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For us though, as parents, the holiday season can seem more overwhelming than anything. Rather than a fun-filled countdown, to us it tends to look more like a race against the calendar as we try to fit in all of our holiday preparations before the big day arrives.
Between making sure the house is ready for out of town guests, planning and prepping the holiday meal, and fitting in the shopping for everyone on our list, the days just don't seem long enough and, before we know it, we wake up on Christmas morning realizing that we spent more time getting ready for the holiday season than we did actually enjoying any of it.
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Three Cowboys Make PFW All-Rookie Team
While DeMarcus Ware was the only Cowboys player named All-NFL by Pro Football Weekly and the Professional Football Writer's of America, the club landed three players on their All-Rookie team.
Making the squad were first-round tackle Tyron Smith, third-round running back DeMarco Murray and kicker Dan Bailey, who was undrafted.
Murray and Washington's Roy Helu were chosen for the team's backfield, while Smith was the tackle, along with Nate Solder of the New England Patriots.
Before suffering a broken ankle in Week 14, Murray was on pace to set a Cowboys record for rookie rushing yards, finishing with 897 on only 164 carries.
Smith, the No. 9 overall pick in the draft and the first tackle off the board, started every game for the Cowboys as the right side bookend. Improving as the season went along, he committed only four penalties over the season's final 10 games.
Bailey, who beat out incumbent David Buehler in training camp, made 32 of 37 field goal attempts, including four that won games at the end of regulation or overtime.
Ware's 19.5 sacks were the second-most of his career.

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Keira Knightley has carved out a stellar reputation as an actress, but the British star has now proven that she can sing beautifully, too — in French.
The actress shows off her vocal skills in the new campaign video for Chanel's Coco Crush jewelry line, in which she sings the classic French song "Le Tourbillon de la Vie." Accompanying herself on a Chanel guitar that she removes from a signature quilted leather case, the star showcases multiple chunky rings and bangles from the luxury Coco Crush collection.
The song, which featured in the 1962 film "Jules et Jim," has previously been covered by fellow Chanel ambassador Vanessa Paradis.
Knightley was first unveiled as the face of the Coco Crush line in June 2016, when she was photographed by Mario Testino for that year's fall campaign. She was already affiliated with the fashion and beauty house, having been the face of both its 'Coco Mademoiselle; fragrance and its signature lipstick 'Rouge Coco.'
The Coco Crush collection was first unveiled in April 2015 as a tribute to Chanel's signature quilted motif, focusing on rings and cuffs in white, yellow and beige gold. Last September, the brand announced plans to expand the collection, by adding new pieces partially paved with diamond constellations.
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According to the report, an 18-year-old passenger suffered life-threatening injuries after he was ejected during a two-car accident in Cape Coral.
According to the report, an 18-year-old passenger suffered life-threatening injuries after she was ejected during a two-car accident in Cape Coral.
It was also reported that three other occupants in the two cars were taken to the hospital.
According to a news release from the department, two cars were heading west near the 500 block of Hancock Bridge Parkway, side by side. A silver 2001 Honda Accord, driven by 18-year-old Tiana Lassalle, was in the outside lane.
Report says a black 2014 Dodge Journey driven by 19-year-old Marli Sollitto, was in the inside lane.
Police said Lassalle's Accord veered into Sollitto's path. The driver's side of the Accord collided with the Journey's passenger side. The Accord's rear rotated counterclockwise in front of the Journey, sending them to the median's curb in a "T-bone" formation. Consequently, the trees uprooted with the Accord landing atop the Journey.
Report says Lassalle's passenger, 19-year-old Walter Caboa was ejected, sustaining serious injuries.
It was also reported that Sollitto suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the accident as well as her 17-year-old female passenger.
All four were taken to Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers.
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Participants must register online by May 24th to be guaranteed a shirt.
**DEADLINE to submit ANY changes such as swaps, transfers, etc.. for individuals or teams is May 24th. After that date, there will be a $10 change fee added per change request for an individual or a team.
1. If your business is paying for SIX or more teams and an invoice is required (meaning you have to pay via check and cannot use a credit card), please email the Asheville Chamber (jwillard@ashevillechamber.org). They will provide an invoice for you and request a promo code for you to use when registering your teams/individuals online. Otherwise, it is easy to sign up your teams online and pay via credit card on Racesonline.com.
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3. When you are creating a team name: please select a name from the list or create a new one. If you have several teams from the same company, use UNIQUE team names for each team. Make sure to add team member names beside team name (ex. Team ROCKETS: Smith, Jones, Adams, Johnson).
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Complimentary race shirts are included with online registration through May 24th at midnight. We cannot guarantee shirts for any registrations after May 25th or walk-up registrations (if race is not sold out).
Race packets (shirts, race numbers/chips and important information) can be picked up on Thursday, June 6th, between 12 noon and 4:00 pm in the Chamber Boardroom (36 Montford Ave., second floor).
Volunteers - We always need many volunteers for this event - please contact Judi Willard at jwillard@ashevillechamber.org if you're interested in helping on race day (anytime from 9:00 am until 7:00 pm).
Can i participate in the chamber challenge as an individual or do i have to be on a team?
Yes, you can register as an individual and participate in the Chamber Challenge.
Prizes will be awarded to the top male, female and co-ed teams. We'll also hand out prizes to the top team in each of our industry categories: Health/Wellness, Manufacturing, Education, Government & Nonprofit, Finance, Professional Services, Hospitality and Other. Individual Awards will be given to the following groups and categories: Male/Female: Overall Top 3 and Age Groups (1 st and 2nd places only): 9 and under, 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80 and over.
if I am on a team, am i also eligible for individual age group awards?
Yes, team members are eligible for overall team prizes, as well as individual age group awards and will be scored in both categories.
The race start is determined based on the city bus schedule and is scheduled to start at 4pm. Be at the start line and ready to run by 4pm!
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How to Add an Officer to an S Corporation
October 28, 2005 By Chrissie Mould Leave a Comment
QUESTION on How to Add an Officer to an S Corporation
My brother in law has a new S Corporation and he wishes to add his brother as a officer. How can he add an officer to an S Corporation?
– Lynda (New Jersey)
Dear Lynda:
The process of adding an officer to a corporation is one of those "formalities" I often talk about with respect to documenting corporate decisions and maintaining corporate records. For purposes of this discussion I will assume that your brother-in-law's S corp is currently a one-man show wherein he is both a shareholder and a director of the corporation. Now, since it is the board of directors that elects officers in a corporation, your brother-in-law will have to put on his hat as a director and sign a board resolution approving the appointment of his brother as an officer of the corporation. This resolution will go into the corporate records book
Most states require corporations to file some sort of annual report that lists the current directors and officers of the corporation. If this is the case in your brother-in-law's state of incorporation, he will list his brother as an officer on the report.
That takes care of the corporate officer appointment. Apart from that, there is the issue of his brother's status as a new employee of the corporation. An officer who performs services on behalf of the corporation is considered to be an employee for tax purposes, so your brother-in-law will need to ensure compliance with federal and state employment and payroll tax regulations. See IRS Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide for information on federal payroll tax withholding and reporting requirements.
Chrissie Mould
Recommended Books on S Corporation:
Practical Guide to S Corporations (Fifth Edition)
S-Corporation: Small Business Start-Up Kit
Taxation of S Corporations in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))
S Corporation Taxation (2012)
Chrissie Mould has over a decade of experience in business administration and startup business consulting. She has helped launch companies in multiple industries and has managed corporate administration and governance for public and private companies. She is an incorporation specialist with MyNewVenture.com LLC. The company provides low-cost incorporation services to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
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Well, I got an earlier start today than yesterday, about 7:30. We had some coffee and a little breakfast and decided to go out on our own and find out how to get to the beach on foot. That really wasn't difficult; just a matter of a little common sense and a 20-minute walk. I still don't understand why The Shipyard plantation doesn't furnish little amenities like that for their guests. It was a nice day: sunny, but not too warm, but a little breezy.
When we got to the beach we found another day of sand blasting; just too much wind at the beach for comfort. So we headed back to the room and got ready to go out and about. We shopped a little (for me, any shopping is a lot) and had lunch at Giuseppi's, which I alluded to earlier. In the afternoon, we spent a little time in the sun, and then explored the options for dinner. We decided on Catch 22, an interesting looking seafood place.
What a great choice! Our waiter was Keith, a transplanted Kentuckian who for the last 15 years has waited tables at night and ridden kite boards during the day. As it turns out, not every one is bummed out by the high winds on the beach, and Keith is one of them. He told us that the combination of high surf (a result of the wind) and the stiff breeze gives him and his fellow kite boarders a hot time on the waves. Well, at least someone likes these stiff breezes. Today, he said, he and his fellow kite boarders were able to fly up to 50 feet above the ocean. Wow!
Back to dinner: Diane had the Pecan-Crusted Free Range Chicken, served with jalapeno corn cake, green beans and peach chutney. It was goooood. I found myself stuck between five different entrees, and Keith resolved the issue by recommending the one that was one of Chef Bryan's specials for the night, Potato Encrusted Yellowtail Snapper "served over baby arugula with Vidalia onion, vine ripened tomatoes and lump crap with a honed basil vinaigrette." It was fantastic; the best so far, and it'll be hard to beat.
After a short walk around the harbor, it was back to the room and the MASH 30th Anniversary Reunion on TV Land.


