I thought this week I would share the tools I use to social media. As much as I am stuck in front of my laptop or phone, there are times I schedule posts so I can pretend to have a social life outside of FnC. So here are some of the tools I use to schedule things.
Note: We are not endorsed or sponsored by any of the apps below.
I'm assuming you have a page from Facebook. They have an in built scheduling system, where you can upload, photos, links, text, etc, up to six months ahead of time.
Another tool you can use is that if you have a twitter account, you can have posts from FB to twitter. Beware, this feature isn't perfect as post on the main feed where there is more than two photos, text will appear on twitter but images don't.
For instruction on how to link your facebook page to twitter, click here.
For scheduling on twitter, you can use tweetdeck, which is a web page app. You can setup with columns of certain feeds such as mentions only, following a users feed, search term, etc. It's a shame there isn't an mobile app for when you are on the go.
This is fantastic to cook up certain condition for an action to happen. Using IFTTT for when I create a Instagram post, it creates a photo native post on twitter instead of creating a link to the post.
There are literally hundreds of conditions which can be created for your social media, which I have used for my tumblr, facebook and other social media pages.
Buffer is a great tool to schedule images into Instagram as well as Twitter and Facebook. You'll have to do some configuration to your instagram account and maybe facebook to be able to schedule posts. But once setup, you be able to schedule your square photos without having to manually pushing the image into the app.
You can use this app both via web app or mobile app.
The only limiting factor is that, you can only get schedule 10 post at a time. But once one or more have been post, you can top that back up to 10 posts.
A great little mobile app, which you can make photo collages, add a basic watermark/tag. It can even create a instagram friendly square photo, either fitting perfect cutting the photo or creating those blurred/coloured bars.
I use this app to create those silly "I'm at Comic Con", which allows you to create/add "stickers" to place logos, object, anything on top of the photo.
I hope this has been useful. If there are tools you use and like to share with others, please let us know via the comments below.


Malacca is a land with beautiful relics, colonial remnants and sumptuous fare. Experience all this by a tour and the best tour is the Malacca Duck Tour. Enjoy the sunshine yellow kiosk of this Malaccan tour which stands obstinately beside Menara Taming Sari opposite the Dataran Pahlawan Shopping Complex. Malacca Duck Tour is the first land and sea escapade, this tour duck-bus - an amphibious transport truck is definitely the most entertaining way to explore Malacca.
Visitors are able to enjoy a 45-60 minutes ride that would cover several interesting sites such as A'Famosa Fort, Malacca Sultanate Place, Dataran Pahlawan, Mahkota Parade and Pulau Melaka before the duck enter the sea at Pulau Melaka and cruise towards famous Sungai Melaka. Visitors can also enjoys the view of floating Masjid Selat. This tour will definetly give visitors a unique view of the city's history and charm without taking twi separate rides.


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Tips for writing dialogue
"I think I might do some tips on writing dialogue for my next blog entry," I said, taking a seat next to my friend.
"Oh yeah, because you're such an expert on writing dialogue," my friend replied.
"Okay, okay – maybe I'm not exactly an expert, but I think some people might find it useful."
"Oh yeah? And which people would that be? Ones who like taking advice from people who admit they aren't an expert on a particular subject?"
"Yes," I said. "Those people."
"But there are hundreds of websites that already offer tips on how to write good dialogue! Why would anyone want to listen to you?"
"I don't know," I said, rubbing the back of my head. "Maybe if I thought of an original way to present the tips – something funny – people might read it…"
"Something funny?"
I paused for a moment.
"Here's an idea," I said. "How about presenting the whole piece as if it were a section of dialogue itself?"
"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard," my friend replied, "and I think you're just trying to be funny for the sake of it. Can't you just do bullet points like all the other websites? Everyone like bullet points…"
"That is true," I agreed, "but this might work better."
"I doubt it," my friend said. "How would you start it?"
"I think I might do some tips on writing dialogue for my next blog entry."
My friend blinked.
"I know – you've already told me that."
"No, that's how I would start it."
My friend sighed.
"Oh dear," He said, shutting his eyes. "This is going to be a long day. Okay – what would you do next?"
I smiled to myself.
"Well, I'd then run through our entire conversation up to this point."
"The entire conversation?"
"But why would anyone want to read that? And besides – aren't you supposed to cut out unnecessary dialogue from what people say in real life?"
"I don't know – are you?"
"Yes. Because in real life, conversations are long and boring. Like this one, for instance."
"I disagree," I said. "I think in certain circumstances it can work quite well to keep everything in. Makes it more real."
"So what are your tips for writing dialogue then?" My friend asked.
"Well, I think the first one would be to read all your dialogue out loud," I said. "For me, it's the best way to understand the rhythm of what someone is saying. And if you find yourself tripping over any words, they're probably not the right ones, so change them."
"Are you going to read this out loud after you've finished writing it?"
"I guess."
"You poor man. Okay, what's the next tip?"
"I think it would be to remember the context in which your characters are talking," I said.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Take the conversation we're having right now. How we're talking is fine, but that's because we're just sitting down, having a chat."
"But we're sitting down on a roller coaster!" my friend said. "And we just went round a loop-de-loop two seconds ago! Most people wouldn't be having a conversation about writing dialogue at a time like this!"
"Yes, but we're not normal people, are we? If we were running away from a murderer or in a hurry to get somewhere, we might not go into as much detail as we are now. In fact we'd probably not talk at all."
"I wish we weren't talking at all now," my friend said, looking over his shoulder. "Where's a rampaging murderer when you need one?"
"I think that leads nicely into my next tip," I said, "which is to make sure your characters don't over-explain everything."
"Yeah, I hate it when writers do that," my friend replied. "I think it happens when they get too close to the detail and feel they need their characters to deliver reams of exposition, just to make sure the reader gets the point. In real life though, people just don't talk like that."
"I think another common mistake is when people deviate from using 'he said' / 'she said' at the end of a sentence," I announced, "and before you know it they're using stupid words like 'reasoned', or 'chuckled', or 'announced'."
"Absolutely," my friend exclaimed.
"Truth is, 'he said' / 'she said' works just fine, and most readers gloss over them as terms anyway. In fact, at times it's best to have nothing at all – especially if you only have two people talking, and it's clear who is saying what."
"I disagree," another voice interrupted. It was my second friend, who had been sitting behind us on the roller coaster the whole time. For some reason, neither me or my friend had chosen to acknowledge him in the conversation up to this point, so if you were only listening to what the two of us were saying, you wouldn't have known he was there. What a strange conincidence!
He leaned forward to speak.
"There are some words you can use instead of 'he said' or 'she said' just fine."
"Yeah – like 'replied'." My other friend replied.
"This is very confusing," I said. "Can we keep this conversation to between two people please? Otherwise it's going to be difficult for the reader to understand who is saying what when I write this all down."
"Fine," my second friend said, leaning back and crossing his arms. "I won't say another word."
"Where were we?" I said to my other friend who wasn't the second friend who'd interrupted us for no reason.
"I think we were on the verge of killing ourselves," my friend replied. "Or at least I was. Are we nearly done?"
"I think so," I said. "I've only got one final point to make."
"Thank God. So what's that?"
"Use clipped sentences a lot."
"Clipped sentences? What are they?"
"They're the sentences that Microsoft Word doesn't like."
"Microsoft Word?"
"Yeah, you know – it underlines them in a green squiggly line because it thinks you've made a grammatical error.
"It does?"
"Yeah. So use lots of them."
"So let me get this straight: what you're saying is, if you're using Microsoft Word to write your book, and there are lots of green squiggly lines all over it, it's probably a sign that you've written some good dialogue?"
"Exactly," I said. "Green squiggly lines are your friends."
This entry was posted on June 3, 2013 by Pete. It was filed under Blog .

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Moong and Carrot Stuffed parotha.
Moong and Carrot Stuffed parotha. | How to make Moong and Carrot Stuffed parotha.
Ingredients to make Moong and Carrot Stuffed parotha.
How to make Moong and Carrot Stuffed parotha.
Blend moong with tbsp water.
Add moong, fry on medium heat.
Add salt, garlic, turmeric and chilli powder.
Add carrot . Mix well.
Add sesame seeds. Turn off heat.
Make a dough of wheat flour by adding salt and oil with water.
Take a ball from wheat flour.
Roll and stuff. Seal and roll again.
Roast parotha applying oil on both the side.
Serve with pickle/ curd / ketchup.
Lentil and Moong Sprouts Stuffed Dosa.
Enjoy this Moong and Carrot Stuffed parotha. dish from BetterButter!


