely to occur if the consumption tax is increased as planned to 10% in October 2019. The presence of ¥1 coins is likely to fade further against the backdrop of the government's goal of increasing cashless transactions to 40% of all transactions by 2025 in order to reduce costs related to such operations as transporting and storing coins and bills.


The home inventory business has come a long way from homeowners filling out makeshift checklists, to insurance agents armed with clipboards trudging through your home after a fire or flood. In those days, if you even had the forethought to inventory what you owned, you had to hope you did it well enough to get fully reimbursed after a disaster.
In your professional capacity as an insurance broker, financial planner, or divorce attorney, your clients are looking to you for timely and helpful advice concerning the current and future status of their belongings.


In the retail trade in May and June is expected to reach the first accelerator computing from AMD series Llano. However, according to the site SemiAccurate, global chip maker (second largest) reported the production of the next generation APU, whose code name Wichita. Novelty should be replaced in the market for existing modeliS-30 and C-50 belonging to the line of Ontario.
About APU Wichita yet known very little. It became known that the chips will be created at a rate of 28 nm technology, which will greatly reduce power consumption compared to 40 nm chips. Expected to use in the chips of one or two cores Bobcat, as well as integrated graphics performance that should be on level with the IGP in the APU Zacate.
Chips are expected to appear in a series of Krishna, and the term debut no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year. Release of the same chip are likely to be timed to coincide with CES 2012.


After moving into sports full time, he had moderate success on the motocross circuit.Knievel moved into the entertainment business in 1966 by setting up his own touring daredevil show, initially using a variety of performers and later converting it to a solo show with his jumps as the center-piece. He came to national attention when he persuaded the owners of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to let him jump their fountains on New Year's Eve 1967. After a failed landing, which was caught on film, Knievel spent 29 days in a coma. After his recovery, he continued to make high profile and lucrative jumps, and began lobbying the government for permission to jump the Grand Canyon. Unable to obtain permission, he settled on a jump over the Snake River in Twin Falls, Idaho, which he attempted on September 8, 1974 in the X-2 Skycycle. The parachute deployed immediately after launch and the vehicle crashed just a few feet away from the river's edge. Knievel suffered minor injuries and avoided drowning. Knievel then traveled to Britain, and on May 26, 1975, attempted to jump 13 buses in front of 90,000 people at Wembley Stadium, again crashing but with severe injuries. His longest completed career jump came at Kings Island theme park in Ohio on October 25, 1975, jumping 14 buses, marking his peak television audience.


