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Home India Cities 23-Year-Old Commuter, Who Jumped In Front Of Delhi Metro Is Dead
23-Year-Old Commuter, Who Jumped In Front Of Delhi Metro Is Dead
By Dev Tyagi -
In one of the more grotesque pieces of news from the capital city, a 23-year-old youngster jumped in the front of a Delhi Metro rail and paid with the forfeit of life.
The incident took place on June 18, 2019 and happened at a busy station during the peak afternoon hour rush of 2 P.M.
The sad occurrence took place at a station that falls on the busy yellow line, in the heart of the city. It also became known that the person who jumped to his death was actually undergoing treatment for depression.
The 23-year-old man was a resident of Delhi and had actually been taking medication for the past 2 years. Sadly, he would jump in front of the ever-dangerous metro rail which would take his life and plunge his family in an irreparable blanket of grief.
It also became known that in the immediate aftermath of the Delhi metro incident, on a usually busy Tuesday afternoon, the yellow line service was halted for a good 15-20 minutes as police assembled at the scene to take cognisance of the ill-fated episode.
Revered news platform NDTV published more details about the sad incident and happened to share the following:
The train bound for Huda City Centre station was approaching a platform at the Civil Lines station when the man jumped in front of it and was run over by it. We informed police immediately," a senior DMRC official said.
The body has been removed from the tracks and sent to a mortuary in Sabzi Mandi area, a senior police official said.
The victim was a resident of Jagatpur in Delhi, he said.
His father said Nitin was undergoing treatment for depression for the last two years at a hospital, the police official said.
At present, the case is being investigated under Section 174 of the code of Criminal Procedure.
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I have been travelling for over a year now and I thought I'd share my experiences, my knowledge, my tips and my itineraries. I want to share my general life experience.
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inline operator+(const E1& e1, const vec_expr<E2>& e2)
{
    typedef tfunctor::left_plus<E1, typename E2::value_type> ftype;
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    return type(ftype(e1), static_cast<const E2&>(e2));
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template <typename E1, typename E2>
typename mtl::traits::enable_if_scalar<E2, map_view<tfunctor::right_plus<typename E1::value_type, E2>, E1> >::type
inline operator+(const vec_expr<E1>& e1, const E2& e2)
{
    typedef tfunctor::right_plus<typename E1::value_type, E2>ftype;
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    return type(ftype(e2), static_cast<const E1&>(e1));
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template <typename E1, typename E2>
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    return type(ftype(e1), static_cast<const E2&>(e2));
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template <typename E1, typename E2>
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    typedef tfunctor::left_min<E1, typename E2::value_type> ftype;
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    return type(ftype(e1), static_cast<const E2&>(e2));
}

template <typename E1, typename E2>
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{
    typedef tfunctor::right_min<typename E1::value_type, E2>ftype;
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    return type(ftype(e2), static_cast<const E1&>(e1));
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template <typename E1, typename E2>
typename mtl::traits::enable_if_scalar<E1, map_view<tfunctor::left_max<E1, typename E2::value_type>, E2> >::type
inline max(const E1& e1, const vec_expr<E2>& e2)
{
    typedef tfunctor::left_max<E1, typename E2::value_type> ftype;
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    return type(ftype(e1), static_cast<const E2&>(e2));
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template <typename E1, typename E2>
typename mtl::traits::enable_if_scalar<E2, map_view<tfunctor::right_max<typename E1::value_type, E2>, E1> >::type
inline max(const vec_expr<E1>& e1, const E2& e2)
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    typedef tfunctor::right_max<typename E1::value_type, E2>ftype;
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    return type(ftype(e2), static_cast<const E1&>(e1));
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I want to switch to AT&T but still keep my phone and original number. I'm currently a Verizon customer, will I be able to switch over my phone to AT&T?
Visit an ATT store to have your number ported and a new SIM card installed.
@MMJ1012 have you had your Verizon iPhone unlocked yet? That's the only way that the AT&T SIM is going to properly activate.
Hardware wise - the 6 and 6+ are identical no matter what carrier you get them on. They can do all bands and protocols.
There are 2 models of the iPhone and they are not exactly alike. The ATT version includes the not yet active band 30 for LTE.
@lizdance40 funny because we've had several Verizon models that needed to actually be unlocked. Perhaps your assumption that all Verizon iPhones are unlocked is wrong? The locking is handled by Apple's Activation server and in some cases a device truly is locked and won't work. Customers can be confused at times over their unlock status - for example - an AT&T locked iPhone 6 or 6S will gleefully take a T-Mobile SIM and work... bring a Verizon or Sprint SIM into the mix and things get messy. The customer assumed they were unlocked but they weren't. An unlocked phone can also become "relocked" when AppleCare makes a replacement - I've seen this personally and it's quite the surprise when you're overseas and go to put a SIM into your "unlocked" iPhone that was recently replaced at the Apple Store.
If you read the original post, the user has a 6 Plus, not a 6S Plus. The 6 Plus came as A1522 (GSM/NA, Verizon), A1524 (Global/Sprint) and A1593 (China Mobile).
Now the 6S Plus does come in two flavors in America. A1634 which is Global and includes Band 30 specifically for AT&T customers (it's also the flavor sold by the Apple Store if you purchase unlocked) and A1687 which is also Global but doesn't have Band 30 (it's the flavor all carriers sell and Apple sells you for their own in-house financing option, unless you specify you're AT&T). There is also an A1699 for China Mobile.
The FCC also doesn't actually require a phone that uses the 700mhz block to be unlocked. It does - however - require that you allow any device to use that block whether you sold it or not. If the "rule" were as you say it is, then T-Mobile and AT&T would both have to sell unlocked devices as well since they use 700mhz spectrum.
I find it a bit misleading to tell a customer that a device will work perfectly when you don't actually know that. Running their IMEI may show that it's activation locked to Verizon. Stranger things have happened. I believe my response was more correct - make sure the device is unlocked. When a customer is told "it will work perfectly" and then they stand in a store for quite some time trying to get it to work, only to find out that it won't, they tend to tear the store apart and scream at the unsupecting representative.
You are correct about the different versions of the iPhone 6 versus the 6S.