I will be the first to tell you.
Over the past five years, I have had to learn and semi-master several online platforms, software, and be the jack of all trades. I say semi-master because as soon as I learn something the platform changes and adds new updates. Ugh!
Sales, marketing, copywriting, and tech-repair women. You name it. I have DONE IT ALL.
There are a LOT of misconceptions swirling around in the internet streets about what you need to do to grow your business and to get it to the 6 figure mark.
Those are the fundamentals. Try to grow a business without anyone of these things in place, and you will flounder. Most times in business you WON'T get a second chance. I am urging you to get it right the first time.
Now let's get to the 5 Things You Need to Unlearn if you want to Bootstrap Your Way To 6 Figures.
Thing #1 You Need To Unlearn: Maintaining PRIVATE social profiles is hurting you. Imagine being able to make thousands and thousands of dollars because people can discover you without having to jump through hoops, fall in love with your content, and then connect with you so that you can establish a professional relationship with them and convert them into paying clients.
(In the wise words of my mentor, Stacia Pierce… If you are not seen, you will not be considered) Get visible and leverage social media if you are serious about making money and working smart.
Social Media is FREE. You should be monetizing it 24-7 Not worried about who is going to see your PERSONAL business. If you don't want the world to know your business, simply do not share it. Lurking on social media is costing you dollars while the "It Crew" are making money. Make it work for you vs. against you.
Thing #2 You Need To Unlearn: Your friends and family are NOT going to support you, and in fact, you don't want them too, not if you want your business to grow. You need real clients who have a need for your products and services, and you need them to use your products and services if you want to generate client case studies and showcase that your stuff works. All money ain't good money.
You do not want false support. Sure that $47, $400, or $1000 sale made for good cash flow, but it is worthless if it came from a person who ONLY wanted to support you. "Support sales" will not birth repeat clients or viral marketing for you. If you want to thrive in business, you want to create a loyal fan base that will buy whatever you put out and be willing to tell the world about it without compensation.
Friends and family will support you the right way if you focus on being consistent and creating success stories then if they have a REAL need for your products and services they will become an ideal paying client. Which is what you should strive to create in the first place. Not charity or handouts.
Support is when your family and friends show up to your events and HELP you clean up and manage your event, and they HELP you that way. Now you need that to grow your business until you can afford to hire help. Got it?
Thing #3 You Need To Unlearn: "Self Made Millionaire" or "Self Made Anything for that matter is not REAL. That is the distraction and a bold face lie. You need people to believe in you, lend you a helping hand, offer you resources, tools, and help you network so that you can connect with the right people.
You wouldn't have experiences to learn from or celebrate if it wasn't for others. There will come a time in your business where you will hit a brick wall and be at a stand still.
You need to be humble enough when that happens to ASK for help. You will need to partner with others in some shape or form to build your empire. Your customers can make or break your business.
Take care of them, and they will take care of you. You are not going to wake up with an overflow of money without HELP from people. Even if you wake up and win the lottery. You aren't a self-made millionaire. Thousands of people invested a few coins that went into the jackpot, and you picked the lucky numbers and won.
That money that you acquired was a by product of a collective effort. So NO ONE is self-made anything. You didn't make yourself. Your parents created you. Got it? You need to go into business wth a strategic plan to create profitable and synergetic partnerships and joint ventures if you want to make entrepreneurship a lifestyle, not a short-term venture.
Thing #4 You Need to Unlearn: That you should hire a VA and outsource everything when you are first getting started. First of all, if you are hurting for cash hiring a team is the last thing you need to focus on right away.
Pump your breaks before you say but Wendy I need help.
I am NOT telling you not to HIRE help. I am saying hear me out for a second.
Every successful entrepreneur needs a team to thrive.
But you must first establish your systems, processes, and order of operations before you HIRE HELP aka a VA.
You will be required to train them. Do not expect to hire anyone to take over YOUR business and run it. They will have several questions, and you need to have the answers so they can be confident to create the vision you have shared with them.
Take some time to document your processes. Get your routine down to a science. This will allow you to identify your weaknesses and then hire people who are strong in areas that you lack. Give them directives and a blueprint to follow to help you grow your business. You will save yourself a lot of time and money if you do this first.
Thing #5 You Need to Unlearn: Stop saying that you are not a techy. We live in an information age and technology is not going anywhere anything some. In fact, it is getting more sophisticated by the day. You are at a disadvantage if you do not take the time to learn how to leverage online social media platforms (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Etc.) or software such as (i.e. zoom, converkit, leadpages, clickfunnels, samcart, etc.) You will cripple your business growth if you solely rely on someone else to build and maintain your website, sales funnels, email marketing, social media platforms, accounting, etc. Take the time to LEARN that way you will know if someone is ripping you off, doing something wrong, and most importantly you can create success on demand.
Success requires you to be flexible. You must learn to as yourself and others the right questions. You must be willing to roll up your sleeves, and you must not focus on failure.


