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On March 8, 2022, the San Bruno City Council selected Map 104 for adoption, implementing new electoral district boundaries. The ordinance to move to district elections was officially adopted at a sixth public hearing on March 22, 2022.
Election Sequencing:
November 2022 – District 1 and District 4 to serve four-year terms, Elected At-large Mayor to serve a two-year term
November 2024 – District 2 and District 3 to serve four-year terms
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Produced by Tenuta San Guido, Le Difese 2016 is initially fermented in stainless-steel tanks at controlled temperatures. Then the wine is aged for 12 months in oak barriques. The wine is a juicy, full-bodied and mouth-watering, entry-level Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese red wine blend from the Tuscany wine region with dark cherry, strawberry and rosehip tea flavours on the palate. Vibrant acidity and food friendly for a pasta and tangy tomato and meat sauce dish.
Food pairings: prime rib, hearty meat stews, pork tenderloin.


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We suggest adding a new post at least three or four times a week. This way readers won't forget about you!
Do use easy to read fonts and type sizes. Do not use hard-on-the-eyes colors and flashing buttons.
Think twice about playing music on your blog. There are many reasons for this: blogging at night while lying in bed and not wanting to wake up your husband, or baby who just fell asleep after being awake for hours, and not knowing if the songs you've chosen are suitable to all would-be listeners. Plus, a reader may have music on already! If you'd like to have music playing on your blog while you work on it, that is an option. Check out playlist.com for free music streaming.
Think about turning off Word Verification. Your commenters/readers do not want to type in that crazy word just to leave a comment. Some commenters may skip over leaving a comment if they see Word Verification. (Don't know what Word Verification is or how to change it on your blog? We have a tutorial coming up soon). You know everyone hates wv.
Use spell check if you are in doubt when writing a post. You can also check facts at Wikipedia or Google it.
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We also found some great advice from Kevin and Amanda.
And for your own piece of mind, remember to back up your blog! You don't want to lose all those amazing posts! Here's a great little tutorial on How To Backup Your Blog in Blogger.
I'm just curious with the word verification being turned off if you advocate comment moderation to keep spam from posting. I agree that one more step is a pain, especially if entering a giveaway multiple times. But, I also know that I've had only a handful of spammers adding comments.
I go back and forth on word verification. Right now, it's off, but I do moderate my comments because I don't want one to slip by my notice.
We do recommend adding comment moderation if you turn off word verification. Luckily now Blogger has the spam/junk filter too.
You can also send all the comments to your email so you know when you get a comment and you can moderate that way.
Thank you so much for the wonderful tips. I will definetly take into consideration.
It deters me from clicking on some blogs.
These are all fabulous suggestions. I felt like high-fiving you on a few of those!
Many of these tips are wonderful. Yet, I adore music, I started blogging in 2007 and I create a special song to match every post.
I think we must remember that rules are made to be broken so we stay being as unique and creative as each blog. Lately many blogs look identical to me. Not like in the beginning when we all started to blog.
Daisy Cottage is one of the most popular blogs and she started blogging in 2006. I love going to her blog and hearing the familiar song that identifies who Kim is.
If someone wants to be on the computer late at night, they can just turn their sound off.
Word verification was put in place to protect bloggers from people from other parts of the world leaving vulgar comments. Which happened to me. Now I have comments approved and word verification to protect myself and my readers from clicking on to an unsafe link.
Some good ideas but not about turning off word verification. If someone has unlimited tech resources to fix their spammed computer (& doesn't mind that their other visitors are in danger from spammers on their site), by all means, go ahead. For the rest of us--no way. I am not that desperate to increase comments. I never ever ever leave w/out commenting if there is something I have to say.
I just read more of what Karen said above, in last graf, & I can't say it any better.
Thank you for these tips. As a new blogger, I am a sponge for tips, etc. to better blogging.
I've had music on my blog for years and will continue to for as long as my blog is alive. With pretty much any playlist creator, there is the option of automatic playing or not. If my readers want the music on, they just have to press play.
I think your blanket statement of "no music" is a bit rash! Please just advise people to choose the non-automatic play mode!
P.s. I use podsnack.com for my playlists, because I love the customization features, however, it's not free.
I will be spending more time here later when my son falls asleep! I did enter my blog and blogged about your! Thanks for all the help! I am not a ver computer literate person so I can use all the help I can get!
I never thought I had to backup my posts!!
I cant thank you enough..
I just discovered your blog and its so useful and generous..I follow instantly!
Thank you for the great tips..
Just turned off word verification... such a great idea, thanks!


then another run to the fence and back while the other hangs from the pull up bar.
Handstands, working towards kicking up towards the wall or wall climbs to vertical depending on your ability.
If you have both the above, working on some free standing handstand holds/ handstand walking.
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This article will provide the information needed to change the lens of a Fresnel lighting fixture. There are many kinds of Fresnel lenses. These lenses span from very narrow to very wide. The good news is that they're all interchangeable. After reading this article you will not only know how to change the lens of a Fresnel lighting fixture but also how to identify the different kinds of lenses.
Very narrow lenses are very smooth. Very wide lenses are very coarse.


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Gladys María Gutiérrez Alvarado (Punto Fijo, Falcon 16 de abril de 1962) es una abogada y jueza venezolana. Magistrada y presidenta del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ), cargo que ejerció también en el pasado, entre los años 2013 y 2017.

Desde el 12 de junio de 2020 hasta el 4 de mayo de 2021 ocupó el cargo de rectora principal del Consejo Nacional Electoral. Anteriormente también fue magistrada de la Sala Constitucional del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia y Procuradora General de la República.

Biografía
Natural de Falcón nació el 16 de abril de 1962, Gutiérrez estudió derecho en la Universidad Central de Venezuela. en 1992 Gutiérrez fue una de las abogadas de Hugo Chávez que se encargó en defenderlo del golpe de Estado frustrado contra Carlos Andrés Pérez

Fue miembro del Movimiento Quinta República (MVR), que apoyó a Hugo Chávez. Fue candidata para la gobernación del Estado Nueva Esparta como miembro de dicho partido en 1998 pero fue derrotada. Fue diputada suplente del mismo partido para Nueva Esparta.

En el año 2000 llegó a España como consejera del consulado, luego fue cónsul general de Venezuela en España y en diciembre del 2002 es nombrada embajadora en ese país, cargo que ocupó hasta el 2005. En el año 2006 regresa a Venezuela al ser nombrada Procuradora General de la República por el entonces presidente Hugo Chávez hasta el 9 de diciembre de 2010 cuando fue nombrada miembro de la Sala Constitucional del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia

Gutiérrez ha dado clases en la Universidad Santiago Mariño y en el Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Rodolfo Loero Arismendi.

Gutiérrez fue nombrada presidente del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia en mayo de 2013. La oposición venezolana criticó su elección por considerar que ella no podía tener una posición neutral ya que era conocida como activista política.

En agosto de 2013 encabezó la corte que rechazó la petición de Henrique Capriles de revisar los resultados electorales. Su primera sentencia polémica fue declarar "inadmisibles" los diez recursos interpuestos por la oposición venezolana ante el presunto fraude cometido en las elecciones que Maduro ganó a Henrique Capriles en abril de 2013 por tan solo un 1,49% de los votos.  Capriles había declarado que la auditoría realizada había sido un fraude.

En junio de 2020 fue elegida y juramentada como rectora principal del Consejo Nacional Electoral (Venezuela) por el TSJ El Gobierno ha vuelto a desconocer la Constitución de Venezuela al no dejar que sea la Asamblea Nacional quien convoque la elección del nuevo Consejo nacional Electoral

Sanciones

El 27 de marzo de 2018 es sancionada por el gobierno de Panamá dentro de una lista de funcionarios venezolanos consideradas de alto riesgo en materia de Blanqueo de Capitales, Financiamiento del Terrorismo y Financiamiento de la Proliferación de Armas de Destrucción Masiva

El 3 de diciembre de 2019 el TIAR reunidos en Bogotá la incluye una lista de sancionados aprobada por dieciséis países de un total de diecinueve, de manera que no puedan transitar, ni realizar operaciones financieras en el continente americano

el 28 de enero de 2023 se reúne con la vicepresidenta de la Corte Penal Internacional en La Haya, Luz Ibáñez Carranza.

