There's a metric sleigh-load of Christmas movies on the shelves, ranging from virtually unwatchable dreck like Christmas with the Kranks and the Olsen Twins' To Grandmother's House We Go to darkly comic fare like The Ref and Bad Santa, as well as must-see holiday classics such as It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and Die Hard. But the story that gets adapted, tweaked, parodied, and bastardized the most is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with every holiday season seeing yet another film or TV-movie adaptation. Past versions have starred such freakishly diverse talents as Rich Little, Mickey Mouse, James Galway, The Flintstones, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott, Rowan Atkinson, and Mister Magoo. But there are a couple that stand out as truly iconic — the 1951 version starring Alistair Sim and 1992's A Muppet Christmas Carol. The truly marvelous Muppet version was the first film made by Jim Henson's crew after Henson's death and the first directed by Henson's son, Brian. By all rights, it ought to have been awful. But the film is so remarkably faithful to Dickens' text and Michael Caine, as Ebenezer Scrooge, turns in such a complex, spot-on performance (never once letting on that he's playing opposite fabric animals manipulated from the rear by crouching puppeteers) that the original work is given its due while the Muppets breathe fresh life into this well-trod territory. Helping to keep the movie grounded in its literary past, the film's narrated by Charles Dickens himself in the person of The Great Gonzo. He's joined by Rizzo the Rat, and the pair serve as both storytellers and Greek chorus as Muppets and humans interact in this distinctly off-kilter version of Victorian London. Muppets play most of the main characters — Kermit is Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is his wife, Fozzie Bear plays "Fozziwig," and one of Kermit's nephews plays the poor, afflicted Tiny Tim. A great deal of the dialogue is taken straight from Dickens, and that which is added for Muppet-y flavor is appropriate — far from being a wacky re-telling of the classic, Henson and his puppeteers honor the original work even as they lighten this very dark story just a little with gentle asides and some very good tunes by Paul Williams, including the funny "There Goes Mr. Humbug" and Scrooge's change-of-perspective song, "With a Thankful Heart." It's a charming take on a much-loved classic, and a real delight for both children and adults.
Buena Vista, via its "Disney DVD" imprint, offers The Muppet Christmas Carol in a very clean, very crisp anamorphic transfer (1.85:1) from a source-print that's occasionally a little grainy but otherwise quite good. The DD 5.1 audio is decent, but unexceptional — everything comes across just fine, but there's no real "surround" feeling, with the front speakers doing most of the work. Extras include commentary by director Brian Henson (available only with the pan-and-scan, full screen option, which hasn't been cleaned up as well as the widescreen and not only looks very dirty but features more substandard sound) in which he uses the word "Dickensian" more than necessary — but his remarks are actually very interesting, with wall-to-wall trivia and background on the technical aspects, the writing, and in-jokes enjoyed by the Muppeteers (for example, adorable Bean Bunny is famously hated by the Muppet folks, because "he's so obnoxiously sweet that everybody didn't like him.") There's also an "on-set gag reel" (3 min.) hosted by Rizzo and Gonzo (who points out that "every mistake is painstakingly conceived and executed by our top-notch creative team") offering various amusing flubs and ad libs during shooting; a not-terribly-amusing featurette "Gonzo: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Weirdo" (5 min.) with sound-bites from his Muppet co-stars and clips; and "Christmas Around the World," in which Rizzo and Gonzo discuss holiday traditions in foreign lands (3 min.). Keep-case.


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Hempworx boasts in this YouTube video that they pay huge commissions (up to 85% of revenue) to their affiliates. That means that up to 85% of the price that people pay is being paid in commissions to the selling affiliate and their "upline" network of other Hempworx affiliates. The video also promises the potential for affiliates to earn iPads, flatscreen TVs, luxury vacations, cruises, diamond watches, $100,000 cash bonuses and even new cars.
So I went on a months-long mission to try various CBD edibles, tinctures, balms, and vapes. What I soon discovered was that cannabidiol is no lightning bolt cure. Think of it as taking maintenance meds: You have to consume it regularly—in a dose and delivery method that works for you—to notice the progressive increase of benefits. It also doesn't leave you completely devoid of the misery of pain. Instead, CBD helps make pain infinitely more tolerable—downgrading it from ER-worthy agony to manageable discomfort.
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HempWorx CBD is an interesting brand that has no issue with transparency in terms of how they operate as a business, and where they source their raw hemp plant material from. Also, one of the main things that stands out to me as that they're one of the only companies I know of that offers specific dosing guidelines for a range of serious medical conditions. This is a bit odd, however, as they also make it clear that CBD is not approved by the FDA as a medicine, and thus none of their products are designed to "treat, cure, or prevent" any disease.
I did like the products at first. After 3 months the product seemed to stop working. There always seems to be shipping issues. Don't get me started on how annoying the representatives that sell this are or the company itself with their numerous emails sent on a daily basis. They seem to care more about getting people to sell their product then to use their product. I would not recommend.
Hemp extract is taken from the whole plant and contains higher levels of CBD than hemp seed oil. This is where the CBD levels come from. However, we are confused by the labeling. If we expect the 500 product to have 500 mg of CBD, are we right? The label shows 500 mg of 'phytocannabinoid hemp oil'. The solution is that about 160% of that is CBD, with the other cannabinoids as a tag along. This is effective.
Until recently, Hempworx had a page of "testimonials" on their corporate website. It's since been removed. Likely because the FDA doesn't look kindly on fake testimonials. Most people assume that testimonials are from satisfied customers who have no affiliation with Hempworx. But this was not the case. The "testimonials" on their website were all from high-ranking affiliates who sell Hempworx. So in reality, these are hardly impartial reviews.
Executives from Canopy Growth CGC, -1.45% WEED, -1.59% and rival Aurora Cannabis Inc. ACB, +13.94% ACB, +12.97% both discussed their hemp operations on September-quarter earnings calls that included disappointing results related to early recreational pot sales. Aurora declined to comment on the latest developments and Canopy did not make executives available by the time of publication.
Hempworx sources only organic, pesticide-free, raw materials to make all their products including their CBD oil. Hempworx also uses a Subcritical CO2 extraction for all our wholesale CBD Oil. This technique allows for the purest form of CBD oil. Once the hemp is harvested, a fresh lot drying method is used to prevent bacteria and mold growth. Most CBD farms do not use a fresh lot drying method, most simply seal the hemp in bags that end up on shelves to conserve the integrity of the plant. The problem is this method creates a loss of potency and phytochemicals.
These days I'm a believer. It's difficult to ignore the fact that Epidiolex—the CBD-based epilepsy medication—was approved by the F.D.A last year. Or that athletes are abandoning NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen or naproxen) for greener alternatives. Then there are Alfie Dingley and Billie Caldwell in the UK: Their cases involving rare forms of epilepsy have prompted UK home secretary Sajid Javid to say that specialists will soon be able to prescribe cannabis-based medication. Beyond that, nearly 7% of Americans are already using CBD—and given the population, that's a staggering number.


