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A-100 AWACS aircraft makes first flight undergoing new stage of trials
A new Russian prospective A-100 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft made its first flight undergoing a new stage of prior test flights, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Saturday. "The latest A-100 multifunctional Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft embarked on a program of prior test flights and made a maiden flight," the ministry said....
S7 Airlines wins the Skyway Service Award 2019
S7 Airlines, a oneworld® global airline alliance member, has become the winner of the Skyway Service Award in two categories. Passengers acknowledged the service of the airline in economy class on domestic flights and online services for passengers as the best. This industry aviation award is annually given to Russian and foreign airlin...
Sheremetyevo introduces WeChat Pay
Yandex.Checkout becomes a partner of Sheremetyevo Duty Free Heinemann to provide 54 duty-free and retail stores on the territory of the Sheremetyevo International Airport with WeChat Pay. This service works as an e-wallet based on the Chinese WeChat messenger. Now, Chinese tourists will be able to pay for purchases in Sheremetyevo Duty Free Heinemann stores as quickly, conveniently, and s...
Russian government to allocate $24.2 mln worth of subsidies for MC-21 airliner project
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on allocation of 1.6 bln rubles ($24.24 mln) worth of subsidies for the MC-21 airliner project. "I have signed a governmental decree to allocate subsidies for production and support of MC-21 airliner for the first time. Almost 1.6 bln rubles will be spent on that in 2019," he said at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on Mo...
Rosaviatsia has confirmed an increase in the height of the take-off and landing of the Ansat
The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) has confirmed an increase in the height of the take-off and landing of the Ansat helicopter to 3,500 meters. Approval of the main change is based on test results the helicopter passed in the summer of 2018 on Elbrus. The document authorizes the operation of Ansat in the high mountains. Previously, the height of the take-off and landing of the helic...
MC-21 passenger jets to be certified in 2020
Certification of MC-21 passenger jets currently undergoing trials will take place in 2020 according to the plan, President of the United Aircraft Corporation Yuri Slyusar said on Tuesday on the air with the Rossiya-24 TV Channel. "Specimens are currently made from domestic raw materials already. These specimens are under tests now and will be introduced into the aircraft design at the next...
S7 Technics' Moscow base is ready to welcome the Boeing 737 MAX
S7 Technics, Russian provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, has prepared its Moscow's Domodedovo airport site for the maintenance of the latest generation of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The MRO specialist's Domodedovo facility is approved to carry out maintenance procedures on the Boeing 737-7/8/9MAX powered by CFM International's LEAP-1B engines under its o...
Russian Helicopters completes delivery of 31 EMS helicopters
Russian Helicopters, part of Rostec State Corporation, under a contract with the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK), has completed the delivery of 31 helicopters in emergency medical services (EMS) configuration. The customer was supplied with 12 Ansat and six Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters manufactured by the Kazan Helicopter Plant, as well as 13 Mi-8AMT helicopters launched at the Ulan-Ude Aviat...
Severstal takes delivery of its first Superjet 100
Russian regional carrier Severstal Airlines, which is owned by steel and mining giant Severstal, has taken delivery of its first Superjet 100 and entry into service for its initial Russian regional jet is planned for early 2019. The aircraft, with registration number RA-89117, was delivered to the airline on December 26 and is currently at its Cherepovets home base airport. It features a conver...
Sakhalin Energy signs AW189 contract for modern long range helicopter transport
Leonardo and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. ("Sakhalin Energy") signed a contract for the supply of three AW189 super medium twin engine commercial helicopters. The aircraft will be used to perform transport operations from Sakhalin Island in Russia supporting the Oil&Gas industry, with deliveries expected to start in the 1Q2020. The contract was signed...
Irkut Corporation completed construction of the third MC-21-300 flight test aircraft
Irkut Corporation (a UAC member) completed construction of the third MC-21-300, intended for flight tests. On December 25, the aircraft was transferred from the final assembly shop to the flight test unit of Irkutsk aviation plant - a branch of Irkut Corporation. Testing results of the first MC-21-300 aircraft passing certification tests were taken into account in the production of the new airc...
Four Gazprom Avia SSJ100s customized by S7 Technics
S7 Technics (S7T), an independent Russian provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, is now completing heavy maintenance checks and modifications on four Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft under contract from their operator Gazprom Avia. The maintenance service company, which has been active in the Superjet 100 MRO market for the last two years, is continuing to build its...


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Perley és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Minnesota. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 121 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Perley tenia 121 habitants, 53 habitatges, i 35 famílies. La densitat de població era de 194,7 habitants per km².

Dels 53 habitatges en un 34% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 52,8% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 9,4% dones solteres, i en un 32,1% no eren unitats familiars. En el 28,3% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 5,7% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,28 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,69.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 24,8% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 9,1% entre 18 i 24, un 27,3% entre 25 i 44, un 31,4% de 45 a 60 i un 7,4% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 38 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 111,6 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 31.250 $ i la renda mediana per família de 35.625 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 21.528 $ mentre que les dones 19.063 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 13.998 $. Entorn del 10,5% de les famílies i el 12,2% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població de Minnesota

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Apple finally made its iTunes Match service available to the public today, coupled with the latest iTunes 10.5.1 update. Users may subscribe for $25/year, and have access to "all" of their iTunes music from the cloud – with a catch.
In the fine print, you'll see that the matching service is limited to 25,000 songs. But that's not all. Not only can you only sync 25,000 songs with iTunes match, but iTunes Match won't even turn on with a library of more than 25,000 songs. Nope, if you have more than the limit, there's no way to even select a portion of your library to use with match. No special iTunes Match playlist to denote songs you want to sync, no special filters to find only the 25,000 most recently added songs that have equivelents on iTunes (Negating the need to upload anything), no nothing. Fail.
Surely Apple must fix this – and hopefully soon.
Why do they not allow to PAY twice the fee for twice the amount ?