From modest beginnings at the Twenty-Seventh Party Congress in 1986, perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling what had taken nearly three-quarters of a century to erect: the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist totalitarian state.
The world watched in disbelief but with growing admiration as Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan, democratic governments overturned Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Germany was reunited, the Warsaw Pact withered away, and the Cold War came to an abrupt end.
In the Soviet Union itself, however, reactions to the new policies were mixed. Reform policies rocked the foundation of entrenched traditional power bases in the party, economy, and society but did not replace them entirely. Newfound freedoms of assembly, speech, and religion, the right to strike, and multicandidate elections undermined not only the Soviet Union's authoritarian structures, but also the familiar sense of order and predictability. Long-suppressed, bitter inter-ethnic, economic, and social grievances led to clashes, strikes, and growing crime rates.
Gorbachev introduced policies designed to begin establishing a market economy by encouraging limited private ownership and profitability in Soviet industry and agriculture. But the Communist control system and over-centralization of power and privilege were maintained and new policies produced no economic miracles. Instead, lines got longer for scarce goods in the stores, civic unrest mounted, and bloody crackdowns claimed lives, particularly in the restive nationalist populations of the outlying Caucasus and Baltic states.
On August 19, 1991, conservative elements in Gorbachev's own administration launched an abortive coup d'tat to prevent the signing of a new union treaty the following day and to restore the party's power and authority. Boris Yeltsin, who had become Russia's first popularly elected president in June 1991, made the seat of government of his Russian republic, known as the White House, the rallying point for resistance to the organizers of the coup. Under his leadership, Russia embarked on even more far- reaching reforms as the Soviet Union broke up into its constituent republics and formed the Commonwealth of Independent States.
A conference convened in Leningrad in October, 1990, by the conservative communist organization "Unity--for Leninism and Communist Ideals" demanded radical changes in Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika and its implementation. Participants in the conference accused Gorbachev of following a course that would restore capitalism in the Soviet Union, and they appealed to party organizations and members to demand convocation of an extraordinary Party Congress to remove Gorbachev from power. This resolution was given to the Central Committee on November 29, 1990, and assigned for action to two Politburo members by V. Ivashko, who notes on the document, "Please think about this, and let's talk."
Resolution by the Society "Unity, for Leninism and Communist Ideals," October 28, 1990, expressing lack of confidence in the policies of Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Central Committee.


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Pila, originairement écrit Pilaz, ensuite simplifié (le 'z' étant muet), est une localité de la commune de Gressan ainsi qu'une station de ski, située à  dans une cuvette occupée jusqu'aux années 1960 uniquement par des alpages, en Vallée d'Aoste.

Situation
Pila se trouve sur le versant Sud de la vallée centrale de la Doire Baltée, au Sud du chef-lieu de Gressan. On y accède soit par une route régionale au départ du Pont-Suaz, soit par une route communale au départ du village de Taxel (chef-lieu de Gressan), soit par la télécabine Aoste-Pila, située près de la gare d'Aoste.

Son territoire est formé par deux localités dénommées Plein-Soleil et Ciel-Bleu, où se trouvent les hôtels et les installations de ski, au départ des télésièges vers les pistes.

Architecture
 Édifice Grand Gorraz, réalisé par Laurent Chappis.

Tourisme
Pila est une station de ski accessible en hiver et en été par la télécabine Aoste-Pila. La plupart des structures de la station sont accessibles en gardant les skis aux pieds (« ski total »).

Domaine skiable

Le domaine skiable aménagé compte  de pistes. Les pistes sont presque totalement de ski de descente, offrant une grande variété de degrés de difficulté. Du fait que la télécabine Aoste-Pila, dotée de cabines de 8 places, construite en 2008, part directement depuis un vaste parking gratuit près de la gare d'Aoste, il s'agit d'un des domaines les plus rapides et faciles d'accès de la région. Cette remontée mécanique part directement de la gare ferroviaire à 579 m d'altitude, et rejoint les pistes à Pila (1 801 m) en 3 tronçons et environ 17 minutes. Une route régionale de 18 km traversant la commune de Charvensod, ou alors une route communale sur le territoire de Gressan, permettent aussi de rejoindre la station. Il n'existe pas de piste rejoignant Aoste. Toutes les pistes sont ainsi aménagées à partir de Plan-Praz (1 540 m). La majorité des pistes est de difficulté rouge. Elles sont de fait généralement larges et régulières, sans grande difficulté particulière. Les pistes les plus engagées sont à trouver sur les hauteurs du domaine, desservies par les télésièges Couis 1 et Couis 2. La station ne compte aucun téléski, mais principalement des télésièges à pince fixe ou débrayable construits principalement dans les années 1980.

La saison d'exploitation hivernale commence généralement fin novembre, et se termine à la mi-avril. Près de 170 moniteurs de ski travaillent dans la station, soit l'une des plus grandes écoles de ski d'Italie. La station coopère avec les autres stations de la Vallée d'Aoste à travers une offre forfaitaire commune (séjours et saison).

Le petit train des mines

La ligne du petit train qui relie le hameau Eaux-froides, près de Pila, avec les Cogne, utilisé autrefois pour transporter les matériaux extraits des mines a été en partie restaurée jusqu'en 2006, dans le but de le rendre accessible au public et aux skieurs, et relier le domaine de Pila avec les pistes du haut val de Cogne, mais l'opération a été abandonnée à cause de la longueur de la galerie du Drinc.

VTT
En été, Pila transforme ses pistes de ski en pistes de VTT : ici deux événements importants ont eu lieu :
 L'édition de 2005 de la Coupe du monde de VTT (spécialités 4-cross et descente) ;
 L'édition de 2008 du championnat italien

En avril 2016, la station de ski a eu l'idée de marier le downhill, pratique qui conjugue la bicyclette avec les pentes des montagnes, avec la piste cyclable qui traverse les communes de la plaine aostoise.

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Télécabine Aoste-Pila
 Gressan
 Liste des stations de sports d'hiver d'Italie

Liens externes
 Le site officiel de la station
 La station de Pila sur le site Bergfex

Station de sports d'hiver dans la Vallée d'Aoste
Gressan
Gressan
Ski en Italie

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Q: Mixed mouse themes I have a problem with my mouse cursor theme style. Sometimes, it shows the theme I downloaded, sometimes the default Ubuntu theme (depending on which window I´m on). I already tried:

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*Installed cursor themes with the Ubuntu software center

*Installed cursor themes from several websites and saved it into ~/.icons

*Installed cursor themes from several websites and saved it into /usr/share/icons

*Tried some commands I found online

Anyone any tips? I am using Ubuntu LTS 14.04

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*Install dconf tools:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

*Start it with dconf-editor &

*Head to org >> gnome >> desktop >> interface and select your cursor theme.

*Open a terminal and enter the command:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

*Select the number that corresponds to your choice

*Reboot your system
The reason why the cursor theme only showed up on some applications was because the cursor wasn't configured to run over all applications.

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24 August, 2013 - 05:34 aprilholloway
Have archaeologists discovered the grave of Alexander the Great?
Archaeologists have discovered an enormous marble tomb fit for a king under a huge mound in Greece and believe that they have unearthed the grave of Alexander the Great.
The elaborate tomb was found at an archaeological site near ancient Amphipolis, about 370 miles north of Athens, and measures an incredible 500 metres in length and 3 metres in height. It's so big that archaeologists believe it must hold someone of immense importance.
Although warrior king Alexander the Great was thought to be buried in Egypt, the marble-faced wall of the tomb dates back to the 4 th century BC, the period in which Alexander the Great was ruler, and site archaeologist Aikaterini Peristeri has stated that they expect to find "a significant individual or individuals" within the grave.
Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great, was born in Pella in 356 BC and was mentored by Aristotle until the age of 16. He became king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece, and by the age of 30 had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. Undefeated in all his battles, he is considered one of history's most successful commanders. He conquered the whole of the Persian Empire but being an ambitious warrior, seeking to reach the 'ends of the world,' he invaded India in 326 BC but later turned back. He is credited with founding some 20 cities that bore his name, including Alexandria in ancient Egypt, and spread Greece's culture east.
It is believed Alexander the Great died of a fever in Babylon in 323 BC, at the age of just 32, before his plans to invade Arabia. There are a number of rumours relating to his burial by according to the history books, his body was laid to rest in a gold sarcophagus filled with honey and taken to Memphis before Alexandria in Egypt where it apparently remained until late Antiquity.
News of the discovery has captured the Greek public's imaginations and many are hopeful that the grave will intend belong to Alexander the Great. However, Greece's Culture Ministry is trying to calm the speculation until further information is gathered. At the very least, the tomb must be an important royal Macedonian grave but many are hopeful that it is much more than that.
19 January, 2020 - 19:05 Ed Whelan
50 Roman Slaves Found Buried with 'Care' in England
A Roman slave burial ground has been found near what was once a great ancient villa in Britain. Many of the graves are very unusual, and they provide a glimpse into the impact of Rome on the local...
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What a Way to Start the Year! 3 Shocking Acts of Vandalism in First Week
The first week of January brings three shocking acts of vandalism on ancient monuments in Greece , England and Wales, and the ignorant vandals are accused of lacking education, knowledge and...
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Mindless Vandals Churn Up Bronze Age Burial Site
For those who love and respect the past and our heritage, there is nothing more sickening than the mindless destruction of historic monuments. In Wales, United Kingdom, vandals have done appalling...
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Builders Unearth 50 Skeletons from a Roman Burial in Britain
Construction workers in Britain have unearthed a large Roman-era cemetery. The burials are of an unusual type and show dramatic changes in the funerary customs of locals in the 1st century AD. This...
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Huge Hoard of 1000-year-old Yotvingian Weapons Unearthed in Poland
Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient weapons at a cemetery site in the Suwałki region of eastern Poland . Dating back around 1,000 years, archaeologists have recovered over 500 swords,...
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Bizarre Moche Burials Include Mutilation and Skull Tattoos
Eleven 1000-year-old graves containing skeletons from the Moche civilization have been found in Peru. Some have been mutilated with their feet removed and tattoos imprinted on their skulls. Two...
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Hua Mulan is one of the most legendary women of ancient China. Her heroic actions were first recorded in ancient texts, retold in the famous poem Ballad of Mulan , and later popularized in the 1998...
Battle of the War Gods: Ares versus Athena! Understanding Ancient Greek War Deities