Véase también

 Anexo:Magistrados del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela
 Anexo:Sanciones durante la crisis en Venezuela

Referencias

Puntofijenses
Magistrados del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela
Embajadores de Venezuela en España
Alumnado de la Universidad Central de Venezuela
Políticas de Venezuela
Embajadoras de Venezuela
Dirigentes del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela
Dirigentes del Movimiento Quinta República
Juezas de Venezuela
Procuradores Generales de Venezuela
Rectores del Consejo Nacional Electoral de Venezuela

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of nature restore you. You are on holiday! Whether you are in the park on a game drive, walking in the neighboring forests, fishing in the Ramganga or simply lying back at the retreat, you are surrounded by the sights, smells and sounds of this amazing environment, the beauty of the Indian wilderness and all it has to offer.
We highly recommend an overnight stay in a forest that is as alive in the night as it is in the day and Corbett is the only tiger reserve in the country that offers an opportunity to live within the forest. Spending a night or two in one of the park lodges provides the most immersive jungle experience and as the jungle's nocturnal sounds lull you to a restorative sleep, you awaken fresh at dawn to a fever of wildlife activity. A naturalist shall accompany you to help interpret the ways of the jungle. While lodging within the park is spartan, we add elements of luxury with a few modern comforts to make your stay enjoyable.
An intimation of 60 days for weekend bookings and 45 days for weekday bookings would be necessary to facilitate a stay in the park.
A jeep safari offers you the only opportunity to traverse deep into the Corbett National Park; through its hills, streams and dense jungles. The Jeep enables one to cover large areas of the park, increasing the chance of animal encounters.
Experience a weekend of angling for the Mahaseer and Goonch or just enjoy a day of fishing and a picnic. Sometimes, Otter families can be sighted along the river's length while the evenings bring Deer and other wildlife to the river's bank.
Chotti Haldwani is the name given to the land bought by Jim Corbett near his home in Kaladhungi. Together with his sister Maggie, he developed a model Bhabhar village and settled about 40 families in it. The Jim Corbett Heritage Trail managed by the villagers provides a unique firsthand experience of the work done in developing this model Kumaoni village.
Bicycle through plantation forests of the buffer zone to nearby villages as a local guide informs you about the culture and lifestyle of the indigenous Gujjar people. Enjoy a locally cooked meal with the village folk.
Learn about Jim Corbett exploring the sights, sounds and smells of the surrounding forests as you trek into the jungle escorted by a trained naturalist. The naturalists introduces you to the jungle ecology.
Sustainable wildlife tourism can be a highly valuable tool for conservation for generations ahead. As our youngsters are future ambassadors of the planet, we have a created a Young Ranger's Program for our guests as a means to nurture their understanding of the jungle and the symbiotic relationships that exist here. The program focuses on how the forest ecosystem works, tracking animal footprints, identifying birds, butterflies and mammals and how we can continue to experience, enjoy and protect our wilderness areas without causing disruption to the balance of nature.


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Our vision is that rural Ugandans are healthy, educated and prosperous.
Our mission is to create a better future for rural Ugandans by supporting income-generating activities which allow families to afford healthcare, education and food.
We have 5 core values that guide our work:
Empower: We believe the best and most empowering route out of poverty is a secure and fair income so that families can afford the healthcare, education and food that they and their children need. This will reduce the reliance on charity to help make ends meet.
Invest: We provide loans to help rural Ugandans develop income-generating activities alongside training to make that activity a success. Every penny we loan out is paid back into a central fund that is re-invested to help more Ugandans.
Partner: We believe in partnerships. Every project we support is delivered by local community organisations that are run by Ugandans for Ugandans.
Sustainability: All of our income-generating activities are designed to be socially, environmentally and economically sustainable so that progress can be maintained from one generation to the next.
Care: We recognise that some Ugandans will always remain marginalised, victims of circumstances beyond their and our control. To that end our income-generating projects all include a social payment and we continue to collect individual donations so that we can continue FOAG's proud history of supporting Uganda's most vulnerable people.

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Q: How do you safely declare a 16-bit string literal in C? I'm aware that there is already a standard method by prefixing with L:
wchar_t *test_literal = L"Test";

The problem is that wchar_t is not guaranteed to be 16-bits, but for my project, I need a 16-bit wchar_t. I'd also like to avoid the requirement of passing -fshort-wchar.
So, is there any prefix for C (not C++) that will allow me to declare a UTF-16 string literal?

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So, is there any prefix for C (not C++) that will allow me to declare a UTF-16 string literal?

Almost, but not quite.  C2011 offers you these options:

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*character string literals (elements of type char) - no prefix.  Example: "Test"

*UTF-8 string literals (elements of type char) - 'u8' prefix.  Example: u8"Test"

*wide string literals of three flavors:

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*wchar_t elements - 'L' prefix.  Example: L"Test"

*char16_t elements - 'u' prefix.  Example: u"Test"

*char32_t elements - 'U' prefix.  Example: U"Test"
Note well, however, that although you can declare a wide string literal having elements of type char16_t, the standard does not guarantee that the UTF-16 encoding will be used for them, nor does it make any particular requirements on which characters outside the language's basic character set must be included in the execution character set.  You can test the former at compile time, however: if char16_t represents UTF-16-encoded characters in a given conforming implementation, then that implementation will define the macro __STDC_UTF_16__ to 1.
Note also that you need to include (C's) uchar.h header to use the char16_t type name, but the u"..." syntax for literals does not depend on that.  Take care, as this header name collides with one used by the C interface of the International Components for Unicode, a relatively widely-used package for Unicode support.
Finally, be aware that much of this was new in C2011.  To make use of it, you need a conforming C2011 implementation.  Those are certainly available, but so are a lot of implementations that conform only to earlier standards, or even to none.  Standard C99 and earlier do not provide a string literal syntax that guarantees 16-bit elements.

A: You need a 16 bit wchar_t - but it's out of your control. If the compiler says it's 32 bit then it's 32 bit and it doesn't matter what you want or need.
The string classes are templated. You can always use a template to create a template class with 16 bit characters. I personally would try to remove any Unicode handling that is not UTF-8.
An alternative method is a clever #ifdef that will produce a compile time error if wchar_t is not 16 bit, and solve the problem when you actually need to solve it.

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Is Honor 7a worth buying over the Honor 6a from last year? Read on to find out.
The mid-range market in Pakistan is getting saturated with phones that have similar specifications and almost cost the same, making it impossible for consumers to decide which smartphone to go with.
The phone we're going to review today will give you another option to choose from when looking for an affordable yet capable smartphone.
Meet the Honor 7A, which carries a price tag of Rs. 17,999/ in Pakistan. Originally the phone's price was Rs. 15,000, but due to the recent increase in US Dollar's value vs Rupee, the phone's price also went up.
First of all, let's look at the build quality of the phone. You'll notice that it uses a plastic build which is actually pretty common in lower-end mid-range smartphones. However, both the back and sides of the Honor 7A have different finishes of plastic. The back has a matte textured finished while the sides have a shiny, glossy finish.
The right side houses the power button and volume rocker whereas the left side has a SIM card tray. Moving on to the back, you'll find a single camera with an LED flash and a fingerprint scanner in the middle of the phone body. Moving on to the front, you have the display on top of which are located the usual sensors, front facing camera, and an earpiece.
Talking about the actual display itself, it is a 5.7-inch IPS LCD panel with a resolution of 720x1440p. Given the large size of the screen, the resolution is too low, but that is what just you usually expect at this price range. The sharpness is obviously not that great, especially when compared to a 1080p panel side by side. Brightness was also on the lower side, making the screen difficult to view in direct sunlight. Move to indoor conditions and things get better.
Before talking about how the phone performed, let's get the specifications out of the way first. The Honor 7A uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 chipset along with 2 GB of RAM and 16GB internal storage. While the Qualcomm chip being used here is also a low-end model, it is not a MediaTek chipset so the Honor 7A does have that edge over most other smartphones in this segment.
However, given that it uses EMUI skin on top of stock Android, performance suffers. For day to day tasks such as opening the dialer, messaging etc, it performs great. Move on to resource-intensive applications and things start getting worse. Loading times for some of the apps were poor while other applications lagged when scrolling through them.
On the back of the phone, you have a 13MP sensor along with a LED flash. The Pakistani variant of the Honor 7A does not have a dual rear-facing camera so you're stuck with a single sensor. The front has an 8MP camera.
Moving on to the actual picture quality, it was decent. The camera held up well in good lighting conditions, with plenty of detail and sharpness. The dynamic range was poor, which is no surprise. The colors were natural and there was no over saturation which is the case with most other Honor phones.
Things start to fall apart as soon as you start shooting in low light. Noise starts showing up and details take a hit. However, the some of our shots were definitely usable.
The Honor 7A has a 3,000mAh battery which may sound low, but considering the lower resolution screen, it lasted all day on a single charge.
During real-world testing of the Honor 7A, we took it off of the charger around 9:30 am. The day usually consisted of checking social media, watching a few videos on YouTube, trying to play some games, running benchmarks and taking pictures. Brightness was not on auto and set to 50% and the testing was done with Wi-Fi on all the time.
To our surprise, at around 6:00 pm, the battery percentage was still at 30% which is respectable for a phone having just a 3,000mAh battery. However, as mentioned above, this is mostly due to the lower res screen and the low processing power of the Honor 7A.
As with most other phones, the Honor 7A has a fingerprint scanner which works well. However, it also includes another solution to unlocking your device, face unlock.
Setting up face unlock on the Honor 7A was also a relatively quick process. Unlocking was quick as well, as long as you are in well-lit conditions. Trying to unlock the device in low light might take a second or two more and sometimes it won't recognize your face at all, which is understandable, given the lack of an IR camera.
Overall, the Honor 7A is a lower end mid-range smartphone with apparent cost-cutting measures at several points, from the build quality to the screen.
Comparing it against its predecessor, the Honor 6A, it doesn't bring a lot of major changes, but it has some things going for it like its decent camera and an all-day battery. Competition is tough as in this price range, there are a lot of alternatives available as well.


