Marshall linebacker Chase Hancock (37) chases after Miami (OH) quarterback Gus Ragland (14) during the first half of a game on Sept. 2, 2017, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, W.Va.
Marshall wide receiver Tyre Brady (8) hauls in a touchdown pass over Old Dominion cornerback Brandon Addison during the second quarter of a game on Oct. 17, 2017, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, W.Va.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In a year with a large veteran presence, a single newcomer will ultimately make the biggest difference.
Marshall enters the 2018 campaign with experience, depth and talent on both sides of the football, but the Thundering Herd does have one very large question mark looming at arguably the toughest position on the gridiron — the quarterback spot.
Chase Litton — a three-year starter under center — passed up on his senior season at MU by entering the NFL Draft, which led to him landing on the Kansas City Chiefs roster as undrafted free agent.
Litton was the only quarterback under center for the Herd in 2017, a season in which the Green and White went 8-5 overall, tied for third at 4-4 in the East Division of Conference USA, and also defeated Colorado State (31-28) in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.
Marshall enters its ninth season under head coach Doc Holliday — who is 61-42 overall and 39-25 in C-USA play prior to 2018 — and will be operating a new offense under first-year offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey.
The Herd returns their leading three rushers and six of their top seven receivers from a year ago, as well as 11 of their top 14 tacklers from a year ago. In all, MU returns 19 starters on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.
Besides the departure of Litton (3,115 passing yards and 25 touchdowns), Marshall also suffered key losses to graduation in players like tight end Ryan Yurachek (4-year starter with a team-high 10 TD grabs in 2017), kicker and punter Kaare Vedvik (led MU with 71 points, 10-of-16 on field goals and had a 44.0 punt average), and linebacker Davon Durant (6 tackles for loss, 2 forced fumbles and 1.5 sacks).
Here are some breakdowns of the Thundering Herd as they head into the 2018 campaign, which starts Sept. 1 when Marshall travels to face the Miami RedHawks in Oxford, Ohio.
Sophomore Garet Morrell and freshman Isaiah Green — a pair of redshirts in the MU program a year ago — join Wagner graduate transfer Alex Thomson in trying to win the quarterback position.
Morrell started two games for the Herd in 2016 against Louisville and Western Kentucky, a pair of losses. Thomson produced 25 TDs and 11 INTs over three years and 24 games at Wagner.
The Herd return five linemen with a minimum of six starts apiece last fall, led by season-long starters in Tarik Adams, Levi Brown and Jordan Dowrey. Nathaniel Devers and Alex Mollette finished the year in regular starting roles as well.
Redshirt sophomore Tyler King (820 yards, 7 TDs) and redshirt senior Keion Davis (812, 6TDs) led the Herd in rushing a year ago and will be coming back to a group that also includes redshirt senior fullback Anthony Anderson.
Redshirt senior Tyre Brady (942 yards, 8 TDs) is the primary weapon in Marshall's passing attack, with Marcel Williams (512 yards, 2TDs), Willie Johnson (443, 4TDs) and Obi Obialo (238 yards) also returning to a receiving corps that made major strides a year ago.
Redshirt sophomore Cody Mitchell is the only current tight end on the MU roster with a start to his credit, but Mitchell will be joined by Armani Levias, Devin Miller and former quarterback Xavier Gaines in battling for the massive task of replacing Yurachek.
The Herd should be promising on the defensive side of the ball this year, primarily because of the experience and depth on each level of the field.
The deepest part of this team sits at the linebacker spot, which will again be led by redshirt senior and 2017 Team MVP Chase Hancock (team highs of 128 tackles and 9.5 tackles for loss). Also returning are seniors Artis Johnson (55 tackles) and Frankie Hernandez (63 tackles), as well as junior Omari Cobb (37 tackles) and sophomore Jaquan Yulee (15 tackles).
Junior Chris Jackson (62 tackles, led 2017 team with 3 INTs) leads the cornerback group, which also returns senior Kereon Merrell (2 tackles), junior Jaylon McClain Sapp (13 tackles) and sophomore Jestin Morrow (15 tackles).
Junior Malik Gant (100 tackles) anchors a safety unit that also returns sophomores Brandon Drayton (62 tackles) and Nazeeh Johnson (29 tackles).
Senior Ryan Bee (51 tackles, team-high 5.5 sacks in 2017) is back to lead a defensive front that also returns seniors Marquis Couch (41 tackles) and Malik Thompson (5 tackles), as well as juniors Juwon Young (41 tackles), Channing Hames (24 tackles) and Aaron Dopson (8 tackles).
With Vedvik gone, the only experience Marshall has in this area of the game is having Keion Davis and Marcel Williams back as kick returners.
The Herd has three players on the 2018 roster — junior Justin Rohrwasser, sophomore Robert LeFevre and freshman Shane McDonough — battling for the kicking and punting duties.
Hyleck Foster's graduation also leaves MU looking for a new punt returner.
Marshall faces a series of road tests this year, despite playing half of its 12 regular season contests at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
The Herd opens the season at Miami of Ohio, starts Conference USA play at Western Kentucky and finishes the year at Florida International. Marshall, however, does not play in consecutive road contests and completes its non-league schedule with formidable tests at South Carolina and versus visiting North Carolina State.
The Herd also hosts defending C-USA champion Florida Atlantic on Saturday, Oct. 20.
Marshall was chosen to finish second in the C-USA East Division preseason media poll, trailing only Florida Atlantic. FAU received 22 of the 26 first-place votes, with the Herd getting the other four.
Middle Tennessee, Florida International, Western Kentucky, Old Dominion and Charlotte completed spots three through seven in the East Division poll.
North Texas received 18-of-26 first-place votes to win the C-USA West Division, with Louisiana Tech (4), Alabama-Birmingham (3) and Southern Mississippi (1) also receiving votes while rounding out the top four spots. Texas-San Antonio, Rice and Texas-El Paso completed the bottom third of the West Division poll.
The Conference USA title game will be played on Dec. 1.


AngularJS Interview Questions For Experienced. If you are preparing for AngularJS Interviews, this article will help you to find real-time scenario based AngularJS interview questions. Here Coding compiler collected a list of 63 AngularJS job interview questions for freshers to professionals. Go through this below list of advanced Angular JS interview questions and crack your next AngularJS job.
Can you explain a situation, when to use dependency injection in AngularJS?
Can you explain Factory method in AngularJS?
Can you explain SPA Architecture in AngularJs?
Can you explain Angular Js Boot Process?
Explain Currency Filter and when to use it?
Explain Directives In Angular Js.
Explain Order By Filter angularjs?
Explain Templates In Angular Js.
How Angular Js Integrates With Html?
How can you use "$rootScope" in AngularJS?
How can you use Factory method in AngularJS?
How did you perform validation in AngularJs?
How To Implement Internationalization In Angular Js?
How To Make An Ajax Call Using Angular Js?
How To Validate Data In Angular Js?
On Which Types Of Component Can We Create A Custom Directive?
What Are Angular Js Expressions?
What Are The Advantages Of Angular Js?
What are the binding directives in AngularJs?
What Are The Controllers In Angular Js?
What Are The Differences Between Service And Factory Methods?
What are the directives in AngularJS?
What Are The Filters In Angular Js?
What Are The Services In Angular Js?
What is $rootScope in AngularJS?
What is currency filter in AngularJS?
What Is Data Binding In Angular Js?
What Is Deep Linking In Angular Js?
What is routing concept in AngularJs?
What Is Routing In Angular Js?
What Is Scope In Angular Js?
What is Single Page Application in AngularJs?
What is SPA in AngularJs?
What is the use of currency filter in AngularJS?
What is the use of Factory method in AngularJS?
What Is Use Of $routeprovider In Angular Js?
When did you use currency filter in AngularJS?
Which Are The Core Directives Of Angular Js?
Which Components Can Be Injected As A Dependency In Angular Js?
What is the purpost of using $http service and ajax request in AngualrJS?


text:
Free Festival Shuttle
Hayley Jensen
Hayley Jensen is a singer-songwriter from Sydney NSW. From a young age growing up in regional Australia, Hayley was attracted to the honest storytelling of Country Music. Her musical journey has been eclectic, exploring styles as she sought out her true sound, ultimately returning to the music that started her journey.
Jenson's first taste of success came as a finalist on Australian Idol 2004 securing her place in the hearts of millions across the country. Ten years later Hayley again proved a hit on Australian TV getting to the battle rounds of The Voice and attracting 1.8 Million views on YouTube. From performing at festivals to travelling with the ADF to entertain troops in the Middle East alongside Angry Anderson & Beccy Cole, she has certainly covered some ground.
Hayley has worked with top talents including award-winning Country Music producers Matt Fell and Lindsay Rimes. The year 2016 was big for Jensen, releasing her first new music in a few years and seeing chart success (Two iTunes #2 spots and #1 Radio spot) and playing with acts like James Blundell.
Towards the end of 2016 Hayley won the Southern Stars Rising Female Artist Award and followed that up with her first ever iTunes #1 Album Chart position with "Past Tense & Present Peace" debuting there on release in early 2017. The coming year is looking like another massive year of growth for this amazing vocalist.
Broadbeach Country Music Festival
The Viper Creek Band