Team, Am looking to see how I can enable TLS/SSL (similar to how Kibana can be run via SSL). The intent is to startup Logstash on an EC2 on SSL so that the ALB that the EC2 is registered does traffic/health on HTTPS and not HTTP. We have zero requirement for filebeats. Can someone suggest how I can do this?
Which logstash input are you looking to monitor via the ALB?
Logstash doesn't necessarily open any ports, so what you're asking for isn't as simple as it sounds.
For example, if you are using logstash to process data from files, or from a database then there's no HTTP/S port to monitor.
We need a bit more info from you to be able to give you any guidance.
We are using http input only. The logstash instance I'm spinning up is via docker. The issue is more of the parent framework our enterprise uses to launch docker. The framework sets the ALB health check and instances port to Https and 443.
We had the same issue spinning up kibana but since kibana has the ssl configuration natively, using SSL settings in kibana.yml allowed it's Alb to ping it correctly.
We're trying to do the same thing for logstash.
you could use a TCP input which lets you configure SSL.
why wouldnt Http Input work?
it does seem to have ssl support. Just looking for guidance on how to configure it!
What issues do you have? Looks like the private key has to be in PKCS8 format. I have had to do that with lumberjack inputs. Logstash will fail to start if the cert is in the wrong format. IIRC the logs did say that quite clearly when I finally took the time to read them.
Could you paste your input config from the .conf file here?
As I said, we don't use http inputs but I would imagine this should work.
Default port is 8080. And the private key has to be in PKCS8 format.
I guess it is because the default for ssl is false.


In our last segment, we talked about PTSD. Unfortunately we ran out of time before I was able to emphasize the point that folks who suffer from PTSD aren't crazy; they are simply normal people who have been overwhelmed by life trauma.
That word "normal" got me thinking … after all the advances in science and technology, we still have a problem with how we think and talk about of mental illness. There is a definite stigma attached to mental illness in a way that doesn't exist with other medical illness. For example, I have diabetes, I'm not defined by it the way mental patients often are. No one thinks twice of someone who has an appendectomy. Words like "crazy" or abnormal, which harkens back to the dark ages of psychiatric understanding, perpetuate fear of and stigma towards those who have emotional problems. Specifically they create a false divide between normal/ healthy folks and abnormal/mentally ill.
Today I want to suggest an alternative way to understand mental health problems which is more inclusive and that doesn't stigmatize or separate people into separate classes. Instead of dividing folks into normal and abnormal categories, mental health and illness can be seen as different locations on a continuum of cognitive/affective distortions. Rather than being a fixed notion mental health needs to be understood as a dynamic reality that changes for an individual. There are times when stress is higher that we are going to be less well than at other times. The point is that all of these changes are part of the normal variations.
Historically, people with disorders were thought to be evil or possessed or to have a lack of moral character. They were treated in frightful ways. With advances in medicine, treatment for the mentally disturbed became more humane and the model used to understand the condition was medical.
While seeing folks as ill rather than demonic or of weak character was a significant advance, the 19th medical model had a serious drawback: (and this is the tricky part), it made the distinction between normal and abnormal separate and absolute. Mental illness was thought to be analogous to medical illness, i.e. your body was either infected by a bacterium or it wasn't. The problem was not simply conceptual but pragmatic as well. If you were determined to be mentally ill, there was virtually no effective treatment and thus fear and hopelessness surrounded the topic.
The most current understanding of normal is that everyone has some level of distortion in their perception and irrationality in their responses. For example, we all know of the skinny girl who thinks she's fat or the successful person who worries he's a failure. Thus, we have come to understand that mental disorders are best understood as a matter of the degree of perceptional and emotional distortion which is present which exists as a continuum of human experience rather than being a completely separate reality.
People who are quite normal and mentally healthy have many of the same unusual thoughts and feelings as those who are quite emotionally disturbed. Likewise, even the most severely mentally ill person is still human. No one is completely healthy or completely sick. The question is, if everyone has the weird thoughts and feelings, how can we know the difference between normal and abnormal? While our topic is complicated, here are some guidelines.
Illness in this a relative issue of distortion. The question is not if a person's distorts but how much. Health exhibits relatively low levels of cognitive/emotional distortion while illness is marked by a greater degree of distortion.
The key factors for determining one degree of health or illness are functional, i.e. how severe is the distortion and how much does it interfere with a person's success on the job, in personal relationships and in regard to one's happiness. Here are some guidelines that help you tell the differene between everyday problems and those which may benefit from professional help.
– Intensity — When uncomfortable or irrational feelings are so strong they can't be ignored.
– Duration — When dysfunctional moods or behaviors persist for weeks or months.
– Impairment — When, as a result of the upset feelings or behavioral reactions, the quality of one's work performance, interpersonal relationships or overall sense of well being deteriorates.
– Resistance to Remediation — Nothing seems to help or reduce the problematic feelings or behaviors.
When it comes to worrying about, "Am I normal ?", we all need to take a deep breath and remember, that the very word comes from a time when psychology was not understood. Besides, having a weird thought or being different may also be a seen as creativity and thinking or living outside the box. If we were all alike … and were unable to have an original thought, that would be very sad.
The point is that we are all human and we all struggle to be accurate and reasonable in our perceptions and responses to life's challenges. Some struggle more than others. Nonetheless we are all in it together as members of the human species and must strive to understand and support each other. Having a more inclusive model of mental health will help get rid of the stigma associated with mental illness once and for all.


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Top American Cars 2016
Say what you will about outsourcing and the post-recession economy, but America still makes some darn fine automobiles. Here are the top American cars according to a number of consumer reporting sources as of the time of this writing:
Best Compact Car: Chevrolet Cruze LT
Compact cars tend to be more of a Japanese thing, right? How can American cars possibly compete? Well, Asia may tend to have the market cornered, but Chevy gives them a run for their money with the Cruze LT. The Cruze LT is like a big car in a compact body, with a quiet interior and a smooth, cozy ride. The engine is a 1.3 liter four-cylinder turbo, with six-speed auto transmission. 30 miles to the gallon, an infotainment system with Apple CarPlay running on an Android OS, with a surprisingly roomy rear seat. It's like a pocket-sized Cadillac.Give this car some time, and it may reach the top 10 best used cars for first-time drivers.
Best Sports Car: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
The Corvette has long been America's answer to fancy European cars, and the new Stingray is no exception. The beautiful sharp edges of the car lend it that awesome sports car look you want. Under the hood you'll find a 455-hp, 6.2 liter V8. The car comes with a seven-speed manual as the standard, but you can get an eight-speed automatic if you like (though let's be honest, if you're a sports car lover, you're probably more interested in manual transmission). You can upgrade to a 650-hp Z06 if you have a need for speed. The car is noted for its tremendous acceleration and comfortable seats.
Best SUV: Buick Enclave CXL
SUV's are probably the car that America does better than anyone, and this year was no exception, with plenty to choose from, like the compact Ford Escape Titanium, with its 2.0-liter turbo engine and forward-collision warning, the Midsize Ford Edge SEL with a twin turbo V6, and the Chevy Traverse LT, with its incredible handling. But, the Enclave CXL luxury SUV takes the cake, thanks to a powerful 2.6 liter V6 with a butter-smooth six speed automatic transition, a three-row cabin like a living room, and very nice handling.
Best Green Car: Chevrolet Volt
The Chevy Volt gets thirty five to fifty three miles on a single electric charge, and can switch to gas for longer trips at 42 mpg. The cozy, smooth-riding Chevy Volt may not be the biggest car or the most impressive to look at, but it's a huge step forward for hybrid cars, allowing you to drive around town or make short road trips without using one drop of gas.
Best Overall: Tesla Model S
The Tesla has become a symbol of American industry and technology lately, a new hope in a car industry that some feel has seen better days. The 2016 Tesla Model S is simply fantastic, and could only have been made in America. The all-electric Model S is not "pretty good for an electric," it's just an incredible car overall. Tremendously smooth ride with a huge touchscreen console, seven seats all-wheel drive, and surprisingly roomy. The Tesla Model S represents the future of the industry. The Tesla is out of most people's price range, but that may change in the next few years.
The American auto industry is not dead. 2016 has kept up with 2012's most stolen cars in America. It's going through some growing pains, it's seeing serious competition from overseas, it's struggled through one of the worst economic recessions we've ever seen. But it's not dead. With electric cars and American industrialism, you're not going to see an end to US car factories anytime soon.