Elegant metal signs and letters can cost a bundle. Now there is a lightweight, less expensive, easily crafted alternative. Metal laminated letters deliver the same impact and appeal as metal, but in a durable, versatile foam-centered product. This is the ideal material for decorative letters and logos often seen in hotels, banks and office buildings. It can be sawed or routed, is easier to craft than solid metal. It even maintains it's appearance better - the surface is anodized aluminum, which will not rust, fade, or tarnish. The back side is high-quality polystyrene. We also provide aluminum and formed plastic letters.
Foam letters and logos are available in a wide assortment of typestyles and our foam letters will allow dimensional sign letters to be added to your building signage for much less than many other lettering materials. This product is commonly used to present the nice look of three dimensional sign letters with some "depth" to get 3-D effects without the higher cost of some of other sign letter materials.
Foam core board is made by adhering two sheets of paper to both sides of a foam core and is lightweight yet sturdy. It is ideal for all indoor mounting applications.
Easy to cut and customize, foam board is clay-coated for an extra smooth surface. Foam board comes in a variety of colors and is well suited for trade show applications and many other indoor uses. Foam board accepts ink and full-color printing exceptionally well.


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Aaron Eckhart is a Hollywood and stage actor. Born on March 12, 1968, Eckhart was born to Mary Martha Eckhart and James Conrad Eckhart, who was an author and a computer executive, respectively. He was born in California and was raised there until the age of 13, and then their entire family shifted to England in 1981.
He has two brothers, from which Aaron is the youngest. Eckhart studied in an American Community School, where he got the role of Charlie Brown in a school production, and he picked up acting from then on. Eckhart then moved to Sydney, Australia, in the year 1985. He went to a high school there, but soon dropped out of school and took a job in a movie theatre.
He later earned his degree and diploma through an adult education course. He returned to the United States and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1994 from the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Eckhart, while trying out his hand in the theatre, took up various odd jobs such as becoming a bartender or bus driver.
He started out his career in small roles, such as an extra on the TV show called Beverly Hills, 90210, and with roles in television movies or short-lived programs. Eckhart got his first critical acclaim with the play, In the Company of Men, in which he starred as a white-collar worker. He won the Independent Spirit Award for the Best Debut Performance for his role in the play.
During the following years, Eckhart starred in various plays, but got his first wide exposure in 2000 as George, a ponytailed goateed biker, in Erin Brockovich, a drama by Steven Soderbergh. Through the years, Eckhart starred in various films and has gotten worldwide recognition for his roles in The Dark Knight, a sequel to Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan, and in a romantic drama called Love Happens, in which he acted against Jennifer Aniston.
Recently, Aaron Eckhart appeared in the action thriller, Olympus Has Fallen, in 2013, in which he starred as the U. S. President, who was taken hostage. Eckhart won an award for the Best Actor for Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role as Nick Naylor in the movie Thank You for Smoking, which was released in 2006.
Eckhart is known internationally as a sex symbol for his stunning looks, and made the list of the People's Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in 2006. Eckhart, like many, came out of his addiction for drinking, smoking and partying. He states that he got out of those through hypnosis and now enjoys photography in his leisure time.
He has a couple of relations, thought his serious one was with the actress Emily Cline, to whom he was engaged, but due to certain reasons, the relation broke apart. He stated that before acting, he had intentions of being a songwriter.
Born on July 19, 1961, Campbell Scott is an actor, director, and voice actor from New York. After a series of minor and supporting roles, the son of George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst rose to popularity after playing the lead role in the movie 'Longtime Companion' which was a movie about the spreading of AIDS/HIV in America and how that affected the citizens of the country. This movie became a huge phenomenon. Later in 1992, he played a role alongside Julia Roberts and his mother. He directed his first film in the year 1996 alongside Stanley Tucci. He won two awards for his directing work along with Tucci. His performance in the movie 'Rodger Dodger' got him the National Board Review's Best Actor Award. Later in 2006, he gave his voice for Stephen Hawking's audio books, The Shining, and Cell. He even gave his voice for the documentary made about the Iraq war. He has also provided his voice for several television ads like Haagen Dazs and the Chevron Corporation. In 2012, he played the role of Richard Parker, Peter Parker's father in the movie 'The Amazing Spiderman' based on the comics Spiderman by Stan Lee. He continued this role in the second movie as well. He also has a recurring but not permanent character in the show 'Royal Pains'. He married Anne Scott in 1992 however their marriage did not work out, and he ended up divorcing her in 2002. In 2009, he married Kathleen McElfresh. He now has two sons by the name of Malcolm and Callan and lives in Connecticut.
Known as Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and as Kick-Ass in the Kick-Ass films, Aaron Johnson started performing at the age of six. He was born to a housewife mother and a civil engineer father, in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on 13 June, 1990. He has one sister named Gemma. Aaron studied at Holmer Green, Senior School. He picked up his training in the arts of drama, jazz, acrobatics, singing and tap, when he attended the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, during the years of 1996 and 2008. Aaron started his career by acting on stage as the son of Macduff in 'Macbeth', in 1999. Since then, he played various television roles, such as Niker in the series adaption of the book, Feather Boy. He appeared in various characters such as Charlie Chaplin in Shanghai Knights, in 2003 and as a teenager in 'The Illusionist'. His name and fame grew with the title character of the movie 'Kick-Ass', which is a comic book adaption by Mark Millar in 2010. For his performance in the movie Kick-Ass, he got nominated for various awards such as the Best Fantasy Actor, Best Superhero and Best Breakout Performance - Male for Scream Awards and Breakout Male for Teen Choice Awards in 2010. In 2011, he was nominated for the Best Actor for Empire Award and Rising Star Award for BAFTA Award. Aaron won the Man of the Year in 2010 by the Glamour Awards for his gorgeous looks and outstanding performance. He was also awarded as the Best Newcomer by the Empire Award in 2010. Aaron was nominated for the best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality or Seduction by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists for his performance in the movie, Anna Karenina, as Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky, a cavalry officer. The movie was adapted from a 1877 novel with the same name by Tom Stoppard. The book had several adaptations including plays and movies filmed during different times. He also made the list of GQ's 50 best dressed British men in 2015. Aaron Johnson changed his name to Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 2013 and made it official with his marriage to Sam Taylor-Wood. They were engaged in 2009 and got married on 21 June, 2012. The couple had their first daughter named Wylda Rae, in 2010, and their second daughter, Romy Hero, in 2012.
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PRECLUDING A DEVICE FROM BEING SELECTED TO BOOT A SYSTEM
A method comprises receiving user input during a boot process requesting a list of selectable boot devices to be provided from which the user can select one of the devices to boot a system. The method further comprises precluding a function from being performed, the function otherwise permitting a user to select the device to be used to boot the system.
Broyles, Paul J. (Houston, TX, US)
Kenline, Jeffrey P. (Houston, TX, US)
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HP Inc. (Fort Collins, CO, US)
1. A method, comprising: receiving user input during a boot process requesting a list of selectable boot devices to be provided from which the user can select one of said devices to boot a system; and precluding a function from being performed, the function otherwise permitting a user to select the device to be used to boot the system.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising setting a bit associated with a basic input/output system (BIOS), said bit specifies that a password has been set.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein precluding the function from being performed comprises precluding the function from being performed based on whether a mechanism is activated that limits access to changing a boot order.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein precluding the function from being changed comprises precluding the function from being performed based on whether a password has been set.
5. The method of claim 4 further comprising setting the password.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein precluding the function from being performed comprises precluding the function from being performed based on whether a password has been set, said password required to enable a user to change a configuration.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein said function, if not precluded, enables a user to select a boot device that is applicable to booting said system.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the user input comprises detecting activation of an F9 function key.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein precluding the function from being performed comprises prompting the user for a password and precluding the function from being performed upon entry of an invalid password.
10. A system, comprising: a processor that implements a boot order of device to boot the system; wherein, if, during a boot process, a user requests a list of selectable boot devices to be provided from which the user can select one of said devices to boot the system thereby superseding the boot order, the processor precludes the user from being able to select a boot device.
11. The system of claim 10 further comprising a basic input/output system (BIOS) and wherein said processor precludes the user from selecting the boot device by setting a bit associated with the BIOS.
12. The system of claim 10 further comprising an input device coupled to said processor, wherein said input device is adapted to be used to set a password, and wherein said processor precludes the user from selecting a boot device based on whether a password has been set.
13. The system of claim 10 wherein a password is required for the processor to permit a change to a configuration associated with the system.
14. The system of claim 10 further comprising a keyboard coupled to said processor, said keyboard comprising an F9 function key, and wherein said request comprises an activation of the F9 function key.
15. The system of claim 10 further comprising a selectable mechanism which limits access to changing to said boot order, and wherein said processor precludes the user from being able to select a boot device if said mechanism is activated.
16. A computer-readable medium containing software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to: receive user input during a boot process requesting a list of selectable boot devices to be provided from which the user can select one of said devices to boot a system; and preclude a function from being performed, the function otherwise permitting a user to select the device to be used to boot the system.
17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16 wherein the software causes the processor to preclude the function from being performed based on whether a mechanism is activated that limits access to changing a boot order.
18. The computer-readable medium of claim 16 wherein the software causes the processor to preclude the function from being performed based on whether a password has been set.
19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18 wherein the software further causes the password to be set.
20. The computer-readable medium of claim 16 wherein the software causes the processor to preclude the function from being performed based on whether a password has been set, said password required to enable a user to change a configuration.
21. The computer-readable medium of claim 16 wherein the software causes the processor to perform said function, if not precluded, said function enabling a user to select a boot device that is applicable to booting said system.
In many computer systems, multiple bootable devices (e.g., hard drive, floppy drive, etc.) are available to boot the system Some of such bootable devices (e.g., a floppy drive) can be used to boot the system in an unsecure manner because the contents of some bootable devices are not controlled For example, a floppy disk might contain code that causes sensitive storage areas of the hard drive to be accessed.
For a detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows a system in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;
FIG. 2 shows a graphical user interface (GUI) that permits a user to set a password in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;
FIG. 3 shows a GUI that permits a user to change a boot order in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;
FIG. 4 shows a GUI that permits a user to manually request a particular device to be used to boot the system thereby superseding the specified boot order in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;
FIG. 5 shows a method of disabling a function of enabling a user to manually select a boot device in accordance with an illustrative embodiment; and
FIG. 6 shows a method of precluding a user from selecting a boot device during a boot process in accordance with an illustrative embodiment.
NOTATION AND NOMENCLATURE
Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular system components. As one skilled in the ad will appreciate, computer companies may refer to a component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function. In the following discussion and in the claims, the terms "including" and "comprising" are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should be interpreted to mean "including, but not limited to . . . ." Also, the term "couple" or "couples" is intended to mean either an indirect, direct, optical or wireless electrical connection Thus, if a first device couples to a second device, that connection may be through a direct electrical connection, through an indirect electrical connection via other devices and connections, through an optical electrical connection, or through a wireless electrical connection.
FIG. 1 shows a system 10 comprising a processor 12, a display 14, an input device 16, a system read only memory (ROM) 18, and one or more boot devices 30, 32, and 34 coupled together through a communication infrastructure 15. The communication infrastructure 15 comprises one or more busses, bridge devices, etc. The input device 16 comprises any input device selected from one or more of a keyboard, a mouse, a trackball, a pointing device, etc. A network connection 37 is also provided to permit the system 10 to be connected to a network such as local area or wide area network (e.g., the Internet).
The system ROM 18 comprises a basic input/output system (BIOS) 20, which comprises code executable by the processor 12. The BIOS 20 is stored on system ROM 18 in the embodiment of FIG. 1, but can be stored on any type of computer-readable medium whose software is executed by processor 12. The BIOS 20 causes the processor 12 to perform one or more low level functions of the system 10, such as providing a software interface to peripheral devices. The BIOS 20 also contains code that is executed to boot up, test, and otherwise initialize the system 10.
At or near the beginning of the boot process, the processor 12 begins executing boot code internal to the BIOS 20. At some point, control changes from the BIOS code 20 to code contained on one of the bootable device 30-34. Such bootable devices 30-34 include, for example, a hard drive, a floppy drive, etc. The device 30-34 used to boot the system 10 contains, for example, an instance of an operating system which is loaded and executed by the processor. The system 10 is a computer (e.g., notebook, desktop, server, etc.) or any other type of system that can be booted by one of multiple devices.
During a boot process of the system 10, a user can enter a "setup" mode by pressing a pre-designated key or key combination such as the function key F10. At that point, a setup utility 24 is executed by processor 12 to implement the setup mode. Among other functions to which the user has access in the setup mode is the ability to set a password. FIG. 2 illustrates an embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) that the user will see on display 14 upon entering the setup mode. Various options 40 are illustrated across the top of the illustrative GUI of FIG. 2. One of the options is the "Security" option 42. Upon selecting the security option, the user is provided an option 44 to set the password. The user will be prompted to enter an alphanumeric value for the password as illustrated at 46 in FIG. 2. As a result of setting the password, the BIOS 20 sets a password bit 22 (FIG. 1) which specifies whether the password feature has been enabled or disabled. "Setting" the password means that, in at least some embodiments, the password feature has been enabled.
The password represents a security mechanism to limit access to change one or more of the various system configuration parameters (e.g., the boot order) that are changeable via the setup mode. Thus, once the password is set, the user will be prompted to enter the password each time upon pressing F10 during the boot process to enter the setup mode. If the user does not enter a valid password, the user will be unable to change any of the configuration parameters available during setup. If the user enters the correct password, the user will be able to change the configuration parameters available during setup. Whether the user will be prompted to enter the password depends on the status of password bit 22.
FIG. 3 illustrates an embodiment of the storage option 50 provided in the setup mode. The storage option 50 provides a list of choices, one of which (option 52) provides the user the ability to specify and/or change a boot order 55. A boot order specifies a list of boot devices (such as devices 30-34) in a particular order that the system 10 should attempt to boot. In the example of FIG. 3, the first device listed in the boot order 55 is a universal serial bus (USB) device Thus, the system 10 will attempt first to boot from that device, if that device is present. If that device is not present or is not sufficiently functional to boot the system, the next device listed in the boot order 55 (i.e., the hard drive) will be used to boot the system, and so on.
Another feature, apart from pressing F10 to enter the setup mode, that is available to the user during a boot process is a feature by which the user can manually select a device to boot the system. This feature is activated by pressing a key or key combination such as F9 in some embodiments. Upon pressing the F9 key, the GUI of FIG. 4 is shown to the user in accordance with various embodiments The user is provided a list of boot devices from which the user is able to select a device to boot system 10. The selection of such a boot device supersedes any previously stored boot order. The boot device selected in FIG. 4 is used to boot the system only once in at least some embodiments, after which the system reverts back to the previously stored boot order. That is, the GUI of FIG. 4 permits a user to temporarily override a default or previously specified boot order.
In some embodiments, the GUI of FIG. 4 and the associated function performed by which the user selects a boot device superseding the boot order does not require entry of the password that may have been set as described above That is, the password, if set, is required in at least some embodiments to enter the setup mode (FIGS. 2 and 3), but is not required to select a boot device that supersedes the boot order (FIG. 4) A security issue is potentially created by which a user could manually override a boot order to boot from an unsecure boot device (e.g., a floppy disk). For example, the specified boot order might require a hard drive, if present and functional, to be used to boot the system before any other boot device is attempted to be used. The F9 function key and the GUI of FIG. 4, however, enables anyone to select any available boot device. Of particular concern, of course, is that an unsecure boot device could be used to boot the system.
In accordance with various embodiments, the function by which the user selects a boot device superseding the boot order (FIG. 4) is disabled if the password is set The underlying assumption is that, if a password has been set and the boot order can only be changed upon entry of a valid password, then a password having been set indicates that a person has been designated to manage the boot order. That being the case, the system's ability to temporarily override the boot order (via, for example, the F9 function key during a boot process) could be used by a different person to boot to an unsecure device thereby potentially causing a security issue. This security issue is addressed by, if a mechanism (e.g., the password) is activated that controls access to various configuration parameters such as the boot order, disabling the function by which the user selects a boot device superseding the boot order. As such, the ability of the system to permit a user to select a boot order (rather than following the boot order) is disabled. If a password is not set for the system, then in at least some embodiments the function by which the user selects a boot device superseding the boot order is not disabled and a user is permitted to select a boot device.
FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment of a method 70 by which a user sets a password. One or more of the actions listed in FIG. 5 are performed by the BIOS 20. At 72, the setup mode is entered. In some embodiments, the setup mode is entered by pressing the F10 key during a boot process. At 74, a user sets a password for the system. FIG. 2 illustrates the GUI by which the user sets the password. At 74, upon setting the password, the method comprises disabling the function of permitting the user to select a boot device during a boot process rather than following a previously stored boot order. In at least one embodiment, action 74 is performed by setting the password bit 22 (FIG. 1)
FIG. 6 illustrates an embodiment of a method 90 precluding a user from selecting a boot device during a boot device without entry of the password. At 92, the system begins the boot process. This action may be performed by, for example, the user powering on the system or by a signal received over the network connection 37. At 94, an input is received from a user requesting a list of boot devices to be provided to the user from which the user can select a device to boot the system 10. In at least some embodiments, this input is the activation of the F9 key, or whatever mechanism is used to cause the system 10 generate the GUI of FIG. 4 At 96, the system 10 determines whether the password has been set, which in some embodiments is determined by examining the state of password bit 22 (FIG. 1). If a password has been set, the function by which the user selects a boot device superseding the boot order is not performed (98) and the boot process continues at 102. If, however, a password has not been set, then the function by which the user selects a boot device superseding the boot order is performed at 102 after which the boot process continues (102). The function performed in accordance with 100 may comprise the user being prompted to enter the password.
In FIG. 6, the boot device selection function is not performed if the password is set. In other embodiments, the boot device selection function is permitted to be performed, but only upon the user entering a valid password. That is, the user would be prompted to enter the password. If the user does not enter a valid password, the boot device selection function is not performed; otherwise the boot device selection function is performed.
The above discussion is meant to be illustrative of the principles and various embodiments of the present invention. Numerous variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the above disclosure is fully appreciated. It is intended that the following claims be interpreted to embrace all such variations and modifications.
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Good for your health, good for your finances.
Many people sacrifice and save for the future (and they should be commended), but then they retire and ask me: "What now?" They tell me distressing stories, such as feeling a sense of worry about how they are going to fill up all the empty hours in their day.
Whether you're a planner, or more of the spontaneous type, here's a fact: My happiest retired clients are creative. That's not to say these people considered themselves creative throughout their lives. In fact, many of my clients only actually tapped into their creative selves later on.
Creativity is defined as the desire or ability to recognize and generate ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communication, and entertaining ourselves or others.
Sounds like an entire world of possibility.
For the purposes of this article, I want to discuss two types of creativity, financial and personal, and how, even though different, they are both integral to a healthy retirement.
Whether you are nearing retirement, or already neck-deep in your post-work life, now is the time to get financially creative. In a world where pensions are rare, and tax laws are ever-changing, knowing which retirement accounts to fund, or draw down, and in what sequence, is not only an essential part of making your money last, proper planning and timing can save you thousands or even tens-of-thousands of dollars.
Think I'm exaggerating? I recently met with a would-be client who was about to retire, and who had been forced to pay an extra $20,000 to Uncle Sam merely because she pulled a large sum out of a tax-deferred retirement account to pay off her mortgage.
Paying off the mortgage? That's usually a great thing. But when you take a distribution from a tax-deferred retirement account, the government will usually calculate that withdrawal as regular income, and so she was taxed at both a higher federal and a state rate. Had she waited until after she'd stopped working, and drawn down that same account to pay off the mortgage over, say, four years, she'd have saved herself a lot of money and stress.
Simply, when it comes to financial creativity and retirement—and preserving your savings—things such as retirement accounts, what state you live in, the current tax laws, setting up living wills and trusts, managing consumer debt, and even when you elect to claim Social Security, there isn't enough space on 10 websites to clearly outline all the possibilities that could, depending on your planning and creativity, cost, or save you thousands of dollars.
Your retirement will hopefully last a healthy 20, 25, or even 30 years, or longer. You need more than a solid financial plan.
Creativity is an important part of being alive. It reduces stress, boosts self-esteem, and stimulates the brain; which research has shown is a key component in the prevention of dementia. While I intend to visit this topic more in future articles, I want to introduce the concept of thinking outside the box and preparing for your creative life once you retire. This would encompass doing things you might never have considered before. Just a quick list would include: starting to journal, becoming a member of the local museum (get on that mailing list!), taking up sculpture or painting, taking a cooking class, going back to school, learning to play a new instrument, mentoring young adults, and volunteering to guide tours at a local park or historical site.
Both financially and personally, your retirement should be about creativity. But the transition toward a new, perhaps better self, won't happen without some intention and introspection. Yet with a little work, and some enhanced creativity, you are setting yourself up for what could be the best era of your life.


