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Pregnancy Pains & Discomforts
Is it true that if you don't have morning sickness early in pregnancy, you're having a boy?
Answered by The BabyCenter Editorial Team
Not necessarily. So don't invest in blue baby clothes just because you're lucky enough not to have morning sickness.
There is some evidence, however, that hormones produced by girl babies can make moms more nauseated early in pregnancy than they would be if they were carrying a boy.
And research suggests that moms who have severe nausea (hyperemesis gravidarum) during pregnancy in the first trimester may be a bit more likely to have girls: A Swedish study of over 1 million women who had hyperemesis gravidarum found that 55 percent delivered girls. But this study was done with moms-to-be who were hospitalized because of the nausea, and experts aren't sure how their findings apply to women who suffer from more typical morning sickness.
The midpregnancy ultrasound that many moms have when they're 18 to 22 weeks along is a much more reliable — although not foolproof — way of determining the sex of your baby. And of course if you have an amniocentesis for some reason, you'll be able to find out whether you're having a boy or a girl with 100 percent certainty.
Some testing centers and doctor's offices are also now offering a new blood test that uses a baby's DNA to detect chromosomal conditions at 9 weeks of pregnancy or later. This test is noninvasive and reveals the baby's sex, too.
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The image of Manila in my mind has always been limited to how Quiapo and Sampaloc look like - dilapidated, crowded, smelly and at most of times of the day, a little scary. Of course, these candid observations would warrant a local government official declaring persona non-grata had these been said by a foreigner. I guess truth hurts. But anyone who can take a snapshot of Recto and the cramped streets of Balic-Balic would tell you, that what I said is true.
This weekend, however, our friend Andy invited us to spend three days at H2O Hotel for his post birthday celebration. H2O Hotel is located inside Manila Ocean Park that is perched atop Manila Bay.
Given this rare chance to stay in Manila, we took the opportunity to explore what used to be the country's foremost business district and discovered a lot of hidden and not so hidden gems that made us change our general perception of the place.
Even on the way over, I started to realize that this part of Manila that I have always avoided is actually quite beautiful, save for the flamboyant street lights that could have been replaced by more modest albeit classier ones.
Here are photos from our staycation in Manila. Disclaimer: Most of these photos were taken using a camera phone hence the quality. I did bring a DSLR but it was colder than usual so it preferred staying inside my bag where it was warm and comfy. Photos, unless otherwise stated, are taken and owned by dalebacar.com.
We stayed in a marine-themed room with a relaxing view of different types of fishes. Think Aquarium Channel but this time, you are watching live fish! I even spotted a Nemo there!
Since I carry around my work, vacations for me normally mean that I have to be someplace with a stable internet connection. H2O Hotel had a very reliable (and free) WIFI connection so I was able to work hassle-free! I missed the buffet breakfast on our first day because I was catching up with a work deadline so I ordered room service! The food was pretty decent and the price was very reasonable. Of course, I just had to try out the buffet on our second day and the food was also mostly okay too.
This post is getting too long as I haven't even began talking about the restaurants that we checked out so I will post a part 2 soon.


I am pleased to be here today 10 discuss the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) experience with electronic funds transfer (EFT), and our efforts to implement the EFT provisions of Public Law 104-134, the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 which was passed by the Congress and signed by the President last year.
SSA has offered the safety, convenience and reliability of EFT through direct deposit, to those receiving Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 20 years. Today, more than 31 million of the 50 million payments generated by SSA each month are delivered electronically. Beneficiaries who use direct deposit have an overwhelmingly positive view of this service.
All Social Security and SSI benefits are issued by the Department of the Treasury. From the inception of the Social Security program through the mid-1970s, all benefits were issued by check. By the early 1970s, the volume of paper checks, coupled with related nonreceipt complaints and forgery workloads, threatened Treasury's ability to adequately provide check disbursement services to program agencies like SSA and, more important, to the public. To meet this challenge, Treasury developed an electronic payment alternative which it called the direct deposit program. Because Social Security payments are Treasury's largest workload, Social Security and SSI beneficiaries were among the first to be offered direct deposit in 1976.
In the late 1980s, SSA began to focus on the distinct service delivery advantages of direct deposit and looked for ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this program. Our Agency took a more proactive position in encouraging beneficiaries to use EFT. Steps were taken to better inform the public about the distinct advantages associated with direct deposit and to simplify the sign up process for those who wanted to begin using this service. As a result, more than 62 percent of all payments generated by SSA today are delivered by means of direct deposit.
Direct deposit significantly improves payment delivery services. It is a safer, more reliable method of payment. This is particularly important since the incidence of checks lost or stolen has increased dramatically over the past 10 years. In contrast, not one direct deposit payment has ever been lost in the 21 years it has been available to Social Security beneficiaries. With direct deposit, there is an electronic audit trail to ensure that the payment can always be located. Payments can be traced through the banking system and beneficiaries have a permanent record of their payment through their bank records.
There arc economic advantages of EFT for beneficiaries. Benefits are credited to accounts at the opening of business on the scheduled payment date. Beneficiaries can write checks to pay bills or use automated teller machi ne cards to obtain money immediately without the inconvenience of first having to cash a check. Direct deposit to interest bearing accounts earns the most interest on beneficiaries' money because their payments will be in the accounts at the earliest possible moment. Direct deposit avoids check cashing fees. If direct deposit to a checking account is used, fees for money orders and similar charges are avoided. Many financial institutions offer free services for customers who use direct deposit.
Of equal importance is the fact that direct deposit saves a substantial amount of money. According to Treasury, it costs approximately $0.43 per item to issue Federal payments by check versus only $0.02 per item when the payment is directly deposited into a beneficiary's account. If all remaining check receivers would convert to direct deposit immediately, the savings in operational costs would be substantial. SSA is already saving $156 million per year because many beneficiaries currently use direct depos it.
P.L. 104-134 was enacted on April 26, 1996. It included a provision that expanded the use of direct deposit for those receiving Federal payments. SSA implemented the initial phase of the new requirement effective August 1, 1996. Anyone applying for benefits as of this date is required to receive them by direct deposit if they indicate at the time of application that they have an account with a financial institution. This requirement is waived if the individual certifies that he or she does not have an account with a financial institution.
SSA's experience with the initial phase requirements has been very encouraging. Virtually no problems have been encountered. As of August 1997, 85 percent of all new Social Security applicants were enrolled in direct deposit automatically from the outset of their entitlement, while 34 percent of SSI beneficiaries were enrolled.
Anyone who had established entitlement to Social Security or SSI benefits prior to August 1, 1996 is not required to use direct deposit at this time. The law does specify, however, that the Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for developing regulations outlining how the final requirements will be implemented, including any waiver conditions and the development of electronic payment services for individuals who do not have a relationship with a financial institution. There are two significant issues to be addressed regulations on the EFT mandate. The first is to identify all of the exception conditions under which current and future beneficiaries with special circumstances will be exempt from having to be paid electronically. The proposed regulations for implementing the second phase of mandatory EFT, recently printed by the Department of the Treasury in the Federal Register, provide for a number of circumstances under which agencies can waive the EFT requirements that meet the needs of beneficiaries who cannot use EFT.
The second issue is to develop a program to meet the electronic payment needs of individuals without bank accounts and to develop this service at a reasonable cost. The latter has been an area that both our agencies have been studying for a number of years. Unbanked individuals often have limited resources. They also may be unfamiliar with how to go about maintaining an account at a financial institution.
SSA and Treasury have undertaken several pilots designed to test the feasibility of establishing special types of electronic payment accounts for unbanked beneficiaries. Programs have operated in the States of Maryland, Texas and in 23 other States that deposit benefits in special Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) accounts established for the participants. Funds are made available to these individuals by means of automated teller machines or point of service terminals. Beneficiaries participating in these special programs seem to like them. They enjoy the convenience and safety of having their monthly benefits delivered to them electronically. The monthly account fees charged by the Federal Government associated with the program have not been an issue because they appear to be comparable to or less than similar private sector fees encountered by the participants previously when cashing their benefit checks. We understand that most States are working to establish similar accounts for Federally administered benefits.
SSA endorses the Department of the Treasury's efforts to develop electronic payment alternatives at a reasonable cost for the unbanked, including Treasury's work with the States on EST. We will work closely with Treasury to ensure this alternative is made available nationally as quickly as possible. Based on our experience with these programs to date, we do not anticipate our unbanked population will have any significant problems with the proposed Federal program. SSA will do all it can, working with Treasury, to monitor this area to ensure the program operates as intended.
SSA supports the Department of the Treasury's proposed regulation because it provides a well-constructed framework for the balanced implementation of the expanded use of electronic funds transfer to receive Federal payments. It articulates a sound new public policy to encourage Federal benefit recipients to use electronic funds transfer technology, while recognizing that many current check receivers may have valid concerns or issues which require the Govenunent to continue their payments by check.
proven quite successful to date.
Working with Treasury to undertake a very robust public education campaign designed to convince current check receivers of the distinct advantages of EFT.
Monitoring the effectiveness of the public education efforts to convert current check receivers to EFT until mid-1998.
Undertaking a study in mid-1998 to determine the degree to which the residual check receiver s are either unbanked or otherwise likely to request a hardship waiver under Treasury's regulations.
Based on the results of the special study, developing a suitable process for applying waivers to the remaining check receivers. With the Depamnent of the Treasury's approval. this may include consideration of either a simple written certification process or some other administrative process to certify that using direct deposit constitutes a hardship.
Working closely with Treasury to develop its electronic transfer account program for "unbanked" recipi ents as quickly as possib le and working with SSA's unbanked beneficiaries to convert to ETA.
We estimate that by January 1999 SSA will still be sending out 12.8 to 15.1 million checks. Those numbers include approximately 7 million checks being sent to unbanked recipients who would automatically receive a waiver until the Government's electronic transfer account program becomes available. SSA's mid 1998 review of the remaining banked check receivers will provide the agency with the characteristics of those remaining check recipients and the extent to which they would seek or otherwise qualify for waivers.
SSA believes electronic payments are distinctly superior because they provide Social Security recipients who use them with a service that is safer, more reliable and more convenient than any other payment method, including check deliveries. We pledge to work closely with the Secretary of the Treasury as he develops regulations outlining how the remaining provisions of P.L. 104-134 will be implemented.