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Elon Musk's Twitter deal has to close by Friday or the trial is back on • TechCrunch
Elon Musk Once again out of the plan to buy Twitter It's on its way to climaxing with the billionaire taking control of the company this week.
Musk is expected to close the deal by Friday, October 28, officially putting him in charge of one of the world's most prominent social media networks. Musk reportedly informed bankers of his plans to Commit to October 28th In a call on Monday.
A group of banks including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America The formula for buying it with a debt of 13 billion dollarsWhich they plan to keep, at least in the short term. Twitter's stock traded around $53 on Wednesday, barely shy of the $54.20 per share that Musk offered the company earlier this year.
Musk's agreement with the banks to help him finance the deal isn't the only thing that puts him on a deadline. Most pressing here is that the Delaware Chancery District Court judge who is overseeing the litigation between Musk and Twitter has set a deadline of Friday if Musk intends to avoid his day in court. Failure to close the deal by the date would mean Delaware District Court Counsel Kathleen McCormick could begin the November trial.
Twitter issued this statement on today's news: We received a letter from the Musk parties that they submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company intends to close the position at $54.20 per share.
Investor Relations on Twitter (TwitterIR) 4 October 2022
Twitter File a lawsuit against the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Over the summer to force him to buy the company. The two sides exchanged arguments and documents in court filings in subsequent months, while Musk doubled down on his insistence that he was entitled to withdraw from the deal. Musk's legal team has figured things out, including making some misleading and generally confusing claims about Twitter user count measurements, making matters worse. Meanwhile, the legal conflict has surfaced a treasure trove of private messages between Musk and his financial advisors and other close people with whom he spoke about the deal.
In early October, Musk did 180 again, agreeing to buy the company — if he could Kill the trial scheduled for October 17. After another round of court filings back and forth and angry letters writing, Judge McCormick agreed to delay the trial if Musk raised his funding and ended the acquisition by October 28.
Musk has also indicated his plans to close the deal this week, changing his Twitter bio to "Chief Twit" and his website to Twitter HQ.
Big Tech falls short in the first salvos of the Q3 earnings cycle • TechCrunch
Uganda Ebola outbreak eclipses 100 cases, WHO's warning for Kampala


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Q: Android How to center the textview I have tried tons of combinations, but my "sectionTitle textview" goes always to the left next to the "sectionOptionsButton button". I want to center it between both buttons horizontal and vertically.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@color/BackGroundColor"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:scaleType="center" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/mLlayout1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="35dp"
        android:background="@color/BlueOcean"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/sectionOptionsButton"
            android:layout_width="33dp"
            android:layout_height="33dp"
            android:layout_weight="0"
            android:layout_gravity="left"
            android:background="@drawable/adddatabase1"/>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/sectionTitle"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="(blank)" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/addCatButton"
            android:layout_width="33dp"
            android:layout_height="33dp"
            android:layout_weight="0"
            android:layout_gravity="right"
            android:background="@drawable/plusicon3"/>
    </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:divider="#b5b5b5"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp"
        android:listSelector="@drawable/listview_style_list_selector" />

</LinearLayout>

Whats wrong? Thanks

A: layout_gravity only defines the position of your TextView in the parent LinearLayout. As your TextView width is set to match_parent, the TextView cannot be centered as you would expect.
Use gravity instead of layout_gravity. This will directly center the text in the TextView, not the TextView as a whole.
This is the full code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/mLlayout1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="35dp"
    android:background="@color/BlueOcean"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/sectionOptionsButton"
        android:layout_width="33dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:layout_weight="0"
        android:layout_gravity="left"
        android:background="@drawable/adddatabase1"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/sectionTitle"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="(blank)" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/addCatButton"
        android:layout_width="33dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:layout_weight="0"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:background="@drawable/plusicon3"/>
</LinearLayout>

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/list"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:divider="#b5b5b5"
    android:dividerHeight="1dp"
    android:listSelector="@drawable/listview_style_list_selector" />

A: try this way:
<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/mLlayout1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="35dp"
    android:background="@color/BlueOcean"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/sectionOptionsButton"
        android:layout_width="33dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:layout_gravity="left"
        android:background="@drawable/adddatabase1"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/sectionTitle"
        android:layout_width="0dip"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="(blank)" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/addCatButton"
        android:layout_width="33dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:background="@drawable/plusicon3"/>
</LinearLayout>