An older phone, like my Galaxy S3 from Verizon, was inactive when these rules came into being. While it was locked, it was unlocked as soon as it was actived on Verizon.
The FCC granted Verizon the 700 block, extending network access, but only if they unlocked all cell phones. It has nothing to do with other networks also having the 700 block. Verizon is the only carrier required to sell its phones unlocked.
Only on rare occasions does a Verizon phone turn up as locked to US GSM. If it happens, it can be unlocked.
An ATT phone, locked to ATT will not get service with a T-mobile SIM card until it's unlocked.
"The Upper C block has "open access" rules that require the license holder to allow third-party devices and applications to use the network built using that spectrum. This was quite a controversial issue when the rules were being drafted for this band, but in late 2007 - right before Auction 73 - the whole industry magically embraced open access, and has even started to compete on just how "open" they can be. Of course this didn't happen until the FCC was about to force it on them."
Again, the FCC granted T-Mobile and AT&T 700mhz C-block spectrum as well. And yet T-Mobile and AT&T still lock their phones (although T-Mobile has a very liberal unlocking policy). Verizon generally sells unlocked devices just because it's their choice. Some of that choice may come from the fact that they're a CDMA carrier and any international users would have quite a hard time using their devices overseas. It's not for you and I to speculate but it definitely has nothing to do with the FCC requiring them.
The rare occasions you speak of actually happen more often than you'd like to think. Again, it would be prudent to have a user check their status before walking into a store assuming all is well.
......And how can you prove the phone is locked? If it works with other networks, it is obviously unlocked.
Did you purchase from ATT or Apple?
The phone was purchased from AT&T and is on a Next 30 plan on a Corporate Account.
Running the IMEI through tools available to techs would show you it's locked to AT&T.
Contacting Apple and requesting to know what Activation Profile is on the device would result in the answer "AT&T".
Inserting a Sprint SIM card results in an Activation Error from Apple and stops the phone until a proper SIM is inserted.
You like to use words like obviously and perfectly when you "obviously" don't know eveyrthing that you think you know so "perfectly".
Can I use an unlocked Verizon Galaxy S6 on AT&T?


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World's top uranium miner Cameco swings to loss in first quarter
Cecilia Jamasmie | May 1, 2019 | 9:43 am Energy Top Companies Asia Canada Uranium
Operations at the company's flagship McArthur River mine in Saskatchewan, the world's biggest uranium mine, and the Key Lake mill (pictured) remain suspended. (Image courtesy of Cameco.)
Canada's Cameco (TSX:CCO) (NYSE:CCJ), the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, swung to a loss in the first three months of the year despite seeing growing support for nuclear energy.
The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based company logged a C$18.3 million net loss in the first quarter of 2019, compared with a profit of C$57.8 million a year ago. That is equivalent to a decrease of five cents per share, versus a profit of 14 cents per share in the same quarter last year.
"There is still a long way to go before we decide to restart McArthur River and Key Lake" — President and CEO, Tim Gitzel
"We see growing support for nuclear, and with more than 50 reactors under construction, demand is certain and predictable," the company's president and CEO, Tim Gitzel, said in the statement. "However, supply is uncertain and declining."
Gitzel noted the current supply/demand imbalance was benefitting the company, as it has started off-market talks with some of its best and largest customers about what it takes to support the operation of its main assets — McArthur River and Key Lake — longer term.
Last year Cameco indefinitely shut its flagship McArthur River mine — the world's biggest — and also the Key Lake mill, which has helped the market.
"While we are encouraged by the contracting activity, make no mistake, there is still a long way to go before we decide to restart [them]," Gitzel said.
Cameco highlighted its win in the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) case, in which the country's Tax Court ruled in favour of the miner for the 2003, 2005 and 2006 years. The company was awarded on Monday C$10.25 million corresponding to legal fees incurred, plus an amount for disbursements, which is yet to be determined.
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The use of client ID creates attribution issues as it exist only on the device/browser on which it has been setup. Thus you can't attribute user engagement spread across multiple devices and sessions to a single user in your GA reports.
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The Squirrel's Heath Ward includes Gidea Park east of Balgores Lane and south of Main Road. This includes part of the Gidea Park Exhibition Estate running from the railway station to Main Road. The ward also encompasses Ardleigh Green and part of Heath Park.
Haynes Park features towards the south of the ward, and the eastern boundary runs along the Southend Arterial Road.
Our Conservative Action Team for Squirrels Heath Ward is:
Cllr DAMIAN WHITE
Damian has been a Councillor for the past eight years and now serves as Leader of the Council. He is passionate about the regeneration of Romford, Gidea Park and the whole of Havering and has spearheaded Housing regeneration. Damian is committed to protecting and enhancing our Borough's great heritage and is an active campaigner against over-development.
Email: damian.white@havering.gov.uk Tel: 07733 260557
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Oral history interview with Harland G. Wood
Harland G. Wood begins the interview with a brief discussion of his role in the restructuring of Western Reserve University's medical curriculum. He then reflects on his childhood and education, recalling that his…
Interviewee Wood, Harland G. (Harland Goff), 1907-1991
Interviewer Bohning, James J.