Today just took a hard turn towards winter. The past few days have been glorious, and I've been basking in them. But today, as I take a long drive to pick up some jars, and lemon juice, I'm reminded it's closer to winter than summer, as huge pearl gray clouds begin to cover the sky, and against them large flocks of starlings switchback to and fro. The traffic lights sway at a red light, and I'm transfixed by the grace of these normally invasive and destructive birds as they dart and race as one huge being under the ever-darkening sky. On the drive home, the bare trees strike me as beautiful but I know all too well how suffocating their starkness will be come February. The oaks have molted, they are usually the last leaves to drop, and the sides of the road glisten with their glossy, tawny shine.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and one of the solaces of chilly nights is a sparkly cocktail, isn't it? Instead of bemoaning the warmer weather, I'm going to make sure I get a spiffy cocktail once in a while. I'm a lightweight these days, and I'll be honest: these cocktails go down waaaay too easily. But starting the night with a small drink is always special. Then you can switch to a glass of wine or beer. You have to find a way to drink all those lovely infused liqueurs you've made over the summer, don't you? Not to mention the jams, preserves and candied fruits. Drink 'em!
Drop a syrupy preserved cherry into the bottom of a small coupe glass. Add a teaspoon of black cherry liqueur, and a teaspoon of St. Germain. Top with sparkling wine or champagne or prosecco, but please make it a dry one!
The other day I had some friends over that I used to work with, and we started the night with these Calamondin Cocktails. Isn't it the nicest thing in the world to not see someone for ten years, and be laughing and talking like that gap of time had never happened? I can't tell you how much I laughed that night! And it wasn't just the cocktails! This drink is made with calamondin gin that I made last winter. To make it: fill a quart jar with calamondins, add one cup of sugar and fill to the top with gin (conversely you can use vodka, but I like the taste of gin with the small bitter citrus). Let it sit in a dark cupboard for a month, agitating every other day. Click here for the candied calamondin recipe.
Shake the gin/vodka, the calamondin liqueur, syrup and lime juice together with ice. Strain neat, in a small rocks glass and top with seltzer. Let a candied calamondin sink to the bottom.
And now that the wood stove is cranking, we might need to have one of these by the fire from time to time. Last year, I packed a quart jar with small crabapples, added a cup of sugar and filled it with spiced rum. Next time I won't add the sugar, as it's very sweet, but it makes a top notch toddy. You really don't need to add a thing, but the lemon and cinnamon are a nice touch.
stir with a cinnamon stick.
Of course, I am partial to this article by Melissa Clark from the NY Times for more liqueur and libation recipes. Let me know what you've been sipping lately or making!
Julia rocks! I want 1 (or 2) of all of them!
Meg - Only if you drink them with me!
I wish! Someday! I especially want the St. Jam-Main. Or Calamondin. Yum!
On first glimpse I thought 'Oh no! Julia has come up with cocktails using jam!' Which for us folks with cupboards full of the stuff could be the beginning of the slippery slope.
I have been stroking the bottles of St germain in Waitrose whenever I visit, thankfully not too often. Now I will have to buy some. Perhaps we could sometime have a virtual cocktail-a-thon and all raise a glass to toast our canning year?
Gloria - I've been on that slippery slope for a long, long time.
You must take a bottle home. Then you can adore it whenever you want! I think a virtual cocktail party sounds perfect, maybe via Twitter? The timing might be a little off, though!
What do you think, Meg?
Awesome, as always! I am wondering if I can do something with the liquid in my preserved lemons. But it's just so salty, and I'm a sweet drink gal. Even so, it's so aromatic and syrupy, any thoughts?
I had elderflower liqueur on my list for next year - and now I'm rethinking... since if YOU say you'll never do it again... I've never tried St. Germaine either, but you make a convincing case. I have the sour cherry jam, and "bachelor's jam" that has a brandy base, so I might just be in business once I pick up a bottle.
Starlings are also some of my favorite birds, to my Dad's dismay. He thinks them messy and loud, but I'm beguiled by their iridescence. I really enjoyed reading this one!
Sara - Thank you! I love using my salty preserved lemon syrup in cooking, especially drizzled on sauteed greens. A drink I haven't thought of yet, but it's a great idea. I'm thinking something Greyhound-ish. I'll do some research (hic!) and get back to you!
Jessica - Thank you! I'm sure you would have come up with something clever and delicious, but I'm always glad to be of assistance.
Rebecca - Well, it might have been my fault, but the elderflower liqueur came out so woody and herbaceous. I still think you should try it, but gosh, I don't think I could ever come close to St. Germain, which I'm positively swoony about.
And thank you, as always, for your kind words!
I'd like to join in the virtual cocktail-a-thon!
Lovely, lovely Jules. I adore reading your posts. Such a deep-seated sense of place you impart upon us.
Thanks, Erin! Inspiring you? That's awesome! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! Although, it's now belated. Oh, jeez.
And thank you, too, dear Kate! Such kind words. Now, let's have that drink, shall we?
Oh my goodness that sounds delicious. I love St. Germain, but I never buy it for at home because I'd never know what to do with it.
Sarah - I don't mind having a bottle around for a long time. I'm a hoarder!


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Q: HttpURLConnection very slow Can anyone spot why this takes ~20 sec?
I am running the code below to post a JSON request to a local server 192.168.1.127.

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST
  http:// 192.168.1.127:8080/bed -d
  '{"command":{"value":3.012,"set":"target_pressure_voltage"},"id":2002,"side":"left","role":"command"}'

curl on the same box where the server is running is instant and the server does not complain.
A get request from the Android browser is fast. I have tried two Android devices with os version 4.x.
This question does not help as far as I can tell:
Android HttpURLConnection VERY slow
con.getInputStream() Takes ~20 sec:
    String httpJson(String url, JSONObject job) {
    String ret = null;
        HttpURLConnection con = httpJsonCon(url);
        if(con!=null)
            httpJsonCon(con, url,job);
    return ret;

}

 HttpURLConnection mkCon(String url) {
    HttpURLConnection con = null;
    URL u = null;
    try {
        u = new URL(url);
        con = (HttpURLConnection) (u.openConnection());

        con.setRequestMethod("POST");
        con.setUseCaches(false);
        con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/plain");
        con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
        con.setDoOutput(true);
        con.setDoInput(true);
        con.connect();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.w(TAG, " e= " + e);
        if(con!=null)
            con.disconnect();

        con = null;
    }

    return con;
}

String sendJson(HttpURLConnection con, JSONObject job) {
    String ret = null;
    if(con==null){
        return ret;
    }

    try {
        final String toWriteOut = job.toString();

        final Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(new BufferedOutputStream(
                con.getOutputStream()), "UTF-8");
        out.write(toWriteOut);
        out.flush();
        //con.getInputStream() Takes ~20 sec:
        final BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));

    } catch (IOException e) {

        Log.d(TAG, " e= " + e);

        ret = null;
    } finally {
        if(con!=null)
            con.disconnect();
    }

    return ret;

}

A: Add a request header that specifies the post content length.
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "" + json.length());

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Being inspired by this project I have started implementing a parser in C#. At this moment I have 103 tests succeeding.
I will be publishing on GitHub and NuGet, but before I do, I want to avoid any controversy with regard to naming.
I have tentatively called it CommonMarkSharp. Does anyone have an issue with that name?
Hah! You posted, like, 3 minutes before me! Can highly compatible implementations in other languages also become a part of CommonMark?
The guideline is this: you are free to use the name CommonMark in any way you like, provided you pass all tests in the current version of the spec.
Thanks for the clarification. Passing all the tests is certainly the goal.
I have also started the port of the existing C code to C#. I have similar level of completeness, but creating two different implementations does not seem to be the best idea. Any suggestions on how we could merge the efforts?
The main problem with this approach would be performance.
The next problem is cross-platform compatibility since nowadays .NET libraries like these must run on Mono and .NET Framework and on Android/iOS/Windows.
An update for my progress - I have only 6 tests failing anymore, 4 from those are just problems with the Perl test runner (it does not work properly with UTF on Windows (Strawberry Perl) and one issue with different newlines that a simple regex does not correct for some reason).
It passes all the tests in the current specification.
The next steps are performance and memory profiling and some refactoring for the public interface (the syntax tree elements).
The code violates C# naming convention and has some incomprehensive method names (e.g. cr). I understand that this is due to the C roots of the project. Will you accept pull requests fixing this?
Yes, the naming is this way only because it was ported directly from C code. The same is true for why there are so many ref parameters - those should go away as well.
I will of course accept pull requests to fix this although we should be careful to not change the structure too much and also note the original names in comments. The idea behind this is so that when the specification or tests change, we could implement the changes by looking at those made to the reference implementation, instead of reinventing the wheel.
Before the specification reaches version 1.0, I believe such pragmatic approach would be better.
I will of course accept pull requests to fix this although we should be careful to not change the structure too much and also note the original names in comments.
Fair enough, I'll note methods' original names in comments. Although usually it's just removing the underscore and camel casing the name.
What about automated testing btw? I think that's a rather high priority, to get some normal QA (perl script testing is so 90s).
Yes, I agree that instead of the perl script unit tests within VS should be used (especially since the failing tests currently only fail because Perl on Windows and/or Windows console does not properly handle unicode symbols).
The one thing we should keep is that the source of the tests is the spec.txt file so that for new versions it is just a matter of replacing that one file.
The first beta version of the CommonMark.NET implementation has been published to NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/CommonMark.NET/.
Yet another update - 0.1.3 has been optimized to perform just as fast as Markdown.Deep which is the fastest alternative on .NET currently (that I know of).
It was aways interesting for me to compare modern js JITs with static-typed languages.
13ms, lol. (mbp retina). current = remarkable in strict commonmark mode.
@Knagis, what computer/CPU do you use for benchmarking?
Core i5-2500 @ 3.3Ghz. Using the spec.txt version 1 (114 782 bytes).
Found a sundown wrapper for .NET - MoonShine and added that to the comparison.
Unfortunately it seems that most of the performance gain is lost probably due to string interop so it is actually slower (~2x) for very small inputs. But for parsing 112KB spec.txt it performs just 17% faster than CommonMark.NET (on average 3ms vs 4ms).
A better comparsion would be progit.md (I concatenated all languages together, resulting in 10MB file) where sundown/MoonShine does it in 277ms while CommonMark.NET spends 534ms. Still a very good result in my opinion (if only .NET would give access to string internals…).