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Why is the government threatened by women's studies centres in Indian universities?
We need women's studies to not just survive but to thrive in our universities, because, despite its problems, it reminds us that gender is not something we are but something we do
BY SHILPA PHADKE | MUMBAI |
Women's Studies was introduced into the National Policy of Education in 1986. The XII Plan records that the University Grants Commission (UGC) has supported Women's Studies in universities and colleges since the VII Plan period
Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field that grew out of the feminist movement. In India, WS is often seen to be linked to the publication of Towards Equality: A Report on the Status of Women in India in 1974 which brought out the low social status of women in the country. In response, the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) initiated a programme in WS in 1976. Predating this, the Research Centre for Women's Studies (RCWS) was started in 1974 at the SNDT Women's University in Mumbai. Alongside, in 1981, a Conference on WS was convened in Bombay at the RCWS which resulted in the creation of the Indian Association for Women's Studies (IAWS) a national forum of individuals engaged in research and activism related to gender.
Women's Studies was introduced into the National Policy of Education in 1986. The XII Plan records that the University Grants Commission (UGC) has supported Women's Studies in universities and colleges since the VII Plan period. It also notes that the XI Plan sought to upgrade these into teaching and research departments. Currently, there are 159 Women's Studies Centres in universities and colleges in India and some outside universities supported by the ICSSR. The XII Plan sought to enhance and expand the Women's Studies Centres.
Like other such disciplines that grew out of a radical politics, Women's Studies too, embodies the contradictions inherent when the ideas of an intensely political movement are sought to be institutionalised within a university. There are many critiques, not just in India but also elsewhere, of the ways in which Women's Studies has quickly acquired a canon and its high priestesses. The presence of such signs of institutionalisation are also ironically the markers of a thriving academic discipline – positions under the UCG plans, demands for publication, and rising numbers of MA and PhD graduates in the discipline. Such institutionalisation notwithstanding, work in women's studies continues to challenge the status quo and not just in relation to gender and patriarchy.
The discipline itself is self-critical. In 2006, S Anandhi and Padmini Swaminathan examined WS courses in universities in Tamil Nadu and argued that many of these courses were not seen as too political and often regarded as soft options. In keeping with this assumption, Women's Studies in many universities often ends up getting students who do not get admission into core disciplines. However, as Nithila Kanagasabai points out in an unpublished Women's Studies MPhil dissertation in 2016, which examines two such courses in two universities in Tamil Nadu, students of Women's Studies in these universities are not just transformed by the subject but might in turn be seen as transforming Women's Studies as feminist scholars who are organically located.
In March, this year, there was a scare when the UGC was unable to confirm until the very last minute whether funding committed to Women's Study Centres under the XII plan would continue after the plan period ended. This threatened the positions of those faculty and staff appointed under the XII Plan. Eventually, the UGC has granted only a one-year extension to the faculty and staff under the XII plan positions so these remain precarious. The delay in extension was misreported by some publications as the imminent closure of women's studies centres in some universities. This is far from reality. While funding cuts governed by a neo-liberal view of education are hitting all universities and certainly women's studies will be affected as well, it is not so easy to shut down decades of work and politics.
There is no denying that the presence of Women's Study Centres and the concomitant enshrining of feminism within the university – for when you have a Women's Study centre in your university you must be a signatory to the politics of feminism in some form, even if it is a liberal version – it makes political right wing ideologues very nervous. For feminism in any shape or form is an anathema to them.
In 2003, the NDA government sought to rename Women's Studies Centres in various universities as Women and Family Studies Centres as part of the Tenth Plan. This clearly was no innocuous move as Women's Studies scholarship incorporates a stringent critique of patriarchal gender relations in the family. The change in nomenclature would have signified a shift in focus and was clearly an attempt to subvert feminist agendas.
Feminism challenges many assumptions that right wing ideologues hold dear: the gendered division of labour, the hierarchy between women and men, indeed the gender binary itself. If feminism via its Women's Studies centres suggests to us that all who appear as men are not necessarily men and all those who were assigned sex female at birth might not want to live as women then anything is possible. This is deeply threatening to the present government.
This is precisely why we need women's studies to not just survive but to thrive in our universities, because despite its problems it reminds us that gender is not something we are but something we do.
http://indianexpress.com/article/education/why-is-the-government-threatened-by-womens-studies-centres-in-indian-universities/lite/
Rights on Minerals Should be Vested in Tribals'
Facebook takes Swamy's page down, not the fake one #Hahanews
Yogi Adityanath's Temple Run Hours After PM's Appeal To Avoid Gatherings
University under Siege: A Case of Misplaced, Misdirected Outrage
Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Violence against Women, Women Rights
The discipline of women's studies grew out of feminist movements and is closely inter- twined with social development. Hence, study of such crucial subject is important


Photo of Chevrolet C4500 52689. Image size: 1600 x 1200. Upload date: 2008-02-27.	Number of votes: 57.
(Download Chevrolet C4500 photo #52689) You can use this pic as wallpaper (poster) for desktop.
Vote for this Chevrolet photo #52689. Current picture rating: 57 Upload date 2008-02-27.
Chevrolet C4500 gallery with 24 HQ pics updates weekly, don't forget to come back! And check other cars galleries.


AS INVENTIONS go, the public company is one of capitalism's greatest. Initial public offerings promote innovation, by providing an exit route for entrepreneurs; being listed makes a firm open to scrutiny; and ordinary people have a chance to invest in capitalism's wealth-creating machines. …Activist hedge funds take small stakes in firms and act like political campaigners, trying to win other shareholders' support for their demands: representation on companies' boards, cost-cutting, spin-offs and returning cash to shareholders.
These are good points, specifically the idea that average people have access to big business. Naturally, the problem is that any stock purchase is a gamble, and that the "ordinary people" referenced above might not understand the risk and would lose savings.
Our answer to that, culturally, has been to dissuade investment. We surrender the world of high finance to the images of Patrick Bateman and Gordon Gekko because they make convenient movie characters, while our schools do little to teach people how to build an investment portfolio over time.
When politicians express concern about America's widening wealth gap, the answers always seem to be income-based: Proposals tend to include increasing the minimum wage or raising tax earners who make more than $250,000 per year. These are placebo solutions. Wealth isn't about earnings, but savings and investment. Since lower-income earners have fewer opportunities to do that (with less money to save and invest), wouldn't the smart policy solution be to help them maximize those opportunities?
Part of that is learning how publicly traded companies work, and understanding the shareholder's rights and privileges. Civics classes teach us that we each have a vote and a right to speak out about our government – and that if we have some sort of beef, we can organize and change things with enough time and effort. Similar lessons about publicly traded companies are, unfortunately rare.
‹ PreviousWhat's wrong with NBC News? Lots more than Brian Williams.


text:
OSA Publishing > Optics Letters > Volume 44 > Issue 24 > Page 5925
100-km-sensing-range single-ended distributed vibration sensor based on remotely pumped Erbium-doped fiber amplifier
Lieke D. van Putten, Ali Masoudi, and Gilberto Brambilla
Lieke D. van Putten, Ali Masoudi,* and Gilberto Brambilla
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
*Corresponding author: A.Masoudi@soton.ac.uk
Lieke D. van Putten https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4428-1727
Ali Masoudi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0001-6080
Gilberto Brambilla https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-0499
L van Putten
A Masoudi
G Brambilla
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.005925
Lieke D. van Putten, Ali Masoudi, and Gilberto Brambilla, "100-km-sensing-range single-ended distributed vibration sensor based on remotely pumped Erbium-doped fiber amplifier," Opt. Lett. 44, 5925-5928 (2019)
Optical Sensors, Measurements, and Metrology
Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry
Distributed feedback lasers
Optical amplification
Optical frequency domain reflectometry
Wavelength division multiplexers
Revised Manuscript: October 21, 2019
Manuscript Accepted: October 24, 2019
In this Letter, we report a single-ended distributed vibration sensor with the 100 km sensing range. This sensing range is achieved by remotely pumping two pieces of Er-doped fibers incorporated along the sensing fiber with a 1480 nm Raman fiber laser at the front end. A strain resolution of 100 nϵ combined with a spatial resolution of 2.6 m is achieved at the far end of the fiber.
Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
50-km single-ended spontaneous-Brillouin-based distributed-temperature sensor exploiting pulsed Raman amplification
Y. T. Cho, M. Alahbabi, M. J. Gunning, and T. P. Newson
57-km single-ended spontaneous Brillouin-based distributed fiber temperature sensor using microwave coherent detection
Sally M. Maughan, Huai H. Kee, and Trevor P. Newson
Raman amplifier-based long-distance remote, strain and temperature sensing system using an erbium-doped fiber and a fiber Bragg grating
Ju Han Lee, You Min Chang, Young-Geun Han, Haeyang Chung, Sang Hyuck Kim, and Sang Bae Lee
Opt. Express 12(15) 3515-3520 (2004)
Distributed fiber-optic vibration sensing based on phase extraction from time-gated digital OFDR
Shuai Wang, Xinyu Fan, Qingwen Liu, and Zuyuan He
Distributed acoustic sensor based on a two-mode fiber
Mengmeng Chen, Ali Masoudi, Francesca Parmigiani, and Gilberto Brambilla
F. Peng, H. Wu, X.-H. Jia, Y.-J. Rao, Z.-N. Wang, and Z.-P. Peng, Opt. Express 22, 13804 (2014).
A. Masoudi, J. A. Pilgrim, T. P. Newson, and G. Brambilla, J. Lightwave Technol. 37, 1352 (2019).
S. Dou, N. Lindsey, A. M. Wagner, T. M. Daley, B. Freifeld, M. Robertson, J. Peterson, C. Ulrich, E. R. Martin, and J. B. Ajo-Franklin, Sci. Rep. 7, 11620 (2017).
P. Jousset, T. Reinsch, T. Ryberg, H. Blanck, A. Clarke, R. Aghayev, G. P. Hersir, J. Henninges, M. Weber, and C. M. Krawczyk, Nat. Commun. 9, 2509 (2018).
Z. N. Wang, J. J. Zeng, J. Li, M. Q. Fan, H. Wu, F. Peng, L. Zhang, Y. Zhou, and Y. J. Rao, Opt. Lett. 39, 5866 (2014).
H. F. Martins, S. Martin-Lopez, P. Corredera, M. L. Filograno, O. Frazao, and M. Gonzalez-Herraez, J. Lightwave Technol. 32, 1510 (2014).
A. Masoudi and T. P. Newson, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 011501 (2016).
J. Pastor-Graells, J. Nuno, M. R. Fernandez-Ruiz, A. Garcia-Ruiz, H. F. Martins, S. Martin-Lopez, and M. Gonzalez-Herraez, J. Lightwave Technol. 35, 4677 (2017).
D. Chen, Q. Liu, and Z. He, J. Lightwave Technol. 37, 4462 (2019).
J. Zhang, H. Wu, H. Zheng, J. Huang, G. Yin, T. Zhu, F. Qiu, X. Huang, D. Qu, and Y. Bai, J. Lightwave Technol. 17, 1 (2019).
G. Cedilnik, G. Lees, P. Erik Schmidt, S. Herstrøm, and T. Geisler, IEEE Sens. Lett. 3, 1 (2019).
Y. T. Cho, M. N. Alahbabi, G. Brambilla, and T. P. Newson, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 17, 1256 (2005).
A. Masoudi and T. P. Newson, Opt. Express 25, 32021 (2017).
M. Chen, A. Masoudi, and G. Brambilla, Opt. Express 27, 9684 (2019).
H. F. Martins, S. Martin-Lopez, P. Corredera, P. Salgado, O. Frazao, and M. González-Herráez, Opt. Lett. 38, 872 (2013).
Aghayev, R.
Ajo-Franklin, J. B.
Alahbabi, M. N.
Bai, Y.
Blanck, H.
Brambilla, G.
Cedilnik, G.
Chen, D.
Chen, M.
Cho, Y. T.
Clarke, A.
Corredera, P.
Daley, T. M.
Dou, S.
Erik Schmidt, P.
Fan, M. Q.
Fernandez-Ruiz, M. R.
Filograno, M. L.
Frazao, O.
Freifeld, B.
Garcia-Ruiz, A.
Geisler, T.
Gonzalez-Herraez, M.
González-Herráez, M.
He, Z.
Henninges, J.
Hersir, G. P.
Herstrøm, S.
Huang, J.
Huang, X.
Jia, X.-H.
Jousset, P.
Krawczyk, C. M.
Lees, G.
Li, J.
Lindsey, N.
Liu, Q.
Martin, E. R.
Martin-Lopez, S.
Martins, H. F.
Masoudi, A.
Newson, T. P.
Nuno, J.
Pastor-Graells, J.
Peng, F.
Peng, Z.-P.
Peterson, J.
Pilgrim, J. A.
Qiu, F.
Qu, D.
Rao, Y. J.
Rao, Y.-J.
Reinsch, T.
Robertson, M.
Ryberg, T.
Salgado, P.
Ulrich, C.
Wagner, A. M.
Wang, Z. N.
Wang, Z.-N.
Weber, M.
Wu, H.
Yin, G.
Zeng, J. J.
Zhang, J.
Zhang, L.
Zheng, H.
Zhou, Y.
Zhu, T.
IEEE Sens. Lett. (1)
J. Lightwave Technol. (5)
Nat. Commun. (1)
Rev. Sci. Instrum. (1)
Sci. Rep. (1)
Fig. 1. Experimental setup for a long-range DVS with two remotely pumped EDFAs. EOM, electro-optic modulator; ISO, isolator; EDFA, erbium-doped fiber amplifier; DWDM, dense wavelength division multiplexing; AOM, acousto-optic modulator; WDM, wavelength division multiplexer; PZT, Piezo-electric actuator; FBG, fiber Bragg grating; C, circulator; IMZI, imbalance Mach–Zehnder interferometer; PD, photodetector.
Fig. 2. Measured Rayleigh backscattered signal (blue) with a combined EDFA and Raman amplification using a launched power of 40 mW combined with a 500 mW 1480 nm pump; (orange) without the use of optical amplification with the 220 mW launched power.
Fig. 3. 3D map of the strain distribution along the sensing fiber as a function of (a) time and distance and (b) frequency and distance.
Fig. 4. 2D cross-section of the 3D diagram of Fig. 3 at a specific location on the sensing fiber where strain is applied (99.3 km). (a) 2D cross-section in time domain, (b) 2D cross-section in the frequency domain at fixed position on the fiber, and (c) 2D cross-section in the frequency domain at fixed frequency.
Fig. 5. Strain response of the fiber to the PZT input voltage for 10 Hz sinusoidal signal measured by the DVS.


