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Bike Month is here! Come out and enjoy Lifestyles of Long Beach
Bike Month is here in Long Beach!
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Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster kicked off National Bike Month on May 7 with his annual Bike Ride to City Hall, one of more than a dozen exciting activities and special events taking place in Long Beach during May 2013.
The mayor's bike ride promotes awareness of the annual Tour of Long Beach & Bike Festival, the annual bicycle circuit around Long Beach benefiting Miller Children's Hospital. This year's event and daylong celebration at The Pike in Rainbow Harbor will take place on Saturday, May 11.
Other upcoming events include Fix Your Bike Day & Safety Rodeo on May 11 at McBride Teen Center; Bike to Work Day on May 16 at City Hall and CSULB locations; and Kidical Mass on May 19 in Bixby Knolls.
An updated listing of events will be posted throughout the month at BikeLongBeach.org/events
The Downtown Long Beach Associate presents the Bike Fest of Long Beach. Grab your bike and cruise to THE PIKE AT RAINBOW HARBOR to Celebrate Bike-Friendly Long Beach at the Finish Line of the Tour of Long Beach!The event is FREE and will feature the BEACHWOOD & FRIENDS CRAFT BEER GARDEN, a Vintage Bike Exhibit & Fashion Show, Live Entertainment and Swing Bands, a FREE Bike Valet, Children's Activities, Vendor Village and food specialties from Downtown's Restaurants.
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This weekend is when Long Beach puts its money where its mouth is when it comes to championing bicycle culture.
This will be the fourth year of the Tour of Long Beach, which begins as early as 6 a.m. Saturday, May 11, near Shoreline Village. The Downtown Long Beach Associates' BikeFest will take place at the finish line from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at The Pike's grassy area near Shoreline Drive and Pine Avenue.
"The Tour of Long Beach and its finish line festival is a celebration of the bike friendliness and bike culture in downtown Long Beach," said Julie Meigs Korinke, DLBA communication manager. "And this year, BikeFest will be highlighting downtown's vintage and biking fashion with two new elements."
The Tour of Long Beach was an idea of the late Mark Bixby and Long Beach's Bike Ambassador Tony Cruz (2000 U.S. Olympian). The tour has a variety of ways to participate with the Family Fun Run (free, 5 miles), Tour of Long Beach ($55, 31 miles), Metric Century Ride ($65, 62 miles) or the Cruz Gran Fondo ($120, 100 miles).
"With all the different rides, anyone can participate, whether you are a kid who just got a bike or an avid cyclist," said Brett Beck, Memorial Medical Foundation director. "It's designed to be a great weekend for families and neighbors to show off what Long Beach has been trying to do to be one of the most bike-friendly cities in the nation."
The Tour of Long Beach puts money toward the Miller Children's Hospital Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center. Beyond an entry fee, riders also can choose to fundraise for the race — $200 raised by May 10 gets the cyclist a special Champions Club jersey.
"There's a lot of rides for different diseases and diagnoses, but you don't really know what the money is specifically going to," said Renae Waestman-Furlow, marketing manager for Jonathan Jaques. "We're really big on transparency."
The hospital is part of the Children's Oncology Group, working to cure cancers in children and teenagers — specifically certain types of leukemia.
"Our goal is to make pediatric cancer a survivable disease, to make sure each child is curable," Waestman-Furlow said. "And any advances we receive here, a patient in Texas will get that same knowledge. When you come and ride and make every pedal count, you're doing something locally, but also helping every patient across the country."
The main Tour of Long Beach route begins along the water in downtown Long Beach, goes north along the Los Angeles River, cuts across the city roughly parallel to Heartwell Park, back down along the San Gabriel River and across the boardwalk back downtown. The special Cruz Gran Fondo will be led by Tony Cruz, and its path reaches south all the way to the Laguna area and back.
The event is trying to raise about $500,000 and race officials said they expect about 3,000 cyclists of all ages and types. One-way of traffic along Shoreline Drive will be closed from about 4 a.m. to 10 a.m.
At the finish line, the BikeFest will be a daylong celebration for riders and spectators alike.
There will be a vintage bike and fashion show at 1 p.m. inspired by Bernard Serrano and the Cyclone Coasters, featuring fashion from the 1920s-1990s. A vintage exhibit will take place all day. Live swing performances will serenade the celebration.
"Guests will be encouraged to hit the dance floor with their best swing moves," Korinke said.
The Beachwood and Friends Craft Beer Garden is returning with a larger footprint. There will be about a dozen breweries with 20 craft beers to choose from — five-ounce souvenir glasses and $20 for 10 tastings. There will be a bike shop vendor village, free bike valet, face painting and bicycle safety classes aimed at families.
"The festival really serves two purposes: To be a celebration of the participants in the tour and the other is to celebrate our biking community here in Long Beach," Korinke said.
BikeFest Long Beach is happening this month so make sure you come out and join us for some of the festivities. http://www.LifestyleOfLongBeach.com
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Email Lists and Direct Mail Databases of Jewelers and Jewelry Retailers are available for both the USA and the UK.
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Besides offering you what to buy an email directory of jewelers and jewelry retailers have other duties too. They need to polish and clean the jewelry keeping it shiny. If they work in a smaller shop, rather than large jewelry manufacturing firm, they need to know how to properly design and manufacture the jewelry from scratch, how to repair it when broken, and how to do laser engraving. All in all, they are these creative and communicative people always ready to help you choose something truly remarkable, something that will indeed suit you and your character best.
How to find an email mailing list of jewelers and jewelry retailers online?
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August 7, 2017 -Jeffrey Snedden from the Beaver County Times was our speaker for this evening! Many of us were already familiar with Jeffrey's wonderful "Histories and Mysteries" weekly feature focusing on the history of Beaver County. But it was a real treat to see some of the MANY historical photographs that Jeffrey has amassed in his career as a prominent historian of the Beaver Valley and more.
The Geneva College graduate, now living in Hopewell Township, has given over 50 popular presentations over the last 5 years in the Greater Pittsburgh area and we were lucky to be amongst those who have learned much from Jeffrey.
Jeffrey's presentation will be a "Photo History of Beaver County" with over 350 historic photos, but special emphasis will be given to Moon Township, which at one time extended far further into what is Beaver County now at one time. Join us for an evening of fun with the "Historical Writer and Head of the Intellectual Curiosity Department from Aliquippa, PA!"
It was exciting to hear Jeffrey talk more about the J&L Steel Mills and the islands they purchased for recreational playgrounds for their employees. THREE times the owners gave out free seeds to their workers for gardens to be planted. In both World Wars, these were called VICTORY Gardens, but during the Depression, they were called LIBERTY Gardens!
He kept us wondering about what else we didn't know before!
This was one of the slides Jeffrey produced showing the timeline of different periods and borders of Moon Township.
Click on the lower right hand side of the photo to enlarge.
Here's a great website for old maps of Moon Township and Coraopolis.