The Mrs wanted a gas grill to cook outdoors. After a search on Craigslist I picked up a Weber Q 200 that had great bones but needed a good amount of douching. A couple of hours or elbow grease, a rubber scraper and a scotch brite pad she was ready to cook on.
I can see why a Weber charcoal BBQ guy would like the Q series as a gas grill. They are very simple to put together, the parts are readily available (thank you Boots at Foster's Grill Store), and they have some great features like the way the grate is designed to prevent flare-ups and grease drippings from clogging your burner tube.
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Forward-looking information for key markets both for buying inputs and selling farm products.
Solid profits and third year in a row for record production in store for hog producers in 2018.
How will 2017 look compared to 2016?
If the new plants coming online are at full capacity during the fourth quarter, this could potentially push cash bids higher than expected but keep in mind that we still need to sell the pork.
The USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report register large numbers for the traders to mull over during the holiday weekend.
Lower feed prices should drop cost of hog production, but this decline is not likely to be sufficient to keep hog profits in the black. Cheap feed won't do anything to boost hog prices, which may get very low this fall.
The big hog slaughter capacity gains arrive in 2017 and 2018 when three large, state-of-the-art plants open.


As academic and life skills coordinator in the Department of Athletics, Dedra Butler helps student-athletes progress in five key areas: academics, athletics, personal development, career development and community service.
"The CHAMPS program offers student-athletes different ways to grasp ideas and the necessary tools for being successful here," Butler says. "These tools can be obtained through team workshops, interacting with guest speakers, working with tutors available at study table, going out into the community to work with kids or even through individual meetings with the student services staff.
The program's success has not gone unnoticed. The department received the Community & Youth Outreach Award from the National Consortium for Academics & Sports for efforts with K-12 schools last year.
During her own academic years, Butler recognized both the opportunity and the value of a diverse campus experience. She was a captain of the track & field team and a member of the African American Student Union, Sociology Club, Athletes in Action and the UC Inspiration gospel choir, all while supporting two of her professors in their individual research efforts. Even with this schedule she was able to achieve Big West scholar-athlete status and earn Dean's list honors.
Butler's twin sister, Margaret, also a former scholar-athlete in track & field at UCI, works as an admissions counselor in theOffice of Admissions and Relations with Schools.
Born and raised in Redlands, they enjoy playing basketball, horseback riding and spending time with family, friends and their pets: a dog, Charlie; a horse, W.T.; and two cats, Pepper and Bogey.