text:
Fun with Flags T-Shirt
Go to Amazon.com
Who makes the cutest couple?
The Big Bang Theory News > CBS Announces Season 4 Premiere
CBS Announces Season 4 Premiere Posted August 23, 2010
CBS has announced the details for the upcoming fourth season premiere of The Big Bang Theory. The show is moving to Thursdays at 8/7c and the season kicks off on September 23rd.
"The Robotic Manipulation" — Penny finds herself along for the ride on Sheldon's first date ever; while Wolowitz finds a new use for a robotic arm, on the season premiere of THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, Sept. 23 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Mayim Bialik (Blossom) returns as Amy Fowler, Sheldon's potential love interest, in the episode. You can view more information on the episode in our Episode Guide.
Category: The Big Bang Theory Episode: Robotic Manipulation Tags: episodes, Season 4
The Robotic Manipulation
Season 4, Episode 1 - Aired September 23, 2010
When Penny urges Sheldon to go on his first date, she finds herself dragged along to watch. Meanwhile, Howard finds himself in an uncomfortable position when he discovers a new use for a robotic arm.
CBS Announces Season 4 Finale April 30, 2011
CBS has announced the fourth season finale of The Big Bang Theory.
CBS Announces Episode 4.23 April 30, 2011
CBS has announced the penultimate episode of Season 4.
CBS Announces Episode 4.22 April 7, 2011
CBS has announced the details for the May 5th episode of The Big Bang Theory.
CBS Announces Episode 4.21 March 29, 2011
CBS has revealed the details for the April 28th episode of The Big Bang Theory.
CBS has revealed the details for the April 7th episode of The Big Bang Theory.


There is a home visiting service providing for patients in Shaftesbury, Gillingham and the surrounding area. This is for people who prefer to be treated in the comfort of their own home or for those with mobility problems or transport difficulties. The cost of this service varies between £30 – £50 depending on travel costs and the extent of treatment needed.


text:
Hazel Spire: fiction - poetry - art
Making important marks on paper for half a century
Kindle Readers Choice cover
Books by Sarah Sanchez
"The way I go to school" page in an exercise book Mum saved from 1956
Under Sandown Pier. We enjoyed the beach in all seasons.
One of the gifts celebrating my move to our little-house-on-the prairie in 2010.
NG Map of Iran showing tribal areas
For my retirement party, coworkers made palette centerpieces - with cupcakes frosted by 5th grade.
Postage stamps from Iran in the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Book Launch: Secret of the Seventh Gate, with antique samovar
Chocolate cake made by a writer friend in Texas, for my farewell soiree in 2010. This reminds me of why I wanted to retire.
Sample of art supplies inviting me back
Sandown High School
Above is my first-ever poem accepted for publication. My brother's classmate Garry still has a copy of our high school magazine, The Sandonian, 1966. I'm glad he put it on Facebook because I lost my copy, and had forgotten half the lines!
Logo for Diana Nyad, my inspiration, who swam from Cuba to Florida in her sixties.
Christmas Cross for Brenda
"Chip" looks down at my writing desk. He was a gift, with chocolates, from a 3rd grader and her mom when I received a contract for SECRET OF THE SEVENTH GATE, after 42 rejections and countless revisions. Little did we know that three years would pass before the book actually came out.
First book cover. It arrived just when I was about to look for another publisher. Glad I hung in there! It is still in print.
Winfield Arts and Humanities, KS
Sponsor of the annual KANSAS VOICES writing competition in poetry and prose for all ages. See web site for rules. Deadline is usually in March, with an awards banquet in May.
36 Victoria Road. We moved here in 1961.
Sandown Grammar School badge/motto
Pin Oaks in October
Sample planner page. If I didn't reach a goal set for the week, I would forgo the reward for that week.
Ellen & Anne-Marie at Sedan library on Dr. Seuss's birthday, one of several kids' events I've attended since moving here.
Favo(u)rite ice cream, called a "99" with a Cadbury's chocolate flake.
Jumping these waves at age 10 or so, I knew I wanted to write a book some day.
Author Central Page on Amazon
One way to order books and follow event updates
Snookum the Stalker
Impressionistic Pond
IN DIANA'S FOOTSTEPS ~ Oil painting of a tree in Kensington Gardens
Red Rose Stepping Stone
Kaleidoscope Quilt inspired by Ricky Tims
Curious George at Sedan Library
Display at the Beatles Experience Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Anniversary Cake for our True Brit group, The Colony, TX , April 2010
FRESH FROM THE INKWELL
Catch a Falling Writer
Tags: falling, words, Shakespeare, love songs, falling in love, gel pens, fountain pens, journals, love-hate relationship, signing books, Writer's Life, addiction
Nothing beats a bit of local success for spurring you on strive for world-wide fame!
ASSIGNMENT: "FALLING"
I can't help falling in love with words:
Saxon, Germanic, Latin, or coined by the Bard;
short, long, terse, flowery, subtle, shiny words.
I can't help falling in love with a silver-nib fountain pen;
syringing black ink from a bottle like a junkie, or
swapping out a cartridge for my next fix,
scratching thoughts on hammered vellum.
I can't help falling in love with gel pens;
green, magenta, turquoise, according to mood
scribbling vignettes in a composition book.
As the Thames flows to the sea, so this ink
is my life-blood shed for the world to read.
I can't help falling in love with another journal,
lined or unlined with space for sketching;
blank, dated, or headed with quotes and triggers.
I can't help falling in love with a keyboard;
cutting, pasting, polishing, and printing in selected fonts.
I can't help falling in love with visions of a table
stacked with a new book series for me to sign,
fans lined up outside the door and around the block.
Sales plummet, royalties are paltry, publishers merge,
doors close to unknown, un-agented authors, and yet…
I can't help falling in love with writing, even as I hate it.
Please help me, I'm falling in love again.
In the words of punk band Chumbawamba:
I get knocked down, but I get up again.
You're never gonna keep me down.
Like the Beatles, I get by with a little help
from my friends—the Prairie Writers group. Read More
Independence Public Library Podcast
My recent interview and readings from two middle-grade mysteries.
Kansas Authors Club
It's good to be a part of something bigger! A writer need not be alone.
Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore in Emporia, Kansas
A independent bookstore in Emporia, Kansas. Like them on Facebook! They stock all my books and hold an open mic event every first Friday. Drop in and browse! There's a Mexican restaurant next door.
The P3 Press: a Division of Brown Books Publishing Group
The author-friendly team that made ARROWHEAD'S LOST HOARD possible.
Royal Fireworks Publishing Co.
One of the best-known providers of books for gifted students and home-school curriculum. Accepted SECRET OF THE SEVENTH GATE after 42 rejections and revisions!
My favorite site for social and professional networking.
Iranian Christians International
Colorado-based organization helping Farsi-speaking Christians to immigrate and resettle in host countries.
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
An fun group of people, worldwide with local chapters, who share a love of literature for young people. A valuable resource for those who create it, or aspire to.
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS: POETRY OF TIDE AND TIME
Children's Novels
Arrowhead's Lost Hoard
P3 Press 2008. 135 pages. "I can't wait to read it to my students!" ~ Susan See, LISD Teacher-of-the Year Finalist. "A heartwarming story of family, acceptance, and buried treasure." ~ Laura Edge, Children's Author
Secret of the Seventh Gate
Royal Fireworks Press 2001. 123 pages. Mystery for middle grades, enjoyed by readers age 7-70.
"It was so exciting I even got up early just to read it." ~ Joanne (8), England.
Riddle of the Samovar
SECRET OF THE SEVENTH GATE sequel. The Texas 1979 reunion between the Graham & Darabi families is overshadowed by the Iran hostage crisis.
Bugsy, Slug, the Beatles and Me
Fly with Lucy in the Sky, back to a time when everything was fab!
A Song For Irene
A tribute to my teacher, Miss Irene Wheeler: See BLOG post 9-4-12
Thomas Hardy's Turning Point
What made novelist Thomas Hardy switch to poetry for the rest of his life? Published in Quartos, UK.