NVIDIA has released an updated version of APEX SDK.
New version is compatible with latest PhysX SDK 3.2.3, and also includes a bunch of bug-fixes and some minor new features.
Fixed issues with re-entrant read locks.
Added actor synchronization filtering by damage event depth and fracture event depth.
Added NxDestructibleActor::setDeleteFracturedChunks() to tell a destructible actor to delete its fractured chunks instead of simulating them.
Added NxUserDestructibleSyncHandler::onPreProcessReadBegin() and NxUserDestructibleSyncHandler::onPreProcessReadDone() callbacks.
Edited NxUserDestructibleSyncHandler::onReadBegin() callback. Removed NxUserDestructibleSyncHandler::onSwizzleDone() callback.
Added NxDestructibleActorSyncState struct. Edited NxDestructibleActor::setSyncParams() method.
Added new NxDestructibleAssetStats: maxHullVertexCount, maxHullFaceCount, chunkWithMaxEdgeCount.
IExplicitHierarchicalMesh::IConvexHull::reduceHull function removes vertices from a convex hull until the given limits are reached (after cooking).
Added both the destructible actor pointer and the chunk index to the NxApexPhysX3Interface::setContactReportFlags() callback when PhysX 3.x shapes are created.
Removed support for the embedded 3x clothing solver on pre-Fermi GPUs.
Added solver iteration count to VISUALIZE_CLOTHING_SOLVER_MODE debug rendering.
Fixed an issue with clothing simulation when simulate(0) is called.
Fixed a bug with normals for the case where assets have a significant amount of mesh-mesh skinned vertices.
Fixed a simulation bug where collision failed for vertices close to the cloth bounds.
Fixed a race condition when a lot of actors of the same asset are switched on and off (manually or by lod).
IOFX sprite rendering was reworked to allow writing sprite rendering data more efficiently. See the new NxUserRenderResourceManager::getSpriteTextureData() and NxUserRenderSpriteBuffer::writeTexture() callbacks and the new NxUserRenderSpriteTextureDesc.
Added NxApexEmitterActor::getSimParticlesCount() to get the number of simulated particles. Works with BasicIOS and ParticleIOS.
Added includeVerticalDirection rotation modifier to control whether vertical speed affects rotation.
Added getPose() and setPose() methods for NxHeatSourceActor.
NVIDIA APEX SDK 1.2.3 can be downloaded through Developer Support Center.
If you are experiencing troubles with account registration, please refer to our guide.
What does it mean "pre-Fermi hardware"?
mareknr: What does it mean "pre-Fermi hardware"?
Anything before 4xx.. mostly, 8xxx, 9xxx and 2xx series GPUs. 8800GTX, 9600GT, GTX260 and so on.
So as an example, if somebody use this APEX modifications in game, I can't use older GPU for GPU rigid bodies (as stand-alone PhysX accelerator)? This will be computed on main GPU and other features will use second older GPU for PhysX? Or it only won't be accessible if main card wouldn't be set as GPU PhysX accelerator? I'm talking about configuration with newer GPU as main and older GPU as PhysX accelerator. As I see it now, if second GPU is older then GF4xx it can't be used for these new games which use this APEX version or higher.
Im looking forward in this will affect hawkens poor physx high performance on high-performance cards.
mareknr: This will be computed on main GPU and other features will use second older GPU for PhysX?
I don't know such specific details. At least, there are no such games yet.
I was told that it will actually help them to optimize GPU PhysX better for latest GPU generations, since supporting several different computing architectures was not very effective.
Dudes. I dont know ANY game that uses PhysX for rigid bodies, while it works great on any CPU little performance cost, rigid bodies is not just an effect, it is essential for game engine, so what should ATI users do. Before complaining, check if the game supports it by default. Mostly if you want the GPU to do that you have to manually enable that. Like in HAwken you have to go inside HawkenSystemettings.ini and set ApexGRBEnable to true.
First ones are common in almost every single UE3 game and are used for things like ragdolls, joints, vehicle physics and interactive objects. They can not be GPU accelerated.
In Hawken they are utilized for mech ragdolls and things you can push on the levels – cars, containers, etc.
Now, the GPU Rigid Bodies (GRB) are using separate solver, supporting only basic collision features (no joints or ragdolls) and one-way interaction with CPU rigid bodies and, most importanly, are part of APEX Destruction based destructible assets.
Thus, GRBs are mostly used to add immersion factor ("Omg, look, that building just exploded in 1000 pieces instead of 10!") and not to drive the gameplay.
As for Hawken, it is not using destructible assets right now, afaik, so .ini editing won't affect anything. Buu-ut, it will change in near future.
Just found some time to check the Android version.
For some reason you can't select all scenes in the destruction demo.