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8. Two Jewish sisters pose with their nanny on a street in Osijek, Croatia.
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Often, when we think about big data, we think about the volumes of data that are referred to. It is tempting to do this because big data does involve large volumes of data that are constantly growing at exponential rates. Advances in the growth and development of big data computing constantly dominate the news. It takes advanced software and BI tools to even begin to comprehend the volume of certain measurements, such as petabytes and exabytes.
At ITyX 2016 means Customer Service of the Future. Meet our experts from May 16 - 18 to find out more about how we are already crafting this future in our daily work. Besides the official launch of our innovative C2B Platform, we will show various use cases and best practices out of the omnichannel world, from AI based process automation up to self-learning customer services.
Millennials are often labeled as being less social than preceding generations because they use smartphones and tablets sometimes more often than they physically interact with people. For them, however, these devices are not a boundary to communication, but rather a portal that allows them to establish relationships and achieve goals across a vast geographical space.
Endless wait times, unprepared and misinformed customer service representatives, no transfer of information when switching from one communication channel to another – it's safe to say, consumers are tired of the experience they get when trying to get support from many organizations.
Businesses have long recognized the importance and value of delivering high end customer service, many continue to struggle to provide service in ways desirable to the end customer. A recent study (Philipp Klaus: Measuring Customer Experience)1 states that 80% of CEOs believe their companies deliver outstanding customer service, while the same study indicates that 8% of those customers feel the same way.
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Reddit Co-Founder: Every Businesses is Going to Have to Be a Software Business
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The co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, says that every business is going to have to be a software business. "Our beliefs still remains that every business is going to have to be a software business in some way, shape, or form," Ohanian told CNBC. "For us to be able to make these investments on bright engineers building software solutions still feels like the right long-term play. We noticed the turning point in the last couple of years where the C-Suite all got on Instagram."
"What I mean by that is they got exposed to it and there's now a broad use of world-class software for really trivial stuff," said Ohanian. "Once enough execs have spent time looking at selfies on Instagram, of their kids or their grandkids, they come back to work they sit at their desk and they look at the software that they're using and that their companies are using and they can't believe how antiquated is by comparison."
"So we're seeing this new trend in startups that are selling direct to the enterprise level from jump," explained the Reddit co-founder. "They're people who left that world, see the problems, and are saying I can build a better solution and I'm just going to sell it back to my old buddies and then hopefully the rest of the industry. Whereas ten years ago, if you were starting Dropbox as Drew was, you'd be trying to sell the basic $10 a month package to some little startup."
Ohanian says that today, companies realize this existential need and startups are now able to sell to enterprise direct.
About Alexis Ohanian:
Alexis Ohanian was the co-founder of Reddit, one of the first social media companies in the world. He is also a bestselling author and he is currently co-founder & managing partner of Initialized Capital that focuses on very early stage VC ($22B in market value so far).
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Frank Coghlan Jr. (15 de marzo de 1916 – 7 de septiembre de 2009), también conocido como Junior Coghlan, fue un actor cinematográfico estadounidense, que posteriormente desarrolló una carrera como oficial en la Armada de Estados Unidos y en la aviación naval. Actuó en unas 129 producciones cinematográficas y televisivas entre 1920 y 1974. En los años 1920 y 1930, fue un popular actor infantil, actuando con intérpretes como Pola Negri, Jack Dempsey, William Haines, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, William Boyd y Bette Davis. Trabajó en las primeras comedias de la serie "Our Gang", pero es más conocido por su papel de Billy Batson en el serial de 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel. Coghlan después sirvió 23 años como aviador y oficial de la Armada de Estados Unidos, entre 1942 y 1965. Tras su retiro como militar, volvió a actuar en la televisión, el cine y los anuncios comerciales. En 1992 publicó una autobiografía.

Biografía

Inicios
Nacido en New Haven, Connecticut, sus padres se mudaron a Hollywood siendo él todavía un niño. De pequeño quería ser médico, al igual que su padre. Sin embargo, en 1920 Coghlan empezó a actuar en el cine como extra, abriéndose camino a papeles cada vez de mayor importancia. Coghlan, un niño pecoso, fue apodado "Junior Coghlan", y llegó a ser uno de los actores infantiles de mayor fama de Hollywood.

Cine mudo
Coghlan empezó su carrera de actor en 1920, actuando junto a Jack Dempsey en Daredevil Jack. En 1922 fue coprotagonista con el perro Brownie del film Rookies, y en 1923 tuvo un pequeño papel en la cinta de Pola Negri The Spanish Dancer. También actuó en las primeras películas de "Our Gang", entre ellas el corto de 1923 de Hal Roach Giants vs. Yanks. En 1924 Coghlan volvió a trabajar con Jack Dempsey en Winning His Way.

El aspecto del niño atrajo la atención de varios directores, que pidieron permiso a sus padres para que actuara. Finalmente, su madre consintió, y tuvo un pequeño papel en la producción de Goldwyn Pictures Poverty of Riches, interpretando al hijo de Leatrice Joy.

A mediados de los años 1920, Cecil B. DeMille se fijó en Coghlan, contratando al actor en 1926, que actuó en su producción The Yankee Clipper junto a Elinor Fair y William Boyd, siendo dirigidos por Rupert Julian.

En 1927 Coghlan actuó en la comedia sobre béisbol Slide, Kelly, Slide, encarnando a un huérfano junto a William Haines.

El último film de Coghlan rodado en su contrato de cuatro años con DeMille-Pathe fue el drama ambientado en una academia militar Square Shoulders (1929). Concebido como un film mudo, Square Shoulders fue transformado en sonoro, aunque únicamente sobrevive la versión muda.

Cine sonoro
Con la llegada del cine sonoro, Coghlan siguió siendo uno de los actores juveniles de mayor fama. En el clásico de 1931 El enemigo público, Coghlan interpretaba al personaje de James Cagney, Tom Powers, cuando era un muchacho. En la cinta de 1931 Penrod and Sam, Coghlan fue Sam, mientras que Leon Janney era Penrod.

En el año 1932 Coghlan actuó como Shorty en el drama protagonizado por Bette Davis Hell's House. También trabajaba en la película Pat O'Brien.

Coghlan tuvo otro papel protagonista, el de Uncas, en el serial de 1932 The Last of the Mohicans, basado en la novela de James Fenimore Cooper.

El actor ayudó a lanzar la carrera de Shirley Temple participando en una serie de cortometrajes con ella en 1933 y 1934. En esas producciones hacía el papel de Sonny Rogers, una estrella del béisbol y presidente de clase en la high school. Temple era la hermana de Coghlan, Mary Lou. Los cortos protagonizados por la pareja fueron Merrily Yours, What's to Do?, Pardon My Pups, y Managed Money.

Coghlan tuvo también actuaciones relevantes en otros largometrajes rodados a mediados de los años 1930, entre ellos los dramas Kentucky Blue Streak (1935) y The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936), así como la comedia Red Lights Ahead (1936).

En el año 1937 protagonizó Blazing Barriers, uno de sus últimos papeles con el nombre artístico de Junior Coghlan. En el film, en el cual hubo de llevar a cabo diferentes escenas físicamente exigentes, Coghlan trabajó con Milburn Stone y con Edward Arnold, Jr. bajo la dirección de Aubrey Scotto.

A finales de la década de 1930, Junior Coghlan ya no era un actor infantil, y cada vez le costaba más encontrar papeles. Uno de ellos, sin aparecer en los créditos, fue el de un soldado confederado en el clásico de 1939 Lo que el viento se llevó.

Adventures of Captain Marvel
Con 25 años de edad, en 1941 Coghlan revitalizó su carrera con el papel de Billy Batson en el serial producido por Republic Pictures Adventures of Captain Marvel. Coghlan se  transformaba en el Capitán Marvel (al cual encarnaba Tom Tyler) pronunciando la palabra "Shazam". Los 12 episodios del serial fueron la primera vez que un superhéroe del cómic fue adaptado a la gran pantalla.