text:
Q: Make object face and move towards player Im making a simple 2d ship game for my school project. Right now the ai will face the player and follow them at a certain distance, then when close enough, rotate so that it can fire at the player from each side of the ship. But with my current code the enemy will move sideways towards the player at the firing range, which obviously shouldn't happen.
So how can i make the enemy only move forwards and remain perpendicular to the player.
Here is my current code:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed, stopD, retreatD, Chase_range, distance,firing_range;
    // declare player and enemy as transform to retrieve their positions
    public Transform player;

    void Start()
    {
        player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").GetComponent<Transform>();

        Chase_range = 14;
        firing_range = 10;
        stopD = 6;
        retreatD = 4;

    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {

        // Distance between the enemy and player positions
        distance = (Vector2.Distance(transform.position, player.position));
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, player.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (distance > stopD)
        {
            // move towards the player if the distance is greater than stop distance
            speed = 10;

        }
        else if (distance < stopD & distance > retreatD)
        {
            speed = 0;
        }
        else if (distance < retreatD)
        {
            // move away from the player if the distance is less than stop distance (avoid collision)
            speed = -10;
        }

        if (distance > Chase_range)
        {
         // have to use vector3 since vector2 does not work with the z axis
         // calculate the difference in the position vectors
         Vector3 vectorToTarget = player.position - transform.position;
            // Calculate the angle between the objects and convert the result to degrees
         float angle = Mathf.Atan2(vectorToTarget.y, vectorToTarget.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            // convert the angle into a quaternion so that it can be used by slerp
         Quaternion playerq = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle, Vector3.forward);

         transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, playerq, Time.deltaTime * speed);
        }
        if (distance < firing_range)
        {
            float Rfactor;
            Vector3 vectorToTarget = player.position - transform.position;

            float angle = Mathf.Atan2(vectorToTarget.y, vectorToTarget.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            if (angle < 0)
            {
                Rfactor = 90;
            }
            else if (angle > 0)
            {
                Rfactor = -90;
            }
                Quaternion playerq = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle + Rfactor, Vector3.forward);

            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, playerq, Time.deltaTime * speed);
        }

    }

And don't mind the shitty comments, its for school.
Any other comments about the code would also be greatly appreciated

A: With some quick googling I found this answer:
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1125044/how-do-i-move-an-object-relative-to-another-object.html
Using this you can move the enemy forward relative to the player. If you rotate the player now you will have the desired result: the enemy will move with the player but stay focused on it

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Location Based Information System– We have the industry's leading solution for geographic information system, integrating geospatial intelligence for public utilities and transportation sector.
High Performance Computing– Our high performance computing expertise spans over three decades. Being a leader in the supercomputing space, we enable governments to make faster responses.
E-Government– Fujitsu has the experience and technical know-how to bring all kinds of public services web-ready.
Data Center and IT Managed Services– Our state-of-the-art data centres offer a complete range of services that focus on high availability, high levels of security, and high levels of efficiency that is scalable according to departmental or project specifications.
Cloud Services– Fujitsu provides one of the most complete and proven cloud portfolios in the market. We act as a single point of contact for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of any cloud-based services from IaaS, PaaS to SaaS. These are scalable to the needs of each department or project.
Fujitsu Hong Kong today announced that it has entered into Standing Offer Agreements (SOA) with the government of HKSAR on Total System Solutions for Server Systems (Category B)(1) and Quality Professional Services (SOA-QPS3 Service Category 2 and 3 Major Services Groups)(2). The agreement period for the SOA on Total System Solutions for Server Systems takes effect from 1 February 2013 for 36 months, while the SOA on Quality Professional Services is effective for 48 months from 31 July 2013.
Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited announced today that it has been appointed by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) as its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Managed Services provider for application hosting services.
Fujitsu Hong Kong today announced that it has entered into a Standing Offer Agreement (SOA) with the Government of the HKSAR to provide data center services to the Government's various bureaux and departments. The agreement will last for a period of 84 months until September 2022.


text:
West's Awake: Sporting Stars Trump Recession
Spring comes with a blaze of sungold over the whole of Clare and the west. The Ides of March never began better or brighter. Daffodil days for sure. Mating frogs fill the garden pond with the glittering mottled spawn of the new season. Tuppence and Thruppence, the two young cats, begin sprinting up to the very tips of the two apple trees, the chapel bell rings with that peculiar clarity you only get on crisp spring days. We emerge from winter. The early days of March stretch their evenings just as fluently as the young cats in the treetops. Tomorrow, I feel, the rooks will begin building their nests in the tall evergreens at the end of the garden. And, despite the economic recession, it has been a great sporting weekend for Ireland and the Irish. A weekend when the tough men got going when the going got tough. There is a special feeling and passion involved in beating England at rugby. We managed that by a single point in the end in a Croke Park, where more nails were chewed to the quick in the last couple of minutes than is normally the case even on All-Ireland day. It was a bruising and grueling battle from the start. The "hits" intensified as the game went on. I interviewed a World War II German soldier a few years ago, and that grizzled old one told me how hard it was to put Tommy out of action when he was fighting British troops in the Black Forest. It was like that in Croke Park on Saturday. The English shot themselves in the foot through indisciplines which meant they had a man in the sin bin for most of the game. But by God did they not have a proper go despite that, and they put the Irish to the pin of their collars before losing by the slightest of margins. It was a great help to them that the normally peerless Irish kicker Ronan O'Gara selected this occasion for one of his worst outings in the green vest. The English would probably have won had not the Irish captain Brian O'Driscoll been the real tough and talented man who got going when the chips were down. There had been talk months ago that, having just turned 30, he was past his best. But class is class, and he has never had a better season that this one to date. With O'Gara missing penalties it was O'Driscoll who snapped up the chance of a drop goal that Ireland sorely needed just after the start of the second half. And when the fat was really sizzling, despite having been heavily fouled and concussed minutes earlier, it was O'Driscoll who scored the only Irish try. To do so he had to drive through a thicket of burly English bodies. He effectively put his head where most would scarce dare put their boot. He was the man of a memorable match. Ireland is the only unbeaten side so far in the Six Nations tournament. But that is secondary to beating England in the only game that really matters to very many of us. It's childish but it is true. The recession would have felt much worse if we had lost to the old enemy. And with the hurlers back in action in the national league competition there is a return bout between champions Kilkenny and the Waterford side they thrashed in the same Croke Park in the All-Ireland final last September. Waterford are managed nowadays by the fiery Davy Fitzgerald, the former Clare goalkeeper, and they go into battle with the same dynamic determination and fire as always marked Davy's play in his day. Tough men have scores to settle once the action starts, and Waterford is out for revenge. The pot is so close to boiling even before they properly begin that it is certain to rattle the lid and boil over long before the end. And it does too! There's nearly as many "hits" as in the rugby game, red and yellow cards are flying like confetti before the end, and by the time the reduced armies reach the long whistle the big Dan Shanahan has struck another vital goal and Waterford have secured their revenge. A thriller from beginning to end. And their next meeting come the championship season is certain to be a cracker. Recession? What recession? And far away in Tucson where all the big guns used blaze away, the 19-year-old prodigy of Irish golf, the remarkable Rory McIlroy of the cherubic face and curls, shows why he is already in the Top 20 in the world by battling like a Kerry terrier in match play against the very best in the game. Remarkably, when all his talented Irish elders like Harrington and McDowell have already been beaten, McIlroy gets through to the penultimate stage and is only beaten by the eventual overall winner Ogilvie, who hit a purple patch of form when it mattered. A tough and talented kid too is McIlroy. His star shone so bright in the Tucson sunset that it stole away some of the luster from the return of the Tiger. That takes some doing. But the toughest Irishman of them all over the sporting weekend was a beefy taximan from Belfast by the name of Martin Rogan. Martin is 37 years old, but few of ye ever heard of him until now. He's built like the back of a Belfast bus. He is a part-time actor as well as a taximan. And, despite his age, he only took up boxing very recently. He made some headlines last year when he beat three or four opponents on the one night in York to win a prizefighter competition on Sky Sports. Then he easily defeated the ranking Audley Harrison a month or so later to qualify for a fight against a big ebony boxer called Matt Skelton in Birmingham on the last Saturday night in February for the Commonwealth heavyweight title. Skelton is a polished and durable boxer who has never been stopped or dropped in his distinguished career. He has fast hands and they're heavy. He could land three punches on the Belfast man for every one being thrown by an opponent who had only 12 fights up to then! Skelton began by hitting Rogan with about everything but the kitchen sink. Then Rogan began throwing the kitchen sink back at him with interest. What began as a boring looking skirmish with Skelton hotly fancied soon turned into a bloody epic in every sense of the word. And the more brutal and bloody it got (most of the blood from Skelton's cut eye), then the better Rogan seemed to like it. He had a rocky patch in the middle rounds, but then he began to dish out what you could call a Rocky scenario himself to his opponent. The harder he was hit, the harder he hit back. The man must have a granite chin. And in the penultimate 11th round he came out of his corner throwing lethal leather that felled Skelton. And hit him with such a deadly flurry of head shots when they resumed that the referee stepped in to save Skelton, who stopped for the first time ever. It was compulsive viewing, maybe the most compulsive viewing of a tough weekend. Rogan said afterwards that his aim now is to become the first Irish heavyweight champion of the world for a long, long time, back even to the Wall Street crash era by my reckoning. It is not beyond the parameters of what is possible, either, given his durability and punching power. Everybody is talking about his exploits since. I did not hear one word about the recession all day!
Cormac MacConnell


text:
(5758) Brunini est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale.

Description
(5758) Brunini est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à El Leoncito par l'Observatoire Félix Aguilar. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,25 UA, une excentricité de 0,06 et une inclinaison de 6,8° par rapport à l'écliptique.