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Opinion: Ravens QB Lamar Jackson deserves another record with his next contract
Each week it seems that Lamar Jackson finds a way to set a record.
Last weekend, the 24-year-old Baltimore Ravens star became the youngest quarterback to notch 35 career victories, speeding past the pace of Dan Marino.
Six days before that, he led the rally from a 16-point deficit and in breaking the franchise's mark with 442 passing yards became the first player in NFL history to throw for 400 yards and 4 TDs … while completing more than 85% of his passes.
Just pay the man.
One of these weeks, perhaps Jackson will a record with a new contract.
He surely deserves it. As the Ravens (5-1) head into Sunday's game against the Cincinnati Bengals with a five-game winning streak, Jackson has accounted for 82.2% of his team's yards – Baltimore ranks fourth in the NFL for total yards – with his arms and legs. He leads the team with 392 rushing yards and has passed for 1,686.
Sure, we've seen the dual threat ever since Jackson emerged as the franchise's future, but this season the circumstances have done even more to underscore the value of the man still playing on his rookie contract.
Remember the rash of injuries that wiped out the Ravens running back room before the season started? Well, six weeks later the Ravens rushing attack ranks fourth.
His receiving corps, which will be without injured starter Sammy Watkins (hamstring) on Sunday and is just getting first-round rookie Rashod Bateman into the mix, has yet to hit a smooth stride.
His offensive line is without its anchor, left tackle Ronnie Stanley, who season ended with a fractured ankle that will require surgery.
In short, Jackson is doing more with less. It's like the Ravens, who play at a stadium that some affectionately dub "The Big ATM," are drawing on overdraft from The Bank of Lamar.
The NFL's system with its rookie pool (thanks, Jamarcus Russell) allows for Jackson to stand (and throw and bolt from the pocket) as the biggest bargain in sports. He will earn a base salary of $1.771 million for this season, his fourth in the NFL.
Jackson, whose original 4-year contract is worth $9.5 million, won't become a free agent until 2023, but at least next year he's due to earn $23 million because the team exercised its fifth-year option.
Of course, that fifth-year option belongs to the team and in this case it equates to some hellacious leverage.
Jackson's leverage is with his play. But that has yet to result in the type of deal that Buffalo struck with its franchise quarterback, Josh Allen, who was picked the same draft in 2018 as Jackson (32nd overall) and now already has a 6-year, $258 million extension that included a record $150 million guaranteed.
Given the extra time it has taken, not to mention performance, Jackson's next deal needs to break a record, too. That would be fair enough.
Maybe Jackson can increase his bargaining position by leading the Ravens a Super Bowl crown. That happened few years ago when Jackson's predecessor, Joe Flacco, landed what was then a record 6-year, $120.6 million contract.
But Super Bowl or not, Jackson's worth is well-established when considering other recent QB deals signed by Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott and Allen, all of which top $40 million per year.
Prescott's contract with the Cowboys (4 years, $160 million with $126 million guaranteed) is striking in that it came in March as he was coming off the gruesome ankle injury that ended his 2020 campaign. When Prescott was injured, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones assured him that the physical setback would not prevent them from the megadeal. He lived up his word.
Yet that's not necessarily the norm. The risk of injury in football is inherit. Jackson is living with that risk, even with the fifth-year payout for 2022. And we'll see whether the injury setback suffered by Baker Mayfield (torn labrum, fractured humerus bone in his left, non-throwing shoulder) will complicate the talks with the Browns for a new contract.
Another complication with Jackson involves his representation. He serves as his own agent.
When Jackson came out Louisville, it worked. He reasoned that with the contracts slotted for rookies, he was better off pocketing the typical 3% agent fee for himself, with his mother, Felicia Jones, listed as his agent, and an attorney enlisted to review the fine print.
Yet now the stakes are so much higher with the next long-term contract to conceivably cover his prime years for staggering numbers that might be worth at least 15 times the value of that rookie deal.
It's fair to wonder whether Jackson would already have an Allen-like deal if he had an agent who could engage actively with the Ravens, even during the season, to hammer out a new deal. Jackson has publicly expressed that he's not worried about his new contract, but it's unclear whether he will dive deep into such a serious contract issue during the season.
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Regardless, the Ravens, led by team owner Steve Bisciotti, should be resolved not to let this linger for much longer. Which usually means making the offer that won't be refused.
On the field, Jackson has been a major game-changer by proving, despite the doubters, that he could not only succeed but become one of the league's elite quarterbacks as a multi-dimensional threat who could indeed flourish as a pocket passer when needed.
Now he's positioned as a game-changer with the business model as fewer than two dozen players in the NFL serve as their own agent. Jackson is surely representing himself in more ways than one – with the contract talks and with his performance.
It should all add up to another record.
Life on the other side
While Lions quarterback Jared Goff admitted that he was left with "sour taste" because of the way the trade from the L.A. Rams went down in January, it has been nothing but sweet for Matthew Stafford.
It's no wonder that Stafford was so complimentary of the Lions this week. The Rams are 5-1. Stafford has thrown for 16 TDs, most ever after six games for a quarterback with a new team.
And his old team comes to SoFi Stadium on Sunday at 0-6.
Stafford maintained that he hasn't spent much time thinking about the various narratives attached to how the trade transpired or affected his NFL fortunes.
"I'm just kind of locked in on what we're doing here," he said, "and trying to do everything I can to make sure we succeed here."
He didn't express any bitterness toward Detroit, insisting that he appreciated his time there.
In other words: He's ecstatic to view the NFL world from a different perspective.
Quick slant
Titans running back and NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry will aim for his sixth consecutive 100-yard game when the Chiefs visit. No matter, it seems, that he's coming off a short week after Tennessee's big win against Buffalo on Monday night. In eight-such games since 2018, Henry is averaging an NFL-best 107.9 rushing yards per game (minimum 2 games) with 11 TDs when coming off a short week.


Besides global oil prices, the impact of implementation of 7th Pay Commission, including the hike in house rent allowance, is likely put pressure on prices.
Reserve Bank kept the repo rate unchanged at 6 per cent citing inflationary concerns in its last monetary review in early December.
Firming crude oil prices in the global market is likely to cast its shadow on retail inflation, which has began to move northwards after hitting a low of 1.46 per cent in June, and may prompt the RBI to hold interest rates at least for some time in 2018.
Retail inflation may average around 4-4.5 per cent next year, higher than an expected sub-4 per cent level this year, feel industry experts and economists.
Retail inflation, which has a direct implication on common man and forms basis for the Reserve Bank (RBI) while reviewing policy decision, ranged between 1.46-4.88 per cent in 2017.
Whereas the consumer price index (CPI) based retail inflation was at the year's lowest level of 1.46 per cent in June, it hit a eight-month high of 4.88 per cent in November.
The RBI too has upped its inflation projection to 4.2-4.6 per cent by March 2018 due to firming global oil prices and uncertainty on kharif farm output.
It aims to achieve a medium-term target of 4 per cent for retail inflation with band of plus/minus 2 per cent.
Ranging between 0.90-6.55 per cent, wholesale price based WPI inflation moved in an inverted curve trajectory in 2017.
Wholesale prices rose between 5.25-6.55 per cent in first three months, touched lows of 0.90-1.88 per cent mid-year before gaining momentum to 3.93 per cent in October (WPI inflation data for November is due in January).
This price trend certainly kept the government in a comfortable situation this year, however fire fighting will be needed next year as majority of India's imports bill stem from crude oil purchases.
SBI Research Chief Economist Soumya Kanti Ghosh said inflation will be rising from this level, but will remain within sub-5 per cent.
"Inflation numbers for the next couple of months could be around 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent. Even though the inflation average for current fiscal could be 3.5-3.7 per cent, next year the inflation average could go up to 4.5 per cent," he said.
But, it will still not be a major issue, Ghosh said, adding any rate action from the RBI is unlikely before second half of 2018.
"But, even if inflation goes to 5 per cent, it will be within RBI's inflation target of 4-6 per cent. Crude prices are now around USD 65 per barrel that could be one source of inflation rise," he added.
Experts are unanimous that crude oil will be a spoilsport next year.
Going into 2018, some upside momentum in inflation is likely to build up as it starts incorporating the recent increase in crude oil prices, Yes Bank Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Rana Kapoor said.
Upward adjustment in housing allowance for the government employees under the 7th Pay Commission and some pass through of GST rates will also push prices, he said.
"I expect average CPI inflation to pick up gradually towards 4.7 per cent in 2018. The average inflation is likely to stay around 4.1-4.2 per cent, close to RBI's medium term target of 4 per cent. Hence, I expect the RBI to stay on a prolonged pause through 2018," Kapoor said.
India Ratings Principal Economist Sunil Sinha too reasons that prices are going to rise at a faster pace next year primarily because of the very low base.
"Also unlike last year, this year the prices of food items like vegetables have not been low, if it continues like that prices of food and vegetables will keep rising. The third thing is about the crude oil prices that will keep upward pressure on prices," Sinha said.
Geojit Financial Services Chief Investment Strategist V K Vijayakumar expects retail inflation to average 4-5 per cent next year and that RBI is likely to remain neutral with a hawkish stance in the light of firm crude oil prices.
"For the last quarter of 2018-19, CPI inflation might inch up to 5 per cent. A lot will depend on GST collections and crude prices. If there is a slippage in fiscal deficit target due to shortfall in GST revenue, that would be inflationary," he said further.
RBI may start considering hiking the policy rates from the second half of calender year 2018, said Shankar Raman, Chief Investment Officer, Centrum Wealth Management.
Inflation is expected to inch up towards the 5 per cent mark. An year ahead, consumer headline inflation may be around 4.75-5 per cent, Raman added.
The experts also feel that going forward the goods and services tax (GST) will be beneficial on the pricing front.
GST, which came to effect from July 1, put somewhat upward price pressure on most of goods and services and forced the government to review the slabs under the new tax system and brought down tax rates on nearly 200 items.
Jaitley hinted that the government may further rationalise GST rates but that will depend on revenue collections.
Reserve Bank kept the repo rate unchanged at 6 per cent citing inflationary concerns in its last monetary review in early December, primarily because of rising crude oil prices, pay hike for central government employees and summer crop production.
It had cut the repo rate by 0.25 per cent to a six-year low of 6 per cent in August this year.
The industry watchers said RBI will most likely tab a pause button in its next monetary policy review in February as well.