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Mrs. Kim Stryker » Bio
After graduating from Trinity University, Mrs. Stryker continued her education in the area of Science at FAU and PBSC. Through FAU's Environmental Education and Leadership program at Pine Jog, she became an Art Marshall Fellow. Mrs. Stryker's academic instruction background includes developing and teaching High School Botany, Middle and High School Film and Media courses, and teaching Middle School Science, Jr. Botany, Robotics and Stop Motion Animation courses. She also served as the Director of Outreach and Development at a Private School for five years. Prior to entering education, Mrs. Stryker worked as a Telecommunications Engineer for BellSouth and for Fluor Daniels Engineering, and managed a Telecommunications/Cable Television contracting company. Accomplishments as an Engineer included the design and build of telecommunications systems at Homestead Air Force Base and the Miami/Homestead Motorsports Complex. Mrs. Stryker is a graduate of Leadership Palm Beach County where she has served on several committees, including Youth Leadership Palm Beach County, and headed Environmental Day and Media Day. In appreciation for her service to the community following Hurricane Andrew, Mrs. Stryker was awarded a Proclamation designating a Kim Stryker Day. Her love of film production and environmental education led her to produce an award winning children's feature film, TURKLES, directed by Frank Eberling. Other films which Mrs. Stryker served as a producer include, MARRIAGE MATERIAL, SEA of CHANCE'S, BRYDEN'S PHARM, a number of short films, radio commercials, PSA's and a documentary. Mrs. Stryker enjoys spending time with her husband, sons, daughter-in-laws, and her amazing grandchildren.
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Absolute Valentine: Complete Inaugural Season
Tom Haswell, Neuicon
He was Re-Newed York City's most feared blind assassin. He was betrayed. He was robbed of his memories and ultimately left for dead. Unfortunately for them, he survived. Betrayed by his former employer, Valentine, without sight, without memories and on the brink of death, must regain his strength, must struggle to discover the truth about his past and ultimately, embark on a trail of vengeance.
Absolute Valentine is the Monolith's first official ongoing mini-series, which debuted to massive success and helped establish the Monolith brand. The series is also based on the French Synthwave artist of the same name. With the violence at volume 11, Absolute Valentine will keep you turning page after page, bringing the violence of the Goremageddon to you.
Absolute Valentine was reviewed by Science Fiction author S.C. Jensen and can be found at: https://scjensen.com/2017/12/09/sf-review-absolute-valentine-by-tom-haswell
Absolute Valentine is released in a complete collection (Complete Inaugural Season), collecting every episode from the first season, written by Tom Haswell (Aliens v. Predator, Devil's Run 666, Warzone Resurrection) and featuring art by March of Venus. Available in both digital and paperback, the Goremageddon universe comes to life in an action-packed tale of carnage, revenge and absolution. This special collector's item also includes an art gallery, featuring art from Ravenkult and March of Venus.
Included in this download, are a PDF and EPUB of season one, as well as a special short story, written by Neuicon, in a lavishly stylized document (the PDF is best enjoyed in a two-page viewing format); also included is a special 1920 by 1080 Full HD desktop wallpaper for your PC.
NOTE: FOR THE BEST READING EXPERIENCE, WHEN USING ADOBE READER, USE THE TWO-PAGE DISPLAY.
WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE AND IS INTENDED FOR MATURE READERS.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH centres (CHCs) in Karchana and Kaundhiyara were found closed during the surprise inspection conducted by CMO Dr Shantimal Singhavi on Sunday.
The CMO arrived at Karchana CHC at about 12 noon and found the CHC closed and pharmacists and paramedical staff missing. However, the doctor was found in the CHC's residential quarters but in the absence of staff, he expressed his inability to open the CHC.
The Kaundhiyara CHC was also lying closed. But when the news reached the doctors posted at the CHC that the CMO was conducting inspection, he rushed to the CHC and opened it before the CMO arrived. Dr Singhavi became angry to see the poor sanitary condition of the CHC and warned the staff to improve the condition within 24 hours.
The Jasra CHC was also found in a poor condition. The emergency was functioning and the staff was present, but due to insanitary condition, the patients were facing inconvenience.