Based in Charleston, SC and Golfito, Costa Rica, Kate shapes molten glass in an oxygen-propane flame and designs it into jewelry. Glass lends endless opportunities to mimic luxurious natural materials like fur, precious stones, and fine grain wood, which she incorporates into her work. Co-founding Ocho Verde, a wildlife reserve & home to her glass studio in Central America, she designs pieces based on a lifelong fascination with natural history and a spirit for adventure.


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Science in the Movies: Science Fiction that Gets it Right?
Michael Marshall at New Scientist has picked out five science fiction movies that "contain some accurate, plausible science. They may not be completely realistic, but they get it right when it matters most." Three of their five choices are based on the biological sciences:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) makes the list for its depiction of how memory is stored.
Sensibly, the film depicts memory as essentially a network of links. In its frenetic second half, Joel is asleep while the technicians "operate" on his mind. We follow as he careens from recent memories of his relationship to those of his earliest childhood.
Alien (1979) gets a thumb up for its depiction of the alien's life cycle, despite it's fantastic growth rate.
Every element of the life cycle can be found in nature, variously in parasites, robber wasps and social insects. Much of the film's suspense comes from the filmmakers' decision to let events unfold without too much explanation – the viewer has to piece the life cycle together for themselves.
Perennial favorite Gattaca (1997) is included for its "grimly plausible vision of a society dominated by genetic prejudice."
The other two on the list are 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), for its depiction of space travel and Solaris (1972, 2002) for its "portrayal of the limits of science and of human understanding."
The great thing about all these movies is not just that (at least some) of the science they depict is plausible, but that they are entertaining. There is no reason why the science has to be awful to make a good movie.
Tags:science fiction, biology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alien, Gattaca, movies
Categories: aliens and monsters, genetic engineering, memory, movies, zoology
Arvind Mishra said...
"There is no reason why the science has to be awful to make a good movie."
Quite right,Peggy,sf movies must come
out of the darkness of horror and war themes so often portrayed to woo more audience.
But scenario is changing fast as serious sf movie lovers are now coming up...
Doesn't the Alien(s) series loose some points for having sound in outer space? On the other hand, everyone may have finally just thrown up their hands on that one. Maybe I only even notice because I did a paper on the sound design for 2001 when I was in film school.
Peggy K said...
Most SF movies set in space seem to have that problem with sound. At least the biology wasn't too crap - although the sequels to the series, particularly the most recent Alien v. Predator movie - fail on that account too.
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7th and 8th Graders, we're looking forward to another great year growing together in youth group! Here's a chance for us to get to know each other better before the start of the year! We're going camping in Fremont! Be here at Wellspring at 3:30 pm on Friday, August 18 because we are hitting the road at 4pm sharp! We will return to Wellspring at 12 Noon on Saturday, August 19.
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The movie "The Dirt" is stirring up some real dirt.
Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee made a couple of serious allegations about Motley Crue in a recent interview. Bassist Nikki Sixx isn't having it.
Lee first claimed that an incident depicted in the movie The Dirt, in which Ozzy Osboune gets down on his knees and snorts a line of ants on the ground by a pool didn't actually happen that way. But he does believe that the Crue considered having him replace guitarist Mick Mars because he was better-looking and a better player.
Sixx responded on Twitter Friday, writing, "Isn't it funny how the has-been's, never-was's, washed-up long ago small career people all started coming outta the woodwork around the movie? I guess it's their only way to get attention in 2019. God bless them. They must be desperate." He added in a second tweet, "Make believe story." (Alternative Press, Tone Talk)
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The leading cause of global climate change is the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) by humans. This includes the CO2 emissions from factories and cars, the methane released as a result of animal agriculture and landfills, and nitrous oxide from fertilizers. A lot of these things can't be changed by the average person, but one thing that people are responsible for is their transportation. However, transportation is still a leading cause of pollution because it's hard for people to understand how their individual actions affect the environment, and it can also be hard to start taking steps in the right direction.
I decided to create an app that would help people start to understand how they can affect the environment through their means of transportation, and steps they can take to help. The app uses your phone's GPS and motion tracking technology to detect how you're getting around, and calculates how that affects your surrounding environment. The app also uses information from carpooling apps on your phone (such as Uber or Lyft) to determine if you were travelling through a carpooling service. Based on how green your transportation methods are, the app will reward you points. Getting points will earn you small rewards like badges and higher levels, and you can connect with your friends to compete with them. Because the app doesn't require a lot of the manual input of information, it's a simple and convenient way for people to be able to check in on how they're affecting the environment in a fun and social way. It allows you to see how often you use each mode of transportation which helps you make more environmentally conscious decisions about how to get places.
Before creating the app, I created two user personas with different lifestyles and personalities to better understand who I was designing for. These personas were based on people that I had interviewed beforehand.
Anthony Harden is an event planner who tries to make environmentally conscious decisions whenever he can, and Jamie Carmelo is a software developer who cares about the environment, but isn't yet motivated to change her lifestyle.
The first thing I did before starting on wireframes was brainstorm the layout and features of the app. Then I ideated how each page would look, before figuring out the user flow.
I wanted the app to have vibrant colours offset by a clean and minimalistic background and layout. There is a clear colour palette and the app delivers most of its information through data visualizations.
Each mode of transportation has an assigned colour that corresponds with how good it is for the environment. The quantifier I decided to use was GHG emissions.
GREEN: 0 GHG emissions/km. Walking, cycling, jogging, etc.
TEAL: less than 100g GHG emissions/km. This includes most public transit: Busses, subway, streetcar.
YELLOW and RED: Yellow and red indicate travelling in a vehicle that emits more than 100g of GHG/km. This typically means travelling in a car, but since carpooling has less harsh effects on the environment it's assigned yellow instead of red.
Due to the time constraints of this project, I wasn't able to conduct a lot of primary research other than talking to peers in my personal network. If I were able to revisit this project with more time, I would do some more in-depth and comprehensive interviews with the people outside of my network that I would be designing for. In addition to this, I would have conducted more usability testing to gain more insight on things I could improve or add to the experience.
If I were to continue with this project, I would explore implementing this solution in different interfaces that could be better incorporated into peoples' lives, such as wearable technology. Since this solution is focussed on peoples' movement throughout the day, I feel like designing for wearable technology is a more intuitive way for people to incorporate Green App into their daily lives.


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Campagnolles is een gemeente in het Franse departement Calvados (regio Normandië) en telt 436 inwoners (2005). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Vire.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Campagnolles bedraagt 10,2 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 42,7 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Gemeente in Calvados


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Babina może dotyczyć:
 Babina – rodzaj płazów;
 Babina – miasto w środkowo-północnych Indiach, w stanie Uttar Pradesh, na Nizinie Hindustańskiej;
 Babina – miejscowość na Ukrainie w rejonie starosamborskim;
 Babina – miejscowość na Ukrainie w rejonie samborskim;
 Babina – wieś w Polsce;
 Babina – kanał wodny łączący jezioro Dąbie z Odrą, w Szczecinie;
 Babina - nieistniejąca już kopalnia węgla brunatnego w Łęknicy (woj. lubuskie).

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 Babina Poljana


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Dracocephalum és un gènere que agrupa aproximadament 45 espècies d'angiospermes herbàcies i perennes que pertany a la família de les lamiàcies, anomenat dracocèfal.

Distribució
Gènere natiu de les regions atemperades de l'hemisferi nord. La seua regió s'estén des de l'est d'Europa fins a Sibèria.

Cultiu
Resistent al fred i fàcil de cultivar en climes atemperats en un sòl prou fèrtil, amb una necessitat d'humitat abundant en primavera i estiu. Un lloc assolellat però protegit serà el millor per a ells. Es pot propagar per divisió de grups, poden arribar a créixer fins a uns 15-19 centímetres.

Taxonomia

 Llista completa

Enllaços externs

 A page on Dracocephalum moldavicum

Mentheae


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Writing | The Inventive '50s: Ford Had a Better Idea
Life as an Architect
Texas Architect
O'Neil Ford
Bruce Goff
William Caudill
Harwell Hamilton Harris
The Inventive '50s: Ford Had a Better Idea
|In Blog, Writing, Life as an Architect
|By Larry Speck
Ideas reach an awkward adolescence, a point at which they are too young to be judged lasting truths but no longer have the freshness of youth. Familiarity breeds contempt, and with the hoopla surrounding any new development in our media age, we seem to get bored with ideas just about the time they are maturing sufficiently to make a real contribution. Simply because they are close to us in time, we can lose sight of the cogency and usefulness of recent developments.
As part of cultural renewal and growth, this process is natural and unavoidable – the intellectual landscape from architecture to zoology is littered with once-dominant ideas that fell to today's or yesterday's revisionists. And, as has been remarked before, there is a generational trough; we tend to regard as least valid ideas most closely associated with the views of the 20 to 30 years previous. But renewal on such terms has its costs, particularly in architecture. By blinkering our vision of recent decades we lose the experience of designers who have more in common with us, in terms of technology and social needs, than designers of any other era. By rejecting the recent past we neglect continuity in architectural development from which we could build maturity, stability, and confidence. The ideas behind architectural design from the 1950s fell into the trough in the mid-1970s. Some of those ideas are ripe for reassessment.
It is important, from the outset of such a reassessment, to be critical. If architecture is to evolve in a positive way, it must practice "survival of the fittest," selecting for the strengths of the previous era and rejecting its weaknesses. We must not limit ourselves to a shallow copying of forms from the past, like kids rummaging through daddy's old ties. We also need a comprehension of the generative forces behind the forms – daddy's wisdom, as well as his old ties. Digging shows that the decade of the 1950s was an era of spirited creativity in architecture.
It takes some effort in 1985 to place oneself accurately in the context of the '50s. There is a tendency to measure an era by yardsticks developed after the fact, and to recall aspects selectively. In the current '50s nostalgia, for example, the decade is idealized as a frivolous and carefree backdrop to the traumas of the 1960s. Cruising to the drive in, cheerleader skirts, flat tops, and Joe Kool shades symbolize, in retrospect, a last innocent fling before the assassinations, protests, and national introspection of the next decade. But this is, of course, a thoroughly laundered view of the era. The 1950s not only preceded the 1960s, but inherited the aftershocks of the 1930s and 1940s. And it was a watershed decade, the time of beginning for the new society.
Returning veterans were picking up the pieces, generating the demographic bulge that would be called the baby boom. Whole industries were reconstituting themselves after almost 20 years spent either shut down or absorbed in the war effort. New technologies, often spun off from military research, were finding widespread civilian applications. After two decades of interruption, the economic, industrial, and political life of society – as well as the private lives of many citizens – were making a new start.
Perhaps for this reason, in the 1950s the good old days were rejected. Traditions-particularly European traditions-had been reduced to rubble by the Great Depression and the Second World War. Americans, with their native optimism, concluded that they could invent superior social and architectural modes of expression. Anything new and innovative seemed better than the familiar.
FULLER AND SAARINEN
In this context, an attitude developed in architecture in the 1950s that placed a premium on invention. With the rejection of tradition and an enthusiasm for newness came a new vision of the role of the architect – the architect as scientist, almost, assessing the new social situation, hypothesizing solutions, experimenting and testing, and finally, in success, inventing a new solution with a broad applicability. In this view, the architect was neither the sophisticated arbiter of taste, nor the erudite master of form, history, or style, but a tinkerer, a solver of problems.
No one embodied the new architect better than Buckminster Fuller, who came into his own in the 1950s. Half architect, half philosopher, he hardly built anything, but he redefined the role of the architect – well beyond the definition shaped by the early Modernists in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
Buckminster Fuller represents an extreme case, but many of the leading lights of the architectural profession in the 1950s also directly partook of the role of inventor. Eero Saarinen, perhaps the most admired American architect of the decade, was widely admired for his inventiveness. Along with Charles Eames, Saarinen redefined that timeless instrument for sitting, the chair. Saarinen used the newly abundant technology of plastics and fiberglass to create fluid forms that conformed to the lines of the human body. He rejected the classic four-leg support in favor of a shapely pedestal. Saarinen's chairs were astonishingly new in shape and material, even in "feel," but they were also very practical, designed with great care to reflect their purpose as well as the technique of their manufacture.
The same attitude toward design informed many of Saarinen's mature building projects. His idiosyncratic chapel and auditorium of 1955 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology broke all the rules for both building types. The auditorium was placed under a bulbous three-sided thin-shell concrete dome. Its engineering was highly experimental, trying to achieve the maximum span with the minimum use of reinforced concrete. The materials were unconventional too. The roof was surfaced in a newly developed acrylic plastic that was supposed to give long-time pliability and accommodate movement within the structure over the seasons.
Saarinen's MIT chapel was less inventive in technology than in light and form. Its magical interior character was created by the dynamic play of warped brick surfaces modeled by light coming, not from the side or top, but from below. Dappled sunlight dances on the interior walls, reflected up from a moat-like pool and through windows occupying the space between the exterior cylindrical skin and the (acoustically superior) irregular interior skin. The whole wall system is fresh and clever, the product of an inventive mind working at full tilt.
Saarinen's Bell Laboratories facility in Holmdel, New Jersey, begun in 1957, is similarly full of fresh problem-solving devices. Mirrored glass was used here for one of the first times. Mirrored glass, later to become a stylistic symbol, made a lot of sense in its application at Bell Labs. It not only solved the problem of how to consistently sheath opaque and transparent portions of wall and reduce heat gain, but it gave visual security, a primary programmatic consideration. The building's perimeter and corridor and cruciform atrium were also aimed at the requirements of a high-security research laboratory, where wall space for equipment was at a premium, but where visual relief and open sociability were desired.
In his short career Saarinen demonstrated an extraordinary flair for new conceptions. At the Yale Hockey Rink he experimented with a hanging structure for a long span, rejecting conventional from – below support. He virtually reinvented the airport terminal in his projects at Kennedy and Dulles airports, reconfiguring the modes of passenger transport along with the architectural expression of the type. He even developed a new technique for combining stone and concrete to make that most ancient of structural components – the masonry load-bearing wall – feasible for taller construction.
GOFF'S DOWN HOME INVENTIVENESS
Saarinen's attitude reflected a national and even international interest in architectural invention in the 1950s. It was, however, in the rapidly developing southern and western parts of the U. S. that the penchant for inventiveness had its greatest impact. In the Texas region there was an impressive open-mindedness, a willingness to take chances on new approaches to architectural problems. H.C. Price of Oklahoma exemplifies the 1950s breed of client, taking the risks to build the visionary projects of their architects. Frank Lloyd Wright's 1953 Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, embodied ideas Wright had nurtured, but been unable to build, for many years. The Price Tower broke new ground with its rich mix of uses, its tap-root structural system, its hexagonal geometrical base, and its highly textured cladding. It was a blockbuster invention.
When Price's son tapped Bruce Goff to do a bachelor's pad in Bartlesville in 1957, he got, on a smaller scale, the same sort of energetic free thinking. The Price house's geometry was fresh and particularly suited to the panoramic views from the site. Its one-room plan fit the habits of its occupant like a leopard-skin glove. The large focal space, in which Goff replaced conventional furniture with a pillow-lined "conversation pit," created a new twist on everyday life in the American home.
But it was in Goff's use of materials that the architect's open-minded approach truly shone. Like Saarinen, Goff searched for ways to apply commonly available – if unconventional – materials to building. On the exterior of the Price House he made rugged masonry walls from crystalline blobs that were rejects from an industrial process. On the house's interior Goff ran carpet everywhere, using it as wallpaper as well as a floor covering. For the peak of the living-room ceiling Goff sought a material that would almost dematerialize the surface, making it more like a cloud than a roof. He ended up using goose feathers glued to the surface-an echo of Saarinen brought down home.