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Tunnel Demo on a green screen
This time it wasn't an Amiga demo that triggered the creation of this effect - it was the Super Nintendo Game "Super Castlevania IV"!. A friend of mine had a Super Famicom/ Super Nintendo and lots of games. Super Castlevania IV was one of it.
Since he was pretty good at playing all the games on the Super Nintendo he once played the whole game through and I was watching it. Castlevania IV had a lot of cool effects like areas were the whole screen turned around its center point, zooming enemies and backgrounds...
One of the levels started in a tunnel which realistically rotated around the player. To say the least: I was speechless! This tunnel effect looked so cool I just had to try to convert it to the CPC.
I had many ideas how to create it, e.g. by using a single line hardware split, using fast software routines or using a color switch effect... the last method was the first and only I've tried out. (I always wanted to use the hardware line splitting of the CPC+ to create a better version of this routine, but never did!)
Since the CPC doesn't have enough nuances of the same color to satisfy my need for different gradations for the tunnel I used a green screen and the possibility to use all 26 colors as different hues of green to enhance the visual impact of this effect.
The result looked okay, but not really satisfying. I intended to try out the other two possibilities I had in mind, but I was kept busy with other things and never got to work on that again.
Since I used a CRTC register 3 scroll trick for the Terminator scroll and these scrolling tricks always look bad on a green screen I added the rotating Tunnel as special green screen part to the Terminator scroll.
Later I got the idea that I could switch between two or three screens to create the impression of a right or left scrolling tunnel. But this idea also didn't make it into reality. Too bad!
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This Broccoli Pasta is very easy to make and tastes delicious. I just happened to stumble upon this recipe on the website www.skinnytaste.com when I was searching for an easy pasta recipe. I have modified it a little bit. I hope you would like it. You can also serve this recipe for your vegetarian guests on Christmas.
The macaroni pasta that I have used here is made of Durum wheat. Durum wheat is a good source of protein. The other main ingredient is Broccoli which is rich in dietary fibre, potassium and copper, phosphorous, vitamin A (in the form of carotenoids), vitamin B1, Vitamin B6, Vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids among several other nutrients. Add to this the goodness of cheese, garlic, black pepper and mixed Italian herbs and you have a healthy wholesome meal ready in a few minutes.
If you are looking for more international recipes do check out Falafel, Tahini sauce, Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake (No baking required) and Eggless Christmas Pudding (No baking/ steaming required).
Heat water in a saucepan/ kadhai.
Add salt and 1 tsp olive oil to the water while heating it.
Adding oil will prevent the pasta from becoming sticky once it is cooked.
Once the water begins to boil, add the pasta and broccoli to it.
We need to cook the pasta around 80%. This will take around 5 mins 30 sec to 6 minutes. This time might differ as per the variety of pasta used. Read the instructions on the pasta packet to decide the cooking time required.
Check the pasta and once it is cooked around 80% switch off the gas flame.
Remove half a cup stalk and wash the pasta and broccoli under cool running tap water. This will prevent them from getting further cooked.
In a pan, heat 2 tsp olive oil.
Once the oil is hot, add chopped garlic and fry till it turns light brown in colour.
As the garlic turns light brown, add the cooked pasta and broccoli along with the stalk.
Add freshly ground pepper corns and grated cheese. I have grated 2 cheese cubes of the size shown in the video. You can use more cheese if you like.
Mix well and cook the pasta in cheese and stalk for around 1 to 1.5 minutes. Adjust the cooking time if you are using a different variety of pasta.
Add mixed Italian herbs (dry). I have crushed them a bit by rubbing the palms.
You may also add crushed chilli flakes if you like little spicy taste.
Check the pasta and switch off the gas flame once it is cooked. Remember not to overcook the pasta.


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USU Collegiate 4-H's ESCAPE ROOM is back and better than ever. With the addition of two new exciting rooms, this is an experience you don't want to miss! Come rescue a kidnapped professor, solve an art heist, or experience the wizard tower. It's fun for the whole family or great for a date night. Come by yourself or come in a group. Either way — COME! Three days only: March 29, March 30, and April 1 from 3 to 9 PM. Register ahead of time to secure your spot. Walk-ins are also welcome, but may have a longer waiting period. See you there!


Introduced at Infocomm 2009, Planar has announced shipping of the Clarity™ Matrix - an LCD Video Wall System that makes the most of LCD technology's slim profile and vibrant visual performance. The Clarity Matrix features 46" commercial-grade LCD panels with breakthrough "narrow bezel" technology and incorporates an industry-leading design that takes heat, complexity & unreliability from behind the LCD panel to a centrally located, accessible rack-mount system.
Clarity Matrix is designed for control room, public venue & digital signage applications that require a thin profile video wall, with uninterrupted operation.