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Fringe films scenes for episode 511 with Windmark & child observer
THIS BLOG POST MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR "FRINGE" EPISODE 511. If you do not want to read or see photos from Fringe episode 511, please do not continue.
As filming starts to wind down for Fringe, I have made an effort to try & get to every set I hear about.
While for the casual fan, or the paid professional photographers, a set of Michael Kopsa (Windmark) & Rowan Longworth (child observer) doing a scene was a disappointment, I of course was happy just to catch some of it.
I wont go into the details of what the scene entailed, but you can see a Loyalist guard bring the child to Windmark. What does it mean? We'll have to tune in to find out. In between takes, director Paul Holahan (directed 2 previous Fringe episodes - "Snakehead" & "Novation") would guide the young Longworth & even at times, the older Kopsa, on what he wanted out of them in the scene.
As for the fact the 2 part finale, episodes 512 & 513 are currently being filmed... I have made a decision on showing photos from these sets... I WILL still post blogs about filming for these episodes, BUT, I intend to keep them as spoiler free as possible UNTIL the week leading up to the finale, when I will finally post any spoileryish sets I may have been sitting on... however, this is still episode 511, so all bets are off for this episode.
Fringe films scenes for eisode 510 at night earlier this month John, Anna and Josh in scene)
THIS POST IS ABOUT FILMING FOR EPISODE 510 OF "FRINGE". IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ OR VIEW ANY POSSIBLE SPOILERS, PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE.
So, since there is no Fringe tonight because of the American Thanksgiving & I am currently caught up on maintaining the voting on the Best Of TV Awards polls for now (which Fringe is up for plenty of nominations in)...I thought I would squeeze in a little Fringe blogging for you all.
As promised in my last blog post, there were some night shoot pics from Fringe shooting episode 510
I have almost nothing to tell you about what I saw, because it frankly, wasnt much.
We see our heroes heading into a parking garage, then leaving in a van. Thats all there was that we as spectators could see.
The only other thing that can be added to this is, the van is light blue & brown mini-van & I know for a fact it was used by them at at least 1 more shoot.... so we might be seeing this van for a bit.
I apologize if some of the photos seem "bright". They have some extremely large light stands close to the area, and lots of the photos I took simply were too bright to even see, these were honestly the best of the bunch.
Fringe filming for episode 510 -John Noble, Blair Brown, Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and introducing... Rowan Longworth
THIS BLOG CONTAINGS PHOTOS & DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES FILMED FOR EPISODE 510 OF "FRINGE". If you DO NOT want to see or read any spoilers, please do not continue.
Last week I found Fringe out & about on their last days of filming episode 510 of the 5th and final season of the cult FOX classic "Fringe".
I went downtown to catch them filming in an area I was familiar with. The crew was set up in a parkway walk thru area that connects W. Hastings St with W. Cordova street at the end of Hornby st. I best know it from being an avid Dead Like Me fan as where the lead character of that show meets her fate with a falling toilet seat.
With director Jeffrey Hunt (his 4th turn at directing a Fringe episode. 414 "The End Of All Things" being his last.) at the helm, they were already in the process of filming when I first arrived on the scene.
The scene I saw filmed on this day consisted of the Fringe team members, in their Observer controlled futuristic New York circa 2036 walking thru a parkway off of W.182nd street (actually W. Hastings St). At the front of the pack was Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), a few steps behind him, Olvia Dunham (Anna Torv) walking along with a little bald child (Rowan Longworth), which at the time, I expected to be a larger spoiler than it turned out to be, bringing up the rear quite a ways back was Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and Nina Sharp (Blar Brown) in her motoroized scooter.
The scene was filmed as 1 continuous portion 1st, then they filmed seperate portions, 1st on Walters, then on Olivia & the bald childs, then finally focussing on Peter & Nina.
All around the fugitives, loyalists wandered thru the parkway, while in the background an Observer poster graced a post. A wall of missing people & Resistance posters was off to the side of where they were filming. The only known thing of the scene really was, Walter stops at a Waffle Stick stand to grab 1 of these treats. Funny enough, you dont actually see him bite into 1 of these during filming....yet, I saw a crew member eating one of them later on...so they must have been edible (and btw - looked delcious).
The scene didnt explain much. No dialogue was easily heard. At the time, the big scoop everyone took from this was the unknown boy. Was he an Observer? Was he someone else? I asked a crew member later that evening at a different shoot what the childs name was so I would properly credit him when I wrote this (didnt want another Abagayle Hardwick situation where I didnt know till the episode aired), he told me "Rowan Longworth" & I assumed that would be the 1st anyone would know if the child actors name. Then Fringe scooped me. Rowan made his debut in episode 5x06 and soon, everyone had the name.
Little did we all know, that later the same week we would first see the young up & coming star taking on the role that was seemingly 1st introduced in episode 1X15 "Inner Child"(previously played by Spencer List). by the fact we see these photos of ep 10 filming (and I can confirm he is also been doing ep 11 scenes) that Rowan's character will be vital to the Fringe teams plan to beat the Observers.
Simply credited in the episode as "Child Observer" the questions on whether Rowan is playing a Young September have filled many discussion boards. I am going to go out on a hunch and say it isnt. My feeling is, the physical differences between Rowan and Michael Cerveris (the cleft chin being most notable) would be a fairly notable oversight for the fringe casting team if this was the case.... of course, perhaps I am wrong? Afterall, who is to say Observers genetics are the same as you & I.
Below - photos of the day shoot, I will have some of the evening shoot later on starring John, Josh & Anna.
Fringe filming episode 508 with Joshua Jackson, Michael Kopsa and another Observer.
As I promised back on the earlier blog posts from this day of filming, I had some more pics of Joshua Jackson filming, as well as Observer Michael Kopsa & another Observer who I didnt catch the name of.
The 1st scene I saw was, Captain Windmark and the other Observer get out of a car & walk down a street. No interactions seemed to go on.
A little later, a scene with Peter Bishop walking thru a covered sidewalk. Hes on the phone to someone, and stops and looks around, before proceeding to who knows where.
Later on, a scene where Captain Windmark and the other Observer cross paths with a loyalist who bumps into Windmark, immediately apologizes & hastily picks up whatever he dropped to get out of Windmarks way, while off in the distance, Peter is walking along ahead of them. Are they following him? Or just a coincidence?
Lastly, a few photos of Joshua & Michael chatting between takes, as well as the 2 of them, and the other Observer watching videos on Joshuas phone. I imagine it has to be a youtube clip of Dawsons Creek or a Mighty Ducks movie, or clips from Pacey-Con.
Anyways... here is the last batch of photos from the day of filming for episodse 508.
Fringe star Joshua Jackson filming scenes as Peter Bishop for episode 507
Back in early October, I saw scenes being filmed for episode 507 of Fringe.
At the time, I didnt really know much of what I saw being filmed the afternoon that I saw Peter Bishop sitting around in an old car. It seemed a bit curious, but a pretty unspectacular scene overall. However, after seeing the promo for next weeks episode
As well as the 2 previous episodes, I now know why I saw Peter Bishop with his collar popped on his leather jacket, sitting in a car with an Observers breifcase.
The question now for Fringe fans is, will the final 6 episodes see Peter turn into 1 of the soulless monsters they are trying to destroy, or will his humanity be saved?
Heres some pics from that days filming that took place on West Hastings street.
Fringe photos of Walter, Astrid, Olivia & Nina Sharp filming scenes for episode 507
As I stated in my last blog post, I caught up to Fringe quite afew times in late September.
A few days after catching them twice in a few days for ep 506, I caught them again only a few days later for 507.
On set this particular day was Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham), John Noble (Dr. Walter Bishop), Jasika Nicole (Astrid Farnsworth) & the rarely seen Blair Brown (Nina Sharp). This was the 1st time I had seen Blair Brown in over a year anywhere, and only the 2nd time EVER (the other being in 2009) that I had seen her on a Fringe set.
The scenes seem to consist of the now silver haired Nina of 2036 rolling down a dock in her scooter, the landscape is covered in Observer posters hanging from lamp posts as Astrid, Walter & Olivia notice. Olivia goes over to her & chats with her, while the other 2 stay back. A little later they did other scenes where Nina was going onto a walkway in her scooter.
After the set of scenes that the 4 of them wrapped, I was happy to be able to get autographs from three of the 4, especially Blair, who like I said, I rarely see. The only denial was from Jasika Nicole, who in the last year has gone from amazingly pleasant to cocky & borderline rude. In the span of a minute, she denied 3 different people, 2 of which were people she was meeting for the 1st time. In the last year, this has been her usual response when asked for autographs "not today", the 1 and only time I DID see her sign this year was a day where a bunch of out of town fans were at the set during a Fringe Fan event that was going on here. Every other time, in the last year, she has gone out of her way to ignore, or deny, requests. She is going to be in for a shock when the show finally ends, and her ability to land a new job doesnt happen immediately. Guess she thinks shes made it now & doesnt have to sign, which is odd, as her more experienced cast mates are all great with interacting with fans.
There hasnt been a lot of Blair this season so far, as the story has focused mostly on the teams search for Walters plan to defeat the Observers. Just like Philip Broyles, who we only recently saw finally meet up with the team, Nina has been mostly relegated to guest star status this year.
Here are the photos from this days shoot, back in September.
Fringe photos - late Sept of John Noble filming ep 506 "Through The Looking Glass and What Walter Found There" & a few Joshua Jackson & Anna Torv pics
THIS BLOG CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS & PHOTOS FOR SCENES FILMED FOR EPISODE 506 OF FRINGE. If you do not want to read or see possible spoilers for this episode... DO NOT CONTINUE READING OR VIEWING THE PHOTOS BELOW!
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Back in September I caught Fringe out & about a few times late in the month.
My 1st such finding I caught them in the gastown area filming inside a building. On set that day, I saw John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv & guest star Zak Santiago. Unfortunately, the only shots from this set are of the cast outside the building during breaks. At the time, I did not know what episode it was for, but finding the set 4 days later, I now know, it was for 506.
A few days later the Fringe crew was in the West End of the downtown core on Davie Street. The location happened to be just around the corner from the spot that I last season broke the news of Joshua Jackson 1st being at set.
This time, the mad scientist extraordinairre was front & centre of the scenes being shot, as I found Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) doing scenes where he seems to be walking thru NYC doing, who knows what.
1st scene had him walking by an area where homeless people seemed to be camping with a fire in a garbage tin going to keep them warm.
A bit later I caught another scene where Walter is walking along videotaping himself. He starts the scene off wiping off his lips after eating something (maybe a doughnut?) and then proceeds to walk along talking into the camera, as if dictating a message to someone thru a video.
These scenes were definitely for episode 506 "Through The Looking Glass and What Walter Found There".
Below are photos from both sets. The 1st batch from the latter shoot, the 2nd batch from the earlier shoot.
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Anti-Uber Protests Shut Down Euro Cities
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A solid blockade of iconic black cabs stretching from Big Ben to Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace froze the traffic in Central London today as European taxi drivers said "No" to the rise of the ride-sharing app Uber.
Undeterred by coordinated protests in Paris, Madrid, Berlin and beyond, the San Francisco start-up taunted its opponents with claims that the demonstrations had boosted membership numbers and suggested the traditional drivers hailed from the "Dark Ages."
In London, where licensed "hackney carriages" have been operating for 300 years, cab drivers said they were proud of their history and that the arrival of Uber was putting the public at risk. Officially licensed drivers, who buy their own vehicles for more than $60,000, undergo criminal record checks and between three and seven years of training.
Drivers are furious that Transport for London is relaxing its own rules, which ensure that taxi meters can only be used in official black cabs. The demonstration strangled the flow of traffic in London from 2 p.m. onward, with some commuters complaining of hour-long traffic jams.
"This protest is about the ripping up of established regulations in the name of greed and private profit and the decimation of London's black cabs," said Mick Cash, the acting general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.
Since Uber was founded in 2009, there have been a series of allegations about the behavior of their drivers, one of whom was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman in Los Angeles last month. Serious concerns have also been raised over the amount of personal information that is shared with the driver.
Those concerns have done little to curb the explosive global growth of the Uber app, which allows people to order a car to meet them without the hassle of trying to hail a taxi. Cab drivers in Europe today claimed that passenger safety should be safeguarded even though more and more people were succumbing to the temptation of their convenient but unlicensed rivals.
"It's very dangerous letting Uber in," Grant Davis, who has been driving cabs for 26 years, told The Daily Beast. "Say you have a problem with me—I pick you up, and me and you have a few words: I say, 'Oh, fuck off, you wanker! Get out.' You'd take my number down, and my head's on the chopping block. I have to go up and explain myself and if it ain't right they'll suspend me or take my license away."
Davis, 50, spent four years studying London's roads, alleys and bridges before qualifying to become a licensed driver. Now chairman of the London Cab Drivers Club, he has a meeting with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, tomorrow. "As soon as we sit down I know Boris' bum is going to be twitching," he said. "I'm going to tell him: If you want to mess with our livelihoods, what you've had today we'll have every week, because at the end of the day what have we got to lose, except our future?
"You've got mini cab drivers in London using Sat Navs in San Francisco and paying tax in Holland, and they think it's hunky dory. Well, I beg to differ, actually," he said.
So did drivers across Europe, who launched their own idiosyncratic protests Wednesday. In Paris, drivers implemented "escargot" measures and drove at a snail's pace; in Madrid, taxi drivers left their cars behind and marched through the city on foot; while Milan's thousands of drivers took the day off entirely.
Protests against Uber were held in various U.S. cities after the app launched but the drivers in Europe tend to be more politically active and heavily unionized.
Traffic may have been snarled across the continent, but Uber showed no signs of backing down. A spokeswoman claimed that the increased attention had resulted in an 850 percent increase in sign-ups.
"Unsurprisingly, the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA), which is stuck in the dark ages, is intent on holding London to ransom," said Jo Bertram, Uber's UK and Ireland general manager, in a statement. "London wants Uber in a big way."