Compléments

Articles connexes
 Liste des planètes mineures (5001-6000)
 Ceinture d'astéroïdes

Références

Planète mineure découverte en 1976
Astéroïde de la ceinture principale

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Q: IntersectionObserver: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property of undefined" when called onIntersection() I have following code:
var ObjectOne = {
    a : {
        b : 4,
        ...
    }
    observer : 0,
    ...

    init() {
        this.a.b = 5;
        ...
        this.observer = new IntersectionObserver(this.onIntersection, ...);
        this.observer.observe(...);
        ...
    }
    onIntersection(entries, observer) {
        ...
        var test = this.a.b;
        ...
    }
}

And when run it, i have an error at a moment, when onIntersection() is executed. The error is: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'b' of undefined. How i can pass 'this' instance of ObjectOne to onIntersection() function?

A: Thanks to Heretic Monkey for useful link How to access the correct this inside a callback? - it was helpful and give me a direction for search. And more helpful information was at Use of the JavaScript 'bind' method. Adding bind() function solve the problem:
var ObjectOne = {
    a : {
        b : 4,
        ...
    }
    observer : 0,
    ...

    init() {
        this.a.b = 5;
        ...
        this.observer = new IntersectionObserver(this.onIntersection.bind(this), ...);
        this.observer.observe(...);
        ...
    }
    onIntersection(entries, observer) {
        ...
        var test = this.a.b;
        ...
    }
}


text:
The Simple Image was a New Zealand rock band that was popular in the 1960s. They achieved four top ten hits including a chart topper with the song, "Spinning, Spinning, Spinning".

The original members were Barry Leef on guitar and lead vocals, Ron (Cass) Gascoigne on bass guitar and vocals, Harry Leki on lead guitar and vocals, and Gordon Wylie on drums.
There was a lineup change in the late 1960s bringing in Doug Smith on lead vocals and Bruce Walker on keyboards and vocals.

The band moved to Australia in July 1969.  After a short stint at "Lucifers" nightclub, they took up residency at The Whiskey A Go Go in Kings Cross Sydney. The original drummer left and was replaced by Wayne Allen from Christchurch, NZ. Doug Smith was replaced by original lead Vocalist Barry Leef.

After 20 months, the band dissolved.

Singles
 "Two Kinds Of Lovers"/"Summer Wine" #11 [NZ] March 1968
 "Spinning Spinning Spinning"/"Shy Boy" #1 [NZ] July 1968
 "Little Bell That Cried"/"I Wanna Go To Heaven" #9 [NZ]
 "Hold Me Tight"/"Tomorrow Is Another Day" DNC
 "Grooviest Girl In The World"/"Make Time Stand Still" #3 [NZ]
 "Send Me No More Letters"/"Goodbye Birds" DNC
 "Michael and His Slipper Tree"/"Mean So Much" #7 [NZ] September 1969

References

New Zealand rock music groups


text:
Shingles Vaccine Reduces Risk of Disease For Those Over 60
The vaccine against the virus that causes shingles can reduce the risk of catching the disease by 55 percent in those over the age of 60, according to a new study.
Because the average person's lifetime risk of developing shingles which is caused by the virus herpes zoster is 30 percent, the vaccine could prevent tens of thousands of cases in the United States each year, the researchers said. However, although the vaccine was introduced in 2006, only about 10 percent of adults ages 60 or over received it in 2009, they said.
The results build upon earlier work from a 2005 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found the vaccine reduced the risk of shingles by about the same degree.
However, the new study shows that this decline in risk even applies to individuals over 75. The previous work had suggested that those over 75 did not reap as great a benefit.
In addition, the new study was based on actual cases of shingles in people vaccinated in a hospital, whereas the earlier work was carried out in a clinical trial a more controlled setting. The new study showed that earlier results are indeed "borne out in a real-world setting," said Dr. Richard Whitley, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who studies herpes viruses and who was not involved in the study.
And while the results of the 2005 study and the new study are very similar, the new study "further reiterates the safety of the vaccine," Whitley said.
The findings agree with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that people over age 60 who are not immunocompromised and do not have a history of adverse reactions to this type of vaccine should be vaccinated against herpes zoster.
However, the new study looked only at the effectiveness of the vaccine in patients over a period of about three years, and it's likely that the vaccine won't work as well as more time passes, the researchers said.
Shingles is a painful skin rash caused by the same virus that produces chicken pox, according to the CDC. Shingles occurs when the chickenpox virus "reawakes" from a dormant state in the body, and begins replicating inside cells.
About 1 million people in the United States develop shingles every year. Older people are at higher risk for shingles, because, as we age, our immunity against the virus wanes.
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California looked at information from 75,761 vaccinated and 227,283 unvaccinated patients at their hospitals between January 2007 and December 2009.
During the study period, there were 5,434 cases of shingles. For every 1,000 people in the study, 13 unvaccinated people developed shingles each year, but 6.4 vaccinated people developed the condition, the researchers found.
The reduction in risk held even after the researchers took into account patients' age, gender, race and whether the patients had a chronic disease."Shingles is a painful condition, and sometimes the pain can last months or even years, [and can] seriously impact the quality of life," of patients, said study researcher Hung Fu Tseng, a research scientist working in Kaiser's department of research and evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. People age 60 and over should talk to their doctors about receiving the vaccine, Tseng said.
It's possible that the results may even have underestimated the vaccine's effectiveness, the researchers said, because people who have had a family history of herpes zoster are at risk for the condition and may have been more likely to be vaccinated.
The study will be published tomorrow (Jan. 12) in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Pass it on: The shingles vaccine can reduce the risk of developing the disease by 55 percent. Researchers say people age 60 and over should talk to their doctors about receiving the vaccine.
5 Dangerous Vaccination Myths
Chickenpox: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments
What to Do (And Not to Do) to Ease Kids' Vaccination Pains
Follow MyHealthNewsDaily staff writer Rachael Rettner on Twitter @Rachael_MHND.


Q: With the recent storm and power outages we are considering a generator in case this type of weather continues through the winter months. What do you suggest?
A: A home generator can be useful for backup electricity anywhere there are frequent power outages. There are a few important items to consider when choosing a generator since they can also be very dangerous if they are not installed or operated properly. Generators range in size, type and price. Typically, the more power required the more costly they are. Smaller, portable generators are great for powering the essentials like the refrigerator and microwave while a permanent standby system can power everything in your home. Typically, lower power and portable units use gasoline/ diesel, whereas larger units, especially permanent installations, will likely use propane or natural gas.
A major question for homeowners considering a backup generator is choosing between gasoline/diesel or propane as well as one of the more convenient fuels, "natural gas." Each source has its own pros and cons but the decision will depend on what a home already has installed. If you live in an area where natural gas is available this would be the best for you since it would be the most convenient and requires less maintenance. For homes without natural gas propane is a good alternative. Both natural gas and propane tend to last longer and burn cleaner than their gasoline counterparts. Gasoline/diesel generators are by far the most common type since fuel is readily available but they require frequent maintenance and storage of gasoline/ diesel which has a relatively short shelf life.
Please note: Permanent emergency back up generators with proper transfer switches are available from major electrician services.
Installation of a generator is a job for the experts. All portable or fixed generators must be connected to the residential grid using a proper CSA-approved transfer switch installed by a registered certified electrician. An electrical permit is required for the installation. Never connect a backup power system without a transfer switch that disconnects your home from the municipal power supply. This is to protect electric utility field crews from being electrocuted by your home power system when working on municipal lines.
The primary hazards to avoid when using a generator are carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. NEVER use a portable generator inside homes, garages, crawlspaces, sheds, or similar areas. Be sure the generator isn't positioned outside an open window, which can allow fumes into the home.
Install battery-operated CO alarms in your home, according to the manufacturer's instructions.


text:
Authentic Japanese Fine Dining Restaurant along Macapagal AseanaGenba Kappouryouri
Genba is one of the few Japanese fine dining restaurants in the Phillipines, and its conce・・・
Explore Bicol heritage through food at Balay Cena Una in Albay
If you fancy Filipino restaurants that speak of heritage and culture, then it is high time for you to visit Balay Cena Una in Bicol.
Balay Cena Una of Albay
Recognized as the oldest house in Albay, Balay Cena Una has become more than just a restaurant as it is now regarded as a tourist destination in Bicol region. Established as early as 1913, Balay Cena Una (a play on Tagalog world "sinauna" which means ancient), is a Filipino restaurant that serves and promotes the rich culinary culture of Bicol province.
Traditional Filipino seats
Previously an ancestral house, Balay Cena Una has been restored into an elegant restaurant in 2005. This former ancestral house still retained its traditional features, still looking like a Filipino house with its native architectural style. Upon entering the place, it's like you are entering a Filipino home set about more than 50 years ago. The dimly-lit halls, wooden interiors, and antique collections neatly displayed in the two-storey house totally make it an ideal place to spend a great dining experience when in Bicol.
PURU PAGULONG (P175) A vegetable dish made of winged seguidillas beans
CRISPY BICOL EXPRESS (P235). Bicolano dish made of crispy pork and spiced coconut milk
Dining in Balay Cena Una is really a highly-recommended thing to do in Albay. Aside from its food, it's worth the visit as you will also learn a lot about the province's history. Remnants from the Japanese occupation way back 1945 are seen through bullet holes you can find in the place. According to the owner, the place was formerly used as a Japanese garrison in the World War II. Even after all these years, it still stood strong, making it a place where history and gastronomical finds mix.
TINUTUNGAN (P210) Smoky chicken
LUMPIANG TINAPA (P130). Smoked fish wrapped in lumpia
Now, for Balay Cena Una's gastronomic offerings, you will find only the most delicious traditional Bicolano food here. Balay Cena Una serves traditional Bicolano food with a twist, making their place worth coming back for as they introduced flavorful coconut milk-based and vegetable dishes you'll surely love. Also, what makes Balay Cena Una a Bicol pride is that they support agricultural tourism in the region by getting their ingredients from local farms for their sumptuous dishes. It all the more makes the dish as authentic as it can get, by using only fresh locally-produced ingredients from the region.
PILI OPERA CAKE (P135) Dessert made with pili nuts
The whole place can sit about 50 persons in the restaurant, but they also have function halls where special events can be celebrated upon reservations. They also have a garden setting, perfect for an afternoon celebration that just makes you feel like you're in your own home. On Sundays, they hold family buffet making Balay Cena Una an ideal place to spend the weekends with.
Have a uniquely traditional Bicolano experience at this historical dining destination called Balay Cena Una!
F. Lotivio St., Brgy. Bagumbayan, Daraga, Albay
11:00 am to 10:00 pm (Monday to Saturday); Family buffet on Sundays at 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
https://www.facebook.com/cenauna