How to map your value?
service is providing in the market?
a new model, that's driven by value proposition design.
of fit regarding two areas, one is the value map, the value proposition map.
And the other is the customer profile, and that will be the customer segment profile.
of a specific value proposition in your business model.
To put it more simply, we wanna look at three things.
We wanna look at the product and services that a value proposition is built around.
So kind of, what do you do or what's the benefit of what you do?
services alleviate customer pains, inconveniences, undesirable elements.
to improve their lives in some way?
We'll map these elements to the customer profile, to the customer segment profile.
That describes a specific segment in your business model in a detailed way.
And we're gonna look at that along three difference facets.
some expression of their own wants and needs.
the undesirable elements that are related to those jobs.
And we're gonna look at the gains.
What is it that the customer wants to happen?
What are the concrete benefits that they are seeking as part of those jobs?
that really gives us insights on, are we doing the intended job?
Are we having the intended impact that we hope to have?
customers, and it really starts with putting yourself in their shoes.
that you want to target, that you want to profile as step one.
From there you want to identify the customer jobs.
You want to understand what is it that they're trying to complete.
services that you have in mind.
The third element is to identify the customer pains.
What are the unintended elements?
What are the obstacles or risk that they incur in trying to get that job done?
The fourth element is identifying the customer gains.
What outcomes and benefits do they have in mind to achieve?
Lastly, in step five we're going to prioritize each of these.
Not every gain is equal.
Not every pain is equal.
really understand the one's that are most extreme, the ones that are most essential.
not that important at all, when considered versus the others.
services of our value proposition.
see how they map to what the customer has told us.
We can also look at the gains in part three.
can assist in helping customers realize that gain.
the gain creators, according to how essential they are to customers.
Lastly, we assess this measure of fit.
all of the various elements that we believe add value.
really think about, are there jobs, pains, or gains that we do not address?
redesign in our value proposition, in the features and benefits of our product?
that we may be able to remove and then refocus those elements.
of a customers decision to buy and experience our products or services?
we want to start with seeking some evidence.
Hearing that voice of the customer, about what do they care about.
Specifically, what jobs, pains and gains do they experience?
We want to design our value proposition towards that and test that.
creates value and creates sustainable value in the marketplace.


We engage our students the exciting world of dance, music, self-expression and English language. All of our classes are taught in English and are led by Andy and his professional dancers team.
Our teachers are all graduated in HKAPA School of Dance and have numerous years of teaching experience. Through Andy Dance your child will improve their personal and performance confidence in English and dance while also getting exercise, enhance their body awareness and having great fun with their dance mates.
-Class for your little ones aged 2-3.
-Children explore movement and rhythm.
-Introducing body coordination, spacial awareness and language abilities.
-Developing social skills and personal confidence.
-At the end of the term, students will be ready to move up to the Senior Dancer.
-Class for students aged 4-6.
-Student learn the dance technique, rhythm and body coordination.
-Student learn structured dance routines and sing the song in English.
-Expressing themselves in a creative way and gaining greater confidence.
-Developing the relationship between peers, learning how to cooperate with each others.
-Student take part in a performance in the end of the phrase.
DANCE is FUN and will make you HAPPY!