Andrew and Sherry's Greystone Mansion Wedding featured on One Fab Day!
We are so thrilled that Andrew and Sherry's wedding at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills got featured on One Fab Day!
To all you beautiful MOMMYS out there- HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! You do so much for those around you and you hardly get recognized. Today we celebrate YOU and all the love and care that you give. Thank you for giving so much of yourself to others. We are so thankful for you!!
and now, one with my momma! Thank you Mommy for giving so much of yourself to our family. (all 19 of us!) I don't know how you do it…you really are Superwoman! We love you!
I can't believe my dear friend Amy is married! It seems like just yesterday we were hanging out at UCLA and praying for the perfect man to walk into our lives (yes, we prayed about that!) and now she has found him! Amy was like an older sister to me in college- cooking for me, driving me everywhere, and always making sure I was doing ok. I am seriously so grateful for her friendship through these years. And Daniel. Daniel is so wonderful. He is kind and sweet and so so good to Amy. I am so happy for you two! Many blessings as you start this new chapter together!
my editing style and some before + afters!
I love this couple so much! Stephen and Julia are dear friends from UCLA and I feel honored to have captured different seasons of their relationship. It was such a joy to witness their proposal in Santa Cruz, their season of engagement, and finally now, their wedding day! Stephen and Julia were wedded at the Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego where family and friends gathered for a beautiful outdoors ceremony and reception. There were so many fun details to the day and I loved all the energy! These two are such a beautiful pair (inside + out!) and I couldn't be more excited to share their big day with you! Enjoy!
Thank you Michelle for 2nd shooting for me yet again!


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WHY WOULD I WANT TO USE 3D PDF?
Meet Theorem's New Recruits! Here to Promote Universal Adoption of XR
By: Jennifer Cox 12 December 2022 5 Min
Category All Translate Data Exchange CAD Translation CAD to CAD CADverter TheoremXR CAD to XR Lightweight 3D Publish eXtended Reality CAD to 3D PDF Visualization Pipeline XR XR for engineering Multi-CAD Virtual Reality 3D PDF AR ARR Augmented Reality Mixed Reality Supply chain Work Instructions digital transformation interactive documentation MR BOM CAD to JT CAD to Virtual Reality HoloLens 2 Azure Remote Rendering RFQ VR Design Review PLM Unity 3DEXPERIENCE Digital Twin HTC Vive Oculus Rift CAD to VR Industry 4.0 Visualize FBX Microsoft Unreal Engine VRED Azure Remote Creo View Theorem Unified Interface CATIA V5i Composer IP Protection SolidWorks 3DEXPERIENCE to 3D PDF 3DEXPERIENCE to XR ALIAS Autodesk Inventor HTML5 JT to CATIA V5 MAYA NX to XR SolidWorks to JT partnerships Android CADverter-VR CATIA Composer CATIA V5 to XR Creo to XR Europe Featured Ford Supplier Inventor JT to XR NCR iOS june prototyping resellers
Jennifer Cox 12 December 2022 5 Min
Over the past few years, Theorem has helped our customers to innovate and deliver significant efficiency savings in the deployment of new Extended Reality (XR) technologies.
Our Theorem-XR software is supporting the growing demand for Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality experiences within Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing, and we are pleased to welcome new colleagues to the business who will be focused on delivering continued success for Theorem in this area.
We spoke to the new recruits about their first few weeks here at Theorem and about their thoughts on the technology.
Gregg Hunt is one of our new Account Managers. When asked about his experience as a new recruit Gregg said:
"It's been a fantastic start to becoming an Account Manager for Theorem Solutions, the team have been so friendly in welcoming me. I'm extremely excited to continue to grow and showcase Theorem's Extended Reality technology as I believe AR/MR/VR represents a significant opportunity within the design and engineering space.Reducing the cognitive gap for engineers and enabling them to work collaboratively around their rich CAD data and designs in full scale is so exciting, which we know from our current customers.I truly believe Extended Reality is now a priority for manufacturing and engineering-based businesses, and my job is to put Theorem's tools in front of the people who know this."
Our second new Account Manager is Matt Semmens, and Matt's been quick to learn about the benefits that XR can bring to our customers. Here's what he had to say:
"I am really enjoying my time at Theorem, and the level of knowledge and technical expertise within the team is great to see. Coming from a traditional manufacturing background, I can really see the value of XR technology, and it is clear why more and more engineering and manufacturing firms are incorporating XR into their processes.As an Account Manager at Theorem, my aim is to showcase the range of benefits and advancements that XR can provide, as I know many people (including myself prior to joining Theorem!) will be unaware of the real-world cost-savings and efficiency improvements that can be achieved.It is a hugely exciting time to join the industry and I am thrilled to be part of a company that is at the forefront of this next-generation technology." The third member of the team is Beth Thompson, our new Customer Success Executive. She had a busy first couple of weeks attending events and learning about the industry but settled in quickly. We asked Beth about how her start has been:
"I have had an amazing experience with Theorem so far. Everyone within the company has been incredibly welcoming and supportive.I have had the opportunity to attend Advanced Engineering 2022 at the NEC Birmingham and exhibit for two days at the SMART Factory event in Liverpool — both of which allowed me to network, learn, and develop into my role as a Customer Success Executive. I am really excited to be joining such a growing industry and to be providing a gateway for companies to innovate and expand their AR/VR/MR capabilities.My goals at Theorem are to continue to learn the industry and make meaningful connections that will support the business."We asked Theorem's Sales Director, Richard Scales, for his thoughts on the growing team and what it means for the business.
"I am pleased to welcome Beth, Gregg, and Matt into Theorem's expanding sales team. The business has invested significantly in developing our Theorem-XR software, which is delivering value to organisations innovating in the Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality technology space.We're now at an exciting stage where our proven technology is ready to reach an even wider audience, and our new team members will be instrumental in supporting new and existing customers in the future.I wish them every success in their roles."
If you'd like to learn more about XR, get in touch with our team today. They'll be happy to discuss how your organisation could benefit from Theorem-XR and assist your adoption of this invaluable new technology.


This week, I'm in San Francisco to host the first gathering of global energy ministers since last December's climate negotiations in Paris. These leaders represent countries that make up 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of these meetings will be to expand international collaboration in clean energy research, development, demonstration and deployment to combat climate change, drive economic growth, and help ensure energy security.
In San Francisco, energy leaders will participate in the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7), an alliance of countries that are global leaders in clean energy. It's also the inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial, a separate but largely overlapping group of countries that has committed to double support for clean energy research and development.
In addition, the week will feature a variety of other clean energy-focused events including theClean Energy Education & Empowerment's (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium and the CEM Startups and Solutions Technology Showcase in San Francisco's Union Square.
The Clean Energy Ministerial is an alliance of 23 major countries and the European Commission that are working together to accelerate clean energy deployment. Their collaborations are already producing innovative local and national clean energy policies, ambitious emissions reductions, efficiency programs and technology collaboration.
For example, South Korea, South Africa, Chile and India have either adopted or proposed 16 efficiency standards and policies to make appliances such as water heaters, televisions and ceiling fans more energy-efficient through CEM's Super-Efficient Equipment and Appliance Deploymentinitiative.
As a result, India became the first country in the world to set comprehensive quality and performance standards for LEDs, aided by technical expertise in the United States. India then used those standards to initiate a bulk purchase program for hundreds of millions of LEDs at a remarkably low cost.
Another example of the CEM's collaborative structure is the Clean Energy Solutions Center, which helps policymakers implement and design policies and programs. The Solutions Center has already provided no-cost clean energy policy support to over 90 countries and it is developing a new capability to help identify financing strategies. The Center is expanding to include a Finance Portal.
While CEM is pushing deployment of today's clean-energy technologies, energy ministers and business leaders are also meeting for the inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial, focused on developing the cutting edge clean energy solutions of tomorrow.
During the first day of the Paris climate negotiations last year, President Obama joined 19 other world leaders to announce Mission Innovation, an effort to double investments in clean-energy-technology research and development by 2021. Supporting breakthroughs in clean energy will lower the costs of clean energy technologies and in turn help to combat climate change, enable life-changing energy services to the poor and enhance global energy security.
During the Mission Innovation Ministerial, ministers from these countries will announce specific action plans from their respective governments to achieve those goals.
We have to make sure that we have the world's best and brightest working on these tough issues. That means making full use of women's talents, yet the energy industry remains one of the global sectors with relatively little representation of women.
That's why we started the Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Women in Clean EnergySymposium in 2011, with the goal of increasing the visibility of and encouraging more participation by women in clean energy. Since its inception, CEM countries have named 46 C3E Ambassadors and honored dozens of women around the world for their leadership in energy accelerators, education and deployment. On May 31, C3E celebrated its fifth anniversary with a symposium at Stanford University.
It makes sense that the world's energy leaders are gathering in California's Bay Area. The state is a leader in progressive clean energy policies and deployment -- while California's Bay Area is a global hub of the clean-tech industry and venture capital. Plus, it is home to world-class universities, three of our DOE national labs, and some of the most innovative technology companies in the world. That makes California the perfect stage for global leaders to renew and advance their commitment to clean energy.
About the Author: Ernest Moniz serves as the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared on Energy.gov.


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Iskcon Hare Krishna Temples Tour of India
Iskcon temple is famous Lord Hare Krishna Temple located in all parts of India. There are various tour packages to visit famous Iskcon temple of Agra, Delhi and West Bengal. Main temple attractions are museum, library and a special animatronics show.
more India Holidays
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Iskcon Hare Krishna Temples Tours of India
'Hare Rama, Hare Krishna' - the religious mantra connect human beings with the world of spirituality. ISKCON Temples in India, depicts the religious saga behind the 'Hare Krishna Movement' started by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu(500 years ago) and later continued by His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In order to propagate spiritual massages in the modern world, Swami Prabhupada established ISKCON (International Society For Krishna Consciousness).
Dedicated to Lord Krishna, around 40 ISKCON Temples has been constructed by the association. The Temples follow the ancient Vaishnava tradition and philosophy, which greatly influence the life of its believers. Also known as Hare Krishna Temples, ISKCON are beautiful decorated with paintings of Russian artists. The framed pictures represents the glorious past of Lord Krishna and Radha; Lord Rama, Goddess Sita, brother Laxman, ardent devotee Hanuman and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
ISKCON Temples are popular for religious activities like Kirtan, Aarti, Pravachan, Prasadam and other ritual programmes. The Temples are highly visited during the festival of Krishna Janmashtami, which take place every year on the eighth day (Ashtami) in the month of Sravana.
ISKON Temple India (Delhi)
Constructed in 1998, the revered ISKCON is located at Sant Nagar, East of Kailash, South Delhi. The magnificent temple is dedicated to Radha-Krishna, Guara-Nitai and Sita-Ram respectively. Iskcon temple in Delhi is among the most famous Iskcon Temples in India. The glittering idols, a robot show(representing religious thoughts and pictures) museums with remarkable paintings and objects are worth watching. Delhi Iskon Temple is covered in your Delhi Agra Jaipur Holiday Package.
ISKCON Temple (Bangalore, Karnataka)
ISKCON temple in Bangalore is one of the popular Hare Krishna temple (Iskcon Temples) in the entire world. Built in 1997, the colossal shrine depicts the Neo-classical style of architecture. With arches and water jets in the surrounding, the temple carries the magic to attract more than 5.1 million devotees, a year.
ISKCON Temple (Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh)
ISKCON temple in Vrindavan, was constructed way back, in the year 1975. It is one of the first 6000 Temples established by International Society for Krishna Consciousness in Vrindavan. Each corner of the holy temple has been designed of marble and semi-precious stones. Within the temple area, Bhagvad Gita classes are held every morning and evening. Pilgrims can enjoy religious activities anytime from 8:15 AM to 8:45 PM. The Iskon temple of Mathura Vrindavan is part of every itnierary of Delhi Agra Jaipur. While on your Delhi Agra Jaipur Tour you can visit the famous Iskon Termple of Vrindavan which is just 12km from Agra.
ISKCON Chandradoya Mandir (Mayapur, West Bengal)
Situated at Mayapur in West Bengal, ISKCON Chandradyo Mandir is among the popular Temples in West Bengal. Ardent devotees of 'Hare-Rama Hare-Krishna' take a tour of this shrine from different parts of the world. Main deity within the temple complex is of Sri Radha Madhava. Besides, idols of Radha-Krishna, Advaita Acharya, Lord Nityananda, Lord Chaitanya, Gadadhara, and Srivasa Thakur are worth-watching.


As far as news roundups go, this one may leave something to be desired (I know, insulting my own post is probably not a great idea in the very first line...or any line for that matter). Most of the time, news roundups focus on current stories (hence the term news) that describe pertinent items. The following stories are not normal news feed fodder, nonetheless they are amongst the most interesting and captivating stories I've read in a long time, particularly when considering their general silliness and unfortunate insignificance.
Basically, researchers in Britain are looking for funding for a project to mimic food distribution systems after the internet.
Although this is an interesting idea indeed, it wasn't the good intentioned and fascinating topic of the story that originally caught my eye. It was actually the wording of the headline, "The Food Infastructure Is A Series of Tubes." Long before I started writing for Charge Shot!!!, our venerable authors and editors of were referring to the internet, somewhat jokingly, as "a series of tubes."
After delving beyond the quirky and coincidental headline, I found the actual article interesting (it's definetely worth a read). I started to ask myself, what else can we take from the internet and apply to our phisical lives? Any thoughts, readers?
It turns out that, according to some very smart physicists, super accurate clocks have proven that our heads age faster than our feet (to be clear, the difference in aging is very minute). Although I could never claim to understand the science behind this story, it made me chuckle - and then it kind of made my head spin.
There is little to say about this other than, "watch this video, it's awesome!" It's awesome if you're a tech/computer nerd, and it's awesome if you just like lego toys. It's awesome if you don't care about technology or legos at all.
Seeing that I don't really understand the science behind the Greek computer in the above video, I couldn't even begin to offer any kind of guidance or commentary on how the technician re-created it, or how it will be applied to new products. Even after watching the video several times and trying to read some articles about it, the only thing I really know for sure is that it's one of the most captivating and coolest things I've ever seen.


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Q: How to select parent by most recent child with Activerecord I have a user model which has many subscriptions. I need to make two selections:

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*active users defined as user with a subscription in the last month

*inactive users the ones that don't meet the (1) criteria
My subscription model has a simple scope .latest which is defined as ordered("created_at DESC").first.
To make selection (1) I use:
User.joins(:subscriptions).where("subscriptions.created_at > ?", 1.month.ago).distinct

This works, no problem there. However, I can't seem to define a working query for selection (2). Currently I use selection (1) and 'subtract' that from User.all to get the remaining users. This feels a bit like a hack.
The selection I need is:
all users whose most recent subscription was created more than 1 month ago
It's the most recent part of the query that has me stuck.
Any help appreciated.

A: Quick & dirty way: use complex SQL like this
Assume you are using auto incremental ID
User.select("users.*, MAX(subscriptions.id) as last_subscription_id")
    .joins(:subscriptions)
    .group("subscriptions.user_id")
    .having("last_subscription_id = (select id from subscriptions where user_id=users.id and created_at < '2017-10-01 09:23:28.182475' order by id desc limit 1)")

Recommended way
Add last_subscription_id to users table and setup a belongs_to relationship user belongs_to last_subscription then do the joins normally. You need to update last_subscription_id of an user when new subscription for this user is created too.
Example: User class looks like this (I include has_many :subscriptions to show that we have 2 relations now)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :subscriptions
  belongs_to :last_subscription, class_name: 'Subscription', foreign_key: :last_subscription_id
end

And query will be
User.joins(:last_subscription).where("subscriptions.created_at < ?", 1.month.ago)

A: for the most recent part you can do this.
User.joins("LEFT JOIN subscriptions ON subscriptions.user_id = users.id").order("subscriptions.created_at DESC").select("subscriptions.created_at AS max_date").group_by(&:id).select{|key, value| value[0].max_date < 1.month.ago}.values.flatten

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The "Sister." quote gets me everytime. The art and quote makes him seem of a teenage edgelord rather than the psychotic badass that he was.
There are other artworks that are cringy too.
I agree that there is some awfull artwork on the wiki, but the art that is uploaded is very much the personal fancy of however edited the page in question.
Personally i do not understand why the artwork of the artist TheMico is featured so heavily, but i do realize that it is a personal dislike and that apparently others do enjoy the artwork.
It's also what people can get approval for. We ask that all images have approval from the artists. TheMico has given blanket approval in the past, and he's the only person who's depicted some of the more minor characters. I personally enjoy some of his pieces for the humor they bring to things, but that said there's no objection to having alternative images _if_ there's approval from the artists for their use.
TheMico's Big Walder look like blind kid.
Then there's the works that make characters look like Disney villains, with the most exaggerated features in the universe. Here's an example.
If an image exists and we have permission to use it, it's a no-brainer to use it. If there's a better image and we have permission to use that, also a no-brainer to use that. It's pretty straightforward.
It's pretty funny, taking the "chinless weasel" look to an extreme. It's caricature. But if you find a better depiction of Cleos from sources we can use, no problem with that being used instead. Has Fantasy Flight Games done a Cleos image?
Not bad at all, just like the White Fawn and other pictures by the artist. Nothing wrong with cartoonish style, as long as it's decent. Does not have to be grimdark-hyperrealistic-devil-knows-what.
I guess in the end it is a matter of taste. Some like it, some do not. I do not.
Not sure if this image is meant to show Cleos.
It seems possible, especially as the quote for the card references Ser Cleos. I'm not opposed to using that instead, if people feel it fits his description better than the Mico's piece.
Both are pretty far from my image of Cleos, but it's ok. Worst thing would be a picture form tv series.
Speaking of art on the wiki, I've seen a lot of art that comes from "The World of Ice and Fire" and "Fire and Blood" books. Does all the artists for these books have given their permission to use their art or just some of them ?
There is no permission at all. At some point one editor started to upload the artworks, then others followed, and now nobody cares about a permission anymore.
That's a genuine problem. Editors should be removing those images if permissions were not secured.
Should we get a project together to go through art and make sure permissions were secured for pieces from TWoIaF and F&B, and if not to remove such images?
As far as I know the permission stuff is rather easy. Usually the artists get commissioned by the publisher to draw something for a book and they get paid for it, but they do not retain the copyright for their works. So usually the copyright for the illustrations is with the publisher. That means the artists are not able to give permission, only the publisher is. If it is the same with TWoIaF and F&B, any image from these sources needs to be removed, unless someone is able to get a permission.


I love this range from My Minds Eye and the photo of my Mum & Nan from mothers day was perfect for this layout.....I made a few cards as well and another layout of my daughters which I need to re photograph.
I have gone mad with the Collections butterflies at the moment....love them!
Here is one of the cards I made. It needs a phrase still but I haven't decided on it's purpose yet so am waiting.
I know I am taking a few variations of a gorgeous photo I took of my girls at our Harbour Town shopping trip last weekend..... Here is the pic.......love them!!!!


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Bill Hader Reaches Divorce Settlement With Ex-Wife Maggie Carey
By Leena Tailor 7:04 PM PST, March 5, 2018
Bill Hader and his ex-wife, Maggie Carey, have reached a settlement in their divorce.
According to court records obtained by ET, a judgment was entered in their divorce case on March 1. The divorce was not contested by either party and the status of the case is now marked "statistical disposition," meaning the couple's marital status has changed, but they may have other details to resolve regarding their separation.
Details surrounding the settlement were put in a separate, confidential filing, and they will become legally single on June 23.
Hader filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, on Dec 21, 2017, and Carey filed her response the next day. Hader's papers were filed at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, California, and stated their date of separation as Jul 31, 2017.
In the papers, the Saturday Night Live alum requested joint legal and physical custody of their three daughters -- 8-year-old Hannah, 5-year-old Harper and 3-year-old Hayley -- as well as spousal support for Carey. The pair married in 2006.
EXCLUSIVE: Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader Hilariously Bicker in 'Maggie's Plan' Gag Reel
In addition to his years on SNL, Hader created and starred in the IFC series Documentary Now!, while Carey is a screenwriter and director, who has directed episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
See more on the former couple below.
NEWS: Bill Hader Files for Divorce From Wife Maggie Carey
NEWS: Bill Hader Plays Anthony Scaramucci in Surprise Appearance on 'SNL: Weekend Update Summer Edition'
NEWS: Bill Hader Somehow Manages to Be Creepy and Delightful in Cut 'SNL' Sketch
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Biggest Celebrity Breakups of 2018


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Q: Backup & restore DynamoDb tables My aim is to back up and restore a dynamodb table to/from S3.
I'm aware about the Import/Export using data pipelines and DynamoDb streams.
My concern using Data Pipeline is that when the backup process is complete, I cannot be sure as to what 'point-in-time' the backup was performed. For e.g. if the backup process started at 11am and ended at 1130am, the items in my backup could be for anything that happened in the dynamodb table from 11am to 1130am.
How can I use DynamoDb streams to compliment the data pipeline ?
How can I restore the dynamodb table to a particular 'point-in-time' ?

A: AWS have just announced they will now offer a native DynamoDB backup and restore function.
As of today, in most regions, you can create on-demand backups of DynamoDB tables. You can do this via the AWS console - click on a table and you will see a new Backup tab, or via an API call. Once you have created and named a backup you can restore to that point with a single click via the same console tab. You can also restore into new tables. All table artifacts (data, indexes etc) are backed up.
AWS promise no impact on your table performance and availability during backups.
At the moment its just 'on-demand' backups, meaning you have to create restore points manually. In early 2018 they will roll out "Point In Time Restore Points", meaning you simply enable backups and you can then restore to any point you require in the last 35 days.

A: As Stu mentioned, On-Demand backups are a feature built into the DynamoDB service (Accessible via the API, AWS Management Console and CLI as usual), which allows you to take a full backup of a table at a point in time.
This task has no impact on performance or availability to your tables. All backups are automatically encrypted, cataloged, easily discoverable, and retained until you explicitly delete them.
Additionally, you can restore these backups to a new table at any point.
If you would like to schedule the backups, that is also possible using CloudWatch Events and a Lambda function.
A detailed walk through on backing up, restoring and scheduling can be found here:
https://www.abhayachauhan.com/category/aws/dynamodb/dynamodb-backups/
HTH


Fred The Godson is here to make his mark! Join him in his epic journey to solidify himself at the top in this mini documentary, captured by Taya Simmons on First Tour as opening act for Talib Kweli Gutter Rainbows Tour!!!. Hit the jump to see the video. shout to Jerz!


When Bang! came onboard with the project he introduced Ronin to the Lil' pyro team, who created the short for Invasion.
Originally, the movie was supposed to generate interest in the mapping contest by being released before said contest. The SFM team blew everyone away, offering a short movie that had a scope far beyond what had been originally planned. The 30 second teaser became a 3 minute trailer-style short movie with an in-movie movie, custom made props and particle effects, and even its own original score.
But this vast expansion of the project meant the short took significantly longer than originally expected, and the Cosmetic Conquest Contest - with a hard, pre-established date - was launched without the short and the movie was instead saved for the launch of the update.
If I told you to create 3 minutes of high quality SFM - and I mean, good, cutting edge SFM animation here - how long would you guess it would take? A week? Two weeks? Four minutes? Twelve lightyears? One hundred and eighty! I'm just shouting numbers now.
In actuality, It took 6 people several months to create the final SFM short that announced Invasion. CobaltGemini, the SFM lead, was introduced to Ronin along with the rest of the Lil' Guardian Pyro team and Ronin was happy to give the team full creative freedom.
The animation was primarily done by CobaltGemini, who takes stiff and somewhat clunky computer generated models and gently breathes life into them. The art of animation is not for the faint of heart. It takes many painstaking hours, starting with lifeless bodies and the vaguest of sketches of how the models might be placed in the environment.
Slowly, CobaltGemini grafts movement onto them, making the Demoman sit with his shoulders and arms at just the right angle to show his annoyance with the the dreadful 3D glasses, or making the interaction between the Heavy and Medic fit the characters, but subtle enough that it doesn't scream "I AM EMOTING AND ACTING, ALL AT ONCE" at you.
Slipping into Uncanny Valley (a term used for when things look almost right, but are just wrong enough that the final result is oddly creepy to look at) is a common pitfall, but CobaltGemini deftly steers characters we know and love through that valley and out the other side.
Harry101UK did the sound design, which is typically an under appreciated art. When a sound designer does his job well, the audience most likely won't notice it at all. Harry101UK's job was to find sounds for all the things that happen in the SFM, synchronize them accurately, and weave them carefully into the background of the movie. Often, sound designers have to get creative. Using the "correct" sounds are often surprisingly unsatisfying to the audience. For example, in a lot of hollywood movies, the sound of rain in the background is actually the sound of bacon sizzling. Incidentally, this also implies that at some point in history, someone was desperately wracking their brain, trying to figure out how to make sound effects while cooking breakfast.
Harry101UK pours through libraries of sounds and makes the silent void of an SFM vibrant; the crunches of footsteps, the creaking of the barn as it gets destroyed, the whir of the projector. If any of these were absent, a lot of people wouldn't even know what was wrong with what they were watching, but it would just feel empty. What's more, if a sound is too loud or too soft it ruins the feel of it, forcibly jarring the viewer out of their suspension of disbelief. If you've never heard of it before, these background sounds are called "Foley". Impress your friends with this mostly relatively useless bit of trivia! Especially if any of them are named "Foley".
Fitting foley to the movie is a relatively thankless job, but Harry101UK does it wonderfully. Go and rewatch the SFM and really listen to it and appreciate all the little sounds you might have missed. Wonder at whether the barn creaking is just one sound… or actually 9 different sounds cleverly interwoven to seamlessly make you believe that it really is being ripped apart.
Now, no movie is complete without a sound track. Soundtracks really are a modern lynchpin of making hearts soar, stomachs flutter and tears fall. For Invasion, this job belongs to Hassan. Hasan "Hasan2300" Abdullah's job was to inject the movie with emotional cues that bring the magnitude of what's happening on screen home.
Hasan was originally brought onto the Lil guardian Pyro team by Harry101UK, who actually lived with him whilst he was working on their team's namesake SFM, which went on to win the 2013 Saxxys.
One of the most difficult things about creating a score has got to be making it so that the music matches, beat for beat, exactly what happens on screen, but not overwhelming people watching it. If you keep the intensity up too long, it tires people out. Hasan brings the music up and down and then back up again with tremendous style, but simultaneously keeping it within the established style of the TF2 universe.
My personal favourite moment in the musical score is at about 2:00 minutes in when the music, which was building toward a crescendo, suddenly releases into a John Williams-esque swell of strings and wind instruments, bringing a moment of a calm child like wonder amidst the chaos.
You may have noticed that the barn the map stands upon is not a normal TF2 map. Nor is it a map that was on the workshop. A bit like how a film crew will create a set for a Hollywood movie, Bang was tasked with quite literally setting the stage, making a map specifically for the short film. He then populated it with a number of custom props and assets, filling in the little details most people wouldn't notice to make sure the set felt neither too crowded nor too empty.
Also, it turns out that "breaking an entire barn apart" is, regrettably, not a specific function in Source Film Maker. Bang was the puppetmaster who made the barn debris from the barn rip itself apart, peeling away from its own structure before floating with a haunting grace, like flotsam from the wreckage of a ship, before it comes crashing down around the ears of the mercs, spilling its contents onto the floor.
Like a lot of hollywood magic, when done well you quickly forget that someone had to put in the hard graft to make even the small details work.
It was actually during the development of Invasion that Valve released the taunt workshop. End of the Line had been the first community update to get a taunt in - the Pool Party. This made the team take note and think of the vast possibilities of an alien themed taunt.
In the end, one idea immediately sparked the development of a taunt that is similar to, but legally distinct from, a certain well-known movie involving aliens. Each class who uses this taunt has a different animation based on their personality. The Heavy tries to beat it back into his chest, while the medic studies it and the pyro gives chester a gentle pat on its head. Oh yeah, His name is chester.
When kritzkast was tasked with creating an audio drama featuring Aliens, one previous production lept to all of our minds: The 1938 audio drama of War of the Worlds. Instead of merely reading the novel, or following the characters in the book, the original radio play followed a radio station reporting on the events of the book as they transpired. Contrary to popular belief, people did not believe that the events actually took place.....So, we had a target to beat.
Realising its close approximation to the TF2 timeline, it seemed like a no brainer. It is chocked full of references to Team Fortress lore - including one referring to the as-yet unreleased End of the Line - as well as a large amount of hidden extras. The original audio play was over two hours long, but - due to time restraints, and in the interest of listener sanity - our three parts lasted between 10 and 15 minutes each, leaving about 40 minutes of content in total.
Artwork for the Advertising in the audio drama, seen above, was also created by Freeflow. This was going to be part of the asset pack for the mapping contest to help tie everything together; however, due to the audio drama being kept back until release, they weren't used.
The aims of Day 2 were to reveal the existence of the aliens officially, and to show how the world at large was attempting to cope with them. The characters were built upon a bit more in an attempt for the listener to "care" for the main characters and how they would survive an alien invasion.
Near the end of the radio play, there was a call for mapmakers to make alien-themed maps for the update. This originally would have been revealed before the map making contest to hype people up for creating alien themed maps. Later it would have been used to reveal any maps included in the update.


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Q: Determining the default message store under Windows Mobile The following piece of test code runs under Windows Mobile.
It's objective is to seek out the default message store so I can get the proper account name for programmatically compiling an email.
IMAPISession *mapiSession;
HRESULT hr = S_OK;

MAPIInitialize (NULL);
IMAPITable *msgTable;

SRowSet *pRows;
IMsgStore *msgStore;

if (MAPILogonEx(0,NULL,NULL,0,&mapiSession) != S_OK)
{
//  MessageBox(g_hWnd,_T("Failed to logon"),_T("Error"),0);
}
else
{
SizedSPropTagArray(3, PropTagArr) = {3,{PR_DISPLAY_NAME,
                        PR_ENTRYID,
                        PR_DEFAULT_STORE}};

    hr = mapiSession->GetMsgStoresTable(MAPI_UNICODE,&msgTable);

    hr = msgTable->SetColumns((LPSPropTagArray)&PropTagArr, 0);

    if (!hr)
    {
        do
        {
            hr = msgTable->QueryRows(1,0,&pRows);

            LPSPropValue lpProp;
            lpProp = &pRows->aRow[0].lpProps[0];

//          if(_tcscmp( lpProp->Value.LPSZ, _T("SMS") ) == 0 )
//              break;

            lpProp = &pRows->aRow[0].lpProps[0];
            if (lpProp->ulPropTag == PR_DEFAULT_STORE)
                break;

            lpProp = &pRows->aRow[0].lpProps[1];
            if (lpProp->ulPropTag == PR_DEFAULT_STORE)
                break;

            lpProp = &pRows->aRow[0].lpProps[2];
            if (lpProp->ulPropTag == PR_DEFAULT_STORE)
                break;

            FreeProws(pRows);
            pRows = NULL;

        }while (!hr);

    hr = mapiSession->OpenMsgStore (0,
            pRows->aRow[0].lpProps[1].Value.bin.cb,
            (ENTRYID*)pRows->aRow[0].lpProps[1].Value.bin.lpb,
            NULL,
            MDB_NO_DIALOG | MAPI_BEST_ACCESS,
            &msgStore);

... BUT, fails to get the PR_DEFAULT_STORE property on a Windows Mobile device.  I'm guessing Microsoft didn't implement it accurately.  And so, lpProp->ulPropTag will never == PR_DEFAULT_STORE.  It's always 0000.
Has anyone had success getting PR_DEFAULT_STORE using MAPI under Windows Mobile?
Is there another way of the determining the default message store?


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package com.querydsl.sql;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

/**
 * Defines reserved keywords for the supported dialects
 */
final class Keywords {

    private Keywords() { }

    private static Set<String> readLines(String path) {
        try (BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(Keywords.class.getResourceAsStream("/keywords/" + path)));) {
            return bufferedReader.lines()
                    .filter(line -> !line.isEmpty() && !line.startsWith("#"))
                    .collect(Collectors.toCollection(LinkedHashSet::new));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static final Set<String> DEFAULT = readLines("default");

    public static final Set<String> CUBRID = readLines("cubrid");
    public static final Set<String> DB2 = readLines("db2");
    public static final Set<String> DERBY = readLines("derby");
    public static final Set<String> FIREBIRD = readLines("firebird");
    public static final Set<String> H2 = readLines("h2");
    public static final Set<String> HSQLDB = readLines("hsqldb");
    public static final Set<String> MYSQL = readLines("mysql");
    public static final Set<String> ORACLE = readLines("oracle");
    public static final Set<String> POSTGRESQL = readLines("postgresql");
    public static final Set<String> SQLITE = readLines("sqlite");
    public static final Set<String> SQLSERVER2005 = readLines("sqlserver2005");
    public static final Set<String> SQLSERVER2008 = readLines("sqlserver2008");
    public static final Set<String> SQLSERVER2012 = readLines("sqlserver2012");