FORD'S DARING EMPIRICISM
O'Neil Ford, like Saarinen, Wright, and Goff, fervently pursued invention in the 1950s. The lift slabs – slab floors poured in place one on top of the other and lifted into position with specially designed jacks – he used at Trinity University show, as do few other techniques, the daring of empirical design. Using them, Ford took real chances with the goal of inventing a more economical and potentially revolutionary construction process. Ford was continually tinkering with structure in the 1950s. He admired the bicycle-wheel roof which Edward D. Stone had used in the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, and he later used it himself in the La Villita Assembly Hall in San Antonio. He also watched with interest the work of Felix Candela and others in Mexico who were experimenting with thin-shell concrete and the use of advanced structural shapes, such as hyperbolic paraboloids. Ford used the Mexicans as consultants, making limited applications of their inventive work.
But Ford's tour de force of 1950s inventiveness was the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Building in Dallas of 1956-1958, built in response to a truly new set of requirements presented by an emerging industry. Here Ford, working with Richard Colley, Sam Zisman, and Arch Swank, produced his single most original building. At virtually every point in the building, conventions were re-examined to create a pure response to the problem. Like the innovation-oriented engineers who were his clients, Ford took risks and broke new ground.
The Texas Instruments Semiconductor Building marked Ford's most extensive use of hyperbolic-paraboloid roof shapes. With a minimum of structural depth, the long-span system provided 63-foot square bays, while at the same time giving a modular identity to individual places within the vast structure.
Even more inventive than the roof system was the spanning system for the interstitial floors – larger-than-normal service spaces between levels – used at TI. A nine-foot-high space frame, made of precast concrete tetrapods, separated the lower floor, with its offices and laboratories, from the soaring spaces on the upper floor, which housed manufacturing operations. The deep three-dimensional truss provided a floor between floors for the complicated servicing and mechanical equipment that TI required. Several years prior to Louis Kahn's more celebrated application of the same interstitial-space notion at Salk Institute, Ford and his colleagues had invented a fresh prototype for organizing the intricate new demands of an unprecedented research and manufacturing facility.
The inventiveness in the Semiconductor Building did not stop with the organizational diagram, the structural system, or the mechanical servicing. In detail the building is inventive as well. Its marble cladding is attached by an elegant new x-shaped hanger at the corner of each slab instead of the more conventional concealed connectors. The lighting in the upper floor spaces was an early application of high-intensity mercury-vapor lamps; light from these was bounced off the interior's warped paraboloid surfaces to provide an even high-footcandle light distribution – perfect for intricate high-tech manufacturing.
CAUDILL AND HARRIS
Ford was in good company in Texas as an inventive architect. William Caudill and his colleagues at Caudill Rowlett Scott, working in Bryan before their move to Houston, spent the early part of the 1950s reinventing the American schoolhouse. The impetus behind their innovations in school design was most often economic-educating all the little baby boomers threatened to swamp the state's ill-equipped school districts. CRS's flat, bare-bones, efficient schools met a need for low initial cost and economical operation that previous prototypes could not.
Other architects in Texas were rethinking building forms for a state in which suburbs were rapidly gobbling up a rural way of life. Harwell Hamilton Harris, building on the redefinition of the American house he had begun in California, developed a new prototype for the harsh West Texas climate in his 1958 Treanor House in Abilene – an inward-focused plan centered on a "garden room" – an indoor air-conditioned court that was open and airy like an outdoor space. Shortly after the Treanor House was built, Harris applied the same principle, on a much larger scale, in the Trade Mart Court in Dallas, creating the first "atrium" space in a commercial building.
We are still being served well by the inventiveness of architects in the 1950s. They left us a legacy of good creative ideas. But the urge for inventiveness in the era was not without its pitfalls. The flipside of successful experimentation is failure; the 1950s left us a substantial legacy of failure also, even in the work of some of the decade's best architects, even though they researched and tested their ideas carefully. In Saarinen's MIT auditorium the structure unexpectedly slumped and had to be shored up with supplemental steel at the perimeter. The plastic roof leaked from the very beginning and had to be replaced with a conventional lead one.
Besides dubious applications, the urge to invent resulted in an inefficient duplication of effort. Longstanding solutions to timeless needs were ignored in favor of a frenetic drive for originality. Many futile efforts to reinvent the wheel were made, often resulting in silly buildings: inventiveness turned into a manneristic stylistic infatuation with the new. Hyperbolic paraboloids became motel lobby pavilions, which hardly merited such long span capabilities. "Experimental" single-family houses were hung and cantilevered and distorted almost beyond habitability. Metal and plastic facades were hung on noble older buildings, to give them at least the appearance of being "with it."
Many architects who admired and sought to emulate Saarinen, Wright, Ford, and Harris, failed to observe that these architects, at their best, exercised great restraint. They were conservative, even traditional in many ways. Saarinen's chapel at MIT uses conventional motifs of moat, arches and spire. Wright's Price Tower is made of copper aged to a rich patina. Ford's Semiconductor Building is clad in marble – that most ancient of fine building materials. And Harris's innovative houses reveled in the beauty of natural wood. These architects knew when and how to blend innovation with tradition.
Many architects of the era were also simply less capable of invention than were these leading lights. Some architects are strongest not at inventiveness but in sophistication and elaboration. In the 1950s, such skills counted for little. Architects like John Staub, a consummate refiner, felt an unfortunate pressure to break new ground. Some architects capable of mature traditional buildings failed to produce them because they were concentrating on largely unsuccessful attempts to be inventive. It was a cruel irony of the 1950s that originality was enforced so broadly as a conventional criterion of architectural worth.
Disappointing in retrospect as well is the lack of long-term or widespread applicability of so many of the promising inventions of the 1950s. Lift slabs, it turned out, were subjected to much more stress in positioning than they were in use-meaning that they made structurally inefficient floors. Thin shell concrete roofs, not to mention feathered ceilings, never really caught on. This illustrates that the inertia of the architectural discipline is probably appropriate. Real and substantial change comes in small steps, by evolution. Architecture does not need and cannot really absorb revolution.
AND NOW?
There are lessons to be learned from all this, and we would be well advised to take a hard look at the role of 1950s innovation in relation to design today. As has often been the case with architecture in the 20th century, we have overreacted to the missionary zeal for inventiveness from that decade by retrenching into an unfortunate conservatism in the 1970s and 1980s. We are now so infatuated with typology and precedent, prototype and illusion, that it seldom occurs to us that a really fresh approach might be appropriate. We have stifled the free thinkers among us and the free thinkers within us, to the point that fundamental innovation is now rare. New shapes, new allusions, new collages – our recent preoccupation – don't qualify.
I would not advocate a return to the compulsive inventiveness of our predecessors, but I would suggest that we have a number of new environmental and architectural problems that are resting in limbo, unlikely to be resolved simply by a reworking of conventional devices.
Is there not, for example, some way, other than through the current developer-initiated process, to layout streets in newly developing areas that will produce more comprehensible, orderly communities, with fewer traffic bottlenecks and less confusion? Isn't there something we can do about the ground-level treatment of rapidly sprouting loop-land commercial developments, like Houston's Galleria area? Historical pedestrian-oriented models are clearly not analogous here, but must these areas be wastelands? And isn't it time for a reinvestigation of residential prototypes? With the substantial demographic changes in recent years – a great increase in singles, single-parent families, and families with two working parents – are the same housing patterns still appropriate? The office environment also needs a fresh look. The impact of machines has substantially changed work routines and social relationships, as well as requirements for space, lighting, and servicing. Are the same old open-plan, nine-by-twelve cubicles still the answer? Is the central-core, uniform-lease-depth model still appropriate?
All of these are questions the architects of the 1950s would have thrived on. They would have challenged conventions, opened up issues, done research, and "engineered" some new solutions. Sometimes they would have fallen flat, but sometimes they would have made profound, long-lived contributions to the discipline. It is time to learn both from the successes and failures of the 1950s generation – to gather up the nerve and carefully and selectively readdress ourselves to appropriate invention as a means to architectural progress.


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