Today is Take Your Kids to Work Day. In honor of all the children running around cubicles or staring wistfully at the candy bars in the vending machines in break rooms, we imagined what it would be like for characters to take their kids to work. Trust us, it's better than having them stare at another motivational poster.
If anyone's kid is going to need therapy, it'll be the young boy Oberon and Titania adopted. Not only do his parents bicker over him, but he will inevitably witness their workplace hijinks. The boy will see people turning into strange animals or the wrong couples falling in love. At least he'll learn how to effectively manage people. Oberon seems to have a good relationship with Puck. Except for all those times Puck messes up. But nobody is perfect.
There is no mention of Dr. Jekyll having a child (thank God), but we imagine it would not be a fun for his fictional child to visit his workplace. Not only would he have to see his father transform into a violent human being (talk about confusing and traumatizing), but he would be exposed to all of those chemicals. That really can't be good for his health.
Rumor has it that Dr. Watson will have a daughter in the upcoming season of Sherlock. We think she would have a strange day visiting her father's work place. She would inevitably encounter a crime, right? We're crossing our fingers that it would be a burglary instead of a murder. As for her dad's coworker, Sherlock Holmes, we're sure she would find him bizarre, to say the least.
While Captain Hook doesn't have any children (that we're aware of), we love to imagine what it would be like for him to take his child to work. Would the kid get to wear an eye patch or bandana? Would he or she be able to boss Mr. Smee around? While we aren't sure of the details, we are sure this kid would have a great time. Who wouldn't love to dodge crocodiles and visit mermaids? If nothing else, there would be plenty of other children around. Who knows? Maybe peace could be brokered with the Lost Boys.
While Daenerys doesn't have any human children, she has plenty of dragon children (she is the Mother of Dragons, after all). Unlike most working parents, bringing her kids to work is not an inconvenience, but they are crucial to her survival. Who wouldn't their kids to char their enemies?
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Nature's Past Episode 47: Pollution Probe and the History of Environmental Activism in Ontario
This entry was posted in Environmental History Environmental Movement Nature's Past Podcast on April 20, 2015 by seankheraj
Episode 47: Pollution Probe and the History of Environmental Activism in Ontario [50:31]
Environmental activism has a long history in Canada. Like others around the world, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canadians became involved in a number of environmental non-governmental organizations. Picking up on a prevailing spirit of protest during the era, several environmental problems surfaced as popular political issues: air pollution, water pollution, solid waste disposal, among many others.
Out of this came one of the first ENGOs in Canadian history, Pollution Probe. Born at the University of Toronto in 1969, the nascent group focused its efforts on new concerns regarding air pollution in Canada. It would go one to become one of the most influential environmental groups in Ontario and even shape a national environmental movement in Canada.
Scholarly research on the history of the environmental movement in Canada is limited. A couple of years ago, we published two episodes of Nature's Past on the history of the Canadian environmental movement.
Now there are a handful of new books on the topic, including the recently-published The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario. On this episode of the podcast, author Ryan O'Connor joins us to discuss Pollution Probe and the early years of environmental activism in Canada.
Please be sure to take a moment to review this podcast on our iTunes page.
Visit the main page at http://niche-canada.org/naturespast and subscribe to our YouTube page here.
Ryan O'Connor
Works Cited:
O'Connor, Ryan. The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.
http://www.ryanoconnor.ca/
Kheraj, Sean, Stacy Nation-Knapper, and Andrew Watson. "Episode 33: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part III – The Canadian Environmental Movement I" Nature's Past. 27 November 2012. http://niche-canada.org/2012/11/27/natures-past-episode-33-histories-of-canadian-environmental-issues-part-iii-the-canadian-environmental-movement-i/
Kheraj, Sean, Stacy Nation-Knapper, and Andrew Watson. "Episode 34: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part III – The Canadian Environmental Movement II" Nature's Past. 21 January 2013. http://niche-canada.org/2013/01/21/natures-past-episode-34-histories-of-canadian-environmental-issues-part-iv-the-canadian-environmental-movement-ii/
Zelko, Frank S. Make it a Greenpeace! The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Golden Gate National Recreation Area Superintendent Laura Joss and staff invite the community to join them for an update and discussion on Rancho Corral de Tierra.
--Grassland restoration efforts, which includes removal of invasive plants, such as grasses and trees, and revegetating with native plant communities.
--Fuel reduction in the wildland urban interface to mitigate effects of wildfires.
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The Absolute Legend That was Timothy Dexter- First in the East and West and Greatest Philosopher in the Western World
December 4, 2020 Zach Stewart	One comment
In the vast annals of history it can't surprise anyone that the occasional great man gets lost as records of them are sparse, or were all burned by some rival empire. It is surprising, though, when there are men of whom there is possibly TOO much evidence who still disappear from most historical records. One of America's first eccentric rich guys, Lord Timothy Dexter, first in the East, the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western World, is just such a man. If you haven't heard of Timothy Dexter before now, then oh boy are you in for a treat.
Dexter was born just north of Boston, Massachusetts in 1747 to a modest family of tanners. While you may think sunbathing isn't a great way to make money… it isn't, obviously, unless you're an Instagram model or using this tried and true method of being half naked to snag a rich spouse. The other tanning of making leather from hides, wasn't a great way to make money, either. Enough to make a living, sure, but certainly not enough to make the kind of fortune an ambitious man like Timothy Dexter would need.
Naturally, he decided to go the route of marrying rich- specifically marrying the gloriously named Elizabeth Frothingham, and immediately started his future career of making insane business decisions. The American Revolutionary War was going on, and the Continental Congress had begun to print its own money to pay its troops. Most people could see that this money was ultimately based on nothing, and therefore entirely worthless. So prevalent was this idea that a common phrase at the time was the dismissive "It's not worth a Continental." Timothy Dexter, however, thought that America was 100% for sure going to work out, and would never cheat its soldiers by giving them worthless currency. At the time, Dexter snatched up Continental Dollars for literally fractions of a penny each, which, as it turns out, would be the only way to make them valuable. After the ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton convinced congress to honor Continental Dollars at 1% of their face value. Certainly a massive loss to the soldiers paid in the worthless paper, but a massive boon for Timothy Dexter since 1% of a dollar is one penny, and, basic math fact here, that is more than a fraction of a penny.
Timothy Dexter was now quite wealthy, and to rub it in everyone's faces he bought property in the middle of the richest neighborhood he could find and began construction of an ostentatious mansion. Now, usually a word like "ostentatious" can only be subjective, but in this rare instance I think there may be a case that the house was objectively ostentatious. It was so over-the-top that Elizabeth Frothingham decided to move out of the house into another house in the general vicinity.
The mansion, unusual in its design from the get go, was surrounded by massive wooden statues of men Dexter considered to be heroes from American Revolutionaries, like George Washington, to a wide variety of Frenchmen he considered brothers in arms. Dexter was so enamoured by the French that he even gave a speech in French in one instance, despite the fact that, in his own words, "The public, considering the small chance I have had to learn French, are a little surprised to hear of my having endeavored to speak it." Under a statue of Thomas Jefferson, Dexter commanded a painter to write "Author of the Constitution." When the Painter wrote "Author of the Declaration of Independence" and insisted that was correct, Dexter became so irate he pulled a gun and shot at the man, barely missing.
Moving on from here, Dexter began involving himself in some absolutely wild schemes. First, it was suggested that nobody in the West Indies had ever heard of a bed warming pan before, and that the market there was wide open. A bed warming pan, as the name implies, is a pan filled with warm embers that got placed under your covers to pre-warm your bed before you slept in it. The West Indies are tropical, and thus the reason bed warming pans weren't in stock in the West Indies is because nobody needed to warm their beds. However, upon arriving with a literal boatload of useless goods, one of the locals realized that the pans would work perfectly for ladelling molasses. A few weeks Later, Dexter's boat returned to him totally sold out of bed warming pans. Realizing that the people of the West Indies must be cold, Dexter doubled down and sent a shipment of mittens and warm woolen clothes. This time, Dexter was even more miraculously lucky as his boat arrived just in the nick of time to catch an expedition heading to Siberia that could desperately use a whole shipment of warm clothes. Next, Dexter literally herded cats, rounding up hundreds of strays and shipping them to the Caribbean to act as pest control. Then he told his customers that every Christian family needed a bible, or else they would go to hell. Unsurprisingly, this message came with a boat load of bibles Dexter had bought wholesale for dirt cheap.
From all this business success, Dexter began to see himself as something of a new class of gentry. By 1800 he began going by the title "Lord" Dexter despite the fact that he had no claim to nobility, and was supposedly a fierce American patriot. Perhaps the worst business idea Lord Dexter ever had was shipping coal to Newcastle. Newcastle, for those who don't know, was a coal mining city, and the last thing they would ever need is coal. Unless, of course, you just so happened to arrive in the middle of a massive miners strike, meaning that the coal starved city would pay a premium for it. And that's exactly what happened.
So you may be asking yourself right now, was this guy really crazy, or was he actually a supergenius playing three dimensional business chess?
Well, to help answer that question, we should maybe point out that upon learning that English Nobility would write books then freely distribute them to libraries and institutions, Dexter decided to do most of that. He wrote the absolutely unique book, "A Pickle For The Knowing Ones, or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress," and began distributing free copies to anyone who happened to pass by. The book is… well it's something. The entire 44 page work contains almost no punctuation, random capitalization, and spelling so atrocious we're guessing it was secretly written to get back at a former English teacher of his.
The book begins:
IME the first Lord in the younited States of A mericary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue Now as I must be Lord there will foller many more Lords pretty soune for it dont hurt A Cat Nor the mouse Nor the son Nor the water Nor the Eare then goue on all is Easey Now bons broaken all is well all in Love Now I be gin to Lay the corner ston and the kee ston with grat Remembrence of my father Jorge Washington the grate herow 17 sentreys past before we found so good a father to his shildren and Now gone to Rest
We think that was the end of a sentence, but in this book you just have to kind of guess. In fact, after a review of the first edition of his book criticized the lack of punctuation, Dexter added a final page to the second printing consisting entirely of periods, commas, exclamation points, and question marks, along with the instructions, "fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as they plese." The book takes some pretty nasty turns, especially when he's talking about his wife, of whom he says, "pittey me that I have bin in hell 35 years, in this world, with the gost — A woman I married." Ouch…