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Malcolm Young: January 6, 1953 – November 18, 2017
By Dave Ling (Classic Rock) 01 January 2018
Straight-talking, down-to-earth, no-nonsense, determined, hugely talented, he was the engine that powered and steered AC/DC to successes beyond their wildest dreams
(Image credit: Getty Images)
Just like the music made by his band, Malcolm Young spent his 64 years on this planet defiantly opposing all forms of overstatement and grandiosity. Young may have been one of the biggest rock stars that the world has ever seen, but he was proud of being ordinary. He also believed in speaking the truth, no matter who it offended.
Malcolm's brother Angus, talking to Classic Rock in 2003 several months after AC/DC's induction to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, voiced indignation that the HOF had tried – and failed – to "make us wear fucking tuxedos" to the ceremony, adding a curt: "Fuck that!"
Mal, the elder of the two siblings, then took up the story, explaining his band's annoyance as they were kept waiting around in the wings while U2 guitarist The Edge inducted the Clash."Fuck, he made this forty-minute speech [about late guitarist Joe Strummer]. We had sympathy [for the Clash], but The Edge was the most boring bloke I've ever had the misfortune to witness," he seethed.
AC/DC got "madder and madder", until finally their moment arrived. "When they said to go, we fuckin' took off," Malcolm said with a grin. "It was an anger-fuelled performance. We ripped the place apart; they were dancing up in the balconies in their tuxes. It was quite a moment for us. The rest of the bands were pretty mild by comparison."
With its overtones of rebelling at authority, the earning of new-found respect and blowing the doors off in response to a pressure cooker-like scenario, the Hall Of Fame incident could be viewed as a microcosm of the career of this remarkable band. For 45 years AC/DC have personified the words 'stubborn', 'independent' and 'secretive', doing things their way or not doing them at all. With the band having been shortlisted and ignored more than once before by the Hall Of Fame, Malcolm later shrugged: "To us [being inducted] is not really an honour. We just had to go through with it, in a way."
Although several of the group's members past and present, including lead guitarist Angus and singers Bon Scott and Brian Johnson, are more famous in a visual sense, behind the scenes rhythm guitarist Malcolm was very much the glue that held everything together for AC/DC, co-writing the songs and performing them on stage in a blur of vigour and ease. Malcolm was very much the band's leader, cracking the whip and ensuring that the AC/DC machine functioned exactly as it needed to.
The world of rock music mourned when Malcolm, who had suffered from dementia for the past three years, died peacefully surrounded by his family on November 18, 2017.
A statement issued on behalf of AC/DC reminded us of his many qualities: "From the outset, Malcolm knew what he wanted to achieve and, along with his younger brother [Angus], took to the world stage giving their all at every show. Nothing less would do for their fans." It continued: "Malcolm always stuck to his guns and did and said exactly what he wanted," it continued. "He took in great pride in all that he endeavoured. His loyalty to the fans was unsurpassed. He leaves behind an enormous legacy that will live on forever."
Malcolm's passing came just three weeks after the sudden loss of George, the eldest of the Young brothers and the producer who helped to shape many of AC/DC's best-loved albums, including High Voltage, TNT, Let There Be Rock and Powerage.
It has always been stressed that Malcolm had given AC/DC his blessing for the band to continue in his absence. In fact they had proved on more than one occasion that it was possible to tour without him, first in 1988 when nephew Stevie deputised as Malcolm dealt with alcohol issues, then in a more permanent manner in 2014, and also that the band could record while deprived of his creative input. The problem the group now face is whether or not it would be right to do so.
Notwithstanding the hearing problems that forced Brian Johnson to sit out much of AC/DC's most recent tour, on which Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose stood in, could AC/DC have now reached the end of the road? That's a question for another day, but the odds must surely be weighted in favour of a dignified final resolution?
Malcolm Mitchell Young was born on a council estate in the Cranhill district of Glasgow. Of distinctly blue-collar stock, his father worked in a rope works, at a builders' yard and then after the war as a postman, while his mother remained at home to nurture a clan that included eight children.
Along with another 13 members of the Young family, Malcolm and Angus emigrated to Australia in the summer of 1963. If the brothers were not already close enough, being the two kids with 'funny accents' in a foreign land served to bond them even more.
As every rock fan knows, a decade later AC/DC were formed and shaped within Sydney's super-tough bar circuit – an environment that could strike fear into the toughest of alpha males, let alone a band with a name that could be seen as implying bisexuality. In fact the name supposedly came after Angus and Malcolm's sister Margaret had seen the letters on a sewing machine.
George was the first of the brothers to find stardom, having formed The Easybeats with Harry Vanda and in 1966 had an international hit with Friday On My Mind.
"Me and Angus were playing guitar already, even before we left Glasgow," Malcolm recalled decades later. "By [George] doing well [with The Easybeats], you sort of quietly dreamed that you could do it too, one day."
Although AC/DC's style has often been categorised as hard rock or even heavy metal, Malcolm later stressed: "From the get-go I said it was a rock'n'roll band. That's how it evolved. I was still playing guitar like a piano to get a vibe of a Little Richard song, so it was things like that, playing rhythm around where the rhythm came from on the record, but with two guitars."
The decision to promote Bon Scott from band 'chauffeur' to lead singer in 1974 was to prove pivotal. Not unreasonably, Angus thought Malcolm and Margaret were taking the piss when, that same year, they first suggested that Angus should dress up as a schoolboy on stage. But this unlikely gamble actually achieved its intended goal by defusing the violence.
As Vanda & Young, Harry Vanda and George Young took on the role of the band's producers. AC/DC's first two Australia-released albums (later pared down for the international market as High Voltage) showed greatness in fits and starts.
Relocating to London in 1976, where they had signed an international deal, the band once again built their reputation from scratch, going from playing venues such as the Red Cow pub in Hammersmith, West London, where they debuted, to setting new attendance records at the Marquee club in Wardour Street.
The albums Let There Be Rock and Powerage, issued in 1977 and '78 respectively, stand as irresistible watermarks of this period. But the band's big breakthrough came after linking up with producer Robert John 'Mutt' Lange for Highway To Hell. Malcolm later admitted that they had no idea of Lange's history, joking: "If we'd known that he had produced the Boomtown Rats we'd never have let him through the door." All that they knew was their manager Michael Browning's verdict that the South African was "a genius". And so it proved.
Malcolm and Angus with Stones hero Keith Richards (Image credit: Getty Images)
After Bon Scott's tragic sudden death in February 1980, AC/DC considered calling it a day. But instead they picked up the pieces – with what might have seemed to some like indecent haste – and released their next album, recorded with his replacement, former Geordie singer Brian Johnson, five months later.
Back In Black, produced by Mutt Lange, made AC/DC bigger than ever before, its eventual 50 million sales (and counting) making it the second-biggest-selling album ever, behind Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Follow-up For Those About To Rock We Salute You, however, was patchy by comparison. Years later Malcolm exclaimed: "Christ, it took forever to make that record – and it sounds like it. It's full of bits and pieces and it doesn't flow properly. There's some good riffs, but only one song we like and that's the title track." Despite its shortcomings, it still topped the US chart.
Although it would take a while, the band's fortunes began to dip. The lacklustre Flick Of The Switch ('83) just managed platinum status, while next album, Fly On The Wall ('85), fared even worse.
While in the face of dwindling returns and popularity some groups might have taken a long, hard look at themselves and decided a change or two was needed, AC/DC continued to plough the same familiar hi-decibel, double entendre-enhanced furrow they had always done and on which they had built their reputation and greatest successes.
When their headline appearance at Castle Donington's Monsters Of Rock Festival in 1984 was dismissed as "stale", Malcolm, talking to one interviewer from Kerrang!, bristled: "There's no reason to change our act – and it's not really an act, that's the way Angus is. He likes to run around and take it out on his guitar. Look," he added, "we don't make music for the critics, we go for the reaction from the kids. If they stopped reacting, then we'd know something was wrong. But at Donington everybody in the place was rocking. If anybody criticised that, then they weren't at the show."
Sure enough, things came around again. The patronage of new stars such as Guns N' Roses and Metallica didn't hurt them at all.
Along the way, Malcolm stepped off the band's touring schedule to get sober. "The funny thing was I was never drunk heaps, I just drank consistently and it caught up with me," he admitted in 2004. "Angus was going: 'I'm your brother; I don't want to see you dead here. Remember Bon?' So I took that break and cleaned myself up."
Having re-engaged Vanda & Young for 1988's Blow Up Your Video, two years later they were accused of selling out by bringing in producer Bruce Fairbairn, of Bon Jovi/Aerosmith fame, for The Razors Edge. The album made the US and UK Top 10 and sold an estimated 10 million copies.
By the 1990s, hair metal had been supplanted by the grunge revolution, and as an act founded upon pure rock'n'roll AC/DC were cast as outsiders once again. In '92, an interviewer asked Malcolm which bands he'd listened to while growing up. The answer – "The Stones and The Who" – was about as unsurprising as his response to then being asked who he currently listened to: "The Stones and The Who… and that's about it."
AC/DC's reputation as a premier-league live attraction remained undiminished, however. That decade they released just one more studio album, the Rick Rubin-produced Ballbreaker. "We would never go back to him," Malcolm told Guitar World of Grammy winner Rubin, who would develop a reputation for reviving the careers of artists on the wane. "We thought he was a phony."
Sure enough, later on AC/DC returned to brother George (without Harry Vanda) for their first record of the current millennium. 2000's Stiff Upper Lip attained Top 10 status effortlessly in America, but by now the band's golden era was already behind them.
No matter what yardstick you use, AC/DC's achievements were huge. Over a career that brought them an estimated 200 million record sales, Angus and Malcolm stuck to the adage 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' and together they cannily – some might say ruthlessly – planned a route to the very top. Few bands would have had the balls to fire Peter Mensch, their manager, five days after they had played at the Monsters Of Rock Festival in 1981, although according to tour manager Ian Jeffrey – himself later frozen out ("It was like I never existed") – that's exactly what the Youngs did. More surprising still was the decision to say goodbye to 'Mutt' Lange, the mastermind behind their game-changing breakthrough Back In Black. Angus later complained: "He'd take forever to get things done. Otherwise it'd have been in and out in a week, I'd say."
The man behind so many of these important decisions was Malcolm Young. "The band belonged to Malcolm," Ian Jeffrey once claimed. "It was Malcolm who told [drummer] Phil Rudd to stick to the beat; Malcolm who told [bassist] Cliff [Williams] where to stand, when to come to the mic. When Brian [Johnson] joined, it was Malcolm who told him to shut the fuck up between songs and just stand there and sing. It would always be Malcolm, every direction or turning they took."
If decisions needed to be merciless, then they were. And it's difficult to view Brian Johnson's removal from the group in 2016 as anything but that, although it had nothing to do with Malcolm, who was already sick. But over the long term, such ruthlessness was certainly part of the fuel that fired AC/DC to world domination.
The final album AC/DC made with Malcolm Young, Black Ice, topped the charts in 29 countries. Out on the road and with his memory beginning to fade, before each show Malcolm had to sit down and brush up on the small details of the performance.
"It was hard work for him," Angus told The Guardian's Michael Hann. "He was relearning a lot of those songs that he knew backwards; the ones we were playing that night he'd be relearning. He had that thing where you've just got to keep going."
Naturally there were both highs and lows.
"You'd have a really great day and he'd be Malcolm again, and other times his mind was going," Angus revealed. "But he still held it together. He'd still get on the stage. Some nights he played and you'd think: 'Does he know where he is?' But he got through."
The brothers had had the difficult conversation about Mal's failing health even before work on Black Ice began. Angus revealed: "I had said to him: 'Are you sure you want to do this? I have to know that you really want to do it.' He was the one who said: 'Yes! We've really got to do it.'"
The inevitable point was reached at which Malcolm could no longer be a part of AC/DC. Since 2014 he had been receiving around-the-clock care while living in a nursing home. Understandably and rightly, the band were furious when the Sydney Morning Herald revealed the full extent of his condition. "That was bottom-feeding, that was," Brian Johnson says.
For Angus, without his elder brother on board and by his side it was, of course, distinctly troubling to continue touring the world and pretend it was business as usual. But he knuckled down. And even when Johnson was unable to tour Rock Or Bust the show went on. It was a mark of AC/DC's stature that Axl Rose agreed to help them out by standing in for Johnson; as was Rose's unexpected raised levels of professionalism when he shoehorned himself into their highly regimented world without displaying the tardiness for which he has been strongly criticised.
With Rose in tow the Rock Or Bust tour generated a whopping $67.5 million (£50m) in 2016, placing AC/DC at the top that year's list of the biggest earners in rock, ahead of the Stones, Springsteen, McCartney and U2. While the importance of fulfilling their planned obligations cannot be overstated, for Angus and others involved with AC/DC, many years had passed since money could be considered a driving force.
A veritable Who's Who of Australian rock music gathered for Malcom's funeral at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, among them bandmates past and present including Brian Johnson, Phil Rudd, Cliff Williams and Mark Evans, and Angry Anderson, Jimmy Barnes and Harry Vanda. At the ceremony, Angus defiantly wore a pair of jeans and clutched his brother's beloved Gretsch Jet Firebird guitar, nicknamed The Beast, in its case. During the service, he reportedly rested the prized instrument on his brother's coffin.
Members of the Young family and AC/DC alumni did not take to the lectern. And although Malcolm had made a living via the bawdiest and ballsiest of rock songs, he was sent on his final journey by a cathedral choir that sang the hymns Amazing Grace and The Lord is My Shepherd. After the service, as the cortege drew away to a private family burial, the Scots College Pipes & Drums Band played a medley of songs including Waltzing Matilda and the guitar solo from It's A Long Way To The Top. It was a dignified end to an extraordinary life.
I had been thrilled to interview Malcolm and Angus together for Classic Rock in Berlin in 2003. They were exactly like you imagined: foul-mouthed and blokey as fuck, tiny in stature (each stood less than five foot five) but huge in presence. Angus chain-smoked with unbelievable regularity, lighting another ciggie even before he'd finished the one he was already puffing on. Malcolm was blunt, friendly and unflinchingly honest.
AC/DC were in Germany to play three shows with their heroes the Rolling Stones, with whom they'd jammed in Australia the previous year. "I think we could be making music when we're as old as them," Malcolm told me. "From the beginning, this band always went for the throat. It was an energy thing, and it still is."
Sheer unadulterated volume has always played a part too. After Angus quipped: "That's to keep you awake," Malcolm sat upright in the chair and declared: "We're not going to fall into that trap of old age. We can't get up there and play Highway To Hell, For Those About To Rock and The Jack quietly." That last word was expressed with disdain. "You gotta stay young."
When I asked whether they sometimes thought Bon Scott might be looking down – or up! – on AC/DC's success since he passed away, Mal grinned: "To be honest, if there is an afterlife he'll probably be saying: 'C'mon, guys. Play that one fucking faster, put some fucking grunt into it.' That's what he was like.
"When he joined us, Bon took the band by the scruff of the neck," he continued. "On stage it'd be: 'Don't just stand there, you c**t.' So whatever AC/DC went on to achieve, Bon was also very responsible for."
The last words, inevitably, go to Angus: "The bond that we had was unique and very special. My brother leaves behind an enormous legacy that will live on for ever. Malcolm, job well done."
Just like his friend Bon Scott, Malcolm Young put 'grunt' into everything that he did. Like the singer he, too, will be sorely missed.
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My understanding is that the Interconnect chassis is a simple Fat Clos tree silicon and the QF/Edge acts like a blade in chassis that performs all the forwarding lookups, traffic classification and backbone encapsulation. The QF/Director acts as a pure management plane only.
In this understanding, the uplinks between the QF/Edge switches and QF/Interconnect are effectively "backplane" connection and traffic on the uplinks is tagged / munged / processed into a form for forwarding across the Silicon Fabric that is in the InterConnect chassis, and most likely the software uses the software mechanisms that Ivan describes in his post. This is the same idea as the connections between line cards and the supervisor in a traditional switch chassis which use a frame/packet encapsulation devised to meet the platform requirements.
Aside from the fact that Juniper performs the forwarding decision is performed at the QF/Edge, it's the same concept Cisco FabricExtenders (FEX) use by extending the backplane to external modules with a proprietary tagging scheme between the edge device and the core switch. The big difference is that the Cisco approach means that a "fat switch" with high capex (good for Cisco's business) is needed to scale this, where the Juniper solution means that InterConnect is cheaper and the intelligent edge scales more effectively. Each purchase of an QF/Edge increases the forwarding performance of the entire system, and the funding process is better aligned to a private / public cloud revenue model. This is really vital to successful cloud deployments and causing major change in the storage industry as well.
This is the unit that was on display at Interop – its look huge, and it IS big but don't be scared – but it's the full size unit to show off to the press – there are quarter and half sized switching planes to be released in the near future.
just because it's big, doesn't mean it is expensive. I'm assured it's simplicity means it's low cost.
there are smaller and cheaper versions than this (half and quarter size).
It needs a lot of air to keep that silicon cool – that's part of the reason it is so large.
I've approached Juniper to be on the Packet Pushers Podcast and talk about QFabric in detail – I think it would make a good show. However, their PR/marketing department appear to be scared of independent bloggers and social media and keep blowing me off. I'm still hopeful, but I'm not going to bother much longer.
I do think that the QFabric approach is different, up to a point. In the sense that they reinvented the wheel to make it better , the concept of using distributed edge switching is a old technical idea returning for another day in the sun 1. With developments in software and software development today, the problems of reliable coherence between all elements in the edge ( to allow distributed forwarding) is a practical problem, and the use of ISIS in the LAN seems have to gained acceptance in the marketplace.
So far, I think QFabric is well suited to the idea of Cloud networks because it provides greater overall flexibility, and a purchasing model that is better aligned to purchasing that the conventional Cisco/Brocade approach of buying all the performance in one big hit up front (which just so happens to be good for their bottom line and not yours).
I'll be interested is seeing more information at it arrives.
I think something is missing here. In a traditional switch chassis the line cards are typically connected to the control engine via a separate management traces from the main traces used for packet data. This provides an always on and reliable control link to the linecards. Where is that in this architecture?
I'm willing to bet that a real QFabric implementation would involve a separate out of band network from the QF-Edge to the QF-Director.
I'm now told that is correct, but hopeful of some confirmation from Juniper at some point.
Brad, that's correct. The director piece has separate connections to the QFX edge devices. No management traffic rides the interconnects.
As you correctly point out, the interconnect is a dumb, fast, huge capacity chassis. While a switch must both process and transport traffic, the interconnect is transport only. This enables high capacity connectivity inside a server pod or across a datacenter if you choose to grow the fabric that large. For those looking carefully at the pictures, the cards in the back connect the cards in the front – which in turn connect to the QF Nodes – where the QFabric connects to anything else via Ethernet or Fiberchannel.
Why? In a world full of distributed application components, we can't expect to know what application bits the business will want to combine next. In a 1 gig world, Juniper can get all those app components fairly close to each other in a two tier network and traditional chassis switches can mostly handle the load up to a few thousand servers. However, as you transition to a 10G world, the ability for today's chassis switches to both process and transport traffic maxes out around 400 to 800 10G servers (depending on which vendor's chassis switch you use) In essence you want to make sure the core of the network has way more capacity than the edge can push into it.
Does a small out of band network complicate deployment? If you consider the number of independent switches in a large datacenter and the risk associated with getting all interactions between those switches right everyday vs the simplicity of a single switch for all production traffic and then a couple switches that don't require much care and feeding to give the QFabric yet another layer of redundancy… Well I have yet to have a customer bat an eyelash on that front.
Since QFabric is such a significant departure from how we have classically connected compute, data, and services in the datacenter, we spend most of our time with customers talking about how it solves business agility, migration, scaling up/down, and overall redundancy. For those customers who want all the gory details on how it works, we are glad to supply it, but lately we simply bring them into the lab to show them what it does.
On the control plane front, we have kept a number of the details under NDA because, that's the hardest bit of the problem. There have been a number of public reports of competitors attempting to copy the QFabric architecture, so apologies for our paranoia on that front. It's a nice testament to the networking community that so many have landed on that topic. What I can tell you today is that every layer of a QFabric is redundant, resilient, and distributed. If, for example, that out-of-band network failed for some reason? – Say you didn't RTFM and you plugged all your QFD servers into the same power supply – which then failed? The fabric would continue to operate.
I think we'll have a few QFabric peeps for Packetpushers to talk to shortly. Keep the questions coming.
 I've been informed we spoke about the out of band network during a webcast titled, "Unleashing the Power of the Virtualized Data Center" that can be found here: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/exponential-dc/ It's behind a reg wall and I know how you feel about that, but there it is.
Thanks for the feedback Abner.
Sigh, registration walls for public content. Do marketing people really think that annoying suspect and prospect customers is a good idea ? (Don't answer that).
PS. There are often security reasons (data leakage) why these forms cannot be used and prevent some people from ever having access.
I think you mentioned a couple of weeks ago (on the podcast) that QF/Director would not be released until sometime in 2012? Is that still your understanding?
The QF Director and Interconnect will become generally available in Q3 2011.
communication in your datacenter good idea?