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Webber Whoppers
Do you smell something burning? We sure do. And you know what it is? Jay Webber's pants. Because they're on fire!
So what's on the malarkey menu this week for Jay?
Webber Whopper #1:
"My opponent has organized rallies calling for the abolition of ICE, organized rallies calling for open borders."
The Truth: The New York Times spotlighted Webber's lying ways in the lead of a story this month about how Republicans are using the "Abolish ICE" movement to smear Democratic candidates. The Star-Ledger editorial board stated its case even more bluntly: "This is Webber's first real moment of stepping out in this race, to fill the 11th district seat of retiring Rodney Frelinghuysen," the piece said, "and he's flat-out lying."
Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy pilot and a federal prosecutor, does not support abolishing ICE and does not believe in open borders. Nor did her campaign organize events calling for the abolition of ICE. "Mikie Sherrill will always stand up for our men and women in uniform and our community," says Essex County Sherriff Armando Fontoura. "When Assemblyman Webber questions her dedication and her service to our country, he lowers himself."
"The average family of four in NJ-11 saves over $6,000 as a result of the recent federal tax reform."
The Truth: That mysterious number has been batted around since the House Ways and Means Committee floated it out there last December. And no one is quite sure of how those guys came up with that amount. Democrats dismiss the analysis, pointing out that the supposed $6,000 average cut for a family of four doesn't take the SALT deduction cap into account. So who's right? It's telling that all Republican NJ House members (except MacArthur) and both senators voted against the GOP tax bill. And as this InsiderNJ.com piece points out, "It's hard to see Rodney P. Frelinghuysen voting "no" if the tax bill really was going to bring about $6,000 in benefits to the average family of four in the district." No matter how wonky you want to get, the reality is that under the new tax laws, New Jersey has the greatest portion of residents getting their taxes hiked and one of the lowest shares of residents getting a tax cut, according to a study conducted by the Brookings Institution's Tax Policy Center.
"Mikie is going to have to raise taxes to pay for her crazy ideas."
The Truth: What, exactly, are Sherrill's crazy ideas? Supporting universal criminal background screening for all firearm sales, so criminals and dangerously mentally ill people can't buy deadly weapons at gun shows, over the internet, and through classified ads? Passing legislation that provides meaningful tax relief for New Jersey's middle-class families? Pressuring the federal government to pay its share of the Gateway Tunnel project? Stabilizing the healthcare marketplace and working to keep costs down on prescription drugs to help families keep more money in their pockets? We hate to go back to it again, but Jay Webber is the one who vocally supports a law that downright screwed New Jersey residents on their taxes. Talk about crazy ideas.
Facts matter. Learn more about Mikie Sherrill's positions on the issues in her own words. See Webber's voting record for yourself, it speaks volumes. And learn more about where both candidates stand on key issues.


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Home / Winnipeg Jets 2017-18
This original, one-of-a-kind watercolor painting of the 2017-18 Winnipeg Jets jersey is the original artwork that was used in the creation of this Winnipeg Jets jersey evolution print and thousands of other Winnipeg Jets products that have been sold across North America. This original piece of art was painted by artist Tino Paolini for Heritage Sports Art Inc.
The former poster looked like this:
Please note that all reproduction rights for this original work are retained in perpetuity by the National Hockey League unless specifically stated otherwise in writing by the NHL. For further information, please contact Heritage Sports Art at questions@heritagesportsart.com .
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Hong Pham, half of the duo behind , crafted this refreshing cocktail to pair with her Firecracker Shrimp, a rich, deep-fried snack. However, this refreshing beverage goes well with just about any Southeast Asian food. While lychee is best known for making an appearance in candy and ice cream, it's a tropical fruit packed with health benefits. This recipe uses canned litchis (which you can find at a well-stocked grocery store or an Asian market) and some of the syrup for an easy-to-make drink with a twist. Muddled raspberries and Prosecco round out the sparkling cocktail.