text:
The Most Comprehensive Guide To iOS Gaming
150 Apple Arcade Games With Controller Support
[GUIDE] Nintendo Switch vs iPad? Pick the right one!
The Most Comprehensive Guide To D&D games on the iPad
How Does A Game Design Document Look Like? + Free Template
Why Are Mobile Games Free?
Posted on August 17, 2022 August 23, 2022 by Ciprian Bacioiu
I've been asked this a bunch of times in the previous months when opening up the subject of this blog and my career as a mobile Game Designer. For some people, the fact that most games are free on mobile is the norm. It should be this way, I shouldn't have to pay money for a "silly" game. For others, who grew up gaming on other platforms, the fact that mobile games are free is unsettling. So let's talk about it. Why are mobile games free?
Your Answer Upfront:
Mobile games are free because the market for mobile games is huge. There are billions of mobile gamers out there. It's much easier to get hundreds of thousands of gamers to install your game if there's no price to pay for it. Game developers monetize their games with ads and in-app purchases, ensuring that every single download generates at least a small amount of revenue for them.
In this article we're going to take a look at the mobile gaming industry and a bit of it's history. After that, we'll explain why exactly mobile games are overwhelmingly free to play and why the rest of the industry is bound to follow. By the end of this article you'll have a pretty good idea why mobile games are free.
Pre-Smartphone Gaming
Before the launch of the iPhone, most smartphones were running a much, much simpler operating system with a button/key driven interface. The screens were small to accommodate the keyboard for inputs and the processing power of the early smartphones was nothing compared to their modern day counterparts.
The games themselves were nothing to write home about, although, in my opinion, we got some of the best retro and limited gaming experiences out of that era of mobile gaming. I actually talked a bit about pre-smartphone gaming in my article titled "Is Mobile Gaming The Future?" where I explained where mobile gaming comes from and where it's going.
But, for all intents and purposes, what you need to remember is that most mobile phones back in the day had a screen resolution the size of a high res icon on your iPhone or Android device. I'm not joking. The most common resolution was 240 x 320 while a modern iOS Icon size for an app can reach and even topple that size.
A Nokia phone had the same resolution as your average iOS or Android App Store icon!
Now here's a fun fact for you: most games for mobile phones even back then were free-ish. Most of them came preinstalled on the phones and their cost were subsidized by the phone's cost. Buying a new game for your phone was tough because phones had different hardware and ran different operating systems customized for the hardware itself.
How We Used to Get Old Mobile Games
So, if you had to buy a mobile game, you would have to make sure that:
The game supports your phone
The game is approved by the carrier
The game supports your phone and carrier and configuration
the same phone was released with different variations between carriers and had different versions of the OS on it.
You could purchase a game that works on your phone but not with your carrier and that was actually a thing. I spend many nights trying to play Elder Scrolls Travels on my phone, purchasing various versions and trying to get it to work to no avail. Back then I could send an SMS to a number that would authorize the payment and the SMS needed to include:
Phone specific version
Carrier specific version
Get a letter wrong? You would pay for the wrong game or the wrong version and there was no way to get your money back.
In short, it was horrible and hard to purchase and get mobile games on your phone back in the days. Things got better with consoles and Gameloft rose to greatness by offering a streamlined way of purchasing Java games from them. Here's a screenshot of Gameloft's Java games website from back in the day:
Gameloft's Mobile Games portal back in 2010-ish!
It's safe to say that it wasn't as easy as the one-tap install process we have nowadays. But why was it important that you know this? Well, take a look at it this way:
The amount of people who had phones capable of playing games was small. According to statista there were 3.3 billion people who owned and used a mobile phone back in 2007. However the amount of people who owned a phone that could play modern games like Gameloft used to make? More or less 3%, is a quote I kept hearing around that time from devs on TigSource Forums. So that's about 100 million possible gamers.
Out of the 100 million smart-ish phone users how many do you think were actively playing games? And from those gamers how many do you think were capable and technical enough to jump through the hoops to get a new game installed on their phone?
The mobile gaming market was small. And with a small niche, a select niche, comes the ability for increased pricing and pricing in general. But nowadays? In 2022 there are 6.4 billion modern smartphone users.
Gaming on Modern Phones
The thing with modern smartphones is that everyone and their grandma has one. They are ubiquitous with our every day lives. This means that, even if 3% of all smartphone owners are gamers (the same percentage as before) the actual number has basically doubled.
And the hardships of installing a game have been removed. To get a new game on your smartphone nowadays all you have to do is open the app store and click GET or Download. That's it.
So let's say we ended up with double the market size of the pre-smartphone mobile gaming era (in reality about 50% of smartphone owners play games on their phones, aka 3 billion people). And we removed the barrier to entry. That means a ton more people can play games on their phones.
Which means a bigger audience that results in more products released on the marketing. And with more products, comes more competition and lower prices. And a bigger market means happy advertisers.
If you want to learn more about "How Free Mobile Games Make Money" I have you covered! Click on that link to get to one of my best articles that explains everything in quite a lot of detail!
Think about it this way: Let's say you made a smartphone game in 2007 and your audience is 100 people. And you're selling the game for $5. With a 3% conversion rate (aka 3% of your target audience purchase your game after becoming aware of it) you would end up with 3 customers and $15 in your pocket.
But remove the price from the equation. You increase your conversion rate to 25% by having the price set to $0. However you choose to display ads in your game and every ad displayed brings you about $0.10. You show 5 ads in a single gaming session and people play your game for a week with 3 sessions per day.
People can always pay the cost of the game to remove the ads if they don't like it so hey.
You show the game to 100 people and 25 of them purchase your game. Let's do a quick, simple, math exercise on the previous numbers.
(5 ads/session) * (3 sessions/day) * (7 days of game time) * ($0.10/ad) * (25 people) = $262.5
Let's say the ad rates are even worse and you only make $0.01/ad displayed. You end up with $26.25 which is still more than the initial $15 you'd get for your premium game.
Same game, same market size with a zero upfront cost and driven by ads. And you make a ~$11 more. Or $247 more. Scale up that number from 100 people to let's say, 500.000 people.
And I'm not even talking about the rampant piracy that used to be the norm with premium games before. By making them free and supported by adverts or in-app purchases you basically outplay the pirate services. And why risk pirating a game when you can get it for free?
I write extensively about the mobile gaming industry, their tactics and how greed influences a game's design, subjects which were brought up in this post.
I believe that you might be interested in more articles on game monetization. So if you want to stick around, you can check out "How Do Free Mobile Games Make money", "Why Do Mobile Games Have Fake Ads" and "Why Do Mobile Games Have In-App Purchases".
If you're wondering "Why Games Run Better On iOS" I have you covered with an article that explains this in great detail!
There's also a monster post (about 4000 words) that answers the question: "How Hard Is It To Make A Mobile Game". It goes in depth with actual examples on how Experience, Resources and Financials affect the difficulty of developing and releasing new mobile games!
If you like our content and want to stay up-to-date, you can subscribe via the mailing list widget on this page! Or give us a follow on twitter. Is there something else you'd want covered on our Best Smartphone Games blog? Let us know in a comment below.
Sign up for our newsletter and stay up to date
Can we send you an email from time to time?
Hi, I'm Bacioiu Ciprian, a Game Designer and Developer with more than 15 years of experience in the mobile gaming industry. I helped bring more than 100 games to the mobile market.
Best Smartphone Games is my blog and I'm looking to help you find the best games out there and to avoid the low effort ones that are only there to profit from you.
©2023 Best Smartphone Games
Amazing Article: The real reason why mobile games become popular!


text:
Sidsel Meineche Hansen: OVER
24 March–10 June 2018
Opening: 23 March 2018, 17:30–20:00
Sidsel Meineche Hansen: OVER, installation view, Index 2018. Photo: Johan Wahlgren
Index presents an exhibition of recent work by Sidsel Meineche Hansen. OVER is the joint title of the exhibition and a mobile application that is activated by a number of wall-mounted sculptures in the exhibition, titled Hollow Eyed (#1-8). The project explores automation in contemporary working conditions. Through the production of the OVER mobile application, the artist critically examines the infrastructure and ideologies behind app-based business models, exemplified by the car service Uber, which cuts the "dead mile" in an allegedly frictionless space of connectivity (literally the unpaid drive on the way to the customer, and in a wider sense the gap between client and service operator), but simultaneously waives its workers' rights based on the imperative of the "sharing economy". The video Maybrey Foundry, in contrast, shows an industrial site for production of silicon metal, a raw material for the digital economy most commonly used in the manufacture of microchips, where the sculptures of the exhibition were cast.
In the exhibition, the series of wall-mounted sculptures function as trigger-objects for the app, which can be downloaded (for Android) or installed in the gallery. The sculptures, shaped as distorted emoticons, activate a layer of animation through a smartphone camera. Superimposed on to the space of the exhibition, the animation narrates a short script spoken by an anonymous A.I. robot that reflects on augmentation in parallel to new forms of fascism. The logo of the Augmented Reality app visually mimics the logo of Uber's car service and is inscribed with an anti-fascist symbol. In addition to the logo, a third piece Anti-fa (2017), also cast in silicon metal, hangs from Index's office façade in order to physically demarcate the space. The work was made after the closure of the project space LD50 in London in February 2017 following protests against its affiliation with neo-reactionary and alt-right ideologies. The artist's reuse of anti-fascist symbolism aims to contribute to existing oppositions to the online echo chambers of the extreme right by highlighting the cultural correlation between virtual and physical space, and to find a way to deal with the current culture wars fuelled by the rise of the extreme right.
A zine-style reader titled OVER ON UBER is included in the exhibition, which gathers articles and other relevant reading material on issues of labour, automation, sexism and racism in digital and app-based economies.
OVER continues previous works by Sidsel Meineche Hansen that examine virtual space as a continuation of capitalist reality. Hansen is an artist based in London. Her work includes woodcut prints, sculptures, CGI and VR animations which foreground the body's industrial complex in the pharmaceutical, porn and tech-industries. Hansen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and Goldsmiths College, London. Recent exhibitions include OVER, Ludlow 38, New York (2017), SECOND SEX WAR at Trondheim Kunstmuseum (2016) and Gasworks, London (2016), No Right Way 2 Cum at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2016), ONE-Self at Künstlerhaus Bremen and Temporary Gallery, Cologne (2015), and INSIDER at CUBITT, London (2015). Her work has been included at Sundance Festival 2018. In November 2018 Hansen will open a solo show at Kunst-Werke, Berlin.
OVER was initially commissioned by MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38. The exhibition is supported by the Danish Art Foundation.
Index is supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms Stad and Stockholms Läns Landsting with project support from Allmänna Arvsfonden.
Social media: @indexstockholm #sidselmeinechehansen
Details of works:
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
OVER, 2017
Augmented reality mobile app.
Programming and augmentation Black Shuck, London
Optimisation and added functionalities Animorph, London
Anti-fa, 2017
Investment cast in silicon metal
London Bronze Casting Ltd and Maybrey Foundry, London
Maybrey Foundry, 2017
Digital video on loop.
Hollow Eyed #1-8, 2017