Aunque Coghlan interpretó más de un centenar de personajes diferentes, el de Billy Batson fue el que le dio mayor fama. Incluso en el año 1990, se recordaba su papel en el artículo de Los Angeles Times "Shazam! Actor Turning Into Celebrity".

Carrera naval
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Coghlan se alistó en la Armada de Estados Unidos como aviador. Tras 23 años actuando, Coghlan pasó otros 23 años en la Armada.

Coghlan consiguió el empleo de Teniente Comandante, siendo a menudo asignado como enlace y asesor técnico cinematográfico, participando como tal por ejemplo en PT 109, El motín del Caine, Los puentes de Toko-Ri, Mister Roberts, y In Harm's Way. En los años 1960 fue el oficial encargado de la emisora de la Armada en Hollywood.

Cuando se retiró en 1965, Coghlan había acumulado más de 4.500 horas de vuelo, participando en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en la Guerra de Corea y en la Guerra de Vietnam.

Últimos años
Una vez retirado de la Armada, Coghlan volvió a actuar, participando en producciones televisivas, cinematográficas y en anuncios comerciales. Entre sus últimos trabajos figuran las series televisivas The Beverly Hillbillies y Dragnet, así como un pequeño papel en el largometraje de 1966 The Sand Pebbles.

En 1969 fue contratado como director de planificación y desarrollo del Los Angeles College of Optometry. Por entonces vivía en la actual North Hills con su esposa, Betty, y sus cinco hijos (Michael, Patrick, Libby, Cathy y Judy).

Más tarde, en 1971, Coghlan empezó a trabajar para la empresa inmobiliaria George Colletta Realty. Fuera de ello, en 1974 hizo un cameo en el episodio 'The Braggart', perteneciente a la serie televisiva Shazam!.

Coghlan escribió en el año 1992 una autobiografía que fue publicada con el título They Still Call Me Junior.

La primera esposa de Coghlan falleció en 1974 y la segunda en 2001. Coghlan falleció en septiembre de 2009, a los 93 años de edad, en Saugus, California. Fue enterrado en el Cementerio All Souls de Long Beach, California.

Selección de su filmografía

Referencias

Bibliografía

 Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, pág. 71–72.

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Store > Books > The Balyans
Büke Uras
Published by Korpus Yayınları
£130.00 / $160.87 / €146.40
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Hardback, 352 pages, published 2021
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The Balyans are a prominent family of architects who designed and built architectural works for the Ottoman sultans for three generations and achieved a unique interpretation of the Ottoman local architectural language, thereby shaping the architectural taste and preferences of the palace and marking the last century of Istanbul as an imperial capital.
The Balyan architectural practice, participated in by various family members, especially Krikor (1764-1831), his son Garabed (1800-1866) and grandsons Nigoğos (1826-1858), Sarkis (1831-1899) and Hagop (1838-1875), was formed by the personal histories intertwined with Ottoman social life as well as the professional knowledge passed down through generations and the expectations of the palace.
The Balyans never wrote down texts revealing their architectural thoughts. In the absence of such texts, which would have helped us in understanding their design philosophy, the Balyan architecture was evaluated only on the light of their constructed buildings for a long time, beginning with journalist and author, Viscount Alfred de Caston, who started the Balyan historiography. This book provides a comprehensive review and description of the drawings reflecting the design processes of imperial constructions, most of which belong too the Balyan Family Architecture Archive recently opened to research, and aims to introduce a new approach to the history of Balyan practice through unconstructed and constructed buildings.
Amont the achievements of the study are the identifications of architectural documentation in the Balyan Archive, such as the drawings of Beylerbeyi, Çırağan and Fer'iye palaces, the extension project for the Şale Kiosk's Dining Hall, where the Çırağan Palace's mother-of-pearl inlaid doors were reused, the renovation proposal for Bâb-ı Âli, the plan of the Esma Sultan Mansion in Kabataş, an important plan for the Ottoman History Museum about the repository of old weapon collections at Hagia Irene, projects for industrial facilities such as the Dolmabahçe Gasworks and the Imperial Fez Factory, and the drawings from the design process of the Aziziye Mosque, a little-known masterpiece of Sarkis and Hagop Balyan, which was the only selâtin mosque ordered to be built with four minarets after many centuries.
Featured in Cornucopia 64
A Grand New World
By Philip Mansel
Istanbul's 19th-century palaces are almost as distinctive as its 16th-century mosques. It is the only city in Europe to contain four major palaces built after 1800 for a reigning monarch: Dolmabahçe (1849–56), Beylerbeyi (1861–15), Çırağan (1863–71) and Yıldız (1866–98), the only one not on the shore of the Bosphorus. Their principal architects, and the subjects of this sumptuous and groundbreaking book by Büke Uras, came from the same family of Armenians: the Balyans. Their lives spanned 136 years: from the birth of the paterfamilias, Krikor, in 1764, through his son, Garabed, and grandchildren Nigoğos, Sarkis, Hagop and Simon, to 1899, when Sarkis, the last of the dynasty, died.
Armenians were then in favour with the sultans because of their architectural tradition and Ottoman distrust of Greeks since their bid for independence after 1821. They would obtain a self-governing community regulation and an assembly from 1863, 13 years before the Ottoman Empire itself was granted a constitution. Moreover, the traditional imperial Ottoman architect's office, which had been in charge since the 16th century, was no longer in tune with the sultans' modernising tastes. Members of the Balyan family began to work for Sultan Mahmud II after 1820. Garabed and Krikor Balyan received the title of imperial architect, and the former built for Mahmud II's son Abdülmecid the largest of those four palaces, Dolmabahçe – "the new happy home of the Sultan", as an inscription on its main gate proclaimed. It has a façade almost a kilometre long, and one of the most impressive throne rooms in the world, lit by a gas-powered 467-candle chandelier ordered from Britain in 1852. Despite its Classical columned appearance, the palace has separate state, ceremonial and harem sections, in the Ottoman tradition, and was and still is considered by some Turks more suitable for a monarch than Topkapı Palace. Mahmud II himself called the Topkapı, surrounded by high walls and dark trees, "dark and shameful… afraid to show its face".
Hagop and Sarkis Balyan were responsible for the later palaces, built for Sultans Abdülaziz (1862–76) and Abdülhamid II (1876–1909). Sarkis Balyan became Chief Architect of the State by imperial order on March 31, 1878. At his funeral procession on November 9, 1899, in Kuruçeşme, an attendant carried his two Mecidiye medals, first and second class, as symbols of his successful Ottoman career. People who believe Ottoman cosmopolitanism was an illusion might consider that, despite ferocious nationalist passions inside and outside the Empire, the chief architect of the Sultan Caliph was a Paris-educated Armenian. In Istanbul, "the seat of the Caliphate", Christians designed for a Muslim dynasty the mosques of the Çırağan, Ortaköy, Dolmabahçe, Aksaray and Yıldız as well as the Nusretiye in Tophane. The thousands working on the Sultans' building projects used "a confusion of languages": Turkish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Armenian, and sometimes sign language. Neo-Gothic, neo-Islamic, neo-Renaissance and neo-Louis XIV designs decorated Ottoman palaces, blending into an exuberant and elaborate neo-Ottoman style.
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It was a successful weekend for Josh Irfan at Lonato as he took victory in the Trofeo D'estate in a field of 32 top Mini drivers. Racing in the Mini Nazionale class, Josh was up against several local drivers which was never going to make his task easy, but now focusing on European racing Josh will be catching the eye of several factory years as he continues to race in the Mini class in preparation for OK Junior.
Josh got his day off to a solid start qualifying in 4th place which would put him in row two for the Pre-Final with no heats taking place in a jam-packed event which included a total of eleven classes!
After a difficult start to the race Josh had just ten laps to work his through from 5th place and wasted no time in doing so getting up to 3rd place by lap three. From there it became a brief came of strategy with Josh part of a lead trio working together to build a gap over the rest of the field. Once the race had hit the halfway point Josh made two moves in as many laps to take the race lead and controlled the race from there to take the win in impressive fashion.
The final was very much a two-way fight for victory with Josh going head to head with Brando Badoer. The Italian had made a fantastic start and was the only driver who could keep up with the fantastic pace of Josh as the pair would build up a gap of almost two seconds by lap seven. It was quite clear at this point that it was tactics from Badoer to wait for the last lap to steal victory from Josh.
However, this is of course a very familiar situation for Josh back in the UK. Having been on both ends of the stick Josh could read exactly what Badoer was going to do and he responded to that perfectly and left Badoer no choice but to settle for 2nd. It was a fantastic victory for Josh and the Baby Race team in what is becoming a brilliant season! Better still, with eleven classes present the win took place in front of a huge audience.
It was a weekend of mixed fortunes for Max Cook at round three of the British Talent Cup. Max fell short of a victory on Saturday by just 0.040 seconds despite taking the lead into the last corner in a thrilling battle with Rory Skinner. But whilst leading race two on Sunday Max unfortunately took a fall on the opening lap. He'll certainly be back for redemption at Silverstone in a few weeks time!
After a difficult Saturday Ivan drove a fantastic Sunday to take podiums in both finals at Super One round four at Rowrah maintaining his one hundred percent podium finish record for this season!