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Ray Kurzweil Plans to Create a Mind at Google—and Have it Serve You
by Will Knight, Technology Review
The technologist speaks about an ambitious plan to build a powerful artificial intelligence. Famed AI researcher and incorrigable singularity forecaster Ray Kurzweil recently shed some more light on what his new job at Google will entail. It seems that he does, indeed, plan to build a prodigious artificial intelligence, which he hopes will understand the world to a much more sophisticated degree than anything built before–or at least that will act as if it does. Kurzweil's AI will be designed to analyze the vast quantities of information Google collects and to then serve as a super-intelligent personal assistant. He suggests it could eavesdrop on your every phone conversation and email exchange and then provide interesting and important information before you ever knew you wanted it. It sounds like a scary-smart version of Google Now
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510121/ray-kurzweil-plans-to-create-a-mind-at-google-and-have-it-serve-you/
Help! I've got Windows 8 and I miss my Start menu!
by Peter Bright, Ars Technica
With Christmas now long behind us, one or two of you may well have been lucky enough to find a shiny new Windows 8 PC under the tree. After cleaning off the crapware, it's time to use the thing, and that means digging into the new user interface. The Windows 8 user interface has many Windows users divided. The chief complaints are that Windows 8 has no Start button and that it has no Start menu, only the (full-screen, Metro-styled) Start screen. Secondary to these is the complaint that Windows 8 shows the Start screen immediately after logging in, rather than showing the desktop as prior versions of Windows have done. Getting to the desktop takes an extra click.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/help-ive-got-windows-8-and-i-miss-my-start-menu/
Is Dell looking to kill PCs with "Project Ophelia"?
Dell's Project Ophelia: an Android-based thin client that you can put in your pocket for around $50, eventually. ell announced its pocket client PC, called "project Ophelia," on January 8, and demonstrated it at CES. Developed by Dell's Wyse unit, Ophelia uses a Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) to draw power to boot from an HDTV display, or it can be powered off a USB port. It has integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability for connecting to a keyboard, a mouse, and the network, and it runs the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) operating system with all of the functionality of a tablet. It can also be used to power virtual instances of other desktop operating systems on a remote server or in the cloud. n other words, it's a fusion of Wyse's thin client technology modeled after the capabilities of a Google Chromebook—except it can be carried in a pocket. The main drawbacks are that few HDTVs currently support MHL—though such support can be found in a number of Dell flat-panel displays.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/is-dell-looking-to-kill-pcs-with-project-ophelia/
US employee 'outsourced job to China'
A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China. The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay. He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job. Operator Verizon says the scam came to light after the US firm asked it for an audit, suspecting a security breach.
Facebook adds free calling feature for US iPhones
Facebook has added a feature in its mobile phone app that allows free calling for US iPhone users. Users can now make calls to each other via the Facebook Messenger app anywhere they have a wi-fi or a cellular-data connection. The feature could be a boon for heavy talkers as they would avoid carrier call charges. Facebook said it was working on adding the feature to its Messenger app for Android and BlackBerry users. Within the app, all a person needs to do is open a conversation with a partner, tap the "i" icon in the upper right hand corner and select "Free Call".
US general warns over Iranian cyber-soldiers
Gen Shelton issued the warning during a briefing given to reporters about the US Air Force division he heads that includes America's cyber-troops. He said the 2010 Stuxnet virus attack on Iran's Natanz uranium processing plant had generated a "reaction" by Iran that had led it to rapidly improve its defensive and offensive cyber-capabilities. Since then Iran has been hit again and again by viruses. In December 2012, the Stuxnet virus returned and hit companies in the southern Hormozgan region. That improved capability had helped it protect itself against subsequent attacks on oil terminals and other manufacturing plants. Its capability might well be turned against Iran's enemies in the coming years, he said. "They are going to be a force to be reckoned with," said Gen Shelton, "with the potential capabilities that they will develop over the years and the potential threat that will represent to the United States."
Congress Sets Sights On Fixing Privacy Rights
by Adam Popescu, ReadWrite
The Senate will be taking on much-needed digital rights legislation in the new 113th Congress, including requiring law enforcement to have warrants before poking around online communications. In a speech at Georgetown University Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt). stressed the need for defending civil liberties, protecting privacy, improving transparency and making a push to require a warrant before law enforcement has carte blanche to read people's emails, social media messages and other modes of online communication.
http://readwrite.com/2013/01/18/new-congress-privacy-agenda-unvelied
Every Company Is Up For Disruption, So Keep Your Products Simple
by VICTOR BELFOR, Tech Crunch
The process of Low End Disruption is beautifully described in Clayton Christensen's series of books: The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution and The Innovator's DNA. If you haven't read them, you should. What's amazing about these books is not only how important their conclusions are but how well researched they are. So why is this relevant to the deal that I mentioned above? Because I believe the process starts much sooner now. Companies that are barely out of the gate are getting disrupted. The rapid pace of innovation we are experiencing, plus the low costs of starting a company and the reasonable availability of venture capital, add up to a large number of startups fighting for survival in very close quarters.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/19/every-company-is-up-for-disruption-so-keep-your-products-simple/
9 trends to watch for in wearable tech
by Christian Lindholm, Koru
With advances in sensors and wireless, the age of wearable tech is swiftly approaching. Christian Lindholm, of design firm Koru, explains the trends his firm is tracking. The wearables business is gaining momentum and is one of the most exciting markets of the digital age. We at Koru decided to share some of the key trends we believe will emerge this year. To quote Gary Hamel, a hero of mine: today's niche markets are tomorrow's mass markets.
http://gigaom.com/2013/01/19/9-trends-to-watch-for-in-wearable-tech/
Lens-less camera emerges from metamaterials work
Collision avoidance systems could emerge from the lens-less imaging research. US scientists have used metamaterials to build the imaging system, which samples infra-red and microwave light. Metamaterials are materials that have properties purposefully designed rather than determined by their chemistry. The sensor also compresses the images it captures in contrast to current compression systems, which only squash images after they are taken.
10 Consumer Computing Devices Ideal to Bring to the Enterprise
Bringing your favorite smartphone or table to the office and expecting to access corporate data would have been considered anathema just several years ago, but this is now more commonplace than ever. Today, some companies are even choosing to deploy one-time consumer-favorite smartphones and tablets as company-authorized equipment. The rise of the bring-your-own-device trend occurred because of the productivity gains companies observed by letting employees use the devices they liked best to do their work at the office or on the road. BYOD also reduces the overall cost of deploying products in-office. For a growing number of companies, giving BYOD the green light is just fine. But deciding which consumer products are the right ones to support at the office isn't easy.
http://www.eweek.com/mobile/slideshows/10-consumer-computing-devices-ideal-to-bring-to-the-enterprise/
Bill Gates, Ken Robinson, and TED Are Coming To PBS
TED Talks is expanding. No longer relegated to your computer or mobile device, it's making the jump into the more mainstream media. It's headed to PBS. On April 16th, PBS is going to air the first televised TED event, dubbed TED Talks Education. It'll be filmed a bit before the airing on April 4th in New York City. The first three speakers include Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone, Bill Gates, and Sir Ken Robinson. TED says there will be more speakers (including "dynamic teachers, speakers, and performers") announced soon.
http://edudemic.com/2013/01/ted-talks-education-pbs/
What A Typical BYOD Program Really Looks Like
by Fredric Paul, ReadWrite
BYOD – Bring Your Own Device – is one of the hottest trends in IT right now. The idea is to let employees use their own preferred smartphones, tablets and/or laptops, and have the company's technology department allow them to connect to company networks and applications, as well as make sure they're secure and supported. But what are companies really doing about BYOD? To find out, ReadWrite ran a survey of our readers. (See Is Bring Your Own Device – BYOD – Changing Your Company?) The survey attracted 261 responses, and 176 completed every question. While this is far from a scientific or statistically valid study, the results do offer some intriguing data points as to how BYOD is being used.
http://readwrite.com/2013/01/18/readwrite-survey-results-what-a-typical-byod-program-really-looks-like
Digital Natives And Doctors Rejoice, Google Handwrite Gets Faster And Smarter
by Drew Olanoff, Tech Crunch
Google Handwrite, a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a bit of an upgrade today. The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you're on your mobile device, to "write" your search. If you have sloppy handwriting, then you will be extremely happy to learn more about today's news. A part of the update today is the ability for Google Handwrite to understand overlapping characters, and write more than one Chinese character at a time, if that's your search language of choice.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/18/digital-natives-and-doctors-rejoice-google-handwrite-gets-faster-and-smarter/
Line, The Messaging App That Took Japan By Storm, Crosses 100M Users And Enters The U.S.
by KIM-MAI CUTLER, Tech Crunch