text:
Subscribe to RSS - Award
Our Chartered Manager Degree Apprentice is highly commended
Tasmin Ali, who is part way through her Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA) with The Open University, was highly commended in the BAME Apprenticeship Awards 2020.
Professor of Public Leadership receives lifetime achievement award
Professor Jean Hartley has been recognised with an international lifetime achievement award for her outstanding record of teaching, research and publication on public leadership and management, over more than two decades.
Professor Jean Hartley wins British Academy of Management award
Open University Business School Professor Jean Hartley wins prestigious medal awarded for research from the British Academy of Management
Business and Law's high-achieving students and alumni are honoured
The Open University Business and Law Schools celebrated their highest achieving students in a joint awards ceremony in Milton Keynes on Friday 12 July.
Energised and driven workplace learning winners receive their awards
OUBS sponsored the 'Supporting Business and Organisational Goals' category for the 2018 Learning at Work Week which had a theme of 'Networked for Learning', aiming to highlight the importance and benefits of learning and development at work.
OUBS leaps to fifth in CEO Magazine's Global Online MBA Rankings
The Open University Business School (OUBS) is in the top five in the world – and the leading UK institution – in CEO Magazine's Global Online MBA Rankings.
The Open University Alum Tillmann Henssler Honoured as 2019 AACSB Influential Leader
Fourth annual initiative recognises 33 business school graduates creating lasting impact in the world.
Champion for mid-life working women recognised with award
Professor Jo Brewis has been awarded the Staying On Award 2018 by the Women's Business Council.
OUBS is joint top UK institution in Global Online MBA Rankings
The Open University Business School's MBA remains as the (joint) top UK institution in CEO Magazine's Global Online MBA Rankings.
Sky's the limit for OU Student Entrepreneurship Competition winner
MBA (Technology Management) student Claudio Marturano scooped £5,000 as the clear winner of the OU Student Entrepreneurship Competition.


text:
The 2018 Boston Uprising season was the first season of Boston Uprising's existence in the Overwatch League. In Stage 3, Boston became the first team to go undefeated in a stage, posting a perfect 10–0 record; however, the team lost in the Stage 3 semifinals to New York Excelsior. The team finished with a regular season record of 26–14 — the third best of all teams in the 2018 Overwatch League season. Boston lost to Philadelphia Fusion in the quarterfinals of the season playoffs.

Preceding offseason
On October 26, 2017, Boston Uprising announced their initial inaugural season roster, consisting of the following players:
Lucas "NotE" Meissner
Kristian "Kellex" Keller
Noh "Gamsu" Young-jin
Kwon "Striker" Nam-joo
Stanislav "Mistakes" Danilov
Shin "Kalios" Woo-yeol
Mikias "Snow" Yohannes
Jonathan "DreamKazper" Sanchez
The team went on to sign Park "Neko" Se-hyeon and Connor "Avast" Prince on November 7.

Regular season
Boston Uprising's first-ever regular season OWL match was a 1–3 loss to the New York Excelsior on January 11, 2018. Boston found their franchise's first-ever regular season win a day later, after defeating the Florida Mayhem, 4–0. The Uprising needed a win over the Houston Outlaws in their final regular season match of Stage 1 to qualify for the Stage 1 playoffs; however, they lost the match, 2–3, and did not make the playoffs.

Through the first half of the season, Boston had a 12–8 record. On April 3, prior to the start of Stage 3, Boston picked up support player Kwon "AimGod" Min-seok, although he would not be able to play until Stage 4, once his visa process had completed. A few days later, Uprising player Jonathan "DreamKazper" Sanchez was indefinitely suspended from the Overwatch League following allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor. Shortly after, on April 9, Boston Uprising terminated his contract. Following, Kwon "Striker" Nam-joo took over DreamKazper's starting position – a move that ultimately benefited the team. Throughout Stage 3 of the season, the Striker-led Uprising did not lose a single match, going 10–0, to become the first team to go undefeated in a stage. Boston reached the Stage 3 finals; however, they lost the finals match against the New York Excelsior. The team advanced to the Stage 3 playoff finals, but they lost to the New York Excelsior.

Prior to the start of Stage 4, Overwatch underwent a balancing update, as well as the introduction of a new hero, which would significantly reduced Striker's effectiveness. Additionally, head coach Park "Crusty" Dae-hee left the team to join the San Francisco Shock. The team went 0–6 through the first six matches of Stage 4. The Uprising finished the regular season in third place with a 26–14 record.

Postseason
As the third seed in the season playoffs, Boston faced the Philadelphia Fusion in the quarterfinals in a best-of-three series. The Fusion won the first match, 3–1 on July 11, closing it out by defeating Boston on the map Volskaya Industries — a map that Boston had never lost on before. Boston evened the series the following day with a 3–1 win, but their season ended on July 13, after the Fusion took the final match, 3–1.

Final roster

Transactions
Transactions of/for players on the roster during the 2018 regular season:
On April 3, Uprising signed Minseok "AimGod" Kwon.
On April 9, Uprising released Jonathan "DreamKazper" Sanchez.

Standings

Record by stage

League

Game log

Preseason

Regular season

Postseason

References

2018 Overwatch League seasons by team
Boston Uprising
Boston Uprising seasons


Headlining this month we have seasoned funnyman and Comedy Zone all star Tom Cashman.
Tom will be joined by Ben Kochan who will be your host and MC for the evening.
Tom Cashman is a rising star of Australian comedy. He was a writer for Tonightly with Tom Ballard, made his television debut on that show - as well as being selected as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Comedy Zone showcase. He's a regular at The Comedy Store in Sydney and no one makes funnier graphs.


A friend at my Weight Watchers meeting this past spring gave me a recipe for blueberry angel food cake squares. Â I'm not a huge blueberry fan, so I tweaked it to make cherry angel food cake squares. Â I just love them, and they are relatively healthy.
Everybody who was here for our Pampered Chef party stayed for supper. Â We served meatball subs and fresh, organic salad, but dessert was the star! Â I made these squares, and there wasn't one left. Â Not even a crumb.
For more recipes, visit Blessed with Grace.
Combine one can of cherry pie filling (I use sugar free with Spelnda) with one entire box of angel food cake mix. Note that there are usually several packages within the angel food cake mix box. Open them all and dump them together. Blend well.
Spritz a 9x13 or square 8 or 9 inch pan with some vegetable oil, or grease and flour the pan however you like.
Bake the cake mix according to the package directions. Mine cooked for something like 25 minutes at 350, but yours might have different instructions.
Be careful not to overcook, this tends to be done a little early.
A note - You can use whatever pie filling you want. I haven't tried it, but I bet you could even use an equal amount (in fluid ounces) of any liquid, including cranberry or pineapple juice or applesauce or mashed banana or pureed whatever-overripe-fruit-you've-got.
Tara, this sounds great. I am so glad you joined it the food fun. You did not link up with Mr. Linky. So I did that for you. Again, glad you joined in.
This looks so good! Thanks for joining the TMTT fun.
This looks so good! Thanks for joining the TMTT fun. I love the look of your blog!
Recipe sounds terrific. What's the points value/serving size?
If you use the Splenda pie filling and angel food cake, 1/24 of the final cake is only 1 point. It's great!
If you make it in a 9×13 pan, 1/24 is a nice size for a snack cake.
If you use the Splenda pie filling and angel food cake, 1/24 of the final cake is only 1 point. It's great! If you make it in a 9×13 pan, 1/24 is a nice size for a snack cake.


Play UpUp Ubie Remix Online For FREE! - Up Up Ubie Remix is a remake of the original fast paced exciting arcade game that rewards timing and reflexes. The goal of the game is to keep Ubi afloat by placing balloons on the screen directly beneath him, destroying enemies and dodging obstacles..


text:
Weekly Patriot
About(active tab)
Geographic Coverage:
Prince Edward Island --
Succeeding Titles:
Weekly Patriot and Prince Edward Islander
Information drawn from A Checklist and historical directory of Prince Edward Island newspapers 1787-1986, compiled by Heather Boylan and made available courtesy of the Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island.
About Weekly Patriot
The Weekly Patriot, the weekly edition of the Patriot, printed short news articles, poetry, fiction, and advertisements when it began publication in 1874. It was a Liberal newspaper which supported the Free School Act. During the 1880s it opposed the National Policy and Tory corruption. The Weekly Patriot ceased publication in 1909.