Throughout his life, Timothy Dexter surrounded himself with a menagerie of lunatics interspersed with some genuinely incredible people. One uncredited lunatic was John P. a self-proclaimed professor who, despite lacking any scientific education or training, would espouse his supposedly "scientific" knowledge upon anyone who would listen. Another of his troupe was Madame Hooper, a fortune teller who must have had a pretty good track record if she was involved in any of Dexter's schemes. As you may expect based on his book, his wife was not part of the troupe, and Dexter was known to cavort with many, many, many women.
After living such an unusual life, Lord Dexter found himself curious about what his legacy would be after he was gone. As such, he did what any of us would do in that situation and he faked his own death so he could spy on the funeral. He even had a massive mausoleum built for himself on his property, which was fine for a fake funeral, but was later deemed to be too unsafely built for a mausoleum, and when you think about it how safe does a structure for a dead man need to be?
Perhaps uncharacteristically, he let his family in on the truth, but then demanded they act the part during the funeral. While his kids seemed to do a fine job, his wife Elizabeth apparently wasn't getting an Oscar for her performance. Lord Dexter somehow got her outside so he could yell at her, ultimately leading to a physical fight so loud it drew a crowd. The crowd, all in attendance of the funeral for the man they currently saw beating his own wife, didn't know how to react. Lord Dexter decided to act as if nothing had happened, and spent the rest of the funeral acting as if he were hosting a huge party.
Eventually Timothy Dexter kicked the bucket for real, going at the age of 59 on October 26th, 1806. He left much of his money to charity. The statues outside his house, which had cost him thousands sold for only a few dollars each, or were burned after nobody wanted them. His strange house was turned into a Tavern which was eventually destroyed when painters decided to remove old paint using torches.
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"The West Indies are tropical, and thus the reason bed warming pans weren't in stock in the West Indies is because nobody needed to warm their beds. "
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Update on Stack Overflow's Recovery Strategy with SQL Server 2014
Always On Availability Groups, Stack Overflow
Back in 2009 (wow, seems like only yesterday!), I wrote about designing a recovery strategy for Stack Overflow. Back then, I wrote:
With these answers in mind, Stack Overflow's decisions not to do transaction log backups, offsite log shipping, database mirroring, and so on make good business sense. Us geeks in the crowd may not like it, and we might demand the latest and greatest in backup & recovery technology, but at the same time we want Stack Overflow to remain free. As their volunteer DBA, I'd love to do 24×7 log shipping or database mirroring to a secondary server at another colo facility – but I wouldn't be willing to pay out of my own pocket for expenses like that.
Today, the situation is totally different. They're in the top 50 web networks, 4.4 million users, a job posting network, dozens of crazy smart employees, and I'm not even close to a volunteer DBA for them anymore. (Heck, we've even paid to advertise on Stack Exchange.) I hop into the company chat rooms now and then, and I swing by the offices whenever I'm in New York, but these guys don't need me. I jump in whenever I can for fun, because it really is fun working with engineers this sharp.
That means this time, I'm blogging about designing Stack's recovery strategy more as an outsider's perspective. I know you folks like reading real-life case studies, and Stack's pretty open about their infrastructure, so this will be fun for all.
What Changed? Downtime became more expensive.
If you've looked at the Stack Exchange team page, you'll notice dozens of people with the word "sales" in their job title. Stack now sells ads on the Q&A sites, plus sells job postings to companies on Careers.StackOverflow.com.
There's real money going through the network now, and downtime starts to cost more money. If the sites are down, people may go back to Google, get their answers from another site <shudder>, and there goes some ad revenue.
This meant that at least a few databases – for ads and careers – we needed to do full recovery mode in SQL Server, and start doing transaction log backups. This didn't start across-the-board – it started only with the most high-value databases.
As the company grew, the relative cost of standby SQL Servers in a different location started to drop. Downtime seemed more expensive, and interestingly, the actual price of the standby SQL Servers started to drop. As Stack Exchange added more systems administrators, it wasn't really much extra work for these guys to manage a few extra database servers in other locations. And as long as we've got extra database servers somewhere else, kept up to date with the most recent data, we might as well put 'em to use.
What else Changed? We Scaled Out.
Stack Exchange's API lets the public run queries against the databases in real time (and starting with API v2.1, they can even write). For a demo of how it works (but not using the live database), try out Data.StackExchange.com. For example, here's the most recent 10 questions from Stack Overflow:
Yes, Virginia, that's really an Execution Plan tab at the bottom with the actual plan from your query:
Query execution plan
Like many of Stack Exchange's tools, Data Explorer is completely open source, so you can install this same tool in your own environment if you'd like to let internal power users query your databases without having to install SQL Server Management Studio or a reporting tool.
Enter SQL Server 2012's AlwaysOn Availability Groups
SQL Server 2012's AlwaysOn Availability Groups allow for multiple replicas to serve 2 purposes at Stack Exchange: easier failover to remote data centers with minimal data loss, and read-only capabilities out of those remote data centers.
I'm a huge fan of AlwaysOn AGs, but they're like the opposite of "the easy button." Sure, you can offload read-only queries, backups, and DBCCs to secondary replicas, but you also have to introduce a lot of new dependencies like clustering, Windows Active Directory, heartbeats, and quorums. After Stack and a few of my other clients went live with the early 2012 versions, I started jokingly calling it OftenOn – the high availability functionality ended up being a source of a lot of downtime.
Stack worked with Microsoft for months to troubleshoot sporadic outages, resulting in this Windows 2008R2 hotfix and some other fun discoveries. After a lot of challenges, Stack (and most of my other AG clients) ended up moving to Windows Server 2012 for their SQL clusters because so many of the clustering problems were fixed with rewritten clustering code.
The big gotcha, though, was that if any replica loses its network connectivity to any of the other replicas, all of the involved databases will drop offline. This is not a bug – this is the desired result.
Well, this was Microsoft's desired result. It sure wasn't anybody else's, ha ha ho ho, and thankfully those nice folks at Microsoft decided the behavior would be different in SQL Server 2014. Now, if a node loses connectivity, its AG-involved databases continue to stay online.
Stack Exchange's Upgrade to SQL Server 2014
As Nick Craver writes in his post about running SQL Server 2014 in production at Stack, this advantage was absolutely killer for Stack's uptime goals. The Stack developers have done a killer job at coding the sites – if they detect that the SQL Server databases are in read-only mode, all of the involved sites fail into a read-only mode too, along with a nice polite banner informing the reader that they can't make any changes right now.
The Stack engineers, God bless 'em, are so dedicated to making IT better that they're not just willing to document their infrastructure to help others, plus build open source tools to help people, but they're even willing to put their production web site in the hands of preview code. So earlier in November, Nick Craver and Steven Murawski did a rolling upgrade of their production clusters to SQL Server 2014.
Each cluster involves 3 nodes. Take the StackOverflow cluster:
NY-SQL01 – the primary replica handling all incoming write connections. Sits in Manhattan.
NY-SQL02 – the asynchronous secondary replica sitting next to it in the same cage. NY-SQL01 copies transaction log data off to this server gradually in the background. In the event of a localized failure on NY-SQL01, the admins can manually fail over to NY-SQL02 with some data loss.
OR-SQL01 – the asynchronous secondary replica sitting in Oregon. NY-SQL01 also copies data here in the background, but due to the vagaries of wide area networks, it can be farther behind than NY-SQL02. To leverage extra hardware in Oregon, Data Explorer can be hosted in Oregon's web servers using this read-only capacity.
All three were running SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012. Unfortunately, with Windows clustering, we can't upgrade any of the nodes in-place to a new version of Windows (2012 R2), so if we wanted to deploy that, we'd have to tear down some of the existing nodes temporarily. That was a lot of work for relatively little gain. There wasn't a need for new hardware, either – the database servers typically run under 10% CPU, and they can cache everything they need in memory.
Since we could keep the same OS, the SQL Server 2014 upgrade process looked like this:
Upgrade one of the readable replicas (in our case, NY-SQL02) to SQL 2014. From this point forward, replication stops to the other nodes. They can't apply data from a newer SQL Server version, so they'll just kinda freeze in limbo. We could still fail back to those, but we would lose all data changes made from this point forward.
Test the apps in read-only against the newly upgraded replica.
Test the apps in writeable mode against the newly upgraded replica.
Make a go/no-go decision. If no-go, fail back to the original replica (NY-SQL01) and send the upgraded replica to detention. If go, start upgrading the other readable replicas. As they come online with SQL Server 2014, the AlwaysOn AG replication will catch them back up.
Optionally, fail back to NY-SQL01 as a primary.
Monitor the servers and the plan cache looking for queries getting unexpectedly poor execution plans. (Remnant of our SQL 2008 upgrade, and subsequent full text search problems.)
The upgrade went really smoothly, barring one technical issue involving a combination of the installer and Windows Core. The installer assumes that a particular feature will be installed (whether you need it or not), and that feature requires the full Windows GUI, so it fails on Windows Core. The "fix" was to tell the installer to skip feature compatibility checks.
I was online purely for comic relief. I think I made the sum total of one technical contribution during the entire call, and I left shortly after the go/no-go decision. Nick and Steven are top notch admins. Having said that, I wouldn't recommend this DO-IT-LIVE! upgrade approach for most companies.
Should You Follow Suit with SQL 2014?
The Stack Exchange team is very in tune with what's happening in their SQL Server environment. They know exactly which queries are the top 20 resource users, what those execution plans look like, and when a new query pops up to the top of the list. If SQL Server suddenly produces different query plans for a frequent query, these guys know how to work around it. They have great relationships with the dev teams, instant access to source code, and easy, automatic deployments to production to fix query problems.
That's unusual.
I'm thankful that there's cutting-edge shops out there like Stack Exchange that dedicate so much talent to managing their database stack and give so much back to the community (and to Microsoft). They're helping make sure SQL 2014 is a solid product when it eventually hits RTM, and hopefully they'll iron out any surprise bugs before folks like you deploy it in production.
If you believe your shop has what it takes to run SQL 2014 in production, you can join Microsoft's early-access programs to get access to more frequent builds, extra support contacts, and community experts to help with the deployments. Contact us to get started.
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It would be lovely to understand how data moved from the active node ie SQL 01 to SQL 02 that was upgraded first and how a failover was done to the 2014 nodes while the last 2012 node was being upgraded.
Its also nice to know how much down time will be incurred during this process . . .
I have 3 node AAGs and I want to upgrade with no downtime, I hope to fail over to an upgraded node and update the passive nodes to the newest version.
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#include "lullaby/modules/manipulator/scaling_manipulator.h"
#include "lullaby/modules/debug/debug_render.h"
#include "lullaby/modules/debug/log_tag.h"
#include "lullaby/systems/transform/transform_system.h"
#include "lullaby/util/math.h"
#include "mathfu/constants.h"
#include "mathfu/io.h"

namespace lull {

namespace {
const float kIndicatorLengthOffsetInit = 0.8f;
const Aabb kScaleAabb(mathfu::vec3(-0.04f, -0.04f, 0.f),
                      mathfu::vec3(0.04f, 0.04f, 0.1f));
}  // namespace

ScalingManipulator::ScalingManipulator(Registry* registry)
    : Manipulator(registry), indicator_transforms_(kNumDirections) {
  for (int i = 0; i < kNumDirections; ++i) {
    indicator_length_offset_[i] = 0.f;
  }
}

void ScalingManipulator::ApplyManipulator(
    Entity entity, const mathfu::vec3& previous_cursor_pos,
    const mathfu::vec3& current_cursor_pos, size_t indicator_index) {
  // Calculate the projection of the delta position onto the vector of scaling
  // to scale the entity in that direction.
  mathfu::vec3 axis_vec;
  mathfu::vec3 offset_vec = mathfu::kZeros3f;
  switch (indicator_index) {
    case kScaleX:
      axis_vec = mathfu::kAxisX3f;
      break;
    case kScaleY:
      axis_vec = mathfu::kAxisY3f;
      break;
    case kScaleZ:
      axis_vec = mathfu::kAxisZ3f;
      break;
    case kScaleUniform:
      axis_vec = mathfu::vec3(1.f, 1.f, 0.f).Normalized();
      // This is to apply a proportional scaling among the z-axis.
      offset_vec.z = axis_vec[0];
      break;
    default:
      return;
  }
  const mathfu::vec3 movement_vector = selected_entity_rotation_ * axis_vec;
  // Scale the projection onto the scaling vector.
  auto* transform_system = registry_->Get<TransformSystem>();
  const mathfu::vec3 delta_pos = current_cursor_pos - previous_cursor_pos;
  const float projection = mathfu::dot(delta_pos, movement_vector);
  const mathfu::vec3 scale = (axis_vec + offset_vec) * projection;
  const mathfu::vec3 entity_scale = transform_system->GetLocalScale(entity);
  transform_system->SetLocalScale(entity, entity_scale + scale);
  // Update the length offset of the currently selected indicator.
  indicator_length_offset_[indicator_index] += projection;
}

float ScalingManipulator::CheckRayCollidingIndicator(const Ray& ray,
                                                     size_t indicator_index) {
  return CheckRayOBBCollision(ray, indicator_transforms_[indicator_index],
                              kScaleAabb);
}

void ScalingManipulator::SetupIndicators(Entity entity) {
  auto* transform_system = registry_->Get<TransformSystem>();
  const mathfu::mat4* entity_matrix =
      transform_system->GetWorldFromEntityMatrix(entity);
  if (!entity_matrix) {
    LOG(INFO)
        << "Unable to setup scaling indicators due to invalid enitity matrix";
    return;
  }
  size_t num_indicators = indicator_transforms_.size();
  const Sqt entity_sqt = CalculateSqtFromMatrix(entity_matrix);
  selected_entity_translation_ = entity_sqt.translation;
  selected_entity_rotation_ = entity_sqt.rotation;
  for (size_t i = 0; i < num_indicators; ++i) {
    // Setup the indicators for scaling
    mathfu::vec3 rotation;
    switch (i) {
      case kScaleX:
        rotation = mathfu::vec3(0.f, 90.f * mathfu::kDegreesToRadians, 0.f);
        break;
      case kScaleY:
        rotation = mathfu::vec3(-90.f * mathfu::kDegreesToRadians, 0.f, 0.f);
        break;
      case kScaleZ:
        rotation = mathfu::vec3(0.f, 0.f, 0.f);
        break;
      case kScaleUniform:
        rotation = mathfu::vec3(-90.f * mathfu::kDegreesToRadians,
                                -45.f * mathfu::kDegreesToRadians,
                                -45.f * mathfu::kDegreesToRadians);
    }
    Sqt indicator_sqt;
    initial_rotations_[i] = mathfu::quat::FromEulerAngles(rotation);
    indicator_sqt.rotation = selected_entity_rotation_ * initial_rotations_[i];
    // Rotate the indicators and offset them from the entity
    indicator_length_offset_[i] = kIndicatorLengthOffsetInit;
    indicator_sqt.translation = selected_entity_translation_ +
                                indicator_length_offset_[i] *
                                    (indicator_sqt.rotation * mathfu::kAxisZ3f);
    indicator_transforms_[i] = CalculateTransformMatrix(indicator_sqt);
  }
}

void ScalingManipulator::Render(Span<RenderView> views) {
  size_t num_indicators = indicator_transforms_.size();
  const Color4ub colors[] = {
      {220, 0, 0, 255},  // red
      {0, 220, 0, 255},  // green
      {0, 0, 220, 255},  // blue
      {0, 0, 0, 255},    // black
  };
  for (size_t i = 0; i < num_indicators; ++i) {
    debug::DrawLine("lull.Manipulator.Scale.Line", selected_entity_translation_,
                    indicator_transforms_[i].TranslationVector3D(), colors[i]);
    debug::DrawBox3D("lull.Manipulator.Scale.Box", indicator_transforms_[i],
                     kScaleAabb, colors[i]);
    debug::EnableBranch("lull.Manipulator.Scale");
  }
}

void ScalingManipulator::ResetIndicators() {
  size_t num_indicators = indicator_transforms_.size();
  // Reset the scaling offsets to the initial value.
  for (size_t i = 0; i < num_indicators; ++i) {
    indicator_length_offset_[i] = kIndicatorLengthOffsetInit;
  }
}

void ScalingManipulator::UpdateIndicatorsTransform(
    const mathfu::mat4& transform) {
  size_t num_indicators = indicator_transforms_.size();
  const Sqt entity_sqt = CalculateSqtFromMatrix(transform);
  mathfu::vec3 selected_entity_translation = entity_sqt.translation;
  selected_entity_rotation_ = entity_sqt.rotation;
  for (size_t i = 0; i < num_indicators; ++i) {
    Sqt indicator_sqt = CalculateSqtFromMatrix(indicator_transforms_[i]);
    indicator_sqt.rotation = selected_entity_rotation_ * initial_rotations_[i];
    indicator_sqt.translation = selected_entity_translation +
                                indicator_length_offset_[i] *
                                    (indicator_sqt.rotation * mathfu::kAxisZ3f);
    indicator_sqt.scale = mathfu::kOnes3f;
    indicator_transforms_[i] = CalculateTransformMatrix(indicator_sqt);
  }
}

mathfu::vec3 ScalingManipulator::GetMovementPlaneNormal(
    size_t indicator_index) const {
  mathfu::vec3 movement_normal = mathfu::kZeros3f;
  switch (indicator_index) {
    // All three of these are in the same plane so their movement normal
    // is the same.
    case kScaleX:
    case kScaleY:
    case kScaleUniform:
      movement_normal = mathfu::kAxisZ3f;
      break;
    case kScaleZ:
      movement_normal = mathfu::kAxisX3f;
      break;
    default:
      LOG(DFATAL) << "Grabbing a scaling movement plane for an unknown axis.";
      return mathfu::kZeros3f;
  }
  movement_normal = selected_entity_rotation_ * movement_normal;
  return movement_normal;
}

mathfu::vec3 ScalingManipulator::GetDummyPosition(
    size_t indicator_index) const {
  // The dummy should be located the same relative distance and direction away
  // from the selected entity as the initial indicators are to the current
  // indicators.
  const float relative_offset =
      indicator_length_offset_[indicator_index] - kIndicatorLengthOffsetInit;
  const mathfu::vec3 direction_vector =
      mathfu::mat4::ToRotationMatrix(indicator_transforms_[indicator_index]) *
      mathfu::kAxisZ3f;
  return selected_entity_translation_ + (relative_offset * direction_vector);
}

size_t ScalingManipulator::GetNumIndicators() const {
  return indicator_transforms_.size();
}

}  // namespace lull

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Soviets stick a hand into West Germany's campaign
By Howard Reason Special to The Christian Science Monitor
With a mixture of enticements and veiled threats, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has used a three-day visit to election-gripped West Germany to warn against the planned deployment of new US medium-range nuclear missiles here this year.
When he leaves, Mr. Gromyko can return to Moscow content at having sown a few more seeds of doubt in West German minds.
''If I were Gromyko,'' a Western diplomat said, ''I would advise the Kremlin to keep quiet and await the outcome of the German election before deciding on any new disarmament initiatives.''
Mr. Gromyko arrived in Bonn Sunday in the midst of a bitter campaign for the March 6 general election, dominated by debate over NATO plans to station cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe to counter Moscow's arsenal of triple-warhead SS-20 rockets.
The timing of the visit was no coincidence. The Kremlin has made clear its preference for West Germany's opposition Social Democrats, who are fighting to oust the conservative-led government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, which took power in a parliamentary coup last fall.
Social Democratic challenger Hans-Jochen Vogel was received for almost three hours by Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in Moscow last week and presented with what appeared to be attractive new Soviet concessions on the missile issue.
At the same time, Moscow's Communist Party daily Pravda attacked Mr. Kohl's Christian Democrats for ''in the most fervent way supporting the aggressive course of Washington.''
Gromyko was more restrained in comments on the German political scene at a Bonn news conference Tuesday. He said he had not come to campaign for any party but to support those elements of West German policy favoring detente and disarmament.
He repeated previous Soviet contentions that an approximate balance of medium-range missiles already existed in Europe and was vague when asked if Moscow was really offering to scrap SS-20 missiles or only to withdraw them beyond the reach of Western Europe.
The veiled threats came in a dinner speech Monday night in which the veteran foreign minister said deployment of the Pershings, which could hit Soviet targets within eight minutes of being launched from West Germany, would mean ''an extended nuclear confrontation for the whole world, with all its consequences.''
The Soviet Union would be forced to take countermeasures to restore the nuclear balance at a higher level of armaments, he said. The West German conservative daily Die Welt reported the speech under the headline ''Gromyko threatens with more arms, lures with trade.''
On one point, Gromyko was categorical. Reports that American and Soviet negotiators had reached an informal deal - later vetoed by both governments - at the Geneva missile talks were completely false, he said, blaming the lack of progress on the Reagan administration's inflexibility.
It is hard to tell what impact the Gromyko visit had on West Germans, deeply worried by the arms race. Private polls conducted for the Bonn Chancellery last fall suggested a clear majority favored at least delaying the deployment of US missiles and did not believe either Moscow or Washington was negotiating seriously.
The polls have been discounted by Kohl's aides, who say the questions were slanted toward such responses. But there has been no convincing evidence since then to contradict this picture of public opinion.
Mr. Vogel, whose trips to Washington and Moscow seemed to give the Social Democratic campaign a substantial boost, urged the Reagan administration to move from its opening proposal of a complete ban on all land-based missiles - the so-called ''zero option'' - and show more flexibility in the Geneva talks. He endorsed the Soviet argument that French and British missiles must be counted in any nuclear balance, and said the West should cancel its deployment plans if Moscow accepts a ''radical reduction'' in its medium-range arsenal.
And the anti-nuclear Green Party, which according to latest polls could end up holding the balance of power in Parliament after the March election, favors unilateral renunciation of the Western deployment.
The polls show the ruling Christian Democrats in the lead but falling short of an absolute majority. And Mr. Kohl's government, visibly disturbed by opposition gains in the polls, has so far stuck to the ''zero option,'' although Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher briefly theorized aloud about a possible ''interim result'' before he was pulled back into line last week.
(The US, meanwhile, has clarified its own position, according to United Press International. The US is sticking to its position that medium-range nuclear missiles should be eliminated in both Eastern and Western Europe, but US arms negotiators are authorized to listen to any reasonable counterproposal from the Soviets.
(This policy statement came in the aftermath of the firing of Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and reports that suggested US negotiator Paul Nitze had gone beyond his instructions in private deals with his Soviet counterpart last summer.
[White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Mr. Nitze ''has always been authorized to explore any flexibility in the Soviet position'' and was not reprimanded for trying to work out an informal arrangement with the Soviets. But he added that the agreement dispatched to Washington was ''inadequate . . . and not the basis for a solution.'']
Would US quitting the INF treaty rekindle a big-power arms race?
US military may deploy an anti-missile system in Germany
Ukraine crisis has pushed Germany to center stage


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Il concetto di Nuova creazione o Nuova creatura (in greco antico: καινὴ κτίσις) ricorre nella Bibbia e nella teologia cristiana per riferirsi ad una nuova opera creativa di Dio che sarà realizzata quando giungerà a termine la realtà che noi oggi conosciamo. Chiamata anche "nuovi cieli e nuova terra", la nuova creazione trova nella persona di Gesù Cristo la sua "primizia" e nella "nuova natura" di colui e colei che ha fatto l'esperienza della conversione a Cristo (rigenerazione) la sua anticipazione (sia pur imperfetta).

Esposizione della dottrina
La Bibbia afferma che il mondo è stato creato atto allo scopo (). Essa non spiega completamente l'origine del male, ma riconosce che il mondo presente non risponde al disegno originale del suo Creatore.

La speranza della salvezza futura diventa perciò anche la speranza di una restaurazione dell'ordine della creazione originale. Vi sarà allora armonia tra essere umano e natura (; ; ), saranno creati nuovi cieli e nuova terra ( e sgg., ).

Nuova creazione e restaurazione del popolo di Israele disperso si confondono allora in un atto unico di salvezza.

La medesima speranza è presentata nel Nuovo Testamento che parla della redenzione di tutta la creazione dalla "servitù della corruzione": "Infatti noi sappiamo che fino ad ora tutto il mondo creato geme insieme ed è in travaglio. E non solo esso, ma anche noi stessi, che abbiamo le primizie dello Spirito noi stessi, dico, soffriamo in noi stessi, aspettando intensamente l'adozione, la redenzione del nostro corpo" ) e il libro dell'Apocalisse si chiude con la visione dei nuovi cieli e della nuova terra (. Cfr. "Noi, secondo la sua promessa, aspettiamo nuovi cieli e nuova terra nei quali abita la giustizia" ().

Gesù Cristo, come evidenziato nella sua risurrezione è primizia della nuova creazione: "Se noi speriamo in Cristo solo in questa vita, noi siamo i più miserabili di tutti gli uomini. Ma ora Cristo è stato risuscitato dai morti, ed è la primizia di coloro che dormono. Infatti, siccome per mezzo di un uomo è venuta la morte, così anche per mezzo di un uomo è venuta la risurrezione dei morti. Perché, come tutti muoiono in Adamo, così tutti saranno vivificati in Cristo ma ciascuno nel proprio ordine: Cristo la primizia, poi coloro che sono di Cristo alla sua venuta" ().

La nuova creatura
Quando Dio opera il rinnovamento e la rigenerazione (palingenesía, ; ; cfr. ; , ; ; ) di una persona convertendola, per la forza (energeia/dynamis) dello Spirito Santo, a Gesù Cristo (), si innesca in essa un processo di cambiamento (metanoia) intellettuale, morale e spirituale che porta la persona a partecipare, per grazia di Dio-Trinità (), alla nuova creazione:  "Se dunque uno è in Cristo, egli è una nuova creatura; le cose vecchie sono passate; ecco, tutte le cose sono diventate nuove" (); "In Cristo Gesù, infatti, né la circoncisione, né l'incirconcisione hanno alcun valore, ma l'essere una nuova creatura" ().

Voci attinenti
Creazione (teologia)
Diluvio universale
Escatologia
Speranza

Bibbia
Teologia cristiana
Teologia riformata

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Southern Grove unveils £33m sustainable canal side office development in Shoreditch
A new £33million office development in Shoreditch has been unveiled today by developer Southern Grove.
The scheme is located in an area that is seeing a huge amount of interest as rents and prices continue to rise in Shoreditch, resulting in 'Shoreditch sprawl'. This is pushing demand further towards the attractive Grand Union Canal on the border with Haggerston.
Intensifying commercial investment in the area is marking it out as the natural successor to central Shoreditch, a fashionable London hub that has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the past 15 years.
Southern Grove is only the second office developer to enter the area, following British Land's purchase of its first home for the flexible workspace brand, Storey, in the same road.
The 4,530 sqm scheme at 16 Orsman Road, which backs on to the canal, is also set to break new ground in green building. Southern Grove exchanged contracts on the land yesterday (Wed) and plans to use Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), a highly sustainable option that is much greener than concrete.
This will mean the building, spanning six floors, is approximately four to five times lighter than a traditional building, resulting in much smaller foundations and minimal disruption to the neighbouring canal. Architects Waugh Thistleton were chosen specifically because they are market leaders in CLT design and have built a reputation as the foremost architects in this part of London.
The prime site — a former factory — will be very attractive to commuters, being only a mile from the City and just a five-minute walk from Haggerston railway station. It also offers ample nearby outside space, situated a stone's throw from the popular Kingsmead Basin and moments away from Shoreditch Park.
Southern Grove plans to allocate around 10% of the office floor area (400 sqm) to 'affordable' office space and the building incorporates a substantial 100-bicycle storage facility on the ground floor with additional visitor cycle spaces in front of the building.
A terracotta façade will help the building blend in with the surrounding area, further raising the scheme's sustainable credentials.
Tom Slingsby, Chief Executive of developer Southern Grove, commented: "This is a great example of a prime development, sustainably built on an infill site that really makes the most of its surroundings.
"Shoreditch sprawl means that demand is moving towards attractive neighboring areas and the canal is an obvious draw. The glazed facade to the property is designed to embrace what the canal has to offer, providing one of the most attractive canal-front aspects to be found in central London.
"We'll be only the second developer to take advantage of a great opportunity to provide superior office space in an area that is being talked about as the next big thing now central Shoreditch has reached saturation point."
Southern Grove


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DR. POTTS Q & A
By: Olivia Hershey
Style/Entertainment Editor
Elizabethtown Area High School welcomes new Assistant Principal, Dr. Jason Potts, for the 2017-2018 school year. Originally from Eastern York, Dr. Potts stated that he was interested in joining the Elizabethtown staff due to the school's reputation. "I know it's a great school, filled with great kids that do their very best. So who wouldn't want to be a part of that?
By: Adrienne Nolt
The Elizabethtown Area High School's ESL (English as a Second Language) program is, as defined by the district, comprised of students who "a) have acquired a language other than English as their first language; b) come from a home where a language other than English is spoken and/or c) speak with family and peers in a language other than English." Many Elizabethtown students are entirely unaware of the variety of cultural backgrounds and life experiences of the English Learners (ELs). While there are physical, cultural, and language barriers, ignoring an important part of the student body, for any reason, is a missed opportunity. Mrs. Christina Oscsodal, the high school ESL teacher, believes the ELs in her program have valuable lessons to teach their peers, and the classroom and educational methods (called "scaffolds") used in this program could benefit other students as well.
DO YOU EVEN VAPE BRO?
By: Tristan Mabee
"E-cigarette use grew an astounding 900 percent among high school students between 2011 and 2015," writes Lindsey Konkel in Science News for Students, but many students are under the impression that vaping is safer than other traditional tobacco products.
GOOGLE CLASSROOM VS. SCHOOLOGY
By: Allyson Hampton
Technology moving into center stage in schools is inevitable, but the type of technology used differs between schools as well as classrooms. For EAHS, the school district is moving from Google Classroom to Schoology. Both of these websites enable teachers to communicate with their classes and send them digital worksheets and rubrics for projects. Teachers can also link videos, slideshows and websites into Schoology and Google Classroom. But what makes Schoology the better website for our students?


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This month's Twofer challenge is all about butterflies, so how could I not play along with my Layered Butterflies set??
I made the first card for the CAS Watercolour Challenge - Rainbow, then realised I hadn't watercoloured, I'd sponged and spritzed. Duh! But I am entering it into AAA Cards - Inspired By Nature. The inspiration came from something I found on Pinterest.
ETA: Apparently it does qualify for CAS Watercolour Challenge, so I'm in there!
My second card came about from using one of my new toys from my trip to Port Sunlight on Saturday, an 8x11 Stampendous Creative Palette (basically a gel plate, thinner than the Gelli Plate, and crucially at half price). I used Dylusions paints on the palette, and also stencilled with them using STAMPlorations stencils. I stamped the butterfly then coloured it with coloured pencils, making a pattern on the wings as I went. The sentiment is also from STAMPlorations.
I'm adding this one to the Simon Says Monday challenge - Stencil It.
Love both your butterfly cards with your new awesome "Layered Butterflies" set, Shirley.
Your free-flowing layered butterflies are gorgeous, Shirley, and you've showcased them so beautifully with these terrific backgrounds! I love both the soft rainbow background and the artsy gel and stenciled background! (Wish I could have been at Port Sunlight with you!) Thank you so much for playing in Twofer Card Challenge #5! Hugs, Darnell p.s. Double-check because I think your card is okay for the CAS rainbow challenge!
What beautiful butterflies, Shirley! I love their artsy shape and they are so pretty on the sponged and spritzed rainbow background! Love how you've stenciled the background of the second card and added design to the wings! Both are awesome cards! Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Watercolour!
Love the beautiful rainbow colors. And a great take on the nature theme for AAA Cards!
Two vibrant, beautiful cards, Shirley! I love how you stamped off the edge on your dramatic dream card. Your created such a fun background and cheerful butterfly for your birthday card! Thanks for joining in the fun with us at the Twofer Card Challenge!
What a beautiful rainbow for our challenge! I love the way the colours fade into each other. Perfect background for the sketched butterflies! Thanks so much for joining us at CAS Watercolour!
Beautiful cards using your wonderful set Shirley! love the colors on both!


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, ou Crâne brûlant au Québec, () est une mini-série de science-fiction dystopique turque en huit épisodes d'environ , d'après le roman d', produite et mise en ligne le  sur Netflix.

Synopsis
Un « virus sémantique » fait des ravages : les personnes atteintes, appelées , tiennent des discours incohérents, qui contaminent ceux qui les écoutent. Le SMK (institut anti-épidémies) a pris le pouvoir et régente la vie des gens. Un linguiste qui a fait des recherches sur cette maladie, Murat Siyavuş, est parvenu à obtenir une immunité au virus, au prix de fortes fièvres. Il se cache chez sa mère, mais la police du SMK finit par retrouver sa trace.

Distribution

Acteurs principaux
   : Murat Siyavuş
   : Şule
   : Anton Kadir Tarakçı
 Kubilay Tunçer  : Fazıl Eryılmaz
 Arda Aranat  : Arif
 Tilbe Saran  : Emel, la mère de Murat
 Erdem Akakçe  : Cevat

Acteurs récurrents
 Furkan Kalabalik  : Serhat
 Hakan Gerçek  : Can
 Özgür Emre Yıldırım  : Özgür Çağlar
 Gonca Vuslateri  : Yasemin
 Barış Yıldız  : Erol
 Şebnem Hassanisoughi  : Canan
 Cüneyt Uzunlar  : Haydar
 Zerrin Sümer  : Makbule, la grand-mère d'Erol
 Yetkin Dikinciler : Behzat
 Münir Can Cindoruk  : Hakan
 Haluk Bilginer : Haluk

Production

Développement
La série adapte le roman  de l'auteur , publié en Turquie en .

Attribution des rôles
Le rôle principal échoit à Osman Sonant, déjà vu dans le docudrame historique L'Essor de l'Empire ottoman, et l'on retrouve aussi Şevket Çoruh qui a joué dans la comédie  (2017) ou encore Gonca Vuslateri vue dans  (2018).

Tournage
La série est tournée à Istanbul.

Fiche technique
 Titre international :
 titre québécois : Crâne brûlant
 Scénario : Zafer Külünk et Mert Baykal d'après le roman Sıcak Kafa d'Afşin Kum
 Réalisation : Mert Baykal, Umur Turagay
 Production : Timur Savcı, Burak Sağyaşar, Mert Baykal
 Langues : turc

Épisodes
Galanthus byzantinus
Chat, boîte, entonnoir
La Sixième Zone
Enfiévré
L'aube est à nos portes, le scorpion est mort

Les Roses et les ÉpinesJe m'appelle…''

Accueil critique

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Série télévisée créée en 2022
Série télévisée turque des années 2020
Série télévisée de Netflix
Série télévisée dramatique
Série télévisée politique
Série télévisée dystopique
Épidémie dans la fiction
Série télévisée tournée en Turquie
Série télévisée en turc


Shep Hyken, Author, Customer Service & Experience Expert, & Speaker discusses promises to your customers.
1. Let's start with the one that prompted me to write this article: the next time you call us, would you want the same person to take care of you? Push 1 for yes and 2 for no.
2. The Net Promoter Score: On a scale of one to ten, what's the likelihood you would recommend us to a friend or colleague?
3. Was the question answered or the problem resolved to your satisfaction?
4. On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate our customer service?
5. On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate the quality of our product?


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Андре́й Влади́мирович Шве́дов (род. 5 ноября 1957 года, Москва) — российский дипломат.

Биография

В 1980 году окончил МГИМО и поступил на дипломатическую службу.

В 1980—1985 годах и 1990—1995 годах работал в Посольстве Российской Федерации во Франции.

В 1997—2002 годах — советник-посланник Посольства Российской Федерации в Болгарии.

В 2002—2003 годах — заместитель директора Департамента кадров МИД России.

В 2003—2004 годах — заместитель директора Первого европейского департамента МИД России.

В 2004—2008 годах — советник-посланник Посольства Российской Федерации в Испании.

С октября 2008 года по 3 февраля 2014 года — заместитель директора Первого департамента стран СНГ МИД России.

С 3 февраля 2014 по 17 августа 2018 года — Постоянный представитель Российской Федерации при уставных и других органах СНГ в Минске, Республика Беларусь.

С 21 февраля 2019 года — Постоянный и полномочный представитель Российской Федерации при Организации Договора о коллективной безопасности.

Награды
 Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством» II степени (10 сентября 2017 года) — за большой вклад в реализацию внешнеполитического курса Российской Федерации.
 Благодарность Президента Российской Федерации (13 декабря 2011 года) — за большой вклад в реализацию внешнеполитического курса Российской Федерации и многолетнюю добросовестную работу
 Почётный работник Министерства иностранных дел Российской Федерации (2013 год).
 Почётная грамота МИД России (2007 год)
 Медаль «Участнику чрезвычайных гуманитарных операций» (2013 год)

Дипломатический ранг
 Чрезвычайный и полномочный посланник 2 класса (20 августа 2004).
 Чрезвычайный и полномочный посланник 1 класса (29 мая 2015).
Чрезвычайный и полномочный посол (13 июня 2018)

Примечания

Ссылки
 Указом Президента Российской Федерации от 03 февраля 2014 года № 52 назначен Постоянным представителем Российской Федерации при уставных и других органах СНГ в Минске, Республика Белоруссия
 Биография на сайте Постпредства России при СНГ

Выпускники МГИМО
Представители Российской Федерации при СНГ
Представители Российской Федерации при ОДКБ


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KENNEDY, W. J., HANCOCK, J. M. 1970. Ammonites of the genus Acanthoceras from the Cenomanian of Rouen, France. Palaeontology, 13, 3, 462–490.
Although Acanthoceras only forms a minority of the ammoniteifrom the Craie de Rouen, the locality is important as being the type locality of Acanthoceras rhotomagense, the type species of the genus and the most oft-quoted species. This study shows that almost all the Acanthoceras from Rouen can be regarded as one variable species which can be conveniently divided into five varieties, only one of which, A. rhotomagense var. clava-tum, is new. A. rhotomagense is a widespread species and marks an horizon low in the Middle Cenomanian. Acanthoceras basseae sp. nov., also from Rouen, is a rarity.


Named after the delphinium flower; the Large Delphie Bag is a perfectly practical and elegant piece with a shoulder strap in either leather or a new 'biker' chain design. An amusing (and extremely useful) function of the Delphie Bag is that it can be flipped over…revealing a contrasting leather and colour for a totally different look. The Delphie Bag's lock was inspired by a circular push-lock on a vintage Mulberry bag and makes the reversible function simple and quick. Looks like one bag…actually two!
This perfectly practical reversible Large Delphie is offered with a chain strap and can be can be adjusted to be carried either short or long on the shoulder.


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Top 10s: Downtown's Priciest Apartment Buildings
By Ian Spula Sep 23, 2013, 12:40pm CDT
The ranking of downtown Chicago's 10 most expensive rental buildings needs regular updating with the rapid foresting of River North and The Loop with new towers. Crain's has the latest, which puts 500 North Lake Shore Drive at the top at $3.47/sf and features six newly-built buildings. The average rent across the top 10 was $2,800/month and the average unit size 898 square feet. Just months ago, 1225 Old Town's $3.04/sf net rent had it placing second. [Crain's, previously, photo: 500 N LSD, by Kevin Dickert]
500 North Lake Shore Drive
500 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611