Line, a messaging app made by South Korea's Naver Corp. that took off in Japan, just crossed 100 million users globally 19 months after it originally launched. The app is one of the leading contenders in smartphone messaging in Asia and faces off against Tencent's WeChat and KakaoTalk. As I've written before, when rumors emerged that Facebook was in acquisition talks with WhatsApp, global messaging is very fragmented with many players that do well in specific territories in Asia and Europe. While Naver didn't share details on daily or monthly actives, Line's numbers put it up there among the top smartphone messaging players to watch.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/18/line-100m-users/
Here's why Surface Pro is less portable than an Ultrabook
By Matt Baxter-Reynolds, ZDNet
Surface Pro might seem like the ultimate portable PC, but is it? And might you be better off with any other touch-capable Ultrabook? A lot of people I've spoken to about their intention to buy a Surface Pro have cited that they want something "more portable" than an Ultrabook. What I've been saying to them is that I believe the Surface Pro will be much less portable than an Ultrabook. They asked me to prove it. I'm going to prove it to you too.
http://www.zdnet.com/heres-why-surface-pro-is-less-portable-than-an-ultrabook-7000009890/
'We thought we'd sell 1,000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi
By Nick Heath, ZDNet
The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a coding revolution. Here's the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and development to plans for its future. Today more than 700,000 Raspberry Pi computers have been shipped to modders who are fitting them to robotic drones in the sky and underwater, to hobbyists designing home automation systems, and to wannabe coders looking to build their first programs. So what, exactly, is the Raspberry Pi? The Pi is a credit card-sized device and one of the lowest-cost computers available. At first glance it looks nothing like what is generally considered a computer, nothing more than a bare board and ports, but it is perfectly capable. The board is powerful enough to stream 1080p video, browse the web or write documents, and it was designed to be portable enough to carry around without breaking. A number of distros of Linux run on the Raspberry Pi, including ArchLinux, Debian "wheezy" and Raspbian — a Pi-optimised version of Debian.
http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspberry-pi-7000009718/
The Chromebook — it's like an iPad, but with a keyboard
I rarely write reviews of products that I am really, really smitten by. So stand by, because the Chromebook is fantastic. Um… it's amazing! I really wasn't expecting it to be any good. A couple of years ago I had one of the first ones on order, but cancelled it as I although I was keen to know what it was like the whole premise seemed stupid. Who would want a laptop computer that only ran a web browser and that always needs an internet connection? This then is the entire Chromebook proposition. It's just a web browser. The Acer I bought has 16GB of storage (which is a lot, considering in principle you never store anything locally), and 2GB of RAM. When you boot it up for the first time it takes you through getting a network connection going and it then asks you to log into your Google account.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-chromebook-its-like-an-ipad-but-with-a-keyboard-7000009905/
Smartphones for BYO
By Steven M. Baule, CIO Advisor
Effectively, outside of our classrooms, smartphones have already replaced almanacs and atlases for most simple ready reference questions. Why don't we let students do so in classrooms? We let our high school students use their cell phones during lunch as an incentive to reduce tardies. The world didn't end and, in fact, the lunchroom was calmer for some time. Unfortunately, some students just like to be late so that privilege was lost for a time last quarter. As smartphones seem to increase screen size and memory, we need to take another look at them as the de facto BYO device of choice in schools.
http://www.schoolcio.com/Default.aspx?tabid=136&entryid=5274
Mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn proposes tablet computers for every New York City school kid
BY ERIN DURKIN, NY Daily News
City schools should ditch textbooks and replace them with tablets, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed Tuesday. "Technology has changed what we need to teach, and it's also changed how we need to teach," the mayoral contender said in outlining a $300 million education agenda that she would implement as mayor. Quinn said the $100 million spent on textbooks every year by the school system would be enough to buy tablets for every student. She acknowledged that to stay within budget, administrators would have to find open-source texts and interactive programs for free online.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/tablet-kid-quinn-article-1.1240788
Dell's 'Project Ophelia' might be my favorite gadget at CES
By Andrew Nusca, ZDNet
Ophelia allows you to convert almost any TV or computer monitor into a full-on computer. Simply plug it in, ensure you have a reliable Internet connection and watch as Google Android (version 4.1 "Jellybean") boots up and gives you everything from web browsing to apps to keyboard and mouse support. All that computing muscle? It's in the cloud. Ophelia is a pocketable gateway to your personal datacenter. With the pocketable, self-powered Ophelia, the cloud benefits remain the same: nothing of import is stored on the local device; it can be locked down by IT with a click, using software-as-a-service management; it's cheap enough that leaving it in a hotel room wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. (Face it, you've spent more at the bar.) Plug it into an available display, and access everything you were working on back at the office, wherever you are.
http://www.zdnet.com/dells-project-ophelia-might-be-my-favorite-gadget-at-ces-7000009542/