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This Week in Comics – August 21, 2019
POWERS OF X #3 – Honestly, tell the truth now- did any of you see this coming? I know Jonathan Hickman has a resume that includes universally-lauded runs on creator-owned work, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers. I know he said he was going to completely reshape the X-Men universe for years to come. I know artists selected for the first salvo were branded as certified superstars. But still. Still. Nobody knew it was going to be like this, did they? I sure as hell didn't. I put POX on the bottom of my read pile this week, like that would somehow dampen it's energy, blend it in with the other offerings on the shelf. It didn't. It can't. It's something else. And it's not a slight to the other comics I read this week- to expect this of anything is probably unfair. Sometimes, the stars just align and some magic happens. I'm sure there's a TON of hard work behind it too…but even so, many work hard without such results. It's OK to be blown away sometimes. This is one of those times. The disarming thing about HOXPOX is that it's giving me hope. It's making me believe in the power of superhero comics again. The ability to tell a story in a way that can't be replicated anywhere else, with all the big, dumb melodrama that goes along with it. For 30-odd years, the X-Men was that soap opera. HOXPOX brings it back. It feels good to be obsessed about mutants again, in a way that feels completely new.
SUPERMAN YEAR ONE #2 – "This is getting very weird…" thinks Clark Kent, as he spars with a baton in boot camp, grinding his way on the road to becoming a Navy SEAL. That dialogue box perfectly captures the feeling of this series. Frank Miller and John Romita, Jr. are two legends of the industry, with accolades and accomplishments that I don't need to list here. They've worked on everything, from Batman and Daredevil to their own creator-owned properties. They've even worked together in a similar capacity before, producing the incredible Daredevil: The Man Without Fear miniseries in 1993. Suffice to say, time has passed. Careers have ebbed and flowed, and as the tides would have it, both creators ended up being accessible to DC at the same time and teamed up again to produce an all-new take on perhaps the most famous comic book character in the world, Superman. The project: Superman Year One. On paper, the idea sounds great- JRJR's dynamic and bold artwork, scripted by Frank Miller, who basically invented the modern "year one" concept with Batman Year One. So why the hell is this so goddamned weird? (Miller style, sorry). I can't call it "bad", because I'm utterly fascinated by this book, but weird is inescapable. Every choice happening here is weird. Clark, as we saw in Book 1, is a godlike alien being who grows up in Kansas. And it's not the idolized non-existent Kansas as a stand in for "middle America", it's like, Kansas. Clark talks like a yokel, with lots of darns and what-fors. Miller is a master at creating bizarre, psychologically claustrophobic setting in his stories, driven by a phantom kind of propulsive energy. He knows where he's going, and it almost bleeds through to the reader that this trajectory is a kind of foregone conclusion. Of course Clark would go off and join the Navy. Of course he'd be weird, this boy from a dead planet who grew up on a farm and going to Wal Mart and listening to Garth Brooks (my guess). The weirdness gets profoundly deep in Book 2, with two-thirds of the issue fully-focused on Clark's military boot camp experience, which plays out like a tame version of Full Metal Jacket or a Tom Clancy video game. Underneath the oddity of this new introduction to Superman's story, the core of the character is there. Bizarre as it is to see him done-up in Call of Duty-looking gear, his stomach turns as he sees killing first hand. For him, with his abilities, his gifts- this isn't the way. The later third of the book incredibly, perhaps clumsily, shifts gears to Atlantis, where we meet a retooled version of Lori Lemaris. For me, Lori was always a goofy bit of Silver Age hangover that would pop up once in a while in Superman books. Mostly harmless, and so very DC. Here, Miller and JRJR seem to use her as a proxy for a chapter in Clarks lost days, the girlfriend from out of town with the cool apartment and the overbearing dad. Sadly, Atlantis looks pretty drab here, and there are big splash pages featuring undersea monsters that feel like they should be awesome, but are just kind of nothing. Sort of like this series. The promise of a new Superman origin story from these two comic titans is pretty exciting. Two chapters into this tale, it's hard to imagine anyone pulling it off the shelf as the "definitive" intro to Superman's origins. To me, I think John Byrne's Man of Steel, published over 30 years ago, feels more modern and fresh than what we're getting here. Still, if you set the expectations aside, this is a fascinating entry in both Miller and JRJR's body of work, and feels tremendously darker than you might expect. It has a lot more in common with another comic Miller wrote, Martha Washington Goes to War, than it does with Batman Year One. Like Martha, Clark is from a nowhere kind of place. Martha's environment is starkly different than Smallville, but still both grow up lonely, isolated, powerful, and extremely driven. The military offers a path out. And forces of darkness creep in at every corner, even as they march on. Darn it all to heck, the heroes are here to give 'em what for.
TRANSFORMERS '84 #0 – I love Simon Furman's work. It's 2019, and the writer is still cranking out crazy adventures of robots in disguise. I don't read a lot of Transformers comics, but when I see Furman's name, I jump in. He's created almost a genre unto himself: a pocket universe where the reader is greeted with familiar faces like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, but then almost always thrust away from that familiarity into strangely dark, brutal, and grimy situations in a far-flung galaxy filled with danger. There's a UK comics vibe to all his Transformers tales, even his stateside work, that just gives them an extra twist. The stories are always skillfully put together, hitting all the bases in terms of robot roll calls and action, balanced with a kind "hard sci-fi" sensibility. These aren't what most folks expect when they think of a licensed property book. I'm pretty sure Furman's original UK stuff introduced Death's Head and had like Doctor Who in it or something. So yeah. It's like that. This special issue #0 is pitched as a one-shot prequel, exploring the event leading up to Transformers #1 way back in 1984. Artist Guido Guidi, who paired with Furman on the Transformers: Regeneration One series, has the perfect style for this era. He draws Transformers comic the way you wish the old ones had looked when you were a kid. Retro sensibilities but updated in all the right ways, with a dash of fluidity all its own. This one isn't for everyone, but if you're a "vintage" (old) Transformers fan and/or familiar with Simon Furman's particular take on the characters, this is a slice of pure joy.
DEATH'S HEAD #2 – Death's Head is a longtime favorite character, like Furman's Transformers, a unique piece of the comic universe spun out of the page of UK books. An intergalactic bounty hunter with a curious speech pattern and a twisted history that includes dying and being transferred into a steroid-pumped cyborg body infused by black magic, Death's Head has been through a lot over the years. I missed issue 1 of this new miniseries, but grabbed #2 out of curiosity to see what was new in the world of this funky robot. Turns out, his powered-down body had been turned into an amplifier by a teenage punk band. Regain power, and a bit of dignity, Death's Head ends up hanging with some former Young Avengers. There's a lot of elements of what made Death's Head comics of yore fun reads- an irreverent attitude, fun action beats, cool robots with maces. Writer Tini Howard mixes in plenty of old and new, which made me happy, and artist Kei Zama is simply awesome. Really enjoyed their gritty, yet expressive work. The book has the right "metal" feel while still being clean and multifaceted. I'm definitely raiding the back issue bins for issue 1. Fun take on a fun character. Fun!
BATMAN #232 – I bought this reprint edition mostly to bother Dan DiDio! This is the first appearance of Ra's Al Ghul, and it's badass. Denny O'Neil is pretty much the ultimate Batman writer/editor, and this issues showcases why. Everything just feels "right" in terms of takes on the characters. Like, this is Batman across the board, a version of the character recognizable to anyone of any age. I've never been a huge Neal Adams fan, mostly because I missed his heyday, but I can see why he became a fan favorite in this issue, and also the influences he had on the superstar artists that I grew up with, like Perez, Byrne, Lee, and McFarlane. It's hard to believe this comic is from 1971. More than holds up today! I hope DC keep cranking these out. I like old movies, old music, and old comics. DC has such a huge vault to draw from, I don't know why they would ever want to shy from connecting new readers to classic stories. This reprint makes me want to read more from this era. I'd call that a success? (Bonus: Look for a letter from Mike W. Barr on the letters page. He'd later go on to write a ton of Batman stories of his own)
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TV giant NBC has sole rights in the US to Tour coverage. The network has really upped its cycling coverage this season, even broadcasting events like the Tour of California, La Fleche-Wallone and the US Pro Cycling Challenge on its NBC Sports Live Extra channel, with encore presentations after the races on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN).
As part of a premium cable subscription, NBC will again broadcast four to five hours of live coverage of every Tour stage on NBCSN, which is available in about 80 million US homes. The broadcast typically picks up about two hours into the stage, so you miss the start, but the network's production quality is good, with commentators Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen likely to return. NBCSN will also air a slightly compressed three-hour broadcast of each stage in primetime, starting at 8 p.m. EST each night. Subscribers can also watch replays of each stage online, which is a nice option if you have to miss out while at work and you don't have a DVR.
For the cable-less, NBC has updated its website for the 2016 Tour de France. This year, for $30, viewers can get their Gold package for full live coverage of every stage of the Tour, and coverage of a number of events through June 30, 2017 (including Paris-Roubaix and other classics). You'll get ad-free coverage of the racing, plus bonus features like race previews, highlights, GPS tracking, interactive maps, rider biometrics, and live time trial results for every split finish line. It's an excellent option for cycling fans who want good, reliable coverage (that you can also sneakily watch with your phone in your lap at the office).
If you want to watch the Tour surrounded by other diehard cycling fans, you're in luck: Many cycling clubs, bike shops, and bike cafés around the country host Tour-watching parties. For an idea of what those are like, check out our guide to US Tour de France watch parties.
Saving for a new bike, or just don't want to spend cash on cable or streaming services? You can pirate a connection with a little bit of internet savvy. Several VPN providers allow you to access free European Tour streams, but there are downsides (and potential legal risks). The CyclingFans website lists many of the European feeds, but its quality can be shoddy, its announcers unintelligible, its pop-up ads onerous, and its notoriously fickle streams delayed at the most crucial moments of a race. It's a a good free option, but certainly not the best option in terms of quality.