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The Washington Examiner quoted Retail Group Co-Leader Ron Friedman in an article about the upcoming holiday shopping season.
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Featured: Ronald Friedman, Co-Leader, Retail & Consumer Products
The real winners of the holiday season, though, could be department stores like Nordstrom - whose profits were up nearly 50 percent midway through the year - as shopping centers around the country get an upgrade, according to Ronald Friedman, a partner at advisory firm Marcum LLP. "That will get more people in there, so the brick-and-mortar will do better," he said.
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Usually, when discussing the topic of how to reset a password on iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max, the topic of a hard factory reset often comes into play. That's why, before you learn the classic steps of the iPhone password reset, you might ask yourself what is going to happen with the data stored on it. More importantly, if you're doing the reset simply because you got locked out of the device, you should know that this isn't the end. You can unlock the Apple and keep all your data. And speaking of all these backup choices, we have three different options to show you.
Backups are a crucial part of the iPhone experience. That's the reason why users have at least two main services at their disposal – we're talking about iTunes and iCloud. And if you haven't used any of them before, the reality is that you just can't save the data from your iPhone before resetting the password. Our third recommendation, from this perspective, is the Recovery Mode method.
Select the backup that should be restored (when you select the file from that list, consider its size and the date when it was created).
Choose what to do next: you can select Restore From A Backup or you can opt for Set Up As New.
We already suggested to you that the Update is the option that lets you keep the data, so, start from there. When you opt for the Update, the iTunes will download the latest iOS version and install it on the iPhone Xs or iPhone Xs Max without deleting anything!


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Deepfakes and disinformation: how new technical standards are creating a more trustworthy internet
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) develops technology to combat disinformation. The group has been working expeditiously behind closed doors for months, and recently released a public draft specification designed to make it easier to trace the origin and evolution of the media we all create and consume.
The draft represents a big idea that has been months in the making: that technology can combat misinformation by surfacing how media has been manipulated, so everyone can make smarter decisions about how we consume and share it. Getting early feedback is critical to ensuring this kind of technology is a positive force in fighting disinformation.
At Fastly, we're committed to empowering our customers to build a more trustworthy internet. Along with other media and internet organizations, we contributed to the creation of this public draft specification to further this mission.
Below, I'll give a brief tour of the problem, the role of C2PA tech, and then explain how you can get involved. Coincidentally, some tools are already popping up if you want to try this tech for yourself.
Some background on misinformation
Misinformation is inaccurate information, regardless of whether or not it is intended to deceive. But there are a few subtypes of it, and some evolving definitions. Disinformation is the subset of misinformation that is deliberately deceptive. "Fake news" is considered misinformation that mimics news media in form, but not in intent.
Measuring and limiting the harm caused by any of these types of misinformation is challenging. Oversight, collaborative platform anti-abuse operations, and law enforcement play important roles in addressing the issue, to name a few.
One effective tool for limiting the harm caused by misinformation is media literacy. In short, these are the practices that allow individuals to critically evaluate media. For example, identifying the authors of the media and the techniques that were used to construct it.
How C2PA helps
This is where technology like C2PA comes in. C2PA specs out an authenticated history of changes to a media asset. The idea is that media tools of all sorts — from your cell phone camera to a photo editor to your favorite edge compute platform — can then update and validate this history. When the asset is delivered to an end user, they can see (or hear or touch) the cryptographically bound history of the media they are consuming and use this information to reason about the media's accuracy and legitimacy.
Elements of C2PA (from public draft v0.7)
C2PA-enabled tools capture and present information that is well-known to aid in media literacy decisions. Ultimately, C2PA aims to soundly, conveniently put this information into the hands of users at just the right time — like when you are making "rapid media literacy decisions" (aka deftly rolling through your Twitter feed at high speed). Imagine being able to see a full history of how a video was modified (and who did it) before deciding to retweet it.
An important RFC
As you might have guessed (or have already known), this is a tricky problem to work on.
There are technical issues. There are tractable ones, like helping provenance metadata interoperate with C2PA-unaware edit and delivery toolchains. And there are far-reaching ones, like supporting the myriad identity providers that could be used by C2PA adopters.
But ultimately C2PA is proposing a federated system that deals with real people and real harms. This can elevate typical system design concerns, like functionality and information security, but it also dictates special consideration for issues like privacy and harm minimization. For example, consider that a real name policy could be useful in reasoning about media, but it can also expose individuals to risks, including risk of physical harm. How should C2PA tech be designed to minimize negative impacts like these?
Getting diverse input into the design of systems like C2PA is critical to maximizing the benefit — and minimizing the harms — that they can bring to individuals who are affected by the proliferation of misinformation. In other words, pretty much everyone. Your input, both technical and non-technical, can help shape how this sort of technology works.
It's up to us
Let's face it: Misinformation might get worse before it gets better. Reports of the inadvertent spread of misinformation, advances in dual-use technology like deepfakes, and pointed disinformation campaigns continue to roll in. It can feel hopeless. But it isn't. We, as technologists and critical thinkers, might be able to help. Content provenance technology isn't a panacea, and it faces challenges, but it also has potential.
If you're interested in helping address this problem, check out the C2PA specification and give us your thoughts.
Jonathan Foote
Senior Principal Engineer
Jonathan Foote leads anti-fraud security product engineering at Fastly.


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Click 365 Margin FX Trading Volume up 2.4% in November at the Tokyo Financial Exchange
Monday, 01/12/2014 | 07:03 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Margin FX trading volume at the TFX reached 4,145,938 In November 2014, a jump of 65.7% from the same month of the previous year. The volume of Equity Index Margin (Click kabu 365) dropped by 27.4% MoM.
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The leading Japanese venue Tokyo Financial Exchange Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv Read this Term (TFX) has just released its November 2014 trading volumes showing a mild rebound for the month, after October's 7% drop in the margin FX segment of its business known as Click 365.
The total trading volume of the exchange's FX Margin contracts (Click 365) in November was 4,145,938, an increase of 2.4% month-over-month and an impressive 65.7% jump from the same period last year. In addition, the average daily trading volume reached 207,298 in November 2014.
As is evident from the chart, the two leading pairs at the Japanese market, USD/JPY and EUR/JPY, were mainly responsible for the overall Click 365 volume rise, though the CHF/JPY also showed a remarkable jump in trading.
The total trading volume of Exchange Equity Index Margin contracts (Click kabu 365) in November was 618,482, a sharp drop of 27.4% month-over-month but still up 59.8% year-over-year. In total, the combined trading volume for all TFX products was 4,895,687, up 5.7% month-over-month, and its average daily trading volume was 245,515.
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Providing Long-Term Value – Business Roundtable Signs New "Purpose of a Corporation"
by SMSBF Communications Team | Oct 15, 2019 | Articles, People | 0 comments
Are America's most powerful corporations starting to embrace Triple Bottom Line concepts? Well, maybe. They are taking a step in the right direction at least. The Business Roundtable recently published a new definition of the purpose of a corporation, and it includes more than padding the pockets of shareholders.
The Business Roundtable is made up of approximately 200 CEOs from influential corporations across the country. Typically, these corporations have over 15 million employees and at least $7 trillion in annual revenue. Over the last four decades, the Business Roundtable has come together to research, advocate, and promote policy. The group has issued perspectives on policy affecting all aspects of business from corporate governance and tax policy to education.
This latest statement on the "Purpose of a Corporation" is meant to correct the outdated view that corporations exist to first serve their shareholders. Instead, acknowledging that in order to truly thrive, corporations need to recognize that shareholders are only one piece of the pie. Corporations also need to serve their other stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, and communities.
According to the statement from the Business Roundtable, "If companies fail to recognize that the success of our system is dependent on inclusive long-term growth, many will raise legitimate questions about the role of large employers in our society."
As such, the signatories commit to:
Delivering value to our customers. We will further the tradition of American companies leading the way in meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
Investing in our employees. This starts with compensating them fairly and providing important benefits. It also includes supporting them through training and education that help develop new skills for a rapidly changing world. We foster diversity and inclusion, dignity and respect.
Dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers. We are dedicated to serving as good partners to the other companies, large and small, that help us meet our missions.
Supporting the communities in which we work. We respect the people in our communities and protect the environment by embracing sustainable practices across our businesses.
Generating long-term value for shareholders, who provide the capital that allows companies to invest, grow and innovate. We are committed to transparency and effective engagement with shareholders.
A full list of signatories can be found here. A few Michigan companies include BorgWarner, Dow, Ford, and General Motors.
However, critics remain divided on the effectiveness of the effort. Richard Shinder, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, pointedly comments "No one can serve two masters," and continues to argue, "things aren't likely to end well for any business that opts to please stakeholders over shareholders." While others like Michael Spence, a writer for Project Syndicate, notes some of the positive attributes of the effort, explaining that this "shift toward socially conscious corporate governance…opens the door for new, more creative business models."
As Alan Murray, President and CEO of Fortune, notes in his recent interview, there is a "trust gap" that has emerged between communities and corporations. While this statement on the purpose of a corporation is a step in the right direction, businesses need to do more; this statement of purpose needs to be backed up by action.
John Kotter, a contributor to MarketWatch, explains that business mantras, including the now outdated primacy of shareholders, become embedded in our culture over time, not overnight. Indeed, the "maximize shareholder value" model has taken decades to evolve to where it is today. We shouldn't expect the change anticipated by this latest Business Roundtable statement to take any less time.
Click here to read the opinion of SMSBF's Executive Director Mike Shesterkin.
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Bonjour, Je m'appelle Alain et je suis completement bi-lingue.
Indeed I speak both English and French fluently.
Le pays ou j'ai grandi (Maurice / Mauritius) est un pays francophone qui etait une colonie Britannique avant de devenir independent en 1968.
My secondary education is up to the British 'A' level and then I studied to become a Chartered Accountant in England.
J'ai vecu un total de 25 ans en Angleterre ayant aussi travaillé en France.
I am now retired after a long career in finance in England, France and Mauritius.
I prefer translating from French to English.
I currently live in Mauritius. It has a multi racial population where the French and the Indian culture co-habit. The spoken language is primarily French although most of our legislation is in English. I was brought up within a British education curriculum although at home I spoke french with family and friends. I am currently retired after a 40 year career in finance moast of which was spent in England.
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Q: Ways to communicate GPS coordinates to a central server wirelessly from a wearable device I am currently looking at designing a wearable device for a client, which can communicate GPS coordinates back to some sort of central server (to then be sent out to other communicating devices such as mobile phones). The area of the tracking system would be known, and would be a confined space (let's say within a 3 mile radius).
I have no experience in this field and want to know the different options available for sending the GPS coordinates out from the device. The way I see it there are 2 options (that I know about):

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*Use mobile networks and some sort of SIM card to communicate the coordinates back

*Use a local WIFI network and some sort of wireless communicator in the device

There may be other types of hardware that I know nothing about, hence why I have asked this question on here to get a bit of advice.

A: There's the so-called "ISM" bands, 900MHz and 433MHz. And there are Nordic Semiconductor devices which use a proprietary protocol in the 2.4GHz band. All of these are capable of moderate range in the open with suitable modulation and data rates.

A: Another method is to have your wearable talk over Bluetooth (BLE) to a head unit (often a cellphone) which acts as both the GPS and the uplink.  One benefit is that the cellphone can switch between Wifi and GSM, and allows the user control over how the data is uploaded.
If you design with a custom GSM solution, look at Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) plans from your cellphone provider.  These differ from regular cellphone plans and are better suited to the usage required of embedded devices (data w/o voice, greater data caps, etc).

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Telefonica buys Ericsson 5G equipment to replace some Huawei gear
Telefonica buys Ericsson 5G equipment to replace some Huawei gear - Copyright Thomson Reuters 2021
MADRID – Telefonica has bought 5G network equipment from Swedish manufacturer Ericsson to replace some of the Huawei gear it has rolled out in Spain, a source at the Spanish firm said on Monday, confirming a report in Expansion newspaper.
The replacement of the next-generation mobile network equipment is part of Telefonica's strategy announced in 2019 to diversify suppliers, according to the source.
Expansion said the telecoms company has initially rolled out some Huawei equipment that it had already bought before seeking to secure alternative supplies.
The source at Telefonica declined to say how much equipment Telefonica bought from Ericsson or when the purchase was made.
Huawei and Ericsson's Spanish unit did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Telefonica's 2019 decision came at a time when China's Huawei, the global market leader in network equipment, had been drawn into the centre of political tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The United States has alleged the company's equipment could be used by the Chinese government for espionage. Huawei and Beijing have repeatedly denied the allegations.
When Telefonica's announced its strategy two years ago, it said its decision to diversify was purely technical in nature and that it had seen no evidence to support the American allegations that Huawei gear posed a security risk.


Square Enix plans to use its original IPs and backward compatible content to pursue "games as a service" initiatives in an effort to supplement its lucrative digital sales.
Like most publishers in the games industry, Square Enix makes most of its earnings via digital sales in the form of full game downloads, in-game purchases, and other live service content across consoles, PC, and mobile. In its Fiscal Year 2017 earnings report, the Japanese games publisher says it will launch a "Square Enix digital sales global website" that will "create a libraty of catalog titles and eliminate backward compatibility issues."
This strongly suggests Square Enix will roll out its own dedicated Steam-like games marketplace to sell digital content, possibly complete with a proprietary uPlay-like games launcher; but unlike Steam, Square Enix's website or service should cater to all platforms.
In its Fiscal Year 2017, the publisher reported $1.75 billion (199 billion yen) in digital net sales, with HD Games accounting for 46.6% of total digital net sales with $819.2 million (92.8 billion yen). However the mobile sector is extremely profitable for the publisher, and mobile/browser games pulled in 41.4% of total digital net sales with $735.3 million (83.3 billion yen).
The publisher's digital numbers might be strong but its global digital reach could use some uplifting. The company wants to broaden its scope beyond North America with the new digital games marketplace.
Square Enix sells most of its digital games to North America and Europe, which far eclipse digital net sales of any other region.
Data shows that Asian regions are far less likely to purchase games digitally and instead opt for physical disc-based software. With its new marketplace website the company hopes to change this and stimulate digital sales for all global regions.
For example: the publisher sold 12.11 million full-game downloads in North America and Europe in FY2017, or 34.8% of all software sales during the year.
Compared to Japan, the gap is much more pronounced: Square Enix sold just 0.73 million digital downloads, or a paltry 2.1% of total software sales.
While it's true that more North American and European gamers purchased disc-based games over digital downloads, the gap between digital and physical is only 2.44 million units, compared to Japan's 3.56 million.
Asia and other regions saw more digital sales than physical, likely due to the emphasis on PC gaming in the APAC territory. These regions also had a less pronounced digital vs disc plateau of only 400,000 units, in favor of digital sales.
These figures illustrate where Square Enix currently is with its digital sales, and offers a guideline for where it wants to be. Armed with an accessible and easy-to-use global digital marketplace, the publisher will almost certainly enjoy higher volumes of digital content sales across the board.
What will the digital shop be like?
I speculate that Square Enix's digital storefront will mimic Nintendo's eShop, featuring a wide swath of games across all platforms and regions.
Given the publisher discusses backward compatible titles, we should see a massive array of retro and older key IPs and content available on the marketplace, and I expect it to link to major console-powered ecosystems such as Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network as well as PC's Steam and GOG.com.
However, if Square Enix is to manifest this storefront as I envision it, the publisher will need to make its own games client.
This would underline the company's statements of "games as a service," and essentially mirror major games clients like Ubisoft's uPlay and Electronic Arts' Origin. This would effectively see a global service merged with a games client/launcher and a complete global digital storefront that crosses PC, mobile, and consoles.
The publisher has not fully announced plans of its storefront website but a reveal at E3 2017 is possible.


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Q: how to validate textfield that allows only 0,1,..9 and . symbol i place 4 textfields in my application.
I need that 4 textfields allows only numbers 0,1...9 and . symbol.
For that i place keyboard numbers&punctuation. it is ok but In my keypad allows   ABC,-,/,(,that all are  activated.
But in my textfield, that allows only 0,1,...9 and . symbol.
How can i done this.
can any one pls help me.
Thank u in advance.

A: If you are targeting iOS 4.1 and later, you can use UIKeyboardTypeDecimalPad. If you need to support older versions, require a decimal point, and don't want anything else, you will have to create a custom keyboard.
If you want to filter out the other keys without removing them, assign some object as the text field's delegate. That object should contain the following code:
- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
    static NSCharacterSet *charSet = nil;
    if(!charSet) {
        charSet = [[[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"0123456789."] invertedSet] retain];
    }
    NSRange location = [string rangeOfCharacterFromSet:charSet];
    return (location.location == NSNotFound);
}


The following quotes were provided by judges Weyni Mengesha, Che Kothari and David "Click" Cox, who are representatives from the performing arts industry who provided feedback about EG's presentation that was showcased at the AGO as a part of the Toronto ArtReach Youth event in 2010.
"The creativity in the performance was refreshing and unique. I loved the set up".
" The stage presence and personality was strong, and confident. Elevated Grounds worked well with the audience".
"The message of Elevated Grounds was very strong and clear, great vocals and overall performance".
The Elevated Grounds show came off without a hitch to an almost sold out crowd. The event could not have gone off more smoothly. Given that this was a positive experience for the audience I would highly encourage other venues to support this cause".
-Mr.George Benedek: Principal, Stephen Leacock CI.
Between sessions, a performance by arts group Elevated Grounds enlivened the proceedings. Elevated Grounds strives to bring attention to mental illness to youth through dramatizations and music, and their compelling performance riveted the crowd. The performers used theatre to illustrate the mental health and addiction issues that young people from ethnoracial and ethnocultural groups face and how they must navigate them without adequate and culturally-appropriate supports.
- George Brown College Mental Health Conference March 3, 2011.
The message of mental health, mental illness, stigma and management of life challenges was clearly indicated in their performances. The serious concerns surrounding concurrent disorder which is prevalent in the adolescent population was addressed in a very direct, but sensitive manner. The young artists illustrated passion and dedication throughout their performance. Their creative strengths were evident throughout their performances(s) which created a positive and inspiring energy for those viewing the performance. I would highly recommend Elevated Grounds to perform at any venue which strives on the promotion of mental health and who has an interest in receiving the important message that one can have a mental illness, but still have mental health. It will inspire an audience of all ages and touch the hearts of those who have a passion for understanding mental health and/or mental illness. I hope to be given the opportunity to view their performance again in the near future.
A message that could not have been clearer with the use of such simple but emotion tugging displays of the arts. Elevated grounds and its cast didn't just communicate the message of mental health; it communicated the realism's of life. Their message covered a range of issues that countless adults, youth and professionals experience but are complicated to reveal or divulge.
As a Director of Community Services in a municipal organization, I think this theatrical production or what I perceived as an "Edu-play" was something anyone involved in human services should see. Just loved it!
On behalf of my staff………………..thank you!


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For your weekend reading pleasure, an interview and an article.
The folks at brainmates have a product management consultancy in Sydney, Australia and also publish a great blog. They've been running a really good series of interviews with product managers. And today they published an interview with me. Humbling! Thanks again, guys! You should check them out and subscribe. More good interviews are sure to come.
Pragmatic Marketing publishes a print magazine, productmarketing.com, with a large subscriber base (~50,000 readers, I think). They also post the magazine online, and the most recent issue just came out. You should subscribe to the magazine – it is free, and very very good.
Thanks very much to the folks at Pragmatic, I have an article in the latest issue. How to Use Timeboxes for Scheduling Software Delivery is an expansion on an earlier article we shared here. Check out the new improved version in their magazine.
Thanks to Tyner Blain Readers!
None of this would be possible without the support, word-of-mouth marketing, and encouragement that we get from all of you. Please accept my deepest thanks for everything!


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Katolička Crkva u Sloveniji je vjerska zajednica u Sloveniji, dio opće Katoličke Crkve u punom zajedništvu s rimskom kurijom i papom. Prema popisu iz 2011. u Sloveniji živi oko 1,195.000 katolika što čini oko 56% stanovništva. Država je podijeljena u 6 dijeceza, uključujući dvije nadbiskupije. Mariborsku biskupiju je papa Benedikt XVI. 2006. uzdigao na razinu nadbiskupije. Pored toga, papa je osnovao i tri nova sjedišta: Novo Mesto, Celje i Murska Sobota. Slovenski biskupi su zastupljeni u slovenskoj biskupskoj konferenciji.

Nadbiskup Juliusz Janusz apostolski je nuncij u Sloveniji i apostolski delegat na Kosovu.

Organizacija

 Ljubljanska nadbiskupija
Koparska biskupija
 Biskupija Novo Mesto

 Mariborska nadbiskupija
 Celjska biskupija
 Biskupija Murska Sobota

Vanjske poveznice
  Službena stranica Katoličke crkve u Sloveniji
  Podaci sa stranice catholic-hierarchy.org

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Manga Seminar '17
Marcelo Fraguas was back in the house on Tuesday, June 6. Coach or "Professor" Marcelo, who goes by the nickname "Manga", is one of Demian Maia's top instructors in the world, and runs his own affiliate academy in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He traveled to the Berkshires with Coaches Connie and Mark to provide an amazing seminar after helping Demian at the 2017 DMJJ Affiliate training in Los Angeles.
The clinic provided over twenty students with material from Master Maia's branch of the BJJ tree. Included in the three hours of hands-on training were strategies for the "turtle", "half-guard", and "Back Mount" positions. Manga's unique blend of world class Jiu-jitsu, effective presentation, and comedy left all of the participants better prepared for their adventures on the mat.
In early 2011, Manga was the first of Demian's instructors to visit ZenQuest. In addition to introducing the school to Demian's wizardry, part of Manga's original visit was to evaluate ZenQuest for affiliation. Manga immediately loved the school and gave a glowing review to confirm ZenQuest as an official addition to the DMJJ group.
Big thanks to everyone who made it to the training, and special thanks to Professor Manga for an incredible workshop!
DMJJ in LA
Coaches Connie and Mark recently spent five days in "SoCal" with Demian Maia for the 2017 DMJJ affiliate training. This year's training was hosted by Demian's newest affiliate, Villain's Jiu-jitsu in Los Angeles. The trip was filled with incredible training with the world champion and number one welterweight contender in the UFC.
As usual, the affiliation training consisted of reviewing a variety of Jiu-jitsu strategies to insure consistency among Demian's instructors. Sometimes this requires adjustments to existing strategies based on the Master's experience. The instructors were also given new guidelines for Blue Belt promotions in Demian's affiliate schools. These include technical requirements in self-defense material, ground strategies, history of the art, and sparring/rolling.
In addition, Maia provided a seminar covering the evolution of some of the incredible strategies he has developed for both the cage and the mats. Also, the affiliate group got to attend the IBJJF World Championships with Demian. Since he is considered a hero among many of the superstars in the art, the group had some amazing access at the event and got to meet a laundry-list of famous characters there. (Some examples below.)
The ZenQuest instructors learned a lot on this trip, and were awarded Level II Instructor Certifications by Demian at the conclusion of the training. Thanks to Professors Maia and Manga, Villains Jiu-jitsu, Flavio Scorsato, and all of the other affiliate instructors for a very memorable trip!
Everything Old . . .
There is an old controversy in the martial arts between "old-school" practitioners and those who take a more contemporary approach. Students of the old-school tend to practice exclusively for the purpose of self-defense. In training, they like to focus on repetition of a limited number of drills and strategies. They do not allow variation on how to do things or modification of established standards, and discourage sport or competition. On the other hand, more contemporary stylist tend to embrace adjustments and modifications to established standards when they seem to improve things. They sometimes focus on competition, seeing it as a healthy way to optimize their art and keep things fresh. To them, competition training helps to prepare students for effective self-defense in the real world.
Lately, this debate has been raging in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The argument on the side of the "self-defense" proponents argue that the first generation developers of BJJ got it exactly right. They feel that no modifications should be made to the original strategies. They also tend to dislike modern competition, sighting that some of the strategies developed over the last twenty or thirty years (since the art exploded in popularity) are not applicable to the real world. The harshest critics feel that training for sport detracts from the essence of the true martial art. This is not new, or limited to BJJ.
Having tradition and standards are essential in establishing and continuing a martial art. They are based on the collective experience of everyone who has trained-in, and developed the art up to the present time. Tradition helps to form the best way for people to learn. Standards, guidelines and compulsory strategies, are the glue that holds a style together over time. To have no technical guidelines would be to have no martial art!
In reality, each variation of a combative style is somewhere on a spectrum of tradition and contemporary. Some schools are more old-school, and some more new. The most traditional practitioners have no tolerance for change, and the most modern stylist have almost no established standards. In reality, a healthy balance between tradition and evolution is best. Although establishing and maintaining standards is extremely important, resisting a natural progression of a martial art over time is a mistake. Regardless of style, not allowing any improvements, a better understanding, or even totally new strategies is a failure on both the individual and big-picture levels.
Each generation of students has the potential to contribute something to their martial art. Sometimes a key figure will make a major contribution to the art that they started in, or even spawn a new art. This has probably happened countless times throughout history. Some notable examples are Jigoro Kano for Judo, Uechi Kanbun and Kanei for Uechi-Ryu, Bruce Lee for Jeet Kun Do, Mohammed Ali for Boxing, and the first generation Gracies for Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Each of these people made major contributions or modifications to the art that they started with. If their contributions prove to be improvements, they survive the test of time and people gravitated to them. For each of these figures, there may be a thousand other martial artists that attempted to modify their art, and failed miserably. History has a way of determining which styles survive in the long run.
It's important to balance maintaining high standards in training based on time tested traditions and being open to refinement, or even creating new strategies. Being too extreme one way or the other will lead to problems and weakness. Sometimes, students can be imprinted with a certain way of doing things and refuse to change that, even though they learned it imperfectly in the first place. Also, being closed minded about your art can become tedious, and lead to premature ends to training and dysfunctionally small training groups. There's an irony in the Brazilian Jiu-jitsu debate, because BJJ is a modified version of traditional Japanese Jiu-jitsu. It's important to stay open minded, and for training to include a variety of exercises and drills to provide a diverse package of strategies and abilities to it's practitioners. This should include technical drills, self-defense strategies, realistic situational exercises, and free sparring.
"Sparring" or "rolling" is, by nature, a game with a set of rules to minimize risks for the purpose of practicing real time application of strategies. Once you agree to a set of rules this will take on a life of it's own, especially at it's highest levels. Competition should be viewed as a training tool that helps to develop important aspects of a self-defense skill set. These include balance and footwork, functional core strength, grips, restraining and controlling another person, and…maybe most importantly…how to adapt to a chaotic situation and change quickly from one position or strategy to another. Preparing for competition is also a healthy way for students to stay motivated to train and sharpen their skills, and boost strength and fitness. We shouldn't expect every aspect of the competition version of an art to apply to every situation in self-defense, but keep in mind it's purpose in the big picture.
Many of the benefits of sparring or competition training can go underdeveloped in strictly "traditional" training that sometimes only focuses on the situational or conditioning drills. Against a resisting opponent who's determined to get the best of you, a defensive strategy can be sabotaged, forcing the defender to go quickly to another strategy or go completely off script and make something up. That's not something the average person can do without extensive sparring or "rolling" included in their training. Competition also tends to lead to the refinement of older techniques, and the evolution of entirely new strategies. On the other hand, students who prefer to focus on the competition path should also practice specific strategies for defense and escape situations.
All students and instructors should stay open minded to new strategies that are developed, or improvements on "old school" strategies. It's important to think about the context that might be best for a certain move. If something seems to work for competition, then use it for that. If something seems to work best for self-defense, then use it for that. Student should be allowed to focus on whatever emphasis they like, whether competition or self-defense. Instructors should be familiar with all aspects of their art, so that they can help all students and pass the complete art on to others. Everyone should avoid being negative about training, and celebrate...or eventually contribute to the gradual evolution of their art!
Kickathon Success
The Bill Wright Scholarship Fund held a "Kickathon" on Saturday, May 6th. The event was designed to raise money for the fund, which relies on private donations to function. This endeavor was the first of it's kind in several years, and was a big success in boosting the funding for that charitable effort.
The BWSF was established to provide financial assistance to qualifying youth students. It's purpose is to provide a way for disadvantaged youth students to learn important life skills through the martial arts like focus, self-control, respect, confidence and perseverance.
This time around, about a dozen kickers and separate contributors had raised nearly $1,600 at the time of this report. Top kickers and fundraisers will receive small gifts, but the real reward for the participants is simply helping those who need it.
The highest kickers in four age categories (based on those who participated) were awarded gift certificates from ZenQuest. Additionally, the individual who raised the most funds was awarded a gift card provided by the BWSF committee to Five Below. Congratulations to the following (and thank you for your efforts and support!):
Highest Fundraiser: Thane Adams
Adults (382 kicks): Matt Moreau
Cobras (318 kicks): Tyler Woodbury
Dragons (280 kicks): Thane Adams
Tigers (239 kicks): Terryn Loehr
Special thanks to everyone who participated and made this effort happen. Please remember that additional contributions are always welcome and appreciated!
Dan Promotions
Congratulations to AJ Yener and Joe Willson on earning Nidan or 2nd degree black belt in Uechi-Ryu Karate! The promotions happened on Sunday, May 7 under the supervision of an examination board of Senseis Beth Yanuskiewicz, Michelle Moreau, Connie Flynn, and Mark Flynn. Both AJ and Joe turned in "A" level performances in Shin, Gi, and Tai (form, strength and spirit) for all of the areas of the test.
Upon completion of the challenge, the test board all agreed that it was a strong test, and had praise for the candidates. Sensei Connie and Mark felt that the quality of Uechi-Ryu Karate at ZenQuest is virtually no different from that in found in Okinawa.
Congrats again to Joe and AJ and, as Sensei Toshio Higa like to say…"Please continue!"
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Christopher is from Belfast but moved to Dublin four years ago to work with Citywise, an educational charity that he has been a member of since he was eight years old. Having completed his Masters in Education in NUI Maynooth, Christopher, looking for a new challenge, decided to do his Gold Gaisce Award, which he completed with guidance from his PAL, Jonathan Doyle.
For his Community Involvement, Christopher became a Gaisce PAL and organised meetings and events. In his workplace, he enrolled as a Gaisce PAL (President's Award Leader) on a voluntary basis to assist young people in achieving their Bronze and Silver Awards. In this role, Christopher helped students to choose their activities and to organise classes and training – some students needed extra encouragement to continue filling in their hours and keeping up with the activities.
Christopher decided to take cooking classes for his Personal Skill – a great opportunity for him to learn to cook new meals, he felt. Unfortunately the classes stopped and Christopher tried to find other cooking classes but they clashed with his schedule. In the search for a new skill, Christopher learnt computer coding, a skill he then passed on to the children he was teaching.
For his Physical Recreation, Christopher chose Tag Rugby after deciding that his original challenge of gym work was not for him. Tag Rugby was fast, physical and competitive and Christopher enjoyed playing as part of a team. His team got into the finals of the amateur league in the Bray Tagfest in August 2013 – one of highlights of Christopher's challenge.
For his Adventure Journey, he chose to walk 116km of the Camino de Santiago. In the space of four weeks, Christopher and his friends had the trip planned and in the three weeks leading up to the walk, they undertook three hikes to prepare themselves. The walk lasted five days, with the group totalling a distance of 116km. Covering such a distance was tricky, and sometimes painful – so Christopher was glad when they earned their stops.
For his Residential Project, Christopher travelled to Lourdes with the Clonard Monastery Lourdes Pilgrimages as part of the youth team, whose job was to care for the sick and elderly. This involved pushing wheelchairs, assisting people attending masses and ceremonies.


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Can it really not find 61.4MB of free space with 16GB of free RAM? Or am I misunderstanding this?
I am primarily a SAS programmer, with limited R knowledge. Thanks!


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Hypolycaena naara is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kisangani).

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Butterflies described in 1873
Hypolycaenini
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson


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Footballeur japonais
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Joueur de l'Omiya Ardija
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Quiring, Courtney, et al. "AbobotulinumtoxinA." Davis's Drug Guide, 16th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2019. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/109541/all/abobotulinumtoxinA.
Quiring C, Sanoski CA, Vallerand AH. AbobotulinumtoxinA. Davis's Drug Guide. 16th ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/109541/all/abobotulinumtoxinA. Accessed April 25, 2019.
Quiring C, Sanoski CA, Vallerand AH. AbobotulinumtoxinA [Internet]. In: Davis's Drug Guide. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. [cited 2019 April 25]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/109541/all/abobotulinumtoxinA.


Yes, that is Kyle effortlessly floating in the Dead Sea...as much fun as it looks. It is so salty that is imperative to avoid getting it in your eyes. The salt also notifies you if you have even the tiniest of scratches or cuts on your body. Hello!
We did more than just cover ourselves in mud, float, and pamper ourselves when we were at the Dead Sea! We all had visited the Dead Sea on the Israeli/Palestinian side, but we had never visited the Jordanian side. We were not disappointed.
Remember the Sunday School song...A River Running Deep and Wide?
We also visited Mount Nebo where Moses is believed to have died, looking into the Promised Land to which he was forbidden to ever venture. It is also believed by some (not others) that he is buried there. We loved climbing to the top...we could see Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Nablus Hebron and Ramallah. This was just one more occassion where Dad's binoculars were a big hit with the locals!
Standing in Jordan, looking into Israel from Mount Nebo.
Purple Pride at the Lowest Point on Earth...Go Cats!
Boy, maybe even I could float there! Looks like fun, as long as you don't turn around.
Too funny! That flag sure does have a lot of miles on it now! You should put together a photo album of just pictures with the flag. Do people stop you and ask you where it's from? I was wondering if they might think that it's a flag from some strange country.


Car park in Barcelona, close to Barceloneta beach and the Aquarium. The metro station La Barceloneta (line 4) is a 5 minute walk away. You can find the BSM Moll de la Fusta car park at 8 minutes walk away from las Ramblas, the Christopher Columbus Monument, the Maritime Museum, and the Wax Museum. It is moreover a centric car park, and a perfect option for visiting Barcelona city centre.


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• Men's 10000m to Highlight Day One at World Athletics Championships
Worlds one of the most decorated distance runners of all time, Mo Harah, will attempt to collect his 6th global title as the 2017 IAAF Wolrd Athletics championships kicks off in London on Friday, July 4th.
The highlight event on Friday night in London will be the men's 10000m race where the local star athlete, Mo Farah, will try to defend his World championships title.
On Friday night, the 33-year-old Farah will attempt to win his 6th World championships title in the same stadium where he five years ago infront of 80,000 spectators became the first British man since Albert Hill in 1924 to win two Olympic track and field titles at the same Games.
If Farah succeeds in the 10000m race on Friday, he will become the most decorated distance runner in history. The legendary Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, whis is current world record holder in the 5000m and 10000m, is tied with Farah with five global titles.
With his 27:12.09 season's best time, Farah sits in the third position in 2017 world rankings behind Ethiopians Abadi Hadis (SB 27:08.26) and Jemal Yimer (SB 27:09.08).
For the last five years there has been several race tactics applied by Ethipians, Kenyans and others to defeat Farah, however all the efforts to take down Farah from his global crown have failed.
The men's 10000m is scheduled for Friday, Aug 4 at 21:20 local time.
See full start lists here
Friday full schedule (Times BST) | See full time table here
9:00 M 100 Metres Preliminary Round
19:20 M Discus Throw Qualification Group A
19:30 M Long Jump Qualification
19:35 W 1500 Metres Heats
19:45 W Pole Vault Qualification
20:20 M 100 Metres Heats
20:45 M Discus Throw Qualification Group B
21:20 M 10,000 Metres Final
Final Day Highlights from the World Athletics Junior Championships
Highlights from the final day of the 2022 World Athletics Junior U20 Championships that took place in Cali, Colombia from August 1 to 6.
World Athletics Junior Championships Day 5 Report: Jamaican Women's 4x100m Set World Record
The Jamaican women's 4x100 relay team formed by Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Kerrica Hill and Tia Clayton broke the world under 20 record with 42.59 in Cali.
World Athletics Junior Championships Day 4 Highlights
World Athletics Junior U20 Championships Cali 2022 day four conplete highlights.
Day Three Report from the World Athletics Junior Championships Cali 2022
Day three report from the World Athletics Junior Championships Cali 2022. Jamaica's Jamaica's Tina Clayton won her second consecutive world U20 100m title.
World Athletics Junior Championships Cali 2022 Day 2 Highlights
World Athletics Junior U20 Championships Cali 2022 day two complete highlights. Letsile Tebogo set a new 100m World record with 9.91 seconds.
Chelangat and Yihune win the first titles at the World Junior Championships in Cali
World Athletics Junior Championships day 1 highlights. Chelangat and Yihune win the first titles at the World Junior Championships in Cali.


Urban development and urban expansion, usually followed by transformations of cities and their surroundings (rural, urban or both). Communities, which have been lived in environments different from those experienced today, became living in hybrid environment, where different urban environments blend. Addressed to the State that result from this development and expansion, emerging negative social effects, which took as a base in exploring a rule of design strategies in restructuring of these areas. It is necessary in thus rapid urbanization situations, which causes an increased fragmentation and heterogeneity around cities, to create urban forms most appropriate for residual growth of these peri-urban settlements on the one hand, and for overall growth of the city as a unified unit, on the other hand. The importance of the study emerged from solving the problem of (integration of urban form and social structure) that may occur during and after the change in peri- urban areas surrounding the southern part of Sulaimaniyah city, due to building a new city (2020) as planned. The paper is trying to explore an appropriate strategy and a mechanism for how this process (reshaping) will occurred, in order to achieve the urban sustainability. So the social dimensions which have a crucial influences on sustainable re-configuration of the city, took as a study hypothec, in order to avoid a state of (urban segregation). To reach this goal, the (Qualitative methods) based as methodology, depending on the introspective views and inductive approaches to draw the proposed frame work, which treated by the study as a (new context), requires the new strategy, for areas around the city described as fragmented, affecting the overall view of urban form, and social cohesion in each settlement as well.
The study at last, achieved that the configuration will come from the human interaction with both dynamic (social environment), and fixed attributes (natural environment). Besides of that, the social dimensions have had the crucial influences on the urban form in one side, and on the sustainable re-configurations process in the peri-urban areas in the other side.
5- Vale & Vale, 1996, Green Architecture: Towards a more sustainable future. London, Thames and Hudson ltd.


Born in house-loving Holland, K'Lavander got in touch with electronica at an early age. As soon as he started playing records, he came to realize that the creative process of producing music was just as much fun as mixing in a DJ-booth. His sound has been hard to categorize if you listen to his volume of works, and in large part this is due to the fact that he was being tutored by production geniuses, Ariaan & Peter from the 16 Bit Lolitas. They set up a studio in Amsterdam around this period, and then when the 16 Bit Lolitas were formed, this became the first "Lost Orchestra" studio – a place for new, rich, and diverse sounds. Being a part of this select group of people, K'Lavander decided to create his own sounds, and only halfway through 2005 did his sound slowly start to form and mature. The profound interest that many have had with his works made K'Lavander decide to take his music out of the dark and into the realm of the club world.


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Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
"Eh? Wot I say? I spik true w'en I say dat Buck two devils." This was Francois's speech next morning when he discovered Spitz missing and Buck covered with wounds. He drew him to the fire and by its light pointed them out.
"Dat Spitz fight lak hell," said Perrault, as he surveyed the gaping rips and cuts.
"An' dat Buck fight lak two hells," was Francois's answer. "An' now we make good time. No more Spitz, no more trouble, sure."
While Perrault packed the camp outfit and loaded the sled, the dog-driver proceeded to harness the dogs. Buck trotted up to the place Spitz would have occupied as leader; but Francois, not noticing him, brought Sol-leks to the coveted position. In his judgment, Sol-leks was the best lead-dog left. Buck sprang upon Sol-leks in a fury, driving him back and standing in his place.
"Eh? eh?" Francois cried, slapping his thighs gleefully. "Look at dat Buck. Heem keel dat Spitz, heem t'ink to take de job."
"Go 'way, Chook!" he cried, but Buck refused to budge.
He took Buck by the scruff of the neck, and though the dog growled threateningly, dragged him to one side and replaced Sol-leks. The old dog did not like it, and showed plainly that he was afraid of Buck. Francois was obdurate, but when he turned his back Buck again displaced Sol-leks, who was not at all unwilling to go.
Francois was angry. "Now, by Gar, I feex you!" he cried, coming back with a heavy club in his hand.
Buck remembered the man in the red sweater, and retreated slowly; nor did he attempt to charge in when Sol-leks was once more brought forward. But he circled just beyond the range of the club, snarling with bitterness and rage; and while he circled he watched the club so as to dodge it if thrown by Francois, for he was become wise in the way of clubs. The driver went about his work, and he called to Buck when he was ready to put him in his old place in front of Dave. Buck retreated two or three steps. Francois followed him up, whereupon he again retreated. After some time of this, Francois threw down the club, thinking that Buck feared a thrashing. But Buck was in open revolt. He wanted, not to escape a clubbing, but to have the leadership. It was his by right. He had earned it, and he would not be content with less.
Perrault took a hand. Between them they ran him about for the better part of an hour. They threw clubs at him. He dodged. They cursed him, and his fathers and mothers before him, and all his seed to come after him down to the remotest generation, and every hair on his body and drop of blood in his veins; and he answered curse with snarl and kept out of their reach. He did not try to run away, but retreated around and around the camp, advertising plainly that when his desire was met, he would come in and be good.
Francois sat down and scratched his head. Perrault looked at his watch and swore. Time was flying, and they should have been on the trail an hour gone. Francois scratched his head again. He shook it and grinned sheepishly at the courier, who shrugged his shoulders in sign that they were beaten. Then Francois went up to where Sol-leks stood and called to Buck. Buck laughed, as dogs laugh, yet kept his distance. Francois unfastened Sol-leks's traces and put him back in his old place. The team stood harnessed to the sled in an unbroken line, ready for the trail. There was no place for Buck save at the front. Once more Francois called, and once more Buck laughed and kept away.
"T'row down de club," Perrault commanded.
Francois complied, whereupon Buck trotted in, laughing triumphantly, and swung around into position at the head of the team. His traces were fastened, the sled broken out, and with both men running they dashed out on to the river trail.
Highly as the dog-driver had forevalued Buck, with his two devils, he found, while the day was yet young, that he had undervalued. At a bound Buck took up the duties of leadership; and where judgment was required, and quick thinking and quick acting, he showed himself the superior even of Spitz, of whom Francois had never seen an equal.
But it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it, that Buck excelled. Dave and Sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership. It was none of their business. Their business was to toil, and toil mightily, in the traces. So long as that were not interfered with, they did not care what happened. Billee, the good-natured, could lead for all they cared, so long as he kept order. The rest of the team, however, had grown unruly during the last days of Spitz, and their surprise was great now that Buck proceeded to lick them into shape.
Pike, who pulled at Buck's heels, and who never put an ounce more of his weight against the breast-band than he was compelled to do, was swiftly and repeatedly shaken for loafing; and ere the first day was done he was pulling more than ever before in his life. The first night in camp, Joe, the sour one, was punished roundly — a thing that Spitz had never succeeded in doing. Buck simply smothered him by virtue of superior weight, and cut him up till he ceased snapping and began to whine for mercy.
The general tone of the team picked up immediately. It recovered its old-time solidarity, and once more the dogs leaped as one dog in the traces. At the Rink Rapids two native huskies, Teek and Koona, were added; and the celerity with which Buck broke them in took away Francois's breath.
"Nevaire such a dog as dat Buck!" he cried. "No, nevaire! Heem worth one t'ousan' dollair, by Gar! Eh? Wot you say, Perrault?"
And Perrault nodded. He was ahead of the record then, and gaining day by day. The trail was in excellent condition, well packed and hard, and there was no new-fallen snow with which to contend. It was not too cold. The temperature dropped to fifty below zero and remained there the whole trip. The men rode and ran by turn, and the dogs were kept on the jump, with but infrequent stoppages.
The Thirty Mile River was comparatively coated with ice, and they covered in one day going out what had taken them ten days coming in. In one run they made a sixty-mile dash from the foot of Lake Le Barge to the White Horse Rapids. Across Marsh, Tagish, and Bennett (seventy miles of lakes), they flew so fast that the man whose turn it was to run towed behind the sled at the end of a rope. And on the last night of the second week they topped White Pass and dropped down the sea slope with the lights of Skaguay and of the shipping at their feet.
It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty miles. For three days Perrault and Francois threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers. Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols. Next came official orders. Francois called Buck to him, threw his arms around him, wept over him. And that was the last of Francois and Perrault. Like other men, they passed out of Buck's life for good.
After Spitz's death, which dog becomes the lead dog?
Sol-leks
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