Subject Iowa State College, Biochemists, Case Western Reserve University, University of Wisconsin, Wood, Harland G. (Harland Goff), 1907-1991, University of Minnesota, Carbon dioxide--Metabolism
Oral history interview with William Wishnick
1991-May-13
William Wishnick begins this interview by describing his parents' careers and the founding of the Wishnick-Tumpeer Chemical Company in 1920. His father's company, now called Witco, expanded with the acquisition of…
Interviewee Wishnick, William, 1924-
Subject Chemical industry, Businesspeople--Biography, Wishnick, William, 1924-, Businesspeople, Executives, Executives--Biography
Oral history interview with Frederick T. Wall
Frederick Wall begins his oral history discussing his family background and childhood in Minnesota, attending the University of Minnesota, and studying chemistry and chemical engineering. After a stint at Caltech with…
Interviewee Wall, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1912-
Subject California Institute of Technology, Chemists, Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994, Wall, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1912-, Chemists--Biography, Glockler, George, 1890-1969, University of Illinois at Chicago
Oral history interview with Harold Eugene Thayer
The oral history begins with Harold E. Thayer recalling growing up in Rochester, New York, during the Depression, and the decision to attend MIT, where he pursued a course combining chemical engineering and business…
Interviewee Thayer, Harold Eugene
Subject Thayer, Harold E., Chemists, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works (Saint Louis, Mo.), Chemists--Biography, American Cyanamid Company. Calco Chemical Division
Oral history interview with Cedomir M. Sliepcevich
Cedomir Sliepcevich begins the interview with a description of his family and early years in Anaconda, Montana. A firm educational beginning in Anaconda influenced Sliepcevich to attend college. He enrolled in the…
Interviewee Sliepcevich, C. M. (Cedomir M.), 1920-2009
Subject Chemical engineering, University of Michigan, Sliepcevich, C. M. (Cedomir M.), 1920-2009, Chemical engineers
Oral history interview with Emil L. Smith
1991-Jun-19 (First session)
1994-Mar-17 (Second session)
Emil Smith begins his oral history interview by discussing his undergraduate study of biology at Columbia University. He received a Guggenheim fellowship to Cambridge University until the outbreak of World War II. Smith…
Interviewee Smith, Emil L., 1911-2009
Subject Biochemists, Smith, Emil L., 1911-2009, University of California, Los Angeles
Oral history interview with Walter H. Stockmayer
1986-Aug-25 (First session)
1992-Jan-22 (Second session)
In the first interview, Walter Stockmayer describes early influences directing him towards the chemical sciences. Stockmayer first became interested in the mathematical aspects of physical chemistry as an undergraduate…
Interviewee Stockmayer, Walter H.
Interviewer Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis), 1952-
Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Macromolecules, Chemists, Stockmayer, W. H. (Walter H.), 1914-2004, Chemists--Biography
Oral history interview with Gilbert J. Stork
Gilbert Stork begins his interview with a description of his childhood and family background in Paris. Stork and his family moved to the United States in 1939, and he decided to begin his graduate studies in chemistry…
Interviewee Stork, Gilbert
Interviewer Bohning, James J., Fine, Leonard W.
Subject Stork, Gilbert, Chemists, Harvard University, Chemists--Biography, Columbia University
Oral history interview with Irving S. Shapiro
Irving Shapiro begins this interview by discussing his parents' backgrounds and the influence of his father's interest in law and accounting. Next Shapiro examines his own early intellectual strengths and proclivities…
Interviewee Shapiro, Irving S.
Interviewer Bohning, James J., McNulty, Bernadette R.
Subject Chemical industry, Corporate lawyers, United States. Office of Price Administration, United States. Department of Justice, Shapiro, Irving S., E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Jewish scientists, Jews
Oral history interview with Howard E. Simmons, Jr.
Howard E. Simmons, Jr., begins the interview describing his family history. Simmons, an only child growing up in Norfolk, Virginia, pursued early chemistry interests in a home laboratory and graduated high school near…
Interviewee Simmons, Howard E.
Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemists, Simmons, Howard E., Chemists--Biography, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
Oral history interview with Charles M. Rubin
1992-Nov-05 (First session)
1992-Nov-07 (Second session)
1992-Nov-09 (Third session)
Charles M. Rubin grew up in Deal, New Jersey. He was especially interested in science and mathematics, enjoying problem-solving. Rubin entered the University of Pennsylvania for his undergraduate degree. He spent…
Interviewee Rubin, Charles M., 1953-2015
Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
Subject Medical scientists--Biography, Rubin, Charles M., 1953-2015, Medicine--Research, Children with disabilities, Medicine, Cancer, Cancer--Research, Medical scientists, Cancer in children
Advertisements, Ephemera
Dow Magnesium is Turning Seventy-Five. And the Revolutions Continue.
Print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company's Magnesium Division highlighting the development of AE42X1, a new high-temperature magnesium alloy for use in automotive engineering.
Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
Subject Magnesium alloys, Magnesium, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Magnesium industry and trade, Chemical industry
Thank You for Helping Us Celebrate 75 Years of Making Headlines
Print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company's Magnesium Division. The advertisement features reproductions of newspaper clippings chronicling various milestones in the company's production of magnesium over the…
Subject Magnesium, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Magnesium industry and trade, Chemical industry
Oral history interview with Seymour Meyerson
Seymour Meyerson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago from which he received his undergraduate degree. By 1943 Meyerson began active service with the US military, spending the…
Interviewee Meyerson, Seymour, 1916-
Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
Subject Meyerson, Seymour, 1916-, Chemistry, Chromatographic analysis, Mass spectrometry, Chemistry, Analytic, Chemists--Biography, Consolidated Engineering Corporation, Chemical apparatus, Chemistry, Organic
Oral history interview with William G. McMillan
William McMillan begins this interview with a discussion of his parents and youth in Montebello, California. The youngest of seven siblings, McMillan expressed an interest in science at an early age. He attended…
Interviewee McMillan, William George, 1919-
Subject Rand Corporation, Mayer, Joseph Edward, 1904-, McMillan, William George, 1919-, Manhattan Project (U.S.), Chemists, McMillan Science Associates, Harvard University, Chemists--Biography, Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles
Oral history interview with Michael B. McKeown
Michael McKeown grew up in a small town near San Francisco, California. McKeown attended Stanford University, where he began in math but switched to biology. He liked the small classes and the opportunity for close…
Interviewee McKeown, Michael B., 1953-2017
Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
Subject Baker, Bruce Stewart, 1945-2018, Thymidine, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, Drosophila, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Dictyostelium
Oral history interview with Jerry McAfee
Jerry McAfee begins this interview by discussing his parents and his childhood in Port Arthur, Texas. He became interested in chemical engineering at an early age because of the influence of his father who worked for…
Interviewee McAfee, Jerry, 1916-1995
Subject Catalytic cracking, Whiteford, William K. (William Kepler), 1900-1968, Gulf Research & Development Company, Gulf Oil Company-U.S., Chemical engineers, McAfee, Jerry, 1916-1995, Universal Oil Products Company
Oral history interview with Thomas W. Mastin
Thomas Mastin begins this interview by discussing his childhood in Indiana and the untimely death of his father. He then explains the origins of his interest in chemistry, his early career at Lubrizol, and his…
Interviewee Mastin, Thomas William, 1913-1998
Manufacturer Bohning, James J.
Subject Mastin, Thomas William, 1913-1998, Lubrizol Corporation, Chemists, Chemists--Biography
Oral history interview with Henry Earl Lumpkin
Henry Earl Lumpkin begins the interview by discussing his family background and how he learned to value education. His family had a tradition of attending Southwestern Texas State University and becoming school…
Interviewee Lumpkin, Henry Earle, 1920-2012
Subject American Society for Testing and Materials, Mass spectrometers, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Lumpkin, Henry Earle, 1920-2012, Mass spectrometry, Chemists--Biography, Humble Oil and Refining Company (Incorporated in Tex.), Chemists
Oral history interview with Boris Magasanik
1993 – 1995 (In three sessions)
Boris Magasanik begins the interview with a description of his childhood years in Vienna, Austria. Shortly after graduating from the Gymnasium in 1937, Magasanik immigrated to the United States to live with his sister…
Interviewee Magasanik, Boris, 1919-2013
Interviewer Schlesinger, Sondra
Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biochemists, Magazanik, Boris, 1919-2013, Harvard Medical School, Columbia University
Oral history interview with Joshua Lederberg
1992-Jul-07 (Second session)
1992-Dec-09 (Third session)
Joshua Lederberg begins the three-part interview with a description of his parents, family background, and early years in New York. Lederberg knew from the second grade that he wanted to be a scientist, and he…
Interviewee Lederberg, Joshua
Subject Microbiologists, Biologists, Biology, Neurospora, Microbiology, University of Wisconsin, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Lederberg, Joshua, Nobel Prize winners, DNA, Cytochemistry, Escherichia coli, Biologists--Biography
Oral history interview with Chalmer G. Kirkbride
Chalmer Kirkbride begins the interview by describing his family background and childhood in Oklahoma and Kansas. During high school, Kirkbride's interests were influenced by his brother-in-law, a chemist for…
Interviewee Kirkbride, Chalmer G., (Chalmer Gatlin), 1906-1998
Subject Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Pan American Petroleum Corporation, Magnolia Petroleum Company, Sun Oil Company, Houdry Process Corporation, Kirkbride, Chalmer G., (Chalmer Gatlin), 1906-1998, Texas A & M University, Catalytic Construction Company, Chemical engineers
Oral history interview with James D. Idol
James D. Idol begins his interview with a description of his childhood in Harrisonville, Missouri. His interest in chemistry was encouraged by neighbors and by friends. He attended William Jewell College in Liberty,…
Interviewee Idol, James D., 1928-2015
Subject Idol, James D., 1928-2015, Rutgers University, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Chemists--Biography, Chemical engineers, Standard Oil Company (Ohio), Ashland Chemical Company
Oral history interview with Charles D. Hurd
1991-Feb-28
Charles Hurd begins his oral history by discussing his early life and his later educational and professional experiences, including his Ph.D. work in organic chemistry at Princeton University and his summer job in…
Interviewee Hurd, Charles Dewitt, 1897-1998
Subject Hurd, Charles Dewitt, 1897-1998, Chemists, Chemists--Biography
Oral history interview with Richard E. Heckert
The interview begins with Richard E. Heckert discussing his family background and childhood as the son of a Miami University of Ohio professor of education. Throughout the interview, he refers to his brother Winfield, a…
Interviewee Heckert, Richard Edwin, 1924-2010
Subject Chemical industry, Chemistry, Chemists, Chemical industry--Environmental aspects, Chemists--Biography, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Heckert, Richard Edwin, 1924-2010
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The beautiful Bedford plan offers two stories of smartly designed living space. On the main floor, you'll find a spacious dining room, great room and kitchen with a center island, as well as a convenient mudroom and powder room off the 2-car garage. Upstairs, there's a versatile loft, centrally located laundry room, hall bath and three inviting bedroomsincluding the master bedroom with walk-in closet and private bath. There is still time to select interior finishes at the Richmond American Home Gallery! This home is under construction and will be ready Fall of 2018. Copperleaf is a master planned community with many amenities and a convenient location near Southlands mall and E-470.


Gresley Abas are currently delivering the redevelopment of existing facilities at Curtin University's School of Design and Art. The new facilities include MAC labs (highly sophisticated and specialised computer laboratories), digital modelling studios, workshops, prototyping studios, research, learning, exhibition and teaching spaces.
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Q: How to configure silverstripe 4 to use a BLOB field instead of the file system In the Silverstripe 4 docs the possiblity to use a BLOB or s3 storage is mentioned (https://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4/working-with-files-and-images-1)
But I cannot find any documention how to handle a BLOB storage. Is this only about configuration or is some implementation required? Are there examples?

A: You can create a custom DBField class for BLOB.
Here is the example DBBlobField class works in SS 4.2 with MariaDB.
use SilverStripe\ORM\DB;
use SilverStripe\ORM\FieldType\DBField;

class DBBlobField extends DBField
{
    function requireField()
    {
        DB::require_field($this->tableName, $this->name, "mediumblob");
    }
}

mediumblob is the BLOB type supported by your database.
Define the $db field in DataObject.
private static $db = [
    "Data" => DBBlobField::class
];

Save file content into Data field.
$dataObject->Data = file_get_contents($filePath);
$dataObject->write();

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Ever since his film Drishyam became Malayalam cinema's biggest blockbuster, writer-director Jeethu Joseph has been the target of attacks from several quarters.
After the controversy over the film being inspired by a Japanese novel The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, Jeethu has now been accused by filmmaker Satish Paul of plagiarising his novel, Oru Mazhakkalathu.
Paul, who directed a dud film titled Finger Print some years ago, has filed a case against Jeethu Joseph. Since the court verdict went in his favour, Jeethu has gone ahead with the shooting of the Tamil version of Drishyam titled Papanasam, with Kamal Haasan in the lead.
In an exclusive interview with rediff.com, Jeethu Joseph replies to the charges.
Satish Paul has accused you of copying the story of Drishyam from his book. What is your response?
As per his version of the story, he was trying to make a Tamil film based on his book Oru Mazhakkalathu and he claims that Drishyam's similarities to his book goes up to 85 per cent.
A certain section of the media reported that he got Rs 10 lakh as compensation. Ten per cent of all this is fact, and 90 per cent is misinterpretation.