With dozens of "free credit score" sites spamming away at potential first-time buyers, by the time they get serious about buying a home, most already know a lot about their credit histories and hopefully have taken steps to improve them.
Debt, however, is another story. The fact that high levels of debt are a potential barrier to getting a mortgage seems to be a mystery to many. Too much debt may be keeping more first-time buyers from getting financing rather than low credit scores — especially young adults with student loan debt.
The ratio of debt to income, or DTI, is one of the three primary factors lenders use to approve a loan application. The two others are credit as measured by FICO scores and the loan-to-value ratio, which isn't known until the house gets appraised. Lenders can adjust for the latter two factors by increasing interest rates on a marginal FICO or by limiting the amount they will lend based on their appraisal, which forces buyers to come up with larger down payments or to convince the seller to sell for less.
Existing debt might be even more important than the other two factors because of what it says about an applicant's ability to repay a loan. If a household's gross income is $100,000 a year, or $8,333 a month, and they are making recurring monthly debt payments of $3,000 a month, they have a DTI of 36 percent. They are very close to the cutoff point for most lenders today.
Monthly debt payments include credit cards, installment plans, alimony, child support, auto loans, back taxes, property taxes, rent, student loan debt and personal loan debt. Not included are utilities, health and life insurance, groceries, cable, gas or other living expenses.
If the DTI is too high, there's no quick fix, nor does the lender have any flexibility to reward a borrower who might have a great FICO score or a job with great future-earnings potential. The reason is the qualified mortgage (QM) rule, which took effect last year for conventional loans. This regulation set a cutoff point of 43 percent. Lenders try to stay below that amount by giving themselves a small cushion. Today, the median DTI that lenders are approving for all qualified mortgages is 37 percent — monthly debt payments equal 37 percent of borrowers' monthly gross income.
The QM rule does not apply to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which has its own version of the rule that does not specify a DTI cutoff point. As a result, the median for an FHA application to purchase a home today is a little higher at 41 percent. If your mortgage doesn't meet the standards for qualification, most lenders will reject you, and those that don't will charge a much higher interest rate.
There are only two ways to improve, or reduce, your DTI. Either make more money or get rid of enough debt to bring your DTI to an acceptable level — at least 40 percent on an FHA loan or 35 percent on a conventional loan — or both. Unless you take a second job or have a raise coming, reducing debt is the easiest and fastest option.
Most people today have a better idea where they stand regarding the credit that is available to them than the debt that they owe. Weighing yourself regularly is a good way to start a diet by making you aware of what you eat. In the same way, start a "debt diet" by signing up for a "wallet"-type program through your bank or a personal finance website to monitor your debt on a daily basis. Take it a day at a time, and remind yourself that once you have purchased your dream home, you can relax a little.
2. Pay off small balances.
If you have several of these, they add up and increase your monthly debt load. DTI is figured on the basis of monthly debt payments, so if you can pay off debts with small balances you can materially reduce your monthly payment obligations. Even if you owe a small amount on a credit card, you must pay a minimum monthly amount. Pay off small balances before large ones to get your monthly debt load down quickly. Close or reduce lines of credit that you don't need.
3. Reduce interest and consolidate monthly payments.
Chances are you are not getting great interest rates on some of your credit cards and installment plans. Many consumer lenders have "teaser" rates that dramatically reduce the interest you will pay. Use one of these to consolidate your debt and pay off several high-interest cards. You will also lower your monthly payments by consolidating and refinancing your debt, including student debt and automobile loans, with the lowest-interest personal loan or credit card you can find.
4. Stop buying on credit.
Trying living for a week without buying anything with plastic. Living on a cash-only basis makes you very aware of every penny you spend. Forgo a snack, read news online instead of buying a newspaper, shop a little for the cheapest gas and cook meals instead of eating out. It's amazing how much you can save.
Estimate your savings on a daily basis and put aside that amount in a savings account. Two good things will happen. You'll have more cash to pay off debts, and your debt obligations won't increase. Once you have reduced your debt, do not buy anything large on credit until after you close. More than one lender has pulled a borrower's credit the day before closing and reduced the loan amount if the DTI has increased.
Because FHA funds applications with lower FICO scores and higher DTIs than conventional loans, your chances are better with FHA if you have a DTI above 30 percent. Of course, FHA also requires small down payments, but the recent reduction in annual mortgage insurance premiums makes FHA even more attractive.
For many young buyers, getting their debt reduced takes time. That's one reason the median age of first-time buyers has been creeping up into upper 30s and 40s in recent years, despite soaring rents. With age comes higher income levels, better credit histories, cash for down payments and lower DTIs, if not necessarily lower levels of debt.


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Q: PhoneGap/Cordova Error: Miss a drag as we are waiting for WebCore's response for touch down I'm making an app for IOS, Android and WP. I'm using PhoneGap 2.7.0, testing for Android.
I get the following error in emulator Android 2.2:
Miss a drag as we are waiting for WebCore's response for touch down
When I swipe photos, I'm using PhotoSwipe.
No problems over there, app is working.
But in emulator Android 3.1, 4.0 or 4.0.3 I get the same error, together with:
Stale touch event ACTION_DOWN received from webcore; ignoring

The swiping doesn't work normal, and my photos sometimes disappear. When I do a few swipes the PhotoSwipe Gallery stops working at all.
I've searched this issue on Google and found a lot of people struggling with this. All solutions provided in these discussions don't do the trick for me.
I've updated all the libraries, cleaned my code, tried deleting the 'e.preventDefault()', added extra code, ... But all without effect, or with effect but worse issues like not starting the app...
I hope someone can help me, I'm trying for days to fix this!

A: I fixed this issue by listening to 'touchstart' event, and preventingDefault.
$('.element').on('touchmove', function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
});
The problem, though, it also cancel all the scroll events if there is any in the '.element' element.


The TB Platforms for Sustainable Detection, Care, and Treatment Activity is designed to improve decentralized TB health systems by bolstering health program components at the regional, province, city, municipal, and community levels. With appropriate planning, oversight, and supervisory systems in place, health facilities will improve the quality of health care and our team will achieve the following project aims: 1) families and communities adopt and improve healthy behaviors; 2) high-impact interventions are implemented at scale in the regions with the highest TB burden and other areas where the need for technical assistance is greatest; and 3) key local health systems are bolstered to facilitate efficient and optimal delivery of quality TB services.
The M&E Advisor will be the technical expert who will liaise with relevant advisors on health-related strategic information for activities related to bolstering the ability of health providers and institutions and community groups to monitor, document and analyze the performance of health services as a basis for accountability, advocacy and policy activities and safeguarding standards and quality of care.
Provide technical guidance and support to sub-awards in the design, execution, monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness TB interventions. The M&E Advisor is expected to spend extensive time in the field working closely with project staff, health providers, community groups and other stakeholders to provide technical assistance and monitor and evaluate the project.
Building NTP capacity to gather and analyze data for program improvement at all levels.
Responsible for review and adapt tools and create standardized tools and indicators to measure health facility and community-based interventions that capture relevant outcomes.
Assist with designing interventions that build the capacity to buttress data collection, use and analysis of data and statistics in order to guide TB program implementation at the institution, facility and community levels.
A Master's degree in public health, epidemiology, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, or a related field.
Minimum of ten (10) years of work experience in establishing/designing M&E systems and tools and managing data-intensive health programs including use of gender-disaggregated data, for decision-making.
Minimum four (4) years working on TB or other infectious disease programs.
Demonstrated experience and knowledge in health programs to provide support and guidance to project staff, DoH officials, health providers, community organizations and other stakeholders on design, monitoring and evaluation and program quality management (both service and data quality).
Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods, including tracking outcome indicators. Demonstrated ability to obtain, analyze, organize and interpret relevant data and use them to design or critique TB interventions. Experience building capacity of teams and stakeholders to analyze and interpret relevant data to improve program implementation.


Many foreign buyers of property in Italy are smitten by Italy's illustrious building history. Italians are great architects, and they've been making beautiful, well-constructed houses for centuries. So even a 400-year-old farmhouse out in the wilds is likely to be handsomely crafted and full of charming details. Umpteen thousands of foreign buyers have bought old homes in Italy. They either restore the property themselves, making good use of Italy's excellent builders and craftspeople, or buy a property which someone else has already lovingly restored.
But what of modern and new-build homes in Italy? These are also popular with foreign buyers, and rightly so. The Italian tradition of building well persists to the present day, and a modern home need not be a bland or characterless home by comparison with a centuries-old villa, townhouse or farmhouse. Modern homes have some distinct advantages over older ones, as well as a few disadvantages. Let's look more closely at the latter and then move on to the former.
Italians themselves usually prefer modern-built homes over old ones as places to move to, so as a property-hunter you'll be competing with Italian natives as well as other foreign buyers. With more buyers competing for them, modern-built homes can be higher-priced than older homes. And that's also true because they're more likely to be in popular locations than older properties. Beachfront and lakeside homes are predominantly modern, for example, as are homes in places with lots of employment prospects.
But unless you're someone who can't help hankering after a home full of history, period features and so on, there are clear advantages to buying a modern-built property. Firstly, you can start using it from the moment you've bought it. There's no waiting to have it restored or refurbished. Everything inside should be in good working order and up to modern standard: electricity, plumbing, etc. Modern earthquake-proofing will already be inbuilt to meet current legal requirements. Insulation and energy-efficiency will have been addressed. Worries about the costs of maintenance and upkeep are significantly lower with modern-built homes than old ones.
Two types of new-builds that deserve special mention here are off-plan purchases and self-builds. Buying off-plan can be a bit nerve-wracking because you're committing to something that hasn't even been built yet, but the reward for this bit of uncertainty is usually a considerable saving on price. Off-plan purchases can prove a very wise decision in terms of value-for-money. And such buildings are very often in desirable places such as seaside locations. Self-builders, meanwhile, are potentially able to enjoy enormous advantages. They buy land in a location they like, and then get to construct precisely the home they want facing the right direction, internally laid out exactly as they wish, externally styled historically if desired, and incorporating all state-of-the-art electrics, plumbing, heating, energy-saving techniques and so on. They even usually get to spend less than would a buyer of a similar but ready-built home.
With Italy's great legacy of beautiful old buildings and its high standards of modern home-construction, you can very safely choose old or new when buying property in Italy. All you need to do is decide which kind you prefer.


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On Monday at New York's Beacon Theatre, Yusuf / Cat Stevens reintroduced himself to fans with two generous sets of anecdotes and classic songs.
The singer-songwriter now known simply as Yusuf didn't mention his religion by name during his Monday show at New York's Beacon Theatre. But at one point – late in the second of two deeply moving sets filled with classic songs – he did reference the backlash he encountered during the years when he left behind both his old stage moniker, Cat Stevens, and his career as a secular musician to pursue a life of Islamic faith. When he spoke to the crowd about inciting an "awful lot of anger," everyone in attendance knew what he meant.
"We're sorry!" a man in the crowd yelled in response to the remark. "I'm all forgiven!" said Yusuf, miming a sigh of relief. Though his public image may never fully recover from the hateful remarks he made against Salman Rushdie in 1989 amid the heated controversy over the author's The Satanic Verses, the legendary artist's current stage show, billed as an evening in "A Cat's Attic," nevertheless felt like a heartfelt olive branch extended to fans who might be inclined to give him another shot.
The first set offered a chronological survey of Stevens' Sixties hits. Backed by Eric Appapoulay on guitar and vocals and Kwame Yeboah on bass and percussion – a tasteful duo who sounded busker intimate or rock-band intense as the moment demanded – he performed songs ranging from the wrenching ("The First Cut Is the Deepest") to the frivolous ("I Love My Dog," Stevens' debut single, released 50 years ago this month) in quick succession, offering anecdotes and asides in the style of a one-man theatrical show. He recalled mock-ruefully how the Monkees prevented him from getting to Number One, credited onetime tourmate Jimi Hendrix for scrambling his brain with psychedelics and digressed during "Matthew and Son" to chide Tears for Fears for borrowing the song's bridge melody for their "Mad World" chorus.
Dressed like a cool uncle in a green shirt and brown leather jacket, Yusuf played much of the set seated in a chair, his feet dangling just above the floor. If his demeanor was casual, his vocals were sublime. His trademark upper-register snarl has softened somewhat, and he seemed to struggle with the daring melodic leaps on songs such as "On the Road to Find Out," but the Yusuf of today is very much the same dazzlingly supple vocalist Cat Stevens was then.
During the second set, Yusuf seemed to kick into overdrive, condensing his anecdotes and playing some of his best-loved songs with otherworldly focus and intensity. After a charming intro during which he drank tea as Tea for the Tillerman's closing title track played over the PA, he sat at the piano for the first time, delivering a crisp, poignant felt version of that album's "Sad Lisa." He moved back to guitar for an endearing "Don't Be Shy" (with a coyly smiling reference to "that movie," Harold and Maude) and worked his way up to the set's emotional peak, a staggering "Father and Son" that brought the crowd to its feet. The audience remained rapt during deeper cuts from 1972's Catch Bull at Four – an ecstatic "Sitting" and a hushed "Boy With the Moon and Star on His Head," a song he'd renounced after his conversion and that he implored the New York audience "not to believe" due to its depiction of a verboten premarital fling.
A gorgeous Impressions cover, "People Get Ready," signified Yusuf's religious awakening, and two well-chosen tracks from his 2000s comeback albums chronicled the path back to music: An Other Cup's wonder-filled "Maybe There's a World" – mashed up here with the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" – and the title track to 2009's Roadsinger, an account of his years of alienation from his fans. ("I realized I still had a job to do," he said of his return to the public eye.) The concert's second set often had the feeling of a campfire singalong, yet one led by the man who is arguably the patron saint of the form, a writer and singer of disarmingly plainspoken songs about spiritual seeking that somehow never succumb to corniness or insincerity.
In keeping with that spirit, he paused near the end of the show to shout out recent Disney film Zootopia, praising its message of tolerance. He quoted the film's hero, a rabbit named Judy Hopps, who stands up against "friction and conflict" among once-harmonious animal species: "No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you." Yusuf didn't need to mention Donald Trump's fearmongering or the latest wave of Islamophobia directly in order to invoke a parallel with 2016 America. A joyous "Peace Train," which found the majority of the crowd on its feet, clapping and singing along, drove home his message.
The lovefest continued during a brief encore that featured beautiful, unadorned renditions of signature songs "Wild World" and "Morning Has Broken." Yusuf apologized for not being able to stick around, citing the venue's union curfew, and left the stage flashing peace signs with both hands.
Overall, the show felt like one artist's humble attempt to repair his fractured relationship with his listening public. For more than two hours, Yusuf laid out all his charms – his easy storytelling gifts, his universally beloved songs – in the face of a world that, as depicted in "Roadsinger," once branded him as unwelcome. Whether or not Yusuf is truly off the hook is for each listener to decide, but on a purely musical level, the concert was a gracious and touching reanimation of one of the great songbooks in modern pop. Those who step into Yusuf's attic will leave transformed.


Parking controls Partick – get Ring Go app.
Hi folks. Parking controls are in place outside the practice. This is good news as you will be more likely to get a parking space outside the door or on the bridge.
You can park for 30 mins for 20p and it's 80p for an hour.
See you at your next appointment.


Intelsat has announced the successful launch of the first of its EpicNG satellites. The launch took place from French Guyana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on the 27 January, with Intelsat confirming signal acquisition shortly after. The satellite – Intelsat 29e – replaces Intelsat 1R at 310 degrees East and will provide next-generation communications to the Americas, Caribbean and the North Atlantic regions.
The EpicNG platform was conceived four years ago in response to growing demands on the limited bandwidth offered by older satellite technology. EpicNG (pictured below) combines wide beams and spot beams with frequency reuse technology to offer much greater capacity on C- and Ku-band, with backwards compatibility with Intelsat's existing satellite fleet and terrestrial infrastcuture, allowing customers to use currently deployed hardware to access the high performance connectivity. In particular, the spot beam technology will mean users in the high-traffic routes – such as the North Atlantic or Mediterranean – will not suffer due to higher bandwidth demand.


13-year-old Kaia Gerber is the spitting image of her supermodel mom.
Kaia Gerber looks like she's ready to take the supermodel reigns from mom Cindy Crawford. In an Instagram posted by her dad, Rande Gerber, the 13-year-old looks exactly like her model mother—from those bold brows and high cheekbones to that mega-watt smile. It's not hard to imagine her leading the next wave of models down the runway in a few years.