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Immediate Release
Statement from the Department of Defense on Additional Forces to U.S. Central Command
The Acting Secretary of Defense has approved the movement of USS Arlington (LPD-24) and a Patriot battery to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) as part of the command's original request for forces from earlier this week.
These assets will join the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a U.S. Air Force bomber task force in the Middle East region in response to indications of heightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations against U.S. forces and our interests.
The Department of Defense continues to closely monitor the activities of the Iranian regime, their military and proxies. Due to operational security, we will not discuss timelines or location of forces.
The United States does not seek conflict with Iran, but we are postured and ready to defend U.S. forces and interests in the region.
USS Arlington is a San Antonio-class ship that transports U.S. Marines, amphibious vehicles, conventional landing craft and rotary aircraft with the capability to support amphibious assault, special operations, or expeditionary warfare missions.
USS Arlington also provides a high quality command and control capability and improved interoperability with our allies and partners in the region.
A Patriot battery is a long-range, all-weather air defense system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft.


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Every Archewell Project (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) is coming to Netflix
Among Netflix's biggest gross deals, none of the Archewell Productions deals made global headlines when Netflix announced them. Here's a running recap of every upcoming project on Netflix starring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex first announced in September 2020 that they have signed a global production agreement with Netflix with the new production company. Some sources said she got $100 million for the deal.
The couple had trouble withdrawing from the royal spotlight (also: it would be Megaxit. Al Ain) just a few years after leaving the royal family.
Archewell's website (which also details the couple's efforts outside of Netflix) states that Archewell will "use the power of storytelling to embrace our common humanity and duty to truth through a compassionate lens."
However, Obama's deal with Netflix through his production company, Higher Ground Productions, has received similar criticism and has become incredibly prolific for Netflix with 17 projects currently released or in development.
Next Netflix projects of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Invictus Heart
Type: Documentary series
Invictus Games – Foto: Getty Images
First announced in April 2021 in a Invictus Heart It will be the first bond to come out of the Withdrawal Agreement.
For those unaware of what the Invictus Games are, it's the Olympic equivalent, but it's for the injured. Prince Harry is the founder of the 2014 international sporting event.
The documentary series comes on the heels of athletes training for the next round of competitions, currently postponed until 2022, in The Hague, Netherlands.
The documentary series is directed by Academy Award-winning director Orlando von Einsiedel and producer Joanna Natasgara (Evelynin a white helmetsin a Virunga)
Type: Animated series
The new animated series directed by Amanda Randa DC Super Hero Girls in a noisy house.
The series revolves around a 12-year-old girl who embarks on heroic adventures inspired by the most powerful women in history.
Along with announcing the animated series, Megan released a statement saying:
"Like many girls of her age, our heroine, Pearl, is on a journey of self-discovery as she attempts to overcome the challenges of everyday life. I am excited that Archewell Productions, in partnership with the powerful Netflix platform and these incredible producers, brings you a new animated series that celebrates unparalleled women. Antiquities. Throughout History. David Furnish and I are thrilled to present this special series and am thrilled to announce it today."
Documentary rumors about the Duchess of Cambridge
US Weekly (or US Magazine as it is sometimes called) reported in mid-August 2021 that Duchess Kate and Meghan Markle were talking about "working together" on a Netflix project.
Of course, nothing has been confirmed about this movie with a pinch of salt yet, but they report that the couple are looking forward to working on a documentary that "highlights Kate's charitable work and the huge impact it's made." She got with her charitable work.
The project is very similar to the 2020 version of to be Who followed in the footsteps of First Lady Michelle Obama on her tour of the United States to release her book.
Looking forward to the next batch of titles from Archewell Productions on Netflix? Let us know in the comments.
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Q: Read numbers from first N file of file I have a text file with one number in each line.
I want to read a specific number of lines from this file , lets say the first 20, what is the way to do it?
I have the following piece of code.
FILE *ft;
ft=fopen(filename,"r");
for(int k=1; k<Nt+1; k=k+1)
{
    fscanf(ft,"%lf\n",&curve3[k]);
    printf("%lf\n",curve2[k]);
}

EDIT: I changed my code to
FILE *ft;
ft=fopen(filename,"r");
int k=1;

while(!feof(ft))
{
    if(k<=Nt)
    {
        fscanf(ft,"%lf\n",&curve2[k]);
        //printf("%lf\n",curve2[k]);
    }
    k=k+1;
}

It still doesn't seem to work.

A: With this code you can read a file line by line and hence read a specific line from the text file. So, you can modify the code.
lineNumber = x;

static const char filename[] = "file.txt";
FILE *file = fopen(filename, "r");
int count = 0;
if ( file != NULL )
{
    char line[256]; /* or other suitable maximum line size */
    while (fgets(line, sizeof line, file) != NULL) /* read a line */
    {
        if (count == lineNumber)
        {
            //use line or in a function return it
            //in case of a return first close the file with "fclose(file);"
        }
        else
        {
            count++;
        }
    }
    fclose(file);
}
else
{
    //file doesn't exist
}

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