His story is based on a premeditated murder while Drishyam is about the unofficial investigation done by a cop after her son disappears.
He got an injunction order from the district court and not from the High Court, as reported by some. We were asked to present a bank guarantee for Rs 10 lakh as security.
Now, he has to prove his charges. I have decided not to speak more about the case as it is still under the consideration of the honourable court.
Satish Paul has stated that he came to you before the shooting started but you refused to show him the script.
He came to me around 10 days before the shooting started. He claimed to have written a script on a murder cover-up and wanted to know if the themes were the same.
I revealed my storyline in detail, except for the climax. He then said that there are no similarities between our stories.
According to him, his story is a scientific investigation and the tracks are different.
We talked over the phone one or two times after that. We have also talked after the release of the film. He said then that some of his friends had pointed out about the murder cover-up and he had told them that the two stories are different.
Then, after a couple of months, he got the injunction order. As per his statement, he was shocked after watching the film that 85 per cent of the film was copied from his story.
My question is why did he wait until July 2014 to file a case against a movie that got released on December 19, 2013?
He says that he was waiting for the DVD. If he has written the script, why should he need to wait for so long to make a comparison?
What could be his intention?
I believe there is a hidden agenda and that he is acting as per a written script.
Soon after the release of Drishyam, the remake rights of the film was sold. This news had come out in the media. Kamal sir (Kamal Haasan) was announced as the hero of the film. Satish was silent even then.
After the court gave the injunction, he demanded compensation from us. Frankly, we were worried if the dates of Kamal sir would be wasted. We had already started working on the project.
Kamal sir wanted to read the novel. He made sure that the stories were different. He also gave us confidence to challenge the claims.
He said that such instances are happening frequently these days. He believes that it's a question of ethics. In fact, when Satish Paul called Kamal sir's secretary, he was given this message by the legend: 'If you have a good case, you can go ahead. If it is not, we will hunt you down'.
On hearing this he realised that Kamal sir was supporting us. He then started maligning us through the media.
I had decided not to comment but I have been forced to make this clarification.
It is alleged that Drishyam was 'inspired' by a Japanese film Suspect X. There are rumours that Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms, who had bought the remake rights, filed a case against you?
We did receive a notice from her lawyer but no case has been filed.
We are aware that certain people tried to create a misunderstanding, which resulted in all those false rumours.


I currently live in Colorado but will be moving to Tupper Lake after our house sells here to be closer to family and still live in a forested, mountain area. (We are nomads and have lived all over including PA,ME, and now CO) I will be hitting the High Peaks and numerous other places in the Daks when I arrive. But woe is me, I'm stuck hiking in the Rockies until that happens.
While the NY high point Mt Marcy get all the attention for summits that go by that name, there is a fairly obscure 13,490' Mt Marcy in Colorado that's buried among endless peaks rising above 13,000 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Range. I live in the Sangres and am lucky enough to hike this area regularly. Last week I decided to climb 3 peaks in the middle the Sangres.
That Marcy's a good looking mt. Are they places to take photos out there?
Photo opportunities are very rare. There just isn't much to see.


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06. June 2020 · Write a comment	· Categories: From The Pulpit, National · Tags: bishop harry jackson senior pastor of hope christian church, death of george floyd, harry jackson and the reconciled church movement, trump administration and african americans, vice president mike pence
BELTSVILLE, Md. – Following the unjust death of George Floyd and a week of protests and violence, Vice President Mike Pence and Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Scott Turner on June 5 joined Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., and author of the forthcoming book "A Manifesto: Christian America's Contract with Minorities," for a listening session with a
Bishop Harry Jackson, left, and Vice President Mike Pence
select group of Black and minority leaders representing churches, businesses, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations.
Pence's main goal is to 'listen and learn'
The Vice President addressed attendees with brief opening remarks, noting his main goal during the event was to listen and learn.
"I couldn't help but feel that as our nation reels from the tragic death of George Floyd, that a place to start a conversation is a place of worship. It's the wellspring of our nation's strength. It's been the wellspring of our national unity and our steady march toward a more perfect union," Pence said.
"It will not be enough for us just to heal our economy. We have to heal that which divides by breaking down the barriers to opportunity for African Americans and any American that's been left behind, so I'm anxious to gain your insights."
Jackson sees unity as a momentum builder
Jackson, who through The Reconciled Church movement has been actively engaged for many years in leading conversations and working with faith leaders to heal racial divides, equated the current climate following Floyd's death to the events surrounding the 1955 death of Emmett Till, which led to the start of the civil rights movement.
"His death was almost prophetic and symbolic of a time and season that change had to come. Black and Whites came together to address the civil rights movement, and we found momentum. I think we will similarly find momentum during this time," said Jackson.
Jackson noted that as a diverse nation, it is vital that every American feel loved and accepted. He stated this is not solely the role of government but requires all three sectors of our country – government, business, and church – uniting together.
"Minorities need to hear that they are valued and that the lives of people really matter," Jackson said. "It's not just George Floyd's death alone. His death is representative of the nearly 400-year history of challenges we've had … This administration didn't create this problem, but it has the opportunity to help us heal.
Reflection of voices; Pence's reassurance
Following opening remarks, a select group offered personal reflections of their own experiences as minority leaders, fathers, educators, business owners and citizens as well as insight into a way forward. The representative voices provided input regarding numerous issues, including:
Ensuring Black youth feel heard and acknowledged;
Encouraging leaders of faith to use their platforms to address race;
Increasing funding and resources for Historically Black Colleges and Universities;
Tackling criminal justice reform; and
Providing more practical, hands-on training, evaluation, and accountability for police officers.
Pence assured those present the Administration is working with a commitment for equality in our nation, while mourning with those who mourn and grieving with those who grieve. He also expressed support for the right to peaceful protest, explaining that is why forces were mobilized to make space for peaceful demonstrations so voices can be heard.
"My prayer is that we as a nation have ears to hear, to listen to one another, with open hearts," said Pence.
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You used to watch television. Now it watches you.
It's early morning in the 'burbs. My eyes are barely open, but the video eye is on me. I stop by the convenience store for coffee and newspapers. On the grainy screen of a boxy monitor behind the clerk, I catch a glimpse of a tiny figure that, after a moment, I realize represents me. Opening my wallet reminds me that I'm as short of cash as usual, so I stop at the ATM. Through a one-way mirror, a video camera is recording the transaction.
I drive along New Jersey's Route 3 toward New York City, quite possibly under the video observation of the New Jersey State Police, my state being one of several that have tested remote stations that capture radar-gun readings and license-plate numbers and mail out speeding tickets.
As I descend the dread "helix" into the Lincoln Tunnel, I go on TV for Panasonic. Atop a huge billboard advertising the company's camcorders is the "Panasonic Traffic Cam," an absurdly tiny device that perches like an insect above a sign bearing the face of a white-knuckled driver. The driver looks a bit like the late John Candy - all exasperation as the kids behind him quibble and scream.
I can tune the radio to 1010 WINS to hear what the camera sees: in a cunning marketing tie-in, I get "reports from the Panasonic Traffic Cam high above the helix - there's a 15 minute delay at the Lincoln...."
At the entrance to the tunnel, I pause to pay my toll, beneath cameras to deter toll robbers. Inside the dipping, tiled tube of the tunnel, cameras reside in shells like little jet engines, or maybe like the underwater mini-sub Lloyd Bridges rode in Sea Hunt; these protect the lenses from the ravages of diesel dust.
Once in Manhattan, I park in the garage above the Port Authority bus terminal. Here cameras track me to the elevator, down past the magazine stand and the espresso bar.
I catch one glimpse; beside the escalator is a room, full of some two-dozen video monitors, like a destroyer's bridge, only the guard is bored and dozing. But who watches all the other TVs that watch me, watch you, watch all of us more than we ever realize?
Perhaps not surprisingly, the watchers don't like to talk. The people at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are unwilling to show me where they watch me. Another Port Authority property is the World Trade Center, where investigators scoured videotapes from cameras on the tower's parking decks in their attempts to apprehend suspects in the 1993 bombing. Security is a delicate topic with them.
So I head for the International Security Conference & Exposition, the security insider's trade convention, where I'll get a chance to see what's at the other end of the camera for a change.
For a long time now, America has seemed like a country where most people watch television most of the time. But only recently are we beginning to notice that it is also a country where television watches us.
We're all on security cameras, or seccams (pronounced see-cams). At malls, hotels, airports, fast-food restaurants; in offices; on highways; in front of machines - we star in a TV system whose cast dwarfs that of broadcast and cable. In the world of security TV, the equation of home TV is reversed: the audience is small, the programming vast.
I remember very specifically when I first began to realize this. It was one night in the summer of 1993, when I was watching CNN. The hypodermic-in-the-Pepsi-can scare was at its height. Dozens of soda cans with syringes in them were showing up around the country. But Pepsi had located a security camera in a Colorado convenience store and caught one of the alleged tamperers red handed – or at least fuzzy-gray handed. From that point on, what seemed an epidemic of tampering was revealed to be an epidemic of copycat fraud.
But what was most astonishing was that Pepsi could manage to call up the incriminating clip out of all the hours of videotape in all the convenience stores across America.
No one can say for sure how many hours the average American is on TV, but according to the Security Industry Association, the US spends about US$1billion a year on electronic security-camera systems. We pay to watch ourselves. And more and more people are taking notice of this fact. A 1991 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 11 percent of the companies surveyed used video cameras to monitor workers. And many department stores even use video cameras, set behind one-way mirrors, in changing rooms, beneath signs that vaguely announce "inventory control measures in place."
This has concerned the ACLU and some unions. People should at least know they are on TV, the argument goes. Such a requirement is at the heart of bills now in the US Congress sponsored by Senator Paul Simon of Illinois and Representative Pat Williams of Montana. Smelling business-spoiling regulations, the seccam industry opposes the legislation. The Security Industry Association argues that advertising cameras' placement would make it easier for workers to avoid their scrutiny, easier to pocket parts or secrets, easier to embezzle, easier to do drugs. "A blueprint for criminals," Bill Zalud, the editor of Security Magazine called it. "Pro-crime legislation."
But political issues obscure the deeper ways in which video surveillance has changed the texture of our lives, mutated it in subtle ways that only a hidden technology possesses. When black-and-white footage appears on CNN, you know something is up. On television, black-and-white video is a visual cue that somebody is about to do something wrong: it signifies a bank heist or a convenience-store job. Even citizen camcorder captures of dramatic scenes, like the Rodney King beating, are in color. Only security systems or the Feds use black and white – witness the Abscam tapes, or John DeLorean's hotel-room wheeling and dealing. We all look guilty as hell on black-and-white video; it's a moving mug shot. Mother Teresa buying a granola bar at the Gas N Go would appear felonious on such tapes.
But the effects of video style are broader than this: they change the way we imagine ourselves now and the way we record ourselves for history. Every era is characterized by the style of its images. Modern eras are characterized by the style of their moving images. We can never imagine Woodrow Wilson in cinemascope. And in our collective memories, World War I's General Pershing can never move without jerking and snappily saluting. The Kodachromed '50s possess a wholly different feel from the black-and-white, noir shadows of the '40s. Now that video cameras feed into little boxes on our Mac or Windows screens, one wonders: will our own era be remembered in the stutter smear of QuickTime in a window, the trembling mumbletypeg of MPEG, once other methods of compression and playback succeed these?
Hollywood, at least, has become aware of the phenomenology of seccams. The films Sneakers and The Getaway feature crooks who defeat video security by looping the tape and fiddling with the clock. In Demolition Man, video cams monitor sidewalks and streets in the California of the future, though cameras are already scanning key sections of LA freeways to help control traffic. But the ultimate cinematic statement of the dangers of video surveillance is Sliver, a nightmare vision of a private individual who has the power to watch us all. The villainy practiced by the William Baldwin slime ball is a twist on the old theme that knowledge is power: its vision is manipulation by video.
Security at the International Security Conference was tight. Business, I had been told by John Galante, executive director for the Security Industry Association, "is under siege from within and without. Thirty percent of all small businesses fail because of employee theft. You've got to watch that cash register." Even the security business, apparently, has to watch its business.
The national gathering takes itself very seriously. This, Galante said, "is the convention they show in Coppola's film The Conversation, the one where Gene Hackman walks around looking at the mikes."
All around were cameras and monitors. The comings and goings of conventioneers unrolled on computer-screen video at the slightly druggy pace of 15 frames a second, or slower - sometimes just five or two frames a second - serialized microtome slices of reality.
There are familiar names above some booths. Sony Corporation has a new 168-hour VCR. Sanyo Industrial Video Division is proud of its cameras monitoring highways in the state of Florida. Samsung has a new 1/3-inch CCD camera the size of a Mother's Day boutonnière. All the trimmings are here as well: housings and domes and mirrors to hide the cameras, as well as special night-vision devices that automatically snap in place over their lenses when dusk falls, then slide away at dawn.
Amid screens on screens on screens, I encountered the vocabulary of the industry, as stiff and unyielding as the encasements that conceal and protect the cameras: "premises control," "asset retention," and "event-driven monitoring."
This last phrase trips from the tongue of an eager young salesman for the Iowa firm of IMAC, for Integrated Multimedia Access Control Inc. The IMAC program feeds voice, image, and video into a central Windows-based system that replaces the bank of monitors and the dozing guard. The monitor shows a series of views from seccams. In one, labeled "developmental office," a door is menaced by an unsubtle perp wielding a sledgehammer.
At a convenience store, explains the salesman, the "alarmed event sequence" might run like this: "the door opens, the beer cooler opens, the door closes - the cash register doesn't ring up." Triggered by a pattern suggesting shoplifting, the camera would jump from monitoring two or three frames a second to a full 15. "Intelligent digital video" they call it at IMAC, and it can be operated from anywhere in the world, the cameras aimed with a joystick or mouse and their images fed onto the screen of a laptop.
Most of the vendors here are members of the Security Industry Association. They are still fighting hard against the Simon/Williams bills that would limit the use of video cameras in the workplace. At the convention, the Security Industry Association presents poll results showing that only about 10 percent of people are bothered by surveillance. Most are more concerned about security and welcome the presence of cameras. According to the Security Industry Association, 75 percent of respondents said being monitored made them feel safer. But the poll did not focus on the observations of workers in the workplace, the center of the debate.
The issues of employee surveillance were cast into relief by a New York City robbery at Tiffany & Co., on Fifth Avenue, last September. Police suspected from the start that it was an inside job. The perps took not only a couple million in jewels but also the security-camera videotapes. A case like this, argues John Galante of the Security Industry Association, illustrates the very real need for covert surveillance - at Tiffany's, another set of cameras that employees don't know about. That way, an inside job won't be inside enough. To Galante, this is only one argument in favor of preserving the right of employers to install hidden cameras, a right that is threatened by the legislation crafted by Williams and Simon.
Over the last few months, I have been paying attention to the cameras that watch me, compiling a mental file on their effects. I have become familiar with glass ceiling domes of wine-dark opacity, with weatherproof and mini-sub-like housings. I have learned the particular crick-necked angles, querulous and bird-like, at which cameras tilt on their mountings to peer at us.
Once you start looking, you see cameras everywhere. In a general store in a small town in Western North Carolina where my great-grandfather shopped, a place with negligible crime, I discover an elegant and cunningly tiny Philips camera tucked into the corner, watching the overalls and work boots.
I notice the signs reading "surveillance being carried on for your safety." And my ears prick up at radio news stories like that of the factory workers who complained of strange-tasting coffee. They set up a hidden video camera, and, sure enough, the images revealed that the employee making the coffee was urinating into the pot.
Seccam footage has given TV news another edge over print. Such footage is a staple of tabloid TV - even the network news can rarely resist the shoot-out in the convenience store. Such video clips are the TV equivalent of the images from the '40s by the great tabloid photographer Weegee, of bleeding mob victims and tear-stained refugees from tenement fires. Now the tabloid press has to fight to keep up with tabloid TV.
Getting my coffee at the convenience store on my way to the security convention, I picked up a copy of the New York Post, which a few days before had printed a frame-by-frame sequence of a recent crime. A taxi driver named Glenn Iscoe tried to stop a robbery at the Oasis Bagel Shop on Horace Harding Expressway, in Fresh Meadows, Queens. The robber turned and killed him with a single shot to the head. The seccam got it all.
"Death of a Hero" the Post trumpeted, running five frames of the seccam footage, comic-book style. The language in the captions whipped up sentiment in a vain effort to convey the shock of the actual video. One caption was vintage tabloid, worth repeating in full: Frame 5: "Totally unfazed by having just snuffed out an innocent life, the ruthless urban predator steps coolly around Iscoe's body to grab the loot and flee."
But the combination of seccams and tabloids also highlights the dangers of video goofs. Several years ago, after a series of ATM robberies in New York, police matched the time of one assault with the videotape at the ATM in question. The cops concluded that their suspect was a taxi driver named James Hairston. Hairston woke up one morning to find the police at his door and his face on the front of the New York Daily News, beneath the word WANTED! But the clock had malfunctioned. Hairston, a law-abiding citizen, promptly phoned his solicitor.
Commercial security is not the only sort that depends on video surveillance - so does national security. Our hopes of world peace rely at least partially on video: video surveillance cameras are now watching potential nuclear weapons facilities in Iraq. Inside the "Mother of All Battles" engineering facility near Baghdad, a handful of security cameras, whose tapes are reviewed every few months by nuclear-control agency representatives, are supposed to keep Saddam Hussein from developing the bomb.
But at the convention, I hear rumblings that new kinds of body patterns and motion detectors are supplementing and, in some cases, supplanting video. The future of "premises control," the experts tell me, belongs to "biometrics": fingerprints, prints of retinal patterns, or voiceprints. And for some reason, audio monitoring bothers people more than video, which is soundless, like silent movies. When it was revealed that a number of Dunkin' Donuts stores in the Northeast were making, as a security measure, audio recordings capable of picking up customers' conversations, customer outrage forced the company to remove the systems. The long visible video cameras remained.
Ironically, the people least on TV may be the TV stars. They don't buy their breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts. They avoid the cameras of malls and airports, of grocery stores and department stores (don't they all have personal buyers?). They travel in limousines, not buses. They enter buildings not through the lobbies with surveillance cams, but through back halls. The bigger the star, the less the surveillance. Even figuring their hours on broadcast TV, it's safe to say that Katie Couric and Barbara Walters, Dan and Connie and Ted, are on camera less than you are.