– Make sure you asked your special someone.
-Get your friends together for your group.
-Have a place to take pictures.
-Figure out how you are getting to the dance: a Limo, Party Bus, or yourself.
-Have your ID. Your ID is needed to get into Prom and After Prom.
-Make sure you have extra cash.
-Pack clothes for After Prom.
-Get fitted for your tux. "I got my tux at Al's Formal Wear, I got fitted about a week ago, and I'm waiting to pick it up the day of prom," said junior Jace Thorp.
-Order your corsage. "My mom ordered the corsage for my girlfriend," said senior John Mancini.
-Don't forget to put your tux on.
-Have your dress, and make sure your alterations are done, if needed. "I got my dress altered and I picked it up the other day, and now it fits perfectly," said junior Olivia Bohrer.
-Get shoes to go with the dress.
-Get a spray tan or go tanning, if needed. "My sister and I are going to get spray tans done on Tuesday," said sophomore Kaylee Clark.
-Order your boutonniere. Any flower shop can provide you with the perfect flower.
-Get your nails done. "I am getting french tip acrylics at Tangles," said senior Shelby Starrs.
-Get your hair done. "I'm getting my hair done in a low side bun to go with the style of my dress," said senior Katie Ray.
-Do your makeup. "My friend is doing my makeup after I get my hair done, I'm doing a simple smokey eye," said sophomore Kaylee Clark.


text:
If You're A Fan of K-Pop and Food, SM Entertainment's Restaurant Is The Place For You
Fans of Korean food and pop music will be ecstatic to hear that SM Entertainment has two restaurants.
Fans may recall that a subsidiary of SM Entertainment, SM Food & Beverage Development, opened a restaurant called SMT Tokyo in 2016.
SMT Tokyo is an all-glass two-story restaurant that offers mainly Korean-style cuisine and tapas style dining experience.
The food served even changes every season!
Seriously, the food is mouth watering.
Traditional Korean barbecue is served with the SM stamp of quality and polish.
The restaurant also boasts an impressive wine collection.
The walls of the restaurant are plastered with images of SM artists and are colorfully decorated with celebrity merchandise.
Merchandise that can be purchased at the SUM Market gift shop!
The restaurant has a modern feel with marble walls, gold accents, and funky light features.
There's a special section of light portraits dedicated to SHINee by Javier Martin.
Posters of favorite idols litter nearly all the walls. In this room, diners are treated to the faces of Taemin, Taeyeon, Kai, Irene, and Yunho!
Everything is adorned with SM Entertainment's signature pink aesthetics.
SMT Seoul is even more impressive as a 5-story dining experience, with each floor embodying its own concept.
The Playground on the 1st and 2nd floors serve lunch and dessert during the day and casual tapas restaurant in the evening.
The Playground turns into a DJ Lounge after 10 p.m.
The restaurant even displays holograms of the artists for its customers to look at while they eat.
The 3rd and 4th floor are called the Penthouse and it is here that the SMT Tokyo's 'Seoul Style Tapas' concept originated.
The 5th floor is called the Vertical Garden where customers can just lounge.
SM Food & Beverage Development will be opening a location in Los Angeles called SMT LA in the near future!


Pat's Fantasy Hotlist: George R. R. Martin contest winner!
This lucky winner will get his hands on my review copy of the mass market paperback edition of George R. R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons to one lucky winner! For more info about this title: Canada, USA, Europe.


At the Law Offices of Timothy Grabe, we have represented a number of clients who have been involved in a drunk driving accident in Portland, OR. Throughout the three decades that we have been taking on such cases, we have found that many accident victims are unsure of what steps they will need to take in order to recover the compensation that they deserve. The costs associated with an auto collision of any kind can be pretty steep, especially if an injury has occurred, so we thought that it was important to inform all potential clients of what action they can take if they have been struck by an intoxicated driver.
As unfortunate as it may be, failing to protect your rights from the beginning may jeopardize your ability to recover monetary damages later on, so the Portland personal injury attorney at our firm encourages you to keep a few simple steps in mind. First, it is important that you avoid making any sort of statement to the other driver or an insurance adjuster about the circumstances of the accident. Although it may be a good idea to speak to a law enforcement officer about the specifics of the collision, anything you say to an insurance company may be manipulated in their favor.
Since their singular goal is to compensate you with as little money as possible, they may begin calling you immediately after the collision and asking you to make a recorded statement about the cause of the accident and/or your injuries. They are experienced in asking questions in a manner that will provide them with the answers that they are looking for, so it is highly recommended that you hold off on saying anything until you have the chance to consult with a lawyer. Next, you should waste no time in speaking to a legal professional about the course of action that you will need to take in order to recover rightful compensation.
After a drunk driving accident, you may have the opportunity to negotiate with the insurance company for a fair settlement—which should be enough to cover the cost of your vehicle repairs and reimburse you for any acquired medical treatment—but if they refuse to make a suitable offer, you may need to explore other options. By enlisting the help of an experienced lawyer, you can discuss your chances for recover if you were to pursue a personal injury lawsuit. As long as there is sufficient evidence to support your claim that the other driver was legally intoxicated at the time of the collision, you should not have a problem doing so.
As such, our firm encourages you to contact a Portland injury lawyer today if you are looking for assistance in filing an insurance claim or pursing a lawsuit. The initial consultation is free when you call us at (503) 825-2115, so do not hesitate to get started today.


If asked to make a guess, some of the most commonly sold (not prescribed) drugs in India would be Ranitidine, Omeprazole, Ibu Para combination and Alprazolam. With self-medication more of a norm, it is not possible to study prescription patterns in India. Let us see what is the trend in the west.
The 10 most prescribed drugs in the U.S. aren't the drugs on which we spend the most, according to a report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
It shouldn't be a surprise that these generic drugs are not the ones bringing in the big bucks for pharmaceutical companies. The drugs on which we spend the most money are those that are still new enough to be protected against generic competition.
Who's paying for all these drugs? Commercial insurance helped pay for 63% of prescriptions, down from 66% five years ago. Federal government spending through Medicare Part D covered 22% of prescriptions.
For Americans covered by insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid, the average co-payment for a prescription was $10.73 — down a bit from 2009 due to increased use of generic drugs. The average co-payment for branded drugs for which generic alternatives were available jumped 6% to $22.73.
2 Responses to "The 10 Most Prescribed Drugs"


text:
Completion of work on south tube to be celebrated today
Bangabandhu Tunnel
Expected to open to traffic in Jan
Nur Uddin Alamgir
The completion of civil work on the south tube of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel beneath the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram will be celebrated today. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually join the celebrations. – SUN PHOTO
CHATTOGRAM: Completion of civil work on the south-tube of the much-awaited 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel' beneath the Karnaphuli River will be celebrated today.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually join the celebration programme as the chief guest.
The officials concerned are expected to open the first-ever tunnel to traffic in January next.
Project Director (PD) Harunur Rashid Chowdhury told the Daily Sun that 94 per cent work of the entire project has already been completed.
"We're working to complete the rest six percent work for opening the tunnel to traffic in January," he said.
"We are now doing electromechanical work and other incomplete ones," said the PD.
Besides this, some commissioning, and tunnel's security and safety issues will be ensured through trials to make it fit for the traffic movement, he said.
The sources concerned said excavation of the second tube of the tunnel was completed on October 7 last year.
With this, both banks of the river were connected through both the tubes of the tunnel.
The boring work on the first tube was completed on August 2 and work of the second tube started on December 12 in 2020.
The Bridge Authority of Road Transport and Bridges Ministry took the initiative for constructing the tunnel with an aim to connect the southern part of the port city with Anwara upazila on other bank of the river following the model of 'One City and Two Town.'
The project objectives also include improvement of road communication in the country's southeastern region, getting connected with the Asian highway network, planned urbanisation on both the riverbanks and enhancing facilities for Chattogram Port.
China Communications Construction Company Limited is implementing the project to construct the dream 9.39km tunnel for traffic.
Of the total length, the main tunnel will be 3.32 kms, approach roads on the east and west ends 5.35 kms and an over bridge (viaduct) 727 metres.
The tunnel will connect the Naval avenue point of the port city and CUFL point under Anwara upazila in the district.
The 17km-long and 90ft-wide four-lane outer ring road on the existing coastal embankment stretching from Patenga to Faujdarhat under Sitakunda upazila will connect the tunnel at Patenga.
The Tk 10,374-crore project is being implemented with the fund from the governments of Bangladesh and China.
Officials concerned said over 1,000 people, including Chinese engineers and workers, are working relentlessly on both sides of the river to implement the project.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chinese President Xi Jinping laid the foundation stone of the tunnel at a programme in the capital on October 14, 2017.
The prime minister also inaugurated the boring work on February 24, 2019.
AL never flees, always works for people: PM
Power outage may worsen in summer
Three killed in US shooting
Two get back eyesight with Sarah's corneas
HSC results on Feb 8


GET A FREE SAMPLE OF OUR NEW SCENT ROSY GLOW WITH ANY PURCHASE!
View cart "Chill Body Mist" has been added to your cart.
Restore your skin with the creamy and nourishing Chill hand cream. Lightly scented in a delicious & creamy scent that combines warm soft musk with delectable golden apple harvest and hints of salted caramel.
Perfect For: Moisturizing and restoring dry skin with a lux feel.
Natural Essential Oils: Cinnamon, Red Seaweed.
The Free-Spirited Dreamer. A believer in wanderlust, spontaneity, dream catchers, horoscopes, bohemian thrift stores with a whimsical charisma and tattoos that tell her story.


text:
import { NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA } from '@angular/core';
import { ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { EditService } from '../../services/edit.service';
import { ProcessService } from '../../services/process.service';
import { StorageService } from '../../services/storage.service';
import { RelationBrowserComponent } from './relation-browser.component';

describe('RelationBrowserComponent', () => {
  let comp: RelationBrowserComponent;
  let fixture: ComponentFixture<RelationBrowserComponent>;

  beforeEach(() => {
    const processServiceStub = {
      refreshSidebarViews$: {
        subscribe: () => ({}),
      },
      exploreRelation: () => ({}),
      haveSameIds: () => ({}),
    };
    const storageServiceStub = {
      currentElement: {
        tags: {
          type: {},
        },
      },
      listOfVariants: {
        length: {},
      },
      elementsDownloaded: {
        has: () => ({}),
      },
      elementsMap: {
        get: () => ({
          members: {
            filter: () => ({}),
          },
        }),
      },
      idsHaveMaster: {
        has: () => ({}),
      },
    };
    const editServiceStub = {
      createMaster: () => ({}),
      changeRouteMasterMembers: () => ({}),
    };
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [RelationBrowserComponent],
      schemas: [NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA],
      providers: [
        { provide: ProcessService, useValue: processServiceStub },
        { provide: StorageService, useValue: storageServiceStub },
        { provide: EditService, useValue: editServiceStub },
      ],
    });
    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(RelationBrowserComponent);
    comp = fixture.componentInstance;
  });

  it('can load instance', () => {
    expect(comp).toBeTruthy();
  });

  // it('listOfVariants defaults to: storageSrv.listOfVariants', () => {
  //   expect(comp.listOfVariants).toEqual(StorageService.listOfVariants);
  // });
  //
  // it('listOfMasters defaults to: storageSrv.listOfMasters', () => {
  //   expect(comp.listOfMasters).toEqual(StorageService.listOfMasters);
  // });

});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub