Even when they fail, great leaders believe in their abilities. Acknowledging and learning from mistakes allows you to lead by example, and encourages your team to see mistakes not as the end of the line, but as the beginning of growth.
I have seen time and again how the committed take responsibility for their actions. In our high-litigation culture, there's always someone else to blame. It can be easy to point the finger at suppliers, underlings, partners, and managers that just can't seem to get things right. I have yet to meet this mass of completely incompetent workers, which leads me to think we might be trying to steer some of the fault away from where it belongs--onto ourselves.
They take responsibility... for EVERYTHING. They turn each misstep into an opportunity to learn from the mistake instead of pointing figures: they pull the thumb and ask themselves "what could I have done differently?" They find a lesson while others only see a problem. They privately address their subordinates' mistakes with them, but take the blame publicly without dissent. If someone slipped up, they pick them up, they don't point the finger and pass the blame.
When you lead a group of people, they become reflections of yourself.
An effective leader is someone who inspires those beneath them. If you pass blame and take credit, if your team clocks in at nine and checks out at five, if they make no mistakes and only send you finely-crafted emails and reports, congratulations, you're a manager. Not a leader. Leaders recognize that an inspired team not only produces great work, but regularly strive beyond that extra mile to ensure success. Passing credit onto those under you is the best, and the easiest, way to do this. Why? A leader is nothing without their team.
In classical warfare, if an army loses, is it because a single person failed in his duties, or turned coat too early? No. More likely it was because they were in the wrong position, advanced too early, or what have you.
If an army wins, is it because one unit, or one captain, made a daring charge, or was in the right place at the right time? No. It is because every single person performed admirably in each of their roles.
See the difference? Failures are often the result of bad leadership, and passing the blame onto those beneath them is not only misplaced, but discouraging. Successes, on the other hand, are wholly based on the performance of every individual effort. And assuming the credit for oneself is not only selfish, but alienating. Managers fight battles, leaders win wars.
The first step to finding a solution to a problem is admitting you have a problem. From my experience, the reluctance of good leaders to accept the blame for mistakes has its roots in two misconceptions of what mistakes really are.
A common error is assuming that once a mistake has been committed, or revealed, that it is the end of the line. Work often screeches to a halt while the extent of the mistake is exposed, and the culprit brought to justice. All hands are called to the pumps in order to craft a solution in secret, away from judging eyes.
This unfortunate habit leaders have picked up instills a natural fear of mistakes in everyone. Mistakes should not be feared, but expected, and often encouraged. They should be used as an opportunity to teach team members, new employees, interns, and managers.
Leaders who expect one-hundred per-cent perfection from their team will not only work in a very silent office, but receive late emails, and stifle creativity. Why? Because people are naturally afraid of making mistakes, being called out, and being embarrassed in public. A leader who assumes the blame, and passes the credit, sends a message that mistakes are OK, and that when they happen it will be an opportunity to learn and grow. By inspiring those beneath you, your employees will emulate your best traits, which will include assuming the blame for themselves.
A fatal flaw in modern leadership is equating mistakes with failure. Without waxing trite, I will refrain from numerous anecdotes relating the importance of "getting back on the horse" or "we only truly fail when we give up"; all are applicable. The moral hazard in not differentiating the two is employees who almost expect the assignment to be taken from them the moment a mistake is committed and reassigned to someone else. Because a failure means the end of their contribution. It's done.
However, ensuring that you understand the difference, and that your employees do, too, results in everyone recognizing that mistakes are to be remedied by those who erred, with the expectation that the stewardship was given to them to complete a task, and a mistake does not invalidate that trust. Associating failure with mistakes demonstrates a lack of trust in those to whom you delegate. But by allowing employees to internalize the responsibility given to them, it becomes easier to give credit where it is due.
Leaders pull the thumb instead of point fingers. They inspire and encourage. They are perceptive and honest. If a leader is truly transparent for a moment, they will recognize they truly had no claim on any of the credit at all in the first place. Instead, a true leader can see the minute contributions that everyone has made to their success. So, in truth, being a good leader is really just learning to be a decent human being. And that is easy enough.


Building a professional car dealership website isn't easy. However, there are a few steps that you can take to simplify the process and increase the chances of success for your project.
One of those steps it to use an online publishing platform that makes managing your website and its content more straightforward. WordPress is a great example of such a platform and it's a popular choice that powers 25% of all websites online today. The other important part of increasing your success rate is to choose a high-quality theme or template.
This theme or template will take most of the work out of building a car dealership website. If you choose the right one, it will deliver a professional design, backed up with a solid set of useful features.
In this article, we will be reviewing the Motors car dealership WordPress theme. We'll be looking at the design of the theme, as well as its features, and how easy it is to use. By the end of this review, you will know whether this is the right theme for your business and your online car dealer website.
The Motors WordPress theme aims to provide you with all the features and functionality you need to build a car dealership website. Not only that but all of these features are wrapped up in a design that will give your website a professional and trustworthy appearance.
Once you've setup up your new car dealership website, you'll be able to attract new customers with your site's professional design. One those visitors arrive at your site, you can then promote your inventory in an easily searchable format to generate more sales.
That's the plan anyway. So let's take a look and see how this theme lives up to its objectives. We'll start out by digging into the features of this car dealership theme, before taking it for a test drive on a fresh installation of WordPress.
The team behind the Motors theme claim to have carried out extensive research of the car dealership industry. Especially investigating how those in this industry promote their businesses online. The aim of this research was to establish exactly what a good car dealership website should include.
After concluding their research, the StylemixThemes team set about adding all those essential features to their Motors theme. The result is that you should have access to all the tools you need to build a successful car dealership website, without having to rely on any third party plugins or tools.
The Motors theme does in fact, include some third party plugins in the package. However, these plugins have been handpicked by the development team, saving you from having to go out and find the right tools yourself.
Adding vehicles to your website with WordPress and the Motors theme is about as straightforward as it gets. Thanks to the enhanced inventory manager, you can add the main vehicle description, and then input all the necessary supporting information for each vehicle.
Thanks to the use of WordPress custom post types, your inventory content is kept separate from the other types of content on your website. This also means that the screen for adding new inventory includes a custom form. The form contains all the fields needed to store and publish the details for each vehicle.
These additional form fields include the technical features, specification, and options of the car. You can also input seller information, such as where they are located, and their contact details. You also have the option of uploading a PDF brochure to the listing. This is handy for giving your potential customers a resource they can download and take away.
Having a large, well-defined inventory is all well and good. However, if your visitors can't find what they are looking for, then you aren't going to make many sales from your website.
Thankfully, the Motors theme includes a powerful inventory search and filtering tool. This allows users to set as many filters as they need, helping them to find exactly what they are looking for.
Thanks to the power of Ajax, this filtering tool doesn't require any extra page loads. Simply enter the search keyword and then filter the results as needed. The results are then updated, instantly on the same page.
The Motors car dealer theme includes a custom finance calculator tool. This useful feature gives your shoppers an easy way to see whether they can afford a certain vehicle that you have listed, and if so, on what terms.
Depending on your preferences, each listing on your website can include this financial calculator. This handy feature saves your visitors the trouble of going elsewhere to see how affordable a vehicle they are interested in is.
Buying a motor vehicle can be difficult. With so many different variables to consider when making a decision, even between cars of the same make and model, it can be hard to know what the right option is.
To help overcome this problem, the Motors theme includes an easy to use listings comparison tool. Once the visitor has performed a search or while they are browsing your inventory, they have the option of selecting multiple vehicles to compare.
As each listing on your website should include the same sort of information, all of which is stored in custom fields, it makes comparing the features of the different vehicles very straightforward.
It's great to see this feature included in the theme. The fact that you can enable it for your potential customers, without any extra effort on your part is even better.
Thanks to the support for the leading WooCommerce eCommerce toolkit, adding an online store to your website is very straightforward. The WooCommerce plugin is actually included in the theme package. However, adding an online shop to your website is entirely optional.
If you do decide to enable this feature, you can easily start listing products for sale from your website. This could include the actual vehicles themselves, or supporting products such as car care items and driving accessories.
WooCommerce can be extended with countless add-ons. This means there really is no limit to the number of ways you can offer services and products from your website.
As well as a great selection of car dealer focused features, Motors isn't lacking in the more general features every good website needs. Here are some of the highlights from the long list of features that can be found in this theme.
Motors ships with the commercial Visual Composer plugin. This is one of the most popular premium plugins for WordPress. With Visual Composer enabled on your site, you get access to a professional drag and drop page builder tool.
This means you now have an advanced visual interface for creating custom page layouts, which just wouldn't be possible with WordPress alone. Furthermore, you can use Visual Composer to customize any of the page templates included with the Motors theme – again without the need to edit any code.
While the inclusion of the Visual Composer plugin will save you $34, its presence offers much more value than that.
When you check out the Motors theme demo, you will notice a number of slideshows in use. These slideshows have been created with the commercial Revolution Slider plugin, which is included in the theme package. Again, the inclusion of this commercial plugin will save you $19. However, more importantly, you can now easily edit any of the included sliders or start creating your own animated slideshows.
While you can easily customize almost any aspect of this theme, thanks to the detailed control panel and the drag and drop page builder tool, most users will be happy with the prebuilt demo version.
If you don't want to start making large changes to the theme, but still want to give your website a more personalized look, choosing from one of the five predefined color schemes should suffice.
When it comes to adding content to your site, you'll be pleased to know this theme includes 38 custom shortcodes. These shortcodes can be used to insert a range of useful page elements into your content, all at the touch of a button.
Examples of these shortcodes include calls to actions, buttons, forms, Google Maps, testimonials, special offers, icons and much more. As well as the 38 custom shortcodes, you also get access to all of the default shortcode elements found in Visual Composer.
More and more internet users are accessing websites on their mobile devices. With this in mind, it's vital that your car dealership website should be easily accessible on smartphones and tablets. Whether you want to help your target audience search for a new car on their mobile device, or simply find the way to your dealership from their smartphone, the Motors theme has you covered.
Not only is the design and layout of the Motors theme mobile responsive, it's also retina ready. This means your website and more importantly, its content, will be able to take advantage of the latest high-resolution displays.
If you want the photos of your inventory to really pop on these high-end monitors, this is one feature you will be pleased to see.
If you view the online demo version of the Motors theme, you will notice that it's essentially a fully built car dealer website. As you browse through the pages, you will see that there is a lot of content that is required to build a professional and useful online car dealership.
Therefore, if you want to build a similar website for your own business, you might be wondering how difficult and time-consuming this is going to be. Thankfully, the Motors theme includes a very straightforward content import tool. In just a few clicks, you can go from a bare bones WordPress installation to a fully populated car dealership site.
Of course, you will still have to add your own content and inventory. However, instead of starting from a blank slate, you can simply edit the contents of the prebuilt pages and listings to create your site.
To get a full sense of what Motors has to offer, be sure to check out the feature list on the product page.
When it comes to building a car dealer website with this theme, the process is surprisingly simple. After uploading the theme files to your WordPress website, and then activating Motors, you must install and activate the supporting plugins.
These are a mixture of free and commercial plugins and they can all be added to your site in just a few simple clicks.
Once these tasks have been taken care of, you can choose whether to import the demo content or not. Doing so is highly recommended. The one-click demo importer will setup the structure of your website and then populate it with sample data. You can then go in and edit the content to make it your own.
When it comes to customizing the site, you can use the included Visual Composer page builder plugin. The WordPress Live Customizer tool is also fully supported, allowing you to personalize your website through this visual editor and set of controls.
As mentioned, Motors makes use of WordPress custom post types. This means the different types of content you wish to publish on your site are stored in different post types. These include blog posts, vehicle listings, and eCommerce products.
After setting up the structure of your site or importing the demo content, you can then start adding your own listings and other personalized content to finish off your car dealer site.
The Motors theme has a highly professional look and feel that will give your online car dealer website instant creditability and appeal.
The selection of features on offer will help you to list your inventory in style, while also making them easily searchable by your visitors. The vehicle compare tool is a great feature that will make life much easier for your visitors and hopefully lead to more sales.
If you need to build a car dealer website, the Motors WordPress theme takes much of the work off your hands and will help you to deliver a professional website in no time at all.


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Q: Error inserting data derived from Inner Join query I'm attempting to query a MySQL database to INSERT the derived output from an INNER JOIN into a blank third table. Structure goes as follows:
Table A: firstName VARCHAR(100), lastName VARCHAR(100)Table B: firstName VARCHAR(100), lastName VARCHAR(100), extension VARCHAR(5)Table C: firstName VARCHAR(100), lastName VARCHAR(100), extension VARCHAR(5)
Table A has the list of names I need to match the extensions in Table B. Table B has names and extensions, but I only need a certain subset of these names and extensions (those which match the first and last names in Table A).
I'm able to run the following query successfully; however, I'm not entirely sure if I trust the output of 42 rows:
SELECT ta.extension, da.firstName, da.lastName
FROM <tableB> AS ta
INNER JOIN <tableA> AS da
ON (ta.firstName=da.firstName)
INNER JOIN <tableA> AS dl
ON (ta.lastName=dl.lastName)
ORDER BY da.firstName;

This query works, but again, I can't be positive that it's providing me with 100% accurate results (I'm worried a few may be missing, more than anything).
The following query does NOT work:
INSERT INTO <tableC>
SELECT ta.extension, da.firstName, da.lastName
FROM <tableB> AS ta
INNER JOIN <tableA> AS da
ON (ta.firstName=da.firstName)
INNER JOIN <tableA> AS dl
ON (ta.lastName=dl.lastName)
ORDER BY da.firstName;

The second query returns the following error:
ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'extension' at row 88
I've looked this up and I found that there's a hard max for the amount of rows a table can contain with long data-types - that's why I modified my table columns to be VARCHAR(100), down from VARCHAR(255).
Any ideas?

A: You are joining to Table A twice. You should only do it once so you can get the filtered records from Table B which have corresponding records from Table A
SELECT ta.extension, da.firstName, da.lastName
    FROM <tableB> AS ta
    INNER JOIN <tableA> AS da ON ta.firstName = da.firstName AND ta.lastName = da.lastName
    ORDER BY da.firstName;

For the ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'extension' at row 88 error, yes, it has something to do with the length of the value. Please show us the original schema of your tables before you modified them.
UPDATE 1
If the table schema in your question is in correct order, the records from the SELECT statement will be inserted in to that table with respect to the column's order. The error is caused by inserting the LastName to the Extension column.
From the table schema, you have firstName, lastName, and extension
Then in the SELECT statement, we should follow the same order:
INSERT INTO <tableC>
SELECT da.firstName, da.lastName, ta.extension
        FROM ...

Another option is to specify the column names in the INSERT INTO statement
INSERT INTO <tableC> (Extension, FirstName, LastName)
SELECT ta.extension, da.firstName, da.lastName
        FROM ...

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The Conference Board's consumer confidence index increased in August after a moderate improvement in July. The index rose to a reading of 122.9 (1985=100), up from 120.0 in July.
Consumers' assessment of the labor market was more upbeat but their outlook was mixed. The proportion expecting more jobs in the months ahead fell to 17.1% in August from 18.5% in July, while those anticipating fewer jobs edged down to 13.0% from 13.2%. The number of consumers stating that jobs were "plentiful" rose to 35.4% in August from 33.2% in July while those claiming jobs are "hard to get" fell to 17.3% from 18.7%.


The Intellian GX100PM is a 1m GX terminal specially designed for use in Defense and Intelligence applications. The GX100PM terminal is type approved for use on Inmarsat's Global Xpress Network.
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Hollywood moment: snow started falling on cue as the team filmed at a Cape Elizabeth tree farm. Photograph courtesy of Michael Nickles.
Michael Nickles started working in movies in the mid-'80s. As an actor, he landed a variety of roles (most memorably, perhaps, as Jim Morrison in Wayne's World 2), but he's lately focused on writing and directing. For much of his career, while working on horror flicks, animated kids' movies, and award-winning docs, he's also toiled away on a script for a holiday rom-com called Holly Star.
The story — about a twentysomething puppeteer who moves home during the holidays, runs into an old flame, and embarks on a treasure hunt — was supposed to be set in Chicago. Then, a few years ago, Nickles moved from Los Angeles to Saco to help out his parents, who'd retired there. It was to be a temporary arrangement. "Now, we live here by default," he says. "It just kind of happened." Soon, he started thinking of Holly Star as a film set in southern Maine.
"Coming here was kind of necessary," he says. "It felt like I'd rewritten the movie thousands of times, and I didn't have any life left in me for it. Reimagining it for Saco-Biddeford brought new creative energy." He wound up with a script chock full of local attractions, and two years ago, he shot most of the movie in a few weeks in December. It comes out this month, just in time for a Holly Star-–-inspired holiday swing through southern Maine.
Most of the action — from snowball fights to close calls with heating-oil trucks — plays out around the twin cities. Or rather, around "Winter Harbor," as a prop sign at Saco's Amtrak station announces in an early scene. That's not a reference to the Down East hamlet — it was the name of a 17th-century European settlement at the mouth of the Saco. That way, neither of the chummily competitive towns would feel like they got short shrift, Nickles says. Stroll city streets on both sides of the river this month at a holiday-themed edition of the Biddeford + Saco ArtWalk on December 7 and at the Saco Holiday Festival and Parade of Lights on December 8.
Opened in 1927, The Palace Diner (18 Franklin St.) is Maine's oldest diner and a cherished Biddeford favorite. Nickles filmed it all aglow at night, when it's usually closed. "I remember telling my cinematographer to think of Edward Hopper paintings — get me that classic vibe." If you duck in for coffee and a bite, though, don't try ordering whoopie pies, as Nickles' protagonists do. The 15-seater diner doesn't actually serve Maine's official state treats — Nickles sourced those from South Portland's Cape Whoopies. Sub a stack of Palace's famously fluffy flapjacks.
"Initially, I wrote the skating scene to be on a pond," Nickles says. "But then there was discussion of people falling through the ice and of hauling a ton of lights into the woods somewhere." The problem was solved when he saw Kennebunk's Waterhouse Center (51 Main St.), the open-sided pavilion that turns into a rink every winter. "Indoor skating usually doesn't look very romantic," Nickles says, "But that rink gave us an outdoor vibe — and without having to worry about anyone falling through." The night they shot, the wind chill was below zero, but some dozen hearty extras stuck it out.
The main character, Sloan, gets a job at a Christmas tree lot, set in Biddeford's riverside Mechanics Park. "Probably 10 times a day, we'd have people wander into the shot and ask how much something cost," Nickles recalls. In one scene, Sloan helps out at a tree farm where real-life visitors actually can buy trees. "My script literally says that she drives to the farm and a magical, perfect snow starts to fall," Nickles says. "The day we were shooting, that's what actually happened — it never works out that way." The venue was the Old Farm Christmas Place of Maine, in Cape Elizabeth (1148 Sawyer Rd.; 207-799-0096), where you can cut your own (or not), hop a wagon ride into the fields, and chug hot chocolate and cider.


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I've gotten rather fond of holo's lately and Treasures by Tanya has provided some of my faves.
Hypnotiq Blush has pink and lilac tones and that beautiful holo sparkle!
I love Born Pretty Store and added these gorgeous droplet shaped stones.
I managed to find some actual sunlight and snapped these pictures, doesn't this look gorgeous with those rainbows!
I can't believe how pretty this holo looks in the sunshine, it's a shame it's such a rare occurrence.


Delta Topside was a soldier who served in the war. When he settles down with his wife, Jeanne, he thought the world was okay for once in his life. He was proved wrong. When the bombs dropped, he and his family fled into the depths of Vault 111, only to meet fate worse than radiation.
It's not the first kiss that matters, it's the first kiss with that specific someone that matters.
Stumbling out of Vault 111, Renee Jones has one thought: find Shaun. But when she meets Piper Wright, she finds herself whipped into a post-nuclear annihilation adventure she never prepared for. Now, in the aftermath of learning the truth, she's broken down into a shell of her pre-war self...and a certain plucky reporter might just be her saving grace.
She thought a moment more before giving him a slow nod. "Yes. Synths are human, or at least eventually."
S1-53 stands on the line between Generation 2 and Generation 3. They have a synthetic body with the mental capacity of any human. Conflict arises, however, when they are treated like any other Gen-2 synth and expected to act just like them. S1-53 is naturally rebellious and the Institute stands above them with a white hot iron fist. When push comes to shove, someone has to break.


iFDG model adpated for FSX. Uses the default 2d 737-800 panel. No virtual panel. Another MD11 panel could be added. Sound set adapted by Mike Maarse.
The archive MD11AOM.zip has 133 files and directories contained within it.
As someone who tends to spend a lot of larger aircraft, this was something that caught my eyes almost immediately. Although it lacks certain features that you could use such as virtual panels, you can easily install other panel sets into it.
I never bothered to do so as I was more interested in the model being of the quality I needed. It's safe to say that after several hours of working around the skies with this model, I can quite happily confirm that this looks every bit the machine that it should.
The model deign is excellent, adapting an old mode into FSX and making sure it still look as good as its new contemporaries. This makes a big difference to the design and also ensures that you can get to grips with the style of the aircraft. The livery used looks brilliant and does a great job of selling the aircrafts style.
As far as the design goes, I was thoroughly impressed; not many accounts can carry the same depth as this model does, really giving you an opportunity to see what the aircraft has to offer from this perspective – the designers have done excellently.
Although it does not come with a virtual panel or extras like this, and it uses the old 737-800 panels, it still works perfectly well. Although you might have been hoping for a bit more in terms of functionality or added performance, this is still a piece of cake to work with.
However, one of the most important factors about the style of this aircraft is to make sure that it carries the scale and size and this does a wonderful job of that.
All of this comes together in the most effective manner possible making something that's genuinely realistic and carries the authenticity as it should.
The sounds are excellent, too. The work done by Mike Maarse on this side of the aircraft is really impressive, helping to sell the image and the atmosphere of the interior perfectly. The whole thing sounds excellent, and comes together in the most effective manner to really help sell the performance and the design as one package.
As a design and a representation of the aircraft it's supposed to be, this does a great job of capturing all of those little things that others might not expect to be significant. For me, though?


We're in Whitby, which by our list doesn't have a pier. The residents think it does, however, so at the invitation of the lighthouse keeper of the lighthouse on it we came, we saw, we climbed and flashed at the top of if.
We didn't know there was no camping round here, but had decided a night in a B & B was a necessity for the trip anyway. We checked into one, but they're much more expensive than we thought — thus instead of a room each and much needed privacy we ended up all sharing a family room.
just like a married couple not talking.