Seeing myself on surveillance-camera monitors doesn't necessarily bother me - but then I'm not on camera at work or home. The monitors I most often see are in the windows of those electronics shops for tourists in New York (the ones permanently broadcasting "Going-out-of-Business - Last Two Weeks!"). Seeing my face in their monitors as I pass dismays me not at all: they see me no more deeply than the tourist sees the city.
But another kind of image, oddly, seems intrusive: the video images you find at airport luggage security monitors. In a way they sum up the issue better than the real video. They are beautiful abstractions: now that false color is replacing black-and-white in the X-ray videos, soft and incidental parts of your life disappear into the colors of the technology - hues worthy of a Charles Sheeler watercolor or an Irving Penn photograph.
They show privacy as a protoplasm. Like fish that live at great depths, their bodies having evolved into transparent structures. Underwear vanishes, a sport coats leaves a mere shadow. But the hard centers of batteries and motors loom large and solid. It is an unexpected view of yourself, as though you were to look into the bathroom mirror and see - instead of your face - the contents of the medicine chest behind it.
It is as frightening as it is beautiful: a model of the bubbles in which we live, of the varying degrees of penetrability that constitute our personal effects, our files, our lives.


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9 Top Family-Friendly Hotels With Water Parks
Get your heart racing and enjoy adrenaline-pumping thrills at these kid-approved retreats.
By Holly Johnson, Contributor March 9, 2017
By Holly Johnson, Contributor March 9, 2017, at 5:06 p.m.
Enjoy arcades, waterslides, lazy rivers and more at these family-friendly properties.
When the summer heat leaves us steaming, there's no better way to spend a day than relaxing in a wave pool, riding waterslides or floating down a lazy river. If that sounds enticing, just imagine pairing a trip to your local water park with an on-site hotel. Many hotels have teamed up with water parks to offer a comprehensive water park vacation experience, so it's not hard to find properties that let you splash the day away before retreating to your hotel room or suite. Keep reading to learn more about these kid-friendly retreats.
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Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
The Arizona Grand Resort & Spa offers the Oasis Water Park, which includes 7 acres of aquatic fun for all ages available exclusively to resort guests. With private cabanas, a wave pool, slides that span up to eight-stories high and a lazy river, you can play the day away before retreating to your private room or catching dinner at the on-site bar and grill. Nightly room rates start at $170 and include entry into the park.
CoCo Key Hotel and Water Resort
The CoCo Key Hotel and Water Resort in Mount Laurel offers 391 guest rooms, a state-of-the-art arcade and plenty of on-site restaurants. Plus, it boasts a 54,000-square-foot partially outdoor water park, making it the perfect one-stop vacation spot for families craving access to kid-friendly attractions. What's more, the hotel caters to budget-conscious families, with nightly room rates starting at $99, and there are plenty of packages available for value-seekers.
Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites – Waterpark
If you're looking for a fun way to entertain the family when not at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom or Epcot, then look no further than the Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites – Waterpark, which is just a short drive away from Disney World. Enjoy an enclosed pool and water park where you can relax as the kids slide and play. When hunger sets in, grab a bite at any one of the on-site restaurants. Nightly room rates, which include water park access, start at $122.
Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort
This all-suite family-friendly resort features more than just accommodations catering to kids. The property also offers a 4-acre water park with a lazy river, a 130-foot waterslide, swimming pools and miniature golf. Standard accommodations feature Southwestern-inspired accents, spacious living areas, refrigerators and coffee makers, among other perks. What's more, guests can access the water park for free, making this the perfect entertainment-inclusive property. Nightly room rates start at around $110.
El Conquistador Resort, A Waldorf Astoria Resort
Few resorts are surrounded by as much natural beauty as the El Conquistador Resort in Puerto Rico. The property boasts a variety of room types, from basic lodging options to suites. Plus, it has a private, on-site water park that's perfect for kids. Enjoy large waterslides, splash pools and more. Rooms start at just $169 per night and discounts may be available for Hilton Honors loyalty program members.
Great Wolf Lodge is North America's largest indoor water park resort company with 13 locations. While every resort is different, each offers a large water park that's ideal for kids of all ages, and fun-loving adults. In addition to checking out the action-packed water parks, Great Wolf Lodge visitors can participate in an array of on-site programs, including organized games and contests. Nightly room rates vary depending on location and start at around $180.
At the famous Atlantis, The Palm hotel in Dubai, you'll find Atlantis Aquaventure Water Park, the premier water park destination in the United Arab Emirates. This world-class resort offers everything from splash pads to the region's largest lazy river to pristine beaches and an array of freefall waterslides, one of which takes you directly through a tank with sharks. Nightly room rates start at around $550.
Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark
The Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark in south Myrtle Beach offers both a water park and a resort. The entire property was renovated in 2014 to create the on-site water park and a variety of attractions, including four-story waterslides, kiddie slides and a kiddie water park, along with an array of other slides to meet all tastes and adventure styles. You'll also find inviting Jacuzzis and lazy rivers that are ideal for parents looking to unwind and relax. Nightly room rates start at around $90, and the resort is open year-round.
Memories Splash Punta Cana
If you're searching for an all-inclusive vacation, consider Memories Splash Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. The room rate includes everything from lodging to meals to drinks to entertainment. Plus, the rate also includes access to the on-site water park and its seven waterslides, tubes and sparkling pools. Located next to the beach, this resort offers almost anything a sun-seeking family could ask for. All-inclusive rates start at $200 per night.
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In the spirit of showing all of the blue eyed babes one great option I decided I might as well please all 3 major eye colors. So next up green!
My eyes are closest to green, but they are somewhere in the middle of green, blue and gray. If you are like me you can probably pull off any makeup look I show for green or blue eyes. If you are all green all the time, please enjoy this video and give this spectacular look a try!
Base shadow: Nylon – M.A.C.
Around the eye: Antiqued – M.A.C.
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I'm so glad you are doing this blog, Cara!
Thanks so much Laurel! How are you!?
I love this look 🙂 it makes my green eyes very much noticeable! Thank you! Your blog is great!