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The Real Story of How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Met
Brooke NelsonUpdated: Jan. 13, 2023
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After they met, speculation swirled about who the mystery matchmaker for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was.
Harry and Meghan's love story is "greater than any fairy tale you've ever read." But one important question that many people don't know the answer to: How did these two lovebirds meet in the first place?
We already know that a "mutual friend" introduced the pair, as Harry revealed in their first post-engagement interview with the BBC. Since neither of them knew much about the other before their first blind date, "it was just a really authentic and organic way to get to know each other," Meghan said.
But now, we can finally put a name to the mystery matchmaker: Violet von Westenholz. The daughter of a baron, von Westenholz is a childhood friend of Harry's who also works in public relations with Ralph Lauren, which is how she met Meghan.
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"Meghan had been a part of the London social scene for a while and had slotted into the high society set really easily," a "well-placed source" told E!News. "And so when Harry told Violet he was having trouble finding someone, Violet said she might just have the perfect girl for him."
Despite Meghan being a part of the London social scene, she didn't know that much about her future husband when they first met. "Because I'm from the States, you don't grow up with the same understanding of the royal family," she explained during the BBC interview. "I didn't know much about him, so the only thing that I had asked [our mutual friend] when she said that she wanted to set us up, was, 'Well is he nice?' Cause if he wasn't kind, it just didn't seem like it would make sense."
For months, people speculated that celebrity stylist Jessica Mulroney, fashion designer Misha Nonoo, or friend Markus Anderson might have introduced the couple. While Violet has not confirmed the rumor yet, it can't hurt to give her a preemptive round of applause for orchestrating this fairy tale ending.
"We are all just really happy that he finally met a woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with," a friend told E!.
If you want to read more on Harry and Meghan's relationship, you'll want to check out Prince Harry's upcoming book, Spare.
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Women's Health: "Here's The Full Story (Finally!) Of How Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Really Met"
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PROPERTY giant Land Securities said yesterday that it expects the Walkie-Talkie skyscraper to be two thirds let by its completion next year, in a sign of growing confidence in the market.
The City office market has seen a pick-up in leasing activity in the past year as companies who had previously shelved plans rushed to book ahead of an expected squeeze in supply.
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Such personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analyzed by the controller in order to optimize the shipping of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the controller. The UWT GmbH automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.
The website of the UWT GmbH contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the UWT GmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of UWT GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the UWT GmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the UWT GmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the UWT GmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the UWT GmbH.
The UWT GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If the UWT GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the UWT GmbH to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the UWT GmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the UWT GmbH for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the UWT GmbH. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, the UWT GmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the UWT GmbH.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the UWT GmbH.
13. Data Protection provisions about the application and use of AddThis
On this website, the data controller has integrated components of the enterprise AddThis. AddThis is a so-called bookmarking provider. The service allows for simplified bookmarking of Internet pages via buttons. By clicking on the AddThis component with the mouse, or by clicking on it, a list of bookmarking and sharing services is displayed. AddThis is used on over 15 million websites, and the buttons are displayed, according to the information of the operating enterprise, over 20 billion times a year.
The operating company of AddThis is Oracle Corporation, 10 Van de Graaff Drive, Burlington, MA 01803, USA.
By calling up one of the individual pages of the website, which is operated by the controller, and on which an AddThis component has been integrated, the Internet browser of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective AddThis component to download data from the website www.addthis.com. Within the framework of this technical procedure, AddThis is informed of the visit and the specific individual page of this website that was used by the data subject with the help of information technology. In addition, AddThis is informed about the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject, the browser type and language, the web page accessed before our website, the date and the time of the visit to our website. AddThis uses this data to create anonymous user profiles. The data and information transmitted to AddThis in this way will enable the enterprise AddThis, as well as affiliates or their partner-enterprises, to contact visitors of the web pages of the controller with personalized and interest-based advertising.
AddThis displays personalized and interest-based advertising on the basis of a cookie set by the enterprise. This cookie analyzes the individual surfing behavior of the computer system used by the data subject. The cookie saves the computer-based outgoing visits to Internet pages.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent AddThis from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Cookies may also be deleted by AddThis at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject also has the possibility of objecting permanently to the processing of personal data by AddThis. For this purpose, the data subject must click on the opt-out button under the link www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out, which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie used for this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the data subject deletes the cookies from his system, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the possibility exists that the websites of the controller are not fully usable anymore by the data subject.
The applicable data protection provisions of AddThis may be accessed under www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link www.google.com/analytics/.
Click here to disable Google Analytics
The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved under help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
17. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component of LinkedIn. Further information about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
LinkedIn provides under www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possibility to unsubscribe from e-mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affiliates such as Eire, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applicable privacy policy for LinkedIn is available under www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is available under www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.
18. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LiveZilla
On this website, the controller has integrated the LiveZilla component. LiveZilla is a live support help desk software that enables direct communication in real time (so-called live chat) with visitors of their own Internet page.
The developer of the LiveZilla component is LiveZilla GmbH, Byk-Gulden-Straße 18, 78224 Singen, Germany.
With each single call-up to our website, which is equipped with a LiveZilla component, this component collects data with the purpose of operating the live chat system and analyzing the operation of the system. Further information about LiveZilla may be retrieved under www.livezilla.net/home/en/.
The LiveZilla component sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. Pseudonymised user profiles may be created with the help of the LiveZilla cookie. Such pseudonymised usage profiles may be used by the controller to conduct an analysis of visitor behavior as well as analyze and maintain a proper operation of the live chat system. The analysis is also improving our offers. The data collected through the LiveZilla component is not used to identify the data subject without first obtaining of a separate express consent of the data subject. These data are not merged with personal data or other data which contain the same pseudonym.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent the LiveZilla component from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by the LiveZilla component may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
The applicable data protection provisions of LiveZilla GmbH may be accessed under www.livezilla.net/disclaimer/en/.
The operating company of Twitter is Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.
The applicable data protection provisions of Twitter may be accessed under twitter.com/privacy.
20. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Xing
On this website, the controller has integrated components of XING. XING is an Internet-based social network that enables users to connect with existing business contacts and to create new business contacts. The individual users can create a personal profile of themselves at XING. Companies may, e.g. create company profiles or publish jobs on XING.
The operating company of XING is XING SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a XING component (XING plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding XING component of XING. Further information about the XING plug-in the may be accessed under dev.xing.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, XING gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on XING, XING detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the XING component and associated with the respective XING account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on the XING button integrated on our Internet site, e.g. the "Share"-button, then XING assigns this information to the personal XING user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
XING receives information via the XING component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at XING at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the XING component or not. If such a transmission of information to XING is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their XING account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection provisions published by XING, which is available under www.xing.com/privacy, provide information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by XING. In addition, XING has published privacy notices for the XING share button under www.xing.com/app/share.
The operating company of YouTube is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
YouTube's data protection provisions, available at www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.


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This is a regression test suite for the `PubSubClient` library.

There are two parts:

 - Tests that can be compiled and run on any machine
 - Tests that build the example sketches using the Arduino IDE

It is a work-in-progress and is subject to complete refactoring as the whim takes
me.

## Local tests

These are a set of executables that can be run to test specific areas of functionality.
They do not require a real Arduino to be attached, nor the use of the Arduino IDE.

The tests include a set of mock files to stub out the parts of the Arduino environment the library
depends on.

### Dependencies

 - g++

### Running

Build the tests using the provided `Makefile`:

    $ make

This will create a set of executables in `./bin/`. Run each of these executables to test the corresponding functionality.

*Note:* the `connect_spec` and `keepalive_spec` tests involve testing keepalive timers so naturally take a few minutes to run through.

## Arduino tests

*Note:* INO Tool doesn't currently play nicely with Arduino 1.5. This has broken this test suite.

Without a suitable arduino plugged in, the test suite will only check the
example sketches compile cleanly against the library.

With an arduino plugged in, each sketch that has a corresponding python
test case is built, uploaded and then the tests run.

### Dependencies

 - Python 2.7+
 - [INO Tool](http://inotool.org/) - this provides command-line build/upload of Arduino sketches

### Running

The test suite _does not_ run an MQTT server - it is assumed to be running already.

    $ python testsuite.py

A summary of activity is printed to the console. More comprehensive logs are written
to the `logs` directory.

### What it does

For each sketch in the library's `examples` directory, e.g. `mqtt_basic.ino`, the suite looks for a matching test case
`testcases/mqtt_basic.py`.

The test case must follow these conventions:
 - sub-class `unittest.TestCase`
 - provide the class methods `setUpClass` and `tearDownClass` (TODO: make this optional)
 - all test method names begin with `test_`

The suite will call the `setUpClass` method _before_ uploading the sketch. This
allows any test setup to be performed before the sketch runs - such as connecting
a client and subscribing to topics.

### Settings

The file `testcases/settings.py` is used to config the test environment.

 - `server_ip` - the IP address of the broker the client should connect to (the broker port is assumed to be 1883).
 - `arduino_ip` - the IP address the arduino should use (when not testing DHCP).

Before each sketch is compiled, these values are automatically substituted in. To
do this, the suite looks for lines that _start_ with the following:

     byte server[] = {
     byte ip[] = {

and replaces them with the appropriate values.


President Barack Obama signed a sweeping bipartisan education bill into law Thursday, making some the most significant changes in federal education policy in more than a decade.
The new Every Student Succeeds Act replaces the 13-year old No Child Left Behind, returning to the states powers to determine how poorly performing schools should be improved and curbing the authority of the secretary of education.
The bipartisan consensus on curtailing the federal role in education emerged about a dozen years after Republican President George W. Bush pushed to expand Washington's control over the nation's patchwork of state, county and local school systems with his signature No Child Left Behind law.
"After more than 10 years, members of Congress from both parties have come together to revise our national education law—a Christmas miracle, a bipartisan bill signing," Mr. Obama said.
President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act on Thursday, which returns powers over improving poor-performing schools to the states and curbs the authority of the secretary of education.
The bill cleared its final congressional hurdle on Wednesday, when the Senate overwhelmingly approved $26 billion federal in spending annually from preschool through 12th grade.
The legislation maintains annual testing to identify groups of students who are failing, but empowers states to come up with their own standards and determine how to revamp schools that don't make the grade. It comes after years of complaints from critics who argued No Child Left Behind spurred excessive testing in public schools and used unrealistic goals to label too many schools as failing.
Proponents of the legislation believe it will usher in more flexibility and stability after years of uncertainty about the future of No Child Left Behind. Critics voiced concern that by removing some federal oversight, some states would feel too little pressure to fix the worst-performing schools.
"It didn't always consider the specific needs of each community, it led to too much testing during classroom time, it often forced schools and school districts into cookie-cutter reforms that didn't always produce the kind of results that we wanted to see," Mr. Obama said.
Under the bill, states would still have to test students yearly in reading and math in grades three through eight, and once in high school. But the bill would end the federal guidelines for defining school quality and require states to set up their own accountability systems to measure improvement. It would also let states determine how to intervene in the bottom 5% of schools and those with low graduation rates.
States would still have to show test data for children in different "subgroups" of students, such as racial minorities, students in poverty and English-language learners. But the bill would let states devise their own ways to address achievement gaps.
The bill also provides $250 million a year to expand access to preschool.
Among the senators running for president, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) voted no, while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) voted yes. Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination, didn't vote. Mr. Cruz said in a statement he didn't support the bill.
Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) was among those who voted against the bill, arguing that it extends a failed central-planning model of education. "Since 1969, test scores in reading and math have hardly budged for public-school students of all ages—even while per-pupil spending has nearly doubled and school staff has increased more than 80%," Mr. Lee said.
Lawmakers have tried and failed to fix No Child Left Behind since it expired in 2007, and its requirements have remained in place.
The bill bars the federal government from giving states incentives to use any particular learning standards; it also prohibits federal mandates on how teachers should be evaluated. The Obama administration had given states incentives to link student results on annual tests to teacher evaluations. Teachers unions and others had criticized using test data that way, saying it led to excessive test preparation and anxiety.
The end of education reform?


Hana as a given name may have any of several origins. It can be a variant transliteration of Hannah, which is the Jewish and French and Christian form, meaning "grace" in Hebrew associated with God. It is also a Kurdish name meaning hope , a Persian name meaning flower , and an Arabic name meaning happiness . As a Japanese name, it usually translates as flower . In Korean, it means the number one . In Albanian, "Hana" means "moon". In Hawaiian, "Hana" means "craft" or "work" . In Maori, "Hana" means to shine, glow, give out heat, radiate.
is the ninth single by the Japanese band Orange Range. It was released on October 20, 2004. "Hana" was used as the ending theme of the Japanese movie Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu.
Hana - the Tale of a Reluctant Samurai, known in Japan as , is a 2006 Japanese jidaigeki by director Hirokazu Koreeda. The film was released in the United States by Funimation who also gave it an English-language dub.
"" is the eleventh single by the Japanese rock band Mr. Children.
The song was released as one of the lead-off singles from the album Shinkai on April 10, 1996 on only 500 yen, because its compact disc not contains any B-Sides or Karaoke versions. Like the previous materials, "Hana" also debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart, and remained the peak position for a couple of weeks, finally selling more than 1.5 million copies.
The Latin subtitle of the song which means "think about the death" was named after the photo book that made songwriter impressed, which was taken and edited by Shinya Fujiwara. When the re-recorded version of the song was featured on B-side of a single "Yasashii Uta" released in 2001, its alternative title was omitted.
Haná or Hanakia ( or Hanácko, or Hanakei) is an ethnic region in central Moravia in the Czech Republic. Its main parts are located in the lowlands of the rivers of Morava and Haná. It is roughly encircled by the cities of Zábřeh, Holešov, Vyškov and Uničov. Haná is primarily known for its agricultural productivity, costumes, and traditional customs. The Haná dialect (Hanakian dialect or Central Moravian dialect; ) is spoken in the region, and is part of the Central Moravian dialect group. This traditional dialect has been preserved and continues to be used even in printed publications from the region. Folk music from Haná is recognized locally by its lyrics in the Haná dialect.
Hana is a 2009 studio album by the South Korean K-pop band Supernova. Release on the Universal Japan label in October 2009, the album peaked at #23 on the Japan pop charts.
HANA is the debut EP by Hana Pestle. The EP was released on March 25, 2016, via iTunes.
Hana was an early Assyrian king. He is listed as the tenth among the "seventeen kings who lived in tents" within the Mesopotamian Chronicles. Hana was preceded by Didanu, and succeeded by Zuabu. Next to nothing is otherwise known about Hana's reign.
When she was six Hana had had a rare type of brain fever so resistant to treatment that it had been given her name.
After the burial of Urania—the first of many mission women to die in childbirth or from physical exhaustion due to overwork—Abner arranged with natives to care for Abraham Hewlett, his newborn son and the latter's wet nurse for the next two months until the difficult return journey to Hana at the tip of Maui was practical, and when these details were completed, Abner and the messenger climbed the nffly path to home.