Before we can model the thread we need to understand the thread form. ISO Metric threads come with a Standard profile and as the V-Roller axle will use an M6 thread, I will describe the set-up of this size.
The ISO Metric thread profile is a fairly simple shape to construct in Blender and with the screw tool only one instance of the thread profile is required. As a model engineer I am not going to discuss thread tolerances or fits in any detail. You should however be aware that the finished male thread profile (bolt) should be kept below the bold blue line of the diagram above and the finished female thread profile should be kept above the bold blue line, otherwise the two won't fit together. If you need them tolerance classes are defined in ISO 965-1.
For this exercise we will make the thread to the nominal profile above. To construct the thread only two pieces of information are required the Major Diameter and the Pitch. A few of the more common sizes are detailed in the table below.
navigate to V-Roller.blend and select Object>V-RollerAxle. The axle will appear facing you in the front view. The screw tool spins a profile around the Z-axis so the profile needs to be created and the screw operation performed in front view. The Axle needs to be rotated so it is vertical in the front view. Rotate X -90.
Tab into edit mode and Shift-RMB select the 7 vertices making up the left-hand profile of the threaded section.
Copy these vertices Shift-D then Esc to leave them in place. Separate the copied vertices from the Object P. Its easier to work on the separated profile rather than the complete axle.
Tab into Object Mode and select the profile. Tab back into Edit Mode.
We now need to work out the Thread height. It could be done with trigonometry given that the pitch is 1mm and the thread angle is 60 degrees. But I find it easier to do in Blender.
De-select All vertices then to the left of the axle Ctrl-LMB click to add a new vertex.
Extrude this vertex on the X-axis 1mm. The thread form is an equilateral triangle so the sides of the thread triangle will be the same length as the pitch. Link select both vertices of the edge and copy them Shift-D on the Z-axis 1mm (the thread pitch).
Select the top left vertex of the two edges and snap the cursor to it Shift-s Cursor>selection.
Then select the vertex on the other end of the edge and with the Pivot set to 3D Cursor Rotate it 30 degrees.
Snap the cursor to the bottom left vertex and Rotate this -30 degrees.
Select All and remove doubles W.
Select the centre vertex and Extrude it on the X-axis then scale it to the cursor Scale X 0.
In the Mesh Tools 1 panel press Edge Length and select the centre edge. The Edge Length shown is the Thread Height.
Delete X the vertex on the left-hand side of the central edge. Select the three vertices of the thread profile and move G them towards the undercut at the bottom of the thread.
If you haven't already got one open split the 3D view and open the Outliner. Click the eye icon for the axle to remove it from view.
We can now use the snap tool to position the thread V profile.
Click on the magnet Icon on the view header. Select the 3 vertices of the V and move them G, whilst moving hold down Ctrl and move the cursor towards the end vertex. The V will snap into position.
We now need to add reference geometry to allow us to cut new vertices on the major and minor diameters.
Extrude vertex B on the Z-axis as detailed, then Extrude this X -0.216mm (1/4 H) then Extrude again on the -Z-axis ensuring the edge crosses the V.
To finish the reference edges, extrude a vertex from the major diameter across the v.
Select the three vertices of the V and cut Knife (Exact), snapping the cut Ctrl-LMB to the vertices of the major diameter.
Repeat the cut snapping the knife to the vertices of the minor diameter.
Delete the reference vertices, but ensure the top chamfered edge of the thread is not deleted, as this will be used to locate the cursor when we spin the thread.
Add Edges F to the vertices of the major and minor diameter. Threads usually have a radius at the root of the thread so we will add a fillet.
Select the vertex at the bottom of the minor diameter and snap the cursor to it Shift-S Cursor>Selection.
Shift-RMB Select both vertices of the minor diameter and copy them Shift-D, then Esc to leave them in place. With the Pivot in 3D Cursor Rotate the edge -30 degrees.
Select the vertex at the top of the minor diameter and snap the cursor to it Shift-S Cursor>Selection.
Again Shift-RMB Select both vertices of the minor diameter and copy them Shift-D, then Esc to leave them in place. This time Rotate the edge 30 degrees.
Where the two edges cross is the centre point for the bottom fillet. Cut a vertex on the intersect Knife (Exact) and using Ctrl-LMB to snap the cut to the rotated edge.
Snap the cursor to the intersect and Delete the reference vertices.
Select the vertex at the top of the major diameter and in the Mesh Tools panel set Degr:120 and Steps:4 Press Spin and the profile for one pitch of the thread will be created.
Select the vertex on the thread centreline (right hand vertex on the top chamfer profile) and snap the cursor to it.
De-select All vertices, then Link select the thread profile.
We need the thread to continue past the chamfer so we can later combine the chamfer detail to the thread. Counting the grid squares we will need 10 turns.
In the Mesh Tools panel set Degr: 360 Steps:32 and Turns:10 Make Sure Clockwise is not selected Press Screw and the thread will be formed.
Go into top view NumPad 7. De-select All then Link select the centre and chamfer vertices. Delete these X. Select All and Remove Doubles W.
bringing it back into view. If necessary move the thread in the Z-axis to align with the axle. Close the eye for the thread.
We now need to prepare the axle to accept the thread.
Go back into front view and select the axle. Tab into Edit Mode and select the top right vertex of the chamfer and copy it Shift-D moving it to the right of the axle on the X-axis. Extrude this vertex on the X-axis to the left of the axle. Repeat this on the bottom vertex loop of the thread section.
Go into edge select mode and paint a selection B B across the straight section of the thread.
Go back into vertex select mode.
back into view. RMB select the thread then Shift-RMB select the axle. Press Ctrl-J to join them into one mesh.
Tab into Edit Mode and De-select All then Link select the thread. With the Knife tool, cut two rows of vertices across the thread, Knife (Exact) and snapped Ctrl-LMB to the reference edges.
De-select All then Box select the vertices below the bottom reference edge. Zoom in MW to make sure all the vertices below the edge are selected (not the vertices on the edge) Delete these vertices X.
Box select the vertices above the top reference edge and delete these. Select the two reference edges and delete them.
The thread is now the correct length for the axle but there is still more to do. We must join the base of the thread to the under-cut and the top of the thread to the chamfer.
If you zoom in on the base of the thread you will see the flange that was originally on the axle sticking out past the edge of the thread (highlighted in green below).
To correct this we need to manually merge the vertices of the original axle flange onto the corresponding vertex of the thread.
RMB Select a vertex on the flange then Shift-RMB select the corresponding vertex on the thread.
Press Alt-M to merge the vertices and choose "At Last" from the popup menu.
Repeat this around the circumference of the axle.
The intersect between the top chamfer and the thread is a much more complicated detail. Because the intersect doesn't occur on a set plane there are no vertices on the line of intersection. Therefore we cannot simply merge vertices to obtain the correct profile. The first part of combining the thread and chamfer will be to create a line of vertices on the intersect between the two sets of faces.
Go into face select mode and box select the top section of thread and chamfer. Press Shift-H to hide all the other vertices.
We can now use another of the python scripts to cut the vertices on the intersect of the faces. Split the 3D view and open a Script Window (detailed description in 608-4). With all the faces still selected, in the Script window click on Scripts>Mesh>Geom Tool and from the popup menu click on "intersect: face(s) (cut)". A new loop of vertices will be created on the intersect between the faces. Go back into vertex select mode, select All and Remove Doubles W.
A description for loading the script is also available from this page.
With the new edge created on the intersect its now simply a matter of deleting the vertices, edges or faces that are not required. It sounds simple but this will test your patience and call on many of the editing techniques you have learned.
Only delete X a few vertices at a time, if necessary Ctrl-Z will undo the change. In places you may need to merge vertices Alt-M and other places you will need to add new faces F. Its also worth noting on one side of the axle the thread intersects the chamfer in two places.
As a new user this may take a fair amount of time, but as your experience grows this will only take a few minutes and the end result is well worth the effort.
Once complete press Alt-H to bring back all the hidden vertices. Select All, Remove Doubles W and Set Smooth W.
That completes the top thread. Rather than repeating all that work on the bottom thread we can simply copy the top one and reposition the copy to complete the axle.
RMB the inner loop of vertices on the undercut next to the main body of the axle.
Copy these Shift-D and move them to the side.
In front view Rotate the copied vertices 180 degrees.
Separate the copied thread from the axle P. Tab into Object Mode, Select the copied thread and then Tab back into Edit Mode.
Select the top row of vertices and snap the cursor to them Shift-S Cursor>Selection.
Tab into Object mode and in the Mesh panel click the Centre Cursor button. This will move the object centre to the centre of the top row of vertices.
Select the axle and delete the vertices of the bottom thread.
Alt-RMB select the inner loop of vertices where the under cut was.
Snap the cursor to the centre of these vertices.
Tab back into Object Mode and select the thread.
With the thread still selected Shift-RMB select the axle and joine the two objects into one Ctrl-J.
Tab back into Edit Mode, select All and Remove Doubles W. to complete the axle.
This axle will have 7274 vertices, compared to 1418 vertices of the axle without the detailed thread.
You may also want to set up a camera and lights and render an image of the shaft as detailed in 608-9.
Tab into Object Mode and save your work.
In the next section we will do a dimensioned drawing of the V-Roller components.