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Microsoft Surface Pro X And Pro 7 Review: Snapdragon And x86 Experience
by Brandon Hill — Monday, January 25, 2016, 02:13 PM EDT
Google Play Games Freed From Mandatory Google+ Prerequisite
Google's long-needed quest to untangle its core services from the mediocre web of Google+ is finally picking up the pace. The exodus continues today, as you will no longer need a Google+ account in order to access the Play Games service.
Google notes that gamers will only have to sign-in once using their standard Google account and will no longer have to sign-in for future games, as this process will become automatic. This means that gamer will no longer be presented with an annoying popup telling them to sign-in for each title. If you're not a fan auto-sign-in, you can always disable the feature in settings.
If you're a current user of the Play Games service, you'll see no interruption and will keep your existing Google+ associated ID. For gamers new to the service, you'll have to acquire a new Player ID which is separate from your Google account for privacy reasons, or course.
Google also lists some potential hiccups that developers might run into courtesy of these changes, but this would only be an issue if Google+ functionality is baked directly into their software. However, given the generally negative vibes surrounding the Google+ platform, we seriously doubt that this will be a problem for most developers.
Google says that this latest move was made to "reduce sign-in friction and unnecessary permission requests for players," but we all know that this is just the latest in the agonizingly slow death march that awaits Google+.
Google took the first step to rid weary Google users of Google+ by reforming Google+ Photos into Google Photos last May and uncoupling the failed social network from YouTube in July.
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As announced in my previous article, where I had introduced Flow Design, I want to show a concrete implementation in Java. The code for this example may be found on GitHub.
It may be valuable to read his article too, to get further details. However, I will repeat his steps (sometimes a little bit shortened) for letting you get the whole picture. Nearly all drawings are originated from Ralf's blog.
Analyzing the scenario description, there must be an application the user is able to type a Roman or Arabic number in. As nothing specific is required, a simple console program may satisfy this requirement.
There is nothing stated about validation. So the validation will be a very basic one.
This is the highest level of abstraction.
Now the "parts" (aka functional units) come into play. The next design step is to figure out, which processing steps build the root part on the highest level of abstraction. The functional unit "convert roman" becomes the root of an integration hierarchy.
Now this is repeated until functional units do need to be divided into further, more smaller processing steps and they get clear and easy to implement.
For the functional units in the picture above, the two outside ones are quite truly understood. Reading in input from the command line and displaying a result of characters on the same is easy to implement. However, the functional unit "conversion" is not so clear. Further refinement is needed.
Each roman digit of Roman number is translated into its value. The result is a list of integer numbers. E.g., "XVI" -> [10, 5, 1].
In case, a smaller value is coming prior to a larger value in the list, the smaller value is negated. E.g., [10, 1, 5] -> [10, -1, 5]. In the original article called "applying subtraction rule".
I guess, now it becomes clear, why this design approach is called Flow Design. It's about designing the data flow of an application. It consists of operation and integration units wired up and marked by data types are flowing from one to the other unit. So now, only the design of the data flowing around is left. But first the whole picture of the Flow Design result with operations marked by dark color.
The [I]ntegration and [O]peration entities of the IODA architecture have been setup. The [A]PI going to be used is not really worth to be mentioned; it's obviously the Java language framework. However, the [D]ata still needs to be designed.
We do not have state in our design. But data types are there. For those, object oriented design would be an appropriate tooling if they are not trivial. However, following the KISS principle, we do not introduce specific types for the domain concepts roman number and arabic number. The first one is just a character string, the second one an integer. There is just no value in designing specific types if it may also be done with the ordinary Java types. A value list might be quite easily represented by an integer array or Java List.
Anyway, the design decision on data types made here does not change the basic architecture. Operation units work on data. So, if the data design gets changed, they are mainly influenced by that.
As we are going to implement the set up design in Java, we need to think about classes as they are one of the main code building blocks of object oriented languages. The code building blocks form a hierarchy in the design dimension of modules starting from methods or functions as the smallest kind of code module, followed by classes, packages, libraries, components and micro services.
Providers: Using an API is a "hard" aspect in any software. It should be isolated into specific modules. Usually, each API should be encapsulated by its own class – but in this scenario there is so little of it, a single class will do.
RomanConversion: This class belongs to the coarse grained domain aspect of the application. It contains "helper functions" not actually concerned with the transformations.
Body: This class represents the overall functionality – but without the interaction with the user. It's like an internal API to what the program is supposed to do.
There is more to decide at class design. In particular, we need to know which classes will get instantiated and which one became a code container for static methods only.
As there is no state involved, RomanConversion, FromRomanConversion, and ToRomanConversion do not need to be instantiated. Their contained methods could be static.
For Provider it looks different. The Interface Segregation Principle gets applied here as API access is going to be implemented. Therefore, Head also requires getting instantiated.
Also Body is described as an interface to allow Head being tested in isolation.
The next level in the hierarchy of code modules are Java packages. This is quite Java specific, the original design article do not have it as C#'s language concept of namespaces is not a so strong code structuring tool as Java's packages are. Java's packages are quite stronger as they define the visibility of classes and methods.
Structurally, my package design is quite similar to the original article's library design at its leafs.
However, I have introduced another level of grouping. I put all packages containing operation classes under the sub package operations, all classes which are doing integration into the sub package integration. Finally, I have also a package contracts. It contains all the interfaces designed.
All packages are prepended by the name space prefix de.grammarcraft.javaflow.examples.convertroman for uniqueness.
Organizing code into libraries is the next tool in building a module hierarchy. In Java this is normally mapped to JAR archives.
It is quite worth to think about that during a design, as it is typically the smallest deployment artifact. At this level functional extensions and bug fixing may be applied to already roll out solutions ensuring evolvability of that solution by replacing libraries. Especially, in distributed environments libraries are the cutting points for code forming the distributed modules landscape.
As this solution is quite simple, there will be only one library at all, one JAR file.
Ralf Westphal defines the term component as a set of one or more libraries, described by a platform specific contract. Think of a component like a bundle of JAR files with a facade as entry point, or like an OSGi bundle.
Structuring the code into components, boundaries of which are determined by contracts like interfaces or facade classes are a precondition of professional software development. At least, it helps a lot in teams developing in parallel. Each team member is developing one component under the head of the contract of its component applying other contracts of foreign components maybe not ready yet.
You may view the source project on Github.
Let's take a closer look on how split flows had been implemented in Java. Now, we can take advantages of the new Java language feature of lambdas, which are making the implementation really concise; at least as concise as it is possible in Java currently, as Java does not allow to setup internal DSLs.
Looking at the code above, you might need a minute to understand what is going on. However, it is just a straight forward implementation.
Lets take the topmost flow.
Just read function calls from top to bottom and left to right. Indentations are different paths in the flow.
In fact, each bubble in the diagram translates to a method call. If a bubble has one output, the function simply returns it. If a bubble has more than one output, they are implemented as continuations – function objects predefined in Java as Consumer taking the data type as generic parameter. So, the implementation gets type safe.
I have shown that the implementation of an IODA Architecture based on a Flow Design is as easy as Ralf Westphal showed in his article for C#. In fact, that was not surprising as with the lambda language concept Java gets similar powerful as C# with its delegates and lambda notation.
You may not get closer to the intentional flow design diagram. That would significantly increase readability, isn't it?
Such notations are possible, even on the JVM, if you are using programming languages which allow the implementation of internal DSLs. I will show in the next article how this may be done in Scala and Xtend. I will implement the same example of converting Roman numerals to get it better comparable.
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Folding Cardboard Stools Only Make It Look Like You're A Hoarder
Jun 14, 2014, 10:30am
If you're a student who knows you'll only be living in a cheap apartment for a couple of semesters, what's the point of buying and moving heavy furniture? Especially when there are so many flat-packed, lightweight cardboard options to choose from, like these wonderful stools designed to look like stacks of pizza boxes, records, and even boxes of beer.
Apparently the hoarder look is particularly fashionable when it comes to home decor this season, and while you could simply make your own stool from a month's worth of empty pizza boxes, this $US34 version is engineered for stability and strength — and it also won't smell like moldy pizza crust. [Firebox]
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John Wick was an absolute phenomenon when it released in 2014, and basically relaunched Keanu Reeves' film career. It was followed by two excellent sequels, but that's not all - in 2017, it was confirmed that John Wick would spin off into its own TV show. Since then, we've only heard whispers about the fabled series, but what we do know is rather exciting.
Tegan Jones 20 Jan 2020 11:52 AM
An Australian startup has developed an app that can identify your name and address with a single photo. It's already being used by U.S. law enforcement despite a lack of regulation and independent testing.


Chris Meacham has written a program that converts MEKA keys to the SLIKS (Stinger's Lightweight Interactive Key Software) format put together by Stinger Guala so that they can be displayed on the web. The MEKA keys written by Tom Rosatti were run through the converter, which is now part of MEKAEDIT, the program for constructing MEKA keys. The taxon names in the online keys are linked to the Jepson Flora distribution map pages for each taxon that is species rank or lower.
Chris modified Stinger's script slightly by removing it to a separate file so that it does not have to be part of every key file.
At present there are problems with displaying the scripts using certain browsers: we will try to eliminate these problems soon.
The links below will call up a MEKA key for the taxon.