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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PACE and USC Rossier Polls
2 Out of 3 Californians Want Money Shifted to Poor Schools
PACE/USC Rossier poll shows majority of Californians say increase in education spending must come with reform
Californians strongly believe local school districts should hold more control over how money is spent in public schools, and a majority favor higher spending in poor districts even if it means shifting money away from their own communities, according to results from a new PACE/USC Rossier School of Education online poll released Thursday.
The findings will be discussed at a conference Thursday in Sacramento sponsored by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a research center based at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
The poll results align with major findings from Stanford University's landmark "Getting Down to Facts" project that examined the state of California school finance and governance. PACE will mark the five-year anniversary of "Getting Down to Facts" on Thursday with a new report that updates its recommendations and findings.
"It's encouraging that Californians have intuitively come to the same conclusions as the 'Getting Down to Facts' study about the most important steps necessary to improve the state's public schools," said poll director Dan Schnur, who also serves as the director of USC's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. "The next challenge is to convince the politicians."
In the new PACE/USC Rossier poll, two-thirds of Californians - 66 percent - agreed the state should provide more resources to poorer school districts even if it resulted in decreased spending in wealthier districts.
The majority, 55 percent, favored higher spending in low-income schools even if it meant less spending in their neighborhood schools.
And 70 percent of Californians said it was important to leave decisions about how to spend money to local public schools and school districts, compared to 19 percent who said local control over school funding was not important.
"'Getting Down to Facts' identified two key problems in California's education system - the state's failure to target resources to the schools and students who need them most, and the heavy burden placed on local educators by the state's rules about how resources can be used," said David N. Plank, executive director of PACE. "These findings suggest that Californians understand these problems and want them solved."
Results from the PACE/USC Rossier poll also reinforce another major finding from "Getting Down to Facts" that Californians strongly believe increases in spending on the state's public schools should be tied with reforms that allow the money to be spent more effectively.
According to the poll, two-thirds of Californians said the state should increase education spending to improve school performance.
But an even larger percentage of Californians - 76 percent - said any increase in spending should be accompanied by changes to the way resources are used.
Californians also believe teachers have the most influence over educational success and prioritize hiring new teachers over increasing teacher salaries.
When given the option to use additional education funding to either increase teacher salaries or hire new teachers, two-thirds of Californians said they would choose to hire more new teachers and 17 percent said they would increase teacher salaries.
Nearly half of Californians said teachers are the group most responsible for improving student academic performance in schools, with only 22 percent of those surveyed naming parents and 5 percent saying principals had the most impact on students' classroom performance.
But Californians also showed a strong desire to give administrators more power to get rid of ineffective teachers.
Nearly 80 percent of Californians said principals should have more freedom to fire teachers whose performance is unsatisfactory, compared to just 13 percent who disagreed.
When asked if principals should be able to choose the teachers that work in their schools even if it meant reducing the teachers' rights, 47 percent agreed and 41 percent disagreed.
But an overwhelming majority, 73 percent, still said teachers should not lose their jobs without a fair hearing, including 79 percent of whites and 66 percent of Latinos.
Californians are also hungry for more information about how their neighborhood schools are performing.
Only one-third of those surveyed said they had enough information about how their schools are faring, with 40 percent saying they didn't have sufficient information and 26 percent who said they didn't know.
Nearly 71 percent said they didn't know or were unsure if they knew their school's Academic Performance Index score, a number which rates schools and measures improvement based on factors including state standardized tests.
"After more than a decade of accountability, many Californians are unaware of how their schools perform or how resources are spent," said Dominic Brewer, Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen Professor in Urban Leadership at the USC Rossier School of Education. "But they want to know. The poll clearly shows frustration with the lack of transparency in the system."
Californians believe student test scores are the most important measure by which teachers should be judged but emphasized they shouldn't be the only tool used in evaluations, reflecting results from the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll conducted in November.
In that poll, 72 percent of voters agreed testing is important but said teachers should be evaluated on more than student scores on a single test.
In the PACE/USC Rossier poll, 81 percent said student test scores should make up less than half of a teacher's evaluation.
When asked what single factor should be most important in evaluating teachers, 31 percent said student achievement on standardized tests, 23 percent said teaching experience and 10 percent said teacher evaluations.
The PACE/USC Rossier poll was conducted April 26 to May 1, 2012 and surveyed 956 California adults online. The margin of error for the overall sample was +/- 3.2 percentage points.
A press event on the release of the PACE/USC Rossier poll and a PACE policy report that updates findings and recommendations from the "Getting Down to Facts" studies will take place Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Department of General Services Auditorium, 1500 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento.
About the USC Rossier School of Education
The USC Rossier School of Education (ross-EAR) is one of the world's premier centers for the study of urban education, preparing teachers, educational leaders and scholars who are committed to strengthening urban education locally, nationally and globally. USC Rossier is the school behind the first online Master of Arts in Teaching program from a major research university, which has increased the number of highly prepared teachers graduating from USC Rossier by tenfold in less than three years.
About Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) is an independent, non-partisan research center based at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. PACE seeks to define and sustain a long-term strategy for comprehensive policy reform and continuous improvement in performance at all levels of California's education system, from early childhood to post-secondary education and training. PACE bridges the gap between research and policy, working with scholars from California's leading universities and with state and local policymakers to increase the impact of academic research on educational policy in California.
Contact: Merrill Balassone at (213) 740-6156 or balasson@usc.edu or Suzanne Wu at (213) 740-0252 or suzanne.wu@usc.edu.
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MyCRM Blog | Dynamics 365 and CRM – Why you need enhancement products!
When it comes to Easter eggs and chocolates, most of us "older generation" have seen the taste quality and size of products diminish over the past couple of decades whilst packaging gets ever more complicated. There is however no doubt that the choice of what to consume is greater than ever before, with manufacturers dying for our attention almost from the moment we've packed away the tree in January.
Much like the taste and flavours of the Easter goodies on offer, as good as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and CRM are, there remains little doubt that there is always room for improvement. The sheer number of additional products and applications available testifies that as good as the standard offerings are, you can always do things better by adding to the mix.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Dynamics in whatever variety, whether 365 or good old CRM. Having been a user of it myself since v1.2 way back in 2005, I think I've enough first-hand experience to reliably inform potential users and existing customers just what makes it great…and perhaps the not so great.
You see, whatever Microsoft does to improve the end user experience, you just can't please all the people all the time. Today, whilst preparing for a webinar to highlight MyCRM enhancement products and how they improve productivity, I was reminded of one big issue which just won't go away…TOO MANY MOUSE CLICKS!
I was comparing how much effort and time our ePDF product saves when trying to output a Quote from CRM, which is to be emailed to a customer in PDF format. Well, the results were simply staggering, so much so that I had to do a re-test more than once to verify that my results were correct.
Microsoft give you two options; firstly, you can produce your quote and then hit the 'Run Report' function. This will eventually allow you to send the quote as a PDF after some TWENTY mouse clicks and steps! It's amazing to think that something so basic and most commonly required should be so long winded. If you are not familiar with doing this may I suggest you go and try it, trust me you'll be wondering if we are actually in the year 2018.
The second option is to use the more recently released function to 'Print Quote for Customer." Now this at least sounds more promising, however it is actually a rather painful process once again. Through the use of Microsoft Office integration, you'll be guided through a mail-merge process which again will eventually output the report for you to save as a PDF before attaching to an email, whether from within D365, CRM or Outlook. Whatever route you decide on you'll be looking at a minimum of FIFTEEN mouse clicks. If you're unlucky you might even get lost somewhere in the mail-merge and data mapping process.
Now OK, we can all live with it as it is, can't we? I guess the answer could be yes but is this really how it should be, I mean come on, this really is 2018 and we are now several versions and 15 years on from 1.0 in 2003. 20 mouse clicks or 15 mouse clicks it makes no difference, producing a quote and being able to send it in PDF format remains totally tedious and unnecessarily poor use of a user's time.
Thankfully there are third-party products that make a better job of this. MyCRM's ePDF being just one simple and cost effective solution which will save every user from the tedious task of what they actually want to do the most – GET THE QUOTE TO THE CUSTOMER and DO IT QUICKLY AND EASILY.
With ePDF any quote (and any other report) can be produced as a PDF in just two mouse clicks. That's about the time it takes to say "two mouse clicks"! If you want to email this report, then you'll need one more click. So just three clicks compared to fifteen to twenty; now that's what I call a productivity gain!
So the next time you find yourself doing something in Dynamics 365 or CRM which is not as quick or easy as you think it should be, rest assured there will be enhancements out there which will make things work the way you expect them to. Check out the MyCRM download centre because the chances are you'll find what you're looking for here.
Please remember this Easter that too much time taken to consume chocolate really isn't going to do you much good. Much better to experience quality - something that is easier to unwrap and something that really does tastes great. Much like producing a quote from Dynamics 365 or CRM, your eating experience should simply be productive and something that leaves a long lasting sweet taste…not a completely bitter and disappointing experience.


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Q: Mutli threading with Threadpool executor and Runnables OR Volley? The scenario is like this: The user opens the app and has to take a few photos. The photos have to be uploaded to a server even if the user closes the app.
The app should know about the upload status of the photos when it is open again.
I was thinking of using SQLite to store the status of the photos, so that whenever the app is open it can hit the DB and get to know the status. Additionally, I can have a broadcast receiver which will receive the photo upload status once every photo is uploaded(This is to handle the case when the user does not close the app but he has to be notified of the status, and using a polling mechanism which hits the DB periodically to fetch status info does not seem to be a good approach).
So my question is: Do i create Runnables and manage them using a Thread pool executor OR do is use Volley?
And is Volley even suited for operations where a task should run even after the app is closed?


Home Unlock ZTE How to Unlock ZTE R1010?
How to Unlock ZTE R1010?
Unlocking of ZTE R1010 is now supported. Now we can provide the factory unlock code of ZTE R1010 phone. You might already know that if a smartphone is locked to a particular network, then you can not use it with any other network provider SIM card.
Unlocking of ZTE R1010 by code is one-time work. It does not change any firmware or software, means you will not loose the warranty. In order to receive a correct network unlock code for your ZTE R1010, you need to mention the 15-digit IMEI number. You can find the IMEI of your phone by dialing *#06# as a phone number.
How to Unlock ZTE R1010 with NCK?
5. Now your ZTE R1010 is unlocked forever to use with any SIM card.
Note IV: Factory unlock code of ZTE R1010 is not free. While paying mention model with IMEI in the transaction. Correct SIMLock Code will be emailed.
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