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Q: Retreiving the real hostname of VMs under KVM using Virsh In KVM Support, virsh list --all lists all the domain name created and not the real host name of the VM. i.e it will list only the display name which will be specified during the creation of VMs.
However as very well known thing is, user can change the real hostname of the VM which is  under KVM, after the change is made the domain name which was specified during the creation remains the same.
virsh list --all lists the same domain name and not the real hostname of VM
So how can i retrieve the real hostname of the VM under KVM using virsh command?

A: virsh man page says that hostname can be displayed with virsh domhostname <domain> command.
libvirt version 0.9.12 does not support this, but with libvirt version 1.2.1 this option is available.


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Skoltech's Academic Council has met for the first time
"We have waited a long time for this. Now we can actually say that we started to work on our entity". In these words, Skoltech President Alexander Kuleshov opened the first meeting of the Academic Council that was held in Skoltech's top-notch CEDL.
The Academic Council is a new stage in Skoltech development, and a part of an overall change in the management model in accordance with the shared governance principle. The council is a collegial management body performing general governance of educational, research and innovational activities of Skoltech. The Academic Council will have the decision power in the following areas: Research and Innovation: development and approval of general strategy, establishment, reorganization and termination of programs, evaluation of the results of research and innovation activities, and approval of basic terms of Russian and international academic partnerships; Education: determination of the basic principles of education and teaching process, approval of educational programs, and determination of the requirements for applicants and graduates; Faculty: determination of the requirements for faculty and research staff positions, appointment and promotion of faculty.
The Academic Council is consisted of 19 members, out of which three are administrators – President Alexander Kuleshov, the Provost, Prof. Rupert Gerzer and Alexander Safonov, VP for Academic Relations, who is the academic secretary of the council. Other members are seven professors, who were elected by their colleagues: Iskander Akhatov, Alexei Buchahenko, Boris Fine, Clément Fortin, Ildar Gabitov, Artem Oganov and Keith Stevenson. The remaining nine are external members, prominent scientists, representatives of business and representatives of the Skolkovo Foundation: Jean Botti, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at Philips, Alexander Fertman, Director of Nuclear Science and Advanced manufacturing cluster at Skolkovo Foundation, Grigory Kabatyanski, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Andrei Okunkov, the Fields Medal winner, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, Pavel Pevzner, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry, University of California, Valeri Rubakov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Galina Tsirlina, Doctor of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Edward Crawley, MIT Professor and Skoltech's founding President, and Nikolay Kudryavtsev, the rector of the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute.
The purpose of the first meeting was to officially begin the Council's work with selecting chairmen for the key committees and discussing the evaluation process of Skoltech's centers of research, education and innovation (CREIs). The elected committee chairmen are: Clément Fortin, the Dean of Education will be the chairman of the Educational committee, Provost Rupert Gerzer will be the chairman of the Faculty Appointment committee, and Iskander Akhatov will be the chairman of the Committee on research programs and projects (R&I).
The substantial part of the meeting was the discussion about the evaluation process of the CREIs, as presented by the Council member Gregory Kabatiansky. The evaluation process is the beginning of an expert assessment of the functioning of the CREIs. At this stage of Skoltech's development, it is important to evaluate the preliminary results of the work of the centers in order to plan further a sustainable research development. This project is expected to involve about 100 scientists from the world's leading research centers. The project also involves leaders of industrial and business communities. According to the results, the experts will present their recommendations to the leadership of the Institute.
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.: https://www.skoltech.ru/
A delegation of the Ethiopian Government visited Skoltech
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Hi-ranking Ethiopian Government officials, led by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Demeke Mekonnen, visited Skoltech to get acquainted with
the work of the institute and assess the prospects for cooperation. Prior to its visit in Skoltech, the delegation visited at the Skolkovo foundation.
The Ethiopian delegation included the Chairman of the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation Schiefer Shigute, the Minister of Education Abijah Ahmed, the Minister of Science and Technology Grum Abay Teshome, Ethiopian Ambassador in Russia Getahun Mekuriya, Director General of the Ministry of Science and Technology Fysseha Yitagesu and CEO of the National Council for science, technology and innovation of Ethiopia, as well as staff of the diplomatic mission.
Alexei Sitnikov, Skoltech's Vice-President for Institutional and Resource Development, held a short presentation about the possible cooperation in the field of education and research programs, and also talked about plans for the development of material-technical base of Skoltech. Prof. Edward Crawley, Skoltech's founding president, told the guests about the principles of Skoltech and its educational programs.
The visit took place within the framework of the Ethiopian National Council on the development of science, technology and innovation. It is an important part of the national development program for the period 2015-2020, the result of which should be to create conditions for the transformation of the country in 2025 to a better-developed society, with a higher level of income per capita. A special role in this lies with the development of education, the use of best foreign technologies, the results of scientific research in various sectors of the economy, primarily in the industrial and agricultural production – all of which, Skoltech can provide.

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Introduction to React and Drupal
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React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to create interactive user interfaces. Drupal is a content management system with a powerful web services API. There are a couple of different ways that React and Drupal can be used together. This series of tutorials explores some of those options, and the related concepts and terminology.
Our goal is to provide you with some baseline information you can use to get started integrating React and Drupal together. After you've completed these tutorials you should be able to better envision how to use these two amazing technologies to solve some of your own issues. Additionally, we hope you'll come away from this with enough knowledge to start exploring further on your own. We link to additional resources liberally, and encourage you to explore beyond the examples we provide, read the linked resource, and dig in. There's no substitute for exploration, and experimenting with real code when it comes to learning these things.
Get an overview of React in our article 8 Things to Know About React for Drupal Devs.
In this series we'll cover:
An introduction to the technical side of React, terminology, and information about where to find more resources
Learn about using Drupal, and the JSON API module, to turn Drupal into a powerful web services API provider
Learn about the use-cases for adding React to a Drupal site
Walk through increasingly complex code examples that start with a "Hello World!" application, and end with a fully decoupled application that can list, create, update, and delete content in Drupal
Learn about how to authenticate a Drupal user via an API using React
Compare through example code and use-cases the differences between integrating React into an existing Drupal theme or module, and creating a stand-alone React application
Why React?
React is an open-source JavaScript library that lets you build interactive front-end interfaces. React has a large ecosystem of packages and tools to extend the base library, as well as an active community of users. And, if you've been following along with either the Drupal community or the front-end developer community over the last few years, you'll likely already know that there's a lot of excitement around React, and for good reason.
Did you know that Drupal is looking to adopt React to create a better user experience for site builders and content creators? While it's not set in stone yet, there's a good chance that in the near future knowing how to use React, and especially how to integrate it with Drupal, will become an important skill for Drupal developers.
For a high-level overview of React check out 8 Things to Know About React for Drupal Devs.
Then dive in and learn more in the React basics tutorial before learning to add React to an existing Drupal theme.
Why Drupal?
Drupal is a powerful content management system that makes it easy to create editorial workflows and interfaces that meet your specific needs.
For a high-level overview, especially in the context as a backend for React applications, check out An Introduction to Drupal for React Developers.
Then dive in and learn more about configuring Drupal to act as a web services API in Configure Drupal to Provide Data via JSON API, and how to Retrieve Data from an API with React.
Our goal is to introduce you to the fundamental concepts that you'll need to understand when using React and Drupal together. We don't answer every single question you might have (though feel free to let us know about your questions), or cover every possible way of doing things. Rather, we want to give you enough information about how all the moving parts work so that you'll be able to start experimenting and solving real-world problems ASAP.
The applications we build in these examples aren't the prettiest, or most complete. We've chosen to forgo things like adding lots of CSS and animations in order to keep things focused on the fundamental concepts. That said, we encourage you to take the code and improve it with CSS, animations, and better error handling. Then share it with us so we can see what you've come up with!
React Basics: In this tutorial we introduce some of the fundamental concepts of React -- including components, state, and ES6 -- and talk about some of the additional things you'll eventually want to learn as you get further into using React.
Decoupled vs. Progressively Decoupled: In this tutorial we explore the difference between fully decoupled and progressively decoupled applications. We'll explain what they are, and provide links to resources where you can further explore the advantages and disadvantages of both. Throughout this series we'll start by creating a progressively decoupled application where we use React within the context of an existing Drupal theme in order to provide some extra UX features. Eventually our application will read and write data via Drupal's API. As the code base becomes larger and more complex we'll look at how to create a stand-alone React application. Hopefully, going through the process of writing code that uses both of these methods will help you better understand which will work best for your use-case.
Connect React to a Drupal Theme: In this tutorial we'll create a "Hello World" React application and demonstrate how to connect that React JavaScript library, and our custom JavaScript code, to a Drupal theme using asset libraries.
Create a React Component: In this tutorial we'll create two new React components that, combined together, allow us to wrap the existing content of a node in a React application containing a button which can be used to toggle the visibility of the node's content. This is a great example of how you can use React to enhance an existing Drupal theme without having to go fully decoupled.
Configure Drupal to Provide Data via JSON API: In this tutorial we'll look at how to install and configure the JSON API module in order to allow Drupal to provide a web services API that we can interact with via React. This will allow us to retrieve things like a list of nodes from Drupal, and make use of that list in our React code. This can be useful when using React in conjuction with an existing theme, and is required when creating a stand-alone React application.
Retrieve Data from an API with React: In this tutorial we'll look at how JavaScript can be used to make HTTP requests and retrieve data from a web services API. Specifically, we'll talk about using the ES6 native Fetch API and fetch() function. We'll go over the anatomy of a fetch request, and also discuss alternatives and when they might come in handy.
Use React to List Content from Drupal: In this tutorial we update the React application we started earlier to use the JavaScript Fetch API to retrieve a list of nodes from Drupal's API, loop over the items in the list, and display them with React. This is a good example of how you can work with data either from Drupal, or an external API, to provide unique user experiences.
Add, Edit, and Delete Drupal Nodes with React: In this tutorial we lay the groundwork for an application that can not only list, but also create, update, and delete nodes via Drupal's API. This involves different types of HTTP requests and a whole list of new React components. This tutorial also talks a bit about authentication, and how embedding a React script into an existing Drupal page differs from a stand-alone application when it comes to making authenticated requests. This provides the architecture, and sets the stage, for the application we'll build in the next tutorial.
Build an Interface to Edit Nodes with React: In this tutorial we'll combine everything we've learned up to this point in order to create a React application that allows a user to create, read, update, and delete content. This version is still embedded into an existing Drupal page. It might not be super practical, but it does a good job of demonstrating how a React application is structured, as well as more complex API requests.
Create a Fully Decoupled React Application: In this tutorial we change gears and start work on creating a fully decoupled React application.
Start with create-react-app: In this tutorial we'll use create-react-app to scaffold a new fully decoupled React codebase. And optionally learn how to integrate that into a Drupal theme or module.
Make API requests with OAuth: In this tutorial we'll learn how to configure the Simple OAuth Drupal module and use a password grant flow to create authenticated API requests.
Use Fetch and OAuth to Make Authenticated Requests: In this tutorial we'll add a login form to collect a username and password. Then exchange those for an OAuth access token. And finally update existing fetch requests to use the OAuth access token.
Extend React with Google Material UI: In this tutorial we'll use yarn or npm to add third party JavaScript libraries to your project. In this example we'll add the Google Material UI package which contains UX components that can incorporate into our application to give it a more Material UI like feel without having to write much additional code.
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In case you had forgotten, we have always said that experiences make the best presents and now more research has been conducted to prove it!
Are you the type of person who likes to have a gift list of ideas for your loved ones, but each year it seems harder and harder to get the pen moving… brain freeze? One question… What to buy?
The thought of Christmas shopping may be off the radar as the temperatures soar and summer distracts us from wrapping up… both ourselves, from the winter chill, and of course presents in all shapes and sizes. However, Christmas is coming, and undoubtedly there may be a birthday gift or anniversary present you need to find between now and then too.
As a provider of luxury gift experiences we like to make people happy and did our own research last year. What we found was that even those who put thought and effort into choosing presents, sometimes got it wrong. In fact, 93% of respondents have received a gift they didn't want.
To support our findings… Paul Ratner's recent article on Big Think refers to a far more qualified source in the shape of psychology professor Thomas Gilovich from Cornell University; who has conducted numerous studies and has concluded that happiness is derived from experiences, not things.
So, how does that make you (the buyer) feel?
Was the car park rage, waiting in shopping till queues or staying in for the delivery man worth it? Not to mention the exchange, returns and refunds. It would be good to get it right more often than not, yes?
Experiential purchases are evaluated more on their own terms and evoke fewer social comparisons than material purchases.
Far from money buying happiness, our research for www.whatireallywanted.com also found that gifting an experience brought the longest lasting pleasure to their recipients rather than an expensive possession.
74% had received a gift experience and 98% of these said the experience made them feel happy.
66% said they would buy a gift experience for someone.
For those who chose gift experiences and vouchers, they stated they wanted to give their loved ones an opportunity to do something new (73%), create special memories (65%) and it is nice to give something you can share with someone (74%).
So, when you are next thinking about what you to buy for that special person… rather than think about clothes, shoes or gadgets… maybe think about what you would like that person to experience.
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I love seeing the old pictures! How exciting for you guys to be able to do this.
Am looking forward to seeing more pics of the renovation.
What you're doing is awesome.
That you're sharing it with us is even awesomer! More awesome. Whatever.
So pleased of your progress and dream! Will be watching your progeess, cheering you on ever step of the way.
Hey there! I'm a reporter with Channel 8 in Reno and I would love to do a story on this project! I couldn't find your contact information anywhere, so I'm leaving a comment here. Please contact me at sydnee.scofield@kolotv.com if you get the chance. Thank you so much!
Hi, I photographed this property several years ago when it was first listed for sale I believe. If you would like copies please let me know and I will track them down. Very cool that you are doing this, I love history. Did you figure out what the little building shell on the N.W. rear of the building was for? There was no roof on it when I was there and had not been for some time.
I think the building shell you're referring to would be the stone pony express building. As for the photos, we would love to have copies of anything that gives us clues to the past history of the Union even if it's only recent history.
I've already started with a sifting table and found a few old items but nothing of any value. Right now, the yard has too many nails and modern debris to allow decent metal detecting. BTW, I've seen Odeon tokens but not a Union token. Do you know if a Union token exists?
I searched tokencatalog.com and couldn't find any info for a Union hotel token. If one does exist, I'm sure it would be extremely rare! Whenever you are ready for a buried treasure hunt, feel free to give me a call 775-232-7697 I'm usually available friday-sunday.


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Vigilant Labels Wins the Penfolds Wine "Maximum Funding" Competition
Conor Cawley December 14th 2017 1:30 pm
A little competition can do a lot for a burgeoning startup. Whether it's an injection of much-needed capital or connection with a local influencer, the right competition can make the path to success a little easier on a company that deserves a chance. And the Penfolds Wine "Maximum Funding" competition can be that guiding light for their winner, Vigilant Labels.
The competition, named after Penfolds' first Chief Winemaker Max Schubert, comes with a grand prize of $33,000 in capital investment, representing Schubert's 33 years of dedication to the Penfolds brand. Penfolds hopes that the prize money will go to supporting the future success of their innovative idea, in honor of Max.
"Penfolds is thrilled for our winners and the amazing work they are doing in their respective industries," said Emma Brown, Penfolds Marketing Director. "Our three finalists honor the hardwork and dedication of Max Schubert, who forever altered the course of the modern day Australian wine industry. Max Schubert wasn't just part of Australia's wine revolution – he led it, and we're confident our entrepreneurial winners will do the same in their business endeavors."
Vigilant Labels, the grand prize winner of the competition, deserves the honor for tackling a complex healthcare problem. This startup seeks to solve the critical workflow challenges faced by anesthesiologists, pharmacists and nurses throughout the care process. The company improves anesthesia syringe labeling by utilizing technology and integrations to electronic medical record software systems.
Penfolds also awarded the second and third place finalists with a $5,000 capital investment in future business endeavors, which went to Unbound and TWIP respectively. Unbound is a sexual wellness company for women, working to destigmatize female sexuality by providing a sophisticated shopping experience, while TWIP is an online, membership-based social marketplace that connects people to experiences and travel companions based on their personality.
These up-and-coming startups are not only innovating new products, they're doing so in a way that makes the world a better place. Fortunately, the judges recognized their noble causes and awarded them with the funding they deserve. So raise a glass to the Penfolds Wine "Maximum Funding" competition winners. They deserve it!
Read more about startup competitions on TechCo
This article was brought to you in partnership with Penfolds. To find out more about the Penfolds Maximum Funding competition, click here.
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Conor is the Senior Writer for Tech.co. For the last five years, he's written about everything from Kickstarter campaigns and budding startups to tech titans and innovative technologies. His extensive background in stand-up comedy made him the perfect person to host tech-centric events like Startup Night at SXSW and the Timmy Awards for Tech in Motion. You can email Conor at conor@tech.co.


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April 17, 2015 /in Places, Policy, WPHF News /by Lynn
The Winter Park Health Foundation's (WPHF) Coordinated Youth Initiative (CYI)—a collection of school-based health and wellness programs reaching some 190,000 local students over the past 17 years—was highlighted at an Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) philanthropy breakfast on April 9.
OCPS, on a mission to engage community partners in its Philanthropic Strategic Plan (PSP) which is designed to help ensure student success, hosted the breakfast to provide an update on progress and showcase community partners already involved.
The PSP features eight priorities with the greatest potential for improving the success of local students. One priority calls for providing a licensed practical nurse, registered nurse or nurse practitioner in every OCPS School in the belief improved wellness is linked to better academic performance.
Former Florida Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings, WPHF Trustee and Vice Chair for Children & Youth, represented WPHF and reviewed its long term partnership with OCPS including support for nurses at 12 OCPS schools in Winter Park, Maitland and Eatonville.
In the belief that Healthy Kids Make Better Students and Better Students make a Healthier Community, WPHF provides funds helping schools upgrade from a basic school health aide to a fulltime licensed nurse—typically an RN—to tend to the health needs of students.
In addition, it supports nurse practitioners in School Based Health Centers at Winter Park High School and Glenridge Middle School.
Well aware that mental health issues can become a barrier to learning, WPHF also helps provide full-time mental health professionals based at each of the 12 schools. And, it supports Healthy School Teams at each campus, charged with promoting a culture of health and wellness among students and staff.
All programs are dedicated to making sure students are at their healthiest and able to do their academic best.
Some of the other breakfast presenters included U.S. Rep. Dan Webster; Janice Abrew-Coriano, representing Rosen Hotels and Resorts; Nancy Gidusko, Community Relations Director for Walt Disney World; Diane O'Dell, Vice President, Community & Diversity Relations & Executive Director, Universal Orlando/Foundation, and Michael Boos, Vice President Zoological Operations, SeaWorld Orlando.
For more information about the CYI programs, visit www.healthykidstoday.org, a website created and maintained by WPHF. Click here to visit the WPHF website.
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Creating an Emotionally Healthy School ClimateOctober 28, 2017 - 12:13 pm
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WPHF was one of four organizations to publicly respond to the transportation recommendations at the Regional Transportation Summit.
Eatonville CRA Project to Receive AwardAugust 31, 2017 - 11:49 am
The project will be recognized for utilizing the planning process to incorporate the principles of healthy community design into the town's new CRA master plan.
Leadership Eatonville Class II BeginsAugust 20, 2017 - 11:27 am
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How the 2020 US Election was REALLY Stolen
Chilton Williamson Jr.
I am too ignorant (entirely so, in fact) of how computer systems work and how they can be rigged, of polling and ballot procedures, and of how votes are counted and reported to the election authorities to have an informed opinion about whether the election this year was electorally stolen or not, though the proliferation of staggered vote dumps, and their frequently near-unanimous contents, certainly strike me as hugely suspicious. And while it is by now apparent that all the usual irregularities and frauds that have occurred in every previous democratic election in history, here and every other country in the world, did so again in this one, there is no means to prove that they were sufficiently numerous and widespread to have determined the final count that appears to have given Joe Biden the presidency. In that sense, then, the 2020 was not stolen—at least, it cannot be demonstrated to have been an act of highway robbery. But miscounting and misreporting votes is far from being the only way in which a democratic election can be stolen, as I believe this one was.
One of them is by changing the voting rules in the period leading up to an election. No one denies that this happened in 2020; numerous state and local governments, indeed, have boasted of having done just that from their concern for the mental, emotional, and physical welfare of the citizenry during the pandemic. By doing so, however, they ignored entirely the interests of the political candidates at every level of government, who went into the election season that began last year armed with strategies whose effectiveness depended upon the assurance that their campaigns would follow a fixed schedule allowing them exactly so many months, weeks, and days to build their case for election or reelection, and present it to the electorate before the voters went to the polls on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November: a sure and regularized process that is not only of enormous benefit to the candidates, but also to the voting public itself. In 2020, state and local governments robbed both parties of that benefit by allowing voters to cast their votes before the incumbents had the time they deserved to fulfill the political commitments they had made during previous election cycles and finalize their political accomplishments, and that the electorate needed to judge for itself whether they had done so–or not.
For instance, President Trump's success in bringing about the Jerusalem Accords came rather too late to benefit him in the campaign. So, more importantly and obviously, did the success of Operation Warp Speed in creating a vaccine for Covid-19 in the space of a few months. By the time these things had been achieved, nearly a half of the country had voted—much of it, of course, for the President's challenger. The same thing goes when we turn the picture about from the positive to the negative side: A similar proportion had cast its vote before the most shocking and certain details of Cosa Biden's diplomatic and financial intrigues could be revealed. All this was the result, not of blind chance or cruel nature, but of the Democratic Party's long formulated scheme to steal elections by early and mail-in balloting, loose restrictions with regard to the proper marking and signing of ballots, the shady collection of votes (by "vote harvesting" and other means), and so forth. The pandemic was thus a gigantic windfall for them. It also provided the sort of crisis that Democrats have candidly stated should never be permitted to go to waste.
Lastly–and most critically– there were the media, which did their utmost to hide from the public the positive facts of the Trump Administration's progress, accomplishments, and victories—while suppressing every story that could harm the prospects of the opposition party, including those about the mental incompetence of the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, his sons' international financial intrigues, their father's role in them for his own financial benefit, and his repeated lies asserting his ignorance of these things.
The Bidens, père et fils, may eventually face justice on these specific charges. Their overall and consistent mendacity, abetted and supported by the press and the electronic media, like their conspiracy of silence against President Trump, are not criminal, and hence immune to prosecution. Morally and in practice, however, the media's behavior amounts to one huge but simple thing: the effective theft of an American national election. And so it should be written in the proverbial history books to come.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.


The holidays are here, and it is time to savor all the joy they bring — friends, family, meals together, giving & gratitude. Of course, along with them are hearty dishes and sweets that can certainly wreak havoc on our bodies. Casseroles laden with cream, sugary cakes and cookies, and other tempting empty calorie bombs will adorn the dining tables we surround. Unless we do something about it, that is!
Don't worry — I'm not suggesting you do away with your dessert table altogether, but those unrefined sugars are what we are trying to avoid. If you swap out the unhealthy stuff for a natural sweetener that is a better option, you'll still get the sweet tastes everyone loves without the slew of chemicals. Try raw organic honey. Local honey is best, which can typically be found at your local health food store. You can also look for coconut sugar or coconut syrup, or even use dates. If you are looking for a low-glycemic option, Xylitol is the best option and can ordered through Amazon.


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@l3_suite("RXInterval");

@interface RXIntervalTraversable : NSObject <RXInterval>
-(instancetype)initFromMagnitude:(RXMagnitude)from toMagnitude:(RXMagnitude)to length:(RXMagnitude)length absoluteStride:(RXMagnitude)stride count:(NSUInteger)count;

@property (nonatomic, readonly) RXMagnitude from;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) RXMagnitude to;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) RXMagnitude length;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) RXMagnitude stride;
@property (nonatomic, readonly) NSUInteger count;
@end

@l3_test("defaults to a stride of 1.0 if neither stride nor count is specified") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXInterval(0, 1);
	l3_assert(interval.stride, 1.0);
}

@l3_test("intervals are closed under default stride") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXInterval(0, 1);
	l3_assert(RXConstructArray(interval.traversal), (@[@0, @1]));
}

@l3_test("stride is positive when to is greater than from") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXInterval(0, 1);
	l3_assert(interval.stride, l3_greaterThan(0));
}

@l3_test("stride is negative when to is less than from") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXInterval(1, 0);
	l3_assert(interval.stride, l3_lessThan(0));
}

id<RXInterval> RXInterval(RXMagnitude from, RXMagnitude to) {
	return RXIntervalByStride(from, to, 1.0);
}

@l3_test("calculates count as the length divided by stride when stride is provided") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXIntervalByStride(0, 20, 5);
	l3_assert(RXConstructArray(interval.traversal), (@[@0, @5, @10, @15, @20]));
}

@l3_test("intervals are closed when specifying stride") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXIntervalByStride(0, 1, 0.5);
	l3_assert(RXConstructArray(interval.traversal), (@[@0, @0.5, @1]));
}

id<RXInterval> RXIntervalByStride(RXMagnitude from, RXMagnitude to, RXMagnitude stride) {
	RXMagnitude absoluteStride = RXMagnitudeGetAbsoluteValue(stride);
	NSCParameterAssert(absoluteStride > 0.0);

	RXMagnitude length = RXIntervalGetLength(from, to);
	return [[RXIntervalTraversable alloc] initFromMagnitude:from toMagnitude:to length:length absoluteStride:absoluteStride count:ceil((length / stride) + 1)];
}

@l3_test("calculates stride as the length required to take count steps across the closed interval when count is provided") {
	id<RXInterval> interval = RXIntervalByCount(0, 10, 5);
	l3_assert(interval.stride, 2.5f);
}

id<RXInterval> RXIntervalByCount(RXMagnitude from, RXMagnitude to, NSUInteger count) {
	NSCParameterAssert(count > 0);

	RXMagnitude length = RXIntervalGetLength(from, to);
	RXMagnitude absoluteStride = count > 1?
		length / (RXMagnitude)(count - 1)
	:	length;

	return [[RXIntervalTraversable alloc] initFromMagnitude:from toMagnitude:to length:length absoluteStride:absoluteStride count:count];
}

@implementation RXIntervalTraversable

#pragma mark Construction

-(instancetype)initFromMagnitude:(RXMagnitude)from toMagnitude:(RXMagnitude)to length:(RXMagnitude)length absoluteStride:(RXMagnitude)stride count:(NSUInteger)count {
	if ((self = [super init])) {
		_from = from;
		_to = to;
		_length = length;
		_stride = to > from?
			stride
		:	-stride;
		_count = count;
	}
	return self;
}

#pragma mark RXTraversable

@l3_test("traverses the values in its interval at a given number of steps of a given stride") {
	l3_assert(RXConstructArray(RXIntervalByCount(-M_PI, M_PI, 3).traversal), l3_is(@[@-M_PI, @0, @M_PI]));
}

@l3_test("saves its place so it can traverse more values than fit in the buffer") {
	l3_assert(RXConstructArray(RXIntervalByCount(0, 1, 32).traversal).count, 32);
}

-(id<RXTraversal>)traversal {
	__block NSUInteger count = 0;
	return RXTraversalWithSource(^bool(id<RXRefillableTraversal> traversal) {
		[traversal addObject:@(self.from + (self.stride * count++))];
		return count >= self.count;
	});
}

@end

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WhatsApp: What does the factory worker emoji mean?
Do you work in a factory? Then the factory worker emoji is ideal for you. Here we tell you its meaning and characteristics.
The massification and popularity of emoticons has generated a new way of communicating moods, feelings, reactions and even complete sentences. However, despite having the same Unicode encoding, its interpretation is subject to different cultural contexts depending on the environment of the person who uses them. This is the case of the factory worker emoji.
The arrival of emojis to the digital world has made it easier for users to express their feelings in conversations on WhatsApp and other platforms. They are generally divided into six categories including yellow faces, food, animals, weather conditions, numbers, and symbols.
This emoji was named "Man Factory Worker" and was added to Emoji 4.0 in 2016. It has two variations, both male and female.
Clearly the "Man Factory Worker" works as a welder in a factory, as his name implies. It is a combination of the Man and Factory emoji. We can see this emoticon carrying a burning welding machine in his hands. Due to the specific skills that this job needs, it is used mainly in relation to men, who are actually welders by profession and work in an industrial company or service station. Even users can apply it for people who have excellent welding skills, regardless of whether they do it in their own homes for personal purposes.
It is important to mention that, despite having the same Unicode encoding, each platform can vary the design of each emoji to adapt to its operating system or interface. On many occasions this generates a great difference in the interpretation of the same symbol.
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