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Guide to Herodium, Israel: location of Herod's Tomb and Palace
January 8, 2013 by Shmuel Browns
View east towards Dead Sea and Mountains of Moab from top of Herodium
Not far from Jerusalem lies Herodium, a palace/fortress on the top of a man-made mountain with a view all the way to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth. It is one of my favorite places and I guide there often.
Herodium is unique among sites like Masada, Jericho and desert fortresses that Herod inherited from the Hasmonean rulers – it was an entire palace complex originally built by Herod in the desert. It is the only site to bear his name and where, according to Josephus, Herod decided he would be buried.
So they went eight furlongs to Herodium; for there by his own command he was to be buried. And thus did Herod end his life.
– Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews
Many tours of Herodium take you straight to the archaeological park skipping the area of Lower Herodium that was excavated by Prof. Ehud Netzer ז"ל in the 1970s. For 35 years Netzer searched for Herod's tomb at Herodium and found a Roman bath house, ritual baths, a large swimming pool and reservoir, aqueduct and even two churches from the Byzantine period. Netzer uncovered the ruins of what he called the Monumental building which he thought might be Herod's burial place, but he found no evidence of a grave.
Ruins of Monumental Building at Herodium
But it was only in May 2007 that Netzer announced at a press conference that he had uncovered the base of Herod's mausoleum halfway up the man-made mountain, on the northeast side facing Jerusalem. The architectural detail and stone work are of very high quality – I found a piece when I worked as a volunteer on the dig. The limestone is a type of limestone called meleke (same root as king) that would have been quarried and brought from some distance away (for example, Zedekiah's cave, the quarry under the northern wall of the Old City near Damascus gate has meleke limestone).
Base of monument that marked Herod's tomb
Netzer, both an architect and archaeologist, and an expert in the Herodian period, has drawn up his reconstruction of the nefesh, a monument 25 meters high, with a cube-shaped first floor, a cylindrical second floor and a soaring, peaked roof and there is a smaller than life-size model at the site.
In the tomb area, pieces of an ornate, pink limestone sarcophagus that had been smashed in antiquity were found – Netzer claims the sarcophagus was King Herod's. Two intact sarcophagi were also discovered that could belong to members of Herod's family.
Excavations are continuing and they've uncovered a much larger area now. On the other side of the staircase, they found a small Roman theater with a loggia where the King and his guests would have sat and watched performances. The walls of this theater are decorated with paintings. All this will be displayed for the first time to the public beginning this February 12, 2013 at the Israel museum in a special exhibit, Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey. The opportunity to see these artifacts in conjunction with visiting some of the archaeological sites in Israel that showcase Herod the Great's building projects will give us a key to understanding Herod and life during the Second Temple period and time of Jesus.
Shmuel Browns is a photographer, writer and licensed tour guide who specializes in tours to archaeological and nature sites in Israel. His knowledge and insights will enable you to uniquely experience this amazing country. Shmuel blogs at http://israeltours.wordpress.com/.
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"Several key factors combine to make Bermuda a very appealing jurisdiction choice for private equity fund managers. Bermuda has an ecosystem several decades in the making that contains very experienced service providers, a globally respected regulatory and legal framework, and access to institutional and high net worth investors.
Horseshoe currently services over 160 clients with assets in excess of $25 billion from its operating offices in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the US, Gibraltar, Ireland and London.


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NATO members participate in the alliance's Dynamic Mongoose anti-submarine exercise in the North Sea last year. Norway's deputy defense minister says it's time Europe devotes more money to maritime assets.
When NATO gathers in Warsaw this summer for a major summit on the future of the alliance, a top Norwegian defense official hopes to see a focus on boosting maritime capabilities.
Øystein Bø, Norway's deputy defense minister, also said it is time for Europe to "step up to the plate" with increased defense spending to counter Russian aggression, particularly in the High North region.
"The maritime domain, in our opinion, needs a particular attention," Bø said during the 2016 NADIC Norwegian-American Defense Conference here. "NATO and its allies need to invest in high-end maritime capabilities. We need to improve and control arrangements. And we need to update contingency plans for the maritime plans.
"These are key deliverables to ensure that NATO remains politically and militarily credible," he added.


We saw at the end of episode 12 that Team Flash decided to travel to Earth-2 to rescue Wells's daughter from Zoom. Keeping in mind the story of this episode, the title is completely apt. The promo we saw was a real short one but had enough cliffhangers to make us want to watch it as soon as possible.
Barry, Cisco, and Dr. Wells travel to Earth-2 through one of the remaining 51 inter-dimensional breaches (Barry and Wells shut one down in the latest episode). The Central City of Earth-2 is quite different than the Central City of Earth-1. The humans of Earth-2 are more advanced than Earth-1 in terms of both technology and scientific knowledge (also mentioned in episode 12). Barry and Cisco are busy taking selfies. We would also see Barry Allen and Caitlin of Earth-2. Even Robbie Amell would make a comeback as Ronnie of Earth-2. And guess what? Caitlin of Earth-2 is Killer Frost and Ronnie is Deathstorm!
The storyline of this episode could unfold many possibilities for moving the story further. We could get to see Barry from Earth-1 meet Barry from Earth-2. That would be fun. Also, we would get to see Killer Frost and Deathstorm in action against our travelers from Earth-1.
We expect to see some pumped-up fight scenes between Team Flash and Caitlin-Ronnie pair. Caitlin is sure to catch attention in her "good girl gone bad" avatar. But her being Killer Frost was no surprise as we watched her as Killer Frost in the season finale of the first season (when Barry saw all the events while running inside the particle accelerator).
We would get to see what Barry Allen of Earth-2 is like and what he is up to. We might also have a look at the Earth-2 avatars of other characters. But, there is a big catch in all this. Barry, Cisco and Wells must get back to Earth-1 within 48 hours of their arrival at Earth-2. If they don't, they'll be trapped forever on Earth-2; and this looks difficult due to Killer Frost and Deathstorm's intervention.
Meanwhile, Jay Garrick has the whole S.T.A.R. labs to himself and Caitlin on Earth-1. He is filling up for Flash in his absence from Central City. I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one since I suspect him of being Zoom. His Earth-1 doppelganger is named Hunter Zolomon, who was Zoom in the comics. So, things are going to get really interesting next week. Watch out for the scarlet speedster.


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// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
//    (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
//          http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

#ifndef BOOST_COROUTINES2_DETAIL_DECAY_COPY_H
#define BOOST_COROUTINES2_DETAIL_DECAY_COPY_H

#include <type_traits>

#include <boost/config.hpp>

#include <boost/context/detail/config.hpp>

#ifdef BOOST_HAS_ABI_HEADERS
# include BOOST_ABI_PREFIX
#endif

namespace boost {
namespace coroutines2 {
namespace detail {

template< typename T >
typename std::decay< T >::type
decay_copy( T && t) {
    return std::forward< T >( t);
}

}}}

#ifdef BOOST_HAS_ABI_HEADERS
#include BOOST_ABI_SUFFIX
#endif

#endif // BOOST_COROUTINES2_DETAIL_DECAY_COPY_H

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You might recall I was experimenting with polished pigment backgrounds earlier this year. Here's an image to refresh your memory. At the time I remember saying that they were really rather hideous but I promised I would eventually use these backgrounds and here's what I did with them.
Wow! ..... orchid and lime green!
The image is from Rachel Greig's Darkroom Door collection and the word "tulip" is stamped with metal alphabet stamps on metal shim. I added a layer of black gloss card sprayed with gold webbing spray to make it more substantial and added a lime green layer for the card base.
The next piece had really great texture and I wanted to show it off instead of covering it up with an image..... the solution, a transparency! This one is from Stylish Images. I layered it on card stock which matched the gold polished pigments so that the gold blended off the background and onto the card. The flourish at the top is a rub on and it finishes off the card nicely. The third piece I made up into an ATC. I cut the heart from angel wire with my Cuttlebug and added some rub on flourishes to it. The letter Q is painted with polished pigments and frames an image and then I added a couple of ribbons and paper flowers. The touch of cream balances out the rust and blue really nicely.
So there you have it. Even ugly backgrounds aren't necessarily ugly - it's all just a matter of finding the right images and embellishments to work with it.


Does anyone know what the current [sic] state of play is with Graphene-based PV systems?
We are considering a PV array on the roof, and I wondered whether it was worth holding off until the Graphene option matures. I wondered if anyone had any feel for how long it would be before this technology delivers a really practicable commercial product.


Frederic Caudron of Belgium once again returned to the top of the podium showing his mental preparation and superior form as the winner of the final UMB World Cup of 2015. The event held in Hurghada Egypt December 13-19, 2015 held a great deal of tension for many of the world's best players as both ranking points and multiple titles were on the line.
The Belgian master shown brightly throughout the event and especially while dominating the final match against 2nd place winner Marco Zanetti of Italy. Caudron ran away, winning 40-13 in 11 innings (3.656 average) bringing his tournament average to 2.197 with a high run of 10. Caudron said of his play: "I think this was one of my best matches ever." For the 15th time and the 9th year in a row Frederic Caudron is a World Cup winner.
Dani Sanchez of Spain was also a winner in Hurghada. By making it into the semi-final round, Sanchez clinched the overall World Cup title for the 2015 cycle (see details in the Image Gallery below.) Sanchez earned the right to meet Torbjorn Blomdahl of Sweden, the 2015 World Champion, in the 2016 Super Cup. The event organized by Ludo Dielis will be held in Antwerp Belgiuim on March 5, 2016, where the Player of the Year will also be announced. Lufti Cenet of Turkey shared 3rd place with Dani Sanchez and shared high run of 16 in the event with Kostas Papakonstantinou of Greece.


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Roberta Metsola (teljes nevén: Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas; (San Ġiljan, 1979. január 18. –) máltai politikus, 2022. január 18-tól az Európai Parlament elnöke.

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Metsola 2013 óta az Európai Parlament (EP) képviselője Máltát képviselve, és 2020 novemberében az Európai Parlament első alelnökévé választották. David Sassoli elnök 2022. január 11-i halála után Metsola lett az Európai Parlament megbízott elnöke Sassoli utódjának megválasztásáig. 2022. január 18-án választották meg az Európai Parlament elnökévé.

Metsola jogász, európai jogra és politikára szakosodott. Málta jogi és igazságügyi együttműködési attaséjaként dolgozott Málta Európai Unió melletti Állandó Képviseletén. 2012 és 2013 között pedig Catherine Ashton, az Unió külügyi és biztonságpolitikai főképviselőjének jogi tanácsadója.

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Explore Chicago's colorful culinary scene on unique food tours of the city, from hidden-gem donut shops to the best Cantonese cuisine in town.
Feast your way through the city and then kick back and relax at our rooftop lounge: Cityscape Bar. Enjoy astounding skyline views from the floor-to-ceiling windows that are 15 stories above street level. Experience the tastiest Chicago food tours and the best foodie neighborhood in the city - River North - when you stay at our award-winning Chicago hotel.


Do we get to know what's in the box?
Only if the Don tells you.
Wait - which successful heist was this again?
Were there diamonds at Nakatomi Plaza?
But what about a diamond burglaring cat?
Cat's out of the bag now!
So, boss, most of the gems were gone by the time the box got to me.
Oh Auralynx, my most trusted confidante. I am very saddened to hear that my own friends would steal from me.
Exactly how many diamonds were in the box when you checked?
Should I @ people when I ask questions?
Would other players find that helpful or annoying?
I would recommend it myself but I'll leave that up to the players.
Only 4 were left, boss!
Why would we rob Nakatomi for bank bonds?
Wouldn't it make more sense to rob a bank?
Auralynx says there were only 4 diamonds in the box when he checked.
How many were in the box when you checked Egos?
Cause I'd stake my reputation on Egos doin' the wheelman thing this go 'round. He skates if jdarksun skates. Now cause there definitely weren't fifteen diamonds in the box when it got to me, that means if jdarksun was feeling frisky, then Egos gotta lie to bail 'im out. He says 15, right?
But if jdarksun is a consummate professional, then Egos still says 15, right?
The Don should've kept the lot.
I should be first henchman.
jdarksun quietly waits for Egos to answer the question.
Good old sticky fingers Egos!
Okay I will @ people with questions unless you ask me not to.
I can ask about what role cards were left when it got to certain people too, yeah?
Tell me what you saw inside the box, roles and diamonds, if you will.
It had 10 diamonds, two henchmen, 1 driver and two agents.
Exactly one henchman more than what Ringo shoulda seen.
Can you confirm what Egos said about there being 15 diamonds in the box?
we should find: 1 Jewel Thief, 1 Henchman, 1 Agent.
I can confirm that there were 4 diamonds by the time it got around to me, but that doesn't prevent Aura from taking out some of the diamonds (6 if Blue is telling the truth), and passing 4 to me.
There are no henchmen after me.


There are many interesting people groups and fascinating stories that blend together to form the history of the land you own in Los Ranchitos. These people, their culture and their dreams were tied directly to their land. Our lives continue that legacy. To better understand this connection, let's take a look back at the history of Los Ranchitos.
To assist in understanding our history and ease of reading, this 50-year history of Los Ranchitos has been divided into the following time frames. Throughout the article, dark grey words will allow you to view actual documents. Clicking on titles below will allow you to skip to the corresponding section of the document.


They call it the 'Gig Economy', also to distinguish it from the old economy. The phenomenon is more widespread in the US market and absorbs 49.6% of the ads. Among all the advantages of self-employment there is first of all the flexibility that only working for delivery or ridesharing companies can offer.
Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Doordash and Instacart here are some names of the Gig Economy. There are now so many companies offering jobs opportunity and sometimes it is difficult to choose for whom to work. In this article we focus on two companies that seem very similar at first glance: Postmates and Instacart. At the end of this article you will know everything you need to know to make your choice and decide who among Postmates and Instacart is right for you.
Why work as a driver for Postmates or Instacart?
Postmates and Instacart, as well as their competitors (Doordash and Caviar), do not offer a fixed salary, but collaboration contracts. Precisely for this reason it is the right solution for those who want a few extra money at the end of the month or for students. Working for Postmates or Instacart, surely you can maximize your earnings and have more money in your pocket. Finally if you're looking for a job that doesn't require a lot of commitment and qualifications, this job is for you.
What are Postmates and Instacart?
If you know the etymology of the Gig Enomomy, this is a fairly recent term. It is born thanks to the creation of applications and websites that offer services 'on demand'. In addition to being appreciated for their services as a user, Postmates and Instacart present themself as the right solution for those who want to work as delivery driver. Postmates and Instacart are two platforms and work respectively through Postmates App and Instacart App. But what are the differences?
Postmates platform is an easy and reliable way to get the food and merchandise you love delivered. You can order just about anything with the Postmates App. In fact, the main purpose of Postmates is to help people unlock the best of their cities – and their lives, with an insanely reliable on-demand "anything" network.
Instacart is a grocery delivery service. Customers select groceries through the Instacart App or Instacart website from various retailers. As a Instacart Full-Service Shopper contractor you have to shop and deliver the customer's order.
In which cities can I work for Postmates or Instacart?
Postmates was founded in 2011 by Bastian Lehmann, Sean Plaice, Sam Street. On September 18, 2018 Postmates, the on‐demand delivery pioneer, announced that it raised $300 million led by Tiger Global Management LLC ("Tiger"), on the heels of a record‐shattering year of growth, market expansion, and adoption of the industry's first subscription service. Postmates is actually available in more than 450 U.S. cities and Mexico City. Check our complete list of cities with Postmates. Instacart was founded in 2012 thanks to an idea of Apoorva Mehta. Instacart is growing fast and now available to 70 percent of all households across the country. You can take a look at this list of cities with Instacart.
The list of qualifications is not so complicated either for Postmates or Instacart. What changes is the flexibility that only Postmates offers, to make deliveries with any type of vehicle (motorcycles, bicycles and in some markets even just walking).
Sceduling Delivery: With Postmates you do not need to sign in shifts and schedule deliveries. All Postmates drivers have the same job opportunities and there are no priority pings. With Instacart as well as with Grubhub you need to schedule in advance your deliveries shifts. Sometimes it is very difficult to obtain the full time hours you need. When there is an abundance of "Shoppers", you will NEVER get performance bonuses because they have too many Shoppers.
When you are actually shopping for groceries for Instacart, you are timed and must meet performance goals. When you can't easily find suitable replacements or have to deal back and forth with the customer on such a replacement, you can't meet those performance goals.
"Life is a matter of choice," says Schwartz. "But, is this good news or bad news?" With so many choices, people find it difficult to make any decision at all. If you're currently considering looking for a new job soon, perks, benefits and higher salary are so important. If earning more is a fundamental need for you too, take a few minutes to see this review of Postmates drivers and Instacart Shoppers hourly pay. According to Indeed a Instacart Full Shopper earns $17.21 per hour. That is 21% below the national average. While a Postmates driver earns $24.98 per hour. That is 55% above the national average.
Postmates vs Instacart: How much can you earn?
Important Reminder: Earnings from working as a Postmates driver or Instacart Shopper vary based on the number of deliveries made. The more hours you spend on this activity, the greater your chances of earning. In fact, every driver can freely decide how many hours to work and on which days of the week.
If you are curious and want to learn more about the background check you can check our accurate guide on Postmates background check.
Earnings Guaranteed: For example, if you are a Postmates driver in San Francisco Bay Area, Postmates will offer you the possibility to earn $300 if you make 30 deliveries. Tips are not factored into your guaranteed earnings total.
Bonus Per Delivery: Earn an additional bonus for every delivery accepted within a specified timeframe and completed.
Share your Postmates Referral Code: You can use your Postmates referral code to invite new drivers in the Postmates platform and eran money.
Quality Boost: For example you qualify for $3 for every 5 star raiting orders.
Sign up for Postmates or Instacart is free. You will work as an independent contractor. If you're not satisfied with the pay rate you can always change. After a first analysis Postmates offers more incentives to their drivers. You can also maximize your earnings with our tips and tricks for Postmates drivers.
Recenty Instacart had a deceptive business practice. They used customer tips to subsidize the $10 per delivery minimum payment the company guarantees its workers. Instacart will change this controversial tipping policy. Like Uber Eats, Postmates guarantee that 100% of the customer's tip goes to the worker.
The previous Instacart pay model and bad tips practices have attracted much criticism from current Instacart drivers and customers. Many of whom have chosen to work only on other platforms. In general we believe that working for Postmates is more flexible, it does not require you to sign in work shifts in advance. The possibility of using a motorcycle, a bike or making deliveries walking is a chance that only Postmates offers. Finally, Postmates sign up bonus and incentives make the job more lucrative.


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Q: Show that property $E$ holds for $F_n$ $F_n := ((( .... (A_0 \leftrightarrow A_1) \leftrightarrow A_2 ) ... \leftrightarrow A_n)$
I want to show that the following property holds for any assignment $\beta$:
$\sum\limits_{i=0}^{i < n} \beta(A_i) \equiv n \mod 2 \iff \beta(F_n) = 1$
Now, I tried to use induction, to show that it holds for $n+1$. However, this does not seem very reasonable to me, because even if it holds for $n$, the additional Variable $A_j$ could either be $\beta(A_j) =0$ or $\beta(A_j) =1$, which result in different $\beta(F_n)$.
So is this stillt he right approach? Or should I argue with the structure of the formula?
Any hint is greatly appreciated!


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11th Gen Processors and Thunderbolt 4 – Love these New Products from Intel!
Oh! Zone
Jason Ziller, General Manager of the Client Connectivity Division of Intel Corporation, speaks with Oh! Zone Host, Cirina Catania about Intel's new products that are out NOW for the holidays. Click on the podcast link above to listen in! It is entertaining and educational. Plus, you'll know what to put on your last-minute Santa list
Aiden Loves Keys & Kingdoms! Learning to play the piano is fun with this adventure game from MeloQuest.
(Review for USTimes.biz by Cirina Catania, Dec 13, 2020) Our family loves the Keys and Kingdoms adventure game…and here's why. Let's assume you have a musical child (or one that would like to be). But you can't get them to stay with their piano lessons? (In fact, 80% of students eventually drop their lessons.) Let's
430,000+ U.S. Households Lack Access to Running Water
Special to US Times
In a surprising study, it has been revealed that over 430,000 Americans living in urban cities lack access to running water.
Sennheiser Closing Brick & Mortar Stores Maintaining Strong Online Presence
On November 12, 2020, Sennheiser announced that it would be closing its stores in Berlin, Sydney, San Francisco, Mexico City, Seoul, and Singapore in the near future. It's just another sign of the times. But if you are a Sennheiser fan, do not despair. The online presence is as strong as ever. US Times will
The Art of Music: Kevin McKeown releases new video of Black Pistol Fire's "Temper Temper"
(Texas, USA, 2010-12-04 ) Rolling Stone ran a story today that released Black Pistol Fire's Kevin McKeown performing a live version of their hit, "Temper Temper." And we liked it 🙂 So we are sharing it with you! Here's a link to the video and their story. Let us know what you think!
Award-Winning Composer, Simon Franglen, Geeks Out About Gear on OWC RADiO
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This world-class music composer/producer is best known for his Golden Globe nominated work on Avatar and Grammy winning work on Titanic. His credits include four of the top grossing films of all time and six of the top selling albums. Simon talks with OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania, about the behind the scenes of working
Richard Fortus, Guns 'N Roses, Exclusive Interview on OWC RADiO with host, Cirina Catania
Richard Fortus returned from a year-long tour with Guns 'N Roses right before the Covid quarantine hit and he may be staying close to home now, but he works non-stop and talks about his life with OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania. Listen in…
Roger O'Donnell, TheCure, on OWC RADiO, hosted by Cirina Catania.
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An in-depth interview about his life on the road with The Cure, his current projects, including his new solo album, "2 Ravens," his hopes for the future…and a sneak peak into his childhood. This is a Roger O'Donnell you very seldom see.
"More than 4,500 exhibitors will launch nearly 20,000 new transformative tech products to more than 170,000 attendees, encompassing 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, smart cities and resilience, sports, robotics and more. CES 2020 will feature new and expanded exhibit areas, 300 conference sessions with 1,100 speakers, and more than 1,200 startups from 45+ countries."
AtGames has recently introduced the world the very first Connected Arcade™- the Legends Ultimate! According to AtGames, this release is, "Taking the world by storm. This arcade includes 350 built-in games, ArcadeNet™, BYOG™ (Bring Your Own Game), HDMI/USB peripheral options and more, making it the most versatile and value-driven product of its type." USA Today is calling the
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Broadcast map: Unbeaten Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins don't get top billing
The Bills go for their eighth straight win over the Phins
By John Boccacino Sep 22, 2022, 12:05pm EDT
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This week's AFC East clash between the red-hot Buffalo Bills (2-0) and the suddenly fiery Miami Dolphins (2-0) is the most hyped, most highly anticipated showdown in the teams' storied rivalry since Hall of Fame quarterbacks Jim Kelly and Dan Marino were leading their respective teams.
The Bills have run wild over their first two opponents, dethroning the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams and the Tennessee Titans, last year's No. 1 seed in the AFC, by a combined score of 72-17, while the Dolphins dominated the New England Patriots in their opener and executed a furious comeback from a 21-point deficit to stun the Baltimore Ravens, 42-38 in Week 2.
Despite there being so much excitement for the first of this year's two games between the Dolphins and the Bills, this showdown between undefeated divisional rivals is not CBS' primary game during the 1:00 PM Eastern timeslot (that honor goes to the Kansas City Chiefs at the Indianapolis Colts).
CBS's broadcast team consists of Kevin Harlan handling the play-by-play duties, with former NFL quarterback Trent Green serving as the color analyst.
The areas that can see the game are highlighted in green (map courtesy of 506sports):
Besides Buffalo traveling to Miami, the rest of the CBS early slate of games includes the Chiefs at the Colts (in red), the Cincinnati Bengals at the New York Jets (blue), and the Houston Texans at the Chicago Bears (orange). The game in yellow is a late game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Los Angeles Chargers.
Sunday's matchup will be the 117th meeting all-time between the Bills and Dolphins. Miami leads the series 61-54-1, but Buffalo has closed the gap in recent years. The Bills have won seven straight, nine of the last 11, and 14 of the last 18 vs. the Dolphins dating back to the 2013 season.
Last season, Buffalo blanked Miami 35-0 in Week 2 and defeated them 26-11 in Week 8.
In the first matchup last year, Allen tossed a pair of touchdowns, Zack Moss rushed for a pair of scores, Devin Singletary rushed for 82 yards and a touchdown, and the Bills' defense registered six sacks, forced two fumbles and had one interception. A.J. Epenesa delivered a punishing hit that knocked Tua Tagovailoa out of the game in the first quarter, adding injury to insult for the Dolphins.
In the second clash, with the teams tied at 3 at halftime, Allen connected with wide receivers Gabe Davis and Stefon Diggs on second-half touchdown passes, and Allen scampered for a seven-yard rushing touchdown as Buffalo outscored Miami 23-8 in the second half to win.
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